Monday, May 31, 2004
So why am I blogging three times in the same waking day, beacause I forgot something important that happened in the last month. I got an email here it is:
Edward,
Thank you so much for applying to "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," and for
letting us visit your home. At this time, the producers have decided that
your particular story will not work for the show.
We appreciate your time, and wish you all the best in your endeavors.
Sincerely,
---
Randi Mollo
Assistant Casting Director
"Queer Eye for the Straight Guy"
Tighe & Doyle Casting
(617) 424-6805
so i guess at least now I know. I called a few weeks ago. They said that they had changed casting directors, don't know if that had anything to do with it. Doesn't really matter too much. It would have been nice. Can't say I'm not disappointed. They have yet to have a latino on the show though maybe they are waiting for sweeps week. I'm gonna start eating bugs now and practicing my rendition of she bangs.
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Sunday, May 30, 2004
So continuing on the catch up. May has been a month of catching up with lost connections particularly friends that I have lost touch with. I have been blessed with a particularly full life for the past ten years or so and I am very bad at keeping in touch with friends after I move away or move jobs. Partly it is because I get consumed by the present, and the circle of friends that I am surrounded by at the time, partly because I am lazy and mostly because I am embarrassed by how much time I let go by between contacts. I have a hard time thinking that I am important to people. This is not a plea for attention so don't tell me how important I am to you. I have had people tell it to me in the past, I have a hard time intruding on lives that no longer contain events that I can relate to. There are only a few friends that I have kept in touch with in any regularity. By that I mean one. The one that lives in Atlanta that I just visited. That being said I am trying to change that about myself because I have never had any pride in that fact. This month I contacted two friends from Miami, and a group of people that Jeannie and I really connected with on our trip to China. They wrote me back and I will write them again soon.
This month was my Birthday. It was May 13th and a lot of people came to it, I am grateful to all of them, even grateful to those that tried to make it on such short notice but couldn't quite. Maybe it is that event that has me reexamining my life. How cliche. Why does it take an event like that to make one realize that ones life is not as it should be. Why does it take a revolution around the sun, an arbitrary measure of time like that. If we were on Saturn we would only have a birthday every thirty years, a hell of a long time to have an epiphany, or go on a diet. I don't know why all of the sudden I drink more water, exercise more, watch less TV, write more, read more, try to expand my sphere of influence, keep in touch with more of my past, feel like having less stuff. Some people have said it is because I am 29 so Saturn is returning into my astrological chart. I'll accept that. But does that mean I have to wait until I am 58 to see what errors I have made in my everyday from now until then. That kind of sucks. I am going to get a picture of Saturn and stick in front of my computer to remind me that change doesn't have to start at a set date or time. I don't want to be a new years resolutionist and a groundhogs revisionist.
For the past week I have only watched one hour of TV a day. It is probably one of the best things I have done in a while. I have always been a TV addict it influences my interaction with the world every day. Everything reminds me of something on Tv. Whether its a story, a conversation, a commercial. I have been raised by TV. My father used to repair Tvs back when they were all vacuum tubes in the back. So we always had a TV, even when they were really expensive. He would salvage them off the street and fix them or if the customer thought the set was to expensive to fix My dad would take it home and fix it, same thing with VCR's. When I was five in 1980 we already had three TVs. Two were in the living room. One on top of the other. a thirteen inch color on top of a nineteen inch black and white that had a stereo built in. It had an 8-track player and a turntable built in. In my parents house right now there are 7 Tvs in different areas of the house including that thirteen inch that still works in the basement. I don't feel like I am missing much because I don't like reality Tv the way I liked older programs. I am a sitcom person a drama watcher. I just don't think that i can learn anything from watching a reality TV show the way I could by watching All in the family, Goodtimes, facts of life, or the A-team. I still like Law and Order, The George Lopez show, the Daily show, and Adult Swim on cartoon network. But I can fit all of that stuff into one hour a day. So why watch more.
There is more stuff that happened between now and April 13th I am sure but Its all a jumble right now. I am going to Paris on Wednesday with Jeannie. It is her first time going and my fourth. I am sure I will love it.
Today's song of the day is "America is not the World" from Morrissey's new album You are the Quarry
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Its been more than a month and a half since i have posted. at this rate I would only have posted eight times a year. Thats pathetic. It hasn't been because there haven't been things going on, its really beacuse I have been lazy and stressed out. I know you say What better way to get out your stress than on the web but I guess I just haven't been thinking about it. I guess its because If i write about everything it will make me realize my fears about how everything is going by so fast. Everything these days seems to jumble, I rarely know what day it is. I thinnk events that happened months ago happened that week and events that happened that week happened months ago. Its an odd start to summer.
Let me recap some of the events that I remember from the past month and a half I might not remember some and they will probably be out of order. I'll start with the most recent first.
I went to the tribes gallery reading yesterday for One of Ishle's book release parties. I haven't been in that space in a long time, years maybe. It was cool. Chanaka, Taiyo, and Omar read good sets and then Ishle performed a great set. It was a little crowded. Then many of us went to Mama's down the block which was pretty good, although kind of expensive.
two days before that I went to the book launch for Ishle's book at AAWW. It was packed with a hundred and twenty people and she read a mix of poems and songs. She sold a ton of books so yaay for her.
Me and Jeannie went to Atlanta last week. We went to visit a friend of mine, Ladynez who is a doctor there. It was a lot of fun. We went to the Coke Museum which was not as cool as it looks on Food network, and out to eat a lot. Particularly good was this place called sunflower cafe. Good vegetarian cuisine, although food in Atl is kind of expensive. Then we went to six flags over Atlanta. We had such a good time. Rode all of the major roller coasters. My two favorites were the Batman ride and the superman ride not because of their comic book ties but because they were so different from regular coasters. Batman has no floor, so your feet dangle and we rode in the first car so it felt like you were just being thrown around, especially when it went upside down and you were just staring at the sky. It was hot. Then the superman ride is really different. It inverts you so that you are sitting horizontal to the floor. The whole time you are looking at the ground. This is great because it kind of makes you feel like flying, your whole field of vision is the ground so that there are no visual reminders that you are on a ride. The tracks are above you, and the ride is behind you it felt like being launched out of a cannon. I highly recommend it, by the way it is also available at Great adventure in our own back yard. Lets go.
I'll write more later.
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