JUST FOR FUN--MAE WEST

 


GOING THROUGH YOUTUBE I FOUND AN INTERVIEW FROM 1976 WITH DICK CAVETT & MAE WEST & SHE QUOTED A POEM SHE WROTE WHEN SHE WAS 15...SO MAE, SO AWESOME...

MAE WEST WROTE THIS WHEN SHE WAS 15 (no we didn't go to school together in 1908)
ENJOY...

Cave Girl

I got my smile from the sunshine.
I got my tears from the rain.
I learned to dance when I saw a tiger prance,
And a peacock taught me to be vain.
A little owl in a tree so high,
He taught me how to wink my eye.
I learned to bill and coo from a turtledove.
And a grizzly bear taught me how to hug.
But the guy who lived two caves from me,
He taught me how to love.

( Mae West died in 1980. She remains one of the most quotable legends. She was a pioneer & sexual liberator for women)
( Watch the entire interview, it's very sweet actually)

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(Btw, did you know Joan Crawford adopted 5 kids & one was reclaimed by it's mother--lucky kid...lol...I never knew that--bad gay! bad gay!...lolololol)

A TRIBUTE TO MY OLD "UNION CITY, NJ"

 




Walking around my old town of Union City, NJ  (where I "grew" up) every inch is a memory; although the population is different. 
Most of the Cubans made their $$$ quickly and shot to the suburbs. 
My  parents & I live about 12 miles west but my sisters both really put a distance between them & the "embroidery capital". 
 Many of the buildings are other things now (usually downgraded in style & substance). For example, the legendary, art deco Sears building is a bunch of unsightly stores-even the spectacular facade  is covered in cheap advertising. 
However, many  buildings still look the same and as my brother-in-law said, when I mentioned how different everything was, it's still so familiar...

If you want to get a taste of the Union City my family called home for decades; check out youtube "UNION CITY" by Dez Manku.

ENJOY !!! 

I will always have a piece of my heart in Union City--esp. my old high school & Bergenline Avenue-since I shared so many amazing memories in one of the most New Yorkcentric places one could have lived. 
 I will always treasure these memories with friends and family; we had a blast there!




May 30, 2014

"UNION CITY" is Dez Manku's special salute to Union City, NJ. It was impossible to put every land mark in Union City in the song, but we did our best to get as many in there as we could.

It's part 1 of our "HUDSON COUNTY TRILOGY."

Stay tuned for Parts 2 and 3 - "TRANSFER STATION" and "BLVD. EAST."
We hope you enjoy it, and it brings back some great memories. Thanks for listening, Mike Boldt and Phil Gallo (DEZ MANKU)

"THE JOY OF DISCO" (2012) (youtube)

 

WATCH IT ON youtube

  (I love how it's summed up:
"IT WAS THE BIRTH OF A NEW DEMOCRACY")

A documentary about how a much-derided music actually changed the world. Between 1969 and 1979 disco sound tracked gay liberation, foregrounded female desire in the age of feminism and led to the birth of modern club culture as we know it today, before taking the world by storm; with contributions from Deney Terrio, Nile Rogers, Earl Young, Nicky Siano, David Mancuso, Robin Gibb, Kathy Sledge, Edmund White, Ian Schrager and Rollerena, just to name a few.

I never knew this existed; produced by the BBC.

Personally my disco experiences started in the New Jersey parties and straight bars in 1972 and peaked in the 1980's. This pop explosion just morphed later on to house music, tribal and other danceable pop music.

My first gay disco was " THE ROUND TABLE" in Midtown NYC-I was 15 years old (yay fake ID's).
It was also the first time I saw men in drag.

Of course the top NYC discos we frequented in the late 70's and 80's (and we'd later refer to them as dance clubs to sound cooler; silly us.) were: "The Gallery",  "Studio 54" , "Xenon". "Infinity", "12 WEST", "The Barefoot Boy", "Flamingo", "The Anvil", "Les Mouches", "Ice Palace 57", "the Paradise Garage"and the epitome of all dance clubs, "THE SAINT".

Other cities had comparable dance clubs: Los Angeles had "Studio One"; South Florida had "COPA", "Salvation" and "Backstreet"; Atlanta had "Backstreet" as well.

And Philadelphia brought a unique sound the world embraced. It took soul, R&B and Motown to create timeless, danceable sounds still influencing artists today.

While the Salsoul Orchestra created the hybrid of soul, Latin and disco.

Any dancer worth his self respect danced the Latin hustle-not the "Saturday Night Fever" more Anglo style. This movie & soundtrack by The Bee Gees took disco to the mainstream (as Madonna's song "Vogue" did for voguing; another established underground phenom-watch "Paris is Burning" to explore its genesis).

(And screw the backlash of "DISCO SUCKS" in July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago--most of the music THEY were listening to REALLY SUCKED...it was pure homophobia & racism..hate at its most vile !)

DISCO LIVES!

A seminal work into this musical, transformative phenomenon is:

My Life in the Paradise Garage: Keep On Dancin'

by Mel Cheren, Gabriel Rotello

POSITIVE PRANK THAT HELPS A WAITRESS--AWESOME!

 

 

Go to youtube and type in:

"Best Shift Ever - Waitress Receives Life-Changing Tip"

This incredible waitress is one of the most selfless people around and she gets rewarded at last. 

GO KARMA GO !

Go ahead & well up--I did...

More positive pranks should be out there--we can all laugh and then cry for the right reasons; tears of JOY.

"PRANK IT FORWARD" will donat $$$--tell your friends...

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From "The Huffington Post":

"One waitress in California just had the best shift ever. It was a normal day at Los Angeles' Spring Street Smoke House, until Chelsea Roff received four incredible tips: $1,000 in cash, a free trip to Hawaii, a new job opportunity and a new car.

As it turns out, the extraordinary tips were part of Break.com's Prank It Fwd project, which aims to raise funds for social change campaigns. (The site donates $1 to nonprofit organization DoSomething.org for every 1,000 views.)

For the most recent prank, Break.com chose Roff because of her background and nonprofit work.
"She’s dealt with her share of life’s challenges, but despite them she’s dedicated herself to helping others, even creating a non-profit yoga organization to help other women," the site said in a released statement.

Now this is the type of prank we can get behind..."

HOLLYWOOD SONGS

Kinks - Celluloid Heroes - YouTube

► 5:26► 5:26

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YouTube

 My buddy James just introduced me to a song about Hollywood I never knew about--thx kiddo!

Anyone who knows me knows how obsessed I am with HOLLYWOOD--I know my reincarnation is from someone in the 1930's or 1940's.

It's a matter of fact I want my ashes spread over the HOLLYWOOD sign (still can't decide which letter though--lol)

It's no wonder I gravitate towards all things film & Hollywood pop culture.

My favorite Madonna song--no surprise - is "VOGUE". This song tributes all the major players in Hollywood's golden era.

Along with -----------"VOGUE" ("Rita Hayworth gave good face...")
I also love------------ "JUST GO TO THE MOVIES" (Whenever you are down in the dumps, try putting on Judy's red pumps...."). This is from the musical "A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine"

Of course the old standard "HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD" is what most people know.

Yesterday my friend introduced me to The Kinks, "CELLULOID HEROES"...


Enjoy all of them (I just mentioned 3, there's a longer list) but definitely  listen to "CELLULOID HEREOS"--especially if you like less jazz hands & more rock. 


If you hear any other good ones make sure to let me know...

GREAT "CARRIE" LIKE PRANK IN NYC--LMFAO!

youtube.com (How Would You React?: Telekinetic Coffee Shop Prank!)

 

Coffee Shop Horrors: Elaborate prank freaks out coffee connoisseurs (you gotta watch, it's hysterical!!!)

Posted on: 6:32 am, October 8, 2013, by Allison Croghan

(FOX 4) —" Patrons at a New York City coffee shop had the beans scared out of them when movie makers staged an elaborate prank to promote the upcoming horror film Carrie.

Jokers rigged tables and books to operate by remote control and connected a cable to a man who ‘accidentally’ spilled coffee onto a woman’s computer.

She becomes so angry she yells at the man, which sends him flying up the wall (thanks to that discreetly hidden cable).

Later, tables and chairs move away from her, and when she screams bloody-murder, books and pictures fly off the wall — which send patrons scurrying out the door with horrified expressions.
The adaptation of the classic horror film Carrie will be in theaters Oct. 18..."

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