Interview with claudecub

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Interview with claudecub!

1. How did you meet John (jgrizz), Greg (plaidninja), and Dave (cub4bear)?

   Ok, so each person has their own story:

   • John jgrizz

     So back in the day before Livejournal both John and I had these "weblog" thingies and I think I found John's just surfing bear web sites. I was all "shit, this dude likes good music, can actually design a page and is from Toronto. Oh and he thinks. Crazy". Didn't think too much of it, we chatted online and stuff.

     I started coming into Toronto more often to go to the Bear Buddies Toronto Bear Night at The Toolbox where I'd liberally slut it up at the after hours party upstairs in the guest house. Afterwards I'm all buzzing in drunken post-coital bliss and then:

     "Dude!" I says.
     "Dude!" John says.
     "Dude, you're that Edgecrusher guy!"
     I says. "Dude, yeah!" John says.
     "Excellent!"
     "Party on!" etc.

     It was some form of Bill & Ted/Wayne's World momment that proved to me that we vibed pretty well. After that we continued to chat online, occasionally hang out and catch some good concerts. We're both what I like to call repressed musicians, that is musical people without a good gig to play. So in that respect we both understand eachother.

   • Greg

     I actually met Greg via Livejournal! He'd been looking to hang out with more bears, as if my understanding, so one day he came over to hang out with us at Dave's. The rest is history. As you well know Claude Greg is infectious to be around. His sense of humour and general demeanor is just fantastic. Whenever I think "Man, meeting people on LJ is lame!" I just think of Greg. I can't say enough good things about him.

   • Dave

     Dave is very special to me. We met when I actually hooked up to have sex with his ex. I was at their apartment when I met Dave and saw his G3 and brand spankin' new G4 cube. I know I'd found a kindred spirit. Anyhow, I blew off his ex and hung out with Dave. We get along real well 'cause we both love a lot of the same things. In so many ways we're very similar. But you can relate Claude ;)

2. Describe a frustrating experience you had in the last while.

   Probably living with my Dad. I've never had somebody invade my space so thoroughly, I just wasn't ready to spend that much time in close proximity to him.

3. What dead musician do you wish was still alive and doing her/his thing?

   All the generic rock stars come to mind. Then some tragedies like the late Pierre Mercure, a talented French Canadian modern composer who wrote a wonderful piece called "Kaleidoscope" that I absolutely adore playing. But really an artist's legacy outlives them in culture and I don't think I'm too hip on changing history.

4. Has a song/piece of music ever made you cry? If not, talk about a song that evokes strong emotions in you.

   I'm not afraid to say that there are a lot of piece that have really affected me. Too many to really name them all but the most powerful to me, given the time and place that I played it, was Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Vaughn Williams. It's arranged for something like 2-4 string orchestras in one chamber orchestra at a time. So for instance in a viola section of 4 players each player has a completely different part that may be speaking with another sub-division of the string ensemble on top or below others. It creates this beautifully huge harmony that a recording can barely do justice to. At the time I was playing it I'd just came out and was discovering a new world around me. It just really spoke to me and continues to this day.

5. What's the most stereotypically gay aspect of you? (Aside from the fact that you're attracted to men!)

   I'm definitely not repressed about my creative and queerer side. I really love design, architecture, literature, flavoured liqueurs and the girly drinks you can make from them. It's a real beef of mine that lots of people believe masculinity means being ignorant to the finer points of the world around them. Being only about titties and car parts isn't butch, it's just stupid.

Comments

[etherlad.livejournal.com]

Being only about titties and car parts isn't butch, it's just stupid.

But... but... titties!

[clauditorium.livejournal.com]

Cool to get some inside info; I feel like I don't know you as much as I should.
Pierre Mercure, huh? You do realize that's my last name?
As for the space invasion, that's exactly how I felt when I went back home for the summer the first two years I went to university. Drove me C-R-A-Z-Y.
Thanks for sharing!