As a friendly reminder to our Californian readers, please go out today and vote No on Prop 8! Whether or not you support gay marriage, the prop wants to change constitutional rights to allow the government to discriminate under the law, which is wrong!
Also, for every American reader, go out and vote! Whether you vote for Obama or McCain, just go vote!!
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LarsNYC from Flickr has started his own Website! It features several photos not originally in his Flickr portfolio. Here’s hoping the website works out beautifully for you, Lars! I’m rooting for you! Visit it below and find the link added to this blog’s linklist!
www.larsstephan.com
Standard I Am… Sascha Fierce cover
Beyonce is releasing a new album next month entitled I Am… The album will be a double-album, with Disc One entitled I Am… Beyonce and Disc Two entitled I Am… Sascha Fierce. I’m pretty excited for the album. I loved Dangerously in Love but B’Day didn’t really do it for me.
Beyonce’s new album has a dual-personality theme. The first disc is the Beyonce disc, containing more bluesy and R&B styled songs and the second disc is the Sascha Fierce disc, containing dance and hip-hop styled songs.
The first single from the album is a double A-Side, If I Were A Boy (from the Beyonce Disc) and Single Ladies (from the Sascha Fierce Disc). Both videos are embedded below. I enjoy Single Ladies much more.
Saw her when leaving my day job today. Thought it was kinds cool and very random.
Who Killed Amanda Palmer – Amanda Palmer
Released: September 16th
Tracks: 12
Record Label: Roadrunner Records
Who Killed Amanda Palmer is an adventure in to Amanda Palmer’s psyche. The album delves in to everything from war and abortion to family issues and domestic violence. Amanda Palmer, free of the ties that a band can bring, was able to let herself go and do everything she couldn’t with The Dresden Dolls.
Full Review after the jump.
The beautiful and talented Canadian songwriter Sarah Slean is set to release an EP of tracks cut from her Fourth Studio Album, The Baroness. No news of a concrete tracklisting has been released yet, but Sarah has confirmed through her official website that an EP will be released.
Sarah had upwards of 20 songs written for The Baroness ranging from the release of Day One to her recent life in Paris, France. The songs were cut down from above 20 to 18 during the recording process.
Expected tracks for the EP are
So, I don’t know if I really mentioned it on this blog in the past, but I am a musician. I record under Matt Wyllie. I’m a vocalist (and a vocal teacher), a self-taught pianist, and have been considering learning some guitar to round it out a bit. But, I do have a myspace music account, a page on facebook, a YouTube account, and I do run Twitter. In fact, I’m gonna through those up on the links side bar.
Anyway, I’ve put up a new song on Myspace. It’s a rough demo of a song written about a month ago. It’s a piano-vocal song at the moment, but I think I’m hearing strings.
Hop on over to Myspace to give it a listen!
I was really excited to hear about Canada’s very first Yaoi Convention being organized. I was even more excited that it’s being set for next year and in Calgary! It’s close enough I could drive if need be! I’m totally going!
Yaoi Fest is planned sometime for Fall 2009 in Calgary, Alberta. Details are still sketchy and rough, but I’m really hoping this will pull together and go through! I’m definitely excited for this.
It’s about time we finally got a Yaoi convention in Canada!
Check out their official website here!
So my second job has taken up more time than I thought it would. It looks like posts will end up being whenever I can get to it. Sorry guys.
I don’t know what it was about The Women that didn’t quite work for me. I mean, it wasn’t a horrible movie. But it wasn’t quite what I thought it should be, either. The cast was pretty good, the characters were likeable, and it was touted as one of the gayest movies in a while thanks to Debra Messing and Bette Middler being involved. But it was just kinda… eh.
Bette Middler was in the movie for all of five seconds. She played a stoner acting agent that Meg Ryan’s character met at some random camp she went to after separating from her husband. She tells Mary (Ryan’s character) that she should ask about what she wants not what everyone else wants over a joint and that’s all we see of her. It was really more of a cameo than an actual role.
The story was a good idea, but the implementation was kinda off. Mary’s husband cheats on her and it’s about how she deals with it with some of her friends help her. Jada Pinket Smith plays a lesbian writer, Anette Benning plays a magazine editor, and Debra Messing plays a mom-type.
It was okay. But I guess I just wanted to like it more than I did. I’d wait for it to come out and rent it or even just wait for it to play on Movie channels.
