I can, and so can Jessie.
Jessie:
Eleanor Rigby
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Julia
Got to Get You into My Life
A Day in the Life
Mine:
This Boy
I’ve Got a Feeling
Lovely Rita
Not a Second Time
Baby You’re a Rich Man
Tags: the beatles | top five
I’m sitting in the box during Blowoff! and my love of gays is reaffirmed. Now that my traffic has slowed, however, it’s time to make my best albums of 2K7 list, in no particular order:
1. Statehood – Lies and Rhetoric
2. MIKA – Life in Cartoon Motion
3. Rufus Wainwright – Release the Stars
4. Interpol – Our Love to Admire
5. Jens Lekman – Night Falls over Kortedala
6. Iron and Wine – The Shepherd’s Dog
7. Klaxons – Myths of the Near Future
8. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
9. Elliott Smith – New Moon
10. Patrick Wolf – The Magic Position
This list is subject to change, as I still have all of December to mull over it.
OK, now more gays are coming and the fact that I love them needs to be reiterated. HOWEVER, all of the fag hags who come to Blowoff! — I do not love you. You are wearing gold lame tank tops and huge belt buckles that come right below your boobs. All of you are slightly hid and it makes me depressed. Know your place — and it is NOT at Blowoff. I don’t come here when I’m not working, and I’m the biggest fag hag of our time. Legendary.
Tags: blowoff | 930 club | best albums of 2007
Audio / visual please!
Photo: http://flickr.com/photos/girdle/1758192397/
I kept with the trend of yelling at rock stars to “put it in me, please.” During “You Are the Light (By Which I Travel into This and That),” Jessica, Erin, Caitie and I had, like, the perfect end-of-a-movie moment, arms flailing, feet stomping, dancing, chanting, screaming the lyrics. It was so fucking fantastic.
Here’s the video of the song we freaked out to:
There’s original video from last night’s show here. It makes me wet my pants with joy. And pee.
Tags: jens lekman
Please go home on Thanksgiving Day so that you can come to the show at the Black Cat the Wednesday before it. Thx.
Tags: statehood
Last Saturday I went with Alyson and Dave and a few others to the Miss Adams Morgan pageant at the Washington Hilton. Kenny, love of my life, was featured in some of the performances, and his husband Scott, Miss Adams Morgan ‘99, looked divine. The theme was TV Land, so there were Lucys and Brady Bunch characters and Mary Tyler Moores and Morticia Adamses EVERYWHERE. I swooned over some of the best legs I’ve ever seen. I also got jealous. Here is some photo documentation:
Someone asked me, “You’re a lady, right?” Yes, yes I am, sadly. Also, a gay wearing fake boobies let me and Al touch them and then proceeded to touch ours and spank us with a whip.
Here are Alyson, Kenny and “Consuela.” Who is the hottest? Unsure.
I am a few glasses of wine in at this point.
Here we are giving people the right idea.
Dave and I are obvs in love and getting married.
Mmm. Yes please. Never been happier.
In other news, Statehood’s album is going to come out, er, drop, at the end of October and I am very, very excited. Please go to their MySpace page, friend them and listen to all of the songs, specifically “Every Single Question.” Here are some YouTube videos to whet your punk-poppy-rock-n-roll delicious appetite.
Tags: miss adams morgan | drag queens | statehood
Let me introduce you to my new boyfriend, HAVARTI CHEESE. He is made from Danish cow’s milk. His texture is flexible and smooth. The knife goes right through him, like butter. He is a delicious source of calcium. We are in love, but sometimes I think we got serious too quickly. Especially the next morning. Also, he is a slut and sometimes cheats on me with others.
I have just booked a vacation, and it feels very liberating and adult-like. I am going to Los Angeles from October 17-21 to visit THIS:
THINGS I LOVE ABOUT LOS ANGELES:
1. Art Brut — ‘Moving to L.A.’
2. HONEY-VANILLA LATTES FROM THE URTH CAFFE (where I once stood face-to-face with Jake Gyllenhaal)
3. THE TROUBADOUR, one of my favorite places to see live music in this country.
4. Three words: HOUSE. OF. PIES.
5. Two more words: DIDDY. REESE.
(vintage photo of Molly and I enjoying our $1 ice cream and cookie sammiches)
Put in your requests for celebrity stalking autographs now. On the hit list: John Krasinski, Justin Timberlake, Katherine Moenning (Shane from ‘L Word’) and Ethan Hawke.
BONUS VID to make you smile (demetri, plz marry me):
Tags: los angeles
I’m pressing refresh over and over again, waiting for news of Larry Craig’s resignation to come through. Iowa just took back gay marriages, but we got the kids who were the first ones to get hitched on the phone, and they were on their way to their honeymoon. I want to talk about something else. Larry Craig has dominated my entire week with his gross mug shot and with the pity I feel for him.
I am reading this book right now, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, and I’m not even finished with it yet and it’s my favorite. It’s by Michael Chabon, who wrote The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, which is still on my fave novels list, and I finally got around to picking up my tattered copy this other work.
There are so many amazing passages and quotes that I feel I need to recount them for my reference, and hopefully to convince someone else to read it.
“There had been a time in high school, see, when I wrestled with the possibility that I might be gay, a torturous six-month culmination of years of unpopularity and girllessness. At night I lay in bed and coolly informed myself that I was gay and that I had better get used to it.”
“It was as though she had studied American notions of beauty from some great distance and had come all the way only to find she had overdone the details: a debutante from another planet.”
“… listened for accents of friendship: the banality, relaxation, and lack of style that characterize a conversation between two friends.”
“‘Let’s drink something cool and refeshing,’ Phlox said, bobbing her head, widening and then narrowing her eyes like some lustful and wily biblical queen. ‘Beer,’ said Arthur and I.”
“‘Hey, every woman, pal, is a volume of stories, a catalogue of movements, a spectacular array of images.’”
“A gin and tonic under its tiny canopy of lime elevates character and makes for enlightened conversation.”
“That evening I rode downtown on an unaccountably empty bus, sitting in the last row. At the front I saw a thin cloud of smoke rising around the driver’s head. ‘Hey, bus driver,’ I said. ‘Can I smoke?’ ‘May I,’ said the bus driver. ‘I love you,’ I said.”
“An unfamiliar restaurant can be a very disorienting thing.”
LOVE. THIS. BOOK.
