Now that we found love what are we gonna do? The Winter 2011-12 Gay Thread

yeah. driving is the grown-up thing i still don't do.

parents split and cars became inaccessible partway through getting my full license (we have graduated licensing) and now I live somewhere where I never really need to. I know that I should but at this point it just prompts so much anxiety and i'm all about public transit and walking places.

I mean, future road trips with boy etc. want to be possible, but it's tricky. Boat may have sailed there.

yeah, I was wondering if lex drives.

lou, we should meet up and compare Brooklyn notes soon!

btw Veronica Peoples club bar in Greenpoint is closing this weekend! At least I got one gay metal night w/ Dr Druna there.

i stress out if i don't know exactly what i'm doing, and my inclination is to panic as soon as i do something wrong

oh god, this is exactly it for me too.

i don't drive, i live in london! i think i know maybe two people who can drive.

i don't know how people drive, what a ridiculous thing

selling my car was one of the better decisions i made in the past year. i'd much rather have the giant synth i bought with that $.

morbs- i'm down! i guess the EMP isn't too far off. maybe we can all arrange something then.

I drive and dislike it but it's the only other way I can listen to new pop music on the radio.

i don't drive. terrified of it tbh

sucks if i ever want to go to the desert tho

I don't own a car, but I love driving and do it at every opportunity. I never feel more at home than behind the wheel and on the freeway.

I don't understand how I ever afforded. I owned cars for 11 years - since I was 17 years old - until I moved to Chicago and I always paid for my own gas, insurance, and maintenance. And tickets. So many tickets. And lawyers.

Now it seems impossibly expensive even though I'm making far more money than I was in my late teens.

Just counted: I've owned 8 cars.

i love driving too i just find it terrifying, but one day i'm telling u i will be able to drive, and listen to music, and drive

one day

surm, if you haven't driven with the windows down and elbows to the breeze while smoking and listening to Mariah's "Someday" you haven't lived.

I KNOW :( o god u just hit it home

i need to learn

oh u americans and ur driving culture

when i first went to atlanta and met up w/a friend who drove me round it did give me a whole new insight into hip-hop though - rap rhythms are MADE for driving

driving can suck and in the long run owning a car is a total pain the ass, but it can be really fun and freeing and yes i really miss listening to the radio

xp umm yeah

sometimes i'd find sitting in traffic on my way home to be very zen

i mean i have a thing, like whenever i first hear a big song on the radio, spesh in the summer, i know it's time

u can't even imagine Motivation in ny cars last summer

oh is that what you called it

sorry on a car radio i mean

Being driven around LA's environs by my friend last summer was a lifesaver, but I found no romance in it.

Need a driver-cook, actually

You need Henry Silva in The Manchurian Candidate.

sitting in traffic is the most enraging thing

i used to get such bus rage when i had to commute

this is because whenever i am travelling around i am generally running between 15-115 minutes late

sometimes i'd find sitting in traffic on my way home to be very zen

Me too, and some people think I'm challopsing when I say that.

Even when I'm not driving, a ride in a vehicle is nice. Sometimes my commute ends too quickly. Yesterday I was engrossed in a book so I stayed on to the end of the line and then rode back.

when you're late and driving it's more aggravating cuz you feel like you have some control over the situation, but today i was running legit 30 mins late to work but i wasn't that stressed cuz once i got on the train there was really nothing i could do about it

it's like making out with a sow

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:38 AM (1 hour ago)

my bf told me that truffles supposedly smell like the sex organs of female pigs; I told him to never use it around me ever again

i've been biking a lot again lately

It seems the weight-loss method that most appeals to me right now is fasting.

Soto, I would probably get Henry Silva in CinderFella

there is a particular junction in london that would often take the bus up to half an hour to get past, a distance of a couple of hundred metres maybe.

my record is being 2 hours and 10 minutes late for work.

I never stopped biking over the winter, but now I can at least enjoy it.

my record is being 2 hours and 10 minutes late for work.

― lex pretend, Tuesday, March 13, 2012 2:50 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

did you get fired

i missed a film on friday because it took an hour and a half to move from the beach to fairfax (< 12 mi)

nah, my boss did sigh pointedly when i walked in but i don't think i ever turned up less than half an hour late. i stayed late most of the time though. flexible hours!

- i am hardline w/r/t being controlled: my attitude is always "this is how i live my life, if you don't like it the door is that way". fuck a compromise!

ALSO THIS IS NUTS

― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, March 13, 2012 3:54 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i still don't get how that is nuts btw

cuz that's not how relationships work?

well i don't know... i feel like if most people like other someone else they're willing to make some compromises or small alterations to their lifestyle, and vice versa

i mean i don't understand the mindset of "i'm this way and if it means i'm alone for the rest of my life, then so be it" but i guess i can sympathize with it, but it doesn't seem particularly helpful to anyone including yourself

well there are some things i might be ok with changing but mostly not. i'm not gonna change myself to needily hang on to some guy, if they love me at all it'll be for ~who i am~

it's actually a very interesting conversation

somewhere in btw is obv the answer, but deciding where that line is is the bitch

i have given this a lot of thought tbh

cooking, aesthetic tastes, and pasta vs rice are areas of compromise, I think.

I think I've had enough of gays loving Victor Calderone remixes of Madonna though

a great thing about having a bf is evaluating yourself and how you live your life and do things and seeing how the other person can positively alter you, if you let him

I am a rock, I am an island

yah. Most of the changes wrought by companionship are subtle and take months or years to show.

j0rdan otm. i think it's not fair at all to have huge expectations of other people while refusing to budge yourself.

sometimes i'd find sitting in traffic on my way home to be very zen

this is actually nuts

haha

i don't have massive expectations of other people except as it pertains to what they expect of me

i mean probably, yeah xp

like, they can do what they want and go where they want and see who they want, i'm not gonna control them