{"id":1620,"date":"2007-12-02T23:03:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T05:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2007-12-04T19:29:02","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T02:17:02","slug":"im-just-a-gigolo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1620","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Just A Gigolo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just a gigolo, and everywhere I go<br \/>\nPeople know the part I&#8217;m playing<br \/>\nPaid for every dance selling each romance<br \/>\nOoh, what they&#8217;re saying<\/p>\n<p>There would come a day when youth will pass away<br \/>\nWhat will they say about me<br \/>\nWhen the end comes I know<br \/>\nThey say &quot;He was just a gigolo&quot;<br \/>\nLife goes on without me<\/p>\n<p>Cuz I ain&#8217;t got nobody<br \/>\nNobody cares for me, nobody, nobody cares for me<br \/>\nI&#8217;m so sad and lonely<br \/>\nSad and lonely, sad and lonely<br \/>\nWon&#8217;t some sweet mama come and take a chance with me<br \/>\nCuz I ain&#8217;t so bad<br \/>\nSad and lonesome all the time<br \/>\nEven on the beat, on the, on the beat<br \/>\nI ain&#8217;t got nobody<br \/>\nNobody cares for me, nobody, nobody<\/p>\n<p>Really ain&#8217;t got nobody, sad and lonesome<br \/>\nBaby need love<\/p>\n<p>I, I, I, ain&#8217;t got nobody<br \/>\nNobody, nobody cares for me ,nobody, nobody<br \/>\nI&#8217;m so sad and lonely, sad and lonely<br \/>\nWon&#8217;t some sweet mama come and take a chance with me<br \/>\nCuz I ain&#8217;t so bad<br \/>\nReally want that soul, little loving soul all the time<br \/>\nEven on the beat, cherry, cherry on the beat<br \/>\nNeed a long tall darling, mama<br \/>\nFeeling sick<br \/>\nGot nobody, no, nobody, nobody<br \/>\nNobody, nobody, no one, no one<\/p>\n<p>Loopey loop, darling, darling<br \/>\nGetting serious, got to see the walls<br \/>\nOver there. nobody, got no one, nobody<br \/>\nNobody, nobody, nobody<br \/>\nNobody, nobody cares for me<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to quadruple the traffic I&#8217;m getting to Lukeford.net (about 70,000 page views a week, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.blogads.com\/advertise\/jewish_blogs\">400% of the next highest site in the Jewish blogads network<\/a>) to earn a living from it. Otherwise I&#8217;m screwed. I&#8217;ve been working for myself for more than a decade. I don&#8217;t want to get a real job.<\/p>\n<p>I always get depressed after a long illness.<\/p>\n<p>My life is grim.<\/p>\n<p>Life was easier when I wrote on porn.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tired of fighting.<\/p>\n<p>I drive myself out from the hovel into the cold dark Saturday night to take a bunch of stupid pictures to drive up my website traffic. I fight through the cars on Highland near Hollywood, and while my van idles, I feel the engine&#8217;s death rattle and know it must be replaced soon ($2000) and I pray to God it doesn&#8217;t die on me (and what about my friend who told me a month ago he&#8217;d sell me his beat-up Camry, is he really going to sell it, he keeps putting me off, I&#8217;m so screwed).<\/p>\n<p>Once I get to the TV academy, I drive around and around to find free parking.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tired of fighting.<\/p>\n<p>When I get to the red carpet, I find out the arrivals began 90-minutes ago.<\/p>\n<p>I have to stop drinking water more than an hour before I depart for red carpets because bathroom availabilities at these things is iffy.<\/p>\n<p>My mouth is dry. My throat aches. I&#8217;m feverish. I&#8217;m sick. I&#8217;m weak. I&#8217;m scared and tired and cranky. I keep saying the f-word in my head. And mix it up with &quot;F&#8212; it!&quot; and &quot;F&#8212; me!&quot; and &quot;I&#8217;m f&#8212;ed!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I fight back up Lankershim to Highland and the traffic dies at the Hollywood Bowl. Twenty minutes later, I fight through a side street, pass 20 cars by driving on the wrong side of the road, and stick my van into a narrow parking place (free!).<\/p>\n<p>I walk 15 minutes to Hollywood Blvd. My throat is dry.<\/p>\n<p>I stand outside the club. No bathroom around. I fear I&#8217;ll lose control of my bowels. I fear that more and more now that I&#8217;ve passed 40 yo. It never happens but it would be humiliating if it did.<\/p>\n<p>I get inside the Knitting Factory. I stand around for two hours while people drink. I take bad pictures. Then I fight the traffic home. I fight for parking. I get into bed and fight for sleep.<\/p>\n<p>I lose.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so tired of fighting. I&#8217;m so tired. 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