Sunday 31 May 2009

Q Music #1: Y.A.S - GET IT RIGHT a well produced and forward arabic tune

People who know me well, know how much i am not way much into POP & RnB and how much i like my house music... they also know that i am in different to Arabic Music ... and know very well how much i criticized the cliched Arabic music videos,

so when i get a forward in the morning on facebook about this song called Y.A.S - Get it right and clicked on it ... i was just left AMAZED ... great video, great song .. very artistic ..so without much more introduction the song and video speak for it self... enjoy it below


Wednesday 27 May 2009

Queer Query #6: Blogging what ? Blogging Etiquette ?

just as there is drinking etiquette and gay attitude etiquette there is also blogging and writing etiquette... i wasnt just born a day ago.. i have been blogging for five years, however i keep changing blogs for one reason or another... everytime i learn something new..

with my first blog 20 something & gay ... i have learnt not to talk about people
the gay chronicles have revealed to much of myself because you never know who will end up reading this... hence why i recreated my blog under the image of thought... food for the brain ...

as a person grows up he learns something... this might be a free world all and all everyone is entitled to his own thoughts.. and everyone can equally blog/write his thoughts to public ... its the same thing as every has the right to say what they want to say to someone face....

but let me know something... how is it sometimes, one does for a fact censor what he says to someone when its face to face because that person is afraid to hurt someone feelings, yet a person can go online and just bitch the fuck out of that person later on

with out on going rambling the fact is people have etiquette in real life, we learn that when we deal with friends sometimes we say white lies, we learn in school how to interact with people, we learn common social skills its part of growing up.. when we see a person who lacks socials skills sometimes we just say he is still an immature kid he needs to grow up... but when it comes to the blogosphere world what happens to these social skills that we have learnt ? is it because we dont have facial interaction with the person we write about that it gives the right to be MORE bitchier than we would face to face....

does a blog have to be directed to bitterness and hate and lack of class by just dissing everyone in existence and call every one vicious and that no one that exist is good and every is evil and bad and black from the inside and that you have to at some point reveal the viciousness of them all...

if you are a reader wondering what this is about then let me give you some background, with in the gay blogosphere of egypt there is maybe four popular blogs, mine, nautika.blogspot.com ... confessions of a testosterone addict and awkward sex in the city... each one of these blog has their own flavour... i would like think mine is one of the popular ones though... one of these blogs flavour is absolute bitchiness towards people, of sometimes me, that person who goes under the blogging name of E.

The question what made E "the queen of us all", to bitch about us in an extreme way... there is a difference between normal frivolousness and funny bitchyness and just down right mean!

a blog is a useful tool you can use to create good with it or you can use just to show your true evil colours... i would rather do the earlier... we as community dont need much more hate in it, as E said we already are plagued with hate in the real world, he is not the first or the last to do so. however my point is if you see what the people are doing are wrong by being sacramental to others, then why do you doing it .. E's blog starts with the title of "This is a futile attempt to explore sexuality in Cairo" what does all bitchiness and god know what inside there has to do with exploring sexuality.. last time i checked... there isnt more than 5% of the posts has to do with sex.. .actually i have been following his blog for a while hardly anything to do with sex...

when did being gay and exploring sexuality of being gay become the anti christ, from when did being gay meant == rude... maybe sometimes its common accross his scene but not across all.

as i have said i was born yesterday and i was just induced in the Egyptian scene only when i returned i have seen thise scene for more than 8 years prosper and grow and one thing i have learnt as i tried to explain to a new comer last night... the scene is not just made of one community with different sub groups under it... no its made of more multiple scenes, with each scene having multiple communities and each community has multple groups.. point being.. as much as E thinks that we are a scene plagued with bitchiness and horridness which might be true to an extent but its not always.. when i returned back to cairo 8 or 9 month ago.. i found some new gay friends and for the first time i can say this... these new people didnt talk behind my back... these new people when they saw a flaw in me and trust me i am flawed they would tell it to me right to my face... in a POLITE manner, the keyword here is being polite... and here is the thing when you confront someone about something you feel is wrong with him and you be able to provide critisim in a constructive way it just goes along way


i am deviating from the main topic i guess but i do have a point that i do want to make to just some things up.... E, and other "vicious" bloggers why dont you make good use of your writing skills and god knows how good of writer and the wit you have with your words into good use... why all the bitchiness... and even if you are being bitchy and some guy comes and approach you about that he doesnt like being talked about... or if i dont like when you mention a name of a bar in your blog... you should try to be respectful and gracioius to the other person just avoid the drama... and just add more gas to the fire as they say here in egypt tesha3lalah why not grow up and just appologize and end it.. why does there always have to be a scene and a big fuss made about it... why not ever go for truce ? why not be a nice person ?

Saturday 23 May 2009

Queer Query #5: Under the influence ?

Is it possible for a gay scene to exist with out being under the influence of a substance... regardless of the substance being drugs or alcohol ?

okay even if people are drinking in a party, i mean after all its a party, how would you socialize, do people know their limits on when to stop drinking ?

FAST FORWARD...... abit

If you think of it, in reality alcohol is not that common in the Arab world, as it is western. Yes you might be use to going to parties in Egypt where everyone drinks, Yes you might go to drinkies every now and then, Yes you might even call that dealer of yours to hook you up with the exported one if you havent travelled in a while. so in our bubble its common, but step out of this bubble and look outside of the bubble of gay parties, look outside of the bubble of straight bars, its not common.

now let me just deviate a bit and point out something... usually sometimes when you are in a gay scene you dont always get people introduced as the 19, 18 year olds, mind you though there is a huge influx of those coming in now... but sometimes there comes 25s, 30s even who just join in... and those new incubents dont generally drink, as remember as mentioned earlier its not that common for people outside of those bubbles to drink, so these new influx usually come in and under peer pressure start to drink... some might go to the extreme and go do drugs, even though not as common as it seems in Egypt..

The problem with this, is that you get 18-21 new influx and not to mention the 25s, 30s etc coming in and they just dont have the experiance in handling their drink... once upon a blog time my best friend who goes by the blogger name M with The Affirmation blog has said... that when he was growing up he would always wanted to be better, he learnt all the proper etiquette, including the art of drinking, the art of asking guys on dates, the art of actually kissing a guy in a party with out looking like a total sleaze bag, ...i think i never saw M make a huge fool out of himself in any party that i have been with him at... anyway i clearly as most of the people who would have known me in the past have lacked this etiquette but i made it a point that i actually learn some....

so i was retransformed i stopped making out with random boys ... i know how to hold my glass .. and eventaully i am starting to have better social skills, specially when it comes to meeting people for the very first time.

my point is that i am trying to make here is that well, gay parties get tiresome after a while, dont get me wrong i am not complaining they are fun, because you get to hang out with all your friends at the same time, you get to talk in a safe heaven, you even get to meet one or two new people every now and then...however have you ever stopped in the middle of the party and just looked around... looked at the faces of the people around.... looked at the way they were acting... thats exactly what i did in last night party... i had a couple of glasses of Vodka Cranberry with a twist of Orange, when i was starting to get typsi around 2 am i have decided time to sober, so go myself glasses of water with a twist of lemon and started drinking by 2:30am .. i was all great again .. then as i inhaled on that cigerate between my fingers and looked at the people around me.... my friends... the new commers.. the younglings... and just looked at their faces i couldnt just help how drunk they were ... they were fun though.. but it just made me think can we have fun with out being drunk... can we just be satisfied with just being typsi ... or on that part where its before you are drunk but you are not so sober at the same time?
i am not saying lets go all non alcoholic eventhough i bet it would be very very very very interesting to see 1 gay party with out alcohol... i can already imagine the faces of people... everyone would be nervous and complaining ... and not to mention fidgety scratching their forearms for that drink


so as i was writing this blog,,, i think i know what this scene needs, it needs some classes for M, M since you are not in egypt for a while maybe you should do us a blog entry on your blog where you teach the boys here about the etiquette of gay partying

xoxox
Q

Tuesday 12 May 2009

Queer Query #4: If Men are from mars, Women are from Venus.... what the fuck is happening on MARs, an Orgie?

How Many times have you heard that Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus... as a gay man when i hear that i just cant help laugh...i mean lets be realisitic anyone who is been in a gay scene would say well there are over a dozen of type of gay men. Gaydar.co.uk when it launched its sexfactor competition has realized that ... that it created it based on looks the Guy next door, the Guy next door 25+, the SnM, Jocks, etc... there cant be on planet to fit all of us gay men on.

Granted that mars is a darker shade of pink ... RED, but lets say if that big planet had different countries on it, then how the hell are you going to classify the men.... i mean the countries ;)

i have been on a number of dates recently, eventhough i have been complaining that i havent been going on any then i just realized that well i have been a number,

so i would like to introduce my characters, i mean the countries, as the way i should see mars should look like..

one of the most common thing about being gay in the arab world is have a sort duality in life, a straight life and a gay life, where the USUAL, the COMMON is that they dont mix, people with that ideology sometimes have extremes where people can know how to master the art of creating both separate lives but keep both groups, where they can keep the str8ties to going out certain places, usually the nice areas, or keep the gay in indoors party or a bar that no one will go to. on the other hand you have guys who mix them well they take there "dates" out with their straight friends, thinking there str8 friends wont find out about them gay but they are so oblivious to the fact that there str8 friends know that he is gay... Introduction of the First countries. The Country that keep the str8ties at bay is going to be called Country V while the latter shall be called country Kay

Country Kay: once upon a week, i talked to this guy online, it took us two weeks to meet because of some "excuses" he cancelled on me twice prior to meeting me, yet on the third time i just agreed on doing it... dont know why i shouldnt have... but i was curious... we went to la bodega, he was HOT... he was cute.. i flirted the right amount... we left... met up afterwards with friends was telling them all about how cute he is was.. and nice decent and well he basically met most of my superficial standards, so per my friends advice i didnt call all next day tell he called and invited to me go out with his friends to Club Purple... str8 friends that is!!! i was like ahhh okay i shall... and shall i did. we went there .. he was 15 minutes late... his friends where sort of okay and nice and funny, but i am like how couldnt they that this guy is NOT gay... and what was more amazing was the fact here i am in purple... i see other 4 gay guys other than me and him... they know he is gay.. but i had to pretend to be str8 to them?!?! and whats even more confusing they are gay and they are pretending to eachother they are str8 eventhough they know for CONFIRMED FACT that they are gay because they know who they slept with.... HELL DOES THIS MAKE ANY SENSE..... anyway fast forward a week, hell knows what happened with K.. one day is cold the other he is like ahhhh into... and what was even more confusing the night went to purple he get dropping in the word that i am his date when it really wasnt a date... so as i mentioned fast forward a week i accidentally run into him in purple when i was out with a girl friend of mine on a str8 night out (not to be confused that i am not out to her,, we just needed a break from the other gay boys) and then i run into him accidentally... i ignore him and hang out with my friend he comes to us every now and then ... i thought that it was part of his game that you know where is no longer playing cold... little that i know... at the end of the night he kept dancing with my girl friend telling me her how beautiful she is ... where i responded.. k you are gay.. he was like no i am BI... and listen to this... HE ACTUALLY LEFT HIS NUMBER ON A NAPKIN for her.. which she as a ny good friend gracefully left on the bar for the bartender to pick up!! the idea is Country K is about the psycotic gay men... who know matter what you can never understand them regardles of mixing or not mixing str8 friends.. and they are so oblivious to the reality around them where most of the people around them know that he is gay no matter how hard he tries other to prove other wise, and i dont mean he is queeny.

Country V: for those who have read my previous blog before i removed would have realized V is one of my close friends who i kiddingly call Potential Best Friend. V if you reading this, which probably are.. i am sorry about what i am about to say but you know it anyway i said a million times to your face. V is the kind of Guy where is str8 life is totally seperated from his gay one... its like way two different worlds.. but what frustrates me about this with V, is lets say that we wont to go somewhere nice, like one of the nice bars, in town, he would be NOOOO because he would be too afraid that there is 5% chance that we might run into someone he knows even if that person was someone who was with him in kindergarden and i kid you not!!! we did our little holiday during spring break away from the red sea on the fear that V might have an issue running into his str8 friends in one of the red sea cities or resorts like Gouna.. granted where he took us at the end actually ended up as a nice place.. but still the concept.. Country V is about the guys who are so deep in the closet that it annoys the guys who mildly out of the Closet

Country Coke: Gay men are accross the world are almost always associated with Drugs, Partying, Alcoholism, and being WAY TOO HAPPY, Egypt is no except to that concept. But us being a smaller world its more appearent and you actually get to know by name the people who uses, and those people who use usually mix with their own kind, and have their little house parties with Coke, E, MDMA and whatever they can smuggle back from europe or get locally, did i mention that the Coke group also is the group that you might find hanging accross spain, london, brussels, munich for just the holidays... yes they are also some of the wealthier group who can afford the travels.... to me most common people they wouldnt figure out that those people are users, but to me, Q, come on i see and i konw everything that happens on this glorious land, to me Country Coke, are combined of people who has it all in terms of wealth a good reputation on the straight party scene (oh trust me having a name on the straight party scene is not an easy thing) they are people are who are able to hide habbits, discreetly within the confined borders of Egypt, however they are as i was discribing to one of my good friends today the people that i feel lack personality and are superficial and weak, why else would you resort to drugs and think its something cool to do!!

Country Cock & Ass: Cock & Ass, to be here after refered to as C&A, C&A is a country where all that matters is sex. you hang out with people who belong to this country they will talk about nothing except who they fucked, how big was his dick, how small was it. how wide was he, how when he fingered the and the finger came brown. Or rather on how good the guy was, which is sometimes a rare thing to here... i have friend who sort of resides in this country, in where we kid that sometimes he is a sex addict, that for fun he just has sex... is just like having a drink or smoking cigerates, but lucklily for us that friend doesnt share the details of his sexecpades, god if anyone gets his phone.... boys you will get the black book to all the hot men of cairo

Party Town: Party Town (PT).... is sort of a subset of all countries, each country has its own town where people gather and party in it. usually this town is a house for each group, sometimes different countries invite other countries to their own party town... or sometimes an international citizen, like myself, will have a party in a country like switzerland where it neatural and invite all the countries. some PTs would have drag queens perform in them on a belly dance, other would just have arabic music playing all night long, while other other would have commerical stuff from 2 years ago playing or sometimes on rare ocassions you would have the ones that have house music that is the latest off from ibiza, london, new york. In Party town usually you have main players, like you have in the str8 scene, the movers and shakers, these are usually the people who have their own place, or people who know the house owners, then an important part of this however not all these countries can host good parties, so much like the str8 scene you have major players who you know when they throw a party ... you would kill to be on that guest list.. and others you are just like what ever who care we arre not going and usually when the movers dont go the party becomes shitty

Drama Town: in every country right next to Party Town exists Drama Town, sometimes drama town exist as a subset in PT but it also has its own independent cafe outside of it... what i am saying it always exists in PT. show me one gay boy that doesnt have drama in their life , whether its party you are organizing and stressing about the guest list (M) or whether you are stressing about not having enough guys available to date, or whether its your brother, family, mother, university, and if everything is okay, it might be about not finding the correct size of those jeans... i honestly honestly dont believe there exist a drama free man and from out of a million of experiance of going to meet and greet guys, and they are advertise themselves as "drama-free" are usually the most dramatic. did i not mention K earlier.

the countries and the towns just keep on going with the lieks of tranishack ville, right next to it you can find liar ville, right next to it REAL PEOPLE country, its just a million other countries which we shall discuss a bit more as i run more to them on wierd dates but in the mean time what i think would be more fun if you leave me any country that you think needs to be added in the list in the comments


Q.