FEY ALERT: March 2008 Archives
With the exception of "The Little Mermaid" soundtrack and Muscles' "Guns Babes Lemonade", Cut Copy is probably the faggiest music I listen to. And the band isn't even gay.
They're hardcore 80's revivalists, their music dripping with synths and vocoderized vocals. Lead singer Dan Whitford's rhymes can be cringeworthily primitive -- "Do/You", "Mind/Time," etc. -- but his lyrics are elevated to the level of the forgivably dorky by the conviction of his delivery. He's aping mid-80s New Wave bangs-tossing affectlessness...but he MEANS it.
It's that sincerity that allows the band to get away with their rampant "New Order" allusions. Like New Order, and unlike Vice-friendly acts like Chromeo, they're actually striving for real transcendence, beauty, and release.
I feel oddly protective about them: can straight-faced, irony-deficient dance pop make it with hip listeners? In any case, I think their new album, "In Ghost Colours", has a better chance than their debut. Produced by DFA's Andy Goldsworthy, it isn't quite as relentlessly catchy as 2004's "Bright Like Neon Love," but its highs, like the Fleetwood Mac-inspired "Strangers in the Wind" and album opener "Feel the Love," might be higher.
Feel_Love.mp3{Cut Copy}
UPDATE: For whatever reason, iTunes is only charging 7 bucks for the entire 16-track album!
They're hardcore 80's revivalists, their music dripping with synths and vocoderized vocals. Lead singer Dan Whitford's rhymes can be cringeworthily primitive -- "Do/You", "Mind/Time," etc. -- but his lyrics are elevated to the level of the forgivably dorky by the conviction of his delivery. He's aping mid-80s New Wave bangs-tossing affectlessness...but he MEANS it.
It's that sincerity that allows the band to get away with their rampant "New Order" allusions. Like New Order, and unlike Vice-friendly acts like Chromeo, they're actually striving for real transcendence, beauty, and release.
I feel oddly protective about them: can straight-faced, irony-deficient dance pop make it with hip listeners? In any case, I think their new album, "In Ghost Colours", has a better chance than their debut. Produced by DFA's Andy Goldsworthy, it isn't quite as relentlessly catchy as 2004's "Bright Like Neon Love," but its highs, like the Fleetwood Mac-inspired "Strangers in the Wind" and album opener "Feel the Love," might be higher.
Feel_Love.mp3{Cut Copy}
UPDATE: For whatever reason, iTunes is only charging 7 bucks for the entire 16-track album!
A best feyfriend forever, It's Tyler!!! Just like Bobo as a child...
What is sadder – the death of Judith Barsi or her trashy grave? You be the judge.You might remember little Judith from her inimitable child performances in such films as Jaws: The Revenge and All Dogs Go To Heaven not to mention television’s Punky Brewster and Cagney & Lacey. But Judith’s life and budding acting career were both cut short when her father brutally murdered this concrete angel in 1988. Jozsef Barsi shot ten-year-old Judith and her mother Maria Barsi and then doused their bodies with gasoline and set the Barsi house on fire before shooting himself in the Barsi garage.
Although Judith was a beloved actress, tragically, she was buried with her mother in an umarked grave in a Los Angeles cemetery. But almost twenty years after her murder, fans stepped in to honor Judith with a trashy grave:
In June 2004, a fund was set up to get headstones for their graves. Judith's marker was placed on August 23, 2004 while one for her mother was placed on January 28, 2005. Future donations will go toward donating Beanie Babies to hospitalized children. Judith's marker reads "Our Concrete Angel - Yep Yep Yep" in reference to a popular song and her character Ducky's catchphrase from The Land Before Time. Her mother's marker reads "The wind beneath JEB's (Judith's initials) wings - Yep Yep Yep."Rest in peace, Judith!
In other faggy puppet news – the Canadian superstar corporate crooner FEIST! has just announced that she will be using puppets in her next video. She’s joining forces with the ultra-Canadian Old Trout Puppet Workshop - the team that created puppets for the klassic film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.Apparently Feist has always been a huge puppet lover...
this isn't Feist's first time working with puppets. The Grammy-nominated chanteuse once toured with Peaches as Bitch Lap Lap, a leotard-wearing rapper with a sock puppet.Who knew Feist had such a wild side?
Wayland Flowers must be turning over in his gayve! Just look at these SHAMELESS IMPOSTERS above: puppeteer Joe Kovacs and some two-bit diva fraud with the gall to call herself "Madame". This money-grubbing 'resurrection' of the Madame cash-cow, perpetrated by the Estate of Wayland Flowers (i.e., backstabberess supreme Marlena Shell, Flowers' former agent) has gone largely unreported. Where is the OUTRAGE?
If your stomach can handle it, I point you towards this footage of Fake Wayland and Fake Madame yukking it up on some gay-ass talk show.
A gay show called "The Ointment?" Pardon me while I go VOM. But the best (meaning WORST) part? Joe's lips...moving! Clearly, he is no Wayland!
As a lifelong admirer of Wayland Flowers and his sublime creation, Madame (host of "Solid Gold," protagonist of the immortal sitcom classic "Madame's Place", and lead actress of perhaps the greatest film of all time, "Madame in Manhattan") I find this travesty to be simply unforgivable.
I had the tiniest bit of a crush on this Raul Esparza fellow from his small recurring role on "Pushing Daisies", as Olive Snook's unrequited suitor Alfredo Aldirisio, but when I stumbled upon his brilliant performance as Bobby, the lead character in Sondheim's notoriously difficult-but-amazing "Company," on PBS one night it escalated into a full-blown obsession.I don't know what it is about him. Maybe it's the fact that he's openly at least sorta maybe gay? Maybe it has something to do with the character he played...In "Company", chronic bachelor Bobby struggles with issues of fidelity and commitment while going through one-night stands like Kleenex, so he's intriguingly slippery and unattainable. Also, "Bobby" is just a real hot name. (Come to think, so is "Raul".)
In the end, I think the reason I think he's hot is...BECAUSE HE'S HOT. He looks like my old favorite Gerard Butler (or "Buttzla" to those in the know) but less muscley and a bit doughier.
Which means he meets all my criteria for perfection: hot + approachable/attainable. Sigh.
I put up a clip of him performing a song from "Company" after the button pressy thingy.
Continue reading Cute Theaterfag Alert: Raul Esparza.
FEY ALERT: SUZANNE SUGARBAKER NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!
Television star, beauty queen, COMPULSIVE HOARDER and interior designer/businesswoman, Suzanne Sugarbaker-- aka Dixie Carter Delta Burke-- needs your help! Entertainment Tonight reports that the TV legend is out of the mental hospital (where she was alarmed to learn that there weren't any mirrors!!!) and, as usual, she's feeling a little blue. So television's Mary Hart is sponsoring a special emergency Suzanne Sugarbaker E-Mail Relief drive, where we the fans can send the STAR our special e-letters of support.
Come on, Feyfriends! Who among us hasn't felt a little EXHAUSTED from time to time? Who among us hasn't needed/wanted to be rescued from a dangerous Xanax-and-Diet-Coke binge by television's MAJOR DAD? And most importantly: who among us hasn't spent many smiling hours glued to DESIGNING WOMEN on the Lifetime Network? (My favorite episode is the one where Suzanne loses her extravagant jewels IN the salad bar.)
Well now we can finally pay back the woman who brought us all that love and laughter. Let's all flap our wings together and send our special wishes to Ms. Potts! To participate in Mary Hart's e-mail drive, click HERE. I know you can do it!!
