Catching Up

If it's not one thing, it's another! I have finally gotten back to updating the "News Desk" blog/column on a daily basis (in preparation for the return of its guest columnists as well as syndications) but it has meant I've gone missing from my personal "Diary" blog here it seems.

Only so much time in a day, right? So let's catch up!

- At the last minute, I actually changed my mind about Obama and have decided to support Hillary Clinton. (Interestingly enough, I've also been asked to sing at a fundraiser for her a week from Monday and if I can coordinate with my piano player and find time to rehearse some fun material, I'll do it.) I really believe in Obama's vision, but I think there's too much damage that has been done under the current administration and too much "clean up" that needs to happen before he will even begin to implement a lot of what he wants. He also just doesn't have a lot of solutions or answers. He is a good man with a good heart who believes in all the right things for once and that is so rare -- but he doesn't have many answers for how he's going to go about it. I think he would be insane to not jump about the Clinton ticket as Vice President. Let that woman clean up the mess so that he can come aboard and change America for the better after she's done, right? The only thing people can say against him right now is that he doesn't have much experience and you can't say that after he's been the VP! A Clinton/Obama white house is really enough to make me a little hard to be honest. The idea of what that could do to help our country turns me on more than any porno I've reviewed this year.

- For those of you who read this on my pages at MySpace, DList, etc. you might not know that I've started a new vlog. Is that the right way to say it or is supposed to be v-log? I'm still learning. Either way, it's a video blog and it's at YouTube.com/JasonCurious where I dish on the latest gossip of the porn world at parties, on sets, and at my actual news desk!

- I have fallen in love with this site called Pandora.com. It creates radio stations upon your preferences of favorite artists. For instance, I say my favorite artists are Tori Amos, Liza Minnelli and Stevie Nicks? It plays not only those three but also Annie Lennox, Shirley Bassey, Judy Garland, The Eagles and more. It's a great solution for me because since the iPod shuffle became a part of our daily existences many years back, it's like we've had our own radio stations -- except it doesn't introduce us to anything we haven't heard. And I do miss that! So Pandora Radio is pretty freaking hot! And they've got B-sides, live tracks, anything ever commercially released even in box set format. Check it out!

- I am also totally obsessed with the Britney Spears story right now. I really haven't been on the bandwagon of following her whole downward spiral until this excerpt from the Rolling Stone article was released and now I can hardly contain myself. You see, I am 28 years old. I come from the generation where we were still told Michael Jackson was never in that oxygen tank! The National Enquirer was just full of blatant lies more often than not, certainly not news. So there has always been a part of me that wonders how much of what we read on these gossip blogs is true. But, as I've said before, I'm a big fan and subscriber of Rolling Stone magazine! They are hardcore journalists over there with edge and when they write an article, you can bet your ass it is rooted in truth and that it is not sensationalism. A lot of people are taking issue with the article being called "Inside An American Tragedy." I've seen so many people comment online, "American tragedy?! Rolling Stone should go to Iraq!" ...Yeah, you know what? Rolling Stone has been to Iraq! If you're going to take issue with a media outlet for that sort of thing, go after The Enquirer! Rolling Stone has followed the war in nearly every issue (including this one) and as far as I'm concerned the fall of Britney Spears is definitely an American tragedy. It's far more than the unfortunate circumstances surrounding one girl. Britney was an international icon that served as an inspiration for so many young people when she came out. I remember seeing her performance of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction/Oops, I Did It Again!" at the MTV Video Music Awards and turning to my father to say, "She is the closest thing we've had to a Madonna in so many years. She's the next big thing." We all looked up to her. Furthermore, it's also significant of the rise of that generation's obsession with superficiality. It was around the time of the teen pop and boy band's re-emergance into mass popularity ergo hysteria that we as a culture became obsessed with celebrity, pornography, a red carpet and all that was aesthetically appealing even at the sacrifice of anything with substance. And Britney Spears is living proof of what becomes of that life wading in the superficial. And it's not her fault. She was never taught anything but! The rest of us? I don't know that we can say that for the rest of us.

- I love Chris Crocker's new vlog where he finally confronts the homophobia that is totally rampant on sites like YouTube. Actually, he is taking The Advocate's lead and gives them proper credit for his inspiration. It's really something that has needed some light shed on it for so long. I remember the first time I started watching gay video blogs on YouTube, MySpace, etc. and the comments, the pure hatred for homosexuals, just horrified me. I mean, where do these people live?! Because life is not like that here in California! Life is not even like that where I lived as a teenager in Florida! And maybe in the small town of Columbus, Indiana where I was born there's a small handful of fag haters. But these video responses of eleven year old boys saying, "You're a fucking faggot. Why don't you go suck off your dad? All fags get AIDS and die!" just makes me think I must be living in a fucking bubble. How is this okay with their parents?! And really, again, WHERE do they live??! What parts of America actually has people this uneducated because we need to do a march or some shit there! This is not 1987, ya know? Ever seen Will & Grace? The View? The Real World? Do you people not own a television? ...Sorry, my questions are now rambling. But I'm just honestly so very confused by it all. And it sucks but I too am guilty of not really doing anything about it. I just kind of shrugged off the comments and after a while said, "Oh well, I guess there's just always going to be people out there like that." You know, the gay community has come a long way. But thank God for the YouTube haters to show us that we also have such a long way to go. Everyone has a right to their opinion. But everyone has a right to being educated before they make their opinions too. These poor pre-teen fag haters don't understand what they're even saying, much less the kind of bad ju-ju they're putting out there into the world. May God have some sense of mercy on them, seriously.