Should I go fishing or get a friend to hang around? Celebrated GAY Summer 2012

I'm prepared to find out what it takes to not have to work and to get drunk by 3 p.m.

that will be my next staycation, yr all invited. just don't let me get on the subway.

The tin roof place is the Manhandler. Berlin is a dance club that has a Madonna night. I went there once as a cultural tourist.

That story linked above about homeless queer youth says that Belmont around Berlin is where sex workers work. I didn't know that. It's weird b/c you turn the corner onto Sheffield and it's pure straight douchetown.

It's 3pm and the director of this film I'm scoring is playing Journey on my PS3 while I attempt to score this scene for the fifth time. I have no A/C.

I puzzled over this sentence for ten seconds

A co-worker once told me that over the weekend, she had hung out with a girl we both know who "blew a guy she met in Berlin in the alley," and it took us way too long to figure out that we were talking and thinking about different Berlins.

it's summertime take me to your air conditioned bedroom and have your way with me already for fuck's sake

― surm, Tuesday, July 24, 2012 2:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i am in an air conditioned bedroom as of this afternoon! not because of having my way with anyone but because it was the simplest solution to keeping the cat alive and happy and me not crazy neurotic.

that said, if any montreal boys feel the need for some A/C quid pro quo I am not entirely opposed.

can i come over?

sorry i missed ur IM the other night btw! hope you're feeling happy!

haha! if y'all are in town, you're more than welcome to drop by.

i am! i was feeling a bit out of sorts because this cat is pressing all of my nervous parent buttons but i am 100% pretty great right now and will probably let myself take a nap once the reptilian parts of my brain get convinced that because he lacks opposable thumbs the cat can probably not tear out the hose/window attachment part of the air conditioner and jump to his death.

we'll IM soon and catch up. not enough delightful surm anecdotes in my life these days.

At Berlin, this kind of skeevy older guy tried to pick me up and probably would have succeeded had I not been sobering up. We did show each other our dicks in the bathroom tho. I was a total tease. This other guy who had been in the bar later gave me a really judgemental look on the el platform haha.

hot skeevy?

Rev!

I had forgotten how many of the El platforms are open, like a theater-in-the-round stage.

i've been to berlin once... fun but kinda seapunk-y

i live in boystown but don't go to gay bars -- there's one on the corner of belmont & halsted called SPIN and a few days when my dad saw it for the first time from a few blocks away he said "what's 'spin'... a health club?" and i was all "well, in a sense"

There were a couple of places in the area that basically looked like sex gyms.

What is a sex gym? Is it just a gym where people have sex?

attended by sex dwarfs

i can very clearly hear in my head local fox news anchor hope woodside saying "sex gym."

i think sex gyms / bathhouses / sex clubs are illegal here

i knew a guy named Sex Jim

Jim, Sex

oh, i guess bathhouses aren't illegal, just part of the past/looked down on by everyone now: http://gaysaltlake.com/2011/12/08/utahs-storied-past-with-bathhouses/

^that guy is usually worth reading.

idk, bathhouses can be fun. i had some good (inebriated) times at the slammer in l.a.

i left my v in san francisco (at a bathhouse).

huh, didn't know about the slammer

i have never bathhoused although american friends inform me that montreal apparently has some of the best?

'80s NY had plenty of sex gyms. Still, I wouldn't join one.

a lot of good reasons why tbh

I think it's pretty clear what I meant by "sex gyms."

I just watched 9 to 5 for the first time w my bf and I don't think I've ever heard him laugh so much during a movie. Also Lily Tomlin has THE BEST belts.

I'm vacationing w his fam in Avalon, NJ til Sat and I am p psyched

sounds nice!!

soo ... i am having thoughts about Mozart.

God, I love this piece.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWJpGjsw2mQ

beautiful

i wish i could play piano like that!

No better time to start! I'll be your duet partner.

:D doesn't get much better than dueling pianos, tbh

Duets are some of my favorite literature.

i really miss playing music. i've been having dreams about it, even

Working this one up to performance level. It's incredibly hypnotizing to play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyi3LpaTIc0

Ugh. I miss piano so much. I played for 12 or 13 years, and then in the hectic beginnings of university didn't really have access to a piano and let it slip away. My pinky ring finger muscles have atrophied too much to be able to do anything impressive these days. And yeah, that Ravel is stunning.

i love Ravel

I love students in shorts

oh man

I love playing Ravel in shorts.

i love shorts

like a lot

I don't wanna see Ravel in shorts

on who? xp

the nice surprise is skinny dudes w/ awesome calves.