Hello again. I am writing to you now from Australia and it is the first week of October 2004. I wish I could start telling you how much fun I am having right now here in Sydney, but I will tell you all about it on my next posting. So much has happened in the last 3 months. Let me start from the beginning, which is always a good way to start, and you’ll see how my lovely summer went.

Last time I told you about my Gay Pride celebrations in NYC with Rentboy.com. I only had 2 days after the big parade before I went to LA to make some video work with a new production company called Synergy Films. From my understanding, this is a new venture on the gay market for a really successful straight porn video company. This is their first gay release, and was as yet untitled. I hooked up with the Synergy team through Andre Adair (who I’ve met a couple of years ago when filming a video for Michael Lucas-Fire Island Cruising 3 & 4). I saw him earlier in March when I shot the video for Blue Blake Productions, which by the way, hasn’t been released yet. He directed the scene that I did for Blue Blake with Tony Valentino, and we got along really well, so he suggested my name for this new production. A few days later the deal was made.

The scene was with Arpad Miklos, who you probably know by now due to the innumerable films he’s done in the last year and his manly physique. It is really good and very, very hot. I wouldn’t be surprised if this particular scene gets some awards next year at the Grabby’s and AVNs. We had a great time working that day and as a result the sex is very sexy. Believe me; it will get you off more than once…

After the video shoot, I talked to my friend Lorenzo Gomez, who I’ve met on my previous trip to LA. He is an amazing photographer and he is putting together his second book. He kindly asked me to pose for him for his new book, and I was happy to comply. Take a look at some of his pictures; they will blow your mind...

Then I stayed a few days in LA for the 4th of July weekend hanging out with my friend Chris Green and making a really cool escapade to the Mexican border with an overnight stay on Del Coronado Island in San Diego (Del Coronado Hotel is wonderful, it is the Hotel you see on “Some Like it Hot”, the movie with Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemon and Tony Curtis, which by the way, plays on the hotel’s private TV channel continuously, along with the “Wizard of Oz” and other camp classics).

The next day we went sight seeing and had lunch in San Diego. We had a great time. I really love Chris and his great sense of humor. He really puts me in a good mood and makes me laugh hard, and I love that.

He also stayed in my apartment in NY when I went away on my next trip, which I will talk about next.

For my birthday (for those unaware or who forgot: is August 13th) I decided to treat myself and go to Europe on Vacation. I always wanted to be in London in the summer time. Then I found out that Madonna was opening the European part of her Re-Invention Tour in Britain, so what better excuse did I have to make it all happen? So I went online and purchased my tickets to see her at the Earls Court arena in London on August 18th, VIP tickets by the way. I never celebrate my birthday, so why not? The show was really great and I had very good seats too. I was able to take some pix, when the security guards weren’t watching. I don’t have that many and most of them out of focus, but here they are anyway.

	Earls Court Madonna concert ad
At the entrance	From the big screens	From the big screens
Show opening	Show opening	Brits do it better
All dancers on stage	The Quilts	The Quilts
	Reinvent Yourself closing courting

I also saw Gerry Halliwell as she entered the arena, and that is a great close up of her. Take a look.

I also took the opportunity to go visit my brother in Holland, and spend some time in Amsterdam. I love it there, as I love London. People were really nice and I visited some cool bath houses in both cities. I never do anything like that in the US so I was eager to have some fun of my own. In London I recommend “The Pleasure Dome”, is not so big, but it’s clean, with hot guys and they also make some great sandwiches at the bar. In Amsterdam the Thermas Night is a must. Really hot men and, cool music all night long…

That was a really deserved vacation for me and I am really happy I went.

I can’t wait to come back to London and spend more time over there. They seem to know who I am (as some queens were screaming my name down Old Compton St. when they saw me walking around with friends) and they seemed to like me as well.

The only downsize is how expensive everything is. Money can definitely be an issue in London, so be prepared to spend like a big spender.

Here are some more pix from my trip. I hope you like them

Leicester Square	Covent Garden
The communications tower on the back	On Old Compton St.
Leicester Square close up

After I got back home I had 2 promotions at Sea Tea in NYC. This legendary Tea Dance that happens aboard the Queen of Hearts (an old paddle boat) has been going on strong since 1996. I used to dance there every Sunday during the summer for the first 2 years that Michael ran it. Then, when I got other jobs and my porn career took off, I sort of stopped doing it because of my extensive travels. Two years ago I came back to make a promotion with Michael Lucas. At that time, old friend Michael Fesco and I caught up with each other and I have been doing it at least once a year ever since. They only do it in the summertime (for obvious reasons), so there’s only like 20 weekends out of the whole year that we can set it up. For this year I was on it 3 times:

July 18th: The first of them was with Will Clark at the beginning of the summer to benefit HOP (Heritage of Pride) the organization that puts together the New York Gay Pride Parade. I was representing Hot House, which set up the arrangements for DVD giveaways and promo cards. Also with Hot House were Alex Collack and Tony Serrano, both of them which I’ve met and work with before. Other models there were Nick Capra, Brett Wolfe, Enrico Vega, Tiger Tyson and others. The party went well, even though it was raining all day long and the weather was pretty miserable. We were surprised but happy that the fans endured such conditions. Kudos to Will Clark for putting together a great event and for such a great cause.

August 29th: The second time was with Rentboy.com with several of their models and a couple of porn stars: Marlone, Chris Green, Arpad Miklos, and the lovely Gioia Bruno formerly from Expose (yes, 80’s Expose, Point of no return, Let me be the one, etc) and, of course Tom Weise himself and Jeff Hurant (owners of Rentboy.com). This time the event wasn’t such a big hit as the first one, but the Republican Convention is to blame for this because everybody in town was complaining about business being very, very slow that week. Gee, thanks for nothing!!!

Rear view Arpad Miklos and I kiss Will I pull it down? I know how to have fun…

Almost ready to get up there Arpad works me from the back I work Arpad on the back Working it Arpad, Marlone, Tom Weise, Flotilla de Barge and I onstage

September 19th: This was my own party, well, almost. They had a deal with The Eagle NY (a famous bar here in NYC) and they had a promotion with their own DJ (Reed McGowan) and it was called “Leather Men’s Cruise featuring: Carlos Morales.” That was nice. They also had Brian Kent -Mr. Eagle 2004- performing onstage. Yes, Brian is a singer, and a good one. The party went well, it was a little cold out already, but we managed to have a good time, once everybody was dancing to the butch sounds of Reed McGowan and after a few too many drinks, I’d say. It was just great to see Michael Fesco and all the crew of the Sea Tea again, and most of the regulars that have been going there for the years it has ran. All and all it was fun and a good way to make connections and keep up with the NY scene, of which I have been kind of disconnected due to my traveling and because most of my work happens outside NYC. After all, THERE is where I got started, and thanks to people like him (Fesco), who made me a regular go-go dancer on all of his parties in the early 90’s (Zone DK, Hell, Sea Tea, etc) I am what I am today and, you know what? I don’t forget easily. Thanks Michael, I love you. Well do it again next year for sure…

The weekend after the last Sea Tea cruise I had another promotion for Rentboy.com in Chicago (these guys are keeping me real busy lately in NYC, Chicago, Sydney, Berlin, etc). I was supposed to be there anyway, because I had scheduled my regular gig at Madrigal’s for the week after Labor Day, so it came in handy. I just went there 4 days before my engagement started so I had a chance to hang out with Tom Weise. Chi Chi LaRue was also there to make a personal appearance at Chicago’s hottest new club “Soundbar”, so Tom and I were ready to party. We stayed at a beautiful suite at the W Lakeshore Hotel and spend 3 days relaxing and having a good time in Chicago, getting ready to do our little show at Cell Block and then the main event at Soundbar. The night went well and we got really drunk (oh really?). It was so much fun at the venue, which is so big and slick, and the party kept going strong way after 2:00 am, which is when they have last call for drinks. 25 drink tickets afterwards, we decided to leave and continue our own private party at the hotel room, but we were really wasted by then, so it didn’t last very long. Besides, I had a full week of work ahead of me at Madrigal’s anyway.

But it was great for Tom and I. We have been getting real close friends and we had a chance to talk about future projects lined up for Rentboy.com in NY (October 10th and 11th The Gay Erotic Expo), Berlin (Hustlaball Berlin October 21st- 24th), and the Internex convention in Vegas (January 2005, Las Vegas). So there is more to come.

About Madrigal’s, well, what can I say that I haven’t already said? I just love it there, and they really like their strippers too. So that makes it easy and real good in every which way: the people, the dancers, the music and, most of all, the MONEY. But we work hard, we work really hard to put on a good show, and I guess people see it and that motivates them to keep coming back and treat us well, like we deserve. Of course, none of that would have been possible if it wasn’t because Mr. Juan Nieves is on top of everything, and he is such a sweet heart. More than that, he is so clever as to have created Chicago’s Premier Exotic Male Show, as it reads on the ads, and he means it. And you know what, it’s true, when you’ve got a place that works for everybody, I mean, the dancers, the staff, the patrons and, obviously, for him and it keeps getting better and better every time, you’ve done something good. And that’s that.

So stay tuned so you can find out how my trip to Sydney went, I promise you it will be soon enough. Here are just some teasers from it. I hope you like them.

Location for the video shoot for Pistol Media (the Geat Barrier reef: Cairns)	With Brian Randall, producer of Pistol Media.
Cairns close up	Sydney’s Opera House
Inside the Opera House.

Loads of love,

Carlos Morales.