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Again, Miss Grace Jones.

Who Knew that Madonna was single handedly responsible for the world going to hell in a handbag?

Some guy came into the store and was trying to talk to me about the Huskies.

Are you kidding me?

He asked me my favorite team and I answered "I don't really have one" but there must have been complete HORROR in my voice because I sounded like the Biggest FAG to ever walk the earth.

he looked at me like I was retarded. which I am, of course.

last Night I Watched "Slither".
It was fun in a '50's sci-fi/monster movie kind of way.
Slimey and gross and really bloody.

There's a scene with a zombie dear attckign the main guy. it's a little hilarious.

this is a rental.

This Is For Markie:

I loves me some Grace Jones. I love her music and I loved her in the handful of movies she's made. She comes across as a little bit cookoo, but who isn't?

Enjoy.







"I'M NOT PERFECT" ( MY FIRST GRACE RECORD BOUGHT ON 45)


"PRIVATE LIFE"


"I'VE SEEN THAT FACE BEFORE (LIBERTANGO)"


"LA VIE EN ROSE"


"LOVE ON TOP OF LOVE"


"LOVE BITES" ( Strange video featuring scenes from "Nightmare Before Xmas" & "Vamp"


"SLAVE TO THE RHYTHM"

this is old but Harry recently brought it to my attention.

Love it!

shoes

..and his eyes, nose, lips, hair and that Sassy ear clip.

I had an another exciting paralyzation last night/this morning at about 5:30am. I realize it hasn't happened in a year and a half but it really sucked. Kyle and MArika came over and helped and the mega potassium pills worked after about an hour but i ended up mising work. and this shit can't still be going on. i called my doctor and ripped him a new asshole.

I had heard of a hyper-thyroid specialist in portland. Mybe his opinion would be worth the trip?

it's all very frustrating more than anything.
I don't know what to do.

Dougie's artsy photos
1. Pat, directing the traffic
2. Brian and a mushroom
3. The Master of all carvings
4. Steve surveys the damage
5. Doug and Jenny

1. Drunkass singing "copa cabana"
2. Drunk coworkers dancin'
3. Drunk local singing to me

last thursday my company took all of the staff to Quinalt beach resort on the coast of washington for a retreat. it was cold and dreary but fun. stayed another night at a house Louisa rents and that was fun. tried to stop at the Star Wars shop, but it was closed. I'm sure everything would have been crazy expensive, anyway.

The Ever Lovely RuPaul turned 46 last friday.
Her new movie "Starbooty: Reloaded" Comes out soon.

STARBOOTY:RELOADED

Siouxsie - Looking fabulous at 49.

everytime I hear this song It reminds me of a man I once knew named Alexander Camden.

Alex was a pediatrician doing his residency in Minneapolis. I met him while my friend Mike & I were walking around lake calhoun one May weekend. He was a friend of my friend, Todd and I trusted Todd's judge of character and he promised to set me up with Alex. Just over a year later it finally happened and and we went out a few times. He was 29 and I was 27. This was 1998.

I was completely COOKOO GAGA over him but kept it to myself. This is right after my ex Nick had walked all over me for a few years and then ran off to Seattle with my best friend.

Alex was beautiful and funny and intelligent and we had so much in common. well, except that he came from $ and had no idea what it was like to not have the ends meet on a daily basis. He lived in a big old house in Minnetonka that was decked out in Laura Ashley wallpaper and antique furniture. It was gorgeous and half as tacky as it sounds. He loved Elton John and "sorry seems to be the hardest word" always seemed to be on at his house or in his car. "Old Elton", He would say "not the new shit."

we didn't spend a lot of time together because he worked all the time. One weekend He had a party at his house and I went with Mark I think. His friends were all older snotty queens and they were really rude to me. One of them said something like "you really aren't good enough for Alex" and "you should keave before you have your little feelings hurt." I couldn't find Alex and don't know what I would have said If I found him so we left. he knocked on my window a few hours later and apologized and we went back to his house. The next morning I was picturing myself married to this wonderful guy, living in his great house and never worrying about money. As Golddigger as that sounds, I had real feelings for him.

He left for NYC that morning.

I didn't see him again for a month. when he came back he looked different. thinner and his head was shaved. he looked tired with rings around his eyes. we met at the smiling moose and he told me that he didn't think we were going anywhere and that he didn't have time for a relationship. He seemed very angry and bitter.

I was crushed. And I couldn't say anything to anyone besides Mark. I hadn't really gushed about him to any of my friends besides Mark and another failed relationship wasn't anything to be proud of.

2 weeks later I flew to Seattle to visit steve and Nick and started to think I might move there. I still chatted with Alex online and on the phone and he thought moving to seattle would be good for me. I didn't get to see Alex before I moved, though. We made plans to meet when I came home for Xmas but the trip was cancelled.

On January 5th, 1999 Alex emailed me and told me that he had been diagnosed with Kidney cancer a year earlier and they had thought it had been an early enough detection but it turns out he was fading fast. He realized this in August and cut me off at that point. He apologized for not being honest with me sooner but he had initially felt like he was goign to beat it. He claimed he didn't want to drag me through a messy cancer death - since that was now all he saw coming.

I called him and we had a tearful long conversation. Again, we made plans to meet when I came home in June. I got an email from one of his friends in early April saying he had passed away. What they thought was early detection was years too late.

I have this little chrome cat that he gave me when I moved to Seattle. He gave most of his possessions to his friends and to charity. I drove by his hosue last time was in minneapolis and it looked exactly the same. I got a little choked up.

I know it's pointless to think about what could have been but sometimes I wonder. And Wish. I don't think of Alex often and I think he would want it that way. But always when I see the little chrome cat and everytime I hear "sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word" - which never fails to completely WREAK me.

I'm all in a funk lately.
Been really bummed.

some friends who've been together for a few years are falling apart and I'm hearing endless rants from each of them.

Someone I know rotting away in a hospitol here, reminding me of all the friends I've lost to Aids over the years.

I'm not sleeping anymore at all. Plus, the new medication I'm on makes me a unpleasant combo of itchy and ticklish.

There's other things But I'd rather not post them here.

that is all.

Friday:
went out with UM and his man, Randy. Had fun but drank too muc. I found myself dancing to "sexyback" at 1:30 am and left the cuff in complete horror. Then went home and entertained my neighbour Marika and her BF with my babbling for a while.

Saturday:
Malled and then went to see the Dixie Chicks at the Tacoma Dome. I'm not a fan but I do like a few songs and have a lot of respect for them after the whole Bush slamming incident. I was very impressed with how great they sounded Live, especially when it was just the three of them playing. These girls were hitting on Tommy and that was a little hilarious.

Sunday:
Had steve's birthday Lunch at La Coc and then went to steve's for Laundry. watched "Monster House" - it was ok. a little frightening for kids to watch.

"MADONNA is working with ABBA legends AGNETHA FALTSKOG and FRIDA LYNGSTAD on tracks for her new album.

Abba fan Madge is deep in discussions with the pair about recording together on her follow-up to No1 album Confessions On A Dance Floor.

And even though Agnetha has lived like a virtual recluse and Frida hung up her high-heeled platform shoes years ago — they have agreed to go into the studio.

This will be a truly massive collaboration of the music monarchy — The Queen Of Pop and the original Dancing Queens joining forces.

It should be a sure-fire hit if Madge, seen going to the movies in London’s Mayfair, chooses to release their joint studio efforts as a single. A source said: “Madonna has been in contact with Agnetha and Frida for a few months.

“Madonna was the driving force behind the idea because she was so happy with her sample of Gimme Gimme Gimme on Hung Up.

“Agnetha and Frida loved it, they really warmed to Madonna for rejuvenating one of their most famous tracks.”

My source revealed they will write and record together as soon as Madge, her producing partner STUART PRICE and the ex Abba girls are all free.



Swede as a nut ... Agnetha and Frida


Abba fellas BJORN ULVAEUS and BENNY ANDERSSON will not be involved but are believed to have given the plans the thumbs up.

Madonna made music history while writing Confessions together with Price, becoming the first artist ever to get permission to remix and sample an Abba track.

At the time she said: “I had to send my emissary to Stockholm with a letter and the record begging them and imploring them and telling them how much I worship their music, telling them it was a homage to them, which is all true.

“They could have said no. Thank God they didn’t.”

Earlier this week I revealed Madonna provided a message on the sleevenotes for the Swedish supergroup’s Greatest Hits, which hit the shops on Monday.

She wrote: “Abba’s timeless music continues to inspire me. It’s joyous. Standing still when you hear Abba is impossible.

“When I started recording my Confessions On A Dance Floor album, Stuart Price and I played their music constantly. Hung Up is my homage to their contribution to music.”

Madge is also working on fresh material with her ex LENNY KRAVITZ.

Price, Kravitz, Abba and Madge?"

Source

You may recall that Steve and I flew to Sydney in May of '05 to see Kylie MInogue. she cancelled the show a week prior because she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. We still had a great time but it kind of lessened the dazzle of the trip. I would go back in a heartbeat, though.

"The feathers and glitter will be back in abundance when Kylie takes to the stage in Sydney tomorrow night for what will be undoubtedly one of the most emotionally charged performances of her career.

For those lucky enough to be in attendance, it promises to be a truly special evening in the presence of a dazzling pop icon whose return to the stage has been eagerly awaited by her millions of fans around the world.

'Showgirl Homecoming' will play 20 dates around Australia before hitting UK shores in January 2007 for shows in London and Manchester."

Last night I bought "crystal Gayle's All-Time Greatest Hits". I remember watching her on tv in the 70's. You'll rememeber she had that Crazy Fucking Long Ass Hair.

but did you know she is Loretta Lynn's little sister?

1. Luke & Teri atop the space needle.
2. Tom, Luke & Me. Crazy that they are almost the same size as me ( though I am Crouched down )

and Yes, I look mildly retarded in that picture.

Both Pet Shop Boys and Scissor Sisters have performed on this Strange US show in the past month or so.

PSB "west End Girls" Wednesday night Nov 8th

I'd rather be Happy all the time than Right all the time.

Why did they release this song as a single? It's ok but the "this is the land..." kills the song for me.

Nice James Bond-esque video, though.

Below is a strange short commercial for the album "Ta-Dah" - it features Veronica Cartwright, who played Lambert in "Alien"

here's TanQ's Myspace page

I take back my earlier gloom and doom musings.

I very happy with the election results so far.

But Can I Say That I am PLEASED AS FUCKING PURPLE PUNCH that the pile of Shit known as Rick Santorum has been ousted. You may remember his highly intelligent view that homosexuality is the same as Bestiality. Smart guy, clearly.

Ultra cheese 1980 video given a new lease on life

all the elections today went to the republican party?

would you believe that was the will of the American people?

do you think most Americans are intelligent enough to understand that electronic voting machines canot be trusted?

I no longer have faith in government or the democratic process. I believe we have one of the most corrupt money hungry governments in the history of the world.

and I am terrified to read the election results tomorrow.

that is all.

The pet shop boys arrived in Seattle for the first time sunday night at the paramount theater and they gave an incredible hit heavy set. Went with kyle, mike, steve 2, percy, steve 1, doug, the brandons, eddie, Robert, Wandy and sarah and brian. it was a great time and the crowd was very responsive. PSB seemed to have a great time as well, and I hope they come back on their next tour.























01. I'm with stupid
02. Neil Tennant And Chris Lowe
03. Hottie Backup singer, Andy Love
04. Neil & Dancers
05. Neil looking very warm

The Set List:
God Willing
Psychological
Left To My Own Devices
Suburbia
I'm with Stupid
Can You Forgive Her
Rent
Minimal
Shopping
Dreaming of the Queen
Heart
Opportunities
Integral

Intermission

Numb
Se A Vida É-Domino Dancing
Where The Streets Have No Name
Always On My Mind
Flamboyant
Home and Dry
West End Girls
The Sodom And Gomorrah Show

So Hard
It's A Sin
Go West/ closing medley





These are not photos from our show, rather an earlier show in Atlanta because my pics didn't turn out at all. The rest of the photos are HERE, courtesy of Arjanwrites.com

remind me to take my digital camera to shows from now on.

THIS IS CRAZY HILARIOUS

...and an endless supply of batteries.

Here's the 10 cds I would want with me.

01. Boomerang - the Creatures
02. Goldfrapp – Black Cherry
03. Depeche Mode – Violator
04. Erasure – I say, I Say, I Say
05. GHV2 – Erotica
06. Peepshow – Siouxsie & The Banshees
07. Pet Shop Boys – Bilingual
08. Scissor Sisters – Ta Dah
09. Ultimate Kylie – Kylie Minogue
10. Greatest Hits - Eurythmics

Subject to change on a daily basis, of course.

wot are yours?

HILARIOUS ! I love when Steve accidentally calls him "Sweetheart".



Thanks, Markie.