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This was kind of a big week for me. My roommate of the past three-and-a-half years finally moved out, which is a big relief since we haven’t been speaking since November. Now I live alone for the first time since my freshman year dorm and I couldn’t be happier about it. But at the same time I have no heat, can’t afford to pay the rent, and, as of today, got cut back to twenty hours a week at my temp job. Rhode Island’s unemployment rate’s now over ten percent, so my hopes of getting anything are sort of dismal right now. Blah.
On the bright side, I got into an art thing I applied for, so I’ll be able to use my extra spare time to work on that. And also I live alone now. And I’m so very happy about it. Even if I’ll only be able to afford it for the next month or so, I don’t care. I need a little decompression. (Although if any of you want to move to Providence, lemme know! It’s nice here!)
I have a new mix plotted, but I’m not sure if I’ll be able to post it today. No internet at home anymore…
4. Air, Playground Love
French duo Air took the world by quiet storm in 1998 with their Moon Safari album. Aided by flashy singles Sexy Boy and Kelly, Watch The Stars!, the moody-ish French duo were adored by critics and loved by Eurotrash enthusiasts everywhere.
Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel followed up Moon Safari by scoring The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola’s directorial debut. The score was comprised of haunting instrumentals in the style of Moon Safari’s slower numbers, in addition to a track based around a speech from the film. And there was Playground Love, the single, all whispery vocals and the the most deliciously cheesy romantic horns since Careless Whisper.
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Or call it a comeback, I don’t care.
On The Pop Chart this week I’ll be counting down the 10 best comeback singles of all time. Send me your votes by the end of today and I’ll try to get them on when I do the show Sunday morning (9:30 AM Eastern time at bsrlive.com)
Leave suggestions in the comment section, and stay tuned for the show.
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And it’s just her, not her duetting with a dead person! After one listen I’m frankly a little let down. On the plus side, at least there seem to be plans for a second Lil Mama album after her underperforming (but really good!) debut. On the other hand, the fact that her voice has lost its Voice of the Young People huskiness distresses me:
That could be anyone. Seriously.
[via Idolator]
But if I were Nokia, and I were paying actual money to put up a YouTube video in which Paris Hilton interviewed Lady GaGa, I might demand, I don’t know, a nicer backdrop:
Right?
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5. Kittie, Brackish
It’s hard to remember now, but nu-metal was horrible. I mean, we remember that it was horrible, but we forget how horribly frigging inescapable it was at the time. I understand in retrospect that the presence of Natalie Imbruglia and Robbie Williams on modern rock stations in the late nineties might had led some fans to get a little aggressive, but the movement led by bands like Limp BIzkit and followed by the likes of POD and Papa Roach and Drowning Pool was appallingly bad. So so so so awful.
As always, though, there were a couple of exceptions. Korn’s Got The Life, for instance, had a catchy melody and didn’t seem to take itself quite as seriously as the rest of that very earnest group’s catalog. Similarly, Alien Ant Farm’s 2001 Smooth Criminal cleverly took Michael Jackson’s dreadfully misogynist hit single and exposed it for what it was: shitty cock-rock.
With Brackish, Canadian quartet (?) Kittie made one of the genre’s only other remotely listenable hits. I won’t say that I only liked it because a girl sang it; indeed, the rest of Kittie’s output disappointed me to no end after I heard this song. But I will say that a feminine presence made me briefly re-evaluate the overly fratty sounds of the day.
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Today:
beau breedlove shirtless
song that starts out with red wine
alicia keys drunk
von hayes drink
hookers 4 less
Yesterday:
beau breedlove
nerdy bands
the expression toss my salad
jeremy scahill, catholic worker
wrestlers with boners
old hookers
how can i get a list of freestyle songs
Sunday:
straight to hell manhattan review (6 hits)
well hung celebrities
nerdy johnny knoxwille glasses
daddy please stop fucking my friends
101 greatest old skool songs
girl moaning funky song
hookers in croatia
Saturday:
ludivine sagnier
let’s meet up in the year 2000
hooker to fuck you stupid
“naked lady gaga”
olivia newton john nude
“shocking blue” “send me a postcard” i.m
robert h. rimmer porn
Friday:
list of top one hundred freestyle songs
list candy pop song, crush jennifer paige
“tv on the radio” piano sheet music
alicia keys earrings
buy craigslist accounts
“hong kong in the 60s” mixtapes
fancy gay singer german italo disco
Thursday:
songs with the word “hey”
pop a top hookers portland
sam adams breedlove outreach
nerdy glasses
boy penis
“dressed like a boxer”
to fuck illustrated
Wednesday:
get craigslist on my phone
terry richardson naked
horny people
breeders “title tk” smoke pot
follow my ding ding ding (dominica singer)
Nominees have been announced for the twentieth annual GLAAD Media Awards, honoring the best in queer-positive mainstream media. Since queer-positive (or at least gay-positive) has been all the rage on TV since 1998, I’m not totally sure the awards are as useful as they were in 1990, but I guess it’s always nice to give awards to things you actually like.
There’s a million different categories, although the whole structure’s a little odd; as Boy Culture points out, there’s an award for Best Comic Book but no award for best novel or work of non-fiction. Some of the more interesting nominees, including the well-intentioned but overly long and not very effective ad above, are after the jump:
20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards Nominees
OUTSTANDING FILM – WIDE RELEASE
Brideshead Revisited (Miramax Films)
Milk (Focus Features)
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (Columbia Pictures)
RocknRolla (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (The Weinstein Company)
The Nick and Norah movie is the only one of these that I’ve seen, but I absolutely loved it, though more for the portrayal of New York (and very charming acting by everyone involved) than for the gay supporting characters. Though the movie’s calmness about homosexuality/teenage drinking/Judaism/money was really refreshing, as Entertainment Weekly’s Lisa Schwartzbaum enthusiastically noted in her review.
OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
Brothers & Sisters (ABC)
The L Word (Showtime)
South of Nowhere (The N)
Torchwood (BBC America)
True Blood (HBO)
The only one of these I’ve seen, oddly, is South of Nowhere. Although I haven’t caught it in about four years, since I hung out regularly with cable subscribers.
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL EPISODE (in a series without a regular LGBT character)
“Ghostfacers” Supernatural (The CW)
“My Maharishi is Bigger than Your Maharishi” Life on Mars (ABC)
“Slam” Ghost Whisperer (CBS)
“Tandem Repeats” ER (NBC)
“Unidentified Funk” The New Adventures of Old Christine (CBS)
This category amuses me, and though I haven’t actually ever seen it I hope Life on Mars wins, just for that title.
OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY
Chris & Don: A Love Story (Zeitgeist Films)
Freeheld (Cinemax)
A Jihad for Love (First Run Features)
Saving Marriage (Regent Releasing)
Sex Change Hospital (WE tv)
Saving Marriage was pretty good, I thought. The pace was a little off, but any story that revolves around Massachusetts state senate elections and manages not to be totally boring deserves credit for something. But it’s the only one I’ve seen.
OUTSTANDING DAILY DRAMA
All My Children (ABC)
As the World Turns (CBS)
I don’t know why awards are given in categories where only two nominees can be found. But, you know, whatever.
OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM SEGMENT
“Bishop in the Eye of the Storm” Today (NBC)
“Gay in Cuba” The Situation Room (CNN)
“Special Comment: Prop 8″ Countdown with Keith Olbermann (MSNBC)
“Rick Warren: Change to Believe In?” The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC)
“Taking to the Streets” Good Morning America Weekend (ABC)
I like Keith Olbermann a lot, and would give just about anything to have him drag me down a dark alley and have his way with me, and I know he meant well with his Prop 8 comment. But, as a friend of mine pointed out, how can a man in the entertainment industry seriously say on television that he doesn’t know any gay people? If nothing else, who do you think does his hair and makeup before he goes on the air? Or do those people not count?
OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE OVERALL COVERAGE
The Advocate
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Entertainment Weekly
Newsweek
People
People portrays gays in a more positive light than, say, Out? Ouch! Also, I hope the Chronicle of Higher Education wins, just because it’s the one I don’t know and I find all the others very tedious.
OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM ARTICLE
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Do Kill” by Lennox Samuels (Newsweek.com)
“Gay Athletes are Making Their Mark” by LZ Granderson (ESPN.com)
“Gay in Wasilla” by Julie Bolcer (Advocate.com)
“Gays in Primetime” by James Hillis (AfterElton.com)
“Invisible and Overlooked” by Jessica Bennett (Newsweek.com)
The phrase digital journalism article reminds me of the time when I was little and my aunt said she had seen someone smoking a marijuana cigarette.
OUTSTANDING MUSIC ARTIST
Jay Brannan, goddamned
Hercules & Love Affair, Hercules & Love Affair
k.d. lang, Watershed
The Magnetic Fields, Distortion
Sam Sparro, Sam Sparro
I hope the Magnetic Fields win, because I would like the year’s most notable gay album to be the one that contains the line “no blood ever drips while I widen your holes.”
OUTSTANDING ADVERTISING – ELECTRONIC
“I Don’t Judge” IKEA
“Logo Unbuttoned” Levi’s
“Market” Chemistry.com
“We All Walk In Different Shoes – Nina Poon” Kenneth Cole
“Rugby Drinking Party” Jawbone
As much as I don’t understand the ad, like Bluetooth technology, think it’s okay to talk on the phone and leave your friend sitting uncomfortably at the bar, animate your fonts in a mysteriously grody fashion, or advertise things for two full minutes before you make your point, I think PG-rated rugby porn wins no matter what.
From 1970, here’s Jeff Savage from Cain Leather Boys vol. 2, published by Male Classics of 15 Kensington High Street. The magazine mainly featured guys in full motorcycle gear (including helmets!) but occasionally some were persuaded to do some more belt-centered poses.
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This is what Facebook just tried to sell me. I think it’s funny for lots of reasons, but mainly because a) I live about ten minutes away from Massachusetts and b) because even though the state might seem small to, say, someone from California, the ad doesn’t say anything about historic Boston or the scenic Berkshires or super-gay Provincetown or “Home of Lizzie Bordon” Fall River or Plumouth, “the place where white people kicked off their permanent reign of terror on this continent.” For instance.
