I've been hearing The Rural Alberta Advantage for a few years now via Philly radio but I hadn't heard this song until I got it through a sampler from their record label as a free download from Amazon (nothing is ever simple). So while the song is a year old, it feels new to me as I'm sure it does to you.
Canadian
That sampler, which is free (or was through my checking just now), has some pretty good stuff on it, so it's worth every penny of free. Download it here.
It's nothing more than a coincidence that one of the first openly gay super heroes is named North Star (well, Northstar), and he is getting gay married (well, married), as is the tradition in Canadia, or did this past week. It's a coincidence and not the evil machinations of Barrack HUSSEIN Obama, manipulating the time space continuum the way he certainly must have to have placed birth announcements in 2 Hawaii papers when he was born in Kenya, as he certainly was. I'm sure Bryan Adams and Corey Hart attended.
And The Rural Alberta Advantage aren't from Alberta or Brooklyn. The answer we're looking for is "Toronto."
Song: "North Star"
Artist: The Rural Alberta Advantage
The first few times I heard this I thought it was Electric 6, but it's not. It's Jack White failing to heed my repeated requests that he taking a fucking week off. I guess he felt like making an Electric 6-influenced album was too important, so here we are.
The hardest button to button is the one that gets you to take a fucking week off, it would seem. Now back to my report wherein I shall increase the font yet gray out certain sections of certain pages.
...In my underwear, which is what the holiday is about, really.
Earlier in the week (here) we followed the career progression for the artists currently known as The 2 Bears after 1 of the Bears from The 3 Bears (of "Goldilocks &" fame) left to replace Gary Kemp in Spandau Ballet (FUN FACT: Gary Kemp was in The Bodyguard with Whitney Houston who recently drowned in a bathtub; and I downloaded his solo album using Fregal free track downloads courtesy of my public library, because libraries are the most awesome form of socialism ever).
I omitted the fact that the Bear died shortly thereafter and now records as Bear in Heaven, which is where today's song of the day comes in. I know this sounds like the rantings of a man strung out on Mother's sandwich cookies and Diet Pepsi, trying to be clever and not just rehash the same basic band bio ("oh look, they're from Brooklyn, how unique") and I guess I don't blame your cynicism: drowned in a bathtub? As if.
Bear in Heaven are from Brooklyn. I Love You, It's Cool is their fourth album. Whitney Houston was killed by the Illuminati as a blood sacrifice the way they killed Michael Jackson and Amy Winehouse drowned in a bathtub.
Song: "The Reflection of You"
Artist: Bear in Heaven
La Sera is a side project of a dude (girl dude) from Vivian Girls. I confuse Vivian Girls with Dum Dum Girls and now I have a third thing to confuse with those others. Hooray.
Sees the Light is her second album as La Sera.
Song: "I Can't Keep You In My Mind"
Artist: La Sera
2012 Herndon Climb USNA or
Spring Abercrombie catalog
Everyone who knows me knows that I am synonymous with valor and service. Or at least that I am am an enthusiast of those who serve. Even before the end of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" I was doing all I could for young men in uniform. If you remember the old slogan "we do more before 9:00 a.m. than most people do all day" -- well, let's just say I helped inspire that
L: Naval Academy Cadets with an open invitation to stay at my house
R: 19-year old Andrew Craig of Tulsa, Oklahoma, reaching the tip
The Herndon Climb is an annual rite of the freshman class at the US Naval Academy. It involves a phallic monument coated in creamy white lubricant and dozens upon dozens of shirtless young men on top of each other. And I am not making this part up.
Ty Herndon
Plebes at the end of their first year must work together to replace a paper cup on the top of the monument with an upperclassman's hat, thus symbolizing their, um, the, um. Sorry, got a little distracted. Did I mention 50 pounds of lard?
The monument is in honor of Ty Herndon who has probably done as much as I have to help ease the pressures of young seamen around the country. Neither of us as much as Kenny Chesney, to be sure, but we try.
This post has taken me forever as I keep getting delayed with connectivity issues. And you don't want to know what that's like in my house, life without internet access. It's not pretty.
Today is super popular for birthdays--in the past we've done Rosanne Cash and Bob Dylan. It's both Jim Broadbent's and Alfred Molina's birthday (they're not the same person but they occupy the same quality British character actor space in my head).
And it's Patti LaBelle's birthday which I assumed you figured out when you read the title to this post.
Anyway, you remember back during the Motown Returns to the Apollo special, back in the 80s, during the big finale, when Patti and Diana Ross seemed to have a fight over a microphone? Me neither (not born yet, certainly not in college), but according to gay lore, Patti, unquestionably the better singer, was putting Miss Ross (no eye contact, please) in her place, part of a decades-long feud after Diana recruited Cindy Birdsong away from Patti LaBelle and the Bluebells to be Florence Ballard's replacement (well, to fill the empty spot) after Flo's untimely death. Anyway, I'm often unable to stop from grabbing the mic myself, and I'm not diva (what?!)... here, watch. And whatever you do, do not give the microphone to Tito, the man's an idiot.
I love me some old school Philly girl group/doo-wap. I love me some glam LaBelle (and you know I super love me some Nona Hendryx). You're "Lady Marmaladed" out so how about LaBelle doing Sylvester?
Patti has 2 Grammys, 2 Emmy nominations, a CableACE Award ("I was great in that Arliss!"-Jenna Maroney, TGS), 4 NAACP Image Awards and a BET Lifetime Achievement Award. And her internet probably works. Here's a great song performed at a thing for the Statue of Liberty from 1986. I'm going to bed.
Remember Stars on 45? They introduced non-fabulous Americans to the mega-mix (teh gayz having been exposed to mega-mixes since, I don't know, birth) and had a few hits including a mostly Beatles medley and another medley (details here).
Then in the late 90s there was that movie 54, where people were actually kinda serious about Mike Meyers maybe getting an Oscar nomination and director Mark Christopher proved himself adept at working with actors of Ryan Phillippe's caliber (mainly by having him remove his shirt), and Stars on 54 (Amber, Ultra Nate and Jocelyn Enriquez [who is Filipino and I only point that out because Clark and I discussed how that's with an "F" and not a "Ph" earlier this morning]) did that awesome cover of Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind" which, to be honest, is far better loved and remembered than the movie. Whatever happened to Neve Campbell anyway?
Scars on 45 have nothing to do with either of those things. They've put out a few singles and LPs (oh look, Grey's AnatomyandOne Tree Hill, I am late to the party) but their debut LP only came out last month. This is from that. They're British.
I wonder if they know what happened to Neve Campbell.
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