A Very Special Day

Two nights ago. For the first time ever, I made dinner. Now before you feign shock and awe understand a few things. I'm a boy and my mother always made dinner. I brown bagged my lunches while growing up. Breakfast has always been a cereal bar or something quick.

I went to college and lived in a dorm without a kitchen for two years. Then the next two years was filled with constant jumping around from weird apartment to weird apartment. I was also working from 2-10 most nights and therefore usually ordered dinner.

So two nights ago was the first time I bought chicken and marinated it and then grilled it. Seeing as it's 48 hours later and I'm not dead. I suppose I made it well and the chicken tasted pretty good. I made instant rice, because I'm impatient and don't like to boil it.

It's fun. I am marking off all these little things from my "To-Do" Life List! This morning Elizabeth taught me how to make eggs over easy. That may be my small thing I do tonight.

I'm so domestic. I vacuum too!

Iguana Sheds Skin

You may recall this entry. naked.

Well he sent me two of the photos that he's worked on for a moment. Since they have my naked body and face. I'll really only send them to people I know. So if you'd like to see them and I am familiar with you. Leave a comment or let me know.

Summer Photos, Had Me a Blast

Some random pictures I took with my iPhone this summer:

Subway Ad defaced

Sweet Bird of Youth by Hirschfeld

Original Playbill of Judy Garland's Two-A-Day at the Palace. I would've stolen it if it weren't enclosed in glass.

My insane grandparents who live in that wonderland I discuss at an earlier date.

A clear depiction of where I grew up. Anyone from my area will recognize all these sites immediately.

The squishy toilet seat I bought when I moved into the apartment.

wtf?

wtf? x2

Anita Morris being flexible.

Yes, she had short hair. I know.

"I can't believe I'm this good looking."

All she ever needed was the music and the hairspray. Really, Donna really?

The keeper of death, bringing George Abbott to his final resting place. Actually it's Carol Channing helping George Abbott read the 1994 draft of Damn Yankees.

I'd assume this is from the Mame era.

Hair Blog: The short files

So time for an experiment in committal issues and trying something new. I am going to see how long I can grow my hair until I get tired and cut it, or donate it to locks for love or whatever. I am posting these pics of my new hair cut too as proof of the beginning phases.

Front

Left Side

Right Side

Overhead Sexy shot

New Orleans Trip...

Our favorite house on the trip...SO Sunset Blvd.

Will I ever blog before midnight?

Some notes before the picture posts of my trip to New Orleans.

1. Broadway Strike is over!!! And unless you had a second doubt I bought tickets to see A Chorus Line again. It's going to be thrilling to see a show the day after the strike ended. Especially one of my favorite all time shows. I feel as though my arm is complete again.
2. Patti LuPone is coming BACK to Broadway in Gypsy...this time full scale! So many good things to learn about in ONE day!

Onto the trip. I'm going to use pictures of my journey progressively while telling a tale...

This is the group of us at a bar. We're all VERY drunk here. I'm actually drunk and stoned. We had these "magical" cookies that helped enhance my trip

This is before the above. My first time having Mexican food and enjoying it A LOT. You can thank those cookies for that one.

In a New Orleans Cemetary, three of my travel mates names was Jeff. How odd right?

We love Beignets. Those are like Fried Dough but amazing. I think I ate about 30 of them in the five days I was there. We were walking home and saw this creepy statue, we shared our food. The bitch didn't respond.

Eric, Jeff, Me, Jeff on Bourbon St. We went into one of those sleazy sex bars where they promised us LIVE SEX ACTS, but nothing like that happened. Only badly made 6 dollar drinks.

I look chubby here, but my friends claimed this looked like a record album. The Velvet Goldmine?

If you can't tell Eric is one of my good friends we dress alike not on purpose, but because we are kindred spirits. He's in Florida now, I miss him almost TOO much. This is Thanksgiving dinner, which was delicious.

Now if you can't tell, I was drunk and stoned in this picture. Can you tell? I love the disco ball though.

This is us being VERY loud and obnoxious at the famous Blacksmith Bar. The piano woman hated me after I requested Judy Garland and Cole Porter.

No comment. I did love being allowed to smoke in the bars.

This is us going through the Wardrobe into the Land of Narnia...

These are my good friends. Posing gaily (well I'm posing gaily) on our first night there. The other Jeff I'd just met that day.

Because I don't necessarily want to write about the whole trip my friend Jeff's Blog is doing a GREAT job of that for me...

Legally Pink

Just got back from the Betty Comden Memorial. Waited outside 2 hours and it was totally worth it. Here's some memorable songs that some of the divas performed:

Beth Leavel, Karen Ziemba and Stephanie J. Block — New York, New York from On The Town
Lucie Arnaz — 100 Easy Ways to Lose a Man from Wonderful Town
Christine Ebersole — Our Private World from The 20th Century
Phyllis Newman — A Shoo-In from Subways are for Sleeping (she won her Tony in that role)
Judith Blazer and Mary Testa — Ohio from Wonderful Town
Carolee Carmello — I'm Going Back from Bells Are Ringing (my favorite performance in it all)
Ann Hampton Callaway and Liz Callaway — Neverland from Peter Pan
Lillias White — I Can Cook Too! from On The Town (She was a hot mess! Broken leg, funny green sequin hat and reading the lyrics off some paper)
Leslie Uggams — My Own Morning from Hallelujah, Baby! (Her Tony Award too)
Elaine Stritch — Some song from a movie they did Lyrics too (haha!)
Lypsinka — A BRILLIANT act while syncing to another song from the movie Stritch sang from
Barbara Cook — Some Other Time from On The Town (SHE SANG THIS TO AN ENTIRE HOUSE WITH NO MIC! It was unbelievable!)

Now onto Part two of today...Legally Blonde! I feel so gay...wanna know why...here's why:



It's not permanent don't worry. I just figured it's a rare occasion, might as well go a little out. I'm gonna feel like such a weirdo riding on the subway, but alas we do what we must do...

How did we come to this?

Some bad things have happened today, things that are pushing my toward tears. For example:

I'm meeting my ex (who I am friends with and is coming to the show with me) boyfriend's new boyfriend who he has gotten very serious with and blah blah blah. It's not that I'm jealous, hardly jealous. From the way he describes him, the new guy has the same hobbies as me. That's normal, but I then wonder what I've done wrong to not merit the attention. Does that make sense? I know it's nothing I've done WRONG per say, but it brings me close to tears when I think about it. I don't know why.

Another issue BIGGER that's bringing me close to tears and might just do it is that my mom called me today and informed me that my parent's health insurance no longer covers me. I've been on it since I'm still in school. Well, apparently my dad intelligently took a new health insurance that doesn't offer a Student Rider. Meaning if your child is in school and they have proof they are included. Nope. He didn't.

Since I'm now 22 that means I don't count as a child in general. So I'm currently without health insurance. Here's the REAL kicker and the reason I may cry. It may be the sole reason I can't go to China with my school. I'm going to write an email after this entry to the people asking what I should do. I need a photocopy of my health insurance card for the application. Even if I get it, the card won't be here by October 12th.

I refuse to cry now, but I may be shortly. I don't believe that it's over so quickly. Before it even began. My throat is closing up...I have to go.

Looking Back

I can't sleep...So I went through my old Photobucket account...and I thought why not give people a glimpse of what I used to be. I'm sort of embarrassed by these photos...but I am suffering from insomnia so why not?

Warning: These were all taken my Freshman year of college. It's strange to know that this begins my "senior" year so this was about four years ago...So just to repeat I LOOK NOTHING LIKE THIS ANYMORE!!!

Hello, My name is Craig. I'm 19 and I just moved to Brooklyn in NYC!! I'm going to art school! I have been bleaching my hair for 4 years now! And if I have any control over the future I will bleach it FOREVER!!! I have 6 piercings on my body...yea 4 of them are in my ears! [I actually DO miss having some piercings...idea...idea...]

This is my boyfriend, we've been dating for about a year now! We kept a very successful long distance relationship going while I was in college. I was "almost" faithful all the time. If I have it my way I will continued to bleach my hair FOREVER! And I'll marry my boyfriend...probably in Hawaii! This is us at the Gay Prom! We wore matching Marilyn Monroe T-shirts that year! I'm proud to say that I STILL fit into my prom outfit...if I don't breath. [Can you believe that he TOPPED me? Well we took turns...He was my hobbit and I did love him a lot]

Hey again! Winter nights in the dorms...you know what that means! This is during the blizzard of 2005! We walked across campus and got REALLY drunk...on Shmirinoff...well my friend next to me did! This is me after 3 or 4 shots of Bacardi 151! I call it liquid fire! When I drink it in a straight dorm I become the token gay! As the token gay I'm required to put try and put my legs behind my head. [Little did I know how many more times I would be doing this in my future...]

This is me in the 1982. JUST KIDDING! It's me in 2004 still. I just bought this Sweater from a hipster clothing store in Williamsburg! Look at my hair! Believe it or not I was so popular that night. It was October 30, and daylights savings too. We went out and everyone kept asking me, "Who are you supposed to be?!" And I simply responded, "Myself." [Can you SEE where the insanity was born? I think this picture captures the birth of what would someday become the Eccentric Iguana. Literally, I used to wear that around campus and to class? WHAT?! And can come of you understand why CHESS is my favorite musical? I mean REALLY?! I look like I'm a leftover from a Bob Mackie collection gone wrong!]

Bet you didn't realize I have a twin sisters. JUST KIDDING...AGAIN...for the third time! I'm on a role tonight! This was one of my best friends coming into school! People used to ask us if we were twins! No way! She's always horny and drinks to much, but I love her all the same! [Funny story...I used to think SHE was slutty...Apparently, that mirror has two faces.]

My auditions as an Avenue Q replacement didn't go so well that day! Craig Jr. and I didn't take it to heart though! We put on our tapping shoes and went to town! [Okay, this would probably be a picture you could show me someday years from now and say, "WHY DID YOU GO TO ART SCHOOL YOU THEATRE FAGGOT!?!" And I'll shrug.]

Finally, this is me an a REAL celebrity! Delta Burke! Isn't that amazing!...

Okay I can't lie on this one. I was PAINED to get this photo. You can see it in my face... At this time in my life I had never seen Designing Women (trust me I've made up for lost time) and she was at this benefit and I just wanted her photo because people knew her. This lady talked and talked and talked and talked AT ME!. I so believe that Suzanne Sugarbaker and Delta Burke are the SAME woman! I just love, love, LOVE the look on my face.

Yes, that was me...I was much younger then. It's humorous to see what a rough year can do to a person.