so i'm getting tribal on the one's and two's. a wee bit out of my element but fuck it, it's saturday morning with a bunch of chill people, some drums and some earth dancing. then what's his hippie cupcake fuck shows up (who i'd finally met for dinner the week before to explain that being single means for me to be alone, and not for you to be in love with me, and with your brazilian girlfriend from 2 years ago, who you haven't seen since. i will leave that bizarre love triangle for someone else to cipher). so he shows up, dramatically pokes his head in the classroom (left! right!) and then runs in to set up his goddamned tam tams.
pan to the tam tams. i need to bring you up to speed:
from the stuffing of cupcakes in the mouth era (they move quickly now): the hippie couldn’t kiss me because he was thinking about his girlfriend from 2 years ago in
a bit harsh yes but so necessaire. SO. he runs in to class and starts drumming away, the picture of contentment. why don't i come play for my woman, to show her the ways of the hippie? look at me in the centre where all eyes are cast on me me me. that's right - dance towards me as you fly across the room. make love to me with your eyes and your body as you fly, heaving yourself through time and space in a way one can only do hungover on a saturday morning. dance to the beat i drum for you as we complete the tribal cycle of life....
my girlfriend and i both lose our minds, fuck up our moves and start to wage war against him in the most silent screaming conversation ever, spluttering, eyes twitching, again insensed. we storm out after class - my foot now injured with rage, change and walk out the door of the studio without a word or a look back, moving quickly and purposefully, lest any of this escaped him. he summed up in those moments all that i disliked him for - his incredible need for attention and desire to look at women in tight clothes iced by the terribly inappropriate hippieness of it all.
after dinner last week he had sent his resume to me to get an information interview at my company. then tam tams. then rage. then delete.
4 comments:
sigh. I'm sorry. really sorry for the tam tam connection.
But boy oh boy (for now, a placebo boy, ms. single two too) do those cup cakes look tasty.
Let's rendez vous in Montreal this summer. Ize gots me a couple of french connections.
Ha, that is sweet revenge. Successful Woman 1, Hippie 0.
1. Just be glad he wasn't a DJ. You think hippies are self-centered wankers...
2. All men need to be trained in the ways of being thoughtful. Just because a manboy is "sensitive" (as in he whines/cries if you insult his limited fashion sense) doesn't mean he is actually sensitive in the sense of thoughtful or considerate.
3. You girls don't make it easy for us manboys to learn the distinction. My experience is that girls can be just as bratty and self-centered as men.
4. Bottom line: any manboy who is gay enough to be at a drum circle, trade dead bootleg tapes, say he likes reggae when his knowledge of said music doesn't range past bob marley and ub40, has long stringy dirty hair, wears socks in his sandals, etc., is a manboy you should know better than.
A friend of mine was doing her laundry in Baltimore when one of her co-launderers observed that she'd do well to "keep them knees together nice and tight" to stay out of trouble. To this, I add for the liberated GB: keep your knees nice and tight unless you're sure you can remain detached or you're sure the dude isn't a wanker. Somewhere in our hearts and souls, the wanker detector will go off -- we all must be highly attenuated to our inner wanker alarm system.
>>keep your knees nice and tight unless you're sure you can remain detached or you're sure the dude isn't a wanker.<<
Thanks Basscakes ... I always seem to forget this. Truly — it's sometimes good to repeat the obvious.
Post a Comment