2010

testin… testin…. how you do this again ??!

well, it would appear I’ve missed a year. a whole year. without even resorting to psycholoopy mushrooms, I’ve missed a whole year.

amazing that i’ve even remembered the password… tho i cant quite get the photybucket to work. a swinger like me, sooooo outta the swing of this thing…

anyway. its new years day. making it the BEST time to look back and look forward… and just maybe baby, start back at this thing regular again.

so…. a funny old year, momentous in many ways good and bad.

lets do good first… in fact, lets do ACE.

MAJOR, LIFE-LONG DREAM come true…. my very first published piece of fiction !!!!!!! in a book with forewords by my fave cult movie director, and my all time fave pin up actress no less !!!!

a fan of my website , book editor dude, got in touch asking if I’d be interested in contributing to a sci-fi anthology. derrrrrrrrrr hell yeahhh, dude…. despite the fact that I’ve not written a word of fiction since being aboot 12 years old (OD and my cv notwithstanding… )  so, i sat down, cracked on, and wrote the biggest load of twoddle you’d ever wish to never read, finished it all in about an hour…

and it was accepted.

and im now a published sci fi author of a story in a book thats had international exposure and magazine reviews with contributions from two of my lifelong heroes. and i even had a book launch (Dr Who Store, Blackpool) with paparazzi in attendance. and I’ve even signed autographs… not just copies of the book, actual photographs of ME, Gonzarelli….

and its mad / ace. and vol 2 is in the works. and i ll still never understand how these things ever and always happen to me.

ah well. another one off the bucket list.  my book, Curved Space, is HERE… clickum ye and looove….

of course, i cant just leave it there though… things only ever get even more surreal. sooooo….

i invited a longtime buddie, an acclaimed independent american movie maker, to contribute to the book too. he did, mega-successfully… and it got his zombie films some exposure, and made him some contacts, and he was real grateful to me, and he loves all the kung fu crap i ve posted on my website….

and hes asked me to fly to america, this spring, and co-star in his next film, a martial arts zombie sci fi comedy.

meaning dream number two just may be coming true… IM GONNA BE A MOVIE STAR ?!!!!!!!!!

mental.

of course, there are 2 stumbling blocks to this – my perennial guilt at leaving dad on his own for long periods of time…

and the fact that my body is screwed. since my last entry, my health has deteriorated dramatically. i got old. and im in a whole worlda hurt.

i ve an appointment this month with an orthopaedic surgeon. not sure what they’ll do yet… could be hip replacement, could be anything. suffice it to say though, i am NOT capable of half the fancy backflip / kicks in my online videos anymore, but am now strugglin to try to get into SOME shape where i could still be silver-screen worthy.  i would LOVE to do this…  i ve never been to america, i’d get to meet tom after about 5years of corresponding, i’d get to hook up with charlene again (after 8ish years), i’d get to kick some livin dead ass, and id be on sale on dvd at amazon and on cable tv everynight.  ie, ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY, and THIS MUST HAPPEN.

if it doesnt, ah well ho hum… was still a buzz to even be asked.

just realised.. im actually enjoying writing here. didnt expect that. my last entries became such a chore.

other, more mundane news…

we relocated at work. i hate it. it broke my heart. and, a week after that, i broke my foot too…. stage-diving at a black rebel motorcycle club gig. damn good night that was…. anyhoo, i did my metatarsil in three places, couldnt walk for two months, but was back in work 20mins after leaving A&E, and didnt miss a days work.  didnt stop me giggin either… i was front row for both Lady Gaga and Crowded House while on crutches. MAD NIGHTS, they were 🙂

speaking of music… last year was pretty amazing, tho NOT in 2009’s class (as if i could ever top that… ).

the highlights tho were Suede’s comeback gig, Stevie Wonder ( !!!!! ), Emillie Autumn, blah blah blahhhh sooooo many. rather than post stuff here as usual, link to my new portfolio would be http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_gonz/sets/72157625714196684/

i also extended the photographic interest to other, cheaper, non-music related matters… animals RULE, for example, chester zoo, yorks wildlife park etc… all damn good days. im up to vol 21 of my self published Swingin’ Pants book series now, am ridiculously proud of them, some belters there 🙂

anyway, back to work… my team was given two mega new members (literally, dicks… ), both of whom were possibly the most INDIVIDUAL, out-there people i ve ever met. they were, lets say, a challenge to my supervisory capabilities… and i Kicked Ass, had looooad of fun with them… and they deserve, and shall get, a whole entry to themselves. ooo-er. anyway, they left on xmas eve, and the world will be much quieter without them.

joann is still my best ever.

im still havin an affair, with a young lady 11 years my junior, whom i have bugger all in common with, who i dont particularly like, and who i dont even particularly fancy. im treadin water with her, and i know it, and it kinda must change maybe.  shes nice, and im a bad bad man.

still…. we have plenty of orgasms on trains together..

and thats that, at least for now. so 2010…. lot of damn good stuff, lot of mad nights… lot of physical pain and maybe some tough times ahead. which is as it should be.

so to end… new years eve last night. my 84 year old grand poobah has developed a taste for my baileys irish whiskey it seems. i think i ve created a (beer) monster. hes hooked on the stuff. and it was, as always, a very special, very lovely… and very lonely night.

happy new year OD