Like most Jewish, Homosexual, Scorpios, I can be very picky and bitchy but when I love something, look out.
If I love it, I want everyone to love it, have it or be in awe of it. So below you'll find some of my favorite
things and if you know what's good for you, they'll become your favorite things immediately!
Love, love, love this!!! (And it's
free too...just like that boy you dated in the 80's)
They take your MP3s and turn them into ringtones!!! It's
free if you wait your turn for processing but you can expedite the process with a small donation. (just like that boy you
dated in the 90's)
So go for it - they'll send graphics to your phone too. (For those graphically inclined...you
know who you are.)
Without a doubt, MikWright is my favorite, favorite thing
in the world (see below) but there's a love that I had long before MikWright and the fact that it is now available on
DVD makes it my latest "Favorite Favorite"!
For years, I would sit and watch over and over again
the MGM musicals but my favorites were always the Mickey and Judy musicals. I would put on shows in the neighborhood and dream
that I was them. Hoping to be discovered as they always seemed to be by the end of the movie...it never happened.
And so for years I have complained to anyone who would listen that the Mickey Judy musicals weren't available
on DVD. Well, yesterday I was in a store and I swear that I let go an audible gasp when I discovered that the box set of their
musicals had been released. "Zing went the strings of my heart!"
So here's the link to the box set
and if you really care about someone who loves the old musicals you'll be sure and get them this fabulous box set. "I
like New York in June, how about you?"
Phyllis "Wright"-Herman and Tim
"Mikkelsen" are being featured in one of the most scandalous videos of the season. (Okay, not that scandalous
but I thought that would really get your attention)
They were interviewed by CNBC and if you look quickly, you'll
see yours truly and his Mom's cards.
(I'm simply putty in Tim's hands!)
We knew these two
were talented and smart but who knew they were so photogenic?
Click on the MikWright logo below to go to the video! And click on the picture of my MikWright card to
go to My Favorite Things page where you can get all the info to order our cards and coasters!
As you all know, I adore MikWright and everything that
they put out (boys, minds out of the gutter). So you can imagine how excited I was when Timmy and Phyllis chose to immortalize
my mother and me into cards as part of their Spring 2007 line!
That's right, you can finally
buy me! (Well, you always could but that's another story for another time)
Available now exclusively through
MikWright retailers and online! Click on the pictures of our coasters/cards to buy now! Or visit your favorite
MikWright retailer (they're everywhere - just like my grandmother used to say about gays!).
But whatever
you do, buy something for Chrissakes, will ya?
Ever wonder what the MikWright kids sound like or
if they talk about me?
Although anyone who reads or visits my site knows that the last thing
I am is subtle, thanks to these mints there's help even for me. Because now without having to have a potty mouth
myself, I can tell someone off and freshen their breath all without saying a word!
Each mint is beautifully engraved(tone
on tone)with phrases such as, "You Suck", "Buzz Off" or my personal favorite, "Bite Me"!
These fabulous mints were sent to me and it was love at first sight/taste. (How many things can you say that about,
huh?)
So click the tin above and order some right away so you can start offending and freshening those around you!
Colorstrology!
So I don't know if you've
heard of this whole thing or not and I'm not saying that it's the gospel (yet) but I do love it ever so much and had
to share with all of you. Yes, it's a bit like the "color draping" they used to do in the 80's - remember?
Were you a Spring or a Fall? I never gave any thought to that crap and maybe I just like the sound of it but click on the
link below to discover your own Colorstrology!
So Tim from MikWright sent me this
site, a personal friend of his, Scott Ward artist extraordinaire!
Visit the site, look at the cool art and for God's sake, buy something!
CLICK ON THE ART TO GO TO THE SITE!
(PRODUCT) RED
Click on the manifesto below
MAD HOT BALLROOM
Okay, I have to admit,
this is not my latest obsession as I have been obsessed with this movie since I saw it in the theater last year.
But now it has finally come to cable and although I own it on DVD, I find myself watching it every time it comes on. (Thank
God, there's finally something better than Notting Hill on cable, right?)
For those who don't know, this
film is a documentary about kids in the New York public school system who take ballroom dance classes. These are not
the 300 pound little rich girls in pink tutus, I used to teach at dance studios, these are kids who would have had no opportunity
to take a dance class due to financial means or maybe even knowing it existed. Thank God for this program and the dedicated
teachers who not only teach their regular classes but bring dance, culture, poise, posture and self-esteem to these kids through
the power of dance. I defy anyone to watch this and not end up fighting to keep the performing arts in every school curriculum.
(A Don't Get Me Started blog for another day!)
This movie not only makes you want to dance but it makes you
feel really happy. Yes, there are days (okay, every day since first seeing this movie) when I want to chuck it all
and go teach dance again. When you see the faces on these kids and how much more they get from this experience than just some
dance steps, you can't help but be moved.
So when you're flicking through channels, stop and watch this
or get it on your Tivo or buy the DVD. I can promise you that you will get so much more out of this movie than most of the
other movies playing continuously on cable just like all that these kids get from these wonderful teachers and the experience.
Now go out there and learn something about yourself...there are still a lot of things out there to inspire you
and give you hope!
Here's one of my favorite scenes from one of my
favorite movies...Auntie Mame!
In this scene, the stock market has crashed and so Mame persuades her friend, Vera
(an actress) to give her a part in one of her shows so that she can make the money she needs to get her nephew Patrick back
from his trustee, who has sent him away to boarding school claiming Mame is a bad influence on him.
Love this movie,
love everyone in it and you should too!!
Click on the movie poster to see the clip!
SORDID LIVES
Okay, once again my gay membership
card is in danger of being revoked. A recent write in from a new pal of the Some Like It Scott site chastised me for not having
the above film on My Favorite Things page (click on the picture above to be transported to the official site of the movie).
The movie came out in 2000 and that will tell you something about how incredibly behind I am with all things gay (or
is that I have an incredible behind? I choose that one!). At any rate, I went and bought the damn thing and watched it howling
(for the most part).
Filled with crazy southern characters dealing with a recent tragedy that brings out the worst
and even worse in friends and relatives in the small town it's fun to watch.
Watch it for the fun of seeing
Olivia Newton John "acting" or the four women who almost steal the movie, Beth Grant, Bonnie Bedelia, Delta
Burke, and Ann Walker. But the real deal is Leslie Jordan (notably known for his Emmy winning portrayal of Beverley Leslie
on Will and Grace) who as "Brother Boy" steals the movie, wig in hand! (I saw his one man show in LA and it was
really wonderful - almost exciting was the audience that night that included everyone from Ron Jeremy to Leeza Gibbons)
Unfortunately, the film gets bogged down with the storyline of the sensitive gay young son coming to terms with
himself in Hollywood at his twenty-ninth therapist, deciding whether or not to go back to Texas for his grandmother's
funeral. This typical storyline that is too often seen in the gay movie genre holds the movie back from being a total
fun romp. (For second time viewing, take my advice and just FF through those scenes.)
My new pal Barbara (who wrote
in told me about the movie) upon hearing I had seen it wrote the following...
Now the "cult" thing to do is give a Sordid Lives party. I did and we had a ball.Everyone must come dressed as white trash. Serve fried chicken, tuna casserole and Cheeze Whiz. Do paper plates,
plastic cups and plastic untensils.I cheated and served some good wine (what kind of wine goes with Cheeze Whiz and Kentucky Fried chicken?) in crystal wine glasses.Sit down, watch the movie and have fun.Very little clean up
later.
Enjoy!
DVDs
Soundtracks
MP3s
As the character Gloria Upson says upon hearing
Mame has written a book in the movie Mame, "Patrick, why didn't you tell me your aunt was literate?"
Here's some of what I've read and am reading...because though some may not
believe it, I am literate!
Click on any of the book covers below to purchase them!
Anything
by David Sedaris
Love all the David Sedaris books and hope someday to be the Jewish David Sedaris!!
I Could Have Sung All Night by Marni Nixon
This
amazing book is by one of Hollywood's best not kept secrets. Marni Nixon supplied the "on screen" voice for
many stars in movie musicals. The short list include her singing for Natalie Wood as "Maria" in West Side Story,
Audrey Hepburn as "Eliza Doolittle" in My Fair Lady and Deborah Kerr as "Anna" in The King And I.
The Harry Potter Series
Okay, so it's true, I've read all
of the Harry Potter books and can't wait for the final installment.
It's a little sad that a friend of
mine's daughter got me started on these books and now she's in college in New York and doesn't even care about
talking about them anymore. Ah well, Harry Potter is not wasted on the youth when it comes to me!
Okay, maybe not Dickens but I do love the dickens out of
the MikWright kids - this book is a laugh a page and the perfect gift for real girls and for gays that try to sound like a
black woman with their gay friends. Two snaps up!
Who Doesn't Love Tab Hunter?
This is a must read as the Hollywood hunk tells all about his life and loves while keeping some of his private
life private and still giving us enough juice to keep us reading.
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Now when I think of "Links" I think about the two
pictured above or the character from the movie and musical, Hairspray.
This is a fabulous blog (The Andrews Salzburg Report) written by an
equally fabulous man - Dann Dulin. He's a real live journalist so read all his interviews and get the skinny on all your
fave celebs and oh, so much more.
The old song, "Route 66" talks about getting
your kicks but this site actually sells them (kicks that is) - and for those of you like me who have no idea what the hell
"kicks" are, they're the coolest (what we used to call, you'll pardon the expression) tennis shoes! Click
to get your kicks...
The gay, gay, gayer than gay network (that doesn't
"identify" itself as the gayest network on television - even gayer than most of the supposed gay ones) that brings
you Project Runway, Top Chef and a lot of gay men wearing dress pants and shoes with no socks! (ugh)
Looking to find Mr. or Miss Right right now? Check out the Dater's
Guide website where you can find someone to love for a lifetime (or at least for twenty minutes)
The bigger they are, the nicer they are (goes the old
saying about stars and people of importance) but it can also be said of those little fashion items Corey Hart sang about in
the eighties that we were supposed to wear at night. (Good for hiding hangover eyes but you bump into every God Damned thing
- I know, I went as him one year in the 80's for Halloween) If you need glasses, don't go anywhere but this site!
Bravo TV's gayer (as if anything could get gayer, right?)
"sister" online network. Well, sister they have some great stuff on this site - like a link to mine!
There's nothing like spending an entire Saturday on the
sofa watching your favorite black and white classic movies without any commercials. So tap along with Ann Miller or cry with
Bette Davis whenever the need strikes you on the Turner Classic Movie channel.
Okay, so Jeremy
Schonfeld isn't gay, but he's as Broadway as they come (which has to make him a little
gay, right?)
The newest album, 37 Notebooks is amazing but so is the story of the man behind the music. Read
the Some Like It Scott interview with the man, the myth, the unshaven below...
The Some Like
It Scott Interview…
So you're a little bit Broadway, you're a little bit Rock 'N Roll, what
is the similarity in writing music for theatre and music for the radio (or the Ipod) in this day and age? And what is the
difference?
For me there really isn't
that much difference. A good story is a good story. I suppose the idea of songs that are self-contained stories with beginning/middle/end
as opposed to songs that serve a specific purpose in telling a much broader story in a musical need to be attacked differently.
But, for me, the idea is to write great songs that work in the show and also taken out of context work individually.
The song, "My My" on your new album is a great example of something that sounds as though it came from Act One
of some musical but has enough of a driving beat to sound like a song for one of the American Idols. Is there a different
head space when you're creating a song for a musical and one for say a more commercial venue or artist?
It's all about the specific story really. Being true to the character,
whether that character is you personally or a specifically drawn character for a show. Not unlike an actor, it's my job
as a writer to own the people I am writing for.The more specific I can be, the better.
What made you want to write your own music? What inspires you?
Gosh,
I've been writing all my life. Mom says I starting noodling on the piano as soon as we got it (I was 4 or 5). I am inspired
to write for many reasons. Sometimes there is a therapeutic element, other times it's the challenge of conquering a specific
story or style, sometimes it's just business- which brings its own set of challenges (how can you
make something seem heartfelt when it's really just a paycheck?). In general though, I don't necessarily wait for
inspiration to magically hit me before I sit and create.
What do you want listeners to get from your music?
Honestly, I want them to relate to my music on their
terms. my hope is that if something I write touches you, it has little to do with my personal reasons for writing that particular
song in the first place. If you feel it for your reasons, I touched something universal. That's pretty magical.
From listening to your music, you're definitely a storyteller. How much of your story is in the music you write?
Albums like DRIFT are very personal to
me. 37 NOTEBOOKS is a mix. Obviously, songs like "Greta" aren't so much about me, but "My My" mentioned
above, is based on me. The girl I refer to in the tune was more of a fantasy, but the self-deprecation? All me.
So your song, "Rock and Roll Fag" while some may feel the word "fag" is a derogatory term, the song
itself seems to be much more wistful and almost honor the glamour rock of the 1970's. Is this a personal story? And just
to be sure, you are talking about David Bowie's alter ego Ziggy Stardust and not Ziggy Marley, right?
