HIS PLACE 12:40 pm
ASHRAFIEH
MY PLACE 12:57 pm
HAMRA
15:55 pm
HAMRA
SUNDAY
Everybody is telling me that my figure is changing and they are complementing me on my muscles. [Yawns]
ASHRAFIEH
DAWRA
ZALKA
JAL EL DIB
ANTELIAS
DBAYEH
ZOUK MOSBIH
FRIEND’S PLACE 16:20 pm
18:33 pm
ZOUK MOSBIH
Hahahaha... Your dancing reminds me of Tahia Carioca. Thanks, I know.
DBAYEH
ANTELIAS
JAL EL DIB
ZALKA
DAWRA
ASHRAFIEH
I miss going to Acid. Yeah, oddly enough me too. I hope they reopen it. It is really well known abroad. When I was in Dubai everybody asked me if it’s still shut down.
GYM 20:00 pm
GYM 19:50 pm
Oh that’s a guy from our gym. Once another guy hit on him in the sauna, he made a scene about it and he is the gayest gay ever pretending to be straight! So what? If he is gay he is not allowed to make a scene? I say good for him, bravo. No on the contrary, but had it been someone his type he would have shut up. Whatever, we’re going to analyze if he’s his type or not! I am not arguing with you, I am not your enemy! Calm down. No because what you’re saying is absurd; if that guy was the gym guy’s type he wouldn’t have made a scene so let him shut up and accept anyone who approaches him!
MONDAY WEDNESDAY
MY PLACE 20:10 pm
HAMRA
GYM 19:29 pm
TUESDAY
MY PLACE 19:00 pm
HAMRA
What’s wrong? You seem down. Do I? No, I’m fine, I think.
MY PLACE 19:40 pm
HAMRA
MY PLACE 19:58 pm
HAMRA
... a stand after the meeting where he urged everyone to rise above the rivalries, selfishness, shares and personal interests in favor of a trustworthy government... the appointed prime minister gave the president a draft of the govenment’s appointed ministers which was described as fit for all the participants... Wow! Soon things will be resolved ... But it doesn’t satisfy according to the resources... Aoun Aoun Ufft! Enough!
Restaurant 22:06 pm
HAMRA
22:01 pm
HAMRA
23:28 pm
Why did you unhold now, did someone pass? Yeah, haha, you’re asking me. Let go! No!
I have to work this Friday.
Why do we hold hands so much? I don’t know, I got it from you.
GYM 20:16 pm
GAS STATION 20:22 pm
HAMRA
[To me while recording] This is how it’s going to be the whole ride? [Cutely] The whole ride. What time do you start working tomorrow? When I wake up I will work for about 3 hours. Ufft. Why did I take this road, what other road could I have taken? [Indifferently] I don’t know Didi, I don’t know. You’re depriving me of your dick’s flavor.
THURSDAY
MY PLACE 23:33 pm
OUZAII
...
I can’t bother doing the laundry tomorrow. Stop nagging! I hate to wash my clothes and pack for trips!
HAMRA
20:25 pm
SALIM SALAM
I forgot to bring boxer shorts. For what? Oh you mean for sleeping over at my place tonight... I’ll give you one of my briefs. Why? If you want to I mean. Oh it’s fine, unless I sleep over... where will I sleep, on the couch? On the couch? There is an empty bedroom. I don’t want to sleep there. There’s nothing wrong if you sleep on my mom’s bed!
I have to fill the car. No, let’s go in my car. No it’s fine I have money to fill mine. You take my parking spot and we’ll go with me. I have my fuel credit card.
MATAR
KHALDEH
MY SISTER’S PLACE 20:50 pm
BCHAMOUN
22:07 pm
BCHAMOUN
JNAH
We can kick my sister out of the room and we can sleep on both beds there... [Laughs] No come on! You want me to sleep over or you prefer to sleep alone and rest tonight? No of course, habibi, I want you to sleep over!
KHALDEH
OUZAII
MATAR
It’s essential that I take my protein shake at your sister’s now and then have tea. Oh shit! I don’t have my protein with me. Is that him again? No it’s not.
[To an adjacent truck] What a fucking animal! He was about to crash into us! Wait I’ll show this motherfucker... there is a number on his truck... what is it? 2...1...
Car
I would have liked to stay more had I not told Ali that we will meet him.
Come on, get down faggot.
JNAH
MY PLACE 22:44 pm
Mais lui il s'en fout bien Mais lui il dort tranquille Il n'a besoin de rien Il a trouvé son île Une île de soleil et de vagues de ciel Et il pleut sur Bruxelles...
HAMRA
GAY PUB 22:48 pm
FRIDAY
Young man, there's no need to feel down. I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground. I said, young man...
ANTELIAS
23:46 pm
CLEMENCEAU
HAMRA
MY PLACE 23:50 pm
“Don’t let me realize you’re recording.” “Why?” “I don’t know...” “To me what’s important is why we unhold, not why we hold because holding is granted.” “Ok but what if I forgot to hold or unconsciously wanted to hold? So when you record what’s happening I remember and become conscious about it. Had you not started recording now I wouldn’t know if I would have held your hand or not.”
MY PLACE 20:28 pm
DBAYEH
CLEMENCEAU
GAY PUB 22:41 pm
00:03 pm
CLEMENCEAU
HAMRA
GAY CLUB 00:38 pm
03:18 pm
My ears are fucked.
SAIFI
MY PLACE 00:06 pm
Car
FRIEND’S PLACE 20:51 pm
00:24 pm
ZOUK MOSBIH
A HANDS ROUTINE Scale 1 minute
DBAYEH
ANTELIAS
Listen to this...
JAL EL DIB
JAL EL DIB
ZALKA
...ﻏري ﺣﺎﱄ ّ ﻣني ﻗﻠّﻚ اﻟﺼﻮت اﻟﻌﺎﱄ...
HIS PLACE 03:26 pm
And now the search for a parking spot begins.
Holding interrupted
Our car speed Low
Holding our hands
ZALKA
Tonight I’ll dance with you all night. Oh so you admit that lately you haven’t been dancing with me. That’s not true you son of a bitch, I have always danced with you but lately I just haven’t been dancing a lot. But you said tonight I will dance with you, then you know that this hasn’t been the case! Noooooooo! Tonight I’d love to dance with you. Then before you didn’t love to. Not the case really. You want me to suffocate you? Go take a deep breath and dance around. Dance around with whom? Your friends? No with anybody. Now we’re talking.
and he gave me his number, he works at Zara Dubai. We talked and he asked if he could pass by my hotel and I said no, so he asked why I called him then and I hung up. Oh, you haven’t told me this story. I downloaded this song, I was so depressed and wanted a song to cheer me up. I was free and alone at a hotel and didn’t get laid, what an idiot!
ASHRAFIEH
What’s this habit of checkpoints every two meters? Fuck them! I’ll go this way. What’s nice about clubbing abroad is that no matter how much you drink you don’t have to drive. Abroad where? Wherever, I’m talking about Turkey...even Dubai. Even when you’re drunk you’re recording! Yup.
DAWRA
ﺳﻼﻣﺎت ﻣﻨﻚ ﺣﺒﻴﺒﻰ روح واﻧﴘ ﻛﻞ اﻟﲆ ﻛﺎن... Who’s singing? ﺳرنى ﺳرنى ﻣني راح ﻳﻨﻬﺎر ﺳرنى ﺳرنى ﻧﻬﺎر ﺑﻌﺪ ﻧﻬﺎرHaifa! Reminds me of when you and I broke up. I was in a hotel in Dubai and I told Elie ... ﺳرنى ﺳرنى ﻣني اﻟﻘﻠﺒﻪ ﺑﻨﺎر ﺳرنى ﺳرنى وﺑﻜﺮة ﻗﺮﻳﺐfrom the first day that it’s not working between him and me. I met someone over Facebook
Oh last time at the gym I asked Joe, the bald guy, where Odette is? So he replied saying how does your boyfriend make you horny if you call him Odette? So I said I only call him that when he pisses me off, hahhahaha.
SAIFI
HAMRA
ASHRAFIEH
HAMRA
ZOUK MOSBIH
Dance with Ali. No. Who you want to dance with? New people. [Testing me]Ok, dance with Joey. [Satisfied] Ok. We’’ll see.
DAWRA
22:38 pm
Today I was giving a group a tour in the hotel and there was this one guy at the gym, oh my god, what a face, what a body! Maha who never expresses anything almost had a heart attack. I had a heart attack. He’s staying at the hotel or he only works out at the hotel gym? No just a membership at the gym. How much does a membershiop cost? Around $2,400 a year.
What is she saying? No don’t change it. Every time he calls her by a different name. And? Yeah and that it’s raining over Brussels, he found his island where he is content and he calls her Madeline don’t leave or Joceline don’t leave... She sang that? Yeah. Seems it’s Dalida night on the radio. She reminds me of the phase when I was discovering that I am gay.
CLEMENCEAU
MY PLACE 22:29 pm
HAMRA
SATURDAY
Y'a Jeff qui fait la gueule Assis sur le trottoir Depuis qu'il est tout seul Il est pas beau à voir Y'a aussi la Mathilde Qu'est jamais revenue Y'a aussi la Mathilde Qui ne reviendra plus Et puis y'a la Frida qui n'a aimé que lui Chez ces gens-là, on est jamais parti
SALIM SALAM
Do you think that they removed the crashed car? Hmmmm no.
Medium
High
His hand Coming from the radio. My hand
Him talking. Me talking.
Sudden unholding
Normal unholding
Slow unholding
Adjacent motorbike
Passer(s) by
Traffic light
Higher adjacent car
Army
Holding wheel
Adjusting oneself
Holding stick shift
Dancing/clapping
Big shot’s security
Tuning the radio
Adjusting a car option
Hole in the road
Gossiping about a guy
Parking
Sweaty hands
Talking on the phone
Nearby accident
Sipping a drink