sistawendy | weekend postscript: rope and rekkidz

Back on Valentine's Day, I went to a taping of the Savage Love podcast featuring, among others, rope maker and top extraordinaire Monk. He's a friend of

elspethdemina, who introduced us at SEAF, and heaven knows how many other friends of mine, but I somehow didn't meet him until Saturday night. I gushed at him about how mesmerizing it is to watch him suspend somebody. He thanked me and said, "There's nothing worse than boring bondage." He talked excitedly about new tools he'd just gotten his hands on. He is seriously into tying people up as a performing art, and he's looking for ways to improve. That's what makes a master.

Last night I bopped over to chez

ionan, where he showed me how to drive Traktor. As somebody whose secret vice is all things bleepy, I'd always been curious about how it's done, but I'd never had anyone show me how to work a MIDI controller or DJ software. It was all I could do not to get off his couch and start dancing.

I'm listening to his DJ set from Critical now. Even though it's unmixed and scrambled by iTunes, it's made of happiness.