Filed under: music, shameless self-promotion | Tags: me me me me me, the pop chart
Yes it is, and here’s Mr. Pop himself. Listen to it live. I may sound like I’m talking even slower than usual, but it’s kind of tech-related, or logistical, or whatever. Sorry about that.
Filed under: music, shameless self-promotion | Tags: me me me me me, the pop chart
My countdown of the week’s forty biggest/best pop hits picks up again tomorrow for a new season. New time: 10 a.m. EST. Listen here, and check out the blog for updates.
Filed under: music | Tags: albania, bosnia & herzegovina, eurovision, switzerland
Here is Swiss singer Michael von der Heide with the French-language Il pleut de l’or, which, though my ability to understand French is basically non-existent now, is probably not about golden showers. It’s one of two songs that have been finalized for this year’s Eurovision song contest, which this year is rather annoyingly being held on Memorial Day Weekend.
This song is what would happen if a Frenchman wanted to do a Bond theme interpolating the dee-ba-dee line from Amber’s Sexual, and von der Heide looks like if Dennis Kucinich and Tom Hanks’s evil neighbor from The Burbs had a really gay baby that was really into eyebrow tweezing.
Filed under: books, gay, hookers, magazines, music, people from rhode island | Tags: 92 pro fm, anne elizabeth moore, audacia ray, awards, body hair, cambodia, coachella, fifteen, hairy men, joan didion, kate and anna mcgarrigle, ok go, record labels, rufus wainwright, sex worker literati, sexies, sweden, swedish radio, taylor swift, the gays, the white album, wbru
Some of the things I would have brought up lately, except that my Firefox seems anxious to crash every ten minutes or so:
The Sexies, awards for mainstream writing about sex, were announced yesterday. First prize awards went to Time’s piece about vaginal rejuvenation (which, ick) and Boston magazine’s look at all those pregnant girls at Gloucester High School. They also declined to give any awards to sex-themed publications, feeling the quality was weak overall in 2009. (via Sex In The Public Square)
And, oh, hey, Audacia’s looking for people to read at upcoming Sex Worker Literati events. If you’re a sex worker (past or present) and in the New York area and want to read I’m sure she would love to hear from you. (more…)
This mix is a little on the schizo side, which is maybe appropriate since it was partially inspired by Richard Metzger’s post on 60′s girl-band The Cake (whose trippy Rainbow Wood is included here.) This mix includes sex (gay sex, even!) drugs (OMD covering The Velvet Underground) and rock and roll. And also buubblegum, Tammy Wynette, early Liz Phair, and one of my very favorite forgotten swoony love songs of the eighties.
If you’re actually in LA and dealing with a possibly homophobic client you might want to skip the Miracles song, but otherwise I suggest keeping it in there; if he notices, it’ll at least make an interesting conversation topic, and if he doesn’t it’ll at least be fun for you.
And, as always, if you like the music, you should go out and buy it. Preferably from a real person in a real store, while you still can.
Today:
matthew barney family money
sophie ellis bextor naked
scott kinney porn sex personals
does jared leto wear glasses?
tomasz schafernaker naked
Yesterday:
sexy blondes in firs
sexiest leg hair
top songs hip hop in rhode island 1989
my long lost asian hooker
how much i love you (song)
god of hookers
(more…)
Filed under: magazines | Tags: gareth thomas, magazines, naked men, scott brown, tomasz schafernaker
Scott Brown, state senator from the Massachusetts outlet shopping haven Wrentham, does not like women. I can tell, because supporters in his bid for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat include anti-abortion groups and Catholic organizations. He doesn’t like reproductive choice and he doesn’t like gay people. That is obvious.
However, in 1982–years before he entered politics–the then-unknown Brown posed naked in a national magazine, baring most (but not all) for Cosmo after being voted the Sexiest Man In America. The spread–with a page crease and a well-placed hand keeping things in PG territory–has been widely circulated on the internet, and if you run an unfiltered Google image search of Brown about a third of the results on the first page show the rather ordinary-looking man stretched out in front of the camera.
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Filed under: books, movies | Tags: awesomeness, books, patricia highsmith, the cry of the owl
So, for whatever reason, the universe seems to be on a big Patricia Highsmith kick right now. Since I posted that topless photo of her two weeks ago, I’ve heard no less than four other people coincidentally bring her up in conversation. (Well, okay, one of those was in a porn performer’s Twitter feed, so technically I didn’t hear it and technically it wasn’t in conversation. But still.)
Although I’ve owned at least one book of Highsmith’s since my freshman year of college, and though The Talented Mr. Ripley and The American Friend and Strangers On A Train are three of my favorite movies, I never got around to reading anything she’s written.*
Filed under: books, not hot, shameless self-promotion | Tags: me me me me me
See the guy in this video? The one typing in the cafe about Mr. Scragglebones? He’s totally reading a story that I wrote. Actually, it’s the story that I read last month at Sex Worker Literati, and it’s going to be appearing in this awesome new book of completely unerotic sex stories. That means that a) I’m actually going to be in a real published book (!!!) and b) I can now not-dishonestly say that an actor has portrayed me. (!!!!!!)
Meaghan O’Connell and Melissa Gira Grant, who are putting the book together, are financing it through Formspring, which is this neato fundraising platform for financing creative projects. And these ladies want your money! No, really, they do. There’s all kinds of pledge levels, and the more you give the more you get (Gchats! A story written just for you! Other things I can’t exactly remember right now!)
The concept’s already going over like hotcakes; it’s raised over $2,000 just today.
