Liza

Ok, I am man enough to admit I love Liza Minnelli. I was listening to Forbidden Broadway’s version of Liza One Note and I wondered if the stars ever get a kick out of the parodies. Debra Wilson from MadTV does Whitney soooooo well-I watch the skits all the time. I wonder if Whitney ever caught any of those and made death threats to Debra…

Back to Liza…

Hairspray The Broadway Show

Hairspray come up in conversation recently, so I decided to pull out the cammed version of the Broadway show. I kicked myself for not catching it while in NYC. I have yet to watch the John Travolta version-without Divine or Harvey, it seems sacrilegious, but I guess they’re still trying to “out” the greaser.

You could tell that the audience was pulled in to the show by Harvey, so I would have thought the natural choice for the movie would be him. Oh, well. I won’t judge it until I am bored enough to watch it.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

I recently introduced a friend to the wonders of Hedwig and decided to watch the movie again.

I had seen the show when it was at the Jane Street Theater in 98 and was excited when I heard they were going to make the movie, since the live show touched me. Of course, the first time I saw it, I felt they had changed the entire mood of the piece-instead of Hedwig appearing to be a victim, as in the play, Hedwig was this bitter, mean-spirited creature. I had to step back and take a look at the movie as a stand-alone story, and it became one of my faves.

My interpretation of it is that Hedwig is actually Tommy’s small-town oppressed side that becomes his total being at the end. Since Tommy is in a midwestern “wicked little town”, and gay, he expresses himself inwardly as Hedwig. The fact that Hedwig is doing shows in seafood buffet restaurants shows that this side is to be “hidden”. All of the creative energy comes from the freedom that Hedwig feels.

So, after watching the movie again and seeing my youth played out again, it kind of depresses me. I long for the “little town” because you know the people and what type of people they are. I was “married” (in a LTR) to someone who spent their entire life in that town. Once I started getting out to larger cities, I found drama and people that weren’t honest, people who had issues. While in my late teens and early 20s, I wrote music with the same dream that Hedwig had of “getting out” of the wicked little town.

So, I feel Hedwig’s strife. I kind of liked that strife. It brought out a lot of angst-ridden creativity.

I Am Being Haunted…

I have a ghost in my apartment.

Don’t worry, it’s not scary or evil. Whenever I encounter him, it’s never a scary ghost moment.
The first time I noticed it, I was sitting in the living room watching TV when I heard a crash in the kitchen and then a wave of glass came sliding across the floor. It was probably about 20 feet worth of glass.
I had put a small cabinet’s glass on top of the cabinets in the kitchen, then on top of the glass, I put a pack of paper towels. I kept scratching my head, wondering how on earth the glass could have fallen. No one was in the kitchen, the paper towels on top made it very stable.
I didn’t think much about it until I got up one morning and went to the bathroom, but before I got there, all of a sudden, it felt like I was being (playfully) pushed around. I tried to grab onto a wall or counter for stability. It felt like the whole apartment was being tumbled around, but all I could see were fleeting images of the room around me with what looked like blackness flashing in front of me.
I managed to grab a wall and it stopped.
I felt as if someone was there, but no one was in the room with me, so it started me thinking about spirits in the apartment. I blamed the glass in the kitchen as the ghost’s work then. A few weeks later, another kitchen incident-all the pans underneath the counter sounded like they fell out onto the floor, but when I went to look, nothing was out of place.
Then there was the night I was in bed. I was deperately trying to go to sleep and felt someone get in bed. A few minutes later, I reached over and no one was there.
Then, one night, it touched my foot.
Mind you, it’s not scary when it happens, but I think it’s because I don’t actually SEE him.
I got out of the shower one morning and there was a smell of the same 70s rose scented soap that my grandmother used in her bathroom. I think that she was visiting me. I instantly thought of her.

Things were ok with the ghost until the other night. I was sleeping and woke up-one of those where you know someone’s right over your face… well, stupid me, I opened my eyes and there was this ghostly face-right at mine. Not like you see in the movies, but more like highlights of a face. It was too faint to make out the details, other than a large nose.

I didn’t panic as much as I thought I would, but I tried to will him away… tried to make my brain think that it was playing tricks on me, but it stayed there for a minute, and then went away. I tried to see if there was anything on the wall that would have made the face, but nothing.

So, this led to last night’s dream where I was talking on the phone to my mother and all she could hear was squealing. I kept saying “hello?…hello?” and finally, I figured it was the ghost, so I started screaming, “GET OUT! GET OUT! GET OU….” and the reason I didn’t finish the last “out” was because the ghost made me puke. I felt it almost being pushed out of me, unnaturally. I got scared in the dream and started yelling and woke myself up, yelling for real.

Weird.

WHITNEY HOUSTON IS BACK TO OLD WHITNEY!

i look to youI just downloaded the new song “I Look To You” and I LOVE IT! This is “old” Whitney… I have been praying for this type of song from her for decades!!!!

Download:i look to you
Listen:

Lyrics:

As I lay me down
Heaven hear me now
Im lost without a cause
After giving it my all

Winter storms have come
And darkened my sun
After all that I’ve been through
Who on earth can I turn to

I look to you,
I look to you
After all my strength is gone
In you I can be strong
I look to you,
I look to you
Yeah
And when melodies are gone
In you I hear a song
I look to you

After losing my breath
There’s no more fighting left
Sinking to rise no more
Searching for that open door

And every road that I’ve taken
Lead to my regret
And I don’t know if I’m gonna make it
Nothing to do but lift my head

I look to you
I look to you
Yeah
And when all my strength is gone

In you I can be strong
I look to you
I look to you
Oh yeah
And when melodies are gone
In you I hear a song
I look to you

(My levee’s have broken, my walls have come)
Coming down on me
(Crumbling down on me)
All the rain is falling
(The rain is falling, defeat is calling)
Set me free
(I need you to set me free)

Take me far away from the battle
I need you
Shine on me

I look to you
I look to you
After all my strength has gone
In you I can be strong
I look to you
I look to you
And when melodies are gone
In you I hear a song
I look to you
Yeah

I look to you
Oooooooh
I look to you

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Utopian Existence….

If you could have a utopian existence, relationship-wise, and all you had to do was wash dishes 10 minutes a day, would you be able to do it? Would you desire a perfect existence enough to do what was necessary?

Before you think I am being literal, I want to emphasize that I am NOT refering to DISHES. I am metaphorically speaking here.

So, I think that someone who is asked to do something that doesn’t take any money or much effort in a relationship should do it, no questions asked. If someone asks you over and over and you know it’s important to them, and continue to ignore their request, you should not be together.

Allstate and Geico… the commercials were true!

You know you’ve seen the commercials that say Florida Drivers save an average of $400 by switching to Allstate from Geico. I didn’t pay attention to them, either. One day, though, I got a letter stating that they had figured up my savings and it was such a difference that I called them to check to see if it was true. Within 30 minutes, I had cancelled my Geico policy and signed up with Allstate. The REFUND check for 2 months basically paid my entire 6 month premiums with Allstate!

So, I guess this post is just to promote Allstate and say that I felt like Geico had raped me. But, obviously, I was wearing suggestive clothing because I didn’t check around. (I did check progressive and esurance, though)