Monday Morning and the search is on!

It's a Monday morning, Im working tonight and yet I was up and such an ungodly hour, far too early for normal nightshifter's like me - 9am! Phew, the only time I see that time is when I'm coming home!

Anyway the reason for my early rise to greet the dawn, was to view a flat, yes the search to find a new place to live and be free of Nart's moans, groans and silent deathray looks, has started.

I met the lettings agent, a nice young chap in a badly fitting suit and dandruff showed me what can only be described, by anyone with eyes as a box! Yes, it had a bathroom, a bedroom, a kitchen, but the size of each room is tiny. One person and a cat would only just fit in each of the rooms. Indeed, it is the only flat that I have ever seen where the washing machine is on a shelf above the bath! Plus they wanted £590 a month for that - not a chance in hell, I say and indeed I did when the lettings man asked what I thought, needless to say he wasn't smiling.

So needless to say the search is still on. I'm still singing No one mourns the wicked! I love that show, I really do! Thanks David!

Right, off now, have another viewing in a few mins, maybe this will be bigger that a hampster cage, maybe this will be the place of my dreams - yeah right, I live in the real world. You know the one where Witches wander and green girls are born and go to school and men become tin and goats talk!

Wicked was wicked!

What a night! What a camp life I lead! First of all, Wicked was absolutly wicked. David, from work, met up and Brighton station to head onboard a London bound express, for today yesterday was the day we were due to the musical Wicked. After noshing down on some rolls of brie, tomato and pepper on the train we bussed our way to Old Compton Street and some liquid refreshment on one of the many gay bars that populate that area!


David having a beer and a pose!

We had a couple, set the world to rights and people watched, with the onbligatory bitchy, queeny, observations and comments. Then we moved on to G-A-Y bar just down the street, which is a long caven of a bar with a few odd video screens up playing the campest collection of songs known to man! It was good, it was a giggle even if David did have a jig to Girls Aloud! He also got a snog, althought it wasn't invited or - by the look on his face - pleasent! The toilets were on the lower floor, but you could smell them from the floor above - talk about stink.

One or five drinks later we made our way to The Apollo Victoria Theatre accross the road from Victoria choochoo station and the home of Wicked! We had great seats in the stalls, not far from the centre and only six or so rows back from the stage. I was looking forward to the show, well it's the 'Untold story of the witches of oz' so perfect for any poof. The lights dimmed, the music started and the show began and for the next three hours I was thrilled and on the edge of my seat. It was truely an amazing performance, the stage set, the performance, the songs, the music - all first class. It has a wonderful take on on how one girl becomes bad and the other good, the witches of the wast and the west. A tale of evil over good, only its not as simple as that - it very rarely is! Along the way there is love, mystery, deception, star crossed lovers, a tin man, loads of green and tears before bed time!.





I have to say Idina Menzel, actress who played the lead - Elphaba - was outta this world, she was simply stunning, what a great voice, what a great performance. Idina opened the show on Broadway and opened it here in the UK and she gave such a great performance it's easy to see why, she was made for the part! Also turning in a great performance was the Wizard himself, played by Young One's and Comic Strip actor Nigel Planer. Surprising that such a man well known for playing it for laughs was playing it straight and winning. Adam Garcia, the lovely looking fella in Coyote Ugly played the male lead - Fiyero with such style that I didnt even realise it was Mr Garcia until it was almost the end. All in all it was a wonderful, entertaining show and at the end we gave them a standing ovation, richly deserved and given with so much appreciation.

I made a snap purchase, unlike me, and got myself a wicked Wicked Hoody and baseball cap. £40 it cost me for both, but I'm pleased with shopping, early Christmas presents to myself!

Oh dear - on the train home - modelling my 'wicked' gear!

I'd forgotten just how much I love going up to 'town' on a big boys outting to see a show, muscial of other, it's a great experience and to be honest, we're spoilt over here. london is not far away and there is a wealth of talent on the many West End stages. I'm already planning the next adventure to the big city and the next show to see. David beware, more drinking and singing is coming your way.

After that, I bumped into Mo walking donw the street, she'd just been to a Motown night out and we were both buzzing so I went round her's for a cup of tea - you know the usual sort of thing you do at 1am. Right good old natter we had, then I came back to do this and I've popped on the classic DVD of la Caug Aux Folles! Oh such a camp life I lead!

After seeing such a show as Wicked, I always wish I had the talent to be one of the cast, to be an actor, in fact David is always telling me I should be on the stage - sweeping it!

Wide eyed & Legless! Thanksgiving

People go there on holiday to Escape the cold, it's known as the Sunshine state, It's usually soo sunny, yet on Tuesday, snow started to fall over Florida! Yes for a time, temperatures dipped, the skies were grey and the flakes of the whitestuff fell from the skies and landed on the ground. Ok, so it didn't settle and no banks of snow rest on the beach, but it's still pretty unusual for the Sunshine state not be quite so sunny leaving locals wide-eyed and shivering!

So that dirty little money grabbing bitch Heather Mills - Macca's soon to be ex thinks that she would rather have all her limbs cut off than have a little publicity! How horrible can she really be, Macca really should have ditched the bitch long ago. She's a vile, gold digging creature, that popped a sprog just to snare a beattle. In the states to get some sympathy and the publicity that she so hates, it's bound to fail, she just has to open her mouth and hate comes out! I nearly bumped in to her once, she was walking along by Hove Lagoon with Paul, I should've nabbed her false leg and tossed it in the lagoon and poked her in the eye with my gold plated Gucci condom carrier!

Beirut is up in arms with thousands of people on the street's to start mourning after politician Pierre Gamayel's assassination on Tuesday, so the country is possibly on the brink of a civil war. Typical, just as I was planning a trip there! We live in a crazy world!

New York's Macy's thanksgiving parade took place today, despite strong winds, which leads me to say happy Thanksgiving to all my US friends! Have a good one!



As for me, well, I'm still searching, searching for CapBoy, Searching for Martin, Searching for a new place to live and searching for happiness!...

Sea Side and kangaroo testicles!

I woke and had a lovely cooked breakfast this morning, the best thing about this was there was no cooking and no washing up to be done. That's the good side of staying in a hotel, the bad side is you have to pay for the privilege! Last night was my last night at my three star sea front abode and after a long shower after breakfast and a walk along the prom on the way back home!

It was a pretty windy and overcast day, the waves were breaking over the shore with force and the wind tore at my face. I felt no cold as my feet carried me forward, it was wondrous, it really was. Even on a damp cold winters day, the natural beauty of the endless rolling sea kissing the beach, the swirling wind caressing everything filled me with an inner happiness, I so love living by the sea - everyone should do it.

No, forget that completely, no, not everyone should live by the sea, for that would mean my home town would be over run with 'outta - towners' and oiks from the city would be locals and that would just never do! Never do at all!

Ok, so it's a bunch of Z list celebs and has beens but yes it's becoming compulsive viewing, I am of course talking 'I'm a celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!' The TV show where various odd balls are dropped into the jungle and given crazy trials to earn stars for food. Tonight, is a trial that's usually towards the end of the show, it's where two celebs face each other over a feast of strange aussie tucker. Things like spiders, grubs, fish eyes and the crunchy yet creamy delight of kangaroo testicles!

Yeah, high quality TV at it's best, never before have the words 'bad taste TV' been so utterly correct! Jan Leeming ex news reader faces up to the nasty nosh against the fashion designer guy, that nobody except his mother had ever heard of! I'm not sure if it's good TV or bad TV, it's probably the latter, it was a bit of an anti climax, Jan just wimped out and refused to eat an anus! I'm not sure I blame her really!



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Hotel Babalyon - it's so not!

To escape the bad feeling and vibe at home while Nart was there this week and to give my self a bit of a break, I decided to check into a hotel. Now, being a man of champagne tastes on a apple juice budget, The Grand I couldn't really afford, The Metropole was also a bit out of my reach, well ok, let's face it, I'm a bit skint, brassic, poor so all the four and five star hotels were kinda beyond my pockets bottom!.

I've checked into a sea front three star hotel along the prom and not far from the rusty remains of the old and best 'West' Pier. It's a bit basic and although I've got a double room, it's still a bit ermm on the small side, and I'm sure you would find that a bit of an understatement as well. Still it has very thing you could possibly want, double bed, tv, wardrobe, bathroom, tean & coffee, hairdryer, mirrors, table, two chairs indeed the only things it's missing is a mini-bar, trouser press and space!

However, for no extra pennies, I have a side seaview, which for Brighton is good, most hotel's charge you upwards of £25 for sight of the sea, so I'm kinda happy. The weather was pretty cruddy when I checked-in, but I stole a look out the window at the waves breaking over the beach and the rain lashing down! Chilly it was, snug in my room I was, happy - well kinda. I'm still a little introspective at the moment - still searching!!

My little hotel room view.

Side sea view at no extra cost - what a bonus!

Last night there was a great sunset, well it would have been if the clouds hadn't got in the way and it wasn't so windy, but hey, it was nice. I tried to be arty and take a photo of it, now David Bailey I'm not - so it didnt turn out as I had hoped. But, you can see the sea, you can see the beach and you can see the sun and you can tell it's setting, what more do you want from a sunset shot over the beach! Heck, there's no pleasing some people!

Well, alright you can see the shit on the window more than the sun set but at least I tried!

Nice huh?

Oh, yesterday I was a little bit naughty, I did a little shopping of the leisure kind. I nipped into Virgin and noticed they had the box set of House, the first season, so well, you know I'm a big fan, I just had to get it! I know I'm doing things a little backwards, having purchased season two a few weeks ago, but this is me we're talking about. What do you expect from me? Sanity??

Anyway, there I was walking along the road, feeling like a visitor in my own town with 6 DVD's under my arm and nothing to play them on. Ok, so that had to change, I popped into one of those highstreet electrical goods retailers and within four shakes of a lambs tail and faster than you can say "Little Miss Muffett" six thousand times, out I walked with a personal DVD player with a 9 inch screen! I know, naughty boy, I cant really afford to be splashing the cash on impulse buys really, but hey, needs must. I did feel good, naughty, but good.

Not much is happening today, I'm off back to the hote this evening, just having one more night there, well tomorrow eveing, Nart is off on another trip and hopefully things will have cooled off for a bit and it will be chilled when she comes back until I find some place else for lil old me to call home. Any offers - as always most welcome. (Oh thanks Jakey - but sleeping standing up in your shower is a tempting offer but I dont think the back & leg would be able to cope!)

I'm still searching, I think I'm gonna seach for CapBoy again, not for the big relationship or anything like that, but just to see what he thought of me and maybe re-make a friend. I've also decided I will also have a wee look for Martin, my ex from a few years ago, see what he's up to, what's been going on and find out if he ever thinks of me these days. So If ya out there CapBoy and Martin, get in touch - usual email - SexAndTheSeaFront@yahoo.co.uk

That's ya lot for now, oh before I go, I just have to tell ya that I really like that M&S TV ad with Shirley Bassy that running at the moment, her singing 'I'm coming up' is a real joy. I hate that Orange one with the waddling toy singing 'Let me call you sweetheart' it's soooo annoying, so much so that it makes me hate Orange, it was once a good brand, I was going to get their broadband service, but after this ad, they can whistle for my custom!




Oh what a giggle, I sure seem like a sad wanker at times, all this searching and stuff for CapBoy, makes me sound rather ermm sad. If you dont know what I mean, check back into the archives for Feb last year! Oh dear god, I think I'm just loosing my right to be out on my own and to be free! Am I really that bad?

Typical, I've been sitting in this internet cafe thing (laptops back at the house) for nearly two hours and just as my time gets down to 5 mins, along comes a sexy looking lad with dark hair and fast fingers. Just my luck huh? Well, could put this in bold and hope he see's. Then invite him back to my hotel room? Sounds like a plan - na, he's cute but I've got 26 episodes of House to watch!

Over and out till next time!

He's a bad influence - that Angus

don't shout too loudly, I've a bad headache, I've also got a bit of a funny tummy and I feel rough as the floor or a parrots cage. Ok, ok, I've got a hangover and you should have no sympathy as its my own stupid fault, well, actually it's all Angus' fault, I blame him completely, yep, he's the one to blame for my present state of unwellness!

Ermmm yes, Ok it was my idea to go out with him last night, and yes it was me he decided to meet in VaVoom to start off our little pub crawl. And no Angus didn't lift the repeated glasses of alcohol tip my lips and no he didn't force me to in take the intoxicating liquid, so really I suppose your could say it is my own fault. However, I still blame him, he's a bad influence on me. Whenever we go out, I always seem to end up completely pissed up and have to pour myself into a taxi to get home!

We met at 8.30ish in VaVoom for one, it would have been two or more, but the service was so crap, the bar staff, two of them were more interested in putting up photos of themselves to bother about serving customers. After waiting to be served for a full 10 mins, we gave up and headed for the R Bar just around the corner. I wouldn't have minded waiting so long if it had been busy, but there was just around 7 punters there plus us 2, so rushed off their feet they weren't.

R bar was good and we had a long natter over a few pints which was really good, at least the service was better, faster and done with a smile on the face! We saw a couple of youngsters, one of which was in a cap and was kinda cute. Had to do a double take, just to make sure it wasn't CapBoy, needless to say it wasn't! (why is that boy on my mind so much just lately?) After, R bar we headed off to the Queens Arms, yeah that herald of campness at 80's kitsch in Gaydom. I'm not usually found inside those walls, it reminds me of bar's I used to go into in the late 80's, but hey we had some fun. The place was like a tranny bar with loads of he/she's in drag, and there were these two little lads around with digital cameras from www.facesinplacs.co.uk who took our picture, one of Angus and I and then one of Angus, I and a drag queen. So now young Angus and I have matching keyrings, with our faces on them!

Keyring star! Humph!!

Angus, a little startled, a little pissed but now the proud ower of a keyring with our mugs on them!

After Queens Arms I think we went to The Bulldog for a little while, I could be wrong, because I was a little pissed up by that stage. Then we headed off to Revenge, I'm not sure why, I think it was my idea, but I needed a dance. Place was pretty empty, but hey, I danced with couple of good looking lads. Oh and Beardy man was there as well, doing his funky stuff, good to see him again. Not sure what time Angus left and not sure what time I poured myself into a taxi, but I got home while it was still dark! That's an improvement on last time!

I've just chilled down today really, gotta go and write a letter to Nart, whose snotty letter to me has got me kinda worked up, so I'm going to vent my frustrations on the pc and send her a letter back, even though she's home tomorrow.

Searching?

Hey, well works over for a little while, I'm taking the next shift off as holiday, so I've got 12 nights away from the hell hole that is the office. I'm kinda looking forward to being away from the place as I've got loads to do. Dentist for one - my gob is like agony and a fair bit of searching.

I had a pure relaxing day yesterday and hardly got out of my pit, Nart was at home and she's in a mood with me at the mo, so I figured it best I keep out the way. I watched a few episodes of the House Box Set the I bought the other day. I really did that show, I love Hugh Laurie's portrayal of bitter, acerbic, diagnostician. Plus of course it has the lovely Jesse Spencer (yes, he soooo could!) and Robert Sean Leonard (Dead Poets!). Not since Queer As Folk have I enjoyed and American TV show so much and watched so many episodes in one go! I love it!

The lovely Jesse Spencer! A voice like melting honey!

I''ve been reading 'Now & Then' by William Corlett, it's a great book, I read it first a few years back and loved it then. I saw it on Amazon and thought I just had to read it again, I enjoyed it so much last time. So I got it and have started it and it's well good, so well written, so appealing and also moving.

It's a delicate tale of the here and now and the distant past, and how what happens in our past effects our now's. As for the book, Chris Metcalf goes back to the family home after his father dies, whilst going through his things, Christ happens across a box of memorabilia from his days at Public school. That's where the now starts, the then is his memories of those days at public school and the intensely passionate affair he had there. It's truly a provoking well crafted book, it's moving in many ways and it's hard to put down, so hard that I had to force myself to stop reading earlier. So I could savor the tale for longer.

"I'm afraid his mother was killed in a riding accident" I read in the book and a silent tear run'd down my cheek. I'm not sure if I'm crying for the characters loss, or how it will affect Chris or if I'm crying for my past.

This book has made me introspective and think about a love from my past and perhaps searching for them. For example, I never did find CapBoy! He's a guy that I had the hots for at one stage, but let slip through my fingers, I think I felt I wasn't worthy. Now, I sit and think about what mite have been. I'd still love to see him again, see what happens, if anything, be nice to find out how close I came. Maybe I should search for him again?

Now & Then has also got me thinking about Martin, an ex from my past. He was very sweet and kinda looked after me when I broke the back which was really sweet. He also came to visit me everyday whilst I was in hospital and then came to stay at my place after I was let out to take care of me. he was a real sweet guy, a student and there was a big age difference between us. I was his first major love, but he hadn't seen much of life, so I kinda let him go, let him go free, so he could see more of the world, experience life some more. I wonder where he is now, if he ever thinks of me, if he does, what does he think? Id like to see him again, maybe I miss him, maybe I shouldn't have let him go, maybe I should search for him, maybe I'm just thinking like this because I'm lonely.



I'm also searching for a new place to live, Nart left me a really long snotty and selfish letter, telling me she basically wants me out. So, new home, I'm looking for. Searching, I'm always searching!

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Sunday at work!

I slept for the extra two hours I had yesterday and came into work today for 8pm and a nice clear and slightly windy night. I cycled all the way and felt really good for my little burst of exercise with the sea breeze kissing my face. Sometimes I really like to ride along the seafront in the dark, it's almost errie as the waves gently brush the beach and the splish splash sound hangs in the dark air and the moon and star light is reflected back to the heavens from the blackness that is the never still sea!

It's been a dull night here, indeed it's been hard for my collegues to stay awake. Proof, as if proof was needed, I captured Kitty, not quite asleep but also not quite awake!

David and I escaped to the pub at lunch time, VaVoom was the venue and was it's usual mix of strange and bizzare clientel, From dancing boys in dungerees to the trailer trash from WhiteHawke complete with mother! We sat and chatted, put the world to rights, criticised all the oddbods in the place and generally had a giggle for an hour and a half.

I managed to snap this little piccie of David in the bar, the dark shadows of the night seem to cast a mysterious look over him. Indeed there is a touch of the Mr T's about him!

Fetching!

Oh pain and tears - at least there's gin!

It was the first night back at work for me after 4 nights off filled with pain and tears, the toothache has been rather harsh. Indeed it should be called teethache because the whole right side of the top set hurt. Trying to find a dentist in Brighton is a bit of a mare if you want to have an appointment this side of Christmas! I've been lucky and had an check up and I've got impacted wisdom tooth which has caused me to loose a filling and thats why it's painfull. Still, all through the pain there is gin, a wonderful pain killer, if taken in significant quantities!.

Work was ok, they asked me to go in a couple of hours earlier, I didn't mind that as it allowed me to leave a couple of hours earlier. So a couple of extra hours off between shifts is most welcome, I'm nore sure what I'll do with them - Sleep probably!

I have decided I need a new place to live, I've had enough of sharing a place to live, a place to call my own and be alone or be with someone, if you know what I mean. Plus I'd love to have a item of clothing that isnt covered in cat hair! Anyway, the search is on, do I go for the water aspect and head to the marina. Perhaps I should go for the woodland idea and plump for the dyke. Maybe is the hussle and bussle I seek and therefore I should be in the heart of the city. Oh who knows where I should start looking to live, mind you on what I can afford in Brighton, it'll probably be a 1 room cardboard box under the pier!

The lovely Kylie, is back on the road after her brush with cancer, yeap the little Aussie popstress plays Melbounre tonight. I'm so happy that she's back to full strenght and back starting her tour again. It's such good news and also give me something to look forward to, David and I are seeing her in January in London and I cant wait. It's going to be a great show, of that I'm sure.

I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, that strange reality programme hits our TV screens on monday night for it's run this year and who have they got as the Celebs this year? Ermm, Jason 'everyones forgotton me' Donovan, Jan 'I used to read the news in the 70's' Leeming, Faith 'I was once famous' Brown, Toby 'boring DJ' Anstis, Matt 'ex busted' Willis, Lauren 'Tony Blairs sister in law' Booth, Myleene 'failed pop idol' Klass, David 'Liza's very strange ex' Gest and a couple of other bods that no-one apart from their mothers have ever heard of! So, it's maybe a case of 'I'm a jungle get me a celebrity! Compulsive viewing I'm sure!

Ok, it's getting light outside, which must mean it's time for bed!

Toothache!

It's the first night off for me which is good, well it would be if I didnt have serious toothache. It was so bad that I had to leave work at 4 am yesterday, the pain was so great. Now, I'm not usually a weak man, not when it comes to pain anyway. I mean when I broke my back I didnt have any pain relief for over 2 hours. When I broke my leg it was 3 days before I got to see a proper doctor. I dont take any tablets for headaches and those kinds of pains, so I guess you can imagien how bad the pain was for me to leave work early!

I did feel bad leaving David to hold the fort, but I just couldn't cope anymore, my work couldn't be done, so I trudged off home. I didnt have any painkillers at home so a eased the pain with a pint of gin and tonic which seemd to do the trick and soon slumbers sweet refrain was mine. Tried to get an emergency appointment with the local tooth doctor, but had no space till a week on Friday which is no use to me because by then I'd have taken a pair pliers to my nashers! So tomrrow, I'm searching for a new one, luckily there is one just around the corner, with a bit of luck, I'll head off there and hopefully have the old wisdom tooth pulled!

A couple of times during the week, David and I went to the pub at lunch time which has been fun and so nice to get away from the office for an hour or so. The place we go to, VaVoom is cool, it's going all membership soon which will be good, less riffraf, more exclusive, well kinda> David's already got membership, he's a fast worker ya know.

Nart and her boyf Jason are back from one of their trips, so I no longer have the house to myself, we had a meal from the local Indian, which was ok, but not great. It ws nice to catch up with them, but Nart is pretty much always negative about everything so, which brings me down, so I've already had enough of her!

I have very little planned for my days off, I need to pop to the bank, and sort this sodding tooth out and then, wel hopefully something else will happen!

Ok, gins run out now, it'll have to be vodka - great pain killers both of them, well till morning that is!

Fireworks - wizz bang pop & sparkle!

I woke this evening with a shivvering fur ball attached to my head, it was poor Jazz the cat, obviously scared out her little pussy wits by the bangs, whoops and flashes going on in the local neighbourhood. Indeed the whole local area seemed having little bonfire parties and letting off fireworks. When I ventured out to get the bus to work the air was heavy with gunpowder and smoke and every few moments the skies lightened up with a myrriad of coloured mini explosions.

I'm not a big fireworks fan, big displays, like New Year over Sydney harbour or running down the Thames are great and fine. But in peoples back yards and gardens in close proximity to others - no not my bag. Yeah yeah, it's for the kids they say and indeed the little children love the sights and dont feel the cold chill our bones like us older kids, but do you know that the sparkler you're putting into the hand of that little 3 year old is burning at over 2000 degress!

Ok, I'm trying to get myself an Ipod nano for free, all you have to do is log on to this site, go through some offer and refer some friends and then bobs ya uncle and fannys ya aunt and they send you a free Ipod nano - apparently! Now, here's where you play a part in my quest for gratis electrical hardware, if need you to click the pretty picture below and registar your details then both you and me can get a Nano for nothing!

It's just gone 3 am and some louts near the office are letting off fireworks, another reason why I think fireworks should not be in the hands of mere mortals like ourselves! Oh and another thing, I've yet to see a Guy this year - all the hype over Halloween and nothing for Guy Fawkes! Surely we should applaud an celebrate one who wanted to blow up the leaders of the day!!!!

My work collegue and friend David has a busy time in his days off, he went and saw the show Bent which he really enjoyed and recommends fully and he also went and enjoyed a secret show. Ex Spice Girl Mel C did a one of private show for hardcore fans and David being a keen diva follower just had to go and met the girl herself, had his picture taken with her and a brief natter before security pulled him off! It eneded when he shouted Girl Power at her, oh dear! Here he is with the lady herself, notice our David looking a little starstruck - bless.

I read in one of the papers that Callington Community College in Cornwall have put a ban on hugging! Pupils are now not allowed to hug each other, the head said "Hugging was happening extensively and was becoming the norm. We were worried it might become inappropriate" So huggings been banned, but carring a swtch blade to school are fights are still ok!

The lovely Joan Collins has blasted woman who have plastic surgery apparently. "I call facelifts are the plain woman's revenge - if you're beautiful you can have wringles" Ahem.

Lastly on my trudge into the worlkd of news, a pstcard sent by a 12 year old on holiday in France has finally been delivered home to her parents, some 26 years after she posted it in 1980 on a school trip!

More soon!