With some friends on Fire Island. It’s cold and the season is over so there is no one here. Fire's burning. We're drinking red wine. I put on one of your CDs. All of a sudden, silence. Everyone stops talking. It's not the first time this has happened. Something about your music. They listen to one song, then another. Transported. Each one to a different place, a different memory. This goes for a while. Then, someone at the table wants to know. Who made you this mixed CD? And so I tell them about a boy I met at a cemetery. Who took me to a beach once and under the moonlight played me a song about two people who together forget the world. And you can tell by the look in their eyes that they are overwhelmed by the story. The romance of it all. It's a love letter this CD, they say. Then they ask that question. The one I know would make you smile if you were here.
Favorite Entries
- My Mother, Her Son
Sept. 14, 2006 - Cameron
June 7, 2006 - Bouncing Molecules
May 6, 2006 - Giovanni's Room
April 24, 2006 - The Old Man and the Train
February 8, 2006 - Divine Irony
January 10, 2006 - The C-Train
December 6, 2005 - The One
November 23, 2005 - Sarah
November 15, 2005 - The Voice of Experience
November 9, 2005
web addictions
Other Places
- Ajax In the City
- Beantown Cuban
- Beauty and the Bum (NSFW)
- Best Gay Blogs
- Blueberry Pie
- Club Whirled
- Gay Panache
- Guy Dads
- Hot Gay News
- Human Nature
- L'homme Est Un Concept (NSFW)
- Lee Andrew
- Life in the Big City
- Love Gay Sex (NSFW)
- Made in Brazil
- Nude Yoga Blog (NSFW)
- Penandink
- Queer Beacon
- Restoring Love (NSFW)
- Secret Songs
- Tommy Rico
- Tottyland
- Urban Insanity
you know you're torturing us. and it's fucking delicious.
Posted by: eric m. | November 12, 2007 at 01:10 AM
WTF ... after months of going cold turkey you post something like this ... I'm hooked again!
When are you coming back to seduce us with your soulfull thoughts and entoxicating words???
We miss you in South Africa
;-)
Posted by: GrantD | November 12, 2007 at 03:34 AM
Damn, even such a little paragraph of letters on a screen can make me tear up and want for more :) As always, flawless. Can't wait...
Posted by: PJ | November 12, 2007 at 05:15 AM
i felt like i was totally there, on the beach, listening to the cd with you all. welcome back...i hope!
Posted by: J | November 12, 2007 at 12:23 PM
Ethan, I'm happy to see you posting again and I can even forgive you for the paucity! :-)
"Under The Milky Way" always does that for me. Makes me think about the 80s and the clubs and drunken fun I used to have ... and the friends that I've lost, both to distance and to AIDS.
Be safe and continue to enjoy life. Love ya!
Posted by: velvetpie | November 12, 2007 at 11:34 PM
Your prose is so lucid and uncluttered - a true delight to read. I love it.
Posted by: Axel | November 13, 2007 at 10:43 AM
Ooohhh. Fascinating tidbit. Post again soon!
Posted by: angy | November 13, 2007 at 06:03 PM
Ditto to all the above...thank goodness I didn't erased your link from My Favourites :) welcome back
Posted by: robin | November 14, 2007 at 06:44 AM
I read blogs that make me smile, & laugh, & think, that post daily, but everyday I check to see, you... There is magic, I cry, and the magic stays with me for days. Thank you
Posted by: Kevin | November 14, 2007 at 10:56 AM
Your writing puts me into a trance like state. After I read your blog for a straight hour, I was in a fog. People at work thought I was on drugs or something.
Posted by: Chris | November 14, 2007 at 09:10 PM
He's back! Hooray! Worth the wait. Now update at least once a month. :)
Posted by: Christine | November 15, 2007 at 11:14 PM
SUCH A TEASE...YOU ENJOY TORTURING PEOPLE DON'T YOU?
Posted by: CLIFF | November 16, 2007 at 03:59 PM
WOW...one incredible paragraph.
Posted by: Bruce | November 21, 2007 at 10:41 PM
That's so hawt! LOL
Jennifer Esposito
Posted by: Jennifer Esposito | December 01, 2007 at 03:02 PM
Shit! I just feel like the words to describe it, they just escape from my mind, like when the memory is too powerful to can use the language of words to capture all what it really means to me.
Posted by: Ángel Manuel | December 29, 2007 at 10:56 PM
sweet, man-- tell me more....
Posted by: rjmarch | December 30, 2007 at 09:56 AM
You.
Have.
Got.
To.
Be.
Kidding.
Don't leave me hanging like this!! Agh! I want more!
Posted by: Grahamburger | January 08, 2008 at 03:23 PM
This is just the kind of blog I've been looking for.
I love the things you write. You have just got a new reader here.
Greetings from Argentina.
Posted by: J()§hØ | January 11, 2008 at 02:53 AM
Ethan! When are you coming back?
Posted by: angy | January 15, 2008 at 08:53 PM
Hi Ethan. Love your writing so much - you always leave us wanting so much more. Please, please post more! (And I'd love to know the tracks on the love letter you describe, if only to be able to imagine someone loving me as much as he loves you...)
Posted by: Bobby Chariot | February 08, 2008 at 06:09 PM
Post again soon?
I miss this.
Posted by: Lace | February 20, 2008 at 05:45 AM
Hi!
Great blog. About Icon Mens J Kesler, could you send me more photos of him?
If you have of course.
huynyen@yahoo.se
Posted by: HQ | March 05, 2008 at 05:19 PM
hey Ethan. ' guess you can't remember who i am ( i'm you're 20-year-old french fan !! ^^) but anyway. We've never stopped missing you (I and the rest of the world) so would you please..please telling us you're doing fine? :) You might not feel like blogging anymore and i perfectly understand it. But it's such a pity ..it was soooo great :s
i've learnt much from you and i thank you for that.
..I hope i'll randomly meet you when i come to the US.
kisses
tom
Posted by: tom | April 20, 2008 at 03:09 PM
Hey Ethan. Please formally end your blog if you've decided you're done with it. That way your fans will no longer be tortured.
Posted by: Daniel | April 25, 2008 at 09:30 PM
I still miss this.
Posted by: Lace | April 30, 2008 at 10:14 PM