OOOO SCARY BIGFOOT!!

Here's the picture Matt was talking about in last night's episode. Looks kind of like those Wheelers from Return to Oz.

All I Want For Christmas...

Hey y'alls, it's that's time of year again. If you wanna show us your love, check out our wish list.

Thanks, love you bunches, and happy holidays!!

~The Galore Crew~

Best Stories Ever

Drinking stories throughout history. There was a punch of brandy, wine, sugar, and citrus juices that it took a WEEK to drain! OMG!

I miss aristocracy...

And Here's Divine in Broad Daylight

As with the real Divine, perhaps sunlight is not exactly my pumpkin's friend, but how else do you show off the rindstones?

PS Again like the real Divine, my pumpkin is now rapidly decomposing from the ass up. Sadsies.

Pumpkin Carving! Cocks And Fetuses

Xmas Shopping for Mom

I can probably just sneak these pills in with the rest of them.

Things We Lost in the Fire

The movie with Halle Barrie opened on Friday. Is it just me or are ad campaigns getting progressively more tasteless?

Seriously, when the movie Things We Lost When Mt. Rainier Blew Up All Over Seattle, I'm moving.

Mmmm, whip that magic wand out!

I'm sure everyone who cares has already heard, but Albus Dumbledore is a big ol' mo! The thought crossed my mind a while back, but since he never went to the gym or had work done, I figured it was me just wanting everyone to be gay.

Turns out they are :)

Looks like I've got a new costume for Pride next year!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DIVINE!!

On this day in 1945, a little drag queen named Divine (aka Glenn Milstead) was born. 21 years later she made her fabulous debut in the John Waters short film Roman Candles.

I first heard of her while in high school rehearsal for South Pacific when Josh Conkel (the only other broadway kid I knew at the time, but who was actually comfortable talking about it...even if it did take him until the fall after graduation to come out) made some comment about how a situation was Pink Flamingo's-esk and how "Divine was rolling over in her enoromous grave."

While she's no longer with us I'm sure Divine, along Leigh Bowery and so many others are having a blast celebrating her 62nd birthday and doing the biggest bump of coke in the universe.

HURRAY!

Halloween Plans

The big day is approaching. I've got my costume picked out and Pakio's sewing it for me. Pakio and Matt have their costumes bought and now just need to Be-Dazzle them. But we still need somewhere to go.

SO...whazz happening?!

October 26th, or 27th we're 3 boys looking for a party or a bar in Seattle to hit while in costume. Suggestions?

PS Don't forget to contact us if you want to come to Pakio's party this Saturday on the 20th. Costumes not required.

Happy 100th Fiona!!

These two are always a big buttload of fun, but if you really want a giggle, go till about 35 minutes left when Taylor whips out the newspaper. Probably one of their best episodes.

Here's to 100 more!!

~Matty, Pakio, and Matt

Without Your Twirling it, the Earth Can Spin

This may be a little heavy for this blog but I figure the musical reference evens it out.

Iraq is finally insisting that Blackwater be pulled from the reconstruction effort. America's not sure how to react.

I just keep thinking of My Fair Lady. George Bush as Henry Higgins turns Iraq into his ideal of a "civilized" person, and then is shocked when that person is strong enough to survive on their own. Tony Blair is Colonel Pickering and Sadam Hussein is Alfred Doolittle.

Though I don't think Liza is going to come back and help us get our slippers.

BOOOO politics.

NERD ALERT!!

I haven't played a Mario role playing game since Super Mario RPG on the SNES, which I loved! I need to experience me some Paper Mario to catch up and then...Super Mario Galaxy!!

Merry Christmas to me!

Super Special Bonus Episode!

Check out our super special bonus episode: Turkey Loaf and Holiday Fun.

What makes it special? It's our second one this week.

WOOOO, we're on fire!

Contact us if you wanna come to the Halloween party next weekend!

PS Pakio's mic had some issues but he's still audible so you can download the show from our libsyn site or on iTunes.

The GAYEST Thing On My Ipod!

I just found it! Alan Cumming and Liza performing "Baby It's Cold Outside" on the Broadway Cares: Home For the Holidays CD. Seriously, the little added dialogue and the implied idea that he doesn't want her to leave so he can tap that fine Minnelli poon-tang is ridiculous. Plus their pacing sounds like they're both rolling around in seperate satin sheeted beds with hot boys about to sit on their respective faces.

This whole album is actually a bit of a hoot. Christine Ebersole's "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", and Anthony Rapp & Everett Bradley's "Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy" are beautiful. Jane Krakowski's "Santa Baby" makes me want to remind her you can't be cute forever. There's a few numbers where you can tell some Broadway stars think awfully highly of themself. Lillias White's silent night where she keeps running notes like an American Idol Mariah Carey impression gets old very quick. But Patrick Wilson's "We Need a Little Christmas" is adorable and Gary Beach & Roger Bart's "Silver Bells" is another one you can picture being performed from a satin bed. Right before they cram their Christmas knobs up each other's stockings.

Thanks to my friend Rob for the loan of the cd.

What's the gayest thing on your iPod?

Apparently This is News

The yellow Wiggle is missing!

Oh wait, there he is. Though it might be a different guy.

Who the hell knows.

I'm honestly a little appalled the article is THIS long. There's not a war on or anything...

It's Ok Senator Craig...Come On Out...

It may be a day early, but it's hardly a buck short. October 11th is National Coming Out Day. Time to celebrate that inner strength we've all had to build up and use to tell Mom to stop bugging us about that fat girl in our English class and shout in her face "BUTT BABIES DON'T LIVE!!!" Shout in mom's face, not the girl's.

That doesn't make any sense.

Oh well. Sing along. "Come Out, Come Out, whereever you are..."

They'll Make a Musical Out of Anything!

This just in. Apparently Grumpy Old Men the Musical is making the rounds somewhere out there.

Should play great in South Florida.

I wonder what some of the songs will be..."Ice Fishing (Burning Heart, Freezing Ass)", "Something Smells Like Fish", "Dirty Old Man"...oh wait, that one's already in Forum.

What other songs should they have?

OMG I'm SOOO Excited!!!

I know this is posted on a few different blogs but...for those of you who haven't seen it...


SWEEENEY TODD!!!!

Directed by Tim Burton!!!!

Republican Senator Has Brain Disease

So...many...jokes...

Seriously, it's a damn shame. Probably...

I'm SIIIIICK

So goes what I think is day 3 of the cold. And I'm at work too cause...well I thought I was a trooper.

WAAAAA! Poor Matty! WAAA!

Mmmm pulpy

Found this while I was looking for pictures for a post on my personal blog.

Life is silly.

Mmmmm, mistrial, mmmmmm

Is it just me, or does Phil Spector look kind of like a skexies from Dark Crystal?

Would a Moment of Silence Be Ironic?

I love reading dead celebrities bios. This man fought the nazis!

At 83, Marcel Marceau is dead. Which raises that question, if a tree falls over in the woods and lands on a mime, does anyone care?

My New Favorite Vodka

After a day of digging around in the dirt for United Way on Friday, I stopped by Von's downtown to have a drink to get change for the bus (cause I lost my bus pass two weeks ago and blah, blah, blah). I sat directly across from the coolest vodka bottle ever.

Gotham Vodka.

I don't know how much the bottle looks like the Empire State Building but it's still got the art deco design I love and...ladies...WOW!

Like drinking water. Seriously. Sooooo smooth with just the hint of the good part of vodka flavor.

And $18 for a vodka on the rocks. Hmmm.

The bottle online is only $33 so I guess I learned two things:

1) Von's will completely rip you off (which isn't really news but still...

2) GOTHAM VODKA ROCKS MY SOCKS!!!

Again, we have a PO Box...I'm just saying.

Old Games are the Best Games

Because I'm a nerd I recieve a weekly e-mail that gives entymology of phrases. This weeks phrase "barking mad."

Apparently the first time the phrase was published was in an article about the sport AUTO POLO!!

Check out that picture. I wanna play!!


...in hindsight there was probably a way to mention Auto-Polo without revealing what a big geek I am.

Koko's a FREAK!

Does anyone else remember seeing Koko the signing gorilla on Reading Rainbow back in the day? I had my very own copy of the picture book "Koko's Kitten" about her getting a cat.

Turns out we all grow up...

"Koko has been involved in several sexual harassment lawsuits.[5] At least three former employees, all female, have claimed that they were pressured into showing their breasts to Koko. They alleged that Dr. Patterson encouraged the behavior, often interpreted Koko's signs as requests for nipple display, and let them know that their job would be in danger if they "did not indulge Koko's nipple fetish." Koko has been known to playfully grab both male and female nipples without warning or provocation. Dr. Patterson claims that Koko uses the word "nipple" to refer to humans.[6]

All claims of harassment have been permanently dropped as of 21 November 2005 after the foundation and the parties involved reached a settlement. [7]"

Wikipedia, I love you so much...

Across the Diner (aka Lookit that Jukebox Over There)

Despite all of the trailers for "Across the Universe" I've seen this summer, I was actually blindsided by it's under-the-wire American release last weekend. My first set of cassettes I owned were "Meet the Beatles," "Srgt Pepper" and the two "Best of the Beatles" double cassettes and I've been a fan ever since. When I saw that a new Julie Taymor film with a hot British guy and a soundtrack made completely of Beatles songs was coming out I was quite excited. The trailer only increased my anticipation with rocking orchestrations and clips of the mind blowning visual effects Ms. Taymor is known for.

And then I caught the 10:30 "Across the Universe" last night.

It's not a bad movie, but it's not what I expected and it's too long. The first realization, which was actually a pleasant surprise, was that "Across the Universe" is honestly a musical and doesn't just use Beatles music as background. The main probelm is that it's "Mamma Mia!" with a more relevant storyline, because it has more relevant music. I.E. rather than all the songs being about dancing and relationships, there are a lot of Beatles songs about the changing world, USA mired in an endless war, etc.

The movie reeks of Jukebox Musical doldrums right down to inside jokes like the fact that every character has a name mentioned in a Beatles song, a scene where the main character, Jude, sketches a green apple, and a reunion performance on a rooftop to wrap up the film.

As best as I could gather from the trailer, the story was the standard "teens caught in the whirl of a world falling apart in the late 60's". An interting twist being that Jude is an illigal Liverpudlian. And of course I had high hopes for Taymor's artistic take on these standard elements. If you've seen the trailers, you've seen the extent of her visual extravagance, which were few and far between and felt forced. That's not to say that over all the movie wasn't visually well constructed, shot, and, edited, but the trailer gives the impression that it's practically Moulin Rouge! with it's quickfire, abstract visuals, and it isn't.

As much as I enjoyed the re-orchestrations and new conceptualization of the songs, there were too many. Especially when a good third of them didn't even move the story along or elaborate anything. Despite impressive performance value, for all that they added, they may as well have been playing in the background under action which actually propelled the story. The worst example of this is the character Prudence. While "Dear Prudence" is probably one of my favorite Beatles song, her entire storyline which lead to the performance of that song was pointless. As evidenced by the fact that once "Dear Prudence" was song, you don't see her again until the final scene.

I think I'm probably being a little too harsh on the film mainly because it failed to live up to my expectations, which is no one's fault but my own, and a comment that often bothers me when others make it about productions. It would be interesting to see a review from someone not well acquainted with the songs who wouldn't see certain numbers coming a mile away. Of course I have no idea where you could find someone not familiar with the majority of those songs.

I would reccomend "Across the Universe" to any die hard Beatles fan. I would suggest it to Taymor fans because the visuals are best seen on the big screen. All others...meh...if you like musicals and attractive English artists, you could do a lot worse. "Across the Universe" may not deliver on it's title, but it will do as a 20th century period piece which will take you across the space of an evening on an interesting emotional ride.

Someone didn't tell her they were taping rehearsal

Saturday night I had a conversation about how Brittany's performance at the VMA's could be an awesome opportunity for her to prove everyone wrong and perform the balls off something the way she did back in the day.

Or she could put one more nail in that career coffin of hers by showing there's essitenally no recovering from such a steep spiral.

Looks like she took the second option.

Oh well. I like Christina better anyway.

The Neverending Story

For those of you who thought the Anna Nicole story couldn't get any weirder, apparently now there's a book coming out alledging that Larry Birkhead and Howard K. Stern were knocking booties. There's also a video of them polishing each other's knobs. I've never really thought of Stern in that context but...if I'm in the mood to get my Jew on and watch a blonde idiot fool around, I could see how that would be kinda hot. Maybe...

I never thought to put Anna Nicole and BEARD in the same sentence.

I'm really wondering what the next twist is going to be...

PS Is it just me, or does that picture make you expect a fly to just get right into Larry's mouth?

Stuck in a You-Tube Hole

I think these are a little old, but they're new to me. Enjoy





This last one is for all of my broadway bois out there. Liza performing in Victor, Victoria 10 years ago.