donald chump

as if our retarded president isn't enough of a problem, "that guy" had some cataclysmically ridiculous statements to make about iran....this also looks like an interesting site to frequent...i'm sure i'll be quoting it pretty often...

ugggh


donald trump on iran

aural fixations

here's an older live mix of mine from i think 2004 that features less house and a more gritty and grimey soundscape. i started a series back then of mixes called "aural fixations"....i'm so talented with words aren't i? ehheh. it's a little under an hour long and it's got some classic chauncey tracks on it...enjoy!
dj chauncey d - aural fixations volume vi

nothing thrills me

here's a song by italian singer chiara iezzi called 'nothing at all'. supposedly it's a tribute to madonna's dazzlingly romantic reworking of 'erotica/you thrill me' from the recent confessions tour. i think it's great but it's less of a tribute than it is the same song with just different lyrics strewn over the top of it...she even sounds like madonna throughout the song...not to mention looks like her too eheh

here's her myspace profile chiara iezzi

all her music sounds like a tribute to madonna it seems hehe...i like it though...maybe madonna will take a few tracks on her upcoming album in this direction

compare
chiara iezzi - nothing at all

madonna - erotica / you thrill me

independence day

so it's january 13th...for most that day doesn't have much significance but for me it marks my twelve year anniversary of the day i moved out of my parents house. back in 1995, my father borrowed his friends pick up truck and drove me, my mother and my small amount of things down to new brunswick and helped me load up the bedroom i shared with my then friend pete with my belongings. it was a bittersweet moment for my mom and dad, as could be expected, but it was one of the most exciting and joyous moments of my life. that's why i call today my 'independence day'. and what can i say twelve years later? that's a loaded question for sure. while i'm certainly not exactly where i want to be right now in my life...i'm wise enough to realize that noone ever will be or could be where they wanted to be so many years ago today. i'm taking today to take a small walk down that magical lane of memory...just a short walk for one one can linger in nostalgia to the point of destruction eheh...and remember all the good with the bad...all the lessons i've learned and all the lessons i've taught. we are at a crossroads very very often in our life but i feel that the fork in the road i'm at now is a fiesty one and i'm going to try to let it be the very last of it's magnitude of confusion. it's time to get my shit together as i've said probably every other year of my life...but i've had a lot of time recently to dance on the ledge of depression demise and still have refrained from falling over into the bottomless pit below. oh how dramatic...i guess the more things change the more they stay the same....let's avoid the cliche this time though....

peace

jackson action

don't know what sparked this little tribute but here's some retro jackson action...the first is the jackson sisters...look at how spicy little janet is in the middle!

a really sweet pepsi commercial probably from like '93..never saw this...so cute...right before he went down down down...


the absolutely brilliant "centipede" video by rebbie jackson...i don't remember this song when i was a kid...guess i was too young to remember everything from the 80's hehe

could't have a jackson tribute without a funny madtv skit featuring the real latoya and three damn good impersonations of....you'll see

words are useless

as you can tell by now...yes...i'm a madonna fan eheh. here's someone's rendering of the backdrop video for the bedtime stories interlude during the reinvention tour. it's interesting to see how madonna uses something very little in her work and then catapults (no pun intended) into it in her later work i.e. the horse theme. what i never noticed, as pointed out by a fellow madonna forum member, is that she is laying on top of a gigantic copy machine...brilliant!

obituary : yvonne de carlo

R.I.P. Lily Munster
one of our favourite undead has died
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Yvonne De Carlo, the beautiful star who played Moses' wife in "The Ten Commandments" but achieved her greatest popularity on TV's "The Munsters," has died. She was 84.

De Carlo died of natural causes Monday at the Motion Picture & Television facility in suburban Los Angeles, longtime friend and television producer Kevin Burns said Wednesday.

De Carlo, whose shapely figure helped launch her career in B-movie desert adventures and Westerns, rose to more important roles in the 1950s. Later, she had a key role in a landmark Broadway musical, Stephen Sondheim's "Follies."

But for TV viewers, she will always be known as Lily Munster in the 1964-1966 slapstick horror-movie spoof "The Munsters." The series (the name allegedly derived from "fun-monsters") offered a gallery of Universal Pictures grotesques, including Dracula and Frankenstein's monster, in a cobwebbed gothic setting.

Lily, vampire-like in a black gown, presided over the faux scary household and was a rock for her gentle but often bumbling husband, Herman, played by 6-foot-5-inch character actor Fred Gwynne (decked out as the Frankenstein monster).

While it lasted only two years, the series had a long life in syndication and resulted in two feature movies, "Munster Go Home!" (1966) and "The Munsters' Revenge" (1981, for TV).

At the series' end, De Carlo commented: "It meant security. It gave me a new, young audience I wouldn't have had otherwise. It made me 'hot' again, which I wasn't for a while."

"I think she will best remembered as the definitive Lily Munster. She was the vampire mom to millions of baby boomers. In that sense, she's iconic," Burns said Wednesday.

"But it would be a shame if that's the only way she is remembered. She was also one of the biggest beauty queens of the '40s and '50s, one of the most beautiful women in the world. This was one of the great glamour queens of Hollywood, one of the last ones."

De Carlo was able to sustain a long career by repeatedly reinventing herself. A longtime student of voice, she sang opera at the Hollywood Bowl. When movie roles became scarce, she ventured into stage musicals.

Her greatest stage triumph came on Broadway in 1971 with "Follies," which won the 1972 Tony award for best original musical score. She belted out Sondheim's showstopping number, "I'm Still Here," a former star's defiant recounting of the highs and lows of her life and career.

Much romance

Over the years, De Carlo augmented her stardom by shrewd use of publicity. Gossip columnists reported her dates with famous men. In her 1987 book, "Yvonne: An Autobiography," she listed 22 of her lovers, who included Howard Hughes, Burt Lancaster, Robert Stack, Robert Taylor, Billy Wilder, Aly Khan and an Iranian prince.

The Canadian-born De Carlo began her career with a parade of bit parts in films of the early 1940s, then emerged as a star in 1945 with "Salome -- Where She Danced," a routine movie about a dancer from Vienna who becomes a spy in the wild West.

She recalled her entrance in the film: "I came through these beaded curtains, wearing a Japanese kimono and a Japanese headpiece, and then performed a Siamese dance. Nobody seemed to know quite why."

Universal Pictures exploited her slightly exotic looks and a shape that looked ideal in a harem dress in such "sex-and-sand" programmers as "Song of Scheherazade," "Slave Girl," "Casbah" and "Desert Hawk."

The studio also employed her to add zest to Westerns, usually as a dance-hall girl or a gun-toting sharpshooter. Among the titles: "Frontier Gal," "Black Bart" (as Lola Montez), "River Lady," "Calamity Jane and Sam Bass" (as Calamity Jane) and "The Gal Who Took the West."

In 1956 she veered from her former image when Cecil B. DeMille chose her to play Sephora, wife to Charlton Heston's Moses in "The Ten Commandments." The following year she co-starred with Clark Gable and Sidney Poitier in "Band of Angels" as Gable's upper-class sweetheart who learns of her black forebears.

Among her later films: "McClintock" (starring John Wayne), "A Global Affair" (Bob Hope), "Hostile Guns" (George Montgomery), "The Power" (George Hamilton), "American Gothic" (Rod Steiger) and "Oscar" (Sylvester Stallone).

De Carlo was born Peggy Yvonne Middleton in Vancouver, British Columbia, on September 1, 1922 (some sources say 1924). Abandoned by her father, she was raised by her mother in poor circumstances. The girl took dancing lessons and dropped out of high school to work in night clubs and local theaters. She continued dancing in clubs when she and her mother moved to Los Angeles.

Paramount Pictures signed her to a contract in 1942, and she adopted her middle name and her mother's middle name. Dropped by Paramount after 20 minor roles, she landed at Universal, which cast her as the B-picture version of the studio's sultry star Maria Montez.

In 1955, De Carlo married Bob Morgan, a topflight stunt man, and the marriage produced two sons, Bruce and Michael, as well as much-publicized separations and reconciliations.

During a stunt aboard a moving log train for "How the West Was Won," Morgan was thrown underneath the wheels. The accident cost him a leg, and for a time De Carlo abandoned her career to care for him. They later divorced.

In her late years, De Carlo lived in semiretirement near Solvang, north of Santa Barbara. Her son Michael died in 1997, and she suffered a stroke the following year.

go barbara!

© AP

Rosie O'Donnell and Barbara Walters

Walters Calls Trump 'Poor, Pathetic Man'
Jan 10, 1:26 PM EST

The Associated Press

NEW YORK -- Donald Trump has called Barbara Walters a liar and Rosie O'Donnell a loser. On Wednesday, they both fired back.

"Well, he's at it again," said O'Donnell, referring to a letter written to her by Trump and reported Tuesday by the media. The letter said Walters had told him that working with O'Donnell on ABC's "The View" is like "living in hell."

"That poor, pathetic man," said Walters, drawing whoops of approval from her TV audience.

O'Donnell high-fived Walters and co-hosts Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. "You know, he just can't — he just can't let go, but we're moving on," Walters said.

The co-hosts didn't mention him by name, referring to Trump as "he" and "that guy."

"The man is obsessed with me, and I'm happy to say his show tanked," O'Donnell said, an apparent reference to the ratings of the latest edition of Trump's NBC reality show, "The Apprentice," which started Sunday and fell short of those from last spring's season premiere.

An e-mail from The Associated Press seeking comment from Trump wasn't immediately answered Wednesday. But TV show "The Insider" said a statement from Trump said, "They didn't even have the courage to mention me by name. It was sad to see Barbara read her statement off a cue card."

In his letter to O'Donnell, Trump said Walters had "lied to both of us."

He said Walters had called him from her vacation trying to end the feud and supposedly told him "don't worry, she won't be here for long" and "Donald, never get in the mud with pigs."

Walters said last week she hadn't told Trump she didn't want O'Donnell on the daytime talk show. "Nothing could be further from the truth," she said.

The Rosie-Donald feud began last month after Trump announced that Miss USA Tara Conner would keep her title, which had been in jeopardy because of underage drinking. He owns the pageant.

O'Donnell said his news conference had annoyed her "on a multitude of levels" and that the twice-divorced real estate mogul had no right to be "the moral compass for 20-year-olds in America."

i say it's about time Barbara started taking sides in this whole debacle...especially now that 'that guy' is insulting her along with rosie. i love rosie to death and love the stir she's been causing...it's about time someone with a major opinion is getting broadcast to middle america in some way, shape or form. i tend to believe that 'he' is the biggest liar of them all but one must wonder whether barbara possibly may have said something about rosie but i doubt it. she seems like she's very happy with rosie and stands behind her...i mean she did hire her knowing the whole controversy over star jones. it's also really amazing to me that two...yes two..out lesbians are on daytime talk shows...and i love ellen just as much as i love rosie. and the best part is that neither of them really bring up the fact that they are gay on their respective shows...some would argue they are selling out but their personal lives although known to everyone...shouldn't be on display and get in the way of what they do best...entertain and provoke...right on!

another win for us!

New laws banning discrimination against gay people in the provision of goods and services face a Lords challenge.
The Sexual Orientation Regulations have been criticised by some religious groups who say people will not be allowed to act according to faith.

They are planning a rally later outside Parliament when a peer makes an attempt in the Lords to scrap the regulations.

But gay rights group Outrage's Peter Tatchell said no mainstream religious groups were supporting the protest.

The regulations came into force in Northern Ireland on 1 January and the government is planning to introduce them in England, Wales and Scotland, by April.

Homophobia denied

Critics say the regulations would mean hotels could not refuse to provide rooms for gay couples, and religious groups would be obliged to rent out halls for gay wedding receptions.

Some also argue a Christian, Jewish or Muslim printer could be legally forced to print a flyer for a gay night club, or a teacher would have to break the law to promote heterosexual marriage over homosexual civil partnership


Democratic Unionist peer Lord Morrow has put forward a motion calling for the Northern Ireland regulations to be annulled and amended - to be discussed in an hour-long "dinner debate" in the House of Lords on Tuesday evening.

Barrister Thomas Cordrey, from the Lawyers' Christian Fellowship, which has organised the rally, denied the group was homophobic, saying the regulations did not "strike the correct balance".

He said: "Christians have no desire to discriminate unjustly on the grounds of sexual orientation, but they cannot and must not be forced to actively condone and promote sexual practices which the Bible teaches are wrong."

He is backed by Bishop Michael Reid, founder of the Christian Congress for Traditional Values, who said discrimination was wrong, but so was discrimination against Christian values.

Religious freedom

But supporters of the regulations say they simply extend to gay people the same rights that had been granted to people of different faiths in 1998.

Labour MP and Equality Act campaigner Angela Eagle told the BBC's Today programme: "We're not curtailing religious freedom, people can argue against the practice of homosexuality if they must.

"What this law does is say it's wrong to put a sign outside a pub or a hotel saying 'no gays'...That is right, proper and moderate."

The National Secular Society accused religious groups of "gross exaggeration" to get the law annulled. President Terry Sanderson said: "Parliament must not pander to their bigotry."

And Alan Wardle, spokesman for gay rights group Stonewall, told BBC News: "Some of the things that we've come across are where schools aren't tackling homophobic bullying properly, where people have been struck off by GPs because they were gay.

"These laws will prevent that kind of discrimination - not some of the lurid things that have been said about forcing people to promote a gay lifestyle."

In a statement on Tuesday, the Board of Deputies of British Jews distanced itself from the protest, saying the regulations would "provide a further platform to combat discrimination in this country".

But it said it hoped the regulations would be "framed in such a way that allows for both the effective combating of discrimination in the provision of goods and services whilst respecting freedom of conscience and conviction".

A High Court judicial review against the regulations in Northern Ireland, brought by the Christian Institute, will be heard in March.


www.bbc.co.uk

jack nasty

i finally saw 'brokeback mountain'! i was kinda boycotting it because of all the controversy surrounding it as 'the gay movie', 'the gay cowboy movie", etc. i definitely was happy a movie like it was made and promoted so broadly but i wasn't giving into the marketing.
after watching it i must say i'm glad i waited. i was able to enjoy the parts i enjoyed in the comfort of my own bedroom and i was able to analyze it all alone without any other outside interference. jake was amazing but heath didn't quite do it for me. maybe it's because i could relate to jake's character more and have been in his position (not bottom) and have been in love with people like ennis. i also think the story was too fast. there wasn't enough build up to them getting it on. i didn't hate the movie but i only found myself loving the parts that were obviously homoerotic. the ending surprised me i must admit and it was the only time i actually sided with heath ledger/ ennis. the time frame the movie took place in was also interesting...it all happened in a place and time before and during the stonewall riots which explained a lot. a friend of mine dj andrew had made a remix of madonna's 'forbidden love' with bits and pieces of the movie spliced within...(the "once upon a time there was a boy...there was a boy.." part was my idea)

take a listen
madonna - forbidden love (brokeback jack mix)

madonna is a star

do you guys remember this crazy advertisement/ mini movie 'star'ring madonna for bmw...it was directed by her hubby guy ritchie and featured my future ex husband clive owen....isn't he just dreamy? i fell in love with him when i saw 'closer' with julia roberts and jude law and natalie portman...another brilliant movie.
this short film is one of the reasons madonna is set apart from the rest...her uncanny ability to poke fun at herself better than anyone else can....

bittersweet dreams

hey everyone...here's sinead o'connor, natalie imbruglia and kylie minogue at a dave stewart (of the eurythmics) tribute concert. not sure when it's exactly from but it's a really powerful performance...love the over the top outfits and the harmonizing...where are you sinead? we miss you

chauncey treat

i was sifting through my actual physical cd collection and came across madonna "the early years" featuring her work with the interesting and insane otto von wernherr. here are two tracks that i ripped from the cd. i've been trying to find out information on otto but he is even eluding the magic of google. the only thing that pretty much comes up is where you can buy the music...not much about him really. but i'll keep searching. they are very much the most experimental i've ever heard madonna with the exception of a few remixes here and there throughout her long career like one of the 'power of goodbye' remixes by luke slater, william orbit's 'i'll remember' guerilla beach warfare remix, a few others and the most recent tiefschwarz take on 'get together'.

otto von wernherr featuring madonna - cosmic climb
otto von wernherr featuring madonna - we are the gods
thanks to pudwhacker, i do know now that otto was in this movie

directed by slava tsukerman...you can find more about it here at rotten tomatoes.
i definitely want to see it now...