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  • Week 45 (2025) – Dark Times – Getting Busier – Selfie with Ruben Albarran

    I’m writing on a Friday. I don’t write here on Fridays. I’ll publish it on Monday. It’s been a weird couple of days. Lonely days. It’s been a weird week. Time change. I fucking hate the time change. Winter approaches. The sun rises earlier, and it gets dark by 5 pm. Stop changing time. The…

    Matingas
    November 11, 2025

  • Week 41 (2025) – Real Influencer Oxymoron – Diane Keaton Another RIP – Not Much 2025, Not Much Progress

    My Instagram following inches towards 12k. I woke up to a lot of people adding me. It’s normal now. Same on TikTok. It’s inching towards my favorite number. 22.5k. Twenty-two and a half is my favorite number. I don’t think that number of followers is that amazing. But it is. And it’s only going to…

    Matingas
    October 14, 2025

  • Week 39 (2025) – New York City Part 2: Gigi Hadid and Book of Mormon – Tour Italiano – Spooky Season is Here, Photos Over at Patreon

    I have a tour today, so I can’t write a lot. It’s with three Italians. It’s the first time I’m touring Italians. They didn’t want the full tour, so they are paying me by the hour, which is fine. I need to get more tours going. I need to get more gigs. I have an…

    Matingas
    September 30, 2025

  • Week 35 (2025) – Second Anniversary – The Critic – September is Here!

    This last week went by fast. And I don’t even remember what I did. I didn’t have a tour. I wasn’t that busy… but it went fast. I wrote this blog. I wrote my newsletter over at TijuanaAdventure.com, posted a couple of videos, went bowling, hung out with my friend’s dad, who is also a…

    Matingas
    September 1, 2025

  • Week 34 (2025) – End of Bad August and Bizarre Dreams – Fantasy Football Season Draft – Forastero and New Revu

    I had the craziest of dreams. Too bizarre to even process. It had LAX, but they were apartments, and also a weird intergalactic brothel where you could switch bodies with other beings. And like always in my dreams. Very large bathrooms with a ton of showers. A lot of rooms with showers. It’s always in…

    Matingas
    August 26, 2025

  • Week 30 (2025) – TJ News Food and Drink Review (Innato and Club Ocampo)- Toros de Tijuana Tours – Store Fantasy, Books, and Bookings

    I don’t have any upcoming tours. A few emails requesting September or October… but nothing for August. Although I don’t have tours, I still have a lot of work to do. The Tijuana Newsletter is a self-proclaimed success. I enjoy writing it. It gives me an outlet to voice my opinion the way I want.…

    Matingas
    July 29, 2025

  • Week 29 (2025) – Ozzy Gone, Lens Sold – Viral Video Work, Sushi, and Tours – New Yorkjuana Plane Tickets Bought

    Two tours in a row last weekend. And what a week I had. What a week for 2025. What a week for Trump. All the Epstein shit! Millenials! The world seems to end again. And I’m here doing tours and having fun times in Tijuana and getting paid to do it. July ends more than…

    Matingas
    July 23, 2025

  • Week 28 (2025) – Changed Website and New About Me – San Diego Date Day – Tijuana Adventure Newsletters

    I changed my website. I changed my attitude. How does it look? Let me know. The start of July was slow. Well… it started with a great tour that paid me double, but then it slowed down. It was my girlfriend’s birthday, and I did nothing but make sure she was happy. And then I…

    Matingas
    July 16, 2025

  • Saraby and Abril – Prints and Sexy Shoots – Tijuana Beer Tours 2021

    My therapist says that I am doing better. I guess I only told her all the good shit that has been happening and skipped all the horrible shit. Horrible shit. I’ve spent two days sober this whole year. And not completely sober. I mean just no alcohol. Those nights, I couldn’t sleep and had suicidal…

    Matingas
    February 16, 2021

  • Super Bowl Shit – Steady Cover Photo Life – Prints Are Expensive As F

    Well… That Super Bowl game was shit. I wanted the Bills to win it since I got Diggs as my wide receiver and I was loving what I saw from the team. I never really liked the Bills or their fans, but I was digging this team. And my cousin Dennis is a huge fan…

    Matingas
    February 9, 2021

  • 2 Years of Afterlife – Where Am I Headed? – All Sorts of Photoshoots

    I don’t know where I’m headed, but I’m going straight there. It’s my niece’s birthday tomorrow. It’s been exactly two years since my mom died. It feels like it was forever ago. Maybe it was because of the non-existent 2020. The eternal bond of mother and child broke. My mom and I had a strong…

    Matingas
    January 18, 2021

  • 2021 Off to a Horrible Start – Books Discounted, Books Promoted – Luminar Software Review

    Where have my days in 2021 gone?! I swear I already wrote a blog or two this year. Nope. Nothing. The end of 2020 changed nothing. Every day I wake up late and do fucking nothing. Every night I tell myself “tomorrow you are going to wake up early, workout, prepare some breakfast, and do…

    Matingas
    January 6, 2021

  • Word Vomit Continues All 2021 – Fucking Life – Motivation to Nothingness

    I don’t know what I am doing… all I know is I really want to do it. Be productive. 2020 drain all my motivation and find it again it’s going to be a bitch. But I want it. I’ve been watching YouTube tips on how to sell more on Amazon, which makes me realize that…

    Matingas
    December 31, 2020

  • Letter to Mom – Farewell 2020 and Hi To The Uncertain 2021 – Flying to Texas

    Hi Mom, What a shit year. You would have hated it. Even though Trump is voted out and you would have loved that… it would have been a weird and confusing year. You hate hospitals. If your last year was this year… you would have hated it more. I miss you like crazy. That’s a…

    Matingas
    December 22, 2020

  • X-Mas Set and Flying Around – Pay What You Can or Texas Time – Bye-Bye Fantasy Football and Books

    I woke up to the sounds of Transformers fucking outside my window. There are issues with the water pipes and drainage on my street. Trucks and other equipment are making a shit ton of mechanical sounds and rock/cement breaking. It sounds like Transformers fucking. I have been doing fucking nothing. Absolutely fucking nothing. I have…

    Matingas
    December 8, 2020

  • Drone Adventures – Flying is my New Favorite Thing – NFL Fantasía Semana #8

    I want to fly!!! That’s all I want to do. My friend Danny, a guy I toured a few years ago, lent me his DJI Mavic Mini. A nifty little drone that weighs 249 grams, making it legal to fly in most places in the United States. In Mexico, drone laws are a bit confusing…

    Matingas
    November 3, 2020

  • No Line, Easy Gig – Back to Book Promoting – NFL Fantasy en Español (Semana 7)

    This is dumb. This year. This life. That’s how it feels. Probably because I lost in my NFL fantasy game and my parlay. Probably because I’m not sure where to go next. It feels like that way too often. I have two somewhat easy photo gigs. One is super simple. Go to multiple spots, take…

    Matingas
    October 27, 2020

  • Story Sold, Books Not So Much – Baja Adventure Travels – NFL and Other Fantasías

    I sold the story. Fear and Loathing in La Baja sold to the regular bidder and the only place I submit my stories, the San Diego Reader. It should be a cover or a feature story in the near future. There are only 10 weeks left to 2020. It should be one of those 10 weeks.…

    Matingas
    October 20, 2020

  • The Final Point, Astro Photos in La Baja – Five-Star Reviews on Paparazzi Daze – Not Many Book Sales…

    I applied for a job this morning. I am not certain if it’s for me, but it might be. A few people ask me to do a podcast. It’s a podcast related type of job. If I get it, it will be a new life. It’s a serious job. And one that would benefit my…

    Matingas
    October 12, 2020

  • My Fan Died, Need Thousands More – Paperback and Digital Download Available – Buy the Book!

    My best and only fan died this morning. I woke up early to the smell of something burning. I drunkenly kicked the fan before going to bed. That kick might have killed the engine. The fan gets kicked around often and it’s filthy with cat hair. Maybe that also did it. It’s hot in my…

    Matingas
    September 28, 2020

  • Paparazzi Daze Book Comes Out in a Week!!! – September is almost over – NFL Fantasy Football Season 3!

    Ugh… Amazon is taking forever. I’m trying to upload the latest cover design for my book but it’s not going through. Just stays in “processing your files…” I need to update the manuscript as well… The latest revision is being done by the sensei master himself, Chad. His book is also coming out soon! And…

    Matingas
    September 22, 2020

  • Paparazzi Daze / Celebrity Encounters – Corona is Over? – Buy Buy BUY My Book(s)

    IT HAS BEEN DONE!!! My book about my paparazzi times is complete (sort of). This is not the official cover but one done by a friend of mine: The official cover will be similar, but different font and other different details. The back cover needs to be designed as well… and I’m not sure what…

    Matingas
    September 10, 2020

  • Donatella Died, Valle de Guadalupe Trip – Sex Change – “Paparazzi Daze” Book 63.7% Done

    The longer I go without writing, the harder it gets to get back to it. It has happened to me before. It is happening to me again. You forget just how you do it. How do I just sit here and word vomit so much? How did I write a book about Tijuana in a…

    Matingas
    August 18, 2020

  • Sneks and Cover Shots – Job Offer and Interview – Halfway Done with the Paparazzi Book

    I woke up at 7:17 a.m. I was waiting for an email for the one gig I have. Two emails really. A gig I wanted to take care of last week but the people in the story are not making it easy to meet them. It’s set for tomorrow. One gig. Three photo things. It…

    Matingas
    July 21, 2020

  • It’s Mom’s Birthday and 2020 Still Sucks – More Covers, More Word Vomit – Unboxing a Case of Mystery Beer

    It’s my mom’s birthday. She would’ve been 63. And she would have been hating this year. This year fucking sucks. She would have enjoyed yesterday though. Yesterday was a good day. And if she was around, she would be with us. I went with my brother, his wife, and his kids to pick strawberries in…

    Matingas
    July 9, 2020

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