~Octopussy~ ⋅ 41 ⋅
Just an American living Bangkok and writing about all the inappropriate things that I somehow get roped into joining... I've been writing in blogs since 1999, so I'm fairly inconsistent. Sometimes I write a lot, sometimes I have nothing to say for months at a time, but I'm never gone, so just be patient and something new will come around.
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time
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Thwomp Trap in The Stuff That's Not Interesting But Is The Most Interesting Stuff I'll Write
You know, I’m pretty patient. I give people a lot of latitude when it comes to situations, but if someone does something so ridiculous and egregious, I find it nearly impossible to forgive. Sunda...
In order to understand this entry, it will be helpful if you have read Pictures for Lovers of only because I’m going to be referencing people and events that I mentioned in that entry. Furthermor...
Englishman In New York by Sting in The Song Remembers When
I love Sting. I know he’s a very divisive character in music but I quite enjoy his eclecticism. From his punk-reggae infused days with The Police to his various musical journeys as a solo artist,...
Someone gave me a unique challenge, so I thought I’d do it. Let me explain the challenge and why I’m going to do it. Someone asked me if I would do an entry of all the songs that meant something ...
Tout prend son sens sans le miroir by Peter Peter in The Song Remembers When
I discovered this song while randomly searching for music on iTunes. This was a couple of years ago and I was just going through the French music section, and I came upon the title track from thi...
The other night, I initially thought about how nothing ever changes, but then I realized that far too much has changed, and although the outlines of situations might be the same, the way I inhabi...
Saturday was my cousins’ baby shower. I know what you’re thinking, babies and I do not mix well, but I trusted my cousins enough to know that they wouldn’t do anything crazy to make me uncomforta...
You know, this whole situation I’m in actually affects me very little except for one way.... financially. Now, I’ve never really discussed money or finances, mostly because I feel like they’re qu...
Found Out About You by Gin Blossoms in The Song Remembers When
Despite the fact that I’m forever listening to the music I listened to in junior high and high school (or maybe because of that), I’m not familiar with all 90s music. I knew Gin Blossoms from Hey...
June, 2007 - Chicago, Illinois I’d finally gotten into a house. I’d been homeless since I arrived in the city in the beginning of May, moving on a whim from Los Angeles after a brief stopover in ...
I know I’ve been missing quite a bit this summer, but the head makes me listless and I can’t ever get my head together to write something appropriate. But that’s not all. An awful situation aros...
This might be an unsettling entry for some people… mainly because I’m going to refer, tangentially, to the circumstances of my coming out which landed me in jail. Every time I drive with my mothe...
I’ve gone inward again, much like I did while I was in SoCal, but there’s a difference to it this time. It doesn’t feel like a withdrawal so much as a respite. Although I am falling into a strang...
I know it’s been a while, but quite a lot has happened. Some good, some bad. The bad is mostly of a legal debacle in which I have found myself therefore I won’t comment on it. The good was that I...
I Want To Drag You Around by Blondie in The Song Remembers When
A year ago, Blondie came out with a new album. Blondie is an artist with whom I have a deep, intimate connection, musically. I didn’t really listen to Blondie until I saw them in 2004, met Jeff t...
I had actually recorded a video blog to post, it took me eight tries and I even uploaded it to YouTube, but the events of the night rendered the entire video moot. I went out on Thursday as is my...
I’m doing nothing. I mean, now I wake up every day early in the morning and if I don’t go to work, I take children to school. Then I’m free until I have to pick up kids from school. I wander aro...
Rob Me Blind by Jay Brannan in The Song Remembers When
If you don’t know Jay Brannan, it wouldn’t be surprising. He’s a cult artist who initially found fame in a truly explicit scene from the movie Shortbus. His appearance in that movie segued into a...
There was an interesting wrinkle to the other night that I didn’t share in that entry because it didn’t really fit with the theme I was going for. I don’t know whether or not you know this, but I...
I feel like my life is finally at Season 1 of Sex & The City. I started work, it’s fine. Even though they’ve already promoted me to an auditor, I can see that I need to find myself another oc...
I’m in the midst of my second week back in Northern California and things have already changed immensely. First, I’ll get the bad stuff out of the way. My grandmother is currently in the hospital...
I am watching the most boring documentary right now. The truth is, the only reason it’s boring is because I’m not at all interested in the subject. It’s some movie about the lack of gay professio...
It was the early months of 2004. I was wandering around the streets of Sacramento trying to find this young guy I’d happened to see in our 20-something youth group at the Lambda Center. I had sta...
I was enduring the long ride home the other day… I say “enduring” but really it isn’t that bad. It’s a choice that I made for this time in my life, but I must say that Southern California is NOT ...
