The Adventures of the NSP

My first club going experience was when I was 17 years old.  I had wanted to go for yrs even when I was much younger.  I remember being 13 & playing Open House Party on the radio & dancing up a storm alone in my room geting into my own groove.  So for this first experience I was so ecstatic.  My Aunt Myleah had managed to get me in with her.   What was so funny was the fact that it was Beethoven’s & you were supose to be 21 to get in that night.  But, she managed to work some magic & get me in in with all her friends.  There’s only a 14 yr age difference btw my aunt & I so she’s always been like a cool older sister.  I can still remember some guys looking at me like what is this lil fucker doing here?  But I didn’t care bc all I knew was that hey I may look 14 but I still got in & I felt like the brand new hotness.  It was then that the club going Nick persona was born.

There’s just something about it.  The atmosphere, the lights, the music that makes you wanna get up & dance, having all your friends around you, the bar!  Referring to the bar I’m getting ahead of myself.  Bc at first & for many years thereafter it was just all about the music & the dancing.  There were so many times that was spent dancing in the cage there with my girls Shannon, Shuley, & to all the others that would take me forever to mention.  Throughout the years the club is where I would find my refuge.  You could be whoever you wanted to be & do whatever you wanted to do.  As long as the music was good, I’d go nowhere. 

Later, moving to Wilmington, is where I found some of my first gay club experiences.  Knowing the dj, having him play YOUR song & being able to command the atention if you want.  I loved it.  It was there that I also came out, so to speak.  And then is when the real journey begins. 

Moving to New York was one of the most scariest but bravest things that I had done in my life.  Yes it was rough, but I made it.  Along the way I’ve met a load of different people.  All special & unique in their own way.  It was here that I learned about diversity.  About club culture…how one minute a club can be the brand new hotness.  Its the place that all you & your crew is going to be seen.  Maybe get photographed for the likes of HX & Next or some random website that will take your picture to talk about what you’re wearing(Vadim).  I also learned that brand new hotness can also turn out to be O V A H once something else opens up with a cuter crowd or hell open bar!  Most importantly I learned the art of being fierce. 

Splash, my first taste of a gay club in NYC which now I look at as hmmm where tourists go.  Pop Rocks, the place where Krizia, Brad, John, Jason, Jude & hell plenty more could go & get our fill of Pop music in the early 00’s.  Roxy, the Super club where I’ve spent many a Sat nite dating back to summer of 2000.  A time where I actulaly kept all my shirt on bc I felt bad next to all the muscular guys there.  Now, well now my shirt is normally the first to go.  There’s been so many in the yrs that I would take forever just to describe them.  From Avalon to Spirit to Pyramid to Opaline to Plaid(first night with Jordan) to Duvet to Boysroom to now Elemen its been all about the music.  Where can you go to hear the best dj, the best remixes, the best bar & also which one has the list with your name on it. 

I’ve had a lot of responses whenever I include lyrics to songs I write so I’ve decided its time for another.  The past few weeks have been spent celebrating everyone I know who’s having birthdays.  I’m pretty much spending the month of March with a hangover.  But in honor all of the clubs from the past to the future here’s one that I wrote way back when(single days) & in honor of Chase I’ve reworked the title.  This is 4 my People, my club people.

WERK 2NITE

verse 1:

Well I can be down with the club scene

Getting my groove

Shaking a thang lemme show ya how to move

Rock ya left & right, to & fro

Don’t come yet baby hey wait there’s more

I’ve been trying to get your attention

I’ve been trying to get your eye

I’m about to just lose my patience baby

Don’t ya let me pass you by

chorus:

I wanna rock you, love you

This is what I’ll do to you

Make you go (ahh) all night

Thrill you, feel you

To the floor with you

Put your body to werk 2nite

Can you touch me, kiss me

Let me know your feeling me

Cause that’s what I like

Groove me, move me

Push up onto me

Put my body to werk 2nite

verse 2:

Don’t stop just put it on me

Cause I’m single & kind of free

You’re looking tight & thats what I like

Good Lawd! Baby I’m feeling it tonight

Cause I’ve been waiting all week

To get the party started, move my feet

Before the song is over I’ll have you

Let me werk you through & through

Chorus

Nicky Rap:

They can rock it to the east &

They can rock it to the west

But I am the one that rocks it the best

If you can’t take the heat

Get your ass out the kitchen

Cause you know I’m the one with all this ambition

As I get up in ya face & shake my body

Bumping here, bumping there

All around like a hottie

Jumpin around from back to back

Dj make it pump with this brand new track

I like it laced with rhythm, some hip-hop, some techno

The feeling of the groove

It makes me wanna prove to you

C’mon…I know…your friends taggin along

C’mon we’ll make em sing la-di-da-di

bridge:

Get up on the dancefloor

Everything is grooving

Get up on the dancefloor

I got to see you moving

Let the music shake you

Let the rhythm take you

Feel it in your body

Sing la-di-da-di

chorus

repeat til end

Song was originally written in 2004 & has a sample from Don’t Stop by Madonna copywritten 1994

THIS JUST IN:

Nick Padron has just received his GOLD CARD from John Blair at Roxy.  The children are literally gaggin in the House of La Padron….missssssss THANG! 

I’ll see you in the club.  Get me a drink asapenis & push them bitches off my stage bc Baby wants to DANCE!  Cue the lights & start with the drums……

In the beginning scenes of Pretty Woman we hear the man say, "Welcome to Hollywood!  Whats sho dream?"  Then later towards the end Kit asks, "Ya gotta have a goal, do you have a goal?!"  Well I’ve been finding myself doing that.  Reaffirming the goal & chatting with other friends about theirs.  The last few blogs have been able to run into each other that way.  Continuity…what a nice thing.  To keep up with it I thought that I would chat a minute about what went on last weekend with the movie shoot.   

(Note to readers:  Yes Vadim I was gonna talk about something else but I’m currently listening to Erase/Rewind by the Cardigans & its prompted me to change my mind.  Although a new Gay Masters of the Universe blog has been manifesting in my head so I will be thinking of that for future blogs.  Date pending)

A couple yrs ago my friend Ej wrote a script for a short film.  He wrote parts with some friends in mind.  I was cast as one of the characters.  We shot a very short version & he sent it to a festival.  It ended up getting some good reviews & so then last yr he decided to reshoot it & make it longer.  In it, I play Daniel.  A guy who is quite comfortable being in front of the camera.  I also liken him to say maybe a male Kelly Ripa.  He starts with being very nice & having no opinion but once the camera is off he displays the exact opposite.  In my head I’m like, "Ej do you think I’m an asshole or something?"  No comments from any of the peanut gallery.  I am a sweet, kind & caring individual who just really wants world peace.  Now do something else!  Do my eyebrows!  Also get me a blue Icee & make sure its not Red bc if it is I won’t drink it! 

Anyway, to get back to my story.  I show up for filming last Saturday.  Lines learned & ready to bring it.  We were on location at an apt on the Upper West Side.  Go through make up but no hair bc ofcourse that was already meticuously done.  As we remember I went dark for this bc in the original I was dark.  We were originally supose to film this weeks ago but then we ran into some problems.  The first being the snow storm here & it was the biggest in NYC’s history or something.  Not accurate about this but whatevs. SO then we were gonan aim for the next weekend but ended up losing our location.  Craziness I tell you.  Ej has been going through some stress surely & I don’t envy him at all.  It was great for me to just be able to rehearse, show up & do my thing & then thats done.  But I think that its gonna come out great.  We took quite a few takes & from hearing about the other scenes done I’m sure its gonna be great.  Once its completed I know its gonna play at the Quad here so thats cool.  We’ll see from that. 

Its been nice getting back in touch with my acting roots.  Its been a while since I’ve done any acting.  But I’m forever reminded of a young boy that would sit there watching t.v. & movies learning the lines & acting it out.  I was an only child til I was almost 10 & my mom would have to work a lot so plenty of times it would be me entertaining myself.  Which was ok for me bc I’m one fun & good times haha.  I would play with my Masters of the Universe toys & make up stories in my head & have them act it out.  One of my classic memories is memorizing every single line from the Wizard of Oz & acting it out with every single character.  I also remember when I was really little playing my mom’s records & singing & dancing to them.  She said that I was her own little dancing dj.  When I was 4 & at Day Care I apparently would sing ‘Morning Train’ by Sheena Easton & ‘9-5′ by Dolly Parton to the delight of the workers bc it kept them entertained.    You’re probably saying OMG right now but whatevs… thats the truth.  We all emerse ourself into something.  Its just what I chose to do.  Ah, to be a performer.  I almost can’t help but role my eyes but whatever.  Whether it be on top of a box, on the stage, on the computer writing…I find myself eternally that young boy in his own little world performing.  Constantly trying to give it to the fans or at least find ways to pass the time & make himself happy.   

After the last blog I received a lot of responses & chatted w/ a lot of you who had read it giving me thoughts & opinions.  It was wonderful to invoke that kind of repsonse.  To that I say thank you.  Major shout out to Vadim for our convo, always juicy!

At the end of the last one I included a line from a gons that I wrote a while back.  For this one I’ve decided to include the lyrics.  I’ve done this before a while back to another, Leave It All Behind.  Which after doing it, I found myself changing a lot of things.  Talk about foreshadowing & not even realizing it huh?  Well, recently I’ve been chatting with people about hopes & dreams blah blah blah.  Vadim, you’re gonna get ur apartment bc you are fabalous & a wonderful individual.  Jordan, you’re gonna end up having a great job & still end up making shit loads more than me.  Tom, the jadedness will subside & happiness will shine through.  If its another broadway show you want then I have utter faith in you that you can get it.  My other Tom, I listened to your cd & you do have a beautiful voice.  You’re the newbie to NY & soak up everything it has to offer.  To Chuckilicious, you & ur man look adorable.  GET IT GURL!  To Adrienne, I love your writing & keep on keeping on with your book.  There is sooo many things this world needs to hear & it needs to hear your voice.  To…wait a minute…I sound like I’m leaving a last will & testament.  Screw that, I plan on being here a long time bc I’ve got shit to do honey!  But let me just say that these words are my own, read em, live em & do whatever it is you want to with your life cb its ur own!

KING

verse 1:

I had a dream

That I was your man

And they were screaming my name

Across the land

And I had a dream

That I was a star

Wearing designer labels

Driving a fancy car

Well you can tell me I’m dreaming I ain’t listening to you

Because I only hear what I want to

The only thing is that I know what I want

I wanna rock cause I was taught…

chorus:

That I can be… what I want to be

And I can do what I want

Cause I will be King

verse 2:

Now when I was a boy

I used to watch tv

And I remember saying out loud

Hey mama that’ll be me

And when I was a boy

I started making my plan

I’d climb any mountain

I’d do this because I can

So you can tell me about the odds as I beat em down

And if you’re in my way I’ll take you to the ground

The only thing is that I know what I want

I was born to rock cause I was taught…

Chorus

Verse 3:

Now that you know my story

Now that you know my name

Get ready climb aboard

We’re gonna play my game

Cause I’m gonna take you to a place you haven’t been before

So if ya feel like dancin’ get your ass on the floor

The only thing is that I know what you need

You need to rock cause I can teach…

Chorus 2:

That you can be… what you want to be

And you can do what you want

Cause you can be a King

Just know that we can be…what we want to be

And we can do what we want

Cause we can be Kings

Just say that "I can do what I want

Cause I will be…King."