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Jason Sechrest


Last Updated: 11/4/2009

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Gender: Male
Status: Single
Age: 29
Sign: Sagittarius

City: "The Mans" - West Hollywood Hills
State: California
Country: US
Signup Date: 4/19/2004

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Tuesday, September 08, 2009 
Hi guys! I'm not using MySpace for my blog anymore, but you can find it still at:

jasoncurious.com/diary/

*NOTE: MySpace fucks up the link because it's an adult site so be sure to copy and paste the text or type it in yourself. Bookmark the blog and check it daily for all new updates!

You can also follow me on Twitter at: Twitter.com/JasonSechrest
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009 
I had recently decided I needed to do an entry here about how my personal views on sex and romance have changed so drastically in the last year; the change being that I don't seem to crave either at all anymore.

Bygone are the days of going to clubs with the intentions of finding a hot boy to bring home, much less go to dinner with as if I have time for small talk. Part of this is probably that I will turn 30 this year and many of my friends tell me that sex becomes much less important as you hit that point in life. Working in porn contributes to it as well I'm sure. I've had sex with literally every kind of guy I've ever wanted to have sex with and I've lived out pretty much every fantasy I ever had.

I've lived in love and I've lived single and am aware neither are easy so I can't say I prefer one to the other. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. I see some people so much younger than I who believe finding a boyfriend will fix all their problems. The truth is, it does fix a lot of problems, but it also creates new ones.

I am very lucky in that I am never lonely for some reason, even when I spend a few days without leaving the house. I've always been that way. I like being alone and even in relationships, I require a lot of personal space and alone time. I don't have that gene that "needs" someone. That's not to say I don't crave attention (clearly, I do!), but I get that fix from work. In life though and love, I am incredibly self-sufficient.

And let's face it, with all the different facets of my career I don't have much time in my life to really devote to love. I prefer putting that energy into my friends, my career and my own personal discovery and growth. Partnerships take work to be done properly, they require selflessness and putting the other person before you. I also often think it wouldn't be fair of me to expect anyone to even be in a relationship with me. I'm not the easiest person in the world to deal with and my schedule, my lifestyle and career don't help that much either for people who aren't a part of my bubble.

So, as I've written here before, as far as I'm concerned I have no desire to be in a relationship unless I feel like I don't really have a choice in the matter.

If you can't help it, then you're in love.  

And since there are few things I love celebrating more than my independence, I was very much looking forward to taking a three day weekend and whooping it up with my pals in the spirit of my free spiritedness.

The madness began Thursday evening. I had my photographer Thomas "T Ball" Trevor stop by The Mans to take pics of a new boy for my DV8 Casting agency named Lance Bennett. The stud was supposed to leave the next morning but was dying to stay for the 4th of July so I helped arrange for him to stay until Monday morning and we proceeded to meet up with porn star Ryan Raz who was also in town, my friend Essay and a few others at Tigerheat.

I love the music at Tigerheat, I love the layout of the club and I'm friends with most of the dancers, but I hate really big crowds so I tend to spend most of the evening with the head dancer, Josh Griffin (another DV8 Casting boy I happen to represent) downstairs in the dressing room. Josh was pretty busy that evening, as were the other dancers and after a couple of hours we decided to head to Essay's for an intimate after party that lasted just long enough. I love heading home as the sun's coming up. I don't so much like heading home when the sun is already out.

The next morning I fell out of bed, screamed "Marix!" at the top of my lungs and Essay somehow heard me from a few miles away. I jumped in the shower, he picked me up and we headed to Marix for a fabulous Mexican lunch to cure our hangovers. While there, I had one of those rare moments where I'm incredibly decisive. I put down my drink, straightened my back, looked straight at Essay and said, "I'm going to have a pool party."

"Really?" he asked. "When?"

"Right now!" I answered. "Why the fuck not? I have a pool at The Mans and I never use it! It's 4th of July weekend. Let's have people over."

Though little time was spent by the pool and most was spent in my gorgeous air conditioned room listening to music, chatting it up and partying our asses off, within an hour or so, we were joined by Joe Kenan, Brandon Baker, Chase Harding (one of my latest additions to DV8 Casting), Tristan Mathews, Shane Risk, Josh Griffin, Bobby Trendy, Ryan Raz and a new friend/potential-discovery of mine Kennedy.

There's nothing better than being surrounded by your friends, making sure they are safe, having a good time and sharing memories you'll never forget. I was especially grateful that Brandon Baker had made it out for the weekend. He lives in Vegas and I don't get to see him nearly as much. Absence truly does make the heart grow fonder.

We dispersed a bit later so everyone could change and get ready for an underground underwear party we were invited to later in the evening. It was decided we would all meet up again at Numbers for a quick drink and head downtown from there. At Numbers we met back up with my hot newbie Lance from the night before as well as his friends and then it was off to the party.

Aside from someone throwing up in the car on the way there and not being able to take any alcohol upstairs in this three story loft, this part of the evening was a joy. It was ok, actually. I ran into so many people I knew there who I had not expected to see. The more people I know in a crowd, the less likely I am to be uncomfortable in it.

What was more fun though was Joe Kenan's house after. When the boys weren't getting more naked to put on a show, there was a magician who kept doing card tricks and bending spoons. ...No joke. We find a good time don't we? I had such an unExpectedly good time in fact that I decided to head out after and go to a club called Scandal with Brandon and Essay. At this point, it's 4:00 in the morning so as you can imagine I'm threeee sheets to the wind. A real hoot and a half.

We didn't stay long though. Brandon was done and ready to head out pretty quickly and I had for some reason decided very early in the evening that I was going absolutely nowhere without him. I do tend to attach myself to a friend and make it "our" evening. I don't think I've ever gone out and just jumped from crowd to crowd or person to person throughout the night. I need someone there from beginning to end for familiarity. Tonight I'd decided it would be Brandon. Thankfully, he was okay with that and maybe even a little amused by whatever planet I was on by 6:00 am.  Again, the sun was coming up (what a fucking BEAUTIFUL morning that was too! the dew on the bushes and the pinkness of the sky and looking out from the view of the Mans over all the little houses and all the big buildings above me and the... "Jason, open the door." Oh yeah!) and here I was just rolling into bed with Brandon Baker! I'm glad he decided to crash with me for the night.

Brandon had taken really good care of me at The RentBoy.com Pool Party in Palm Springs last month so it was nice to take care of him, even if only a little. I got him water and an extra blanket so he wouldn't be too cold (I like to sleep with it freezing in my room bundled up under lots of blankets) and apparently I sang him lullabyes too! "Heal the World" was a favorite, as well as a ballad version of "Just Dance" that I came up with off the top of (what was left of) my head.

Finally I literally forced myself to go to sleep. It was the first time I've slept in a bed with anyone in a very, very long time. Even when I have had sex with people, I don't like to cuddle after because I don't see the point in pretending there's some emotion involved when I just met the person mere hours before! On top of which, I don't sleep well at all next to someone. I hate hearing them breathe and I hate how hot they make the bed and I hate when they touch me. I know! I have some serious issues. Whatever.

But I have slept in the same bed as Brandon before and because he's such a good friend, there are actually real emotions there. I would so much rather sleep in the same bed as one of my best friends then some random stranger I just fucked. Sleeping with a friend, you feel comfort, security, true warmth. You truly care about the person next to you and they care about you. So I sleep like a baby. And so did he.

We slept late, laid in bed forever until we absolutley had to go grab Chase and Kennedy from Brandon's hotel room. We went to lunch at The Cheesecake Factory in Beverly Hills where we met up with Ryan Raz and by the time that was over, it was already time to get dressed and head to Numbers for my weekly Saturday event, "INDUSTRY."

After the insanity of the last couple of days, Brandon and I both decided to take it easy for the night. I barely had two or three drinks the entire evening which was nice, but made it drag and made the people not taking it easy so much more difficult to deal with. But the fireworks were fun, you could see them from the glass walls in the back since Numbers is on the second floor. And Josh Griffin coordinated some amazing boys, got a gorgeous cake for everyone to eat and did a wonderful job on decorations as always. God bless him for being my right hand man always. I honestly don't know what I would do without him.

At long last, the evening ended. Brandon let Chase Harding and Kennedy have his hotel room and spent the night at my place again where we fell asleep in bed watching the early 80's horror movie "The Hunger." One of my faves.

Late breakfast with Bobby Trendy and Joe Kenan in West Hollywood. Brandon had some other friends to meet up with before he left town so Joe Kenan and I babysat Chase and Kennedy for a bit and had another fun filled day of partying and watching horror movies at his place. Brandon showed up and hung with us for short while before he decided it was time for him to head back to Vegas.

And thus concluded my spontaneous action packed Independence Day weekend.

I came home to find Brandon had made the bed and I think seeing that just might have actually been the highlight of my weekend. It's the little things, ya know?

I crawled into bed, stretched and said my prayers as I do every night. And every night in bed I think to myself how lucky I am that I have this big bed all to myself.

But I didn't think that last night.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 
It's been forever since I've updated my "Diary" blog!

Part of that is because I've been really active about updating the "News Desk" blog every day Monday through Friday now since my traffic at JasonCurious.com is at an all-time high. Gotta keep 'em coming back for more!

But the other reason I've been remiss in updating my "Diary" here is because I've become so obsessed with Twitter and have seen little point in writing a full "Diary" essay when people can see literally everything I've doing, every conversation I'm having and even pics at Twitter.com/JasonSechrest. There's truly no better window to the world of myself and my friends!

Be sure to follow me there if you're not already!

And in the meantime, I will try to get back to updating the "Diary" at least a few times a week. ;-)
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Thursday, May 28, 2009 

I made my way down into the huddled masses yesterday evening at 7:00 pm to join the Prop 8 protest march in West Hollywood. It was my first and an experience I am not soon to forget.

After a quick stop to see friends at Fiesta Cantina, my pal Essay and I began the 7 mile trek from San Vicente & Santa Monica to Hollywood & Highland and back! At first, I was a little disappointed with the whole thing. It seemed like some of the gays were just looking for an excuse to go drink early and some of the celebrities saw it as a photo opportunity. The chanting seemed a little strange to me too. We're in West Hollywood, land of all things fag-ulous! Why are we preaching to a choir?

My favorite moment was when I saw porn star Alessandro Del Toro, who seemed to have lost his shoes and was marching in the wrong direction. Keep marching, Alley!

But I understand, these are dark times and it's good to drink through them, all celebrities involved help a cause and regardless of where we're chanting at least it will be on the news for everyone to see that we're not going to stand for this. I get it, I get it.

Still... I kept thinking, if we're going to do this, can't we be loud in our own way? I mean, the chanting "What do we want? EQUAL RIGHTS! When do we want it? NOW!" certainly got the point across, but frankly, marching at night in front of a group of 15,000 people behind me with a poster in my hand, I wanted to start singing, "A new Argentina! The chains of the masses untied..." and began to imagine how amazing it would be (and dare I even say affective and beautiful?) had everyone joined in!

But then something really special happened that I'm very lucky to have been a part of.

Instead of continuing to march on the streets that had been blocked off for us, a group of a couple thousand that I happened to be in the middle of seemed to be turning around and suddenly going in a different direction. I told Essay I didn't understand why we were turning around and asked what was going on and why people were screaming to hurry!

He explained to me that it's not a protest if you're staying on a parade route. We were about to take over another street that wasn't prepared for us and that street turned out to be Sunset Blvd. where we literally ran out into the traffic and stopped it cold. A good 50 cop cars pulled up and when they told us to move to the right, the more to the left we would move. If they tried to pull up in front of us to block us, we would go past them. They couldn't stop us and we were too close together for them to just start arresting random people. It was such an adrenaline rush, a high like none I've ever experienced except when acting and sometimes singing where you have a completely natural out of body experience. It made me realize the thing all of those highs have in common: Putting something -- be it the cause, the character, the song, the emotion, the story -- before yourself. I often lose touch with a lot of things that take me outside of myself and it was such a great reminder of how necessary those moments are in our lives where we don't care how we look or sound or what we're getting out of something. When you put your ego on the back burner and allow something else to take you over so completely... well, there's just no rush that comes close to it.

Not to mention it was the most exercise I've had in a year, mmkay? I'm sure that had something to do with my blood pumping as well! And how eye opening was that? That there are mornings I think I couldn't possibly find the werewithall to get on a treadmill, yet I managed to walk 7 miles! I'm clearly capable of more than I thought.

Once we reached Hollywood and Highland, we were given chalk by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and told that though we can't yet marry, in the meantime we were to write our own personal vows all over Hollywood Blvd.

I choose to write: "I VOW TO STOP HATE IN MY OWN BACKYARD!"

Because though there's a specific issue we're fighting for, we can never forget what we're fighting against and that is our mortal enemy: Hate. And as always, if you want to change the world, the first thing you do is change what's in the mirror. An act of war is an act of war. We can't all just say we're fighting against Hate and then when someone cuts us off in traffic, flip them the bird and scream, "You stupid fuck!" out the window or we're just as hypocritical as those hypocrites we are fighting against.

When going into war, it is best to have clean hands.
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009 
I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day holiday...

It's a sad irony that the day after celebrating those who have fought vigilantly for this country, our government -- meant to protect us -- would invade our very bedrooms. Where we once seemed an intelligent nation, more and more we find other countries making us a laughing stock when it comes our own hypocrisy claiming the soil we stand upon represents that of freedom and equality.

United we stand, divided we fall. If we do not offer every person regardless of sex, race, sexuality, age... the same rights, the super power we know as America today will soon crumble around us.

But you can change this.

It has happened time and again throughout the history of this wonderful country, people's voices rising up to change our government's policies when they do not uphold the ideas of what America was founded upon.

Tonight at 7:00 pm, I will be protesting at 647 N. San Vicente Blvd. in West Hollywood.

For information on a protest nearest you, click here.

If nothing else, today I ask you all to look into the mirror and define the word America. What does it mean to you? If our government is not upholding the definition of the word, do something, anything, to change that. Every voice in the chorus counts.

As much as I love my job, I couldn't go forward working on updates about adult entertainment today before calling attention to this atrocity and asking you to join me in doing something about it. Thank you.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009 
So you may have heard by now, beginning May 30th, my tons of fun with tons of porn stars weekly event "INDUSTRY" at Numbers Bar & Restaurant moves to Saturday nights -- and I've gotta tell you, I couldn't be happier with that decision. To be able to have my big night out on the town be on an actual weekend like a normal person where Sunday is my recovery day instead of Thursday? I can't wait! I looove hosting "INDUSTRY" more than I've loved doing any weekly event ever, but having it smack dab in the middle of the work week has not been easy for me.

To get myself on the new schedule, I was a good boy this past Wednesday. I had lots of fun with the porn stars and guests but just nursed a couple drinks throughout the 8 hours event -- which turned out to be not only our busiest event yet but Numbers busiest night in over three months! I will be on my best behavior again this week for our final Wednesday night as I leave early the next morning to Chicago for The Grabby Awards weekend. I'm so excited about Chicago! It's something I really look forward to every year, seeing Stacey and Mark, my local friends like Ben and Joe and sooo many of my JasonCurious.com subscribers are from Chicago it's ridiculous. Always fun hanging with them and the whole weekend for us porn peeps is like a big family reunion out of town. The best! The platinum and gold tickets are sold out for the show, but there's still plenty of seats left and you can get your tix at Grabbys.com.

Saturday night, one of my roomies threw an absinthe party here at The Mans! Always fun to visit with the green fairy! Speaking of fairies, I invited a few to the bash. It wasn't technically my party so I couldn't ask a bunch of friends over to crash his soiree (I was a guest in my own home! lol), but I did ask Chi Chi LaRue, Essay, Kabbalah Nick, Jason Ridge and Rob Romoni over for the afternoon and we all had an absolute blast!

On Sunday, I was planning on laying abed all day until Perez Hilton twittered me asking if Chi Chi and I would like to join him for drinks in the afternoon. So, I pulled myself together, jumped in the shower, went shopping for Grabby's outfits in Century City with Cheech and then met up with Perez at Fiesta Cantina. We have talked online, are fans of each other's sites and met each other many times throughout the years. We always say we should get together and never do, so it was nice to finally spend some time. He was pouring money into that jukebox and cranking out Gaga after Madonna after Madonna after Gaga! He loves his girls!

Chi Chi and I bolted a little bit later and headed to her C1R partner Rob Novinger's GOOOORGEOUS apartment in Hollywood. Wow! What a pad! We were joined by Novinger's pal Matt, Morgan Summers from Cybersocket, Holly Ruprecht from Cruiser Boys, Tim Valenti from Naked Sword, Jack Shamama from Gay Porn Blog and Karl from You Love Jack. I love little intimate house parties like this and I am so used to being the host everywhere that I can't tell you how good to felt to be with friends and not be the one running around taking care of everyone. I had the best time ever!

Got up this morning and worked for a good 8 hours before heading to Tender Greens for dinner in Weho. If you haven't eaten there yet, GET THERE FAST. Best meal I've had in years. Like Grandma's home cooking in Indiana. That good. Seriously. I was ordering desserts to go when I heard this southern drawl next to me. All of a sudden, poking his head out from behind the guy next to me is adorable little Leslie Jordan, most famous for his Beverly Leslie character on "Will & Grace" but I LOVE his character arc on "Boston Legal" just as much! He looks at the desserts and goes, "Oh now that's just sinful. You're not gonna eat that are you? You'll go straight to hell if you do! It's a sin!" Then ordered the same thing. The cutest thing ever. Love him.

And on the way home, spotted Farah Fawcett. Only in Los Angeles!

Don't forget to Twitter me! ;-) http://twitter.com/jasonsechrest
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Monday, May 11, 2009 
"Beware! Our idols and demons will pursue us... until we learn to let them go."

So shouts famed Andy Warhol actor, Udo Kier in his native tongue, portraying a Warhol-esque director as those idols and demons become balloons metaphorically let go into the air as the video begins.

I first saw the music video for Madonna's "Deeper and Deeper" when I was 13 years old. I had just moved from Indiana to Florida and for a curious boy just beginning to go through the hormonal changes of puberty, there was no better artist to become obsessed with and no album moreso the object of the obsession than Erotica.

"Deeper and Deeper" was the first track and the first video that thorougly sucked me in. Hours went by when I would stare at my ceiling with the CD on repeat, listening to it over and over again thinking, "There is no other song that better describes how I feel inside." With lyrics like, "Daddy couldn't be all wrong and my momma made me learn this song," to describe how our parents and upbringing can determine the places we yearn for love and the ways we seek it out, it would be well over five years until I would find any other song that better defined where I was in my life.

There are homosexual undercurrents in the lyrics as well and it was around that time that I started really recognizing how attracted I was to guys. Madonna, my idol's, embracing and accepting of homosexuality helped me to feel more comfortable expressing it and even seeking out ways to experience it.

"Someone said that romance was dead but I believed it instead of remembering what my momma told me, let my father mold me, then you try to hold me, you remind me what they said. This feeling inside I can't explain but my love is alive and I'm never gonna hide it again."

I never hid it again.

Some songs change your life.

This one changed mine.

Little did I know that over 15 years later, I would be best friends with the drag queen featured prominently in that video, Chi Chi LaRue. She's very much a mother figure in this industry so I wanted to give a shout out to her on this holiday. She's become such an amazing light in my life that I don't know what I would do without over the past couple of years. I'm excited to be spending tonight with her.

But really, listening to this song... wow, it's so funny to me how the world finds ways for things to come full circle. I have this little picture in my head of some Ghost of Mother's Day Futures coming up to her and going, "See that nerdy little acne ridden boy in bed listening to this song? You and he are gonna barely go 10 minutes without talking to each other someday." And her looking at the ghost like it's out of it's mind and going, ".....Dooooooo-kay! Are you kidding? Great. Fantastic. What's next? Take me somewhere else!"

Tonight, I'm going to go let my body move to the music and go with the flow, letting go of idols and demons! I'll be at the club My House with Chi Chi LaRue DJ'ing from 9:00 pm on as the Mother of Porn helms the mother of all Mother's Day parties in Hollywood!

I hope to see all of my friends there in a scene that will look no doubt frighteningly similar to the one below. ;-)

Madonna - Deeper and Deeper by foxysoul

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Wednesday, May 06, 2009 
I had an amazing weekend! How was your's?

After grabbing some grub with Chi Chi at Fat Fish (best sushi in town, hands down!) on Friday night, I stayed in for the evening and watched "Bride Wars," which was pretty good but not a classic by any means. We also shopped some on Saturday (despertely needed new bed sheets at Bed, Bath & Beyond!) and then downed some seriously yummy frozen yogurt watching "Girls Will Be Girls" on Saturday, which I must say I liked immensely better than "Bride Wars." Hilarious!

On Sunday, I met up with an old friend of mine Brittany Andrews for a pool party at The Standard Hotel in downtown LA. Brittany used to be a monthly columnist for my JasonCurious.com site. (Before the blog movement where now there's no need to really give porn stars a "column" platform on my site. They can build their own!) She's since retired from adult entertainment and is currently going to film school. I went with Jonathan Chang, Joe Kenan, Essay, my roomie Nik, C1R exclusive Jeremy Bilding and yes, ...the marines! Which you can finally see photos of below, courtesy my friend Essay's iPhone. ;-)

Monday was a bit of a recovery day for me with the exception of a long ass phone conference with Numbers about "INDUSTRY" (some exciting changes happening there I'll tell you about soon), but I did see "Wolverine" with Cheech in Century City which I had absolutely zero interest in seeing, so I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it! Great story, beautifully shot, hot men -- what more is there? Oh and Jamie Lee Curtis was there and talked to us outside after the movie about how much she loved it. How hot is that? Only in Hollywood!

I caught up on emails and phone calls and work all day yesterday, at my computer from 8 am - 9 pm until I could take no more.

Tonight, Dean Coxx headlines "INDUSTRY" at Numbers from 6 pm - 2 am, the marines return to join the 10 Nearly Naked Gay Porn Stars tonight in their undies as well and our list of celeb attendees tonight is really something! I think it's gonna be a fun night! I posted the list of boys working and peeps attending in my other blog, "Jason's News Desk" at http://jasoncurious.com/desk/ so you can check it out there and if you're in the West Hollywood area, swing by tonight. Gonna be a lot of fun!

Now, play spot the marines!

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 


Another new track from the upcoming Tori Amos album, Abnormally Attracted To Sin, this one called "Maybe California." I love that the video is shot in my own city! I can watch it and say, "I've been there! And there! And I was just there yesterday!"

Remember when I was really depressed for like a year and used to sit at home and sing Tori Amos songs all day long and upload the clips to YouTube? lol... Well, I have some old clips from the vaults I've been posting on my YouTube page as well for those of you who have written in saying you miss them. (All four of you.) I'll be posting one a week up until the new album's release on May 19th.
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Monday, April 27, 2009 
Regretfully, my best gurl Chi Chi LaRue and I have both decided to cancel our trips to London for Hustlaball this week. LaRue had to have her gal bladder removed and there were some major complications with the surgery, which you will soon hear about on her blog at ChiChiLaRue.com. She is well and back at home in West Hollywood, but has done the smart thing by taking the next week to fully recover.

In the middle of her nightmare, I came down with pneumonia. I was put nearly an entire week off work by it so I have a lot of "catch up" to do this week and am still actually recovering. So us sickies will be right here this week! Sad but... smart.

I have often wondered if getting sick isn't the universe's way of making you stop to slow down and reevaulate certain things in your life. I've done some of that over the past few days. I think I need to take better care of my body than I have been in the past year. In fact, in general I need to be taking better care of a great many things that are important to me. If you don't show appreciation for the things that are important to you, that you care about and love, they will be taken away from you and that goes for everything from your body to your friends to your talents to your home.

I need to get back to a more well rounded lifestyle. It can't be porn and parties all the time or else even those things will eventually get old and I'll grow to resent them. Trust me, I know. It's happened before and it took quite a lot to get me out of that frame of mind. I don't want to go through all that again. I happen to really love my career at the moment, so I need to return to a few hobbies to balance it out and to ensure I continue appreciating it. Some time at the gym, some time in Kabbalah study, a play or acting project per year like I used to do, some nights singing in nightclubs or piano bars, etc.

Aside from the introspection, I've watched a ton of TV and movies while sick in bed too. I loved seeing "Streisand Live" on TV last night. I was in the first few rows just feet away from her on that tour, her last stop in Los Angeles, and a few of the songs from the show were actually taken from the footage shot that evening. Her voice is in a much deeper register than it used to be which was surprising and at times disappointing, but there are some moments in the show I think are really stellar, like hearing her sing "Funny Girl" live for the first time all these years later and the new song "Unusual Way."

I left The Mans for the first time in many days this afternoon. Rob took Chi Chi and I to see "Obsessed" at The Grove. (Great guilty pleasure movie!) Accompanied Chi Chi on some serious comfort shopping at Nordstroms, had some sushi and then tried to force her to sit through "Funny Lady." She only made it about 3/4 in before she could take no more. lol

We both agreed this scene is fabulous though. It's probably my favorite in the movie. The song, "How Lucky Can You Get?" is about the idea that those you may think "lucky" are not so lucky at all, that success, prosperity and celebrity equaling happiness is only an illusion, that there's more to life.

...Like recovering with mutually sick friends and taking care of each other.

Now that's lucky.

 
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