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02/28/2004 Entry: "2-28-04"

Week in Review:
I don't remember Monday.
Tuesday I went to the Acentos reading featuring Omar. I was video taping so I had to lug out the equipment to the Blue Ox. I'm just realizing now that's a Paul Bunyan reference. Anyway, Omar was a fantastic feature. I was a little worried when the audience was unsure how to respond to the series of short poems in the beginning. They weren't always prepared to clap so soon after just clapping, so they clapped after every second or third short one. Then Omar got into a great run of his work. The crowd at Acentos had never really heard his work en masse so it was very cool to see their reaction to the pieces. I have to agree with Guy's post about this night and say that there was a definite angrier undercurrent than usual. I know many people use the stage as therapy, I do , and Omar does. So I was glad to see Omar have an opportunity to vent. It was a good night, as Acentos usually is.
I don't remember Wednesday.
I don't remember Thursday except that I cleaned a little for the Queer eye interview.
Friday the people from Queer Eye for the straight Guy came to my house for the longer interview. They were really nice. It was a guy and a girl in their late twenties. I made some coffee for them with our new espresso machine. It was a cool interview. I had a lot in common with the guy, Yochai. We talked about all my DVD's and spoken word. They were really interested in spoken word, even aside from the interview, so that was cool. Both he and Danielle are probably going to be invited to whatever events come up this month. They took a lot of polaroids and digital photos and video interviews, as well as writing stuff down on paper. Yochai asked me a lot of random questions like on a scale of 1 to 10. "1 being a babies bottom and 10 being a bear, How hairy are you?" I said I was a 3 and he looked at me skeptically. "lift up your sleeve he said." He gave me the same look again as I lifted my sleeve. "I'm gonna put 3/4 ok." Sure I said "You're the expert." In my head I thought to show him my hairless back, or my chest with only the two hairs that I think are the result of arduous praying when I was a preteen, but I decided it wasn't worth the difference between a 3 and a 3/4.
Mostly what they were looking for was whether i was comfortable in front of the camera. I think I am. They took a guided tour as I narrated on camera and then Yochai asked me some questions as Danielle roamed the apartment filming the inside of our refrigerator and the closet and stuff. The questions he asked me were pretty normal like: "Do you go to museums", "How do you dress on a date?" and then he came to "where was the last place you bought clothes?" I had to think for a minute because I don't but clothes very often. Once maybe twice a year. "The comic book store" I said. He stopped writing looked at me with his most professional composure. This is what all of that training was for when he was told not to laugh at people's pitiful answers. After all he was here to help people. The whole premise of the show is to make people better. He looked at me for a good long while. Jeannie could not control herself though. She started to laugh. I had not thought my answer was that funny at first. It was true, the last time I bought clothes was when I purchased two Star Trek T-shirts at St. Mark's comics in October. "Ya, the comic book store" I said in response to Yochai's look of disbelief. After a wrinkled eyebrow look of confusion on Yochai's face, he turned shook his head and wrote down comic book store, slowly mouthing the words as he wrote them, still trying to come to grips with comic book store, maybe hoping I would change my answer. The rest of the interview was cool. We had a long conversation on spoken word which was fruitful, although I won't go into it here. He also told me that although things had gone quickly to this point, now things would slow down. Once they take the tapes back to the producers, they have to pitch candidates. If I get an email from them within three weeks, then I didn't make it. If they are considering me, then I may not get a call for a month or more. That's how it goes. They could film in April and it not air until September. So now I kind of need to put it out of my mind. Not think about it until it does or does not happen.

The song of the day is "change Clothes" off of the Dj Dangermouse "grey Album". It's a remix of the Beatles White Album and Jayz's Black album.

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the comic book store!

Posted by Lorraine @ 02/28/2004 11:29 AM EST