Thoughts and THOTS...
~I’m trying to figure out how I’m still here. I mean, Tom Welling booked a gig, surely this means that the world has ended. Is this Purgatory? Is this a “Lost” flash-sideways? Am I really married to Idris Elba in this alternate universe (I hope. I hope. I hope.)?
Yes, Tom Welling has booked another film. Methinks he read that Jensen Ackles signed up with the Gersh Agency and wanted to show Jensen that even with three years of semi-retirement he can get a film.
The film in question is titled “The Choice” and it’s an adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks book.
“The Choice” centers on, “a love affair between neighbors Travis (Benjamin Walker, “Abraha Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) and Gabby (Teresa Palmer, “Warm Bodies”). “
Tom Welling will play Ryan, Gabby’s boyfriend who complicates the relationship and forces her to make a choice between the two.
The film also stars Alexandria Daddario (“The Maze Runner”), Maggie Grace (“Taken 1- adnaseum) and Tom Wilkinson
I’ve never seen a Nicholas Sparks film. I just..I…
Tom….
But why this vehicle????????
The things I plan to do for this man.
I wish someone, anyone would’ve told him to
But I should be glad he’ll be back on screen.
Damn, your beautiful face!
Know who’s appearing in another Nicholas Sparks’ film? Tom’s brother from another mother
Jimmy Marsden
I’d like for Tom to have Jimmy’s career. He certainly is aging as well as Marsden.
On to another Tom.
*Tom Hardy is potentially the busiest man in film. Potentially because he’s attached to a bunch of projects that may or may not even make the light of day with our without him in it.
Let’s see what we definitely have. His film with buddy Noomi Rapace and the last film of the late James Gandolfini “The Drop” was be released.
He and Rapace’s other film “Child 44” is set for a April 2015 release. The long gestating “Mad Max: Fury Road” comes out May 2015. Tom has wrapped up a guest role on the UK’s “Peaky Blinders” starring his Cillian Murphy.
He wrapped a movie about the gangster siblings The Krays (last captured onscreen by Spandau Ballet’s Martin and Gary Kemp) titled “Legend”.
Now comes the projects he’s attached to but is dubiously going through with. A small part in a musical titled “London Road”, A Alejandro González Iñárritu (“Babel”, “21 Grams”) film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and an anti-poaching film produced with Leo; “Rocketman” in which Tom will play Elton John
“Cicero” in which he’d play Al Capone and the video game adaptation “Splinter Cell”.
On top of his film work Tom has also collaborated on a t-shirt collection with BLAG website creators Sarah and Sally Edwards. The shirts go for around 40£.
40£ and Tom Hardy does not come with the shirt.
This is no mere folly for Tom. No. He takes fashion seriously as proved by his diatribe passionate remarks about sweatpants recited to esquire http://www.esquire.com/blogs/mens-fashion/tom-hardy-track-pants
You’d be fucking surprised-surprised-at the shocking collection of pants that I’m looking at right now. The world is just pants, isn’t it? It’s fucking ridiculous. Do you know what I mean? It’s like, What happened to man’s pants-you know? Because I have a very clear line, when it comes to pants. “Will my beard look cooler in these pants? And can I make a clean run for the border in them?” You know what I mean? And you know what’s a good start? Not looking like I’m a member of One Direction-that’s a good start.
You want to give somebody a pair of track pants. You know, nice and fashionable. But at the same time, they have to be useful. You can put stuff in the pockets. You can herd pedestrians into safe zones and take out the rubbish in them, your naked torso sweating and rippling in the sunlight. You can do the washing-up in them, barefoot and walking around the house. You can keep things in pockets and stuff like that. That’s what pants are for. And to cover your exterior and keep you warm. But the pants that I’m seeing look like they’re all sorts of metrosexual weird. The kind of thing that was coughed out of Minnesota and spat onto the streets of Brooklyn in the last ten years, for a secret reason that wasn’t fair to any of us. Do you know what I mean? Now we have to crawl our way back into a real pair of pants. I mean, we should be allowed to have proper tracksuit pants-that’s only fair, right? My favorite pants, the pants I wore to university-I see myself tending to my vegetables at the tender age of sixty-five wearing the same fucking pants! Because they’re awesome. Those pants-pants with integrity. With a stripe down the side. Any color you fucking like. But not the pants I’ve been seeing.
I’ve been sent a thousand samples. And all I can think is fucking hell, there’s a bigger issue here. There’s a much more insidious problem that we have. You know what I mean? We must get to the bottom of this. This is wrong. Never mind the pants. We must call the prime minister. Immediately. Men mustn’t be wearing these pants. Because these are the pants that are supposed to be worn by the girlfriend. You know what I mean? On Sunday morning. They’re those pants. You say, “Sugar, can I have my pants back?” And she’s like, “No. I’m comfortable in your pants. Fuck off.” So you have to wear boxer shorts in the cold. You have to go and shiver. You have to make tea and walk around in baggy, baggy underpants that your balls hang out of. And when your neighbors come to the door to give you garden tools and they look at you like, “Where are your pants?” And you can’t say, “My wife is wearing them.” That’s what pants are supposed to be. Track pants, you know. Anyway. My life.
I will not put pants on a shelf that have not passed the manly test. Mark my word. I hope you’re with me on that one. I will give you a fucking pair of man’s pants as soon as I manage to acquire a decent set. But at the moment, it’s hard to get a pair of decent fucking man’s track pants. Without zips or Velcro. Without various accoutrements that nobody fucking needs. And without pockets that you put your car keys in and they end up by your feet.
Because how many pockets do you need? You put too many pockets on tracksuit pants, and there’s the fundamental fact that if you do not have the correct amount of elastic to hold them up, you don’t have pants-you have ankle shackles made out of nylon. And it’s impossible to win over a traffic warden who is trying to put a ticket on your car when your track pants are down around your ankles.
This sounds like common sense. But there’s nothing common about sense, my friend. Especially in the fashion world. They’re a different crew, over there.
Tom’s interview with Esquire http://www.esquire.com/features/tom-hardy-interview-photos-0514 is legendary because of the sheer verbosity of it all. Mylanta! The thoughts in his head. I find him utterly fascinating.
Utterly sexy with this mask on his face and bound
But fascinating, nonetheless.
I can’t figure out if his openness with his doubts and fears were always just his way or if it’s a product of recovery (12 Steps process) but he expresses it all with great candor.
Like: his desire to be understood is so powerful that it makes him seem, for all his purported menace, vulnerable and innocent. Indeed, it's so powerful that the night before we spoke for the first time, he wrote, by hand, two pages of notes that he subsequently read to me, gripping the paper in both hands. They begin this way: "Who am I? I have no idea."
One: Don’t read me two pages of notes. Hand that sh*t over. I can read faster than you can speak. I’m a visual person so if you’re going to monologue me I’m going to have to take notes if you want me to follow,
and Two: D’awwwwwww.
I’ve had a feeling for a while now -and this interview cements it-- that all of Tom’s claims of femininity means one of two things: that he’ll likely come out as transgender by the time he’s sixty years old or, likelier, that he’s allowed gender norms to define him and that has caused him great emotional harm. He just gave an interview saying how had great fun on “This Means War” but felt miserable during the shoot because e felt like he was “an other” and didn’t fit in.
He said in creating the character of Forrest in “Lawless” he decided to play up the feminine side of Forrest and that he viewed the relationship between Forrest and Jessica Chastain’s character Maggie as a lesbian relationship. He assigns Forrest femininity because Forrest takes care of his siblings. He’s bought into the notion that caretaking is the sole provenance of women. He speaks about feeling frightened by other men, that he never viewed himself as masculine, that he fakes it and acts like he thinks men are supposed to act. Hopefully by now he’s figured out that gender norms are social constructs and only carries the weight in which we ascribe it and that he is the way he is (lover of tats, guns and flying fighter jets) is because he genuinely likes these things and not because he’s putting on a façade.
I think this is his song.
I Want Love: Elton John
He gets it from his wifey, his son and puppies!
~Another Tom, but who is not working is Tom Ellis dammit because USA in its stupidity cancelled the drama “Rush” after one season.
DAMMIT!
With Harry Hamlin who played Papa Rush
This caddish hotness that is Tom Ellis brings me to
*Jason Momoa this fine specimen of U'i kane 'oia
Jason appeared in a recent episode of Comedy Central’s “Drunk History” as legendary athlete Jim Thorpe.
Moon of My Life!
On the set of his series “Red Road” with costar Martin Henderson
~The white Tom Hardy has surfaced and is doing stuff. Like being a father.
You go Logan Marshall-Green
With Mike Doyle, Fake!Daario Naharis and some woman who is fantasizing about having an orgy with
~Robert R’ichard joined the cast of “Chocolate City” the “urban” version of “Magic Mike”
Damn…..Damn. Damn.
~Nick Jonas has puffy nipples that I love in men that need to be tugged and toyed with..
You don't even know what to do with what you have in your hand, little boy
Taut body
Fine dusting of hair on his lower back and crack. Yasssss
Too bad his body is an Adonis and his face is Medusa. His body is a 10 and his face is a negative fifty. Messed up from the neck up. He’s firing on all cylinders from the neck down. Joe has the face but not that body. Joe is like Beyonce: if he allowed himself to eat it’ll be all over. Joe would have to live in a hamster wheel to achieve Nick’s body and Joe doesn’t have time for that. He has shopping to do and hanging out in rave tents.
Nick is pimping himself out because he’s in the new series “Kingdom” which stars Jonathan Tucker, Kiele Sanchez, Matt Lauria and Frank Grillo
Sexy Daddy
*Besides Nick’sface, what I hate about Nick is that he actually is a good songwriter. His solo CD had two great tracks, this one included. I just wish John Mayer had made it so I wouldn’t be ashamed to love it.
Olive and an Arrow: Nick Jonas & The Administration
This leads me to
*Flashed back to this song by way of Brittany Murphy singing a bit of it in a movie. One of my favorite Eurythmics tracks. The note scales that Annie Lennox hits are unreal.
There Must Be an Angel (Playing With My Heart): Eurythmics
*I will miss “True Blood” and their song titled episodes. This song played in one of the better eps in this final season. A bit funky like Snake River Conspiracy.
Love is to Die: Warpaint
More Songs I’ve Heard on TV:
*From “The Blacklist”. It has a Britpop vibe like a folksy T-Rex or Stereophonic.
Divisionary (Do the Right Thing)
*From “Wilfred”. My feel good song. I’m amazed it hasn’t been in a commercial filled with multi-ethnic 20-somethings running, jumping and drinking soda.
The Good and The Bad: The New F.Os
*From “The Originals”. I thought she was Nelly Furtado. The forlorn and lovely
Sleeping Alone: Lykke Li
*I was on a bit of an instrumental kick a few nights ago. A dreamy, bluesy track from Fleetwood Mac.
Albatross: Fleetwood Mac
*Another instrumental. When I was a teen I would listen to an oldies station and call up the request line and ask for this song a lot. This and The Beatles “In My Life”.
Sleepwalk: Santo and Johnny
*So I saw “Begin Again” starring Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo and Adam Levine and it was a bit of all right. I’ve never seen the film “Once” but my everyone compares it to that film (same makers) but I do know “Once” had great songs and this film was no different. The standout is Lost Stars written by the former lead singer of The Brand New Radicals Gregg Alexander and his writing partner former actress (“All in Family”) Danielle Brisbois. I bought three different versions of this song trying to get the film one and the acoustic version that was only released as a snippet on Youtube.
Lost Stars: Adam Levine
A faster version of the song: Lost Stars (Into the Night mix)
*Do you ears let your glasses slip? Do they retain earwax? Punish your ears by listening to this Adam Levine/Gwen Stefani song. Penned by Sia who should’ve kept it.
My Heart is Open: Adam Levine ft. Gwen Stefani
*My mother loves Sam Smith and she loves “The Voice”. When I first heard this song I had that “The Voice” reaction where they turn their chairs and are floored by the voice coming out of the performer. Sam Smith looks like Boy George meets Alber Elzer but has the voice of an angel.
Lay Me Down: Sam Smith
A faster version of the song: Lay Me Down: Sam Smith (pop version)
Daniel Franzese of “Mean Girls” spoof of Smith’s “Stay With Me”
*Jessie J and Ariana Grande are trying to steal Christina Aguilera’s crown with their booming, soulful voices, but they don’t have the actual soul that Christina does so this song sounds like Kids Bop with some former Rick Astley singers singing backup. Still catchy, though.
Bang Bang: Jessie J., Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj
*One day, if I’m very lucky, I will able to see this band in concert since I think it’s the closest I’ll ever get to the Balkans. Put on a flowing skirt and twirl around with your arms outstretched.
Rhineland (Heartland): Beirut
*Another band I would love to see live. Led by Natalia Tena (Osha) of “Game of Thrones” Molotov Jukebox is a vibrant mix of samba, house and flamenco music.
I Need It: Molotov Jukebox
*Legendary Brazilian singer Jorge Ben, samba music at its best. Other than the chorus I have no idea what he’s saying but my hips do.
Take It Easy, Brother Charlie
*Marshall Mathers has collaborated with Rihanna, Skyler Grey and Pink and now he’s at it twice with Sia. I can be down with them being another Marvin Gaye and Tami Terrell.
Beauty Over Pain: Eminem ft. Sia
Guts Over Fear: Eminem ft. Sia
*Sia has her own CD that’s she’s released recently. One of the really three great tracks is this one.
Eye of the Needle: Sia
*This song is steamy, sultry, slow jamming goodness.
Kind Of..Sometimes..Maybe: Jessie Ware ft. Miguel
*Lana Del Rey is a time traveling reform school girl who just managed to become a singer. I am convinced of this.
The unapologetic Fcuked My Way Up to the Top: Lana Del Rey
If Nancy Sinatra sang the theme for a spaghetti western. Cruel World: Lana Del Rey
*The original is great as it is, but a remix is just what it needed to make it bearable for much longer.
All of Me (DJ Tiesto remix): John Legend his is a link to an example website
*I don’t get the hate. I think she makes good songs. I’m not ashamed to like it unlike the track after this rec.
Shake It Off: Taylor Swift
*Peer pressure, I tell ya. That’s the only reason I even gave this song a listen.
Fancy: Iggy Azalea
*That kid who was on Ellen years ago singing “Paparazzi” is still at it. Nice CW appropriate song.
Home is In Your Eyes: Greyson Chance
*It’s not Southern rock, maybe southern folk/gothic? Whatever the genre it’s really good.
Take Me to Church: Hozier
Work Song: Hozier
*His voice is just my everything.
I Just Want to Be Your Everything: Andy Gibb
*He’s going to have to not take his own advice and give up. Paula Patton just filed for divorce. But hey, nice message and nice ditty.
Never Give Up: Robin Thicke
*Great song from a great movie (Zach Braff’s “Wish You Were Here”).
So Now What: The Shins
*I love good Beatles covers. They’re a rarity. I Want to Hold Your Hand (Beatles cover): TV Carpio (Across the Universe OST)
*This play was reviled by so many people consider this song a great one despite being in a terrible play. And it’s all due to Linda Lavin’s soaring voice.
You’ve Got Possibilities (cast recording “It’s a Bird..It’s a Plane…It’s Superman”: Linda Lavin
This version by Loretta Swit manages to be awful but oddly appealing. I think it’s because I like the dance break and it makes me forget the awful disco arrangement.
At the 37 minute mark
*NPH has completed his run as Hedgwig in the Tony nominated “Hedwig & the Angry Inch”
And promptly got married to longtime love David Burtka
Replacing NPH was Andrew Rannells of “Girls”.
He kept a photo diary for Vanity Fair and thanked his beau actor Mike Doyle for helping him get through his run
(Adam fricking Gunzel that &*@!$%# from “Oz”)
Adam sucked. Mike is a doll
Next Hedgwig? “Dexter” himself, Michael C. Hall.
MCH is no stranger to theatre. He played the Emcee for a run of “Cabaret”.
NPH showed how much of a showman he is during the Tonys when he performed a rocking version of “Sugar Daddy”.
Sugar Daddy: NPH (Tony version)
Sugar Daddy: cast recording: NPH
Yes, Tom Welling has booked another film. Methinks he read that Jensen Ackles signed up with the Gersh Agency and wanted to show Jensen that even with three years of semi-retirement he can get a film.
The film in question is titled “The Choice” and it’s an adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks book.
“The Choice” centers on, “a love affair between neighbors Travis (Benjamin Walker, “Abraha Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) and Gabby (Teresa Palmer, “Warm Bodies”). “
Tom Welling will play Ryan, Gabby’s boyfriend who complicates the relationship and forces her to make a choice between the two.
The film also stars Alexandria Daddario (“The Maze Runner”), Maggie Grace (“Taken 1- adnaseum) and Tom Wilkinson
I’ve never seen a Nicholas Sparks film. I just..I…
Tom….
But why this vehicle????????
The things I plan to do for this man.
I wish someone, anyone would’ve told him to
But I should be glad he’ll be back on screen.
Damn, your beautiful face!
Know who’s appearing in another Nicholas Sparks’ film? Tom’s brother from another mother
Jimmy Marsden
I’d like for Tom to have Jimmy’s career. He certainly is aging as well as Marsden.
On to another Tom.
*Tom Hardy is potentially the busiest man in film. Potentially because he’s attached to a bunch of projects that may or may not even make the light of day with our without him in it.
Let’s see what we definitely have. His film with buddy Noomi Rapace and the last film of the late James Gandolfini “The Drop” was be released.
He and Rapace’s other film “Child 44” is set for a April 2015 release. The long gestating “Mad Max: Fury Road” comes out May 2015. Tom has wrapped up a guest role on the UK’s “Peaky Blinders” starring his Cillian Murphy.
He wrapped a movie about the gangster siblings The Krays (last captured onscreen by Spandau Ballet’s Martin and Gary Kemp) titled “Legend”.
Now comes the projects he’s attached to but is dubiously going through with. A small part in a musical titled “London Road”, A Alejandro González Iñárritu (“Babel”, “21 Grams”) film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and an anti-poaching film produced with Leo; “Rocketman” in which Tom will play Elton John
“Cicero” in which he’d play Al Capone and the video game adaptation “Splinter Cell”.
On top of his film work Tom has also collaborated on a t-shirt collection with BLAG website creators Sarah and Sally Edwards. The shirts go for around 40£.
40£ and Tom Hardy does not come with the shirt.
This is no mere folly for Tom. No. He takes fashion seriously as proved by his diatribe passionate remarks about sweatpants recited to esquire http://www.esquire.com/blogs/mens-fashion/tom-hardy-track-pants
You’d be fucking surprised-surprised-at the shocking collection of pants that I’m looking at right now. The world is just pants, isn’t it? It’s fucking ridiculous. Do you know what I mean? It’s like, What happened to man’s pants-you know? Because I have a very clear line, when it comes to pants. “Will my beard look cooler in these pants? And can I make a clean run for the border in them?” You know what I mean? And you know what’s a good start? Not looking like I’m a member of One Direction-that’s a good start.
You want to give somebody a pair of track pants. You know, nice and fashionable. But at the same time, they have to be useful. You can put stuff in the pockets. You can herd pedestrians into safe zones and take out the rubbish in them, your naked torso sweating and rippling in the sunlight. You can do the washing-up in them, barefoot and walking around the house. You can keep things in pockets and stuff like that. That’s what pants are for. And to cover your exterior and keep you warm. But the pants that I’m seeing look like they’re all sorts of metrosexual weird. The kind of thing that was coughed out of Minnesota and spat onto the streets of Brooklyn in the last ten years, for a secret reason that wasn’t fair to any of us. Do you know what I mean? Now we have to crawl our way back into a real pair of pants. I mean, we should be allowed to have proper tracksuit pants-that’s only fair, right? My favorite pants, the pants I wore to university-I see myself tending to my vegetables at the tender age of sixty-five wearing the same fucking pants! Because they’re awesome. Those pants-pants with integrity. With a stripe down the side. Any color you fucking like. But not the pants I’ve been seeing.
I’ve been sent a thousand samples. And all I can think is fucking hell, there’s a bigger issue here. There’s a much more insidious problem that we have. You know what I mean? We must get to the bottom of this. This is wrong. Never mind the pants. We must call the prime minister. Immediately. Men mustn’t be wearing these pants. Because these are the pants that are supposed to be worn by the girlfriend. You know what I mean? On Sunday morning. They’re those pants. You say, “Sugar, can I have my pants back?” And she’s like, “No. I’m comfortable in your pants. Fuck off.” So you have to wear boxer shorts in the cold. You have to go and shiver. You have to make tea and walk around in baggy, baggy underpants that your balls hang out of. And when your neighbors come to the door to give you garden tools and they look at you like, “Where are your pants?” And you can’t say, “My wife is wearing them.” That’s what pants are supposed to be. Track pants, you know. Anyway. My life.
I will not put pants on a shelf that have not passed the manly test. Mark my word. I hope you’re with me on that one. I will give you a fucking pair of man’s pants as soon as I manage to acquire a decent set. But at the moment, it’s hard to get a pair of decent fucking man’s track pants. Without zips or Velcro. Without various accoutrements that nobody fucking needs. And without pockets that you put your car keys in and they end up by your feet.
Because how many pockets do you need? You put too many pockets on tracksuit pants, and there’s the fundamental fact that if you do not have the correct amount of elastic to hold them up, you don’t have pants-you have ankle shackles made out of nylon. And it’s impossible to win over a traffic warden who is trying to put a ticket on your car when your track pants are down around your ankles.
This sounds like common sense. But there’s nothing common about sense, my friend. Especially in the fashion world. They’re a different crew, over there.
Tom’s interview with Esquire http://www.esquire.com/features/tom-hardy-interview-photos-0514 is legendary because of the sheer verbosity of it all. Mylanta! The thoughts in his head. I find him utterly fascinating.
Utterly sexy with this mask on his face and bound
But fascinating, nonetheless.
I can’t figure out if his openness with his doubts and fears were always just his way or if it’s a product of recovery (12 Steps process) but he expresses it all with great candor.
Like: his desire to be understood is so powerful that it makes him seem, for all his purported menace, vulnerable and innocent. Indeed, it's so powerful that the night before we spoke for the first time, he wrote, by hand, two pages of notes that he subsequently read to me, gripping the paper in both hands. They begin this way: "Who am I? I have no idea."
One: Don’t read me two pages of notes. Hand that sh*t over. I can read faster than you can speak. I’m a visual person so if you’re going to monologue me I’m going to have to take notes if you want me to follow,
and Two: D’awwwwwww.
I’ve had a feeling for a while now -and this interview cements it-- that all of Tom’s claims of femininity means one of two things: that he’ll likely come out as transgender by the time he’s sixty years old or, likelier, that he’s allowed gender norms to define him and that has caused him great emotional harm. He just gave an interview saying how had great fun on “This Means War” but felt miserable during the shoot because e felt like he was “an other” and didn’t fit in.
He said in creating the character of Forrest in “Lawless” he decided to play up the feminine side of Forrest and that he viewed the relationship between Forrest and Jessica Chastain’s character Maggie as a lesbian relationship. He assigns Forrest femininity because Forrest takes care of his siblings. He’s bought into the notion that caretaking is the sole provenance of women. He speaks about feeling frightened by other men, that he never viewed himself as masculine, that he fakes it and acts like he thinks men are supposed to act. Hopefully by now he’s figured out that gender norms are social constructs and only carries the weight in which we ascribe it and that he is the way he is (lover of tats, guns and flying fighter jets) is because he genuinely likes these things and not because he’s putting on a façade.
I think this is his song.
I Want Love: Elton John
Click to viewHe gets it from his wifey, his son and puppies!
~Another Tom, but who is not working is Tom Ellis dammit because USA in its stupidity cancelled the drama “Rush” after one season.
DAMMIT!
With Harry Hamlin who played Papa Rush
This caddish hotness that is Tom Ellis brings me to
*Jason Momoa this fine specimen of U'i kane 'oia
Jason appeared in a recent episode of Comedy Central’s “Drunk History” as legendary athlete Jim Thorpe.
Moon of My Life!
On the set of his series “Red Road” with costar Martin Henderson
~The white Tom Hardy has surfaced and is doing stuff. Like being a father.
You go Logan Marshall-Green
With Mike Doyle, Fake!Daario Naharis and some woman who is fantasizing about having an orgy with
~Robert R’ichard joined the cast of “Chocolate City” the “urban” version of “Magic Mike”
Damn…..Damn. Damn.
~Nick Jonas has puffy nipples that I love in men that need to be tugged and toyed with..
You don't even know what to do with what you have in your hand, little boy
Taut body
Fine dusting of hair on his lower back and crack. Yasssss
Too bad his body is an Adonis and his face is Medusa. His body is a 10 and his face is a negative fifty. Messed up from the neck up. He’s firing on all cylinders from the neck down. Joe has the face but not that body. Joe is like Beyonce: if he allowed himself to eat it’ll be all over. Joe would have to live in a hamster wheel to achieve Nick’s body and Joe doesn’t have time for that. He has shopping to do and hanging out in rave tents.
Nick is pimping himself out because he’s in the new series “Kingdom” which stars Jonathan Tucker, Kiele Sanchez, Matt Lauria and Frank Grillo
Sexy Daddy
*Besides Nick’sface, what I hate about Nick is that he actually is a good songwriter. His solo CD had two great tracks, this one included. I just wish John Mayer had made it so I wouldn’t be ashamed to love it.
Olive and an Arrow: Nick Jonas & The Administration
This leads me to
*Flashed back to this song by way of Brittany Murphy singing a bit of it in a movie. One of my favorite Eurythmics tracks. The note scales that Annie Lennox hits are unreal.
There Must Be an Angel (Playing With My Heart): Eurythmics
*I will miss “True Blood” and their song titled episodes. This song played in one of the better eps in this final season. A bit funky like Snake River Conspiracy.
Love is to Die: Warpaint
More Songs I’ve Heard on TV:
*From “The Blacklist”. It has a Britpop vibe like a folksy T-Rex or Stereophonic.
Divisionary (Do the Right Thing)
*From “Wilfred”. My feel good song. I’m amazed it hasn’t been in a commercial filled with multi-ethnic 20-somethings running, jumping and drinking soda.
The Good and The Bad: The New F.Os
*From “The Originals”. I thought she was Nelly Furtado. The forlorn and lovely
Sleeping Alone: Lykke Li
*I was on a bit of an instrumental kick a few nights ago. A dreamy, bluesy track from Fleetwood Mac.
Albatross: Fleetwood Mac
*Another instrumental. When I was a teen I would listen to an oldies station and call up the request line and ask for this song a lot. This and The Beatles “In My Life”.
Sleepwalk: Santo and Johnny
*So I saw “Begin Again” starring Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo and Adam Levine and it was a bit of all right. I’ve never seen the film “Once” but my everyone compares it to that film (same makers) but I do know “Once” had great songs and this film was no different. The standout is Lost Stars written by the former lead singer of The Brand New Radicals Gregg Alexander and his writing partner former actress (“All in Family”) Danielle Brisbois. I bought three different versions of this song trying to get the film one and the acoustic version that was only released as a snippet on Youtube.
Lost Stars: Adam Levine
A faster version of the song: Lost Stars (Into the Night mix)
*Do you ears let your glasses slip? Do they retain earwax? Punish your ears by listening to this Adam Levine/Gwen Stefani song. Penned by Sia who should’ve kept it.
My Heart is Open: Adam Levine ft. Gwen Stefani
*My mother loves Sam Smith and she loves “The Voice”. When I first heard this song I had that “The Voice” reaction where they turn their chairs and are floored by the voice coming out of the performer. Sam Smith looks like Boy George meets Alber Elzer but has the voice of an angel.
Lay Me Down: Sam Smith
A faster version of the song: Lay Me Down: Sam Smith (pop version)
Daniel Franzese of “Mean Girls” spoof of Smith’s “Stay With Me”
*Jessie J and Ariana Grande are trying to steal Christina Aguilera’s crown with their booming, soulful voices, but they don’t have the actual soul that Christina does so this song sounds like Kids Bop with some former Rick Astley singers singing backup. Still catchy, though.
Bang Bang: Jessie J., Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj
*One day, if I’m very lucky, I will able to see this band in concert since I think it’s the closest I’ll ever get to the Balkans. Put on a flowing skirt and twirl around with your arms outstretched.
Rhineland (Heartland): Beirut
*Another band I would love to see live. Led by Natalia Tena (Osha) of “Game of Thrones” Molotov Jukebox is a vibrant mix of samba, house and flamenco music.
I Need It: Molotov Jukebox
*Legendary Brazilian singer Jorge Ben, samba music at its best. Other than the chorus I have no idea what he’s saying but my hips do.
Take It Easy, Brother Charlie
*Marshall Mathers has collaborated with Rihanna, Skyler Grey and Pink and now he’s at it twice with Sia. I can be down with them being another Marvin Gaye and Tami Terrell.
Beauty Over Pain: Eminem ft. Sia
Guts Over Fear: Eminem ft. Sia
*Sia has her own CD that’s she’s released recently. One of the really three great tracks is this one.
Eye of the Needle: Sia
*This song is steamy, sultry, slow jamming goodness.
Kind Of..Sometimes..Maybe: Jessie Ware ft. Miguel
*Lana Del Rey is a time traveling reform school girl who just managed to become a singer. I am convinced of this.
The unapologetic Fcuked My Way Up to the Top: Lana Del Rey
If Nancy Sinatra sang the theme for a spaghetti western. Cruel World: Lana Del Rey
*The original is great as it is, but a remix is just what it needed to make it bearable for much longer.
All of Me (DJ Tiesto remix): John Legend his is a link to an example website
*I don’t get the hate. I think she makes good songs. I’m not ashamed to like it unlike the track after this rec.
Shake It Off: Taylor Swift
*Peer pressure, I tell ya. That’s the only reason I even gave this song a listen.
Fancy: Iggy Azalea
*That kid who was on Ellen years ago singing “Paparazzi” is still at it. Nice CW appropriate song.
Home is In Your Eyes: Greyson Chance
*It’s not Southern rock, maybe southern folk/gothic? Whatever the genre it’s really good.
Take Me to Church: Hozier
Work Song: Hozier
*His voice is just my everything.
I Just Want to Be Your Everything: Andy Gibb
*He’s going to have to not take his own advice and give up. Paula Patton just filed for divorce. But hey, nice message and nice ditty.
Never Give Up: Robin Thicke
*Great song from a great movie (Zach Braff’s “Wish You Were Here”).
So Now What: The Shins
*I love good Beatles covers. They’re a rarity. I Want to Hold Your Hand (Beatles cover): TV Carpio (Across the Universe OST)
*This play was reviled by so many people consider this song a great one despite being in a terrible play. And it’s all due to Linda Lavin’s soaring voice.
You’ve Got Possibilities (cast recording “It’s a Bird..It’s a Plane…It’s Superman”: Linda Lavin
This version by Loretta Swit manages to be awful but oddly appealing. I think it’s because I like the dance break and it makes me forget the awful disco arrangement.
At the 37 minute mark
*NPH has completed his run as Hedgwig in the Tony nominated “Hedwig & the Angry Inch”
And promptly got married to longtime love David Burtka
Replacing NPH was Andrew Rannells of “Girls”.
He kept a photo diary for Vanity Fair and thanked his beau actor Mike Doyle for helping him get through his run
(Adam fricking Gunzel that &*@!$%# from “Oz”)
Adam sucked. Mike is a doll
Next Hedgwig? “Dexter” himself, Michael C. Hall.
MCH is no stranger to theatre. He played the Emcee for a run of “Cabaret”.
NPH showed how much of a showman he is during the Tonys when he performed a rocking version of “Sugar Daddy”.
Sugar Daddy: NPH (Tony version)
Sugar Daddy: cast recording: NPH