thoughts right now
i'm obsessing over a new album. in fact, one of the primary reasons i am posting right now is to urge each and every one of you to go buy this album as soon as possible--for your own good. your life will be better if you listen to:
Scissor Sisters.
there are a number of reasons to love this eponymous album, for me personally. the most important is, of course, that it totally kicks the ass of every other album i've listened to this year; it is one of the rare gems that in which every track is worthy of repeated listening. the musical diversity from song to song can also be amazing.
the other main reason for me to love them is that i know them--well, some of them--and want their fantastic efforts to pay off as tremendously as possible. i met their lead vocalist, jake shears, several years ago at short mountain sanctuary--the same gathering where i met john cameron mitchell. then, some good time after moving to SF, i discovered that the other lead vocalist, miz ana matronic, was actually the first faux queen of trannyshack...and therefore near and dear to many of my friends here who are still performing. so when they played a show here two saturdays ago, there was a very personal connection between the audience and the band. after the show, i was at a party with the trannyshack crowd, and had the pleasure of meeting miz ana. the following day at the dore alley street fair, i also met baby daddy and del marquis. these people are all simply awesome.
actually, their accessibility is another one of the reasons i am so fucking in love with this band. these are my people, basically; queer artists who have made it big. hearing this album, i feel inspired--it gives me hope that someday i'll find the project that will make it as big as theirs has. i felt so tripped out, yesterday...taures and i were in a bar in the castro and they played the video for the scissor sisters' cover of "comfortably numb"...besides being a visually arresting video, it just felt strange and wonderful to think, "i KNOW these people!"...moreover, i was hanging out with some of them the weekend prior...and there i was, watching them on the TV in a gay bar. somehow the idea of creative success strikes me as so much more tangible when i witness it on this level. it might even be in my little reach...
in a somewhat related tidbit, they're coming back to town to play a larger venue on folsom street fair weekend, and there's a chance that pepperspray will be opening. THAT would rock. there's also another upcoming show in september that's pretty fucking exciting, but it's supposed to stay kinda secret now, apparently...but suffice it to say that this will be at least as special as opening for cher.
in the cold, foggy center of san francisco summer, i am tasting a sense of things to come, and the future looks bright. good things are in the works...
now, don't you have a CD to go out and buy?
-s
Scissor Sisters.
there are a number of reasons to love this eponymous album, for me personally. the most important is, of course, that it totally kicks the ass of every other album i've listened to this year; it is one of the rare gems that in which every track is worthy of repeated listening. the musical diversity from song to song can also be amazing.
the other main reason for me to love them is that i know them--well, some of them--and want their fantastic efforts to pay off as tremendously as possible. i met their lead vocalist, jake shears, several years ago at short mountain sanctuary--the same gathering where i met john cameron mitchell. then, some good time after moving to SF, i discovered that the other lead vocalist, miz ana matronic, was actually the first faux queen of trannyshack...and therefore near and dear to many of my friends here who are still performing. so when they played a show here two saturdays ago, there was a very personal connection between the audience and the band. after the show, i was at a party with the trannyshack crowd, and had the pleasure of meeting miz ana. the following day at the dore alley street fair, i also met baby daddy and del marquis. these people are all simply awesome.
actually, their accessibility is another one of the reasons i am so fucking in love with this band. these are my people, basically; queer artists who have made it big. hearing this album, i feel inspired--it gives me hope that someday i'll find the project that will make it as big as theirs has. i felt so tripped out, yesterday...taures and i were in a bar in the castro and they played the video for the scissor sisters' cover of "comfortably numb"...besides being a visually arresting video, it just felt strange and wonderful to think, "i KNOW these people!"...moreover, i was hanging out with some of them the weekend prior...and there i was, watching them on the TV in a gay bar. somehow the idea of creative success strikes me as so much more tangible when i witness it on this level. it might even be in my little reach...
in a somewhat related tidbit, they're coming back to town to play a larger venue on folsom street fair weekend, and there's a chance that pepperspray will be opening. THAT would rock. there's also another upcoming show in september that's pretty fucking exciting, but it's supposed to stay kinda secret now, apparently...but suffice it to say that this will be at least as special as opening for cher.
in the cold, foggy center of san francisco summer, i am tasting a sense of things to come, and the future looks bright. good things are in the works...
now, don't you have a CD to go out and buy?
-s