Friday, April 27, 2007

no mercy, no pleasure, no sin

yesterday(since the gas company needed to come out a read the meter) i decided to take a day off work and putz around the city. Allegedly ending up at amoeba around 630-700 to catch !!! play a free show. Long story short after a haircut, 2 loads of laundry, and 3 11$ martinis i finally managed to make it over to amoeba just in time for them to start. Now I'm not the biggest !!! fan and i have to admit i mostly went cause I'm missing out on coachella this year. They were great live and whether it was the stoli swimming in my gut or the energy of the band i can't be sure but i actually danced a little. Craziness. That was really just a set up for my real point. While there i was thumbing thru cd's looking for an artist called trost cause its the only album i could think of that i have been wanting for awhile. Needless to say i didn't find it(crazy German bitches, love it). After watching a little more of the show i decide to take off early cause i still wanted to get home and sleep before i headed out for the night. I look back and see the tag for CLIENT. So i take a look thinking maybe i could score the new single when low and behold the entire new album sat in front of me. I have seriously been waiting for this album forever and fuck me its only 13$. I ran home smoked a bowl and put the album on while i cleaned the house.

The album itself is just pretty much straight foward synth pop only really dark(think depeche mode being 3 chicks and your kinda close but not entirely). I seriously listened to it twice. Stand out tracks being Someone to hurt, 6 in the morning, and lights go out although the whole album is awesome. I know for a fact this album will play a big part in what I'm currently writing. One of the songs has given birth to another charchter. When i first heard 6 in the morning it reminded me of someone i had hooked up with but when we tried to actually go out on a "date"..... lets just i was hoping he was something he wasn't. Then that got me thinking of the whole world of sexual politics between gay men. And how we just sorta follow them, play these roles in bed that is not really reflective of who we are. Now that may be all fine and healthy but ultimately if you plan on doing anything outside of sex you have this totally false assumption on what that person will be like. Then you realize your just as bad as the guys who play those roles cause you believe and fall for the hypermasculine stereotypes they perpetuate. Well this characters job is to fuck with the line between feminine and masculine. Haven't thought of a name for him yet but I'll say this much. His fetish is to get guys that are strict tops to bottom out for him. You see the only thing guys with big dicks like more then fucking other guys with big dicks is to get fucked by a guy with an even bigger dick. This is a fact. ha ha. well maybe not but in my story(fantasies...ha ha) it is. So anyways, I'll leave you with a Client video. I was looking for 6 in the morning but i found lights go out which is equally as sexy and I'm sure I'll get a couple of lines from.

Client-Lights go out


Wednesday, April 25, 2007

everybody's sugar

Artist: Hooverphonic
Song: Jackie cane
Album: The Magnificent Tree


Jackie cane was everybody's sugar
She gave it all wherever it took her
They used her up before the sell-by date
To be so sweet was her only mistake
The only flower in a concrete garden
Destined to be the rock that wouldn't harden
Jackie cane was everybody's sugar
She'd melt away if only she could of
Taken for granted
Abused and drained
They ran her dry and
Then it never rained
She was the queen
Of the 25th hour
They looked so sweet
But the after-taste was sour
Salty days for jackie cane

in this city

So i guess i should start by explaining a little about the name of my blog. Man vs. City is an idea I've been kicking around for the last couple of months. I haven't taken the time to really sit and wrap my head around this one but it seems to almost have a life of it's own. Meaning that the ideas are coming to me whether or not i take the time to write them out. Maybe I'm hoping that this blog will force me to commit to some sort of dialogue between me and the stories in my head. In short man vs. city is going to chronicle the experience of being completely taken and overwhelmed by your environment. About how our surroundings to a certain extent can dictate the direction of our lives. I'm leaning towards a collection of short stories mainly revolving around one main character . Usually when i write i have a bit of a process as far as developing characters goes, but this time(seeing as how i haven't been inspired to write anything in god knows how long) I'm letting it happen a little more loosely. Most of the characters I've started to think up are a combination of actual friends and songs. ha ha. For example the character I'll eventually introduce as Jackie is a combination of my room mate/best friend(yes, i said it!) and this song called Jackie cane by hooverphonic. I'll see if i can find the lyrics somewhere and put them up too. That's about as far as I've really gotten in terms of direction of the story. I do know that some of it will be things that I've done, others complete fantasy, somethings i may have overheard, as well as stories based on experiences people have told me about themselves. The three running themes will be struggle, excess, and the city of Los Angeles. As always with me(for those that actually know who i am) sex plays a huge part of the story. Maybe you can already see where I'm going with this, but if you don't...don't worry I'm not sure i do. Of course I'll also be posting stuff going on with me as well.....shows, new music, song lyrics, gossip or whatever bullshit i feel like hating on that day. I've never really had a blog and don't consider myself a very public person especially when sharing either personal stuff or stuff I've written but like i said I'm really gonna try and use this space to push myself back in the habit of writing and at the same time bypass the fear of rejection seeing as how i don't have to hear what any of you really thought of it...well at least not face to face. Maybe I'm trying to dispel the feeling of guilt i have been carrying around for not always being the most open person. Only you guys won't really know what is true and what has been made up....so i guess i am taking the pussy way out but I'm not exactly here for you all as much as i am myself. Hope you enjoy what comes.....