Kinetic: Kink

Centaur Motorcycle Club’s Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend is an annual festival weekend that attracts thousands of leather men, kinksters, fetish-lovers and curious spectators from all over the world to Washington, D.C. over MLK weekend.  The event is an opportunity for the leather and fetish communities to showcase their craft in a safe environment designed to provide an immersive experience.  It also provides critical support to the LGBTQIA+ community, raising over $150,000 this past year for local non-profit organizations.

This year’s festivities begin Thursday, January 11th and run through Monday, January 15th.  Once again, the KINETIC Presents team of local DC party producers - Zach Renovátes, Dougie Meyer, and Jesus Quispe (Q) - have partnered with Centaur M.C. to produce KINETIC: KINK, four official events headlined by seven of the world’s leading festival DJs.   Bootcamp, UNCUT XL, discoVERS XL and the weekend’s main event, KINETIC: KINK, will take place at various venues throughout Washington, D.C.  Tickets for all KINETIC: KINK events are available now at KineticPresents.com.

“This year’s KINETIC: KINK will be the largest main event in MAL history,” Zach Renovátes says. “Thousands of men from around the globe will be descending into the nation’s capital this MLK weekend, experiencing an all-new state-of-the-art production and headline performance by the incomparable drag artist, Katya.”

On Thursday January 11th, VIP pass-holders are invited to report for basic training at BOOTCAMP, the weekend’s opening party taking place at BUNKER (2001 14th St NW).  Partygoers are encouraged to arrive in military gear.   DJ Joshua Ruiz will man the decks from 10pm to 3am, whipping the recruits into shape.

 

The weekend’s debauchery continues on Friday with men cruising the labyrinth of extended play zones at UNCUT XL.  DJs Onyx and GSP will commandeer all three massive rooms at REPUBLIQ Nightclub (2122 24th Pl NE), providing pulsating beats from 10pm until 4am.

It all leads to the monumental main event, KINETIC: KINK, taking place Saturday, January 13th from 10pm to 4am at the multilevel mega-club, Echostage (2135 Queens Chapel Rd NE).  Superstar DJ’s Abel and Alex Acosta will headline, and the event features a special performance by RuPaul’s Drag Race Superstar, Katya.  Revelers are encouraged to show off their best fetish gear for the main event which features live kink acts and unrestrained performances designed to force partygoers into submission. 

The weekend’s grand finale takes place Sunday night, at discoVERS XL.  KINETIC Presents is proud to partner with Centaur M.C. Mid-Atlantic Leather to once again produce the epic weekend’s official closing party. DJs Dan Slater and Alexis Tucci will spin jubilant disco and house music from 10pm to 4am at Zebbie’s Garden (1223 Connecticut Ave NW).  A special performance by Boomer Banks and other surprise acts will be seamlessly integrated into the high-energy sounds throughout the night.

The KINETIC: KINK main event is 18+, and all other events are 21+.  KINETIC: KINK VIP Weekend Passes include express entry into all four KINETIC: KINK events, as well as dedicated VIP area access and VIP-designated bars and bathrooms at select venues.  

For tickets and more information, visit KineticPresents.com

Michael's Musings

Silencio or Vito???
Michael Shinafelt

OK, so I'm back from the other dimension known as the Holiday Season and as promised full columns are now the rage again. 

While I'm not going to say 2024 is my year, or new year, new me. I do know I have been getting progressively bolder with the passing of time. So you have that to look forward to from me. Hence the experimental selfie portrait above. I was told it's very Sopranos, I was thinking it was more along the lines of something from a David Lynch film, thoughts? 

Raise your glasses and gird your loins let the musings commence!

Never the less they persisted, and found out I assume...

Don't you hate it when people compare Freddie Mercury to God? I mean God is great, but he's no Freddie Mercury

Remember you are the author of your next chapter, the more you know

She was laying in wait to make this conversation all about herself like a narcissistic velociraptor, you know who you are

Isn't Shampoo an odd word???

New Year, new me is easy to achieve if you have an alter ego, just saying...

There once was a Salty Seamen, that's all

#whoremembers If you first read this as "whore members" were probably already friends (or should be)

Woman Crush of the Week - Natalie Portman for her knock out performance in May December!!!

Mariah Carey has thankfully gone into hibernation for another year

That time at yoga when a preying mantis joined me on my mat. "No" I'm not joking

What happens around the cauldron stays around the cauldron

Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go

My thug name is Vito, find out where I'm headed here -

https://www.instagram.com/michaelshinafelt/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/MShinafelt

Hump Day & Chill

Daryl Hannah 
as
Elle Driver

" I might never have liked you. Point of fact, I despise you. But that doesn't suggest I don't respect you. Dying in our sleep is a luxury our kind is rarely afforded. My gift to you." - Elle Driver, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 

It's the first Hump Day & Chill of 2024 and it's totally different head (meaning edgier than the usual fare, but not without entertainment value.) 

For all you Daryl Hannah fans out there I bestow on you one of her best performances as the merciless Elle Driver in Kill Bill: Vo. 1! Yay!!!

This role was a departure for Ms. Hannah and nothing prepared you prior for her putting the Chill in Hump Day like she did in this off the hook Quentin Tarantino film.

If you haven't seen KBV1 simply read the quote from Daryl's character Elle at the top of this here post. You'll get a quite vivid picture of what she's all about...pure evil!

So evil in face her code name in the film is Mountain Snake.

Let's make like a Mountain Snake and Hump Day & Chill...do it and do it now!!!

Daryl on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/dhlovelife/?hl=en   

These Boots Were Made For Walkin'

Are You Ready Boots?
Padma Lakshmi

While it's a mere two days in to 2024 I thought we could use some inspiration. Here it is in the form of one Ms. Padma Lakshmi!

Seriously! This woman is showing of her beautiful gams and rocking a yellow mini dress with a blue fur coat, not to mention while boots in NYC while it's frigid AF!

How inspiring, fashion forward, not to mention balls out is that?! Nothing is I tell you, and while I am a little hesitant to throw in that she is 53 years old, I just did. Why? Because this too is inspiring, just look at her will ya???

IMHO she is one of the most beautiful women there is.

Be your own Padma and get out there and bend it!!!

Padma on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/padmalakshmi/?hl=en  

January 1st 2024

Happy first day of 2024 you Bad Seeds! 

Bend it like Rhoda Penmark and get down with your Bad Seed selves!

The Bad Seed on IMDb -

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048977/   

Happy New Year!

You know who you are...heading into 2024 like it or not! Have fun ringing in the New Year and please cautiously proceed into a year that should be one Hell of a ride, or simply throw caution to the wind.

Remember there is always the middle ground....

Gird your loins it's going to be a crazy ride either way!!!

New Year's Eve in Times Square on the WWW -

https://www.timessquarenyc.org/times-square-new-years-eve  

Expectation

Heading in to 2024 this quote is something I've learned in my later adult life to be 100% truth! It's also one of the reasons upon rewatching Sex and the City I learned to despise the character of Carrie Bradshaw (note I said one of the reasons, there are many other ones to despise about that character as well.) I noticed how she always expected people and situations to be the way she thought they should be it was an exhausting, not to mention annoying revelation to behold.

The less expectation you put on situations and people the less, as Bill would put it "Heartache" you will have.

So heading into 2024 I have no expectations of it. No New Years Resolutions. I'm simply waltzing into the New Year with my eyes wide open and expectation free.

The way things are anymore it's the only way to roll...

William Shakespeare on Biography -

https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/william-shakespeare