Happy birthday Cancer women!
Happy birthday mom! Your birthday is tomorrow. You would’ve been 66. I miss you daily. I can’t believe it’s been five years. It’s a new life. Barely learning how to adult at 38.
Happy birthday girlfriend! Your birthday was three days ago and it went great. We had a lovely dinner. Then my surprised worked! You wanted something tranquil and I surprised you with your family at an unexpected place. And I bought you cheesecake, Hot Cheetos, and new running shoes. Your partied hard on Saturday while I did a tour that wasn’t my best.
Happy birthday first crush ever. My girlfriend told me if she was a lesbian, you would be her crush as well.
July and the Cancer women. I do not believe in astrology. It astonishes me how many people do. They make fun of religion yet they believe the stars mean something to them. How self-absorbed are humans to believe that light from million years away means something to them. There are almost 8 billion of humans in the world. The stars don’t care about you.
I’m such a Taurus.
I just spoke with an artist friend who is starting to do tattoos. He is going to tattoo me tomorrow.
Sweet. Happy birthday mom. Another turtle for you.
Financially, July started better than when I left for Seattle. I did the tours and extras. I made good money, paid my rent, fridge is full of beer and food, and I don’t have debt. There is not much in July except a bunch of tours (and the mentioned birthdays).
June went fast.
The bachelor party tour went excellent. And the Instagram reel of it even better. It has over 600k views as of this typing. Here it is:
It has been one of my favorite bachelor party tours. My preferred size group = 6. All fun guys. The perfect amount of drinking, activities, Toros game, paintball, fine dining, strip clubs, and more. It was hella fun. And I got paid for hosting it.
If every tour was like that, I would never complain. And I shouldn’t complain. My Instagram is almost at 20k.
The following bachelor party group was larger. A group of 10 black guys all over 50. It was faster. It got wild quick. And I got paid more for less work.
Advantage of large groups, more money. They all had visited Tijuana in the 80s and haven’t been back for years. They were all fun though I barely got to talk to a few one on one.
And that’s how June ended. With tours.
July starts slow. All I did the first week was wait for my girlfriend’s birthday and wait for the tour to happen.
All I’m doing this week is getting a tattoo and two tours. I need to do more. My new shirts should be dropping soon.
There are a few new chapters of Drinking Beer with Matingas. No one watches that. Here is the latest:
My reels and shorts get way more views. But I said I wanted to do more Drinking Beer with Matingas. Sorta forced myself to do it. I need more interesting beers. But hey, I recorded a new chapter (episode).
I have the extra iMac. I have the extra room. I’m going to work to making the other room a studio like I said I was going to forever ago.
Multipurpose studio. Photo studio. Live studio. Music studio. I still have to re-string the bass and buy a bass amp. I have a few things in my Amazon cart. I still need to get a new address. I have shit to do. I can’t slow down. Yet I slow down.
My camera has been abandoned. The drone almost the same. Studio lights are getting old. Everything needs an update. I’m an old man.
I haven’t used the Sony in over a month. I only used it to film that YouTube chapter of me drinking beer. No photoshoots.
I need a new iPhone. I have the money for a new iPhone. Everything is done on that nowadays. It dissuades me to keep shooting. All I have to do is do reels to get over half a million views.
People recognize me from my reels. People used to like me for my drone photos or other work. Or my writings. It is all about the reels now.
Somehow I have to funnel all my work to my merch and to money.
Buy my books.
Buy my shirts.
Buy me shit.
July, here we go.
Two tours this weekend. One already paid. I don’t like getting paid in advance by that long because I already spent the money. Then it feels like I’m working for free. I like to get paid in advance a few days before the tour. I should work on that. I have a tour at the end of July and he told me he will pay me whenever. I haven’t told him when.
I have another bachelor party tour that hasn’t paid me. I have another tour that hasn’t paid me.
I have another tour in August that already got paid. That’s too far in advance. I already spent the money.
And I spent the money at Trader Joe’s.
Trader Joe’s is so much fucking better than Calimax. And it’s FUCKING CHEAPER. At what point did buying groceries in America became cheaper than Tijuana?! A lot of things are similar price as well. Dining out is almost the same. Everything is ridiculously expensive. I need to make more money.
I need to get a car.
Which makes me go back to doing more tours. Writing more. And doing more photoshoots.
I might have a photoshoot thanks to my girlfriend.
Promoting everything and doing it all at the same time it’s laborious. Creating videos takes a long time. I need to make a couple of fucking TikToks today. To get more likes. To get more business. Fucking life. Here we go.
The dream for the multipurpose studio. Do lives with my guitar. Do lives playing videogames. Do lives to make money. Content creation. To the point I can do it remote. Then keep traveling.
A new cover dropped in June. I wrote and photographed this:
It received mostly positive comments. I wrote it months ago. It got paid months ago. I already spent that money.
Thanks to Luis for the interview and pictures. His life is inspiring. I wish I was as a hard worker like he is. I need more motivation. It comes and goes. It needs to stay.
This blog needs a picture and that cover is it. I don’t have other cover stories in mind. Well I do, but I’m not working on them. I have them written on my whiteboard. I have other ideas written. I don’t do much.
I wrote the Tijuana beer guide, read it here. The idea is to print, but I’m not sure that is going to happen.
I translated the Paparazzi book into Spanish but it hasn’t been edited. And I finished it in February. For that reason and because I don’t have much to do in July but tours, I’m going to publish each chapter here in Matingas.com for free. In Spanish. Accompanied with a picture of each story.
You, the reader, is going to help me edit it. Let me know if you see any grammatical mistakes and what not. Starting tomorrow, I’ll be publishing each chapter en Español.
My Seattle videos are basically done and backed up. I didn’t do some and I might do them later. I still have photos to post. I still have other videos to finish. I have a lot of work to do. Do not let me slow down.
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