When you stop asking ‘What’s in it for me?’ or ‘What do I get out of it?’ or ‘How much do I get paid?’ and start focusing on the things that truly make you happy and feed your soul, good things can happen!

I was asked recently to help a friend out with a project of his.  He is an artsy guy and the project was an artsy one.  No pay.  No anything, except the satisfying of an artistic need of mine to create something interesting and new.  I said ‘Yes, I would be happy to help.”

The artistic endeavor was for me to have my photo taken.  Can you imagine?  Me?  Having my photo taken?  Oh no!  Whatever will I do?!

The photo would then be sliced in with other images as a poem is read as narration.

Having participated in the project was enough for me, but guess what I was told this week!?!

The  project, called ‘Men Together’ by Jared Mitchell has been selected by The Canadian Film Makers Distribution Centre as an entry for the 5th Zebra Poetry Film Festival taking place in Berlin Germany!!  What!!!???

Advice: Do something today that feeds your soul!

I didn’t choose the title for the movie ‘Eddie Stone: Superstar’.  Had I chosen the title it would’ve been something more like ‘Eddie Stone: Untouchable Red Hot Mega Ultra Shooting Star’… or something a little more catchy.

Wow.  Wow.  Wow.  What great timing the universe has.  Not only am I deep in talks and discussions about my new website extraordinaire AND filming my porn star reality show with OUTtv in the coming summer months, but Chi Chi LaRue in her infinite wisdom has deemed it time to release an Eddie Stone best of.

Perfect timing as all my project come together (did someone say book deal?)

Watching the trailer for the movie is like looking at an old photo album or school year book.  Faces, asses and cocks all came flooding back from the past… ahhhhh.

Don’t feel left out.  Join me and my ‘friends’.  For a look at trailer click here.

Today I walked my wonderful and talented fiance Shaun Proulx (someone’s getting lucky tonight!), over to the Pride Toronto press conference held in front of their offices on Dundonald.  In my mind I have pictured a press conference something like out of The Young & The Restless where there is 1 camera, 1 person with a microphone and maybe 1 extra to try to fill out the scene.

No so.

OMG.  As we approached the Pride headquarters we saw police vehicules parked, police men and women patrolling the streets, news vans, cameras and a throng of protesters across the street from the Pride offices.

And to think, I was just going to drop Shaun off and go to the gym… haha, no way Jose!  I was stickin’ around to watch the inevitable fireworks.

I’m not in the thick of the drama, and I am not going to pretend to know all the ins and outs of the situation, but I CAN report on what I saw with my own two eyes.

The ‘protesters’ that showed up were there with the single intention of heckling the press conference.  Chanting things like “We won’t run, we won’t hide.  Politics is what makes Pride!” and “Resign!” to Pride Toronto’s executive director, Tracey Sandilands and “Shame, shame!!”  I guess they knew the news was not what they wanted to hear because they had the chants ready! (why Pride Toronto decided to hold a press conference outside in heckling distance of crowds of displeased people, I might never understand)

Here is my beef with the entire situation.  How can anything be heard, discussed, understood and agreed upon if one side DOES NOT LISTEN TO THE OTHER SIDE.  I felt like I was watching the government.  Where people yell over each other, cut each other off and NO ONE is listening to ANYONE ELSE!

What’s the point?

I’m sure there was a lot of back and forth between the groups in the preceding weeks, but I have too much CLASS, yeah I said it, CLASS, to yell and heckle something I oppose.  Let’s talk about this like adults and come to a conclusion, but that’s me.

All that being said, Shaun stayed composed among the yelling and hate spewing and I was very proud of him.

And I am proud that we are nit picking and perfecting our state of evolvement.  Think for a second the difference of debating over extremely heated topics like the one mentioned above and it’s inclusion in Pride and the fact that many countries DO NOT EVEN CELEBRATE PRIDE, because they do not have the chance to.

We are lucky.