Yesterday’s video shoot did not go as planned.
I left work and got my hair fixed in Uptown. The salon was packed with gays and lesbians because everyone needed a hair-update before pride. I almost asked for a cut similar to this lesbian, but I already had a plan for the style that I wanted.
I wait for my stylist for about 30 minutes and awkwardly avoid eye contact with one of my gay professors and his partner. This professor is visibly uncomfortable interacting with gay students outside of school.
The professor is uncomfortable.
I get uncomfortable because he’s uncomfortable.
He gets more uncomfortable…so do I…and it’s just terrible.
The stylist eventually updates my do, and I skip home to walk the krakens. The only problem is that when I turn on MPR on the way home, the weather man is in hysterics about some huge storm coming. Hail and epic amounts of rain he says… damn it.
The monsoon hits my neighborhood right after I enter my apartment and the wind is so strong that I have to jump around shutting windows to prevent flooding.
It is still pouring after I get ready, so I bribe the dogs with treats and hope that they won’t cake my apartment in scat while I am at the Minneapolis Eagle.
The plan was to shoot some bar scenes at the Eagle, walk the dogs, and then get some highway shots.
But of course it is still raining when I get to the Eagle. I enter the bar soaked, my hair is compromised, and I am unamused.
Despite it being Gay Pride weekend, the Eagle is not much more crowded than a normal 3-4-1 Friday, and the bar is too dark to get decent footage for the video.
My time at the Eagle is also amazingly awkward because the SAME professor from the salon is across the bar and his partner is wearing a “I heart BJs” shirt. I am also pretty sure that the partner made a vulgar gesture towards me1 from across the bar. Ick.
After the Eagle, I walked the krakens and then went to Granite City with Thomp. The problem with traveling last night was that 35W (our main north-south highway) was shut down, so 3 minute highway trips suddenly became 30 minute back-road treks.
The highway closure was also a problem because some scenes for the video are supposed to be on the highway. This is some sort of grand conspiracy to thwart my video shoot and I blame BP.
Thomp and I lingered at Granite City until around 1am, and I didn’t continue filming last night because I had an early work day today. (Which necessary because of tonight’s Kathy Griffin show.)
After the Griffin show, I will slink over to the Saloon to see if I can tape something there. Hopefully tonight’s video shoot is more productive!
1 Well, someone could have been behind me, but I was not going to contribute to the awkwardness by turning around and looking. I pretended not to notice.
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