While you are going to see HANCOCKthis weekend, starring Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman, I will be watching DVDs of Arrested Development. Which is about all I want to watch these days. I've decided it's my Seinfeld. I could watch every episode over and over, in fact, I do.
Bizarre that the unlikely combo of Theron and Bateman are starring in something together again, no? But Bateman likes repeat business, a la Cera in Juno.
I wouldn't mind seeing David Cross and CoCoPeru act together again. (See end of clip above.)
You aren't really going to see Hancock this weekend, are you?
Boom Boom Time. This should send you into the holiday weekend dancing. Here's this week's collection of my favorite dance remixes found around the web. Hope you all have a great July 4th.
Donna Summer "Stamp Your Feet" (Escape/Coluccio Club Mix) I'm not feeling this new Donna Summer stuff, it's like Leona Lewis, I should love it, but it just doesn't connect with the PopMuse? But I know you like it, so here ya go.
Master photographer and oldPopMuse friend Thairin Smothers has a fab art exhibit happening at the wonderful World of Wonder Art Gallery in Hollywood. It's a collection of Nightlife Photography focusing on XXX-exy images of Male Strippers (the kind that dance on boxes in gay bars not the kind women hire for Bachelorette Parties).
Go check it out: WORLD OF WONDER GALLERY 6650 Hollywood Boulevard Hollywood, California 90028 gallery@worldofwonder.net
The show runs through July 7th with daytime hours from noon until 6pm Tuesday through Saturdays.
Or Contact ThairinHERE to get info on how to BUY some of this work - you know you want it in your collection.
And because every PopMuse Post deserves a music cue, here's a new raw raunchy backroom remix of Christina's Dirrty. Seemed approp.
I get sent music all the time from artists asking PopMuse to review their work or promote it. Once in a blue moon the product pitched is actually worthy of a post.
Run Dan Run are a cute indie rock quartet from South Carolina. Their myspace has a song called "Your Name Escapes Me" and it was one of those tracks that by 20 seconds in, I knew I loved it and loved the band that made it. I think you will too. Check them out.
BONUS: THIS PIC and caption is totally amazing, love the photo quality, the looks on the faces, the LPs and old stereo in the background... that is a moment right there.
Can we all just collectively agree that Jennifer Hudson is really doing IT with this single? I mean, really.
As DWH75 said to me: "It's what I wanted to hear for the J Hud Brand -- simple, classy, clean. They were so smart to go light on the production -- her voice is so rich as it is, she don't need no extra topping."
Amen to that.
The video (above) is decent too. I like the 'at home', 'in alley' and 'on runway' set-up, I could do without the 'Campari' and 'white striped room' set-up. But it is classic Arista R&B Music Video with 90% beauty shots, and 10% narrative. No, no, I'm a fan of that, especially when you can make Jennifer look THIS beautiful. Now that is a shear genius hair cut.
And these remixes... Just perfect. 2 Mixes, one airy summer fun, one gay pride boom boom. Done and done. I hope no one else does mixes of it, these two are fine.
Dear George, The Show last night was fantastic. Spot on. Thanks for the amazing AMAZING seats, I can't believe they were better than this guy's?!?
And thanks for sitting me with Sharon Stone (you shit) but far enough away that it didn't become totally HER night.
George, I haven't felt overwhelmed (to the point of tears) at a concert, since
'88, didn't know I still had that in me. But opening with my favorite
little interlude was almost too much to bear. I knew it was coming, but still. Took me 4 songs in to really pull it together. Oh, and thanks for singing "Amazing" to me and Bloghungry, meant the world, you have no idea.
Thanks for reading the blog and playing Hard Day, was magic.
Nice to see Kennytoo, you two and those blazers, OY!
And for pointing out cranky-face Dr. Phil in the front row, that was super funny. Screw him if he got boo'd (although I did kinda feel bad for his wife too. Why didn't she just come with a gay friend???)
Most importantly, Happy Birthday! Was an honor to see you on what will most likely be your last birthday spent ON a stage. (With a cake hand delivered by Bo Derek?!? - if your gonna do it, do it right.)
There were many highlights, but I don't want to spoil it here, for the kids who haven't seen the show yet, but smart to rock a remix or two. And I'm not sure I'll ever get over how shocked I was that you sang "A Different Corner".
For you PopMuse Fans, here's a few random GM songs I'll be listening to today:
The BET Awards are on right now. Usher opened the show and all I could think was how hard it must be for him to stand up there and perform in front of Chris Brown and Ne-Yo who do Usher so much better than Usher does now.
THEN Ne-Yo comes out with this AMAZING performance (above). And he does those Michael Jackson rips they ALL do, but with a Disco Beat, as MJ did in his Off The Wall-era heights.
Then Ne-Yo does the obligatory 'walk through the crowd and sing a lyric to a girl' except he sings it to Queen Latifah (AND GIRLFRIEND!?!). And that's it for PopMuse, s-s-s-sold. There is no Usher.Ne-Yo gets it in a way Usher never did.
Ne-Yo will never come out, and that's OK, he sends the message. He's working on a whole other level. If Usher is Orlando,Ne-Yo is Paris. Feel that. Download the remixes of Ne-Yo's latest below.
...Wait a minute, is that SWV and En Vogue singing with Alicia Keys right now??? I gotta go, if you are missing this award show, you are white, and I pity you.
Apparently this is a Viral Video phenomena. People around the world are watching baby's laughing on youtube. I didn't get it, then I saw this clip and now I totally get it. This kid is MAJOR. He has a smoker's laugh (think smoker's cough, but funny).
I think today might be a relevant day to post this clip too (but that's for me to understand and for you, to not. Yet at least.)
Set your TiVo's. There is an amazing Documentary airing this Monday on IFC. It's called "HEAVY LOAD". And for anyone who loves music, it is a must see. It's about a Punk Band in the UK made up (in part) of Special Needs Punk Rockers. I've seen it a few times and LOVE it. You will too. Plus it was Exec Produced by a PopMuse Besty, so support!
OH YES, and you'll see the most touching appearance from KYLIE MINOGUE in the history of touching KYLIE MINOGUE appearances!
New favorite band alert. Styrofoam. Do I have to say this? I guess it helps, Postal Service meets Josh Rouse. It's so Ben Gibbard & Josh Rouse you'll even hear Ben and Josh sing on tracks. And (of course), Styrofoam are on tour with Death Cab. It's Emo-Blip, does that help? YOU'LL LOVE.
Seems like a good day to offer up a Boom Boom Blog Post for you clubheads who wait, counting the days, the hours, and minutes till PopMuse shares his latest Remix Discoveries from around the web.
As always go to the links column to the right and click around and you'll find even more amazing music.
Facing my itunes this morning I decided to listen to old mixes I've crafted over the years. A dangerous plan for someone who throws so much personal reflection into a mix; it can feel like reading old journal entries. And it is something I don't do often, PopMuse loves newness, nostalgia is not my specialty (although as I age everything feels nostalic...)
As it's Gay June, and I wanted to start off easy, I threw on this ancient mix I did in 1999 of my favorite Erasure Songs. It's quite a good mix so I decided to share it with you all. I really only allow myself Erasure once a year (or that's all I can take.) This mix has hits, live tracks, remixes, extendeds, etc. My favs.
My two fav Erasure CDs... (thanks for asking) are "Chorus" because they've always been able to drop a few good singles on a CD, but they rarely drop a completely perfect CD, front to back, as "Chorus" was/is? BUY IT.
Missing from the above mix is my other fav, the self titled, completely ignored "Erasure". It was their synthy-experimental period and it took me years after it's release to understand it. But the 10 minutes songs and the continuous flow are actually WAY ahead of it's time, and it completely holds up. I didn't include anything from it on this '99 mix because it has to be listened to as a whole otherwise it doesn't work. If you've never heard it, BUY IT, you won't regret it.
NEW MBP CD "DISCO GLOBES 2008" DIGITAL DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE NOW!
“Disco Globes” is an annual CD I do every June in Honor of Gay Pride. It’s Gay Boom Boom, Boys on Boxes, four on the floor, house head, disco queen, club trash, epic dance remix music. (Featuring Boom Boom Dance Tracks from: Madonna,Kylie, Blake,Tings,Rihanna,Usher, Jordin, Janet, Robyn, Kelly, Michelle, Sia) DOWNLOAD LINK 1: http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=batch_download&batch_id=SmpzNHA0WlREbUkwTVE9PQ
So, Fantasia has a new single out. Not incredibly exciting stuff, they still can't get her sound right. And to release a single titled "Bore Me (Yawn)" is a mean mean record company joke, if she had a better manager that wouldn't have happened. Sad for her.
BUT BUT BUT, she is dropping major lyric... Baby you trippin' It don't go that way This ain't a movie Or a Tyler Perry play.
PopMuse adds... "Okaaaayyy".
You know how PopMuse loves him some Tyler Perry. Best lyric since...
If there's a camera up in here Then I'd best not catch this flick On YouTube (YouTube) 'Cause if you run your mouth and brag About this secret rendezvous I will hunt you down.
I have listened to one song for the entire day. XO sent it to me this morning and I haven't stopped listening to it since. It is a bonus track from Alanis' new CD "Flavors Of Entanglement".
PopMuse and Alanis are the same age and with each release she seems to capture the age we share perfectly.
Today she captured my mood perfectly with "It's Bitch To Grow Up." Like the rest of the CD, the track was produced by Frou Frou / "What It Feels Like for a Girl" mastermind Guy Sigsworth.
I got the Alanis CD early, as I do, and it's completely beautiful. BUT "Flavors Of Entanglement" is a CD that would benefit from a major Re-Sequence (read: song order change). It's a CD about a break-up, so in my mind it should follow the trajectory of a relationship: Hope, Love, Big Love, Frustration, Hate, Break-Up, Sadness, Peace, Hope. Right?
Here's PopMuse's Song Order. (Also I've dropped 2 songs I can't stand from the playlist.)
"Incomplete"
"Giggling Again For No Reason"
"In Praise of The Vulnerable Man"
"Straitjacket"
"Underneath"
"Tapes"
"Torch"
"Moratorium"
"Not As We"
"It's a Bitch to Grow Up"
You're going to buy this CD because it deserves your 10 bucks, but I'll share the brill bonus track for you here...
Madonna did one of those Celebrity Playlists over at itunes and never have I laughed so hard staring at an itunes window. Let's hope she didn't put much thought into this (sadly, I bet she did.)
I'm not gonna rag on her too hard, cause I know you kids flipping worship her. But seriously, Eminem? Madge, u still on dat homeskillet, really? Still-izzle?
And liking 50 Cent in 2008 will NOT help you look black, young or urban. In fact it makes you look white, old and suburban. And two tracks from 50 Cent on an 8 song playlist makes you look like a mom at a Bat Mitvah making DJ requests you think your 'daughter will like'. No. But I'm happy she is recognizing Kylie,Janet and Rihanna, that's cute for them, I guess. Click on the above jpegs to read the full story.
In less depressing Madonna News, the Demo for Confession's "Get Together" leaked on Music Box Mixand it's really good.
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