I need to start this post with a warning… this is gonna be a looooooong post. So, there you have it. Consider yourself warned and don’t come bitching and whining, telling me my posts are too long. Another thing I’d like to make it clear is that I particularly don’t enjoy writing my posts in the airport… it just seems to happen that way a lot of times lol I suppose you get the point. I’m heading to Providence and I’m again, waiting for my flight at SFO which at this point doesn’t seem it’s gonna be delayed, so that’s good.

The main reason why this post is so long is probably because this was, by far, the craziest week of my life. Plus, the amount of pictures I managed to gather for this post is way above average. So expect a fully illustrated blog post. Maybe, just maybe, I should stop prancing around and go straight to the point where all the craziness started, which was exactly last Thursday when we went to our Troy Anicete’s Fund Raiser at the Powerhouse.

I was able to post a couple pictures of what I was gonna be wearing at the fundraiser and that weekend, so it should be no surprise that most of the pictures, even though they were taking on different days, show me wearing the same stuff… just to make it clear, I did shower… and I did change my undies, well that’s not totally true, cuz most of the time when you’re wearing leather pants you don’t really wear any undies with that :-p but as a good sport I am, and trying to party at San Francisco style, there was no deodorant or cologne, at any time lol believe it or not, in some places if you’re wearing anything that’s scented you cant even get in… it’s scary lol ok ok to the Powerhouse now…

… We got to the Powerhouse around 9pm and the place was kinda dead, it was my first time there so I had no idea that by 10pm you wouldn’t be able to move inside that place. I could barely breath, luckily in 5 min we were all on the stage. Looking to the madness from above was a good relieve. Ricky Sinz, Tober Brandt, Jay Black (which I met that night and btw … I still have your nail clippers lol), Michael Brandon and I were dancing and having a lot of fun. The idea was to show off the pieces we were gonna be auctioning that night and as you can see on the photos I think we did a great job.

Things got pretty wild at some point, but I suppose things always get wild when Ricky is on stage (that’s not totally true either as you’ll see in a few pictures down lol). Anyway, as the pieces were auctioned they’d come off and at the end there were a bunch of hot hung guys on stage and a lot of love given out to Michael Brandon as you can see in this last picture. The good thing is that the money was raised and it was for a good cause. Next year I’m sure Troy is gonna do it again, after all why would he stop after 13 years

The next day I checked in on my hotel with Paris, I mean, RJ Danvers lol … We had this inside joke going on this weekend that we were the Paris and Nicole of the porn industry … Myself being Nicole for being very skinny and RJ being Paris for being, well… Everyone knows what Paris is known for LOL … no, really, we turned out to be such great friends and we were doing so many fun and at the same time stupid things together the whole weekend, that reminded us of the Simple Life

After a lot of convincing, I dragged him out with me. We went to several bars in the Castro and met with a lot porn stars that night. The city was filled with them anticipating the Folsom Street Fair that following Sunday. We ended the night at the Boy Bar after lots of drinks and other more hazardous acts (and I’m not hinting the use of any illegal substance here). What I mean is that I honestly don’t remember how we got home… too much to drink perhaps?! LOL … I did wake up that next morning with a black eye and RJ with bite marks all over his back that he insists it was all mine… since I don’t remember a thing, I will deny it until the day I die LOL I certainly don’t want any angry boyfriend coming after me

On the schedule for that Saturday there was nothing but the VIP Party at the End Up that night, so to kill time what do fags do in a Paris and Nicole way? We shop, of course LOL … I ended up buying so much shit I had to get a bigger suitcase to go back home, it was kinda embarrassing honestly … not really

Once again we headed to the Castro where all the gays hang out in San Francisco. It’s the oldest gay community in the U.S. lots of good shops and fun stuff to do, see and of course… buy! Ok no more shopping! … At some point one of my friends called me and invited us to go to the LOVE Fest. It used to be called the LOVE parade but they changed the name this year. A lot of “free spirit” people get together to celebrate… love, I guess. Or whatever you wanna celebrate. It’s a prelude to what’s about to happen the next day with tons of naked people everywhere and drugs… lots of drugs… The Civic Center in San Francisco was totally taken by the people. There were several floats around the main area, each one of them playing a different type of music, so there was a little bit for everyone. Of course, Paris and Nicole’s favorite was nothing but “the pink mammoth” LOL crazy gay people making out in the streets and good music in the background… Life seemed so easy that day

We got out of there and headed to the Raging Stallion VIP Party where all their stable of men would be introduced to the crowd and the new Men of the Year was gonna be announced, but before that happened a lot happened. We were told that nudity was completely prohibited … yea right LOL. We were then divided in 4 groups of dancers with 30 min intervals each, where we were supposed to jump from post to post until the time of the announcement. The whole plan seemed really good on paper but dealing with drunk porn stars ain’t that simple LOL

We couldn’t really track time since no one had a watch, so 30 min turned into hours for some of us and others just didn’t dance at all. At some point RJ and I were dancing in the patio box outside where there was only supposed to be me dancing and still we were joined by Derrick Hanson that totally kicked ass in that box … well, I guess “kicked ass” wasn’t really the best way to describe what he did lol … RJ was looking at me like “is he really doing this” or maybe he meant with that look “I wanna do that too” lol I don’t know… you tell me. Check it out.

Chris Ward got us all on the stage and introduced us one by one to all the attendees. It felt so good to be part of that. JD Slater then announced his “Bigger than Life Award” to Tober Brandt followed by Chris Ward that broke the news of his Man of the Year revealing that for the first time there was not only one but two awards to be given out that night. There was tie on the title for Man of Year 2007 – Roman Ragazzi and Steve Cruz. They both deserve, so since there was not really a way to break the tie, the title was given out to both of them. If you remember well, Roman Ragazzi was my partner in my first ever professional action scene (which I believe open the movie) shot for GRUNTS. Steve Cruz was also part of that movie. So, I had the honor to be feature with them in the same project… What else could I ask for?

From there I went back to the hotel. I was too tired and probably tipsy enough to not be able to really enjoy anything else that night. RJ went to Magnitude with Jake Deckard but as far as I heard he didn’t have too much fun there, since he was back at the hotel a couple hours later… but I’ll let him tell this story. Hopefully he’ll add the chapter where he had to walk back to the hotel… a 2 mile walk on Mission st at 2 in the morning wearing a hoochie leather outfit … Priceless! LOL

And then… And then… there’s the Folsom itself. We all got there around noon and signed pictures for an hour before our “march”. That’s right! We were promoting GRUNTS and the Studio decided that we were all gonna get in formation and march thru the fair singing cadances. In the beginning I thought the idea was stupid since no one knows what’s that supposed to mean for us. Why marching thru the fair was so important if the movie hasn’t been released yet and people are totally, completely unaware that we marched in the movie… well, that’s the point, so people can find out what the movie is all about. Half away thru I got more into it and had a lot of fun with it. The whole thing went so well that people were following us back to the GULCH/RSS booth and the march even made the 10 o’clock news… so I guess it worked the way they expected and I was glad to be part of it. Even though the sergeants made me the guinea pig LOL really… being on my knees sniffing someone’s crotch in front of 200.000 people isn’t really my idea of fun LOL anyway…

Then it was time to sign pictures. Meet the fans and have fun. I met some incredible people there. The highlight of my day was when I met my biggest fan, Mr. F. that shortened his vacation to Italy to get back to San Francisco in time to meet me at Folsom. I mean, how am I supposed to react to that? How do u react when people you barely know or never met look at you and talk to you like you’re one of the most important things in their lives… I was so happy to be there and being able to put smiles in people’s faces and have fun with them. People like Chris, that waited patiently for hours to take a picture of me, naked of course holding a blue shirt on my shoulders… I’ll find out more about this later and post something about it… So, to those, a big THANKS from me.

I couldn’t really go around and see all the crazy things that you hear about the Folsom Street Fair. I’m in no way saying that those crazy things didn’t happen or that I didn’t see them … I only walked thru the fair back and forth once on my way to the hotel to get changed. So if I had explored more I probably would have more to report… It was fun nonetheless and I hope to be back there next year. I also hope to have a more revealing outfit next year since the sign at the entrance saying that “nudity is against the law” doesn’t really mean anything when it comes to Folsom LOL

I had that Monday off. Paris left that morning, she was going back to prison Tuesday morning (are you still following the joke here?! Lol) ok… I tried to rest up since I was gonna have a scene the next day with Victor Steele. I spent most of the day hanging with my bud Ricky Sinz which gifted me with a glass dildo (very classy lol – no, really… very nice toy!). It’s actually part of a toy line is creating. The stuff is all hand-made and it looks … and feels LOL… really good I posted the link here so you can check it out, maybe get one for yourself. If you’re a top like me just get a small one … like mine … LOL … He’s also partnering with this very cute brand of undies called “Dirty Fukker” … such an entrepreneur that kid … I should learn something with him We also did an interview together for the “Feast of Fools” in Chicago… not really sure when that’s gonna be out… pretty soon I hope.

Ok, so the scene with Victor was done on Tuesday evening and it went really well. Just like for everything else in this post I have the pictures to prove it… I told you this was gonna be a very illustrated journey so there you have it. It was honestly one of the calmest scenes I have ever done for Raging Stallion. I believe because Victor and I have some history, the chemistry was there since the beginning, so that helped a lot. That and the fact that there was only the 2 of us, Geof Teague (the photographer) Ben Leon (the director/camera man) and Matthew – my favorite grip – who has magic fingers LOL sorry that’s an inside joke Ben gave us the director speech in the beginning and after that he just let things flow… oh and they did flow LOL

I’m not really sure when or where that scene is gonna be released. It’s probably part of their Centurion line which is more of a leather fetish type films. Remember my black eye? Well, it’s there in all its glory too. I asked Geof who was gonna fix my black eye for the scene and his answer was – no one! It’ll make you look tougher LOL as if I don’t look tough enough already :-p check it out!

Another day off. That was Wednesday already. I went back to my friend’s house in the Castro. That hotel honestly was depressing me. The homeless population in San Francisco is huge and despite their creativity to get some spare change, some of them are really annoying, especially at 2am when you’re trying to sleep and they’re singing the same song for hours in a row – NONSTOP!!! Jokes aside and I don’t mean to get political here the homeless situation in San Francisco is worse than NYC and no doubt the worse I have ever seen in America, but again I don’t travel that much…

Days off in San Francisco are really tough for me. If I get bored and don’t have anything to do, instead of gluing my ass to the chair and writing a shorter blog post… what do I do?! I go shopping. And believe me, I had plenty of those days there. So many in fact I had to buy a bigger luggage today to fit all the shit I bought. When I got to the airport my dear friend Jeff still had to go thru it when I was checking in moving stuff around so I wouldn’t have to pay a $50 fee for extra weight … tisk tisk tisk for bad shopping habits LOL

This afternoon – and I promise this post is almost done – LOL – I had the best photo shoot so far with Kent Taylor. It was again a leather shoot. And I was so pleased the way the pictures came out. And by his reactions I was sure he was pleased too. Everything about it was great. I feel like – and we talked about this too – with time we’re getting more used to each other and it makes it so much easier to work. We understand each other a lot better now and it reflects in the final product.

As usual, I saved the best for last. And if you made it all the way down here (I’m sure you did Mr. F.), even if it took you a couple days to read the whole thing LOL this is by far my ALL TIIME FAVORITE picture ever taken at Raging Stallion. The lights, the posture, background, cropping… I don’t know how else to describe. Everything about this picture is perfect! Thanks Kent.

Well boys and boys … this it it. I’ll be back in a week

Love to all

Luke

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