Just Giblets

When the dawn appears, you may be faced with many candidates. Here is my recommendation.

Michael’s away, so I get to watch The Sound of Music on DVD. Do you think Julie, in her long career, ever wished for long, flowing blond locks?

Don’t really know why, but this does make me giggle! The title on You Tube is “Project Make McCain Exciting: Gray Ambition”. Awesome.

I was just watching Seinfeld on TBS and saw the latest Dunkin Donuts ad. What made you sell your song to them? I know you like coffee, but surely you think Dunkie’s coffee is overrated like I do. Don’t you? And besides, the donuts are dry and cakey and sit in your stomach like a rock.

Krispie Kreme may have been a better choice. Or if you really needed money, you coulda called me.

I’ve been grooving on a lot of early 80’s Boston, local music lately, like November Group, Face to Face, Adventure Set, Private Lightning, and this seminal Boston band, Berlin Airlift. Songwriter/leader Rick Berlin is a Boston institution, and you can still find him hanging out in Jamaica Plain. This song, “Over the Hill (I Love You)” and Berlin Airlift the band, was so important to this incipient fag when I was solidifying my identity. The songs were clearly coded and from the point of view of a gay man. What a find this video is!

… why this was cut from Bombay Dreams. (Originally Tumbld by Michael’s buddy Jonno.)

Hey, remember just the other day I posted about my trip to San Francisco and meeting my new pal Chriso? Well I believe I also mentioned that he’s the drummer in a pretty nifty rock band, ex-boyfriends. Well take a peek at their brand-spanking new music video for the song, “Situation.” It’s damn cool, is incredibly professional, and I think it’s the first time a friend of mine has been featured in a music video!

A bit of trivia: the video shoot was done in the basement of the Armory Building in Mission District of San Francisco. I had the pleasure of seeing the space, and it’s pretty wild. There’s actually a river flowing through the basement!

Ever since I saw M+M’s (nee Martha & the Muffins) video for Danseparc in a hotel room in Toronto in 1982, I have wanted to see it again. Now that day has come thanks to YouTube. I love Martha & the Muffins. They’re probably my favorite band of all time, and Danseparc is one of my favorite songs by them. I saw them perform once live at The Channel in Boston, and the tour was in support of the Danseparc album. They opened with the title track and I was just blown away. They were the coolest band I’d ever seen. And the video is so whacked. I love it.

that our friend Ellen Page didn’t win Best Actress from the MPAA. But didn’t Kristin look great in that musical number? And jeez, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová sure are making the most of that one song, aren’t they?!

For all of you who may have chuckled at me behind my back for loading up my MP3 player with digital copies of Carol Channing and Bea Lillie LPs, I have one thing to say to you: So there! Check out what Chris Caggiano over at Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals just discovered he can do.

The embarrassing part is that we both admit to having LPs of Let My People Come that we actually listen to. Well, that and my Carol Channing ventriloquist puppet.