Best Summer Ever Weeks 5 & 6: Minneapolis Gay Pride

I really need to do these summaries on a weekly basis because I end up giving short-shrift to everything when I wait two weeks.

What happened these past two weeks? Well, there was school, dates, drag show fabulousness, illness/rice socks,  music production, the Minneapolis gay pride parade, diva-dom, and mass awkwardness.

The most exciting thing that happened during the last two weeks is that I finished my first song. Here is the concise version:

And here is the extended version:

The video was shot at the Minneapolis Gay Pride parade, which was my first pride festival. Last year I sent my camera with Gibs, and my mother went to this year’s Miami Pride Parade.

The twin cities parade was fun, but I expected more hot guys on floats…or at least one hot guy on a float…

I was however, extremely impressed with the Gay 90’s on Sunday evening. It felt like Miami on a weekend. The club was packed, the music was good and ghetto-tastic, and the usual trashy, unfit Minneapolis gogo-boys were replaced by model-like boys and girls who actually knew how to dance!

Fancy!

And the most fabulous character of the night was the trashed drag queen on stage hanging onto a stripper pole for balance. You know I had to get up and dance with her:

My favorite part of pride weekend is that I got to see so many of my friends, acquaintances, and my new random-facebook friends. At one point I knew every 5th person the street.

Thomp and I also saw Kathy Griffin perform and I was surprised by how many people I knew at the show.

Kathy Griffin was funny. I was not as impressed by the first hour of the show because the jokes centered around her show, which I don’t watch (no TV!) and US-Weekly humor. I don’t follow the Gosselins or care who Cameron Diaz is dating.

Kathy picked up steam during the second part of the show when she dished about Barbara Walters, The View, and meeting Michele Bachman in DC. The funniest part of the show involved this clip of LaToya Jackson and Bubbles the Chimp. I think Kathy exaggerated the story by adding that dung was flung, but it is still pretty funny.

Aside from the festivities, the vast majority of my time was spent at work or at home learning Ableton. I didn’t go to the lakes with the dogs or skate as much as I wanted because it rained almost every day during the past few weeks:

I think we got hail a few times and tornadoes made guest appearances in other parts of Minnesota.

The weather is stabilizing and hopefully the krakens and I can get out more this week. I am also working on my first album. There will be 10 songs. Expect rapping, reggaeton, house music, guest appearances, and complete randomness.

This summer is pretty amazing.