Many days I just want to post a bunch of stuff that makes me laugh or means something special to me. Today is one of those days. Here is the Wednesday Mishmash. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Oh man I love Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, a cover band out of San Francisco. They do punk versions of songs ranging from Barbara Streisand to The Beatles. They are seriously an awesome band. If you ever watched Taxicab Confessions [...]
The fourth song of my imaginary demo album The Ghosts That Haunt Me is "Gates of Dawn." While I was still in Orlando I was in what I thought was a lasting relationship. I was wrong. We moved to NYC together but before I could unpack she was going on dates with another guy. Yeah, I know how to pick them. So I loaded up the car and moved to Los Angeles. Soon after I was there, an old high [...]
Today I'm spinning Blue Valentines from my imaginary demo album The Ghosts That Haunt Me. After a botched marriage ceremony and a disastrous breakup, I moved to Orlando to get my life back on track. I found writing songs helped me through it all. I recorded the songs in my living room, using an old Tascam 4-track recorder. The only effect used on the recordings (because it was the only effect I had) was a wee bit of reverb. There was a [...]
The other day I posted about my song "The Rain," which was the first song of my imaginary demo album The Ghosts That Haunt Me. Today I bring you the song "The Wounded Circus." I was living in Orlando, FL after my big breakup in Chicago. (The breakup being what led me to write the aforementioned song "The Rain.") I was in the process of pulling my life together and I remember standing in an aisle at the grocery store, unable to [...]
Back when I was 30-years old I had a marriage ceremony. Not a marriage, though. Just a ceremony. That's because my marriage was never official. In a a nutshell here's what happened. In September 1993, I was living in Chicago and I was all set to marry my then girlfriend. All hell broke loose the day before our wedding between my girlfriend, me and her family. My girlfriend was hesitant to go through with the marriage and she felt there [...]
The Who's Tommy Opens at East West Players May 13 This the press release for the East West Players production of the Who's TOMMY. Now I usually don't post an entire press release but this one is a bit special to me. My daughter is playing 10-year old Tommy. Can I get a "what what" from everyone? I'm incredibly proud of my daughter for having the guts to audition for it. That she got it is a great bonus. When [...]
Harry Potter Uptown Funk Parody My daughter loves Harry Potter. She also loves Bruno Mars. She's going to plotz when she sees this Harry Potter Uptown Funk parody. The song is put out by KFaceTV. The songs has spawned an Uptown Funk parody world. This is probably the best one I've seen. The best cover I've seen of Uptown Funk is by Alex Boye'. And while you're checking out Alex, catch his cover of Shake it Off. It's fantastic. [embedplusvideo height="360" [...]
The Best Uptown Funk Mashup What do you get when you combine Duran Duran's Notorious. James Brown's Get Up Offa That Thing. Bruno Mars' Uptown Funk? The best Uptown Funk Mashup ever. Yep, it's Bruno Mars. James Brown. And Duran Duran. In an Uptown Funk Mashup. In can't believe this video has fewer than 5000 views. It's a fantastic mashup. You know, as far as mashups go. The other version I like is Uptown Funk and and Walk the Dinosaur. Who remembers Walk the Dinosaur? [...]
Galavant Premieres Sunday Galavant, ABC's midseason, medieval musical debuts this Sunday, January 4th. Oh how I wish I had written Galavant. And if I hadn't created it, oh how I wish I had been one of the writers on the project. This musical is right up my alley. It's been called "fast-paced, irreverent, and very, very silly." My adaptation of Tom Jones has been called “a fast-paced, take-no-prisoners Monty Python-style farce.” You see? A perfect match. The creative team of Galavant [...]
Best Christmas Songs - I Saw Mommy Kiss a Dreadlocks - Barrington Levy Day 9 of my Best Christmas Songs playlist is I Saw Mommy Kiss a Dreadlocks by Barrington Levy. As the name suggests, I Saw Mommy Kiss a Dreadlocks is a reggae song. If all of that "Oh the weather outside is frightful" and "Jack Frost nipping at your nose" has got you down, head south for a Jamaican Christmas. I like a white Christmas as much as the next [...]
