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boring: 14.09.05-16.09.05

you have to meet danny to understand him. he is full
of contridictions: part art mafiosi, part redneck; a butch
fashionista; and, perhaps, the most sensitive guy’s guy
I’ve ever met. he has an incredible sense of the aesthetic,
a yearning for beautiful things, an unbending view of the
world, a rich passion and spirt.

danny had a few days off. i was looking for something.
he invited me to toronto for a few days to hang out.
on my second night, we went to the drake hotel for
a concert and art/lm party. afterwards, we made our
way to boystown and met up with adam and brent. the
bars close early in toronto. the four of us ended up
at danny’s where we were joined by two women who
talked a lot but didn’t stay long.

i snapped pictures while we drank beer and smoked
and listened to adam’s stories of cum-stained blue
cardigans and getting gay bashed with a napkin. danny
hovered around getting up every few minutes to dj.
with the women gone, the boys got into me taking
pictures. danny pulled out a bunch of clothes. adam
took off his pants and put on this annel grey coat.
brent found a muscle shirt he liked and put that on,
then he and danny argued who looked better in it. the
rest is in the pictures.

on the drive back to montreal, i felt like i had spent a
few days in a pet shop boys song: cabbing around
the city making the scenes, having short sharp cell
phone calls to coordinate the effort, seeing and being
seen, friends arguing with friends, small talk, getting
sized up, making contact, and a complicated set of
love-lust emotions for danny. it seemed right to title
the photographs with quotes from their lyrics.

Ric Kasini Kadour