{"id":544,"date":"2009-10-22T09:29:40","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T08:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=544"},"modified":"2010-02-11T16:50:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T16:50:31","slug":"i-gain-madrid-with-the-gay-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"I Gain Madrid with the Gay Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday 22nd October 2009<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t been keeping up with my blog and there\u2019s so much to tell. On Sunday Anthony Mottram and I had a perfect day.\u00a0 It was a perfect day. It\u2019s a song by Lou Reed. We went to Frieze Art Fair in Regent\u2019s Park\u2013 for me, for the second time. According to Anthony, I was lightly cruised by Mario Testino. But it could just have been my prep school blazer from Topshop he was looking at.<\/p>\n

Anthony dismissed the Kusama which I love. He does that. There’s no compromise. But he threw a patient, penetrating light on Grayson Perry\u2019s Walthamstow Tapestry, a small version of which was on show at Frieze, and I began to see more, even to love it. Later at the Royal Opera House, we wondered if there would ever be a flying opera house. Assuming prompt take-off during the overture or prelude, by the end of a Wagner you might have gained Tel Aviv (that\u2019s including intervals). With conventional, shorter operas you would not get so far. We saw Tristan<\/em>. It\u2019s by Wagner. It was utterly thrilling; I\u2019ve never enjoyed a Wagner more. Anthony felt the same. All the way home it was talk, talk, talk.<\/p>\n

That was it; that was our perfect day. It doesn\u2019t sound much, I know. To some extent it cost money.<\/p>\n

What is it, this great intimacy? Phrases do not seem to suffice: having interests in common, sharing a sense of humour, being equals. Besides, he persecutes me with chocs, we madden and infuriate each other. So when suddenly there is harmony… Perhaps it is the same for everyone: there is only one other person, at the most two, of whom we are not afraid.<\/p>\n

Well, the sad death of Stephen Gately, and the subsequent unhinged witterings of somebody called Jan Moir in the Daily Mail<\/em> (have you heard about it?) bring to the fore the whole question of gay relationships. I want to look at this, as well as the MPs expenses, as I mentioned before.<\/p>\n

But on to higher things. I know you\u2019ll be gasping to hear about my hotel in Madrid. Hotels, as I\u2019ve said already, are at the heart of Poor Little Rich Gay life.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s very brown. I don\u2019t think the Multis would stand for it. There\u2019s fake rag-rolling on the walls (it\u2019s actually wallpaper) in exactly the same shade of dirty yellow as the dining room at Massivebury, the country home of the loathed Robin Smallmeal and Simon Limpney.<\/p>\n

But it is 5 star. Here are some pictures to keep you occupied until next time.<\/p>\n

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