Celebrity Sightings, Porn Stars and My La-La Life!

Well, OK, so I'm officially hooked on this whole blog thing, I must say. Quite fun. As most of my friends know, I love to talk about myself and what's going on in my life (though not, as some of them might believe, at the expense of caring about their lives), but anyways, hey, I'm not making any apologies. I am who I am, right? We Capricorns are kinda stubborn and self-involved that way.

So anyway, I feel like there's a lot of stuff I need to catch my "followers" up on. As I said, my book, Homocore, is finally out (avaialable at all major booksellers), and I've started work on my next one, The SeXXX-Files: The History of Gay Porn and Its Influence on Gay Male Sexuality, which I've been busy researching for the past few weeks via the Web and a few books.

As far as my entertainment journalism has been going, though, I've been keeping busy in that sense, too. I recently got to interview Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls), Bob Mould (ex-Husker Du and Sugar), Jody Watley, and just last week, Rufus Wainwright, who I really enjoyed talking with over the phone. He was funny. I got to go see his show at The Wiltern Theatre the other night, and he played with Ben Lee and Ben Folds, who I enjoyed as well. Later, a lot of us ended up over at one of my fave Silver Lake bars, MJ's, for an after-concert party, where I took several pics of Rufus, who was pretty cool. See, I even got one of him with me!

My friends and family back home often ask me about celebrity sightnigs, and indeed, they do happen quite often here in sunny ol' L.A. The other night, we saw Dennis Hopper out and about at the ArcLight Cinemas, my favorite place to go see movies in all of Los Angeles. I've seen David Spade, Jason Priestley, Zach Braff (who stood in line behind me for a flight up to San Francisco), Henry Simmons, and a bunch of others. My all-time favorite celebrity run-in was the time that Fiona Apple came into the 24-hour adult video store I was working at to buy vibrators at 2am in the morning, and I got to demonstrate to her how they worked. Of course, I never let on until the very end of the sale that I knew who she was, when I leaned in and said, "Now I better not hear about this in one of your songs." The girl busted up, her face turnng red and tears streaming down her face. She was laughing so hard. That was quite a fun moment. I'm so happy that her long-delayed record Extraordinary Machine is finally getting a release on Oct. 4. I've been listening to my Web-downloaded bootleg forever!

Of course, one of my favorite (not to mention hottest) "celebrity sightings" came this past weekend at the Gay Erotic Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center, where I got to cozy up to one of my all-time fave gay porn stars, the hot 'n' studly Mr. Parker Williams. If there was ever a man hotter and more naturally masculine than this (the Brawny towel guy and the Marlboro Man excepted, of course), I would like to know who it is. As you can see from this pic, I was pretty much one helluva happy camper that day.

Anyway, this morning I got a package in the mail--a contributor's copy of a book I submitted a story to (under my pen name "Colt Spencer") well over a year ago. The book is called The Best of Both Worlds, and it's a collection of erotic fiction that deals with bisexuality. My submission, "Married, but Not Dead," is one of the stories they single out in the book's description on the jacket, which was kinda cool for me. It's still neat to see my work show up in things like this, no matter how many times it happens.

I'm actually "on call" all this week for jury duty. I've put it off the past three times, so I think if I try to do it again, they're gonna put my ass in jail or something, so I guess I should go if they call me. Just don't wanna!

Oh well, I guess there's nothing really left for me to say this time around. Right now I'm just enjoying "sharing myself" through this blog thingy, and keeping all my friends informed.

XOXO,

Hollywood Ken