Friday, March 21, 2008

I Luv The Nite Life

It's been a crazy week what with the Leivas and I actually venturing out of the house not once, not twice but three whole nights this week! And last night was the best.

So we went to the Paley Festival and attended the big to do that was the Buffy The Vampire Slayer reunion. They showed the musical episode Once More With Feeling, which I was actually hoping what they were going to do as I've never actually seen it but have heard plenty about it. It was fun and great but alas it didn't convert me into a Buffy head or anything.

Most of the cast (or what I believe is most of the cast) was there but though Willow, was announced as coming, she wasn't there and neither was Angel, oh and Giles wasn't there either, but Buffy was there - wearing super cool shoes I might add though the wench should probably get a little meat on her bones - she is extremely little. Xander and of course Seth Green were the more hilarious of the group and the Cissell's fav James Marsten was there having literally just arrived from Mexico where he was shooting some flick. Of all the nights we attended these things I have to say these were probably the most boring group. They were cute and all that but they weren't very exciting, I mean they weren't like Judd Apatow and his friends. Alf took some pics but I haven't downloaded them yet so here's some from the press archives:



Last week I found out that one of my new favorite bands The Cliks were on tour and were coming to Los Angeles. They were playing on the 20th at the Knitting Factory and tickets were only $12 so as I went to buy myself a pair I realized it was the Buffy night, so wouldn't u know it. The one time I can get tickets to see a show I want to see, I can't go.

Then on the way to the Arc Light for the Buffy thing, I told Alf we should try to scalp those Buffy tickets (they were going online for like $1500 a piece!) and take our money and run back to the Knitting Factory to try and get tickets to the Cliks. Then it suddenly occured to me - the Paley thing runs 7-9 and the Cliks don't go on til like 10! What the frick was I thinking?

So after we left the Buffy clan, we drove down Hollywood Boulevard, parked and went to the Knitting Factory, where good news prevailed - we hadn't missed the Cliks yet and there were tickets. So we paid our money and went it...


Where this band called Killola was playing - the woman who is actually Lisa Reiff, an actress I don't know but do recognize her credits was the lead singer. She is intense and great. She struts like a cross between Tina T and Mick J and her rock vocals are INTENSE! It was a really great set. So I ended up buying their album - which comes on a wrist band thing that you plug into your computer. When I get my pictures I'll post it - you'll flip!

Then The Cliks came on and let me tell you the show rocked, rocked, rocked! They are every bit as good live as on CD. If you haven't checked out the album Snakehouse yet - you simply must, must! And if the Cliks come to your neck of the woods, go see them you won't be disappointed.

And tonight my pals Shitting Glitter are performing once again at Girl Bar in the final round of Battle Of The Bands!

So if you're in La La Land run your asses over to Ultra Suede (661 North Roberston, WeHo begins at 8 but they play around 9:30) You've just gotta catch them as they are great and they deserve to win so they can perform at the Dinah Shore thing a ma jig where they'll play along sides with the likes of the Go-Go's and (gulp!) Pat frickin' Benatar!


And that's life in La La land it's such a bore sometimes.


http://www.thcliks.com/

http://www.killola.com/

http://www.shittingglitter.com/

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Thursday, March 20, 2008

Slaying The Fest

The Leivas and I have been to all of our big Paley Festival events except for that one big one that happens tonight. Okay to me it isn't a big deal but it IS a major deal to a ton of people including the Ciss - so get this tonight they are actually doing a live Stream of the Paley Festival for the reunion of the cast and peeps of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. The live stream will be on the Festivals website at www.paleyfest.org and depending on what camera they are shooting from you should see me get up around 8:30 PM to head to the potty - that's what has happened every night this week.

In fact I almost wet myself during Pushing Daisies because I didn't want to miss a single moment. The Judd Apatow one was actually a lot of fun and you'll all be relieved to know that my hottie Paul Rudd actually was there - looking good I might add. We even got to have cocktails with the boys after wards but I didn't actually talk to anyone except Jason Geigl who excused himself as he walked past me on his way to smoke a cigarette. The event was fairly dirty even showing a five minute scene from the new flick Forgetting Sarah Marshall which showed a penis over and over again. In fact there were a lot of dick jokes - straight guys are so strange about dicks. They seem to talk about them more than the gay boys I know.

Tuesday night was the cast and creators/producers of Chuck and it was very entertaining. They are some pretty funny characters, and Alf is in love with most of the cast so he enjoyed himself so much he even ran up to the stage after the panel to take pictures. He didn't run all over trying to get a pic of me and Paul Rudd now did he? He's so selfish.

So tonight keep a watch out for me - I'll be peeing around 8:30 PM.

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Random Thoughts

Today's thought while smoking my morning ciggy was I want to start a band called The Tits. Our first album could be called It's The Tits and our first single would be "Curl Up & Die" - so whose in? Anyone play really shitty guitar and limpy drums - you're in!

Meanwhile a new Swivek release is being wrapped up as we speak but for the first time in my long long "career" I can not for the life of me come up with a title. None of the songs seem to fit as a title track and I've tried to narrow it down to a line from a song but nothing seems to fit.

I've whittled down the 20 some songs I started to 11 or 12 (I'm still debating over one) and what started as a straight up covers album has changed since I'm going to be using 5 original tracks as well as some covers. Most of the songs seem to be about love gone bad (figure?!) with a few dashes of politics in it - you know a typical Swivek record.

I started with the intention of calling it From The Edge, but I don't know if I like it. Then I came up with Little Pieces and a whole bunch more. So here's the list I have so far - let me know if any one of them grab you by the whatever piece of anatomy gets you going...

1. From the Edge
2. The Lonely
3. Little Pieces
4. Love's Wounds Unseen (it's a line from a song)
5. When Our Hearts Were Young (andother line from a song plus my fav so far)
6. Broken

I know none of them are as good as It's The Tits, but you go with what you got you know. By the way I have the cover all figured out - as I'm going to one Monday night journey with Luther to downtown LA and Mustache Mondays so he can take oodles of pics of me downtown and grungy. I know I'm ever so creative.

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Monday, March 17, 2008

Television On The Go

What a weekend we had! Okay, it wasn't all that exciting but I did get rip snortin' drunk on Captain & Diet Cokes Friday night - so drunk in fact that I recorded three new songs and they all turned out pretty brillz! And the Leivas thinks my "singing juice" doesn't work. But there'll be more about my new music tomorrow and even a little surprise so get ready..
As you all know my Leivas loves him his television and for Valentine's Day he bought us a big packet of tickets to the Paley Festival - a celebration of television shows. On Saturday we went to Cinedome in Hollywood and hung out with the stars of one of my new fav shows, Pushing Daisies. And when I say we hung out I mean they sat up on stage and we gawked and asked questions but hey Kristen Chenoweth was right there and so was Lee Pace and the ultimate for me writer and creator Bryan Fuller - who is so much like me - completely hilarious ,completely talented and gay. I mean this is his third brilliant series following Dead Like Me and Wonderfalls plus he was involved with Heroes.

Tonight we get to hang out with Judd Apatow and his friends with cocktails.. unfotch according to the list of guests his friends no longer include hottie Paul Rudd or even Stephen Carrell, but seem to include Andy Dick and Tom Arnold. I have to say I'm a tad scared though drinking with those boys might be fun. It probably won't be as entertaining to me as it was drinking with the gals from Girls Will Be Girls but hey you take what you can get.



and then tomorrow we get to see the cast of Chuck, another show I really like and believe me I didn't have high hopes for it, but it's totally won me over.

As you can see, it takes more television to get the Leivas out of the house, but I swear this is the most we've done together during the week since I used to call him up to pick up my drunk ass from Akbar cause I was too drunk to drive... oh the days...

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

We're Sisters!

Last night the Leivas and I actually went out of our home and did something in LA. I know, hard to believe huh? But it had to be done because I had scored tickets to an event so big, so great, he had no choice but leave the Tivo burning and hit Sunset Boulevard.

We went to the premiere party for the new webisode of Girls Will Be Girls - one of my all time flicks ever. In fact it's so good I am jealous that I'm not involved in it. If you haven't seen the movie here's the gist - picture it, one old bitter has been actress named Evie has a housemate named Coco who has visions about the hot doctor who performed her abortion and then there's newcomer Varla Jean, who wants to be an actress just like her poor dead mother - who died at the hands of Evie ???? !!! I know! Oh and the lead actresses are all actually men. It's frickin' genius and by far one of my favorite movie quotes -

Coco: "Evie, have you ever had an abortion?"
Evie: "Are you kidding me? I've had more babies pulled out of me than a burning orphanage.."

I know, not for everyone but so up my alley - and now they're back with 3 new webisodes - as the continuing saga of the Girls Will Be Girls continue. In the two parter we got to see last night Scott Thompson shows up as Coco's mother... it's just too much..

here's the first one for your viewing pleasure:



Oh and don't forget to check out the official website - www.girlswillbegirlsonline.com for all the latest news and episodes (and you can actually watch HD versions of the webisodes) - perhaps we should film my show Carlton Heights and put it up like this... oh how wonderful that would be? In fact, Evie may just make the perfect Ruth Carlton.

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Thursday, March 06, 2008

The Last Son

Step inside the mind of this Brad and see how we can meander:



Picture it, I'm outside smoking a cigarette when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window...



'Wow, I really like this outfit. I'm so glad I bought this blue shirt. It really makes my blue eyes pop... I wonder if the Leivas will comment on it when I get home... he did say I looked so handsome the other morning when I was in all black with that purple tie... I like that purple tie.. I really like this blue shirt.. my eyes look so blue..

oh that reminds me of Desperately Seeking Susan - Aidan Quinn and Rosanna Arquette on a rooftop - "What color are his eyes?"
Aidan (as Dez) - "Blue"
Roberta - "Like yours"
"Yeah like mine..."
Aidan licks his lips for the fifteenth hundred time in the movie, they move in, kiss..

'God that's a good movie... didn't I write a scene like that in my script Looking For Him? I did.. it's an homage not a rip off... that's what I'll tell people. Really it's more of rip off, I mean homage to Who's That Girl? Which is the only other Madonna movie worth seeing. God, we watched that movie over and over, I'm going to have to buy it. Melsie and I sat could act that out...

just like we used to act out Looking For Him, god I wrote that when I was 16 and she just re-read it and still thinks it's great. Indy, that was the name of the lead character - I was going to play him and Molly Ringwald would play the female lead. .. I never knew her father was blind... she played a blind woman on Law & Order.. she wasn't all that convincing... she'd have been better in my Looking For Him movie.. Indy that is a cool name..

if I ever had kids I'd name my boy Indy ... and my girl Ciji... Ciji Leivas... Ciji Jacobson... Ciji Leivason.. I like that... Indy Jacobson... that works too...

Oh I'm never having kids... oh my gawd, I'm the last Jacobson boy. If my uncle Kermit doesn't have a son, I'm the last of the Jacobsons... I think maybe we should have a kid.. I want a little Indy... well, maybe not... Geez, I guess I'm the last son .. the Jacobson name ends here... That's kind of cool...

God, how the hell did I think of that? I'm going to have to blog about how crazy my thought process is... Oh shit, I just smoked four cigarettes.. I better get back to work.'

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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Before I started my travels around this country - as in I moved from one state to a couple of others, I had thought of buying a house. Just a little place to call home. The problem was I lived in Wausau, Wisconsin and it's not where I wanted to call home.

When I moved to Minneapolis, I loved it and totally wanted to buy the Mary Tyler Moore house but then winter hit and I realized Mary and Rhoda were frickin' nuts for wanting to live there in the Tundra.

So I headed west to Idaho, which some may think is utterly insane but I wanted a change and boy did I get one. Of course I met the coolest people and had even thought of what it would be like to live there in the mountains of North Idaho, but ever since I was but a wee tyke I've wanted to live in La La Land, and thanks to my excercian to Idaho, and my pal Brian I became an LA boy.

Now that I live where I know I want to be, I want to buy a house. A house I want to live in for the rest of my life. A house in Los Angeles, a house in West Hollywood since my man refuses to leave the area, and a house specifically in my neighborhood. You see I live between Santa Monica and Sunset Boulevards, just below the Sunset Strip and just above the gay bars. It's perfect and actually it's really quiet on my street.

Which brings me to the point of this post, I was walking up my hill to get my hair did, when I noticed the house two doors up the hill was for sale. I immediatley caught attention of the website so I could come home and make a bid. Oh yeah, I decided the house would be mine.


So I came home, got on the computer and downloaded the website... falling in love with each and every new picture I saw. My little heart went pitter patter and my dreams were floating all around my room... a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, guest house, pool... all I ever need. Oh wait, there's one more thing I need - the 1.5 million dollars it would cost to buy the damn thing..



but here's the link kiddies so you can dream along with me - and if you get to picture 19 you'll see in the background a pink stucco apartment building - guess who lives there!






Click here and dream with me:
BRAD'S DREAM HOME








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Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Bubbatunes Visits the 1980s Part 5

Well here's the last of our 80's mixes that we made for Christmas. A whole heap of fun and funk have transpired so far and yet not even all of my top 100 singles of the 80s have been represented so let's see what the final two volumes contained.

bub 120 Brad's Trip Back To The 80's Volume 9 Track List:
01. Money (That's What I Want) - Flying Lizards 02. We Got The Beat - Go Go's
03. Love Is A Stranger - Eurythmics
04. Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
05. Rush Rush - Debbie Harry
06. Here Comes Your Man - Pixies
07. The Wanderer - Donna Summer
08. Never Tear Us Apart - INXS
09. Touch Me (I Want Your Body) - Samantha Fox
10. Conga - Miami Sound Machine
11. Johnny Can't Read - Don Henley
12. No Souvenirs - Melissa Etheridge
13. Maneater - Hall & Oates
14. Muscles - Diana Ross
15. Life In A Northern Town - Dream Academy
16. Don't Come Around Here No More - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
17. Hungry Like The Wolf - Duran Duran
18. Shadows Of The Night - Pat Benatar
19. Queen Of Hearts - Juice Newton
20. Hearts On Fire - Randy Meisner
21. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits

This little volume contains some of the more essential or at least familiar of the 80's tunes, many which didn't make my initial top 100 list only because some are overplayed or obvious and there were so many others that meant more to me. But I couldn't make a whole 1o volume set and not include such staples as "Hungry Like The Wolf", "Money", "Queen Of Hearts" and "Maneater" or the MTV staples "Money For Nothing" (also a song title used for an episode of Carlton Heights - which uses all 80's song titles as titles), and the paranoia Alice in Wonderland vid "Don't Come Around Here No More." Plus I had to add a couple that were so close to making my list - the Pixies' excellant "Here Comes Your Man", Debbie's "Rush Rush" from Scarface and Randy Meisner's "Hearts On Fire."



bub 121 Brad's Trip Back To The 80's - Volume 10
Track List:
01. If You Leave - OMD
02. Solitaire - Laura Branigan
03. Lover Girl - Teena Marie
04. Love's Been A Little Bit Hard On Me - Juice Newton
05. Your Love - Outfield
06. Landslide - Olivia Newton-John
07. Love Is Like A Rock - Donnie Iris
08. All Fired Up - Pat Benatar
09. I Don't Want Your Love - Duran Duran
10. Cool Rider - Michelle Pfeiffer
11. Mad About You - Belinda Carlisle
12. Walk Like An Egyptian - Bangles
13. Girls - Beastie Boys
14. Lean On Me - Club Nuveau
15. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead Or Alive
16. The Jam Was Moving - Debbie Harry
17. Twilight Zone - Golden Earring
18. Lay Down Your Arms - Graces
19. Alone - Heart
20. Life In One Day - Howard Jones
Our final volume was kind of a catch up volume, trying to get all the top 100 singles from my list that hadn't made it yet onto a volume, plus adding those final 80's songs that I loved but hadn't got to yet - some rarities like the Graces and Michelle Pfeiffer, some forgotten gems like "Lean On Me", "Twilight Zone" and a few of what I call roller skating songs - one particular song they played at High Roller in Wausau, Wisconsin over and over - "Love Is Like A Rock" and of course the Beastie's probably should be "Fight For Your Right" but that song is way over played and "Girls" is just so frickin' fun and hot.

And there you have the ten volume set of BRAD'S TRIP BACK TO THE 80's - bubbatunes 113-121. I hope Alf's neice enjoys them as much as I do... and I will try to get some mp3s up sometime before the weekend.. Next week, we'll look at some brand spankin' new 2008 Bubbatunes, there's some trippy things coming up. So stay tuned.


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Monday, March 03, 2008

Bubbatunes Visits the 1980s Part 4

It's back to the pastel and upturned polos as we look at our next two volumes in my Brad's Trip Back To The 80's Bubbatunes collections, so let's look at the track lists shall we?


bub118 Brad's Trip Back To The 80's Volume 7
Track List:
01. Why Me? - Irene Cara
02. Don't Wanna Fall In Love - Jane Child
03. Let's Hear It For The Boy - Deniece Williams
04. Welcome To The Boomtown - David & David
05. Baby Love - Regina
06. Wouldn't It Be Good - Danny Hutton Hitters
07. Voo Doo - Rachel Sweet
08. True Colors - Cyndi Lauper
09. Middle Of The Road - Pretenders
10. Change - John Waite
11. Treat Me Right - Pat Benatar
12. Ashes To Ashes - David Bowie
13. Stop Draggin' My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
14. Hard To Say I'm Sorry - Chicago
15. I Want That Man - Deborah Harry
16. I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) - Whitney Houston
17. Pleasure & Pain - Divinyls
18. (Keep Feeling) Fascination - Human League
19. Crimson & Clover - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
20. Don't Stop Believin' - Journey

We begin with some drum machine laden pop hits from the likes of Irene Cara, Jane Child and Deniece Williams and end up with rock goddesses Joan Jett and Steve Perry. In between we have some lost classics including the would be Madonna - Regina and her one and only hit "Baby Love", some excellant Human League, Rachel Sweet, David Bowie and even Whitney - pre crack but still super skinny.





bub 119 Brad's Trip Back To The 80s Volume 8 Track List:
01. We Built This City - Starship
02. Never Surrender - Corey Hart
03. Our Lips Are Sealed - Go Go's
04. Straight Up - Paula Abdul
05. Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
06. If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher
07. Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
08. French Kissin' - Debbie Harry
09. Listen To Your Heart - Roxette
10. Happy Birthday - Concrete Blonde
11. Promises In The Dark - Pat Benatar
12. Let's Dance - David Bowie
13. Xanadu - Olivia Newton-John & ELO
14. Borderline - Madonna
15. Love Plus One - Haircut 100
16. Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
17. I'm So Excited - Pointer Sisters
18. Runaway - Bon Jovi
19. You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC

Perhaps a little more mainstream than some of our other volumes, we have top pop hits plus the bubbly late 80's sounds of white soul by Rick Astley, the American Idol of her time Paula Abdul, plus some hard rocking tunes from AC/DC and Bon Jovi. Lest we forget my gals Pat and Debbie also make their marks here - Debbie with her 1986 hit "French Kissin'" which did make my original top 100 list and Pat's 1981 hard rocking "Promises In The Dark" which almost made the original list, but I couldn't make it all about Pat and Debbie now could I??

And we wrap it up in our next visit to the 80's collection, but don't worry we have some new Bubbatunes album "remasters" coming up soon! Which means there's bound to be a trip back to the 80's in there somewhere.


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