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":
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....
Tomorrow the Leivas and I have our last night of the Paley Festival and we get to go to the panel with the cast of Glee! I can not even wait.
After we get over the glittery gals of glee we are heading to the Cat Club to see the glittery shenanigans of Shitting Glitter - hope to see all of you LA kiddies there too! The show starts at 9:30 and as you can see from the pic - the Shitting Glitter band has expanded into something even more exciting....
The brand new Swivek single "Rock Hard" is out now and available to buy as mp3 on Amazon.com! You get the album version, a faboo remix by Shitting Glitter, a grungy drrty remix by Turbo Sunshine and a dance trance remix by Orange Television - all for under $4 - JUST CLICK THIS LINK
Music video edit for the Shitting Glitter remix of "Rock Hard" by Swivek off their new album, "Everybody Hates You," available on iTunes and at CDBaby.com. Original song written by, performed and produced by Swivek/Bradley Jacobson. Remix by Devin Tait for Shitting Glitter/Decadrisco Productions. Additional instruments, vocals, and productions by Devin Tait.
This is going to be the year for Swivek. The new CD EVERYBODY HATES YOU is now available for sale at CD Baby and on ITunes, and will be available at more places by the end of the month.
In December we filmed a video for the forthcoming single "Rock Hard." Devin Tait Strecker of Decadrisco Productions (and Shitting Glitter) directed and edited the video and it is now here for all of my fans (hi you two) to enjoy:
It's taking a bit longer than expected but you can bet your little booties that the new Swivek album EVERYBODY HATES YOU is coming. Finally, after months of debate I have the final sequencing and track list, we have the photo shoot done and we are shooting a video for the first single "Rock Hard" on December 5th - so keep checking back cuz things are going to be coming fast and furious.
In other rock and roll news, my pals in Shitting Glitter have a brand new album out called Open For Business which you can and should buy at their website http://www.shittingglitter.com/ and they even shot their video for the song "19th & Lexington" which if you look really closely in the first couple of seconds you will see a certain little blonde Swivek-y boy! So check it out! and buy the album you'll love it!
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.
Last night while innocently walking home from my job, I saw a rare and beautiful site - my pal Amy sitting at the balcony of Eleven having a glass of wine, so of course I had to stop in and say hi, which always involves happy hour Captain & Cokes... what can you do? I also ran into a few other pals and we ended up playing Trivia until about 9 when some bitchy queens cheated and took away our championship!
And it looks like the rest of the week could be just as fun. Tomorrow night, the Leivas and I scored our tickets for the ''scariest'' movie ever Paranormal Activity, then on Friday it's our one year wedding anniversary! and (psst don't tell anyone but) Alf's birthday is Sunday.
Next weekend we are finally shooting the cover for the new Swivek CD and I am even gearing up to do a live show (don't get too excited yet but I think it just might happen)
And tonight I get to see all my pals including Chris Freeman from Pansy Division who will be playing bass for my favorite LA band, Shitting Glitter! Look at the flyer and if you're near Hollywood come out to the show, it's going to be great!
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've lived in LA now for almost ten years and I have to say my life has never been better. Sure I have kind of a crap job but hey I get to walk to work, I get hang out on the 'net every now and then while I'm working and I actually make some money and what the heck everyone has to work and I think it's fairly rare people actually like their job...
But more importantly than what I do from 9-5 M-F is all the fun and excitement I have all of those other hours and days. I have accumulated some of the coolest people as friends, all with varying degrees of wit, wisdom and talent. Forever I've loved hanging out with people with musical interest and talent, or writers or even something so remotely strange as actually reading books and the newspaper.
A few weeks ago I made a new pal named K who is so cool and so much like me it's amazing we didn't meet sooner. Last night I took K out with me to Eleven where my friends from Shitting Glitter performed as part of a Benefit for AIDS Project LA. The show was great, the other acts were great, and my friends were great.
Between all the people I have met in LA and the great pals I've had for years before, and of course the life with Leivas, my pool, the endless supply of sunshine, Captain Morgan and fun - I just feel extremely lucky and happy and wanted to share with both of you - my beloved blog pals.
Tonight my pals Shitting Glitter will be playing a set at the WeHo bar Eleven as part of the APLA Benefit and I will be there.... so you should be too!
Here's the flyer and the info:
Event: Run Robbin Run Where: Eleven Restaurant, Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm Address: 8811 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, CA Cost: $10 Donation at door
Whew! This weekend was one hoot after another, and you all know how much I love my hoots.
On Friday, I accidentally stumbled into two bottles of wine and made periodic phone calls to people and then on Saturday, the Leivas and I hit Big 5 Sports so we could buy some little water shoes for our big trip to the Mexi Riviera next month, and then my pal Marc and I headed up to Book Soup where Jon Giloni from Pansy Division was going to read from his autobiographry and do a couple of songs...
that's right Pansy Division has a bunch of new items coming out - first there's the autobiography which from what Jon read and what I've read so far is awesome - any of us who are a little off kilter from the big gay scene as in the club thumping and E taking will enjoy this jaunt about another one of us who had more in common with the Ramones than Judy Garland and Beyonce.
Then next week comes a video directed by Chris Freeman all about the band and gasp! A brand new album called That's So Gay.
Because Marc rox we got to hang a bit with both Chris and Jon as Marc is old pals with Chris. It was super cool and the new songs are super cool including my new all time fav track "Pat Me On The Ass". Luckily for us there were advances of the vid and the CD so I'm in the know kiddies...
then Saturday night was the new monthly get together by Shitting Glitter HOT PURSUIT that included not only SG but Slowmo Erotic, a super fun little band, Alaska Thunderfuck in all her glory and an a crazy band called That's What She Said which was a complete riot. I have to say it's so cool to have pals that are so talented and doing what they love....
For the new Pansy Division here are the links - buy them! buy them!
The brand new Swivek single is now available for free download!
You can head over to the OFFICIAL SWIVEK WEBSITE and you can get not one, but two fabulous new songs by Swivek including the exclusive b-side 'THE KICK INSIDE' featuring DEVIN TAIT from SHITTING GLITTER!
You can also head to our My Spaceor our Last FM page to hear the songs.
Yesterday it occured to me it is exactly one month until I'm a married man, perhaps that's why I have been having strange dreams about sexual encounters with other people (that's for another blog), but more pressing than what the things I can't control are the things I probably could control, you know like the fact I have become a fat ass and am only really hitching my dude before he wanders out the door and realizes not all blondes have an inner tube around their middle. So I have to lose about 20 pounds in about 20 days. Now my pal the Ciss, is an expert fitness guru, losing weight, counting calories, hiking, biking, gardening and doing all kinds of other insane things I would never consider, I guess I need to find a dealer, the crank diet has done wonders for many people and I'm sure it could work for me too. Thankfully, I don't have an addictive personality so I could totally stop doing the stuff once the weight is off... we'll see what happens I guess, now I'm off to smoke cigarettes and drink coffee so I can wake up.
Oh on a side note:
So some reviews are in on the new Swivek single "Fabulous" including:
"The single sounds fucking awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)You rock my friend. :)" and "loving me some of the new music! very cool stuff you are doing. it's on my ipod now. "
Have you heard the new FABULOUS yet - download it for free at our website, and as a bonus is the "B-side" of THE KICK INSIDE featuring Devin Tait from Shitting Glitter.
The brand new Swivek single is now available for free download!
You can head over to the OFFICIAL SWIVEK WEBSITE and you can get not one, but two fabulous new songs by Swivek including the exclusive b-side 'THE KICK INSIDE' featuring DEVIN TAIT from SHITTING GLITTER!
You can also head to our My Spaceor our Last FM page to hear the songs.
Okay everybody stop working right now! Let's just shut down our excel programs, take a deep deep breath and watch some You Tube videos! It's BRAD TV kiddies!
So up first are my pals SHITTING GLITTER in a recent (last Saturday) TV spot on public access performing and premiering a brand new tune "The Collection" - you'll dance, you'll love it:
and a little bit of Kristen Chenoweth, as we all need a little of the little KC in our lives - here she is singing about meth and doing what a Broadway diva does best --- intervention for the crack heads.
and finally for something so frickin' cute you're going to have to adopt one of your own (a nephew that is) - my little nephew EVANin full action. That's right I'm not the only star in our family, in fact I think he's doing his own version of my FLIRT video in this one:
Fabulousity will soon be at hand - in fact in one week, the brand new much talked about, highly hyped single FABULOUS will be released for downloads~
and yes it includes the exclusive track "The Kick Inside" featuring Devin Tait from Shitting Glitter, so get those feather boas ready, you'll be dancing in the streets with Swivek.
and for even more exciting news, the full album EVERYBODY HATES YOU will soon follow and to get your tongues a waggin here is the track list:
Okay, first of all last week kicked my hot bootie like nothing has in a while - no, it wasn't Lisa Hartman Week as that was actually fun... actually everything was fun, it just kicked me so hard I ended up missing a night out with my pals - can you believe it?
Secondly, I could have sworn muldrum or meldrum was/were a word.. I did go to college for English - and yet when I looked it up to make sure I spelled it correctly, not even Webster could tell me how to spell it as it just didn't exist... (crap, now did I spell that word right?)
As you can tell, this week hasn't been going all that well either - I woke up super friggin early so I could go to the god awful beast lady known as my dentist and that's how trouble began. First we have a new insurance program at work and for some reason I don't have a card for my dental insurance (the guy told me I didn't need one) but the Leivas actually has new insurance as well and put me on his insurance - of course I have no card for that either.
So I like a schmuck with bad tooth decay saunter into the dental office without any proof of insurance but complete assurance that I am on not one but two different insurance programs. Twenty minutes later I'm on my way to work with still dirty teeth as neither insurance group had me listed...
and that was just the first hour or so of Monday!
Last week, was a bit better despite coming in early now for 2 weeks so I can do extra work, my pal Tommy and his pal from out of town came up to WeHo with a whole gaggle of Orange County cronies. We drank and ate at Marix, we went to see Under The Influence Of Giants in Silverlake, we drank more at Trunks, we drank even more at my house and I went to work on Tuesday...
where an earthquake struck my hungover ass and had me gripping the legs of my desk as I hovered below talking to the Leivas on the phone - "It hasn't stopped yet" were my exact words. Then dinner with Tommy and all the OC boys again - this time sushi on Sunset.. ooh fancy pants I know you're jealous.
By Wednesday with the going out and coming in, and getting up early The Leivas had had enough of social networking and we stayed home.. then Thursday came and Devin from Shitting Glitter came over to finish up some vocals for the song I'm producing and (yes! yes!) do some vocals for two Swivek songs... it was fun and super cool..
so Friday was the beginning of the birthday bash for my pal Luther so I took a disco nap at 7 pm which lasted until 2 AM Saturday morning, where I took a sip of water and went back to bed...
Needless to say the weekend was spent just hanging with the Leivas, watching movies, a few drinks at Trunks (I know, I can't help it!) and a trip to Amoeba on Sunday (I know, I can't help it!)
and now today has hit me ... of course it doesn't help that I hate going to bed on Sunday nights ( cuz I have to get up on Monday morning and work!) so I went to bed last night at like 4:30 only to get up at 6.. not smart... but oh well
okay now I'm finally off to bed ... maybe Tuesday will be a little more foo foo for moi
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.
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