Masquerotica @ Concourse 10/22/11

[Drunk Monk]

I'm too spent to comment, spent in a good way.

Saturday morning I went to a local Muay Thai smoker where a friend was fighting. She won when her opponent couldn't return for the third round after a brutal barrage of knees in a prolonged clinch, which was good because the opponent dominated her up until the middle of the second with her reach (she had like a good 6" on her, plus she was like a decade younger as my friend is in her 30s).

Then Saturday afternoon, I moved a ton of mulch and fine stone from my driveway to my garage by myself. The mulch was light but the fine was like moving sand - very heavy.

Then I went to Masquerotica, where we had a tiny crew of 10, for a show that went 'til 4AM.

Sunday, I went to Monterey for a meet. Mrs. Dm drove as dm was a post-Masquerotica zombie. He's catching up on his sleep now, at work. So more to come on this, maybe later, after he wakes up. Let's just say for now that Dm had a lot of fun at Masquerotica and he's paying for it now.
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[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Did the masqueerotica replace Exotic erotic?

[Drunk Monk]

The Exotic Erotic collapsed under its own weight last year. It had been at the Cow Palace for several years, which was quite a downgrade from the Concourse. The Cow Palace (aka El Palacio de Bovino) is where livestock craps and is killed, where gun shows, truck pulls, reptile shows and wrasslin is staged. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just for EE, it got really dirty and nasty. RM stopped doing EE because they didn't pay. It was during our director transition, and the new director didn't know you had to get cash in advance for those particular promoters. I recounted the final one here: <!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="http://brotherhoodofdoom.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=30">viewtopic.php?f=10&t=30</a><!-- l -->

Last year, they tried to hold it at the Craneway, a much smaller but nicer venue in Richmond. They cancelled it due to weak pre-sale, so it no longer exists.

Masquerotica was promoted by several groups including those behind LovEvolution (<!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="http://brotherhoodofdoom.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1405">viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1405</a><!-- l -->) and Sea of Dreams (<!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="http://brotherhoodofdoom.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=663">viewtopic.php?f=7&t=663</a><!-- l -->), as well as Coyote, which was the original source of the Hooker's Ball. Of course, with that many strippers/B&D/S&M in the house, there was some overlap in terms of promoters, but it's a totally new beast.

I was honored to be there to help bust the cherry of this new event.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

I'm going to call party-foul on you going dressed as a monk. Weren't you supposed to dress up? Differently?

[Drunk Monk]

And I've actually never worn my Abbot's cape in public.

[Drunk Monk]

it was at an exotic erotic. i forgot about that until i was looking over some past photos :oops:

Sooo, Masquerotica...

Scored fantastic parking right in front of the Concourse and got in smoothly. There were only 10 vols: 4 noobs, two partners in crime. The set up was nice as there was an oil light show projected on one side of RM's pipe&drape, turning the space into a giant lava lamp. RM's set up was between the very entertaining hanging bondage stage and the fag flag stage - lots of gay dancers waving flags. The crew didn't really get in costume beyond dm, a vol dm called in because she's into cosplay (batgirl) and one partner in crime who donned a flight suit. one new vol donned a wendy's wig, another veteran vol donned a cool mask he bought at the show.

dm tried to get a hot nurse contest going, tried to get everyone to lure hot nurses into RM for photo shoots, but the 1st one was screaming hot, and won right out - she was a pro and was later featured in a bondage show right next to rm, much to everyone's delight. (note: there were only 3 female RM vols that night, one was the gf of the wendy's wig dude, the other two are lesbians (including batgirl - go figure), so the screamin hot nurse was appreciated by everyone).

Dm took his long buddhist robe as a costume. he let his beard grow out and shaved his head freshly. dm actually had his traditional monk shoes, but after a few laps around the concourse, he decided to break costume and don his ipaths because no one was looking at his feet. in fact, the buddhist robe was stand out but odd. people kept asking dm for wisdom, which dm would impart, usually saying 'be observant' or some babble.

the show didn't get cooking until around midnite, but after that, it was great fun. dm mostly hung out with the two lesbian RM vols because they were so into it.

There were many stages - the upper mezzanine had huge beds and stuffed tigers. there was a zombie stripper area - there was a patient that came in with a 'ripped nipple' and she flashed dm the injury, which was a mess of blood and scars, that actually turned out to be just prosthetic and the nipple injury was very minor. Under the mezz was the asian divas with a huge dancing ramp but wasn't well attended and dm never did engage that much. there was a curtained off burlesque show where dm and his RM lesbian sidekicks watched an amazing kinky show about a dom with her bondage dog and pony chasing a topless cat girl who crawled thru the audience and was once at dm & 2lezs feet.

there were many soundsystems. dm's observation was that it was really hard music to throw up to.

there was a 'grope a clown' booth. there was a serious IPR - a huge vial was pulled off him which unfortunately wound up with the authorities (or dm would have copped it because it's a major bust) as he had to roll. dm was acosted by a lingeried woman, a queen latifah type, who wrapped her whip around dm's neck then started flogging. several gay dancers kept dancing around dm in succession, all trying to pick him up with those come hither eyes. dm was questioned by a katooie (thai ladyboy) if he was a real monk. okay, this all sounds really sordid - and it was - but this is only the negative stuff.

There were more stripper poles and dancing cages than dm has ever seen in one place. dm never saw a live penis - probably could have if he looked harder but didn't, unlike the exotic erotic where there were dripping penises everywhere. there were many more topless strippers.

The buzzkill: So this middleaged asian dude comes in wearing only a red thong. he's drunk. dm quickly subdues him as with the monk robe and he quietly goes to sleep. dm then brags to the nooBs that he had the etoh eating out of his hand. note-2-self - never brag until the show is over. later, he sobers up a little and starts getting restless. dm talks to him again and he goes into confession mode (never mind you don't confess to monks, you confess to catholic priests) here's the dialog:
etoh: i'm conflicted about dating a transgender lesbian.
dm: is this your first transgender lesbian?
etoh: (pause) no
dm: how many transgender lesbians have you dated?
etoh: (starts to count on his fingers)
dm: this conversation is over.
he kept wanting to talk to dm and dm would have none of it as there was nothing he could do really. the dude has serious issues, nothing dm could solve within the context of this show and frankly, dm just didn't want to hear his story. the music was drowning out his babble, so dm would let him rant, and then after a spell say 'i can't hear you at all'. he wanted to go somewhere quiet to talk alone and dm would have none of that. dm finally ditched him, handed him off to another vol, who smartly played the bad cop and got rid of him.

Can't wait for next year. :-D

[Drunk Monk]

ttt to remind me to report on this for y'all later this week. It was a big spot of yang in an exhausting yin weekend.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

What is a transgender Lesbian? Is that a man who became a women but still only dates women?

[Drunk Monk]

this year, there was a drunk guy in a tiger suit. as dm was still donning his cheshire cat ears, all feline patients came under his jurisdiction, but he was easy enough to shoo away. not like the transgender lesbian dude. honestly, dm had severed that synapse with some single malt shears, and was very dismayed to review it here and remember.

please pass the single malt.

[Drunk Monk]

It was dramatically smaller. Only half of the Concourse was used and there was a lot more room than last year. As there were only 11 vols, dm had to takeover as the promoter point person (3P), and dm was returning their radios and overheard them doing their final tally. They lost a ton of money. This maybe the last time, maybe the last time, I don't know.

Dm went with his new padawan, the same kung fu bruddah who came to Beyond Wonderland; he now has a very surreal idea of what RM is about, and that's good as any padawan of dm's learns the hard way, as tradition demands. Dm went with the Cheshire cat ears again, as it worked so well at Wonderland. A tail was added, and a half face mask was made hastily just a few hours before, but dm didn't go with the mask as he wasn't feeling it, plus having to be the 3P, he had to be a face, not a masked face.

As for RM, there was a mix up and no gear was provided. All we had was a bag with two tyedyes, some medical tape and some antiseptic hand wipes, so we had to fake it for a few hours until some supplies could be appropriated from Bassnecter @ BGC a few blocks away. Bassnectar got hammered. They had a small staff too.

The first patient was a buxom woman who was going to be sacrificed who had forgotten her pasties and needed a pair to be made from medical tape. Fortunately, there was medical tape. She was offered medical assistance in the application of the medical tape pasties, but she declined.

Batgirl was working as a performer. Dm brought her to the show last year and she really got into it. Dm feels like he planted a little seed and it blossomed. She was spanked and whipped by pros, as well as two young eager RM vols, which took the night into a historic RM episode. She offered dm a chance 'you really want to spank me, don't you?' but dm declined as he's not into it. After the Folsom years with PPFY, the S&M&B&D scene holds no appeal to Dm, despite persistent rumors to the contrary.

There was a roll - a broken ankle - patient requested and after seeing the contortion, rightly so. As the 3P, dm found that the promoters didn't do incident reports, which is really amateur.

Dm also did a talkdown for an older guy who had too much pot. That happened right next to the main stage, the worst place to try to do anything because it was so loud, but dm went for in anyway, just for the sake of the challenge. Once everything was settled, dm suggested that they move somewhere quieter, at which point the guy danced away happily.

There were a lot of great performances including a knife thrower, a decent contortionist and the best pole dancer dm has ever seen. Lots of EDM. Dm gravitated to the dub step stage the most.

The two reasons for anything for the night:
#1: It's fun.
#2: Because you can.

There was a game of spin the wheel that several vols played. They all got free shoulder rubs from a dude in a cape. Dm wasn't particularly enticed to participate, but told those that did that they should tell the others and omit the dude part, so as to get other vols involved. That worked, much to dm's amusement.

[Greg]

You know what it was really disturbing? Coming across your mother's hardcore photos from that time she went to the Exotic Erotic.

I might have to go lie down.

[Drunk Monk]

[Greg]

There isn't enough bleach.

[Greg]

I should post them.....

[Drunk Monk]

If you must, we do have an EE thread http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...php?tid=29