Busy weekend

It's late and I'm sleepy, but I want to quickly blog about the weekend.

Overall, it was a fun weekend. Friday night I hung out with my friend from elementary school. I forget if I have assigned him a name yet . . . lets call him Larry. Larry is the only close friend who is gay that I know from my normal, everyday life (i.e., not online via blogs, YouTube, dating sites, etc). He is quite a bit more feminine than I am. He is an actor, and also performs in drag on occasion. Lately he's been using a space he has access to in order to bring together other actor friends to practice scenes, monologues, etc. On Friday I tagged along to observe and give feedback. This time it was only Larry and one other guy. It was a lot of fun, and at the end we did a bit of improv so I introduced them to one of my favorite improv games, "Quick Change." Basically two people act out a scene while a third person acts as a "director" that forces them to change a line they just said on the fly by saying "change." For example, an exchange could go like this:

A: Hello Bill.

B: Hi Alvin. Would you happen to have change for a 20?

Director: Change!

B: Do you think you could scratch my back?

Diector: Change!

B: Shut up Alvin! I know you slept with my wife!

Okay, improv is harder when typed. LOL.

When I got home I gave a call to a guy that I've been corresponding to. Let's christen him now, shall we? He shall be Brody. Because he looks kinda like a surfer due to his long hair, and I just googled "stereotypical surfer names" and Brody is the first thing that came up. It's apparently an Australian nickname for a young surfer.

Anyways, I ended up talking on the phone with Brody for THREE HOURS. 10:30 PM to 1:30 AM.

The next day I met up with Brody in person. Unlike many (most) of the guys who I've corresponded with, Brody actually lives in the same city as me. We met up for lunch. And talked for another FOUR HOURS. He's pretty cute. Tall. Blond hair, blue eyes. Just two years older than me. From New England so he has a touch of an accent.

Now, before you all start jumping for joy, a caveat . . . I'm not quite sure of the "chemistry" with this one. He's a super nice guy, and we have similar personalities. But part of the reason our conversations last so long is . . . well, he's a talker. Which is great, no worries about awkward silences. And he is a great storyteller. It's just he really does dominate the conversation. And not because I'm not pulling my weight . . . I don't really have much chance to. He just gets going on a topic and rails off a story, which segues into another story. It's actually pretty captivating how he does it, he definitely is a natural. It's just hard to get a good gauge of our chemistry when he's doing most of the talking. I know he likes me, at least as a friend. He's a super cool guy, very laid back. During our first conversation I ended up pretty much spilling everything about how I just got out of a relationship two months ago, how I did almost all of my coming out over the past year, and how companionship is much more important to me than sex. The latter fact met with a great reception from him. He was actually excited to find someone else for whom sex is not top priority! Now, I didn't say anything about "low sex drive," just that it's not what primarily drives me. I think he got the picture though. He asked me whether I think it's naturally how I'm wired or whether it was growing up with a very conservative personality. I told him it's likely a combination.

After my lunch with Brody I went to LA for what I thought was a birthday party. Turns out the festivities were actually in honor of a friend's anniversary with her boyfriend (my bad . . . the invite came indirectly, haha). It was fun! We met up at a bar in Hollywood and saw a live spoof reenactment of Terminator 2: Judgment Day. It was quite entertaining. They picked the guy to play Arnold out from the audience (although who knows, that might have been staged). The guy had quite a buff physique and a killer impression, haha. He had one of the cast members showing him cue cards the whole way through. The plot was very faithful to the movie, except the man they were hunting down to prevent machines from taking over the world was Mark Zuckerberg. Ha ha. After the show we went to bars. Nina and her boyfriend were the ones that invited me. They have actually gone out and bought some new shirts and a pair of pants for me. Nina wants to dress me up like her own personal gay Ken doll to try to get me a man, lol. I told her I'm not into random hook ups, but that's not going to phase her! Whatever, I appreciate the sentiment :-) She repeatedly told me that I'm hot and that I just need to accentuate my features (she thinks the color shirt she got will bring out my eyes). We didn't have time to play dress up this time, but I'm sure it won't be long.

I spent the night at my cousin Roger's place, then went on Date # 2 of the weekend this morning up in the San Fernando Valley. This one was with a guy who works in the TV industry. Really good conversation. I loved hearing about his job and his experiences. Turns out he worked on the same reality TV show that a friend of mine worked on, although it sounds like they didn't overlap so they don't know each other. Still, small world. He definitely liked me, he's already offered to come down to my neck of the woods next time. I really enjoyed the conversation, but I'm not sure if the attraction is there. There's that, and the distance is a little large. The Valley is quite a bit farther than the part of LA where Ben lives. I think that distance would probably be my limit. Still, I'll keep an open mind.

Then I returned home for Date # 3 of the weekend (first time having two dates in one day I believe, who's a playa, lol) This one was with Nathan, the guy who has been texting me for weeks. We had surprisingly decent conversation, so I'm glad I gave him the benefit of the doubt. Still, he is a bit soft-spoken and sort of low-energy, which I wasn't much attracted to.

All three guys were super nice and I wouldn't mind hanging with them again. Brody wins so far, though. Yes, I kind of feel steamrolled in the conversation, but he's a super nice guy, we have a lot in common, he's interesting, and he lives really close. I will continue to hang out with him. He actually just texted me a little while ago and we talked (well, he talked) for the better part of an hour. I gotta be a little more forceful with this one, haha.

Good night!