Monday, January 29, 2007
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Saturday Sarge
A couple things have popped up in my mind regarding the Saturday's sarge; the most important being the question of whether I'm playing or being played. Another is that I'm thinking about this too much; after stacking some routines, I run dry. I need to stop being a robot and start becoming me.
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Hired Gun Routines
WAITRESS
HB: Hi, are you ready to--
PUA (looking up): Hi! Can I help you?
HB: Uh...?
PUA: Oh. That was your line, wasn't it? Here, why don't we start over?
HB: Hi, are you ready to order?
PUA: Yeah, I'd like a slab of steak, a warm bath, and a back rub.
HB: (laughs) Sorry, we don't offer those here.
PUA: Well, that's a shame. I'll tell you what: I will NEVER forget you for the rest of my life if you can guess what I want to order off this menu. I'll give you a hint, too; it's on this page.
(If HB looks annoyed, don't continue.)
HB: Ok... I guess... blah blah
PUA: (looking back at her from menu) Uh, who are you again? Don't I know you from somewhere? Did you come over here just to hit on me?
HB: blah blah blah
PUA: Ok, I'll order the blah blah.
(Let her leave. Run opinion opener with Wing when she returns with drinks. DHV when she returns with food. Elicit values when she returns to ask how it's going)
BOOTH SALESWOMAN
Shit, I don't know. It's harder to recognize IOIs because she might just be trying to make a sale.
STORE CLERK
HB: Hi--
PUA (walking up): Hi! Can I help you?
HB: Uh...?
PUA: Oh. That was your line, wasn't it? Here, why don't we start over? (turn around, walk three steps, come back)
HB: Hi, can I help you?
PUA: Yeah, actually. I could use a warm bath and a foot massage.
(HB laughs)
PUA: Hey, let me ask you something. (opinion opener)
HB: blah blah blah I think blah
PUA: Oh, right on. That's exactly what I told my friend! See, you and I, we're on the same wavelength... High five.
(high five. maybe play with her and make her work to slap your hand, judging on receptiveness)
PUA: So, how much do you get paid for working here and flirting with guys like me? Like $10,000 a week?
HB: No way. More like blah blah.
PUA: Oh. Damn, that's a shame. I was gonna ask you out, but I only like rich girls... sorry...
(she laughs. then either a) busts your balls, b) says nothing. b means eject or else you look desperate)
HB: Oh, I see how it is. You're one of those shallow guys.
PUA: No, not necessarily. I like well-rounded girls: smart, funny, exciting, AND rich. I'll tell you what. I'll give you another chance. Is there more to you than meets the eye? (or Are you a passionate person? Tell me your three best qualities? If you had to pick one thing that makes life worth living, what would it be? What's your favorite flavor of bowling ball?)
HB: blah blah blah
PUA is IN. Propose to her. Then bang her.
HB: Hi, are you ready to--
PUA (looking up): Hi! Can I help you?
HB: Uh...?
PUA: Oh. That was your line, wasn't it? Here, why don't we start over?
HB: Hi, are you ready to order?
PUA: Yeah, I'd like a slab of steak, a warm bath, and a back rub.
HB: (laughs) Sorry, we don't offer those here.
PUA: Well, that's a shame. I'll tell you what: I will NEVER forget you for the rest of my life if you can guess what I want to order off this menu. I'll give you a hint, too; it's on this page.
(If HB looks annoyed, don't continue.)
HB: Ok... I guess... blah blah
PUA: (looking back at her from menu) Uh, who are you again? Don't I know you from somewhere? Did you come over here just to hit on me?
HB: blah blah blah
PUA: Ok, I'll order the blah blah.
(Let her leave. Run opinion opener with Wing when she returns with drinks. DHV when she returns with food. Elicit values when she returns to ask how it's going)
BOOTH SALESWOMAN
Shit, I don't know. It's harder to recognize IOIs because she might just be trying to make a sale.
STORE CLERK
HB: Hi--
PUA (walking up): Hi! Can I help you?
HB: Uh...?
PUA: Oh. That was your line, wasn't it? Here, why don't we start over? (turn around, walk three steps, come back)
HB: Hi, can I help you?
PUA: Yeah, actually. I could use a warm bath and a foot massage.
(HB laughs)
PUA: Hey, let me ask you something. (opinion opener)
HB: blah blah blah I think blah
PUA: Oh, right on. That's exactly what I told my friend! See, you and I, we're on the same wavelength... High five.
(high five. maybe play with her and make her work to slap your hand, judging on receptiveness)
PUA: So, how much do you get paid for working here and flirting with guys like me? Like $10,000 a week?
HB: No way. More like blah blah.
PUA: Oh. Damn, that's a shame. I was gonna ask you out, but I only like rich girls... sorry...
(she laughs. then either a) busts your balls, b) says nothing. b means eject or else you look desperate)
HB: Oh, I see how it is. You're one of those shallow guys.
PUA: No, not necessarily. I like well-rounded girls: smart, funny, exciting, AND rich. I'll tell you what. I'll give you another chance. Is there more to you than meets the eye? (or Are you a passionate person? Tell me your three best qualities? If you had to pick one thing that makes life worth living, what would it be? What's your favorite flavor of bowling ball?)
HB: blah blah blah
PUA is IN. Propose to her. Then bang her.
C&B French House Perspective 2
First stop (on a failed outing to Palo Alto) was a bar in which Musashi used the restroom. Approached hostess HB7 to practice openers.
[using friend-using-restroom-going to leave soon time constraint]
DVus: So what coffee do you serve here?
HB7: Just regular coffee.
DVus: Any other drinks...?
HB7: We have ...(alcoholic drinks)
DVus: Any non-alcoholic drinks?
HB7: We have virgin margaritas...
DVus: Any recommendations?
HB7: Well, I like the strawberry...
DVus: There is this one psychoanalysis... (strawberry fields...done wrong)
HBy: I don't believe that! That's BS
DVus: Eject as Musashi returns
back to dorm
ask transfer-neighbors what's up
DVus: Anything up tonight?
HB8.5: ...French House...
DVus: ...Palo Alto sucks...
HB8.5: I usually go out to SanFran for fun
DVus: ...like what?
HB8.5: Dancing
DVus: eject and request to be notified when they leave to French House
walking to French House with 2 transfers
...
DVus: (ghost story)
[talk about it]
Musashi: (hobo story)
HB7 positions herself so that HB8.5 is standing next to Musashi and that she and I are partially away from them
...
French House
Moved to two HB's sitting on bench
DVus: Do you guys know where the French bread is?
...
DVus: eject (failure to know how to escalate properly)
Upstairs
2HB's in a set
DVus: Do you guys know where the French Bread is?
luckily the 2 HB's were standing next to each other and both turned around to face me, leaving their set behind
HB7: No....cheesecake downstairs
DVus: Really?...(how French House should logically serve French bread)
HB7: Well...cheesecake downstairs...
DVus: eject (don't know how to escalate)
Musashi: Hey, nice dress....
too loud for them to regain notice
Downstairs again
2HB's downstairs as a pair
DVus: (French Bread)
... same result
~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~
It is quite obvious that, although the French Bread opener worked well (it shut the targets and their companions up), I couldn't go anywhere else from there.
The setting was just too loud to get any common sense across.
What I should have done was
a) learn how to escalate the convo (I got stuck in the French Bread opener...it died...I died)
b) isolate / neg the target
c) take the target to a quieter place (outside?)
d) practice more
Hopefully better luck next time
DVus
[using friend-using-restroom-going to leave soon time constraint]
DVus: So what coffee do you serve here?
HB7: Just regular coffee.
DVus: Any other drinks...?
HB7: We have ...(alcoholic drinks)
DVus: Any non-alcoholic drinks?
HB7: We have virgin margaritas...
DVus: Any recommendations?
HB7: Well, I like the strawberry...
DVus: There is this one psychoanalysis... (strawberry fields...done wrong)
HBy: I don't believe that! That's BS
DVus: Eject as Musashi returns
back to dorm
ask transfer-neighbors what's up
DVus: Anything up tonight?
HB8.5: ...French House...
DVus: ...Palo Alto sucks...
HB8.5: I usually go out to SanFran for fun
DVus: ...like what?
HB8.5: Dancing
DVus: eject and request to be notified when they leave to French House
walking to French House with 2 transfers
...
DVus: (ghost story)
[talk about it]
Musashi: (hobo story)
HB7 positions herself so that HB8.5 is standing next to Musashi and that she and I are partially away from them
...
French House
Moved to two HB's sitting on bench
DVus: Do you guys know where the French bread is?
...
DVus: eject (failure to know how to escalate properly)
Upstairs
2HB's in a set
DVus: Do you guys know where the French Bread is?
luckily the 2 HB's were standing next to each other and both turned around to face me, leaving their set behind
HB7: No....cheesecake downstairs
DVus: Really?...(how French House should logically serve French bread)
HB7: Well...cheesecake downstairs...
DVus: eject (don't know how to escalate)
Musashi: Hey, nice dress....
too loud for them to regain notice
Downstairs again
2HB's downstairs as a pair
DVus: (French Bread)
... same result
~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~
It is quite obvious that, although the French Bread opener worked well (it shut the targets and their companions up), I couldn't go anywhere else from there.
The setting was just too loud to get any common sense across.
What I should have done was
a) learn how to escalate the convo (I got stuck in the French Bread opener...it died...I died)
b) isolate / neg the target
c) take the target to a quieter place (outside?)
d) practice more
Hopefully better luck next time
DVus
C&B: French House
This starts with a dinner with hallmates in Palo Alto, and then cutting out to walk to 3 clubs. The first was a high-end cafe with one of those waitresses behind a podium at the door. I went in for the restroom, Wing talked her up, using Strawberry Fields. Hopefully he'll write up that field report. Second club was nonexistent, or had been converted into a classy-ass restaurant. Third club was a dead bar. So we walked back to school and stopped at one dorm.
SET1 was a massive piling of openers on HB5 as she walked by. She's a grad student, significantly older, and the mistake was letting her take on a motherly role early on.
PRINCIPLE for openers: never make them personal. "I have this friend..." "I heard from someone..." It has to be personal enough to have relevance, but detached enough to move on from the opener and not let it have any weight in how they perceive you.
We called it quits until we heard about the French House party that night.
Frats, man. Fuck. They're a mess: shoulder-to-shoulder crowding, loud music, massively compiled body heat, and a permeable aura of beer and bong.
I don't like it.
SET2: Walking to the house with HB9, Obstacle, and Wing was absolutely no problem. I do that all the time. I got to the point of demonstrating higher value. The frame was set (accidentally) so HB9 walked with me and Obstacle paired with Wing. Next would have been eliciting values from HB9 and showing selectiveness. The hardest part in walking is isolation; there's no reason to detract from the destination before reaching the destination.
At the stairs leading to floor2, people were shoving back and forth coming down and going up. A line I considered but didn't use when a girl and her friend both backed me into the wall was, "Is it just crowded in here, or are you groping me already?"
SET3: three guys, one HB6.5 in a room quiet enough to actually talk.
Musashi: Alright! Looks like the party's here, huh? (HB6.5 and 1 male turns to look)
Musashi: Y'all see that fight downstairs? (All turn) Fucking wild!
Guy: Naw, but that wasn't really a fight, though.
Musashi: Well....
eject. wtf? there was no fight.
Crash & Burn1: trying to save Wing's opener to two girls from behind.
Musashi: You know, I have a dress just like that...
C&B2: set of two guys and one girl outside. Girl turns to start talking intensely to guy2 just before I speak.
Musashi: (to remaining guy) Hey, what's u....
SET4: three drunk cockblocks & four girls (7's?) walking on sidewalk outside of frat
Musashi: Hey, let me ask you guys something. I have a friend...
CB1: Wait, let me get this straight. The friend is you, right?
Girl1: Let him finish!
Musashi: (two part kiss opener)
Girl3: No! That is NOT acceptable!
Girls: blah blah blah
CBs: Dude, break up with this girl, right now!
CB1: So it's you, right? This is your girlfriend?
Girl1: (to CB1) Shut up!
Musashi: Now, here's the thing though. (part two)
Girls: blah blah blah
Conversation stagnates.
Girl3: Let's go.
Eject.
THOUGHTS:
Frats suck.
Set2. If I elicited values early, I could've isolated upon walking up to the house and seeing how crowded it was. "Hey, fuck that. Let's go check out that park." "What park?" "You don't know the park? I'll show you."
Set3. I froze when they all looked at me. One second of fluster loses their attention. Stack openers if you have to in order to keep talking. Reach the hook point. Reach the hook point.
Set4. Neg the male. "Okay, I'm gonna have to cut you off, pal... Is he always like this? How do you roll with this guy? Yo, can I finish my sentence? Hey, fuck you."
Cut off two-part kiss opener sooner. If it's impersonal, you can switch to: "So how do y'all know each other?" to find out who's involved with whom. Then, to obstacle: "Hey, do you believe in ESP?"
I just reread Style's thing about his first mistakes. His approaches were fine; what he was missing was negs and time constraints. I'll add that in next time. Even without getting far enough to talk to target, opinion openers still look needy until you get to DHV with negs.
Night is very different from day.
Donatello, find some 18+ clubs in SF. The nightclub scene has got to be the most ideal. Parties are too intense, malls are too platonic.
SET1 was a massive piling of openers on HB5 as she walked by. She's a grad student, significantly older, and the mistake was letting her take on a motherly role early on.
PRINCIPLE for openers: never make them personal. "I have this friend..." "I heard from someone..." It has to be personal enough to have relevance, but detached enough to move on from the opener and not let it have any weight in how they perceive you.
We called it quits until we heard about the French House party that night.
Frats, man. Fuck. They're a mess: shoulder-to-shoulder crowding, loud music, massively compiled body heat, and a permeable aura of beer and bong.
I don't like it.
SET2: Walking to the house with HB9, Obstacle, and Wing was absolutely no problem. I do that all the time. I got to the point of demonstrating higher value. The frame was set (accidentally) so HB9 walked with me and Obstacle paired with Wing. Next would have been eliciting values from HB9 and showing selectiveness. The hardest part in walking is isolation; there's no reason to detract from the destination before reaching the destination.
At the stairs leading to floor2, people were shoving back and forth coming down and going up. A line I considered but didn't use when a girl and her friend both backed me into the wall was, "Is it just crowded in here, or are you groping me already?"
SET3: three guys, one HB6.5 in a room quiet enough to actually talk.
Musashi: Alright! Looks like the party's here, huh? (HB6.5 and 1 male turns to look)
Musashi: Y'all see that fight downstairs? (All turn) Fucking wild!
Guy: Naw, but that wasn't really a fight, though.
Musashi: Well....
eject. wtf? there was no fight.
Crash & Burn1: trying to save Wing's opener to two girls from behind.
Musashi: You know, I have a dress just like that...
C&B2: set of two guys and one girl outside. Girl turns to start talking intensely to guy2 just before I speak.
Musashi: (to remaining guy) Hey, what's u....
SET4: three drunk cockblocks & four girls (7's?) walking on sidewalk outside of frat
Musashi: Hey, let me ask you guys something. I have a friend...
CB1: Wait, let me get this straight. The friend is you, right?
Girl1: Let him finish!
Musashi: (two part kiss opener)
Girl3: No! That is NOT acceptable!
Girls: blah blah blah
CBs: Dude, break up with this girl, right now!
CB1: So it's you, right? This is your girlfriend?
Girl1: (to CB1) Shut up!
Musashi: Now, here's the thing though. (part two)
Girls: blah blah blah
Conversation stagnates.
Girl3: Let's go.
Eject.
THOUGHTS:
Frats suck.
Set2. If I elicited values early, I could've isolated upon walking up to the house and seeing how crowded it was. "Hey, fuck that. Let's go check out that park." "What park?" "You don't know the park? I'll show you."
Set3. I froze when they all looked at me. One second of fluster loses their attention. Stack openers if you have to in order to keep talking. Reach the hook point. Reach the hook point.
Set4. Neg the male. "Okay, I'm gonna have to cut you off, pal... Is he always like this? How do you roll with this guy? Yo, can I finish my sentence? Hey, fuck you."
Cut off two-part kiss opener sooner. If it's impersonal, you can switch to: "So how do y'all know each other?" to find out who's involved with whom. Then, to obstacle: "Hey, do you believe in ESP?"
I just reread Style's thing about his first mistakes. His approaches were fine; what he was missing was negs and time constraints. I'll add that in next time. Even without getting far enough to talk to target, opinion openers still look needy until you get to DHV with negs.
Night is very different from day.
Donatello, find some 18+ clubs in SF. The nightclub scene has got to be the most ideal. Parties are too intense, malls are too platonic.
Monday, January 1, 2007
the rules
what. the. fuck. dude.
I lost interest in the la girl a long long time ago and haven't talked to her since I practiced my stories from new york on her. today she text messaged me, "Happy new year!!! I <3 you and miss you loads and loads! Can't wait to see you!" I hope this was a mass text msg sent to everyone on her phone. otherwise that's hella weird. she did the same thing on christmas.
I had lunch with hannah yesterday. this body language stuff is key when figuring out what topic to bring up or what to say to a person. something kinda obvious that I want to reaffirm here is that when you're talking to anyone with the intention of getting something from them, never be the one to reveal something first. let loose a silence, act comfortable with it, let them feel somewhat awkward and fill the space with something. what they say tends to reveal what they're thinking about and what sort of conversation you should introduce. hannah likes to talk about sappy love (because she's lacking). elaine likes to talk about cool stuff you do in your free time (because her dorm life is boring). etc.
I keep forgetting to tell you about The Rules, which is the female equivalent to The Game from 1995. they even have a name: instead of PUAs they're Rules Girls. the intention is love and marriage, and is pretty much return-fire for the PUA who's trying to get a one-night stand. the book is called The Rules: Time-tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right. I flipped through a lot of it, the names of the rules are pretty self-explanatory. I got lazy with the formatting, but just keep in mind that every time they write "The Rules" it's capitalized and italicized. and look at rule 31.
make of it what you will. I'm objective to this because I'm not looking for mr. right, so it's just something to study and internalize.
1. Be a "Creature Unlike Any Other"
2. Don't Talk to a Man First (and Don't Ask Him to Dance)
3. Don't Stare at Men or Talk Too Much
4. Don't Meet Him Halfway or Go Dutch on a Date
5. Don't Call Him and Rarely Return His Calls
6. Always End Phone Calls first
7. Don't accept a saturday night date after wed.
8. fill up your time before the date
9. how to act on dates 1,2, and 3 (musashi's summary: be charming, be pleasant, reveal nothing significant about yourself)
10. how to act on dates 4 throught commitment time (m's summary: keep marriage & love & your therapy secrets to yourself until he admits he's in love with you; he has to be the one to bring it up)
11. always end the date first
12. stop dating him if he doesn't buy you a romantic gift for your birthday or valentine's day
13. don't see him more than once or twice a week
14. no more than casual kissing on the first date
15. don't rush into sex and other rules for intimacy
16. don't tell him what to do
17. let him take the lead
18. don't expect a man to change or try to change him
19. don't open up too fast
20. be honest but ysterious
21. accentuate the positive and other rules for personal ads
22. don't live with a man (or leave your things in his apartment)
23. don't date a married man
24. slowly involve him in your family and other rules for women with children
25. practice, practie, practice! (or, getting good at the rules)
26. even if you're engaged or married, you still need the rules
27. do the rules, even when your friends and parents think it's nuts
28. be smart and other rules for dating in high school
29. take care fo yourself and other rules for dating in college (m's summary: sorry, we can't help you. try not to get fat and don't moon over him)
30. next! and other rules for dealing with rejection
31. don't discuss the rules with your therapist
32. don't break the rules
33. do the rules and you'll live happily ever after!
34. love only those who love you
35. be easy to live with
I lost interest in the la girl a long long time ago and haven't talked to her since I practiced my stories from new york on her. today she text messaged me, "Happy new year!!! I <3 you and miss you loads and loads! Can't wait to see you!" I hope this was a mass text msg sent to everyone on her phone. otherwise that's hella weird. she did the same thing on christmas.
I had lunch with hannah yesterday. this body language stuff is key when figuring out what topic to bring up or what to say to a person. something kinda obvious that I want to reaffirm here is that when you're talking to anyone with the intention of getting something from them, never be the one to reveal something first. let loose a silence, act comfortable with it, let them feel somewhat awkward and fill the space with something. what they say tends to reveal what they're thinking about and what sort of conversation you should introduce. hannah likes to talk about sappy love (because she's lacking). elaine likes to talk about cool stuff you do in your free time (because her dorm life is boring). etc.
I keep forgetting to tell you about The Rules, which is the female equivalent to The Game from 1995. they even have a name: instead of PUAs they're Rules Girls. the intention is love and marriage, and is pretty much return-fire for the PUA who's trying to get a one-night stand. the book is called The Rules: Time-tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right. I flipped through a lot of it, the names of the rules are pretty self-explanatory. I got lazy with the formatting, but just keep in mind that every time they write "The Rules" it's capitalized and italicized. and look at rule 31.
make of it what you will. I'm objective to this because I'm not looking for mr. right, so it's just something to study and internalize.
1. Be a "Creature Unlike Any Other"
2. Don't Talk to a Man First (and Don't Ask Him to Dance)
3. Don't Stare at Men or Talk Too Much
4. Don't Meet Him Halfway or Go Dutch on a Date
5. Don't Call Him and Rarely Return His Calls
6. Always End Phone Calls first
7. Don't accept a saturday night date after wed.
8. fill up your time before the date
9. how to act on dates 1,2, and 3 (musashi's summary: be charming, be pleasant, reveal nothing significant about yourself)
10. how to act on dates 4 throught commitment time (m's summary: keep marriage & love & your therapy secrets to yourself until he admits he's in love with you; he has to be the one to bring it up)
11. always end the date first
12. stop dating him if he doesn't buy you a romantic gift for your birthday or valentine's day
13. don't see him more than once or twice a week
14. no more than casual kissing on the first date
15. don't rush into sex and other rules for intimacy
16. don't tell him what to do
17. let him take the lead
18. don't expect a man to change or try to change him
19. don't open up too fast
20. be honest but ysterious
21. accentuate the positive and other rules for personal ads
22. don't live with a man (or leave your things in his apartment)
23. don't date a married man
24. slowly involve him in your family and other rules for women with children
25. practice, practie, practice! (or, getting good at the rules)
26. even if you're engaged or married, you still need the rules
27. do the rules, even when your friends and parents think it's nuts
28. be smart and other rules for dating in high school
29. take care fo yourself and other rules for dating in college (m's summary: sorry, we can't help you. try not to get fat and don't moon over him)
30. next! and other rules for dealing with rejection
31. don't discuss the rules with your therapist
32. don't break the rules
33. do the rules and you'll live happily ever after!
34. love only those who love you
35. be easy to live with
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