Tonight the Go Go's are playing at the Greek Theatre in LA. This was where they played one of their first big shows back in 1981 and this is the celebration of the 30th anniversary of their debut album BEAUTY & THE BEAT and it happens to be Belinda's birthday; oh and I happen to be going to the show!
I've never been able to see the Go Go's before so I'm totally stoked. I bought tickets for their Farewell Tour last year but it was cancelled when Jane got hurt so this year I'm even more excited. Plus we got extra special tickets which come with the 30th anniversary remastered Beauty & The Beat CD plus the album on pink vinyl and a T shirt! But most importantly I get to hear them play as a band.
When I was a little MTV used to play videos and they did this thing called "World Premiere Video" when a big artist came out with a new video and I remember waiting all day long for the Go Go's world premiere video for Vacation. Let me share it with you now:
and for extra bonus here's an ultimately rare thing - a TV commercial for the Vacation album:
and stay tuned for my review tomorrow - or Going To A Go Go (s) Part 3
Yesterday I was ultimate housewife/writer - I did 9 loads of laundry including the bedding from both bedrooms, downloaded & converted 10 videos, wrote on my blog and wrote the first 2 pages of the Coco Ono special. And went to the pool. Then I headed to Gym Sportsbar because I had forgot my card the night before. Luckily it was at the bar with the note: "Bitch forgot his card and I forgot to charge him so fuck it." I love that place.
Then I came home and proceeded to drink to excess while listening and singing along to Stevie Nicks - it was all brought up because of this quote I read by Stevie:
“The good thing about me being famous is that I was almost twenty-eight when I joined Fleetwood Mac. Lindsey was one year younger. We lived together as, really, as a married couple for five years, and we struggled. We built a life and we lived a kind of normal life… so we knew who we were when we joined Fleetwood Mac… [Fame] wasn’t terrible for me. I never look at it as taking away my freedom. I think that fame, for some people, really is horrible. But I have to say, I mean, I think being a rock and roll star is great. I fly on a private plane, I stay in presidential suites, I drive in limousines… I love my life. I love being famous. I love being able to walk into a restaurant and say, “I’m Stevie Nicks. Can I get a table?” You know, why not? So all the people who hate being famous, I’m so sorry for them. The violins of the world are really playing for you in your 18 million dollar house.” — Stevie Nicks
(KLOS with Jim Ladd, 08/01/2011)
So last Thursday the Go Go's got their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was a 5 year process with help from a bunch of their fans. They got the star right in front of Bettie Paige dress shop where in the 70s there was a club called the Masque. It was down in the basement and a ton of LA punk bands played there. The Go Go's played their very first show ever there on May 31, 1978 so it was totally appropriate they received the star there.
BTW - I was there!!! I had never been to unveiling before so it was pretty cool. As we stood around waiting for it to begin we found out that Jane Weidlin and Gina Schock were having a party afterwards at Velvet Cantina so we went to that too. I got to talk to Jane a bit but didn't a pic with her. I did however manage to finagle a pic with Gina! She was love a lovely.
So here's some pix - the final pic is when I met Jane at the Book Fair in West Hollywood but it's totally appropriate for this post.
So Wounded Bird re-released Lisa Hartman's albums a few months ago and this was a bonus cut on "Hold On" - never knew where it came from but here you go! Lisa on The Red Foxx Show in 1978
So Sunday my hubby and I skipped the big gang brunch and decided to spend the day together. We got up and headed to Hollywood for lunch at Shelly's Cafe on Hollywood Boulevard. I love hanging out there and even feel a little touristy though I've lived here for 11 years. After breakfast we walked around the boulevard until 12:30 when we headed to the Chinese Theatre to see the new (and final) Harry Potter movie. Alf got us tickets for the 3D version with a special DMX thing - which is the seat moves, shakes and vibrates during the movie so it feels like you're in on the action. So essentially the new Harry Potter movie moved me... literally.
After the movie we went to Best Buy and used my birthday gift certificate to buy Wipeout for the Kinect. We haven't played it yet but I Can not wait.
Then we headed home and decided to go down to Gym Sportsbar for a few drinks. A few turned into a lot more than expected. I spent the rest of the night smoking and drinking more while Leivas passed out on the sofa. I hopped on the horn and talked to pal Melsie for awhile and even spent some time hanging out with my neighbors in their apartment before I too decided it was time for bed.
Because of the few extra drinks the Leivas called into work on Monday so my housewife day was kind of put on hold - thank goodness. I woke up and had my coffee and listened to a really interesting documentary on Franklin Roosevalt that Alf had queded up on Netflix. When he woke up we watched the second part of the documentary. The way FDR was and what he went through is so reminiscent of what Obama is going through it was very strange. Not to mention FDR is the one who came up with social security and workers benefits. Needless to say the rich hated him even though he himself was rich. Sound familiar.
After that we spent the rest of the day on the sofa together watching movies and TV Shows. We went through "Stakeland" (pretty good), the latest "True Blood" (good), "Seeing Heaven" (god awful), then we headed to KFC for dinner. We brought it back and watched three episodes of "Nurse Jackie" - almost caught up to the finale.
Yes we are single handedly bringing down the sanctity of marriage - oh and boring my readers to tears I'm sure.
About a week ago I got a twitter from THE STRANGER PAGE, a video company that makes fun and exciting and somewhat odd little videos. One of the guys from the group actually directed Devin Tait & The Traitors' "Alien Nation" video. Anyhoos its, the tweet was asking if I did any acting and if I'd be interested in being a Meat Clown for their latest video. Well I have done acting and I just finished two rounds of classes at The Groundlings and I have never ever been asked to be a Meat Clown so of course I said "Hells yes."
Wednesday night I got a call asking if I wanted to come go to North Hollywood on Thursday to film the video, so I of coursee said, "Hells yes." I drove to North Hollywood with all my classic Groundlings training not sure what was going to happen.
As it turns out, it was hella fun. I did my own make up, the guys brought me a bunch of yellow balloons with smily faces I opted to call my meat minions and I just went with it. It was hella fun and I think I did really well.
The drive home however was beseiged with problems. As I turned off the street to go left where I knew the 101 was, there in front of me was a tree laden boulevard so I had to turn right. Then the roads all went off into five different ways. I totally got lost. I tried to use my phone's GPS but that bitch takes a lot of battery power and I was waiting for a call from Rob about happy hour. Plus she wanted me to take a freeway I was not familiar with.
Eventually I came across Laurel Canyon Boulevard. I got to the light, I looked to the left and saw Valley and I looked to the right and I saw the Hills. I headed right and back to America.
As for the video itself, it's just a series of random videos poking fun at the late night local commercials, in this case discount meat. So coming shortly tomorrow (Wednesday) will be Bradley Jacobson as Meat Clown! I know you can't wait.
Location: West Hollywood, California, United States
SHORT VERSION: Bradley Jacobson is a singer/songwriter, sometime actor, sometime writer, audio engineer and producer, and all around happy dude. He was the singer/songwriter of the electronic trashy punky pop band Swivek, but is now a "solo" artist releasing music under his own name.
