They are called the reason and they are inexplicably hot. I’ve said many times on this blog that I’m not particularly fussed on lots of tattoos but these guys do them ever so well. They have the bad boy gone good, or good guy gone bad look about them. You’d take them home to mum, she’d tsk tsk about the tattoos but then she’s fall in love with them. Then they start singing.
Four very hot, buff, tattooed tradesmen singing in an acapella vocal harmony group? Kinda works. I’m picturing them serenading me then having dirty passionate wild sex before sweet cuddles and coffee afterwards. Sigh.
I thought it was time for another Sunday review. First up comes Memphis Blues from Cyndi Lauper. It’s quite a departure from the Cyndi that I know, with Cyndi exploring the Blues style with great success. Granted I don’t know a bunch about Blues but it sounds good to me. It’s the kind of album you put on for a cool bunch of friends and a great dinner party.
Friday night saw me visit the wilds of suburbia to catch up with friends for dinner and DVD. Shutter Island was that DVD. So bad was that DVD that we never got to the end. Green screen effects were bad, story wasn’t that interesting and we just didn’t care.
Kylie has a new number 1 album on her hands here in Australia with Aphrodite hitting number 1 on iTunes on it’s first day of release. Now, some might say that Kylie could burp our national anthem and I’d buy it, the remixes and scour the internet for bootleg b-sides and they might be right. This album took a couple of listens to really take hold on me but I haven’t been able to write a review because it’s had me dancing with my hands in the air like I just don’t care. I love it. Closer and Aphrodite are my absolute favourites. Life is good when Kylie is releasing new music!
I think I might just have to get the new Scissor Sisters album if it’s full of songs like this. If I was at an even like Glastonbury and enjoying the fantastically camp sensibilities of the Scissor Sisters and Ms Minogue came out on stage to do a number this cool with them, I might just explode. I know a lot of people out there don’t get the Kylie thing, but hey, she is my religion.
The video has just been released world wide and it’s a good one! Kylie looks fantastic, there’s a lot of hot people not wearing much. Girls kissing boys, boys kissing boys, girls kissing girls, a white horse running through the background and a lot of people dropping their food and drinks. Enjoy!
This preview clip of Kylie’s new video has been released and it looks good! Knowing her gay fan base there is all sorts of polysexual pashing going on in the streets of L.A. before Kylie is lifted above a writhing pyramid of people! I can’t wait!
It’s Sunday morning here in Sydney, I’ve had my coffee and I’m putting off doing more packing for the move and I thought it a very appropriate time to review a couple of movies and a CD.
DVD - CIAO. Why is gay cinema SO consistently rubbish? There are thousands of great gay stories bogged down in terrible scripts and bad acting, tripping over cliches and awkwardness along the way. Ciao is another one that unfortunately fits into that category. The script didn’t actually go anywhere. It was an hour and a half of first date conversation. The premise of the movie is Jeff lives in Dallas and after the death of his long time best friend has to email people to let them know of his death. Adrea was supposed to be coming from Italy to meet Mark for the first time after meeting online. Oddly Jeff asks him to come regardless. Wooden acting is taken to new heights by the two leads but trumped easily by the token fag hag/asian girl/step sister. Avoid the movie unless suffering from insomnia.
CD - TRACEY THORN “LOVE AND IT’S OPPOSITE”. Remember Everything but the Girl? I do. Simple electronic mellow pop. Then Tracey went on to collaborate with Massive Attack and made some beautiful music. This month sees the release of her new solo effort. This album feels like reconnecting with an old friend on facebook. It’s familiar, there was no falling out to cause you to drift apart, you catch up online in a vague inoffensive way from time to time but the buddy era of old is past. It’s a comfortable listening album, but I doubt you’ll be catching up with Tracey every day.
MOVIE - ROBIN HOOD. This is a couple of hours of good old fashioned movie escapism. It’s movie making by numbers and Gladiator in England is good at what it is, swashbuckling underdogs making good. The lovable but inconsequential character dies, there’s Russell with a watery trail of blood down his face in a fast edited battle scene of epic proportions at the end. Don’t get me wrong. I liked it, but there’s nothing earth shattering here. Russell has proven true to form by acting well but storming out of a publicity interview because the journalist questioned his accent in the movie. Precious much? Cate Blanchett is stunning as usual and gives a great performance, but it won’t be her career highlight.
It’s here, it’s on radios everywhere and it’s the most excited about a Kylie release on the first few listens in a long time. Kylie has gone back to pop and aren’t we grateful for that? Don’t get me wrong. I loved X, especially after seeing the tour but this is Kylie going back to her roots.
I can’t wait… Kylie’s 11th Studio album, Aphrodite, is due for release on July 5th, a week after her new single All the Lovers! It’s been too long Kylie! I can’t freaking wait for this!
For months I’ve had a particular song in my head to work on a silks routine to, but with it remaining firmly a theoretical routine so far the song has drowned in my stagnant imagination, never to be resuscitated, or so it seems. For the last week or two I’ve been thinking of this song to put together a routine to.
Bjork is the high priestess of bonkers but she’s also a creative genius. This video is proof of that. Lady Gaga may just be the Andy Warhol of the music scene for this generation but her commercialised brand of crazy, while absolutely fantastic is very different to the undiluted crazy that Bjork has been sipping on from the streams of Iceland for the last 20 years. You get the impression she’d be wailing and sampling fog horns to play to an audience of one if she had to.
This song has the tempo that I’m after to force me to perform rather than just do tricks and to think about all the aspects of the routine, transitions, tricks, climbs and story, but also has the quirkiness that I love.
Born in 1979, Will Young shot to UK Stardom in 2002 when he won the first ever Pop Idol, soon to be licensed around the world in a money making, star factory TV franchise. Will showed his smarts and eloquence when he told Simon Cowell exactly what he should do with his nasty attitude and unnecessary jibes at contestants, showing just how to use a political science degree.
Will has also been openly gay since his first single broke all sales records in the U.K. even outselling the Princess Diana tribute version of Candles in the Wind. To my knowledge Will has never been embroiled in any tabloid scandal, which for someone in the public eye in the U.K. is no mean feat. Proof indeed that you can have a successful career after coming out.
This is a music video that’s been talked about for months, and it has to be said, it’s worth it. At first I wasn’t sure the Beyonce could do the GaGa brand of bonkers but while she does it differently, she’s as fabulously fierce as ever. Love it.
Sigür Ros is a band that people either love or hate, I can pretty much take them or leave them but they do some very cool music videos. This video of theirs was banned and you can see why. There is full frontal nudity everywhere through it with a bunch of young people, male and female frolicking through the forest nude. It’s quite a cool song but in their usual style, it’s not in English or any other real language, but it’s fun.
A mate of mine has a great singing voice. He’s currently trying to break into the industry again after several years off. I’ve only heard him sing a couple of times live and I envy anyone that has that gift. To be able to sing well has the power to really move people and can be very personal.
Apparently Graham got bored the other night and did a piano cover version of Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance. It’s not as bonkers as the Lady’s but it’s a great version and is quite haunting. Check it out!
Visibility amongs gay people is something that can really only do good. Some people argue that events like Sydney’s Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras only harm our cause by playing to flamboyant stereotypes. I don’t really agree. I think the more exposure that the GLBTQ community has in all forms and mediums will educate the wider community that we are everywhere and we aren’t a dangerous threat to marriage and morality.
QBoy is a singer from the U.K. who isn’t afraid to be out and proud and visible in his lyrics and videos. He’s also helping combat bullying and homophobia by working with the LGBT Excellence Centre in Wales. It’s nice to see young artists supporting a cause that is close to their heart. Check out his work and show him a bit of love!
