Bradley's Buzz

Workout 80s style

2012-02-08T11:32:00.001-08:00

Well it's time for my workout - i.e. I drink coffee and watch this video - in my green shorts of course

New Music & New Inspiration

2012-02-07T11:23:00.000-08:00

So it's been awhile since there has been a new Swivek album but never fear I'm working on it now. A 13 track set entitled "I GUESS I'M NOT ALONE". The songs featured include songs left off of the EVERYBODY HATES YOU album, plus some old lyrics and themes I've wanted to tackle for awhile. I'm also incorporating my pals Devin Tait of Devin Tait & The Traitors, members of the former Signal Ranch group and my pal Amy Crosby of Shitting Glitter to help out. I'm getting very excited, but first recording must commence.

With Prop 8 getting overturned (once again) today seemed to be the perfect to start recording my song "Wounded." The lyrics and music were written the day after Prop 8 was announced as legal back in 2008 (one month after I got married), I was devastated, hurt, and 'wounded.' But I knew (know) our day will come so I wrote the song.So I wrote it the day after Prop 8 was legal and I'm going to re-record it the day Prop 8 was deemed unconstitutional. Seems perfect.

Here are the lyrics:

W O U N D E D
Written by Bradley Jacobson

You can’t change what is true
Heaven knows, what about you?
You’re fading fast from memory
You’re on the wrong side of history

I’ve been wounded, I’ve been scorned
I’ve burned in flames and been reborn
There’s nothing more you will take from me
With your hate and your bigotry
I’ll walk right through your brimstone
And I will find my way home

Why don’t you walk the path of right instead
Of hiding behind a book to spew hatred
Your time of lies will fade away
And bring about a brighter day

I’ve been wounded, I’ve been scorned
I’ve burned in flames and been reborn
There’s nothing more you will take from me
With your hate and your bigotry
I’ll walk right through your brimstone, yeah
And I will find my way home

And
when you’re burning in your own brimstone
God will carry me home
God will carry me home

copyright © 2008 Bradley Jacobson/ Buzzee Bee Bop Tunes (ASCAP) – November 7, 2008

Prop 8 Struck Down

2012-02-07T10:46:00.000-08:00

Finally after all these years, the Appeals court has deemed Prop 8 unconstituional! I couldnt be happier. It's going to the Supreme Court and we can only for the best. After all, they're going to have to pull my wedding ring off my cold dead hand. Now I can go back to the kitchen and no I'm still a legit housewife :0)

Read about it here

Swivek Show!

2011-11-23T09:31:00.001-08:00

Hey all - I booked another gig for Swivek! Next Wednesday, November 30th Swivek will be performing at Ibiza in Huntington Beach CA! Doors open at 8pm and there are 5 fabulous bands playing - I HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL THERE! This is the longest set I've played yet so there will be some surprises. Here is the line up:

Just One Ghost 830-9
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Just-One-Ghost/156198107736827

Saturnine 915-945
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Saturnine/242823985737735?sk=app_2405167945

Sisaret 10-1030
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sisaret/177654682273275

Swivek 1045-1115
http://www.facebook.com/swivek

1130-12 Popsicle (former Sneaky Kitty)

Swivek Live tomorrow 10/8/2011

2011-10-07T16:20:00.000-07:00

Just a reminder that tomorrow at 2:25 Swivek (that's me!) will be performing live at the San Gabriel Valley Pride in Pasadena. It's being held at the Pasadena City College in the Quad and it's free!! There will be a lot of great musicians, DJs and drag performances. Plus for the first time since Don't Ask Don't Tell has been repealed there will be a Marine booth at a gay pride event!! So exciting so come see us!

Swivek At Pasadena Gay Pride

2011-08-26T18:34:00.003-07:00

We got ourselves another gig - and it's going to be epic. The list of performers is so great. Can't Wait and hope to see you there!

Where The Boys Are Beatches

2011-08-24T09:10:00.000-07:00

Finally after years and years the Lisa Hartman classic WHERE THE BOYS ARE '84 is out on DVD! Get it today at Amazon.

Here's just a taste of what's in store:

Going To A Go Go (s) Part Deux

2011-08-17T14:45:00.000-07:00

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

Another Day In The Life

2011-08-16T12:07:00.000-07:00

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 that was my Monday - how was your day?

Going To A Go Go (s)

2011-08-15T13:18:00.000-07:00

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.

A little Lisa Hartman

2011-08-12T16:36:00.000-07:00

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

Wedded Bliss

2011-08-09T09:21:00.000-07:00

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.

The Meat Clown Cometh...

2011-08-05T09:34:00.001-07:00

I'm a few days late posting this but here is my "local TV Spot" for Meat Clown:

To The Meat

2011-08-02T11:13:00.000-07:00

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.

Abracadabra

2011-07-16T13:19:00.000-07:00

On Thursday my pal Danielle got us into the world famous Magic Castle. It's actually a castle that has rooms and rooms of magicians. You can only get in with a member of the club so it took me 11 years in LA to finally get in, but it was a friggin' blast. My mind was blown a few times particularly by Danielle's husband who took us on a tour down into the basement and did card tricks for the group of us. Somehow a bunch of cards ended up in my friends suit jacket - not even kidding. It was an awesome experience! http://magiccastle.com/

Back to Boogie

2011-07-14T10:19:00.000-07:00

When I was a kid and living in Wisconsin we used to go to a roller skating rink called High Roller. On Wednesday nights they'd do teen skate so we always went up there. Now in LA on Wednesday nights the Moonlight Rollerway does Gay Nite on Wednesday. Yes I've come full circle. Highlight of the night - throwing away a never ending popsicle so I could skate to friggin' "Xanadu" - yeah it was awesome!

Roller Boogie Beatches

2011-07-13T15:18:00.001-07:00

Tonight I head to the Valley to Glendale for some roller boogie action. It's Gay Skate Night at Moonlight Rollerway Skating Rink! Can not wait. Last time I went all I wanted to hear was I Love Rock & Roll - at the end of the night Leivas wanted to get a head start out of the place so I took off my skates and gave them back. Guess what they played for the last song? That's right friggin' I Love Rock & Roll!! Tonight I'm putting on my red short shorts and knee high socks and I'm not leaving til I skate to Joan Jett! Hope to see you there!

Swivek Live in Long Beach

2011-07-12T15:13:00.000-07:00

So I had my second show in Long Beach at Que Sera on June 30th. I was invited by Crush and Devin Tait & The Traitors to perform for the Crush CD preview party. It was a blast and I was fantastic! I have to thank Marc for taking the vids. Devin for helping me out in so many ways and Crush for inviting me in the first place.
Here's the videos:
Opening number: "Melted Away"

"Spastic Valentino"

"Speeding"

The big "hit" "Rock Hard"

and the feel good finale "Fabulous"

Daytime Drinking and Go Go's Birthday Cake

2011-07-12T15:04:00.000-07:00

Let's try this blogging thing again shall we? I'm back (for now)

Yesterday was the land of the drunkeness here in WeHo. My pal Ms. M called around 1 and said she was almost drunk and wanted to continue the art of daytime drinking with me. So we met at the Abbey and had a few laughs and a few cocktails. Her girlfriend came out to join us but they had to leave so I headed to Trunks for a few more.

I hung out with our old roomate and had a few more drinks. My ex co-worker was there and terribly cautious as he thought I was mad at him. He's not the one who laid me off and he still has to work there so I have never been mad. Though I did find out one of my clients was mad that I got laid off. So that was nice.

After all that, I still had to go to a surprise birthday potluck for my good pal Marc. I didn't drink much there and my husband was sweet enough to take me there and pick me up at 9:30. Then this drunkard went to bed.

But here's the awesome cake our friends Joe & Sunny picked up for Marc! Happy Birthday!

Swivek Live!

2011-06-15T10:43:00.001-07:00

Swivek (i.e. me, Bradley!) will be performing live on Thursday, June 30th opening for Devin Tait & The Traitors and Crush! Here's the details
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Location Que Sera
1923 E. 7th Street
Long Beach, California

More Info Our friends in the band Crush will be celebrating the release of their new album, and we're honored to be opening for them! Plus, our friends Swivek will also be performing.

Blondie's New Video

2011-06-01T11:21:00.000-07:00

The new single and video by BLONDIE - it's "MOTHER" from the album PANIC OF GIRLS:

Legend Of Billie Jean LIVE!

2011-06-01T09:46:00.000-07:00

For three weekends only during June - it’s INVINCIBLE- THE LEGEND OF BILLIE JEAN LIVE! Featuring all Pat Benatar songs! I can not wait! and oh yes I have my tickets for this Friday! Cavern Club Theatre at Casita Del Campo (1920 Hyperion Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90027)

The co-creator the camp-classic Chico's Angels is back with an all-new rock musical workshop production based on the 1985 cult-hit classic The Legend of Billie Jean, starring drag sensation Willam Belli in the title role. Incorporating the awesome hits of Pat Benatar, this re-imagining tells the story of Texas teen heroine Billie Jean and her crew, as they fight for what's fair in incomparable '80s butt-kicking style.

Rare Blondie!

2011-04-14T10:12:00.001-07:00

Well you find something cool almost every day - here is an alternative video for Blondie's "Island Of Lost Souls" from 1982 that I never even knew existed:

New Stevie Nicks!

2011-04-12T13:51:00.000-07:00

Stevie Nicks & Dave Stewart from her forthcoming album IN YOUR DREAMS. Can not wait!

HI-larious

2011-04-04T14:46:00.001-07:00

http://ridiculouspicturesofcelinedion.tumblr.com/

Hunx and His Punx

2011-03-30T12:55:00.001-07:00

I've never heard of this band before today but I'm digging it. They have a new album out and they are coming to the Echo in LA! It's Hunx and his Punx and here's the AMAZON LINK to the new album.

RIP Elizabeth Taylor

2011-03-30T10:45:00.001-07:00

I sort of missed talking about this but with the passing of Elizabeth Taylor, I had to do something. Elizabeth liked going to the Abbey Bar & Restaraunt in West Hollywood and a few years ago she gave them a painting of herself. So the day she died I twatted on twitter that everyone should go there and toast her picture. Well it took me a few days to actually go but I did get my picture in front of the dame.

Life of the Bradley

2011-03-30T10:23:00.000-07:00

I figured it was about time I posted a few of the things going on in my little life. So a couple of weeks ago my friend Robby took us all out sailing Long Beach Harbor which was a complete blast. It was a little cold, but it was hella fun. The Leivas didn't care so much for it but we did at least learn that. Now he also knows it's totally safe so he won't worry when I leave his ass at home.

I've been working up some new music as well, there's two songs I'm kind of digging at the moment - one called "Echo" and one that is a reworking of an old lyric called "Ecstasy". My friend Brandon from Turbo Sunshine who remixed "Rock Hard" is actually helping me with "Echo" and I think I'm going to try and get some more help with the other songs. I'm really pretty sick of working with loops and myself and really want to start working with other musicians, but for the time being with a few new songs and the left overs from the Everybody Hates You sessions, I may have enough really good songs for a new album by the summer. The songs that were left off of "Everybody Hates You" were really only left off because they didn't flow with the songs I wanted on the album, so now they all kind of work out together quite nicely. There's also a reworking of a song called "Aren't You Proud" which I did in 2006 - it's an ode to my friend Michelle Wenzel who died and it's one of my favorite songs ever so I reworked some lines and re-recorded it and it's a song I'm really proud of.

also, my pal K and I decided it was high time to get our shizz together and we joined the Groundlings School for Improv. It's a 6 week course and at the end we all put on a show - classes start next Tuesday so that should be interesting. I'll try to write more but this blogging thing is hard - in the meantime if you are reading this Mrs. Hunter - I miss you and I will call you!!!

Monday Random Photo

2011-03-21T13:03:00.001-07:00

fishing in the lake that appeared in my back yard yesterday

Tabitha

2011-03-15T10:34:00.001-07:00

I love this - it's the opening to the 1977-78 series "TABITHA" - a spin off of BEWITCHED starring Lisa Hartman - some people got it, some people don't

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbGIlB8TnP8

Share A SWIVEK song

2011-03-11T15:25:00.000-08:00

It's share a Swivek song - this time it's the true tragic story of meeting Deborah Harry - DEBBIE DOESN'T

http://www.swivek.com/03SwivekDebbieDoesnt.mp3

Lisa Hartman Re-issues

2011-03-09T09:34:00.001-08:00

Just got the news from Wounded Bird that Lisa Hartman’s album Letterock has arrived at the Sony office. They are sending me a copy and waiting for the other two Lisa Hartman re-releases. I will be pimping these out for months to come! They arrive in stores mid April and you can pre order on Amazon.

Random Video

2011-03-09T09:29:00.001-08:00

One of the funniest videos you will ever see:

Election and Mardi Gras

2011-03-09T09:25:00.000-08:00

For months I've been ranting and raving about West Hollywood politics and yesterday was finally election day. I haven't checked the polls yet but we'll see if my boys got in.

Meanwhile yesterday was also Fat Tuesday (ie Mardi Gras) and West Hollywood had a street fair in the alleys behind the main strip of the bars. It was a friggin' blast! Drinking in the alley felt like I was going back to my roots! I didn't pick up any beads but for some reason I also gave away the ones I had. Strange.

My only real regret is I forgot to have a margarita.

The Mistress Of The Dark

2011-03-09T09:22:00.000-08:00

Several years ago I was working free lance for a Latino gay magazine and I had the opportunity to interview Cassandra Peterson (Elvira) and it was one of the best days of my life. We sat and talked for 2 hours at this little diner in Hollywood.

Fast forward to this Sunday and I attended An Evening With Cassandra Peterson at the Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax. It was a blast. She was there and took questions, and they showed a never before sitcom that starred Elvira and Katherine Helmond of "soap", "who's the boss", "overboard" etc. It was actually really hilarious.

The night was tapped off with a showing of Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark. I've seen it a zillion times but it was really cool to see it with a bunch of other fans. Great night!

Swivek's Pride

2011-03-09T09:20:00.001-08:00

It's a whirlwind week around here. On Sunday I went to my pal Devin's for brunch and a crash course on making a press kit and how to apply to play at Gay Pride. The deadline for applications is on Friday so I'm working my digits to the bone to get everything out in time for consideration.

Wish me luck and if I get to play pride you will all be the first two people to know!

Honey Badger Don't Care

2011-03-04T10:16:00.000-08:00

Check out this hilarious video - Honey Badger Don't Care is my new motto

Swivek - Melted Away Remix

2011-01-25T09:42:00.001-08:00

A brand new remix of the Swivek single "MELTED AWAY" is now available on Soundcloud. Devin Tait remixed the shizz out of the song and I love it - and you will too.

Melted Away (Devin Tait Remix) - Swivek by Devin Tait

Melted Away now available

2010-12-22T12:32:00.001-08:00

The brand new Swivek single is now online at Itunes - check it out and give the gift of Swivek this season. The single is also available on AMAZON.

New Swivek Single

2010-12-21T13:16:00.000-08:00

The new Swivek single MELTED AWAY is now available at Itunes and Amazon!

The single contains:
Melted Away
from the album EVERYBODY HATES YOU plus two songs only
available on the single:
It's Not That Simple and The Time Has Come

Three rocking tunes of love and life gone bad done in that Swivek-y way.

You can listen to Melted Away now!

Buy it at AMAZON or ITUNES.

Some Christmas Cheer (Sort Of)

2010-12-16T09:35:00.000-08:00

Feeling melancholy this season - here's Swivek's Blue Christmas video:

and you can download the song HERE.

Random video

2010-12-15T13:56:00.000-08:00

I'm in a Shangri La's mood - mmmwah!

Watching The Wheels

2010-12-08T10:35:00.000-08:00

One of my all time favorite John Lennon songs. This is great footage with his family. 30 years ago today he was murdered.

BubbaTUNESday

2010-12-07T18:02:00.000-08:00

METALBESTOS - The Best Of Orange Television

Just in time for Christmas - the very best of electronic band Orange Television, which for those not in the know is where Swivek got their start. Patrick English and his assortment of extras bring fun and exciting thrills to electro bliss. Now collected is 15 songs from the last ten years of music. I co-wrote "Thrust" but that's only one reason to download this for free!

There's something here for everybody - pissy politics in "Trim Your Bush" and "Armchair Fashionistas", brooding emotional drama and humor in "Cats" and super fun with female vocalists on "Which Of These Teens Is My Baby's Daddy" and "Fuck Me For The Crime Of The Century." Download it! You will love it.

METALBESTOS - The Best Of Orange Television
(DCD1002; Deedle Records)
01. METALBESTOS
02. DON'T SIT TIGHT
03. THRUST
04. RADIO IS DEAD WITHOUT US
05. DILDO
06. CATS
07. ORANGE LIPSTICK
08. TRIM YOUR BUSH!
09. PALOUSE
10. WHICH OF THESE TEENS IS MY BABY'S DADDY
11. A BOY, A BOY
12. FUCK ME FOR THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY
13. ARMCHAIR FASHIONISTAS
14. BLUE MOVIE
15. MACHINE SEX - LICK THE MACHINE

Download ORANGE TELEVISION - METALBESTOS

Photo of the Day

2010-12-07T10:03:00.001-08:00

Random Photo

2010-12-02T10:16:00.001-08:00

Swivek News

2010-11-30T09:23:00.000-08:00

I have decided there's going to be a new single from the album EVERYBODY HATES YOU before Christmas. Swivek is going to release "Melted Away" as a single with 3 bonus cuts not on the original album. Plus I'm going to try and remix the single version of "Melted Away" slightly.

Also, and way exciting is I'm going to do a video in the next few weeks for the song.

Deedle Records, which is the company I use to distribute the Swivek stuff is also releasing the best of Orange Television - Metalbestos which can be downloaded for free....

A day late

2010-11-23T09:28:00.000-08:00

Here's to my little brother who had his birthday yesterday - the one year I don't call him is also the one year I sent him a present - so all is good! Happy Birthday Jimmy!

Oops

2010-11-23T09:07:00.001-08:00

So it was another fairly wild weekend here in La La Land. On Friday, Alf, Rob, Mike and I headed to Universal Citywalk to see the new Harry Potter film. I have only seen the first one I think but I did know I thought it was pretty good so I wasn't too worried about what I figured was a 2 and a half hour movie. It ended up being pretty talky since it's part one of a two parter but it was still good and both Alf and Rob really wanted to see it so it was fun.

Then we went to Gym and ended up closing the place up and the Leivas and I ended up all night long talking and drinking til abuot 6 in the morning. Ah, good times.

On Saturday, the only major plan I had was to go to Amoeba and then we were going to see my pal Devin perform at the Palms. He is in about three bands and it's so interesting to see the different sides of his music; this time around is his solo project Devin Tait & The Traitors so this is probably the closest to Devin's vision of the music he wants to do. He rocked the house, his music is so fun and poppy. We were all totally impressed.

On Sunday, Miss K and Tommy came to WeHo for brunch and we went to Rage where my new friend Chef Izzy is working. I only ate about 3 fries and ended up drinking about a half gallon of Captain Morgan so by the time I went home, I was schnockered and ended up biffing my knee on the sidewalk.. oh the sidewalks of WeHo are filled with blood and stale booze.

I was in bed by 6:30 and slept right through having to get up to work on Monday. I'm still in quite a bit of pain, but at least it was a fun time... so how was your weekend?

My violet tendencies

2010-11-19T13:26:00.000-08:00

I don't excited for too many movies but this movie is playing for one week in LA next week and I must see it! I mean when do you get the chance to say, "You wanna go see the new Mindy Cohn movie with me?" Looks brillz:

Happy Wilde Birfday!

2010-11-18T11:19:00.001-08:00

Oh my gawd, Kim Wilde is 50! Here she is in 1981 with one of my favorite vids:

Trials & Tribulations

2010-11-17T09:25:00.000-08:00

Next week is Thanksgiving and it's a little reminder that this year is almost over. As much as I have to be grateful for I have to admit this year was a bit sucky. Last year was great, I had a ton of money in the bank, we went on several vacations and everything moved smoothy. The economy took it's hit on our company (like so many others) and all my commissions pretty much dried up so I'm back to living paycheck to paycheck; and the thing is though I do spend a lot of money on frivilious stuff, most of my savings went to paying my bills as my paychecks barely pay my bills let alone let me live a life I (want to) have been accustomed to.

We aren't too bad off and I'm certainly in a better spot than I have been in my life before but it just sucks. The only way to get out is to try and get a better paying job as I've already discussed raises and the like with my cheap ass boss, but it's so hard to find anything interesting and I'm so close to work - but alas all things will work out and like I said, I'm certainly grateful for what I have and I'm certainly not wanting for anything so it's all good... just feeling a little poor. I guess I could always take that part time job at the Porn store, but I think porn probably pays better - maybe I'll look into that.

New Music

2010-11-16T09:23:00.001-08:00

So there's two new CDs you must buy for yourself (and those you love) - today P!nk's Greatest Hits comes out and one of my all time favorite Ladies Josie Cotton has a new album "Pussycat Babylon" - check the links and buy!

P!nk!

2010-11-12T09:30:00.000-08:00

P!nk is releasing a greatest hits in a few weeks and the first single "Raise Your Glass" an ode to the underdogs and freaks is out now on Amazon and Itunes. A few days ago the video went viral and it's on her website so you NEED to check it out... Love this woman

Ugh!

2010-11-11T09:39:00.000-08:00

This week has been a bit of Hell - instead of my normal having fun Happy Hour, calling friends, trying to make music, I have instead been going home, drinking Nyquil watching a ton of TV and waiting for my cold to get over. I hate being sick. I have discovered I would much rather be hungover than have a head cold. I mean why do beautiful people get sick - haven't I paid my dues by all the shade others throw at me just because their jealous? Sometimes life is a bitch... hopefully I'll be better by the weekend.

BubbaNEWTunes

2010-11-10T09:31:00.000-08:00

There's a new band (to me anyway) called Tennis and they are releasing their new album... do you notice any similarities in their album cover? As for the music, the only song I've heard so far reminds me of She & Him - but they are coming to LA so I may have to check them out. You can check them out by clicking HERE.

Insvisible Material (s)

2010-11-08T09:25:00.000-08:00

I had another fantabulous weekend - on Friday, the Leivas and I met Rob out for a few drinks and then Mike, Rob's boyfriend joined us for a couple more drinks. On Saturday Alf, Rob, Mike and I went to the Viper Room to see Devin play drums in the band Invisible Material. Devin's brother Brandon played guitar and his girlfriend Dolly Dagger did a little dancing. It was an awesome show and then we headed to Red Rock, this bar up on the strip where Devin and his boyfriend Dylan joined us. I have the EPs that the band released but they played a couple new songs too, one was called "Candy" and it was awesome. You can join their Reverbnation page or watch the video for "The Folded Page" - my favorite song by the band:

New Blondie Song!

2010-11-04T09:53:00.000-07:00

Here's an exciting little clip - Blondie doing a new song called "Mother Of The Night" - love it!

Kermie

2010-11-03T10:17:00.000-07:00

Kermit The Frog says, "It's not easy being green...it seemed the more I learned about the world, the less I felt a part of it. Too small, too different, too green. If anyone is harassing or bullying you, talk to someone. And don't stop talking about it until they do something about it."

B! True Hollywood Story

2010-11-02T09:44:00.000-07:00

I was having the hardest time committing to any kind of Halloween costume so last Thursday I decided to head into Hollywood to go to the Hollywood Halloween & Costume Shop and stop at the Army Surplus store on Hollywood Boulevard. My friend Rob and his boyfriend and I had decided we'd dress up on Saturday as army guys and then do a bigger costume for Sunday's West Hollywood Carnival.

It was a huge mistake to try to drive into Hollywood - I couldn't believe how bad the traffic was and then because I forget I'm not driving to Amoeba Music I missed the La Brea turn and ended up driving up another street to the boulevard. As cops guided us and the crowd was all along the street it occured to me there was probably a movie premiere.

I was right... as I finally was able to turn onto Hollywood Boulevard, there at the Chinese Theater was the set up for the premiere of "Due Date" with Robert Downey Jr. The one side of the street was completely blocked off and on the other side were a gazillion fans waiting to catch a glimpse of someone..

I ended up at a stand still when a black SUV pulled up next to me and Robert Downey Jr. got out of his car. He was right next to me and everyone started taking pictures - so if you're on TMZ or any other fan site you may see a little blonde boy in a little blue Escort freakin out.

Bryan Adams? Really?

2010-10-28T10:09:00.000-07:00

So here is something you don't hear everyday - I had a sex dream about Bryan Adams last night. I never even knew I was attracted to him. In the dream, I was feeling like a little lovin' so I drove over to Bryan's and crawled into bed with him. He was very happy to see me and we made out and had this long talk like we had been booty partners forever. If Bryan Adams is has friendly and nice as he is in my dream - kudos to him.

And since he's on my mind - there's a little song he co-wrote called "Hidin' From Love" that my best gal Lisa Hartman recorded. I also just randomly found a video he made of his version of the song - strange that I had the dream before I saw him in these shorts. Hopefully, this won't be a recurring thing - check out the two videos:

Video Wednesday

2010-10-27T13:34:00.001-07:00

Let's forget about the bad in the world and watch Olivia Newton-John's "Landslide" video

SWIVEK LIVE!

2010-10-26T09:31:00.000-07:00

Here it is finally for all those gays, guys and ghouls who weren't at the show. Here is my performance at the Boofont Sisters' Halloween Show at Hamburger Mary's in West Hollywood on October 23, 2010. My first live set evah! It can be better but it could also have been a lot worse... no matter what it was a blast and I can't wait to perform again.

Rocked It Hard

2010-10-25T11:55:00.000-07:00

Well I did it - my very first live show. The Boofont Sisters were brilliant as ever and it was so cool to actually put on my set and for them to have even asked me.

As for my nerves, I was only really nervous for a bit on Saturday afternoon but once we started putting everything together I felt better. Robby became my handler and took over on the costume and my make up. Then we did a rehearsal with him and Mike as the audience. I guess they liked it cuz Robby went into super charge mode and got me all pumped up.

Around 9 we were all set and Kristin came over so we hopped a cab and hit Hamburger Mary's. I talked to Dan, Cyndi's husband about the song tracks and went to the back room to hang with my other celebrity pals :0) . Tina was already there and had a Captain & Coke for me.

My friend Jason was also there, and Mike's friend Deene showed up too! Devin & Dylan got there during my second song but I saw them come in and they looked so excited. Everyone was taking pictures and Robby was shooting video - it was awesome.

The Boofonts went on first and there was another guest drag performer and then I went on. I did three songs, "Crypt Keeper" - a Halloween song I wrote a few years ago for a compilation album we did. Then I broke into "Rock Hard" which I had rehearsed over and over and had this idea of jumping down on my knees and doing all this crazy stuff but the stage actually had a stripper pole so I utilized that instead. Then I ended with "Fabulous" and though no one would have noticed really I did end up forgetting some of the lyrics but I rolled with it. At the very end of the night everyone got up and did "The Time Warp" which probably didn't go all that well. The Boofonts were good but I didn't know the words so I had a lyric sheet and I still didn't do the thing justice. But Wee Sandy, another performer forget her musical cue which was the jump to the left line! So I wasn't all that bad and I did drop to the floor at the end.

Alf had been very worried about my performance as he is very nervous but after the show he told me he'd never worry about me performing again... that's as big of a compliment as I could have asked for!

After we left, we were going to go to Micky's but Tina was pretty drunk and she ended up falling and slamming her face into concrete so Robby and I drove her home to the Valley - but even with her pain and suffering she still had a good time... and now I can't wait to perform again.

I even ended up winning the Costume Contest - or I guess Rob did since he created it. There will be videos and photos soon! Until then here's a candid from my pal Devin:

A really Big Show!

2010-10-20T14:50:00.001-07:00

Swivek is coming to West Hollywood LIVE! I will be performing a set with the fabulous Boofont Sisters on Saturday October 23rd so please join us!

The Boofont Sisters celebrate Halloween at Hamburger Mary's!!!

Time Saturday at 10:00pm - October 24 at 12:00am

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Location Hamburger Mary's
8288 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA

Come celebrate Halloween with The Boo!!!! Font Sisters!!! Hosted by the internet sensation, WEE SANDY! and special musical guest SWIVEK!!!

We will be having a costume contest with prizes!!! Come dressed to win!!!!!!

Free admission, and drink specials all night!!!!!!!!

Random Family Video

2010-10-19T07:41:00.000-07:00

Today I bring you something a little special. In August my mom, sister and little nephew came to visit and one day I plan on writing all about the fun time, but for now here's a fun little video of my nephew singing along to Blondie's "Ring Of Fire". My nephew loves the song by Johnny Cash but I guess the only version I had was Blondie's - but listen to how he goes right along with it. The video isn't edited so it starts out with Evan being bored of Tanya Tucker's "Rodeo Girls" but it gets fun from there!

Mellow Mayhem

2010-10-18T11:44:00.000-07:00

This weekend was pretty mellow considering how some of mine have gone. Friday, my pal Robby came over and the Leivas and I joined him for some happy hour drinks which lasted til about 12:30 - not too shabby I think. On Saturday we headed down to Harbor City for some time with Alf's parents. It's always a ton of fun hanging out with them, and Alf's sister Evelyn and her husband were also there.

Saturday night I spent rehearsing some songs for my upcoming debut at Hamburger Mary's. Vicky Boofont has suggested 2-3 songs so I'm still trying to get a real feel for what songs I want to do. I know 2 of them but for a third I have a couple of ideas but don't know if I should do an older song or one off the new album since that's what I'm actually promoting... oh the probs.

Yesterday we didn't even do our normal brunch and I have to say it ended up being a very relaxing (and non alchoholic) day. I added a bunch of music to my Zune as I'm thinking of getting rid of a bunch of CDs I don't really listen to.. and the Leivas and I caught up on some TV. We watched a fairly interesting horror flick called "The Echo" which was kind of boring but the lead guy was good looking.

Then we watched our Law & Order SVU and Los Angeles episodes, an episode of "Supernatural", the "30 Rock" live episodes (east and west coast feeds) and "The Big Bang Theory."

Tonight it's back to rehearsing and I have to come up with the costumes I'll be wearing - I have a pretty good idea so now it's just making sure I have some kind of moves for the show so I don't look particularly plastic on stage....

The Stars Are Shining

2010-10-15T15:49:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I had one of the best days ever - it didn't start out any differently but it just happened to be great. First, when I put my dollar worth of quarters into the vending machine at work to get my 85 cent pretzels I so desperately needed, the thing shot me back 90 cents! Score.

Then I got an email from my pal Joe, who is actually Vicky Boofont of the fabulous Boofont Sisters. He wanted to know if I would like to be a special guest at the upcoming Halloween Boofont Sisters show at Hamburger Mary's. I flipped out! I haven't wanted to do some live stuff forever and without actually pursuing it nothing much has happened and to have someone who I think is actually very talented ask me to be part of a show, I was ecstatic.

The problem - there's always a problem - is our friend Tommy didn't buy Alf a birthday gift so he decided we would all go to Knots Scary Farm and Tommy would pay for our tickets. Guess what night? That's right October 23rd - same night as the Boofonts. I told Alf about the show and he wasn't too upset about it, but still that poor guy always ends up with the short end of my stick. But that's what you get when you marry into the showbiz.... ha!

So I told Joe this morning that yes I will definitely do the show. He told me he was thinking of me doing 2-3 songs - so friggin cool. I'm really excited because it's Halloween themed and he wants us to do costumes and I have a perfect Halloween song. When we still had Flexible Records, Patrick always put out a Halloween compilation and on the first one I did this awesome song called "Crypt Keeper" - so I'm totally going to do that one... I'm going to dress up too - what I really want is a really hot dude to dance with me onstage dressed like a crypt keeper-ish... I've got to find a hot guy now...

So to all my peeps out there - on October 23rd come to Hamburger Mary's to see Swivek!

And to brush up on your Swivek - download our music on Itunes or CD Baby.

BubbaRELOADS 2

2010-10-14T18:09:00.000-07:00

Here are the Lisa Hartman compilations people have been asking about:

First up: Lisa Hartman - Dreamer Of Dreams

for more info see the past blog here

and a collection of rare TV and movie songs - LISA HARTMAN - COULD BE MAGIC

for more info see the past blog here

BubbaRELOADS

2010-10-14T08:07:00.000-07:00

Some poeple have been asking me to reload a few Lisa Hartman albums that have since gone the way of cyberblackhole so below you will find new links to LISA HARTMAN - the self titled 1976 album and HOLD ON from 1979. For those of you asking for the compilations "Dreamer Of Dreams" and "Could Be Magic" I will have those up tonight - for sure...

Here are some reloads :

LISA HARTMAN - Lisa Hartman

LISA HARTMAN - Hold On

Video Age

2010-10-13T11:58:00.000-07:00

I thought you should take some time out of your schedule to watch some indie videos. I have some friends who are quite talented and putting out music. They've also done some videos for their songs so I'm going to share them with you:

First up is Invisible Material's "Grown Man Cries" - which was recently featured on http://www.towleroad.com/ and has my friends Devin Tait and his brother Brandon in the band. Robin the singer is kind of a hottie if you like abs of steel:

One of my best pals Patrick is the star maker in Orange Television and he has a new album coming out very shortly called "Bitch Trip" - from that album comes this little homage video for "Supermarket"

Devin from the aforentioned Invisible Material was/is part of Shitting Glitter who are being a bit revamped these days into an all girl rock band - can't wait to hear the new stuff but they have an album out which features Devin and a great video for "19th & Lexington" (oh and look for yours truly near the beginning) :

and who could forget my favorite indie band SWIVEK! - Here's my video for "Rock Hard":

Birthday Wish

2010-10-12T11:00:00.001-07:00

Yesterday was the Leivas' birthday and it was a smashing success. I bought him this really cool universal remote and if you know anything about my man, you will know this is the kind of thing he loves. He loved it! After work he set it all up so we now have one remote to replace the 15 that were around the house. Then I took him to dinner at Eleven and we stayed to watch a bit of Musical Mondays - where they show musical numbers from movies while some people act out parts - it was fun but tiring...

and now speaking of birthdays - today is the birthday of one of my all time favorite actresses - Deborah Foreman - THE Valley Girl of "Valley Girl" - the chaueffer of "My Chauffer" - the Buffy/Muffy of "April Fool's Day" and the list goes on and on. ... "Valley Girl" is one of the movies I saw as a kid that made me realize how much I wanted to live in La La land. A few years ago Josie Cotton (who appears in the film singing songs) was having a show at the Knitting Factory and I had found out about it because I found Deborah on My Space. That night I got to meet Josie, see her perform and even talk and meet with Deborah Foreman - it was my 1982 Dream.

Here's a few gems from the Deborah Foreman catalog:

Monday Random Photo

2010-10-11T10:08:00.000-07:00

It's Monday - and we are starting the random photo series again.. so today we have me encased in a Ford Pinto

Another Whirlwind

2010-10-11T09:34:00.001-07:00

Well it was another fantabulous weekend - it was our wedding anniversary on Saturday but the Leivas and I started it out on Friday. After work I stopped at this little shop on Santa Monica and "Big" Mike, the waiter from Micky's came running out and clapping for "the best looking man in WeHo" - that's right it's me and I have a fan club.

I went to the store to find something for Alf for our anniversary. I didn't want to do anything major because we buy stuff for each other all the time. But I found a cute card and then I found a T-shirt that said, "Trophy Husband" on it and as much as I wanted it for myself, I thought it was about time the Leivas got a little support. So I bought him that.

When we got home we decided to go out for a little bit. We went to Gym Sportsbar down the street for Happy Hour and ordered food from Hunger - this cute and good little restaraunt across the courtyard from the bar. They deliver the food over so we can drink and eat. We ran into our neighbors Val & Noelle and talked to them for awhile before heading over to Micky's.

A few weeks ago, my friend Rob and I were at Micky's and this older couple started talking to us. The one is originally from Malta and the other one has lived in WeHo for years. They have been together for over 20 years and travel all over. On Friday, the Leivas and I ended up running into them again so we talked and hung out with them. They are actually meeting us tonight at Eleven - as it's the Leivas' birthday today and he wanted to have dinner at Eleven and hang out for this Musical Night they have. So that was all fun and tonight should be fun.

On our actual anniversary, we woke up and exchanged gifts. He actually loved his T-shirt and he bought me cologne - both my Black and Reaction - I love both of them. Then we hung out all day and all night - he was a little hung over from the night before. I had really wanted to go to Palms and see Devin perform and support Robert and Blender, but it was our anniversary and it wasn't really what we had planned on doing... so next time I will for sure go to anything they invite me to.

On Sunday, Tommy & Ryan came up with some cupcakes for Alf's birthday. Gaybor Mike also came over and Robby had his 3-year old nephew Robert and also brought these 2 fantabulous ladies from Norway that Robby knew when he stayed in Brazil. We all had brunch and even took little Robert over to Micky's to show him off. The whole big plan was to give the kid a pool day so we all went back to the house and had watermelon juice and champagne (not the kid mind you) and hung out at the pool... it was so fun. I love the pool and am glad that in the middle of October we still had some heat in the air.

After that my friend Geoffrey Ross was going to be at Hamburger Mary's where they have Celebrity Bingo - Sharon Osbourne was supposed to be there to call numbers and then Geoff was auctioning off some of his artwork, so the Leivas and I went over there, but it was friggin' busy (and they have horrible service to begin with) and Sharon didn't show up cuz someone in her staff died (!) so we only stayed a bit and then came home... and now I'm at work while the Leivas still has two more days off..

so that was my weekend - how was yours...

Tomorrow's The Day

2010-10-08T10:07:00.000-07:00

This weekend is going to be a little crazy - tomorrow is October 9th and on 10-09-08 I married my husband, so it's our two year wedding anniversary, and then on Monday is his birthday so I'll be doing a lot of nice things for the weekend.... and to share my blessed event, here once again is my wedding video -

The Futures A Buzzin'

2010-10-07T10:28:00.000-07:00

There are a ton of things happening all of a sudden:

1. P!nk, one of my all time favorites just announced she is releasing a Greatest Hits album in November and you can stream the first single - plus she's shooting a video starting today and it will feature a gay wedding - she rocks. Check these links: Article on video, and the single "Raise Your Glass" (she's speaking my language).

2. Another of my favorite bands Rooney is releasing a Christmas EP and going on tour and will be in LA in December: Read here

3. There are a ton of local things going on this weekend too - Tomorrow night my pals Shitting Glitter are playing in Santa Ana - now an all girl band they are gonna rock and you should check it out if you can. Kegs 120 North International Boardwalk Redondo Beach, CA

4. On Saturday my pal Robert is throwing together his monthly mash up night called Blender. It will be at The Palms on Santa Monica Boulevard in WeHo and promises to be awesome. Also at around 8:30 before Blender starts my pal Devin Tait & The Traitors will be playing. The theme is fucked up Disney and you should go in costume.

5. My boss just emailed me and told me he is going to pay me my third quarter commission despite not meeting his goal... this is very exciting as now I can buy some Christmas presents.

6. I am probably going to be missing both the Friday and Saturday things I just told you about as this weekend (October 9th) is my two year wedding anniversary... that's right 2 years, still in love and the haters can't take away my marriage license (yet)

7. And finally on Monday, October 11th, it's my husband's birthday. Now I need to find him some amazing present....

Purple for It Gets Better

2010-10-06T09:48:00.000-07:00

In the past few weeks at least 5 teenagers have committed suicide because of bullying. The bullying that took place was only because the kids were perceived to be gay. This makes me so sick to my stomach, particularly because I was bullied in the same way. These kids were so miserable they couldn't go to school and couldn't go on living. It's so sad and sick and wrong. Because of this Dan Savage started It Gets Better, videos of adult gays and lesbians telling kids that their life will get better. Also, a number of people started a facebook group to tell everyone that today October 6th should be a day of rememberance and for that to wear purple. So today I wear purple and I am going to do one of these videos..

here's a link to the You Tube - It Gets Better Page.

BubbaTUESday

2010-10-05T07:58:00.001-07:00

It's been awhile since we've had a new Bubbatunes. I actually have 3 that I made but then lost all the artwork so until I get a new scanner or decide to re-work them all, there are three Juice Newton albums that may not get a blog post.. but I'm sure most of you won't mind too much. Today's BubbaTune comes all the way from 1978 when anyone who had a TV series or an inkling could get a record deal. I give you KRISTY & JIMMY McNICHOL.

bub142 Kirsty & Jimmy McNichol (October 5, 2010)
I'm not going to lie to you all this isn't a very good album. Kristy doesn't really have amazing chops and if you thought she was flat during "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" or "The Pirate Movie" this isn't going to make you any happier. Personally by the time she made those movies I thought she was pretty good. This is just basically a 'let's cash in while we can' type of album.

But some of the songs are pretty good. Mostly made up with one or the other McNichols singing lead there's a lot of old 60's songs including the Crystals actually singing back up on "My Boyfriend's Back". The Jimmy sung "Page By Page" is pretty good too but there's really no excuse for "Rock & Roll Is Here To Stay". And the last song "Hot Tunes" is really something everyone should hear...

But like anyone who came here looking for Kristy - if you're a fan, you're a fan. I have always loved her so this is something I had to have and now you can have it too!

bub142 Kristy & Jimmy McNichol

Tracks:

01. He's A Dancer

02. Page By Page

03. Girl You Really Got Me Goin'

04. My Boyfriends Back

05. Slow Dance

06. He's So Fine

07. Box On Wheels

08. Rock & Roll Is Here To Stay

09. Hot Tunes

Download Kristy & Jimmy McNichol

..and we're back

2010-10-04T09:28:00.000-07:00

Okay I have decided to make it a point to write on this blog every Monday-Friday. I'm going to start a journal and repost on here, just so everyone knows what I'm up to every single day. It might be boring, or it might be fun, but either way one day when I've forgotten how much fun I was, I'll have all this info out there and I can sort through it while lounging in the home...

In the next few days I'll probably do some back tracking but for today, I'll just tell you about my weekend which was a complete riot. On Saturday Alf and I drove to Long Beach with our friend Dylan. We went to some brewery restaraunt right on the water for AJ's birthday. AJ lives in Fullterton with Amy of Shitting Glitter and I haven't seen them in months probably. Everytime AJ and Amy have a party or want to get together something else is always going on.. plus to be honest we hate driving to the OC... but it was a great day and AJ was pretty surprised to see everyone. The food was also very good and the Leivas realized the bar used to be some dive gay bar back in the 80s where you walked onto the beach to get into the place.. sounds pretty cool.

After brunch with the pals, Alf and I headed to Harbor City to visit my inlaws. I love hanging out with Clifford and Juanita and they love me! Of course the wine was a flowing and Juanita and I topped off a gigantic bottle of champagne.

I was in such a good mood and felt so appreciative of everything that when I got home I started calling everyone. I think with all these crazy gay teen suicides and just knowing my in laws love me and that my husband is such a good guy I was a little gushy. I called my pal Melsie who I've known since middle school and told her how when everyone picked on me during school she was always right there and is probably one of the reasons I never did anything foolish when I was ridiculed relentlessly.

Then I called my mom and told her how great she always was and then I texted my 19 year old nephew and told him how much we all loved him and how proud we were of him... then I stumbled back into my house and was in bed by 8:30pm on a Saturday night...

On Sunday, I wanted to chill and not to our crazed fests known as Brunch. So I was all set to just hang and nurse my hangover when I found out Tommy, Ryan and Brian were all headed up from the OC so I texted my pal Rob and told him brunch was back on. We ended up at Bite for a little food and then to Micky's for the endless rounds of drinks that accomanies Brunch with Bradle. Then my friends Brad & Geoff from the Valley texted and said they were headed into WeHo so they came out to Mickys.. then my pal Brent was walking by and ended up getting Marc (who I hadn't seen in weeks either) and they all joined us.

Finally everyone started headed home so Alf, Rob, gaybor Mike and I stopped at Trunks for one more drink before heading home. We had decided to hang out in the hot tub then we came home and I passed out from not drinking on Sunday...

Today the Leivas stayed home from work and I decided it was time to start blogging again....

thanks for listening and to all those Lisa Hartman requests I've been ignoring .. the link will be back up tomorrow...

Share A Swivek Song

2010-08-13T09:30:00.000-07:00

It's that time again - time to share a Swivek song. This time we are going back to 2003 with the compilation album MONDO BLONDO 03:99 where we recorded three new songs to add to the 11 songs released between 1999 and 2003. One of them is today's song. Just click the title, download, enjoy and share - it's LOVE BY NUMBERS.

Share A Swivek Song

2010-08-06T12:41:00.000-07:00

It's Share A Swivek Song time - this time it's my electro trash cover of Pat Benatar's Treat Me Right from the album INTO THE BLUE -

Download TREAT ME RIGHT or download the entire album including art work - INTO THE BLUE

Share A Song

2010-07-30T10:23:00.001-07:00

It's Share A Swivek song time - this time out is "Castle Walls" from the album PISSANT released in 2000. It's my ode to Stevie Nicks (I'm sure she'd really appreciate it) - inspired and about her life's mystical work... download it here and share with your friends

Hot Bastage Of The Week

2010-07-02T09:26:00.000-07:00

I love my True Blood and when Jason Stackhouse (former Hot Bastage Of The Week) gets nude it makes me happy and now we have a super hottie joining the cast as werewolf Alcide Herveaux and he's our newest Hot Bastage Of The Week - feast your weres on this beatches, it's Joe Manganiello. BTW - the hottest picture is on his imdb page from a True Blood scene (just click the link)

Birthday Greetings

2010-07-01T09:42:00.001-07:00

Today is the day that one of the most important people in the entire world was born... no I'm not talking about me - I mean Debbie Harry! Let's watch Backfired together and celebrate:

Hot Bastage Of The Week

2010-06-25T12:06:00.001-07:00

And we are back with the HOT BASTAGE OF THE WEEK - This week we come back with something called a footballer, all I know is he is hawt! It's Dustin "Duke" Dlouhy

The Music

2010-06-23T10:00:00.000-07:00

On Friday I got the chance to meet one of my all time idols - Miss Patti B or Pat Benatar as she is more commonly known. She was at Borders in Westwood signing her new book "Between a Heart and A Rock Place." Unfortunetly there weren't any pictures of any kind allowed so it's something I'm going to have to remember for as long as I can - until I can get backstage one day.

It was actually still really cool - I went with my friend Marc and his friend Charlie who had met Benatar several times and she recognized immediately and asked if Marc and I were with him so it was like we were long lost pals. I told her how the very first record I ever owned was In The Heat Of The Night - I'm sure she was totally impressed.

When I was a kid I used to go to my Aunt Dianne's and she had this wood stove in the living room that was set up on a sort of step up and I would turn it into a stage and sing "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" to all my relatives while the 45 played. They loved it and I was going to share the story but for some reason I choked, and honestly thought she could give a shit about it, but whatever.. it was still an experience.

I finished the book on Sunday and got totally stoked to work on more music. I love how her and Neil have worked continuously together and wish I had a man who actually liked music but I guess my life and "career" will remain separate, though I have decided that I really, really, really do need a collaborater to work with like she has. Someone who works with me exclusively and can help and support what I want to do - plus come in with brilliant ideas and keep me in check while actually pushing me to work. Now I just need to figure who that is and where to find them.

In the interim, I started working on some stuff. For years I've been trying to re-record the Mexican Gods album from 2002 so my vocals sound at least presentable since I thought it was a pretty good album but had no experience working on my own. I have had a few "done" for awhile and now I'm working on some that never panned out.

It's mostly to get me to rehearse because I am working on re-recording some of the back catalog. Not sure what I'm going to do with them but a 'my pick of greatest hits' album may be coming. I've asked Devin to help me out as I really, really, really need a producer and musical director and he is one of the most talented people I happen to be lucky enough to know. Luckily he has agreed to help me a bit so I'm totally stoked. There's some great Swivek songs that have been overlooked and I'd love to be able to present them in a fresh and better sounding form..

and finally I have a full day of real studio time booked for anytime so with the re-recordings I'm hoping it puts my voice in shape and inspires a new single to record in a professional setting... and that's what is up these days with Bradley in La La Land.

Little Projects

2010-06-17T09:21:00.000-07:00

Well it was yet another whirlwind weekend with Gay Pride happening right outside my door. Friday night began with my pals Tommy & Ryan already at my house so you know Happy Hour was bound to happen. We headed down to Micky's where for some reason I got pretty sloshed. My pal Diggity showed up and of course my Leivas and then I was in bed by 9 pm. But what a way to begin the weekend.

Saturday we actually made it to the festival and it was surprisingly small and not all that exciting. Though I do love drinking beer in the sun with my boiz. Devin & Dylan & Marc all came around and then we ran into several other pals. Of course we ended up at our house for awhile drinking and swimming and having a blast.

Sunday was a little more crazy as I am pretty sure I was still on the drunk side of sober when I woke up. My Val Pals came over the hill and we once again ended up at Micky's. But this time I decided to dress in my skimpy red short shorts and a Blondie short. I was lookin' hot til I saw some hunky Latino guy wearing the same shorts and showing a bit of his black jock strap with no shirt on. Beatch.

We once again ended up at our house swimming and drinking with the neighbors and it was a lot of fun. But Monday was a bit of a bitch. Luckily we don't have any plans for this weekend so I think I can relax a bit.

But only for a bit cuz the hobby bug is picking up and I have some things to do. First I want to re-record a few songs in the Swivek catalog including "First Born Son" which is a song I wrote for my nephew who is having his 3 rd birthday this weekend. Also, there's some political songs I did that I would like to re-record. Plus I want to whip up a few new songs that I will record at a professional studio in Long Beach - Tommy bought me a full day of recording and I can't wait to take advantage.

Also, I've been looking over the "bible" I made for the second season of my soap "Carlton Heights" and there are some pretty good ideas in there. I would love to get going on it as I don't think the first season told the whole story - particularly since it ended on a cliffhanger and I know there's a few people itching to find out what happens.

So maybe this weekend I'll get started and get things a rollin'.

Time To Catch Up

2010-06-11T09:29:00.000-07:00

Geez I get so busy that I forget I still have a blog and some of my uber fans and friends aren't on Facebook to get my minute by minute updates; so let's catch up a little shall we?

First the weekend of May 22nd was my big birthday and let me tell you it was big and faboo. We had about 30 people at Hamburger Mary's for dinner and a show. The dinner was to celebrate me and the show was by the fabulous Boofont Sisters. Vicky and Ruby Boofont are super talented kids and I love every show they do. They even brought me up to do a little dance to "The Tide Is High" a song they picked out and rehearsed just for me! Vicky mentioned before bringing me up on stage that I had run the biggest and best birthday campaign Facebook had ever seen. Love those girls.

We all headed out to Micky's afterwards with everyone grabbing my presents and hailing cabs. By the time one of the last cabs was coming by my pal Jules and I decided to just walk back to Micky's - she is after all a marathon walker having walked the LA Marathon, and I wanted to prove I could walk just as good as her :0) - Also, I had to duck around the corner to pee.

The next day was one of our big brunches and one of the biggest as a ton of folks decided to come and celebrate again for my birthday.

The following week was Memorial Day Weekend and we decided to spend a lot of time at the pool. Tommy and Ryan came up on Friday and we went out to Motherlode with my gaybor Mike and my pal Robbie (who is now dating gaybor). Then Saturday Ryan and I shared some cocktails and hung out at the pool all day. I got to meet a bunch of new neighbors.

On Sunday, we decided to have a big bbq but we don't actually own a grill and the ones in our pool area are owned by other people so we didn't really want to use them. Tommy made a ton of food including southern BBQ Ribs. I realized as I was sitting in the pool drinking mimosas and watching the Leivas walk by me doing laundry while Tommy cooked up a storm in the house that I am terribly spoiled.

The BBQ was fun beyond belief and so many people ended up showing up. Tommy and I were worried as so many of our friends were actually out of town, we thought we wouldn't have anyone there but as it turns out there's always pals to count on to celebrate.

Then Kristin and Alley took me to the Hollywood Bowl to see Flight Of The Conchords which was a hilarious show. However, you used to be able to bring booze and food into the Bowl and now you can only bring it into a show sponsored by the LA Philharmonic who owns the Bowl, all other shows are off limits so there were a ton of people drinking and eating outside the actual venue. We ended up buying one bottle of cheap champagne, French Bread, and a six pack of Heineken at the store inside the Bowl and it was $85.00! But the actual Hollywood Bowl is beautiful. I hadn't been there before and now I might be going back to see the sing along Grease!

Memorial Day Monday was spent the same way my Birthday Monday was spent - me and Ryan saying we were going to make mimosas and head to the pool. Well I did go to the pool before anyone else woke up but after that I was done. I didn't feel well after all the drinking I had done so I just laid in bed while Alf, Tommy & Ryan watched movies in the living room.

Finally, last weekend was spent the way the Leivas really likes it - just he and I and no one else. On Saturday he went grocery shopping and I stayed home to clean and do laundry. My plan was to go to the pool while I did laundry and just as I started doing laundry one of my neighbors, Wade came in to tell me he was going to the pool. So I ended up doing laundry, and sitting at the pool talking with neighbors.

When Leivas finally got home I was in the hot tub with about four of our neighbors and we were drinking and having a good time. He ended up bringing me out a few more drinks before we all called it quits.

On Sunday, I finished up the rest of the laundry (we hadn't done any in 2 weeks) and was going to go to the pool again but ended up staying in the house watching endless episodes of the British TV Series "Afterlife" with my husband. It was wonderful.

Now this weekend is Gay Pride so stay tuned for some more adventures in this Life In La La Land.

Golden Girls Live On

2010-06-03T10:09:00.000-07:00

I posted some Golden Girls quotes a few years ago and in light of the horrific news that Miss Rue McClanahan has passed on, I thought it was the perfect eulogy to revist some of these great lines:

Blanche: Mel and I were meant to be together.
Sophia: But your thighs weren't.
Blanche: I won't stand for this (she gets up and starts to walk out)
Sophia: Take it, Dorothy!
Dorothy: But I'll bet you'll lie down for it!

Blanche: I tried giving up sex.
Dorothy: I guess you fell off the wagon.
Sophia: And on to a naval base!

Dorothy to Blanche: "Oh back off, Blanche. Not everyone has been designated by the coast guard as a friendly port"

Sophia to Blanche: "Beat it, you fifty year old mattress!"

Blanche: "Now if you excuse me, I'm going to sink into a hot tub with just enough water to, barely cover my perky bussoms"
Sophia: "You're only going to sit in an inch of water?"

Blanche to Sophia: "Well what do you know? Sophia has a past!"
Sophia: "That's right, but unlike yours I didn't need pennicilin to get through it"

Blanche: I never had to pay a penny in backtaxes. I have a way with auditors. The last time I was audited I even got money back from the government.
Sophia: Blanche, it's not a refund when the auditor leaves two twenties on your nightstand.

Rose [about her boyfriend Miles]: He makes me feel foolish. I don't even feel comfortable telling him St. Olaf stories.
Dorothy: I want to know exactly what he said to make you feel that way.

Blanche: Mel makes me feel young and beautiful and special. When we're together we laugh a lot.
Sophia: Why wouldn't you, you're both naked.

Blanche: Oh Dorothy, I just talked to somebody back home, and they are doing the most horrible thing! They are tearing down the most important building in Blanche Devereaux's family history.
Dorothy: Oh my God, they're tearing down Mattress World.

Rose: Why are you both wearing black? Did you just get back from a funeral?
Dorothy: No Rose, we were singing back-up for Johnny Cash.

Blanche: I've never been so humiliated in my life.
Dorothy: What about the time you lost the key to your handcuffs and had to go with that guy on his mail route.

Rose: Can I ask a dumb question?
Dorothy: Like no one else.

BLANCHE: What was your first impression of me?
ROSE: I thought you wore too much makeup and were a slut. [beat] But I was wrong... you don't wear that much makeup.

BLANCHE: Southern girls develop faster than Northern girls. It must be the heat.
DOROTHY: No, I think it's the gin.

Blanche: Well, you know, I have been told I bear a striking resemblence to Miss Cheryl Ladd. Although my bosoms are perkier.
Dorothy: Not even if you were hanging upside-down from a trapeze!

Rude restaurant customer: "Aren't you going to tell me to have a nice day?"
Dorothy: "I don't care if you have a pulse, much less a nice day."

Blanche: If I wasn't such a lady I would deck you.
Dorothy: Try it and you'll be on your back so fast you'll think you're on a date.

Blanche: But I've been disrobing in front of Dr. Kagan for three years. Why would he ask you for a date when he's seen the Promised Land?
Dorothy: I don't know--too many squatters?

Birthday Weekend

2010-05-21T12:01:00.000-07:00

So if you aren't on Facebook you probably have not seem my countdown to my big birthday this weekend, but it is happening - My Birthday is tomorrow and how will I be celebrating? Well I'm glad you asked.

It just so happens that my friends The Boofont Sisters are performing at Hamburger Mary's in West Hollywood - so me and 28 of my closest pals (including the sisters) are having dinner at 8 (we're so fancy) and then staying for the show which also includes Miss Tammie Brown (from season 1 of RuPaul's Drag Race). So if you can come join us - I will be accepting presents through out the evening.

Random Video

2010-05-18T13:19:00.001-07:00

Today's random song and video - Michelle Pfeiffer and her "Cool Rider"

Just A Few Fridays More

2010-05-14T09:24:00.001-07:00

I'm not sure if you know this about me but I friggin' love Pat Benatar. I grew up listening to her and I still bring out all of her albums all of the time. Well girl has written an autobiography BETWEEN A HEART AND A ROCK PLACE that will be released on June 15th and three days later on June 18th she is doing a book signing at Borders in Century City and you get bet your best shot this beatch is going to be in line and finally meet one of my fav little idols... you should too!

You can pre-order the book now at AMAZON.

Tuesday TV With The Leivas

2010-05-12T09:18:00.000-07:00

So don't read too much of this if you haven't watched UNITED STATES OF TARA, NURSE JACKIE, LOST or GLEE yet.. but that's Tuesdays at my house and here's what I have to say:

NURSE JACKIE
Again, I just friggin' love some of the characters - Dr. O'Hara is by far and away my ultimate fav. So in the last episode, the cast Jackie made for her daughter caused the kid to accidentally hit herself in the mouth requiring stitches that Dr. O'Hara put on her in the kitchen. The next day at school the teacher had some questions so Jackie and Dr. O'Hara get a town car and take care of biz.. awesome. Zoe had a ton of one liners that were hilarious and Eddie took a date to Kevin's bar where Jackie and Dr. O'Hara were having a drink.. not a good thing.

UNITED STATES OF TARA
On Nurse Jackie, she was called out for a few things by the new nurse Sam and on Tara, it seems Tara gets called out for some of her behavior. On top of being in a whole new state of art Tara creates a model house out of Marshall's liar box from last episode, and she pretty much ignores and chastises Max for just being there. At the art show, Tara's house with its bicentenial flag full of detail and her fear of fireworks makes it pretty clear we're close to figuring out what happened to her and Charmaine. Also at the art show, Marshall's new blonde slutty gay pal and the next door neighbor do some drugs in the bathroom and Max finally asks Tara if she may have created another Tara without knowing it and when she starts getting all upset that she just wants one good day, Max finally has it (and I agree with him) that he would like one himself - so he goes off to the tavern where Buck's girlfriend works... this show is so good.

LOST
What the f? The whole episode was about Jacob and his still nameless brother. It was really good though as we found out who Adam & Eve were and the white/black rocks, and a little more about the mystery of the island. I just don't know how they're going to get us answers with only 1 one hour episode left and then the 2 hour finale.. but I'm waiting with baited breath.

Finally it was GLEE and like I said last week, I just am not getting into the storylines as much as I am the songs. That is except for Kurt - I love him and his dad. That guy who plays his dad is so good and who knew since all I ever saw him on was YES,DEAR. Once Frankenteen sang "Jessie's Girl" though I became interested and finally both Puck and Mercedes were the stars of the show so all that was good. But again it was really Kurt and his dad that brought me into it. Kurt trying to be butch and straight was pretty typical I think of teen and him trying to do "Pink Houses" as a song that spoke about him was pretty interesting but once he dug into "Rose's Turn" he was back in full fierce. I guess the Glee Club is a sort of therapy, I really should have joined in high school.

And that was Tuesday with the Leivas what did you do?

Monday Blues

2010-05-11T09:06:00.000-07:00

Well I have finally recovered from yet another fun filled weekend. Friday night I went with Devin and Dylan to a place called Mr. T's that used to be a bowling alley. Shitting Glitter played with Rough Duchess and two other bands. The turn out wasn't very high but I think they all kind of expected that as the place is kind of in a strange spot - Highland Park which is just north of downtown. But to be honest the trip there from WeHo was very easy so I'm not sure what the prob was. I think all the bands had fun anyway as it kind of just turned into a big friend jam. Bonus, while I was out with Shitting Glitter Alfred painted our living room wall. I love it!

Saturday, my pals Tommy and Ryan came up from the OC and we headed out to Mickys for some drinking and fun. We ended up meeting our neighbor Mike and Dylan came along with us for extra fun.

Sunday was of course brunch and there was booze, strippers and the hot tub. But in between all of that, we watched Betty White on Saturday Night Live. I can't remember when I laughed so hard at a TV show. She is truly an American treasure.

Political Posse

2010-05-07T10:13:00.001-07:00

For years I've trying to get Alfred to run for city council of West Hollywood - he has lived here for over 25 years and knows everything there is to know about politics, but he doesn't want to do it, so that leaves me.

As silly and crazy as it sounds I am looking into running for City Council or at the very least finding someone who shares my wishes for the city. For the last 25 years the same council members have been rotating and they aren't doing as much for the city as I would like.

My first real desire to go after them was when there was an event at the West Hollywood Park. I work at the Pacific Design Center across from the park and as I walking home I saw reserved parking places for the event for John Heilman, Abbe Land and other members. We are a very progressive city including having environmentally minded laws, so why would members of the city council need reserved parking in a city that is only 1.5 square miles???

More recently Abbe Land is trying to get a law into the books regarding public cigarette smoking. She wants smoking banned from the outdoor patios of bars and restaraunts. Not only does she want this passed, she wants it to extend to the sidewalks. Needless to say the bars are not happy.

I don't care what anyone thinks about people smoking - we all know it's a fithy habit and is very bad for you, but since cigarettes are legal to smoke and you are outside and probably drinking - you can't just take the act away from people.

What really peeves me is I am almost quissessential West Hollywood - most of the people in this town are renters - I rent. I shop at the stores, I eat at the restaraunts, I drink in the bars, and I work in the city. I have never once seen Abbe Land in any of these places nor have I seen her walking down the street as I walk to and from work.

Recently there was an 'art attack' protest at a council meeting started by the two men who own the house that garnered them national attention with their Sarah Palin hanging model on Halloween a few years back. They were protesting against three members - Abbe and her crazy need for any and all real estate development in the city, John Heilman who has been on the board over 25 years and a woman named Lindsay who became a member by the other members bringing her in rather than a vote. It all seems like it's time for a change..

and that my friends is my political rant for the day.

Tuesdays with the Leivas

2010-05-05T09:56:00.000-07:00

I know it sounds like my life is full of endless partying and living loose but it's all glam and damn in my La La world, in fact most of my nights are spent having dinner with the hubby and watching endless TV shows.

Tuesday with the Leivas consisted of back to back Shotime shows, with "Nurse Jackie" and "The United States Of Tara" - which if you aren't watching you really should. "Nurse Jackie" is kind of a crap shoot with me, I love love some of the characters and practically loathe some of the others - Jackie's husband has turned into a jackass and her pharmacist boyfriend is crazy and dirty.. but her pal Dr. O'Hara kicks ass and I love her.

"The United States Of Tara" stars Toni Collette as a mother and wife with disassociate order and the last episode kicked ass culimating with her teenage gay son actually standing up and telling everyone what he thinks of them - he, it would appear, is the most normal of the bunch. But Toni Collette knocked it out of the ball park as usual.

Then it was a new episode of "Lost" which I won't spoil but let's just say I am PISSED! I cried and cried and then got pissed some more... only a few episodes left and it is good but boy did they make me sad and mad...

then a new "Glee" with special guest star Olivia Newton-John. Anyone who knows me knows I hold Miss ONJ in the highest regard but bitch should not mess with her face. She looks like she stepped out of Rodeo Drive with her new LA Face. It's not becoming at all. But at least she can still sing and she was pretty hilarious listing off all of her accomplishments. Plus her new version of "Physical" with Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) auto tuned beyond any possible recognition was still cool. Plus the "Run Joey Run" song and of course one of my all time favs "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" were cool. Too bad the storytelling is getting so horrid.. I am pretty close to givien up on it.

And that my friends was my Tuesday - what'd you do?

Tanya Tucker Reloads

2010-05-01T10:57:00.000-07:00

A few years ago I went and made Bubbatunes of all the Tanya Tucker albums not readily on CD, as is usually the case, people find my blog at other times and all the links are now dead, so here to all you TT fans are the 11 Days of Tanya Tucker reloads going new to old:

GIRLS LIKE ME
CHANGES

Karma's Bitch

2010-05-01T10:53:00.000-07:00

For some reason I've been strangely aware of karma the last few weeks. A few days ago I found a dollar bill sitting on the steps of my apartment so I put it in my pocket and smoked a cigarette. After thinking about it, I ended up putting the dollar back where I had found it. I don't know why it just felt like the right thing to do.

Then on Friday I went and had a smoke at work and found a white lighter on a bench. I put it in my pocket and smoked a cig, then I realized karma's a bitch and in the best case scenerio someone would end up stealing both of my lighters and in the worst case scenerio someone might set me on fire. So I put the lighter back where I found it.

It may have worked cuz last night my pal Marc called and he is getting us tickets to the Go Go's last show (they are retiring from touring together) and since I've missed every single time the Go Go's have played in LA; karma may have helped me out this time.

Then I went back to drinking and listening to Lita Ford songs - cuz that's how Fridays roll here in La La Land.

Random Video

2010-04-28T09:44:00.001-07:00

So this is downright hilarious.. no matter what song you put on here, the video totally works with it. I've decided to use a remix of Rock Hard and you can watch it now.. hilarious.
http://tubedubber.com/#zZnXCX1Qx2Y:2o_OZXtQi48:0:100:2:0:true

The Lisa Hartman Fix

2010-04-22T09:40:00.000-07:00

let's start out our day with a little religulous music - here's my girl Lisa Hartman singing "Jehovah" from KNOTS LANDING ... love it