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Rich Brown - Living My Life Out Loud!
Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Tuesday, June 26, 2001
@ Work
Well I can hardly believe that June is almost over. It's been such a busy and fun filled month. I think I will be happy to have some free-time for a little while now without any real major events planned.
Overall I'd have to say that June was a pretty good month for me.
June 9 -- I went to my old college roommate's wedding in Napa at Auberge De So lei. It was a really nice time and I was able to see some old friends from college whom I haven't seen in several years. I like going up to Napa because it is much warmer then down here in the city. When I got back from Napa that evening, Justin, Philip, Bee and I went to the airport to pick up Steven from his trip to Amsterdam. He was really happy to see us but seemed really wiped out. We dropped him off and then headed out to some clubs which eventually ended at Badlands. Something interesting actually happened while we were at Badlands. Justin, Philip, Bee and I were all dancing and there were there two guys that kept trying to dance near Justin. As this one smaller guy kept getting behind him, Justin finally just used his arm to push him out of the way. Right after that his friend came over to tell Justin that he could do much better then the group of guys he was hanging out with. I was so annoyed when this happened. It took me everything I had not to haul off and hit the guy. He wasn't even attractive to be saying something like that. I guess it just shows how shallow some people in this community can be.
June 10 was San Jose Pride. Justin, Philip, Bee, Steven and I all headed down to get out of the city and just hang out. It was such a nice day outside. We spend the afternoon walking around and just hanging out. The most exciting part of the day was yet to come. We all headed over with some of Steven's old friends to Foxtails Bar. It was $5 pitchers, so we started drinking like no tomorrow. Before you know it we were all making a spectacle of ourselves on the dance floor. I think we were the only ones actually having any fun in that place. Everyone was watching us all make out and grope each other until some scary lesbian came over to tell us .. well, her words were "you faggots need to stop ... there are other people in this bar" Anyway -- we calmed down for a little while and then started back up again. It seemed as if Pandora's box had been opened for us all and there was no turning back now. After getting yelled at by the scary lesbian again, we decided to head home for the night. I don't think any of us could actually believe what happened.
June 15-17 was the weekend Mark & Andrea came up to visit from Phoenix. We spent the weekend just hanging out around the city and partying a little bit. On Saturday we ventured up to the North Beach festival for about 1/2 hour but after a long night of drinking on Friday, it just really wasn't too appealing to be around a bunch of drunk straight people. We headed down to the Marina and just walked around some before meeting up with Bee for Sushi. Later on Saturday night we all went out to Universe to do some more drinking and dancing. Justin and I had to take Mark and Andrea back down to the San Jose Airport on Sunday night, to which they got bumped off their flight and stayed the night. We went to their hotel with them and talked for a few hours before heading back to San Francisco around 2am. It was a fun filled but totally draining weekend. It was great to see them and spend time with them again.
June 22-24 was SF Pride weekend. Although I thought we would do more this weekend, it was pretty good none the less. Justin, Steven, Bee, Philip and I all started the weekend off with the Ball of Pride at Metropolis. It wasn't overly crowded, it was just about the right amount of people. Saturday we spent a few hours at the Civic Center Pride festivities, but it was pretty boring and we ended up heading downtown and just walking around a bit. Saturday night was most interesting as we headed over to the Castro Block party. I couldn't believe the number of gay people that were out and in the street. It was pretty amazing. I ended up running into my old roommate from Phoenix, Dave, who now lives in Portland. He was down with his friend Mitch from Sacramento. We had a good time just walking around, drinking and looking at all the naked boys running around in the bitter cold. Sunday we all decided to take a breather and head up to Napa for a special wine tasting compliments of Bee and the Wine Club he belongs too. It was fun and a bit more relaxing then staying in the city. I think we were all tired by then. I would have liked to see the Pride parade since I never have, but since this event was at the same time, I was perfectly fine with getting out of the city for the day. I get tired of all the people and the cold weather all the time.
So -- all in all my friendship with Steven, Bee, Justin and Philip has been growing stronger ever day. I feel something different from that of normal friends. I honestly feel as if these guys are my family now. I always think about them and I always want to spend time with them when I can. I can't say what was the turning point for us all to become this close, but I believe that we will have many more exciting times together.
I'm really at the point right now where I need to take a break from the drinking and clubbing. I really want to spend some time doing other things such as Camping, reading, and just hanging out. I think that June was a good month to get the partying out of our system for a while. Hopefully since it is starting to get nicer outside we can all go on some day trips or a weekend long camping trip in July. Something other then the club scene of which I'm growing tired.
I really need to get to bed early tonight. I'm starting to feel really tired. Well I think I'm going to go home now instead of writing any more. Maybe tomorrow ...
