Love is gone, my TV is on...

So Sunday, I had a bit of an emotional journey. A small one in the scheme of things, but a journey none the less. I was supposed to go on my first date in sobriety, my first date in years to be honest. I must admit that it was with a guy who everybody kept telling me to watch out for, and warned me about repeatedly to stay away from. I had picked a movie to go to, and we were going to go after the meeting we usually go to. Half way through the meeting he starts talking up this boy that he was in rehab with, who is VERY hot, and I had heard that he had a thing for when they were both there. At the end of the meeting I am waiting for my date, and he comes up with the boy, and the boy says “So I hear we're going to the movies!?”, I immediately pull my date to the side and tell him that I do not want to hang out if it's going to be the three of us, expecting him to pick me over the boy. WRONG! He said, alright, I guess we'll reschedule...and walks away. I totally threw a pity party for myself on the bus ride home. I was indignant at how he could pick the other boy over me. It totally took me back to when I was dating my boyfriend Michael in NYC, with whom I had an open relationship and we had agreed that our only thing with the open relationship is that when it came down to it between me and the trick, I would of course come first; and how at the end of the relationship he would sometimes pick the trick over me. ANYWHO, I digress. I totally created a big space for this resentful feeling in my head, but after talking to friends and my therapist I have started seeing it as a blessing, that I got to see this asshole's true colors, and I have no business starting any type of relationship with him whether it be romantic, or a friendship. So good riddance to him!

On to my first addiction, TV. I must admit that I am still a bit saddened that the fierce and incomparable Nina Flowers did not win Rupaul's Drag Race last night! I didn't want her to win just because I sort of knew her, and had seen her perform in Puerto Rico a couple of times, but because I honestly thought that she was the best one there. Though I did think that Bebe did an amazing job, and if Nina lost to anyone at least it was her, and not the tragic Rebeca Glasscock. There are so many levels in which I DESPISE Rebeca, the first one is her last name, to those who don't know glass cock is another name for a drug pipe, be it meth, or crack, so the fact that s he named herself after drug paraphernalia really irked me to no end. I thought that she should have been kicked off instead of Jasmine, I thought she was a much more classy lady and a talent to boot! I just loved that show to no end, and can't wait for season 2, hurry up and get that new season up and running soon Ru Ru!!

On another side of TV I have found myself addicted to another show, The Locator, on WEEEEEEEEE, er I mean WE. I think that the idea of people finding their long lost relatives is such a beautiful and amazing experience, sometimes I wonder if it's because I have recently sparked an interest in finding my birth mother, who knows? Anyway, the only part I really like of the show is when they find them, the guy who does the finding though I couldn't possibly hate more. He is such an arrogant fuck, he drives a Hummer and he flies around on a private jet! I just think that with our economy and all our environmental woes there is no need to be such a gas guzzling fucker! GRRRRRR

On yet ANOTHER side of TV, my favorite show Battlestar Galactica aired it's last show on Friday night, due to my schedule I wasn't able to see it till yesterday afternoon. I found it to be quite a beautiful and amazing way to end such a great show! I would have been crying like a girl if it wasn't for my roommates stomping in and out at all the most inopportune times, but I guess that's the price of living in sober living!

What you find-ah, what you feel now, what you know-a, to be real...

Boy is this TV junkie in 7th heaven right now, first of all I fucking LOVED the first new episode of Battlestar Galactica, it's still one of, if not THE best show on television today. Anyway, Saturday is usually my day to catch up on my Tivo, and I have a new old favorite show. Let me explain, I used to watch the Real World RELIGIOUSLY, in fact Pedro Zamora was one of my role models as a young gay latino man, it got a little too repetitive after a while tho. I believe the last season I watched completely was probably Chicago. Anyway, I was intrigued to watch this season for two reasons, one its in Brooklyn (and I figured they would be in Manhattan half the time), but more importantly they have their first trans gendered person. It was nice to see the Real World kinda get back to a Pedro Zamora kind of mindset, in educating “the kids” about taboo subjects.
I have been pleasantly surprised at how for the most part it is a non-issue with the housemates. I think they picked a great cast this year, first of all they have 8 housemates instead of 7. There is studly bodybuilder Scott, tattooed hipster Sarah, frat boy Ryan, hip hopper wanna be Baya, black beauty pageant queen Devyn, Mormon closet case Chet, pretty boy south beach queen JD and Katelynn the aforementioned trans. They are only on the second episode, and most of each episode has revolved around Katelynn's little secret. Anyway its one of my new guilty pleasures along with Celine Dion, and the Fairly Oddparents. I'm sure the drama will ensue this season and I will share if necessary.
So as a DJ/VJ with no musical outlet at the moment, I have decided that every Saturday I will share one of my favorite videos with y'all, all three of you...and hopefully I will remind you of some little gem that you hadn't thought of or seen recently. Enjoy this week's choice: Shakespeare's Sister "Stay", which goes out to me best girl Chad!

Ground control to Major Thom!

Hi my name is Gerson, and I'm a scifi geek. (group mumbles: “Hi Gerson”)
So I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited because in just a few hours the first of ten new and final episodes of one of my favorite TV shows of all time begins, Battlestar Galactica! Now you may look at me and think how the hell did this showtune hairdressing queen ever get to be a scifi geek?
Let's start with the fact I was first addicted to Stargate:Atlantis; that came about because I have this weird connection to a lot of water related phenomena, like Titanic, and Atlantis. So when I heard a show called Stargate: Atlantis was starting on the SciFi channel a couple of years ago I tuned in, and got hooked immediately. I wasn't a big scifi geek as a child, I mean I enjoyed Star Wars like any kid does, but that was about it. While my best friend and his friends would play Dungeons and Dragons and watch anime, I would be watching MTV and prancing around to Madonna and showtunes. But I digress, Stargate: Atlantis came on, and I was hooked, that led me to start catching up on the Stargate SG-1 shows I had missed (almost 7 seasons) and was pretty much hooked on those immediately as well.
So fast forward to about 3 years ago or so ,my New Years Eve plans of endless tweeking were shattered by my health. Crystal Meth had obviously fucked my body up to such an extreme that I was bed ridden for two weeks. ANYWHOO I had returned all my netflix movies and hadn't gotten back any in time for New Years Eve, and so as I am flipping through the channels and stopped because I saw an ad for Stargate: Atlantis on the SciFi channel, after it was done I notice I have stumbled upon a show recapping the first season of Battlestar Galactica, and I fall in love immediately.
Of course being a big ol' fag, I love all the drama it has in it, but I feel that it's much more than just a bunch of humans and robots fighting in outer space. I feel that the writers have done such a beautiful job of incorporating real life situations into this scifi universe. I mean their parallel of the insurgents suicide bombers on New Caprica was a brilliant mirror to what was going on around the world at the time. Something that hit close for me was when humans had partnered up with cylons, and how they were ostracized, I'm not sure that the writers were trying to make it a gay parallel, but as a gay man I sure did take it that way.
On that note, I do wish that scifi had some frackin gay characters for christ's sake! I mean, it doesn't have to be a big storyline, like the usual “special episodes” that TV shows do, and then the gay characters are never to be heard of again! Just incorporate a gay citizen, and have him go about doing the usual space-y things. That would be a refreshing take on sci phi for me. But for now I will settle for my last ten episodes of Battlestar, and wonder what the hell I'm gonna watch after it's done since Atlantis has also signed off. I guess I'll just have to look forward to the new Star Trek movie. Anyway may the Gods bless us with a great couple of episodes!