the gay boy record party: august 1, 2011

haven't we been here before? this could possibly be a repeat a post from a while back, but i don't really give a rats. these are the songs i love so much, and that prove to the world that i am a proud, white, dork from the midwest who grew up surrounded by really sappy pop music in the 70's. i'm happy to count these songs among my all time, desert island favorites. and i am so not kidding. (these videos were not chosen because of their video content, but because they contained the best quality audio.)

WARNING: by watching these videos, your opinion of me may either be indelibly altered forever... or totally, happily confirmed.

i don't know what to want from this world

totally. completely. obsessed.



if you like john grant as much as i do, you need to click here.

if a picture is worth a thousand words...

...what is the value of 1000 pictures? or 4000?

today is my boyfriend bruce springsteen's birthday

i mean. c'mon. look at the arms. good god. (wanna feel old? springsteen is 61 today.)

i don't want to wait

So you look at me from across the room. You're wearing your anguish again. Believe me, I know the feeling. It sucks you into the jaws of anger. So dig a little more deeply into my life. All we have is the very moment and I don't want to do what his father and his father and his father did.

I want to be here now.

irish hand dancers meet pink floyd

you may think you've seen the best of irish hand dancers suzanne cleary & peter harding (their video is posted and reposted millions of times on facebook every day. often on my wall.) but there's nothing like a little hand dancing when you're comfortably numb:

the earth is a bitch

there's something about this era i'm longing for right now.

jay can do it does everydamnthing

in less than 15 minutes, young over-achiever jay builds a fire in the fireplace, helps his brother assemble a hi-fi set, bakes macaroons, builds a treehouse, rescues the family pooch, plays the blue danube on the piano for his mother, and colors easter eggs - pink first.

growing down instead of growing up

janelle monae. "many moons." love this.

"reclining dude in a white tank top"

okay, you're too ooged out to actually use chatroulette yourself. i get it. so then watch merton the piano improv guy freestyle with random strangers on chatroulette.

"once you kill a cow...

...you gotta make a burger." beyonce gets lady gaga'd. definitely nsfw.

this friday is so tuesday

a little something to perk up your day.

it's good to have friends

a friend of mine sent me this lovely birthday greeting.

for my valentine

because i'm a big, stupid sap. here are two songs for my valentine.

a somewhat emotional pee-wee

paul reubens pee-wee herman at a talkback after a performance of the pee-wee herman show, happening now thru february 7th at club nokia in los angeles:

oh, the talent

your morning warmup.

get golden, get happy

i know, it sounds like a million other songs. but man...this makes me happy. play it loud, sing along (you'll know it by the second chorus) and dance like a fool around the living room.

chapter one: where'd that emmy go?

considering all this focus on the skylight opera theatre, isn't it time for a barry's emmy rerun?

about a year and a half ago, i noticed an emmy award prominently displayed in my neighbor's window. and so started the obsession.

here are parts 1 - 4 of the first ten episodes of my friend barry's emmy, in one big viewable chunk. look for more big chunks to come. (and who knows...maybe some big new chunks.)

my friend barry's emmy
chapter 1, episodes 1-4

the return of abba?

not exactly. but close.



whaddya think?

video of the day

have you been paying attention to the tuesdays video of the day?
(middle column, just below the fold.)

often they're just a clip i've run across throughout the course of a day, that i want to share. but lately, they've been little commentaries themselves, on how i'm feeling at the moment.

i like watching them small, but you can full-screen them if you like. they're new every day, sometime around midnight.