new year's eve
12:36 p.m.
hi all, here's some news...the phone works!
i got the car towed, (in fact, the phone company truck had to move out of the way so the tow truck could back up into my driveway!) and it's being worked on right now. i should have it back thursday...it's not the radiator, it's some rusted plugs under the engine that are causing the leak...gonna be about 300 bucks. oh well. but, as i was walking down the highway from the garage to the post office, i saw a cute little car at sweetheart motors... and i got the BIGGEST BONER! well, you know what i mean...i hope!
it's a 2000 suzuki swift, automatic, hatchback, just what i had in mind. 7000 bucks. i think i can get just a little under 1000 for the truck, according to all the info i put in at the kelly blue book site. it's a little jelly-bean of a car, but i think it's really all i need. course, it's the first car i've really looked at, but i don't wanna go to dozens of car lots, the whole idea of that is too much for me to deal with. so, i'll go down thursday, and maybe take it for a spin...i've been reading reviews, and they seem pretty reliable...
i made a banner the other night, after posting that huge entry...
it's like i told rob, "sex sells."...he replied, "love sells, too!"
i disagree...look at what the media tells us...use that cologne, and you'll get laid in the elevator...try that shampoo, and apparently you'll have an orgasm...(on a plane, no less!)...it's all about sex...so...i'm not selling out, i'm buying in!
anyway, the banner did 3.7%, really good... i had 56 hits yesterday. i may have made a few new contacts...oh lord, more diaries to read!
speaking of love and sex, here's an excerpt from andy warhol's america...he's talking about truman capote...
the one thing truman and i disagree about is LOVE. truman believes in it and i don't. one day at petite marmite we had the biggest fight about it. it started when i asked him why he fell out of love with his former roommate. truman said, "i was with him for fifteen years." "couldn't it have been thirty?" "we're still very good friends." "you just got tired or he got tired?" "no, i just didn't want to go to switzerland in the winter anymore. i'd been going there for so many years." truman was trying to keep calm. "you broke up after that?" "we didn't break up at all. we're still very good friends. can't you get that through your head?" "but you have somebody else now," i persisted. "i just stopped sleeping with him, that's all. that's not breaking up with somebody." truman was really getting mad. but i wouldn't let up. 'doesn't he miss having somebody to sleep with him?" "i don't know. why don't you ask him?" 'but he must miss it." i couldn't understand how truman could say that he didn't break up with his boy friend when they're not having sex anymore. i think love is based on sex. truman thinks love is based on friendship. but truman loves sex so how can he say he loves love? truman says he can get anyone he wants. i don't want anyone i can get.
i really love that last line, it's been a favorite of mine for years...it's so close to the groucho marx line that woody allen used in annie hall..."i wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have me for a member."
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speaking of love, here's a recent entry from a friend of mine...it made me so happy to read it...
She's in the bath, Ziggy Stardust is on the stereo (played loud), and i am in love. Surely there must be a giant meteorite on its way to Planet Earth. I can't believe i'm this lucky.
yay! he deserves it, he was so down this year...here's our email exchange from this morning...
dear boy, where are you?
i'm guessing either hopelessly in love and too busy to write...
or a post-holiday funk...
hope you're in good spirits... waiting for some good news!
happy new year and all that rot...michael _________________ Dear Michael -
No, have had my girl staying with me for a while, so have been agreeably
busy, as you guessed.
Here's hoping you have a fine 2003 & that you will keep up with the
Diaryland stuff, as your diary is always one of the first that i turn to.
Hey, you gotta take care of the fans!
Take care,
s.
WOW! that's so great...seems they just met...
and NOW...
KA-BOOM!
aww, ain't love grand?
hope you kids are out dancing...
and here's a bottle of bubbly for ya...
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ok, more about love and sexxx...here's another excerpt from another friend's diary...
And it's more of this sex for free business that inspired my song. All this "emotional detatchment" nonsense. I don't think it's cool at all to have sex, and walk away...not care one way or the other about the person. Blow-jobs, sex, anything like that is something I believe is special and should be shared between people who have a strong connection. The physical aspect of a relationship should be a reflection upon the love they feel for each other, and it should be based on personality/intellectual connection...not physical (though I guess the attraction has to be there, though often times that will follow). And that is my little blurb. And yes...I use to think differently about this actually...I contradicted myself in an earlier entry.
see, i had shown him some entries where some people were taking part in some rather impersonal (and to me, risky) behavior. i agree with him pretty much, but i DO think physical attraction has to be a large part of it...that's where it begins, isn't it? i mean the internet is a great place to fall in love with someone's mind...i've done it a few times myself! we've all heard about people who've met online...k. maria even knows a couple who got married!
this is NOT meant as any kind of comment on the two people that i introduced to each other...i did it because i KNEW you would get along and have so much in common. and yes, maybe you SHOULD meet in the real world, that would be the next step. it's just too bad that little things like distance, finances, and logistics stand in your way...
excerpt from a chat with one of the above-mentioned parties from the other night...
mkstyle57: honey, the end aint been written yet...if you know what i mean
o-boy: LOL
o-boy: I love that
o-boy: you are so good at reading my mind
o-boy: :-)
mkstyle57: its true...i mean lots of things could happen...you could find someone, so could he...you might drift away from each other...or it could go the other way..
o-boy: who knows that makes life interesting
o-boy: I want to stay around a little longer to see what happens
mkstyle57: all i did was plant the seeds....it scares me a bit though
o-boy: oh stop it
o-boy: you need not be scared
o-boy: LOL
mkstyle57: well...it does...what have i started here?
o-boy: it was all on our own consent
o-boy: if we didn't want to talk we didn't have to
mkstyle57: oh i know...
o-boy: you just let us know that we needed to talk
o-boy: and I am glad
mkstyle57: its a weird position to be in though...im glad too
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8:00 p.m.
at 4:oo p.m. i rang in the new year with gaygamer over in the u.k.! that was fun...and i got an email from jaspie over there today, too.
oh, didja see my new weather pixie over there on the right? you can click on that to get one for yourself...you select your local area, and they have lots of characters to choose from. they change their clothes to reflect what the weather is like... my boy there is gonna take off his shirt when it gets warm! and the background changes, too. hmmm, gonna have to pick out a name for him...oh, i know, ANDY! (sorry, private joke...)
well, i think i'm gonna go enjoy the evening. i just wanna say that i LOVE all my d-land boys and girls! let's have a great new year...i'll see you over there...
michael