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Thursday, October 25th 2007

Ask Johnny Episode 2

Posted by Johnny

Peters_girl asked me to write a bit about P’town. I would be glad to; it is definitely one of my most favorite places on this Earth that I have been to so far. Here in Palm Springs there are a handful of people that I see that I used to see back East and we all miss that quaint little village on the tip of Massachusetts; especially around this time of year. By about mid September the tourist swell has subsided and the streets empty a bit, exposing those little shops that you forgot were there. The people that you saw and met at the townie mixers in May and June all of a sudden reappear and you ask them, “Where were you all summer?” They respond with the same question and you realize then that you were both here traveling the same path up and down the same street to go to work, but missed each other in the throng of strollers and bike goers.

By October it’s just the locals. You’re hanging out with your “new old friends”, connections are reinforced and friendships blossom unobstructed by jobs, rents and visitors. The air is crisp with the trees waving their leaves of fire above the pubs that all serve “the best” clam chowder. The sweatshirt that you bought in July at half price becomes your favorite item as the days get shorter and you can no longer ride your bike in the “Provincetown” tank top you got the same day.

This is the time where people start asking each other where they will be moving onto. The season is coming to a close and the shops have started to shorten their hours dramatically much to your inconvenience. The trees have lost most of their fiery fingers and have either dropped them to the ground or replaced them with a boring and uneventful brown. As you walk trying to find an open lunch spot you notice that your breath is visible. You wonder about that offer to wait tables in Ft. Lauderdale or whether you are going brave the elements of winter and collect unemployment.

I never was that brave. If I was going to be cold and suffer through winter I was doing it in the city with taxis, bars, my friends and snow plows. P’town was more than beautiful in the winter, don’t get me wrong. I visited it often to escape the congestion and pressure of the city. Unfortunately in winter, aside from the desolate beauty, the only thing flourishing in P’town is ice and alcoholism; a grand combination if not a bit depressing.

P’town was my first real home away from home. I grew up there and I met people there and they would soon become the most treasured people in my life. I fell in “love” there and I fell out again. I partied on the beach at night and relaxed in hammocks next to the black bottom pool during the day. It was there that I met guys from all over the world and now have a place to stay in virtually every state. After three summers working at the best spots in town I will always see somebody I know and chances are it was from those times, on the very tip of Massachusetts, the tiny town that Johnny calls home.



4 Comments for this post

 
ankh Says:

I’m new to your site… so I don’t know if I missed the specific entry where we could ask questions…
But I have a couple… ones that I think readers might be interested in and that aren’t “if you could fuck any porn star, who would it be” -esque…

So, my first question is porn related… but I don’t think I’ve found the answer to this anywhere….
How did you get into the porn industry? As in, did Chi Chi or some other producer/director just walk up to you and sign you up? Were you in a moment of desperation and needed some extra cash and thought that this was a good way to earn some? Or was this a childhood dream?

The second one, which is non-porn-related, is… What are all of your tattoos (location and actual thing) and what do they mean? Also, did you get them for specific reasons, such as to remember someone or commemorate something… or are they just purely to express yourself?

It’s funny actually as I think every movie I have of yours, you have a new or more expanded tat…. which is how I know what chronological order they were shot in! lol

 
Boy Wonder Says:

ankh – You can find a brief version of Johnny’s story about getting into porn here.

I’m not sure if we’re going to do the tattoo thing or not. It has been discussed, though it may be limited to the tats that actually have an interesting story.

And I was supposed to add an “Ask Johnny” button to this page, but sometimes it takes me a while…

 
PlanetTelex1980 Says:

Wow, I just got a little misty reading that. As a denizen of P’town for 2 summers I knew exactly what you were talking about. I can see it all flash through my mind at once: the congregation of morning coffee drinkers at Joes, grabbing a breakfast sandwich at the General Store (and removing the suspiciously undercooked bacon), running along the large slabs of granite that form the Breakwater, knowing that if you slip you’ll surely crack your head open, then turning around and gazing back at the salt marsh, taking in the lush panaroma of green and beige and blue. Swimming, throwing, catching, rolling, playing on the beach until you’re completely exhausted, then riding your bike to Burger Queen and gorging on fried macoroni and cheese balls.

As my friend says, P’town isn’t a stop along the way to somewhere. It’s a destination you have to work to get to. It’s well worth it. I’ve never seen such a strange hotbed of artists, performers and just all-around “kooks”. It’s a haunted place (and I don’t believe in ghosts, but you can almost feel the energy crackle through the air at night). If you play your cards right, you can dance, sing, laugh, love, forge indelible friendships, be a rockstar, and make a chunk of change (all in 3 months). Oh yeah, and the sunsets are pretty….

 
dtwave Says:

Hey Johnny,

Thought you might get a kick out of this YouTube video. Like you I, lived in both P’town and Boston, and love both places. (We actually met a few times in P’town, before I knew you as Johnny Hazzard.) It helps to have lived in both places to appreciate this, but it is very funny no matter what.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iMAlNcxs9A

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