It's been quite a week and it seems I have plans all the way through to Monday, luckily there are a few of my favorite things to look forward to.
First the Leivas and I had a relaxing Sunday where we watched a couple of horror flicks, one not so good (the remake of "It's Alive") and one so good I can't recommend it enough. I can't even believe the movie was rated PG-13 as that normally means it's going to suck.. but no, this one had me jumping and yelling at the screen - it was awesome and you must all rent it - the little ditty known as Drag Me To Hell
Tonight I'm heading off to Here Lounge in West Hollywood cuz my friends Shitting Glitter are having their CD release party. Yes, 3 years in the making the new album Open For Business is finally here at HERE.. so if you're in the hood you must check it out! Plus they'll be playing and previewing their new video - which I do believe has yours truly making a cameo in it. Here's a little video of the song "Legalese" from the new album - it's one of my favs and should be one of yours too...
And tomorrow night, the one movie I've been so looking forward to 2012 is playing at Arc Light and the Leivas and I have already made our date night plans. I can't even wait to see this one the big screen. Let's hope I don't lose control and think the whole is a fortune telling documentary.
I went to the dentist today and as I've stated before (and will again and again) I hate the dentist. If the actual act of having someone fingering around inside my head isn't bad or gross enough, the bill at the end of it all drives me nuts. Why oh why can't my teeth be pretty all on their own? Well no matter that I can't sip water without running it all the way down my shirt, it still reminds me of one of my favorite things - the Pat Benatar video for Anxiety, so let's enjoy it together okay?
I don't know how many of you are watching Glee, but it really is a great little show and a few episodes back they did a little song and dance number to "Say A Little Prayer" which seems to be the biggest thing to hit the You Tube waves since Beyonce's "Single Ladies" and here is my ultimate favorite rendition:
I spend way too much time online reading various blogs - there's DListed - with its wry sassy celebrity bitches, and www.towleroad.com for both celebrity mongering and politics, and Pam's House Blend for LGBT politics, and now I have a new favorite here is http://www.goodasyou.org/ a gay political news blog run by a guy named Jeremy Hooper. I read it every day and like he says it's a new wave of gay politics.. check it out if you so desire.
Here we are again celebrating the things that I love - so let's start with two of my favorite things - food and TV...
Last night was the season premiere of The New Adventures Of Old Christine, and I'm sure it's been one of my favorites before but I frickin' love this show. Julia Louis Dreyfuss is HI-larious and I don't know why, but I totally relate to her 40 something divorcee, plus Wanda Sykes is in it and everyone on the show is great! It makes me laugh out loud like so many other sitcoms do not do. Then there's Palermo's Italian Restaraunt in Los Feliz, which I always forget until someone invites me to it for a celebration. Yesterday was a birthday celebration for one of my pals at the restaraunt. The food is sooo good, the atmosphere is fun and the neighborhood is great. Right in the heart of the Los Feliz area, it's two blocks from where I lived when I first moved to LA. Which brings us to our last favorite of the week - Seattle, Washington. How does that relate to a random pizzaria in LA?? Well the apartment I had when I first moved to LA and lived just two blocks away from that pizzeria was shared with my pal Brian. Actually it was his apartment and I just crashed there, but he moved to Seattle and tomorrow the Leivas and I are heading up to the land of the Space Needle for a reunion with Brian and my pal Patrick from Orange Television. I spent all my time in the world known as Couer d'Alene, Idaho with Brian and Patrick. Patrick got me started into making my own music and helped create Swivek and this will be the first time I will have seen him since I moved in 2000. That's a lot of time and it's going to be one hell of a time... oh and I've been to Seattle many times and no generally love it too - but it's the people I'm meeting in Seattle that's truly one of my favorite things.
The film Coraline - absolutely lovable - dark and dingy like The Corpse Bride but funny and hilarious (thanks to Dawn French & Jennifer Saunders to name a few) and hilarious animation of Teri Hatchetface.. Rent it - you'll love it. We rented it in 3D and thanks to the glasses they gave us in the Blu Ray for My Bloody Valentine 3D we got to see it in all its glory. and finally today is the birthday of one of my all time fav celebrities - Miss Cassandra Peterson or Elvira, the Mistress of the Dark. If you haven't seen her 1988 film or Elvira's Haunted Hills, you're only abusing yourself...
Welcome to this week's edition of A Few Of My Favorite Things... so let's get to it.
My whole frickin' life (all of these 20-something years huh umm) I've wanted a Ford Mustang - just about any version of the car would do. One of my earliest TV memories is of Farrah Fawcett and Cheryl Ladd driving the white with blue striped Ford Mustang Cobra II on Charlie's Angels and then today I was walking to work and I saw a brand new Mustang with the same paint job and it is now one of my favorite things - though instead of the classic Shelby name I think they should've called it the Munroe Edition since it was driven by Jill and Kris Munroe on Charlie's Angels.
A video shot of my pals Shitting Glitter and Rich N. Famous performing "I'm A Vampire" at Eleven this past Tuesday.
And after you've the genius that are my friends in Shitting Glitter, drop on in on this hilarious website where people post pictures of well, like it says Awkward Boners... no nudes, that's not really awkward, just poor boys who get snapped for having a little extra something going on in their pants at some more inopportune moments.
I know I normally do these on Thursday but tomorrow is a special day (more to come on that tomorrow in fact) so I'm going to show you a few of my favorite things this week.
Forever and a day I've been looking for this and it occassionally enters my mind and luckily this time I found it on You Tube. It's one of my favorite scenes ever from a TV show - it's Samantha Stephens from BEWITCHED being her cousin Serena and singing a song called "Iffin"... It's so great. Now all I have to do is reconfigure my computer so I can download it and make it into an mp3.. you can bet your bootie you'll be seeing it on here if I ever get there. For now enjoy the enjoyable:
Next up, one of my new favorite shows - imagine if you were a semi selfish 24 year old model who headlined into a fruit truck and decided it wasn't your time to die, so you and your guardian angel jump back into the world only you find yourself in a 32 year old semi chunky lawyer - yes it's DROP DEAD DIVA - and let me tell you it is actually really great. The lead actress Brooke Elliot is awesome. Then there's Maragaret Cho as her assistant and most importantly there is April Bowlby as her best friend. April was super awesome on Two & A Half Men and now she's just as great here. Check it out!
and my favorite thing so far this week is my last two week ritual of Sundays hanging out at my pool with pals and drinking mimosas... I do have a charmed life sometimes.
Okay so I'm a sucker and a half for disaster flicks and I was always wondering why there wasn't one regarding 2012 which according to some scholars of the Mayan calender is when the world will cease to be.. well the boys who brought us The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day are releasing 2012 and the first trailer from a few months ago looked cool but this new one looks downright incredible - I can't even wait... so here is a new favorite thing - the 2012 Movie Trailer:
This week has been a bit of a beatch, though I must say I am finally feeling better and it's probably because of my new favorite thing:
Echinaecia - it's a wonder herb I tell you = okay I'm not really sucking on the flower but I did start taking it in pill form and I'm not saying it's the only reason my cough and cold went away but I bet it certainly helped.
and then in order to make myself feel a little better while the Leivas runs downstairs to work out, I like to pour a glass of milk and eat my thin mints. That's how I roll and finally
Oh my gawd! I'm so glad someone found this little clip because it is pure genius. Collected is a whole slew of some of the best and most awesome scenes from my beloved Knots Landing show - done by some very excellant character actors! You have to see it to believe it - and if you're a fan of the show you're going to just about die because the one queen can get Joan Van Ark's mannerisms down like well, like Joan Van Ark!
It's Thursday so it's time to look at a few of my favorite things this week:
First, is one of the only reality shows I watch. No, we're not back to So You Think You Can Dance, instead it's that fierceness known as Ru Paul and her Drag Race show - where she tries to find the newest and baddest drag queen. I love this show and they do great challenges and they're not too bitchy, but bitchy enough to be entertaining and in last week's final moments, Miss Ongina won and freaked out, bawling and crying like a woman down to her last Mac compact only to reveal why she was so crazed. It made me blubber. If you don't have Logo - don't fear, you can watch it all online at the website! Watch the latest episode!
For Christmas, I bought my sister the same webcam that the Leivas bought me LOGITECH QUICKCAM PRO 9000. Not only did it provide me with the first Swivek video 'Flirt' but it actually helps me hang with my homies back home. For Christmas, my sister and I set our cameras up and the Leivas and I were able to have Christmas with my sister, brother in law, nephew and my mommy all via webcam. We got to open presents, drink wine and laugh and laugh. Last night, my sister and I hooked them up again so I could witness the hilarious genius that is my nephew Evan. Plus this camera has all kinds of options and a crystal clear picture. It's one of the best purchases I've ever recieved as a gift.
Speaking of nephews, my best high school pal Melsie has a son who is going to be a video genius. My godson and 'nephew' by default Zion and his pals are always coming up with clever little mini movies. In fact I'm going to have him do a Swivek video very very soon. Anyway, his film troupe FINAL KINGDOM13 have their own You Tube webpage. check them out here. And here's one for your immediate pleasure:
This week has me reminiscing all about the late great eras gone by, and this brings us to this week's list of my favorite things.
I got a belated Christmas box from my second family this week and inside was one of my favorite things - my Mama Jean made me banana bread. I love her cooking and I love her banana bread.... and so does Leivas who has been having a piece of bread with his breakfast every morning.
Knee socks - these things were what every one wore in the 70's and early 80's and I can't help but loving the look of them with shorts. I am quite surprised I got through gym class without passing out if this look is so sexy to me... perhaps I'm just a tad touched but I can tell you I'm stopping at American Apparel and buying myself some.
and then there's little hilarious little website called http://www.cracked.com/ which runs down list after list of such great things as the commercials they don't want you to see, the 13 real life soldiers who make Rambo look like a pussy and the worst album covers of all time. It's great and addicting and once I go there, I'm looking through old list after list after list.
So those are my favorite things this week - what are some of yours?
It's that time of the week again - a little look at some of my favorite things:
The New Adventures Of Old Christine - I may have talked about this little sitcom before but it is so frickin' hilarious I laugh out loud at every single episode. I just can't believe how much I relate to the whack job lead character. I mean I'm nowhere near my forties, I don't have a kid, I'm not divorced and what else, oh yeah I'm not a woman... but oh well for some reason I'm a lot like Christine... you should check it out on Wednesdays on CBS if you aren't already watching. Also the first two seasons are on DVD - rent them you'll laugh. (and think of me)
Uncle Brad - being an uncle is so cool when you've got nifty little nephews like mine. My oldest nephew is actually not in this picture as that title goes to my godson Zion but I'm sure he'll make an appearance on this list sometime soon... meanwhile here's Jared, who is going into the (gulp) Marines this month!! and of course you know Evan - the saintly handsomest little prince ever... In fact I love these kids so much I wrote a song called "First Born Son" about my nephews, now if only I could sing it without Auto Tune fricking me over.
and finally that little space known as Facebook. The only reason I ever joined Facebook is because a couple of my friends were on there who weren't on My Space and they would meet up for drinks on Wednesdays and I didn't want to miss out on a Happy Hour.
Meanwhile the very first email I ever got through Facebook was from a gal named Candi who sent me a note - "Did you go to school in Rhinelander. I think you were my best friend in high school." And what do you know I was! The girl has been looking for me for all these years and we finally found each other ... she loves me so much she even gave her first born son my name as his middle name... now that's something my sister, brother and best pal Melsie (the aforementioned nephews' parents) never did... but I'm not bovvered.
It's Thursday and you know what that means don't you? Okay, it's been awhile so I'll remind you, it's my list of A Few Of My Favorite Things -
For Christmas, the Leivas bought me something I didn't even know I wanted... a Zune player. This thing is so great. It holds every single song I had on my computer, plus videos, pictures and I can take it anywhere I go - plus it hooks up to stereos and it doesn't take a million years to load up or try to get through songs like my phone does... I love this thing... plus the Leivas got me a fairly higher model so when the crash came it didn't affect me one bit.. now I can show everyone vids of my nephew and Swivek just by whipping out my zune..
Date Nights with the Leivas - while we were on vacation, the Leivas and I didn't do all that much but we did have a couple of date nights. The best one was by far the night he took me to Micelli's in Hollywood - my all time favorite restaraunt and then to the Egyptian Theater to see "EARTHQUAKE"!!! I know huh? It was Disaster month at the Egyptian and they were showing "The Towering Inferno", "Black Sunday", "The Hindenberg" and "Earthquake" with the original sense surround which makes it feel like there's a real earthquake happening while it's happening on screen... I love disaster movies and this was so cool!
and finally, I don't know if you know this about me but I love my music and am obsessed with charts - particularly the upper regions of the charts (as in above top 40) and I have almost every single chart book from the pop charts, British charts, country charts, album charts, all of them. The only problem is they come out with new ones every couple of years and I have to constantly buy them.. in fact I have a new one for pop and pop albums should anybody be interested in buying one of the older ones for cheaper than you'll find on Amazon....
It's that time again - a run down of my favorite things -
This week I'm celebratingOLD TV SHOWS ON DVD! With the exciting news that Knots Landing Season 2 is coming to DVD in April, and the fact that I finally got (for fairly cheap) the second season of Charlie's Angels (with my beloved Kris Munroe), and the fifth season of Three's Company comes even more news - one of my all time favs RHODA is coming to DVD on April 21st! I can't even believe it - that means Phyllis can't be far behind (right?). I love these old shows so much I even spend most of my Netflix watching Family, Police Woman (which I bought cuz it's soooo gooood!), The Muppet Show and Laverne & Shirley. Ah, old TV on DVD.
Bette Midler - I've always loved the Divine Miss M, and my sister loves her too so for years I've been buying up all the old Bette Midler CD's (they're all remastered) and send them to Denice, but since I did that I started buying my own copies and her old albums are really quite interesting. Usually combining some show tune type of songs with old girl group stuff and a few well paced and placed ballads, her albums are all very eclectic and I can see how she became to be the force that she is. The best so far include the outrageously disco-ish Thighs & Whispers, Bette Midler, her second album which is way crazy but really good, and Live At Last which I didn't think I'd care for but it's so energetic it feels like you really are there.
Christmas Songs - I just love them! I can't even help it. I have to put on my Santa hat and the christmas tunes before I can even wrap a present or think about decorating my tree. In fact, I was so inspired this year I'm recording a few of my own favorites and I'm listening to some A Very Bradley Christmas Collection right now.
A VERY BRADLEY CHRISTMAS COLLECTION
Volume 1 - 1. A Holly Jolly Christmas (Burl Ives) 2. Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (Brenda Lee) 3. All I Want For Christmas (Mariah Carey) 4. The Christmas Song (Nat King Cole) 5. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Pointer Sisters) 6. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Pretenders) 7. I'll Be Home With Bells On (Dolly & Kenny) 8. Blue Christmas (Elvis Presley) 9. Please Come Home For Christmas (Pat Benatar) 10. Little Drummer Boy (Joan Jett) 11. Homo Christmas (Pansy Division) 12. Silver Bells (Tanya Tucker) 13. Do You Hear What I Hear? (Whitney Houston) 14. It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (Johnny Matthis) 15. O Christmas Tree (Miles Davis) 16. Silent Night (Stevie Nicks) 17. Sleigh Ride (Debbie Gibson) 18. Feliz Navidad (Jose Feliciano) 19. Early Christmas Morning (Cyndi Lauper) 20. Fairtytale Of New York (Kirsty MacColl & The Pogues) 21. Santa Baby (Madonna) 22. Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer (Gene Autrey) 23. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (John Mellencamp) 24. I'll Be Home For Christmas (Dean Martin)
Volume 2 - 1. The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year (Perry Como) 2. Here Comes Santa Claus (Burl Ives) 3. Frosty The Snowman (America) 4. Let's Make A Baby King (Wynonna) 5. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Andy Williams) 06. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) (U2) 07. Do They Know It's Christmas (Band Aid) 08. Christmas Rapping (The Waitresses) 09. What Child Is This? (Tanya Tucker) 10. Jingle Bell Rock (George Strait) 11. Last Christmas (Wham!) 12. The First Noel (Natalie Cole) 13. Joy To The World 14. Winter Wonderland (Eurythmics) 15. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Garth Brooks) 16. Jingle Bells Dance (Techno Christmas) 17. Father Christmas (The Kinks) 18. White Christmas (Bing Crosby) 19. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (Martina McBride) 20. The Coventry Carol (Alison Moyet) 21. Mele Kalikimaka (Hawaiin Christmas) (Bing Crosby) 22. O Come All Ye Faithful (City High) 23. Turkey Lurkey Time (The Company from 'Camp') 24. Christmas Is The Time To Say I Love You (Billy Squier) 25. We Three Kings (Vienna Boys Choir) 26. We Wish You A Merry Christmas (The Muppets and John Denver)
I know it's been awhile, but it's back - the Favorite Things posts - just like Oprah.
So here are a few of my favorite things:
TRUE BLOOD on HBO - This vampire series is based on a series of books by Charlaine Harris and I bought the first one Dead Until Dark a few years ago at the West Hollywood Book Fair and let me just tell you - I loved the characters name Sookie (who can read minds) but the book was not all that great. The story is cool, Sookie is a waitress in Louisiana who can mysteriously read minds, meanwhile vampires have come out of the closet thanks to a Japanese inventor who created TruBlood, a blood synthetic. Sookie falls for Bill, the vampire all amidst a series of random murders. But the book just didn't do it for me, in fact it is THE only book I ever started and not finished.
But the TV series produced and written by Allan Ball from Six Feet Under, is excellant. It was just nominated for two Golden Globes including Best TV series and Best Actress for Anna Paquin who plays Sookie. Though I almost think she's the weakest link in the show as the character of Tara played by Rutina Wesley totally rocks my world. Every Sunday we had TRUE BLOOD nights with a bunch of pals coming over, having dinner and watching the series. Now the season is over but you can catch up and watch them on HBO or online at http://www.hbo.com/trueblood/..Here's some of Tara's best moments from just the very first episode:
JON STEWART - I have always loved this guy and I have to admit I think he's really hawt.. there's just something about him, but anyhoos, the other night he had Mike Huckabee on his show, and Mike was promoting his book where he talks about how all people are important and the same... which is when Jon took him to task for not believing gay people are the same... here's the clip:
and finally CHRISTMAS TREES!!! I love, love Christmas trees and Christmas lights and Christmas carols, and hot cocoa in front of the lit tree and Christmas presents... and tonight the Leivas and I are making our annual pilgrimage to Home Depot to pick out our tree. I can't even wait! On a side note, my sister is married to a lumberjack and lives in the Northwoods of Wisconsin and has a FAKE Christmas tree! I don't get it.
It seems I just can't win these days - First the whole H8 thing still has me on edge, so much so I've yet to fully embrace the happiness of having Obama as president. Then I was going to post my new favorite things yesterday and found out one of them is going to be gone...
LIPSTICK JUNGLE - was a little soap that started last season starring Lindsay Price, Brooke Shields and Kim Raver as three friends in New York City. Based on a book by the hack who brought us Sex In The City, I was actually very entertained by the series. The friendship of the three leads was light years way more believable than that of those desperate hags. (Though I still watch the damn show). Plus it had Andrew McCarthy in it and I have always loved him. The character of Nico (Raver) had a young hot lover then her husband had a heart attack, Wendy (Brooke) was the head of a movie studio and this season has a facially abused Mary Tyler Moore (I love her) as her mother, and Victory was a fashion designer and dating billionaire.
It had a bit of Knots Landing in it for me because of the added humor and actual believablity of the characters - no ting ting ting music like Desparate to let you know the part is funny. Just real life women hanging out and living life - but alas like anything I like it was announced yesterday that the show is cancelled - so look for the DVDs soon!
Then I got my new Rolling Stone the other day with their list of the top 100 Rock Singers and I just about stabbed my eyes while looking through the list. I agree with quite a few but umm (and I know I'm biased) where in the f*****k is Pat Benatar - the only person who has won 4 Grammys in a row for Best ROCK performance VOCAL! Not to mention the fact she can sing and sing and chose to use her high octave voice to sing rock - and where is DEBBIE HARRY! And where is Ann Wilson from Heart! You too can read the list and realize the injustice once again done to your poor Bradley.
Here's the entire list, from 100 to 1:
100 Mary J. Blige 99 Steven Tyler 98 Stevie Nicks 97 Joe Cocker 96 B.B. King 95 Patti LaBelle 94 Karen Carpenter 93 Annie Lennox 92 Morrissey 91 Levon Helm 90 The Everly Brothers 89 Solomon Burke 88 Willie Nelson 87 Don Henley 86 Art Garfunkel 85 Sam Moore 84 Darlene Love 83 Patti Smith 82 Tom Waits 81 John Lee Hooker 80 Frankie Valli 79 Mariah Carey 78 Sly Stone 77 Merle Haggard 76 Steve Perry 75 Iggy Pop 74 James Taylor 73 Dolly Parton 72 John Fogerty 71 Toots Hibbert 70 Gregg Allman 69 Ronnie Spector 68 Wilson Pickett 67 Jerry Lee Lewis 66 Thom Yorke 65 David Ruffin 64 Axl Rose 63 Dion 62 Lou Reed 61 Roger Daltrey 60 Björk 59 Rod Stewart 58 Christina Aguilera 57 Eric Bourdon 56 Mavis Staples 55 Paul Rodgers 54 Luther Vandross 53 Muddy Waters 52 Brian Wilson 51 Gladys Knight 50 Bonnie Raitt 49 Donny Hathaway 48 Buddy Holly 47 Jim Morrison 46 Patsy Cline 45 Kurt Cobain 44 Bobby "Blue" Bland 43 George Jones 42 Joni Mitchell 41 Chuck Berry 40 Curtis Mayfield 39 Jeff Buckley 38 Elton John 37 Neil Young 36 Bruce Springsteen 35 Dusty Sprinfield 34 Whitney Houston 33 Steve Winwood 32 Bono 31 Howlin' Wolf 30 Prince 29 Nina Simone 28 Janis Joplin 27 Hank Williams 26 Jackie Wilson 25 Michael Jackson 24 Van Morrison 23 David Bowie 22 Etta James 21 Johnny Cash 20 Smokey Robinson 19 Bob Marley 18 Freddie Mercury 17 Tina Turner 16 Mick Jagger 15 Robert Plant 14 Al Green 13 Roy Orbison 12 Little Richard 11 Paul McCartney 10 James Brown 09 Stevie Wonder 08 Otis Redding 07 Bob Dylan 06 Marvin Gaye 05 John Lennon 04 Sam Cooke 03 Elvis Presley 02 Ray Charles 01 Aretha Franklin
This week's favorite things are a potpourri of things from people to TV to holidays -
So what are my favorite things this week? First and foremost THE VOTE NO ON 8 PROTESTERS! I love these guys, hanging out on the sidewalk with big signs. This week they've been on the corner of Santa Monica and San Vicente with two guys in tuxes joining them today. It makes me so proud to live here when I hear all the horns beeping in support as they drive by on their way to work and such. One woman on a bicycle even rang her little bell in support. This makes me happy for obvious reasons but also because two scary instances recently hit me - one we drove to the godforsaken place known as the Valley (Burbank) to buy a computer and there on someone's front lawn was a HUGE YES ON 8 sign. I told the Leivas to stop the car cause I was going to go rip it out of the lawn and beat the person with it. He did not stop.
Then on my way to work about a week ago parked on the street in my neighborhood - the heart of gay friendly West Hollywood some loser had a yes on 8 bumper sticker. I told the Leivas I was going to come back and put a no on 8 sticker over it - he wouldn't let me..
and finally the No on 8 people rang me up to make sure I was voting NO, I told them I was recently married and both my husband and I would be voting NO, and then they wanted me to sign up to inform people on election day, I told them I worked all day but they are persistant and keep calling me... I can't do it though - they want me to go to Long Beach, and I work until 5 o'clock and then have to go vote myself, by the time I would get to Long Beach voting would be over - so to all those (including some of my best pals) that are doing their best to get the word out - you are my FAVORITE THING this week...
Then there's good old HALLOWEEN - I love Halloween - even though every single year I wait until the very last minute to come up with a costume. This year's costume is going to be such a surprise - I don't even know what it is yet. But tonight is the big WEST HOLLYWOOD HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL - and the costumes people come up with are so frickin' amazing, it's something everyone has to attend at least once.
and finally - ROGER from the TV series American Dad! is such a complete riot I can't help but put him on my list. It appears that some people (my husband and my friend Luther) insist this would be Uncle Arthur (from Bewitched) dressed as an alien reminds them of ME! So perhaps I sense next year's Halloween costume. Here's a clip:
First and foremost on this week's list of a FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS is Happy Hour! How I love happy hour. For years and years (I maybe exaggerating) my pal and I would have Monday Night Amy Cissell Happy Hour which sometimes wasn't even on Monday, and surely didn't last only an hour but always always involved Amy Cissell and the Fiesta Cantina. Now that I walk to work and half to walk past all the West Hollywood bars on my way home, I sometimes dream my pal Amy Cissell will be sitting at Fiesta as I walk by - which of course means I would turn around and walk right into that bar... Last night as I walking home, my pals Howie, Pachuli and Scott were sitting right there at Fiesta, so imagine my sheer delight as I joined them For Wednesday Night Howie Pachuli Scott Happy Hour
In my big TV screening post of yesterday I forgot three very important shows that I also watch including "Chuck" which is exciting and hilarious, "Sordid Lives" which is funny and full of Livvie and the Thursday night glory known as "Ugly Betty" which has its season 3 premiere tonight! Here's an awesome little scene from last year featuring Vanessa Williams (super super excellent) as Wilemena and her assistant Marc... love it:
and finally, this may seem a bit weird to you all - but only if you don't really know me I think. A few years ago it occured to me I had some random Crystal Gayle songs on my computer and after listening to them, I was pulled back to being a kid when my mom used to have the 8 tracks for When I Dream and Miss The Mississippi, Crystal's 1978 & 1979 albums respectively.
It was then that I started conjuring up all the big hits Miss Gayle had during the late 70s and 80's and realized I do love her. So when a 2 for CD of her albums We Must Believe In Magic and When I Dream came out last year I bought it, and then to my utter shock, dismay and I hate to admit it, excitement, all of her albums from 1979 through 1989 have been released on CD as two fers - I am not ashamed (and I don't care who knows it) to admit that I bought all four of the CDs so I now have on CD - Miss The Missisippi & These Days, Hollywood, Tennessee & True Love, Cage The Songbird & Nobody Wants To Be Alone and Straight To The Heart & Nobody's Angel... and they all come with all the lyrics and liner notes and in remastered sound.. plus I didn't even pay all that much for them, and to me they're priceless.... don't you judge me or I may just have to burn you some Crystal and you won't be laughing for long..
What another week of total crapola - in good news I think there are only a few more little probs to work out on the new Swivek album and I'm also done with the mixing on the Shitting Glitter song so then I may just may be able to work on something else, like oh I don't know a couple Swivek videos! Thanks to my brand new favortie thing - our new video camera:
I can't wait to start doing some videos though the main reason I bought was to film our wedding, still the Leivas is all jammed to head out somewhere to film a Swivek song, now I just need a couple concepts - so bring them on!
For something even more humorous than me, we turn to one of my all time fav gals - Jennifer Coolidge. The other night I was watching my new strange obsession, the Secret Lives Of The American Teenager when who should show up as a prostitute (hired by the kid with Down's Syndrome no less), but Miss Coolidge. It made me remember how much I love her - she did a super awesome episode of Friends, complete with a fake British accent, the Legally Blonde movies, Stifler's mom in the American Pie movies, Joey, and the list goes on and on... Here she is in Joey (and this is just for starters:)
another buxomy though quite a bit more petite blonde makes our last of my favorite things this week - it's the completely unreleased album Changing Faces by EG Daily. I didn't even know this album existed until I hopped in my pal Marc's car as we headed to the valley to see EG perform at Universal City Walk.. I was fazed with jealousy when I heard the great tunes coming out of that stereo but as luck would have it, not only did Marc introduce me to the last of three Valley Girl main stays (I've met Josie Cotton & Deborah Foreman you know!), but the CD was also for sale. So I got me a signed copy and I've been listening to it since... it's full of cool tunes, tender ballads, dance songs and straight up pop including two covers of her own songs, "Heart Don't Lie" and "Just For You" plus a remix of "Say It Say It"... I hope to heck she releases this one soon cause people need to hear it. It's now one of my favorites by the girl... and here's the video from the night I saw her singing Say It Say It, Smelly Cat (she was on Friends too!) and the new single Beautiful! If you're lucky you see me somewhere in there when the camera man pans (but I doubt it, even though I was right in front of her!)
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.
