|
An Alphabetical Journey of the Places I Went in (and Around) the Twin Citie
2008-06-09 05:32:00 1. Axel's. "You know," I said to the Bryant Lake Bowl audience on Thursday, "Minnesota is nothing like the movie, Fargo," because I hadn't run into anyone as eccentric or at least accented like the characters in the Coen Brothers film. The BLB audience assured me that Fargo was closer to the truth than I had witnessed in my short time in the state, an assertion that was confirmed when I had dinner with Brandon, his mom, and Kellie at Axel's, a fancy steak and seafood restaurant in Mendota, a town with a population of 197, just south of St. Paul. The waitress spoke with the accent and carried Minnesota Nice in every pore on her face. In the car after dinner tonight, Brandon told me to run back in so I could interview her for this blog, but I have to be up at 4:30 tomorrow morning to catch a plane to New York. This bitch is tired.2. Dixie's. Sunday Champagne Brunch here is a real culinary treat, made even more complete with a glorious chocolate fountain that you could dip strawber...
By: Bamboo Nation
Storm's A-Brewin'!; or Recapping Jukebox Stories 06.05.08 (Minneapolis)
2008-06-06 09:30:00 On our drive to our Bryant Lake Bowl performance of Jukebox Stories in Minneapolis, the NPR station kept announcing every three minutes or so that there was a major storm warning?complete with threats of treacherous, quarter inch-sized hailstones that were bound to damage cars and shatter nerves. Having acclimated myself to Los Angeles life, I screamed in panic any time I saw lightening or heard thunder, as Brandon laughed in sadistic glee. His delight didn't last long because he realized the thunderstorm was going to hit big an hour or so before our show, potentially deterring people from coming to see us and leaving us to perform for the wait staff. That made me panic even more.The storm didn't seem to be as bad as NPR anticipated (faux intellectual nutjobs!), so when we pulled back the red curtain at about 7:00PM there was a good-sized crowd of people in the cabaret-ish tables-and-chairs section in front and in the traditional theater seats in the back. It was a cool venue to p...
By: Bamboo Nation
First Impressions of the Twin Cities
2008-06-05 21:16:00 I touched down at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport at the crack of dawn this morning, and Brandon picked me up.BRANDON: So what do you want to do?PRINCE: Is there a Chinatown?BRANDON: No.PRINCE: [Grumble, grumble.]BRANDON: There's a large Vietnamese population.PRINCE: [Grumble, grumble.]BRANDON: And there are a lot of Hmongs.PRINCE: [Grumble, grumble.]Minutes later:PRINCE: What's that body of water?BRANDON: That's the Mississippi River.PRINCE: WHAT?! THAT'S AMAZING! THAT'S THE MOTHERFUCKING MISSISSIPPI RIVER?! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! IT'S BEAUTIFUL!Paper beats rock, rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper, and the Mississippi River beats the Chinese.
By: Bamboo Nation
Boston, DC, Minneapolis, New York--Point Me to Your Red Light Districts!
2008-05-21 20:36:00 The dates and venues for Jukebox Stories' June "tour" have been confirmed, and it looks like Brandon and I will be in some crazy-ass places. I put "tour" in quotes because we're doing a mere five performances. The rest of the country scares me. Prove me wrong, people!On June 5, we're in Minneapolis at the Bryant Lake Bowl in their basement cabaret space. According to some Minneapolisians (what the hell do you call yourselves?), it's supposed to be an awesome venue. If you're lucky, I'll let you bowl me down a lane!On June 6, those of you who will be attending the Asian American Theater Conference in Minneapolis will be able to see a private performance of our show at the Guthrie Theatre. We can all gang up on Brandon and yell, "Get whitey!"On June 12, we're in Washington, DC, at The Wonderland Ballroom, a multilevel bar that's proud of its beer selection. I will be sad in DC because the first male strip club that I ever went to and that remains in my memory and heart ("Wet")...
By: Bamboo Nation
Boston, DC, Minneapolis, New York--Mark Your Zac Efron Calendars!
2008-04-25 10:15:00 The dates for the rest of Jukebox Stories' 2008 The Case of the Creamy Foam Tour are almost confirmed, so it's time for all of you to get out your Sharpies and draw my face on your Zac Efron calendars. Everything you know and love about Bamboo Nation will be presented to you live and in person?with games, prizes, and amazing music by Brandon Patton thrown in for good measure. If you're close to one of the cities we'll be in and you miss our show, you will go to hell. Wait. Let me double check that.... Yup. I'm right. You will go to hell.Brandon and I will perform for you in Minneapolis on June 5; Washington, DC, on June 12; Brooklyn on June 14; and Boston on June 15. Venues, times, and ticket prices will be announced shortly, and dates are subject to change?as we all are.I must emphasize how rare an opportunity this is. I don't like to leave my house. I already turned down offers to go to Portland and Seattle, and I can barely believe that I agreed to do these four dates. So d...
By: Bamboo Nation
Den of Tramps
2008-04-03 21:34:00 The better part of the last three months I've spent with Brandon Patton. That's 25% of the goddamn year, which must count for something. Vouchers maybe? Gift certificates? Something.So when I dropped him off at the airport at 5:00AM this morning, it really was sort of like a summer romance was ending. Aside from the glory of our Jukebox Stories shenanigans, Brandon is perhaps the only person in the world who not only willingly indulges me and my stories?Deal or No Deal, etc.?but also begs to watch upwards of four episodes of Celebrity Apprentice in a row with me at 2 in the morning. I mean, who does that?!I guess it's only natural to absorb some of the characteristics of your friends, especially if you spend so much time together, but obsessing over Celebrity Apprentice? Brandon Patton is a little piece of heaven!This must explain why I willingly let Brandon drag me to places like the Rainbow Bar and Grill on the Sunset Strip. He describes it as "a den of tramps," and he's right...
By: Bamboo Nation
A Note to Los Angeles Readers, Part 2
2008-03-27 05:02:00 For the love of Christ! If Brandon gets it wrong, I can assume some of you might get it wrong too. So:* The Friday, March 28, 2008, performance of Jukebox Stories in Los Angeles begins promptly at 8:00PM. However, the Saturday, March 29, 2008, performance begins at 7:30PM.* A block of advance tickets are available online. If online tickets sell out or the online box office closes, there is a block of tickets that will be available for purchase at the door on the night of the performance.See you there, my lovelies. Just for you, I have been shoveling vitamin C, garlic, juice, water, tea, eggs, rice, curry, green beans, and gummi candies into my body so that I will be in tip-top shape and horny as usual. Everything I've done I've done for you:
By: Bamboo Nation
Hot!; Or, Recapping Jukebox Stories 03.20.08, 03.21.08, & 03.22.08 (Closing
2008-03-23 20:00:00 Wow. Just...wow.How about me firing rounds into the air crazily like an NRA member, using a fake gun and a bag full of those toys that pop when you throw them onto the ground?How about Brandon Patton surprising a pregnant woman with a lap dance after one show when we overhead her from backstage complain that we didn't fulfill our promise of giving pregnant women lap dances?...But my absolute favorite moment?How about that hot straight guy on closing night who let me grope and kiss various parts of his body for prizes (I like to call them "bi-curious rewards") and delivered onto my lips and into my mouth perhaps the hottest kiss I have ever had, which lasted an unusually long time and which made the audience go crazy. Ladies, track that guy and his tongue down?I guarantee you that he can make your vagina feel special. (And in order to reassert his masculinity, I bet he'll give it to you good!)Many thanks to our rockin' audiences, to people who showed up multiple times during our r...
By: Bamboo Nation
Skin-Softening Savior?
2008-03-17 08:11:00 I took a little break from my San Francisco slumming by spending the weekend in the Berkeley area, sleeping over at Rica and Paul's house. They have a fluffy cat named Dougal, whom I petted so much that he tried to scratch the shit out of me and he actually drew blood. On my night stand, they placed English toffee and a bottle of bacon salt. And they have in their bathroom a container of Lush Charity Pot Hand and Body Lotion?the description on the container reads (I'm not kidding): "smooth, creamy, skin-softening cocoa butter and almond oil lotion with a scent that makes life worth living." Thank god that lotion was there because all week I was thinking to myself, "You know what? Life is not worth living. I wish there existed a hand lotion that would make me feel differently." Then, wah-la! Lush Charity Pot! (But seriously, folks, the lotion wasn't that good. It's just lotion, for Christ's sake.)I had a crapload of work to do this weekend, so I spent a lot of time at the People...
By: Bamboo Nation
An Open Letter to That Straight Guy Who Lost the Opportunity to Kiss Me in
2008-03-10 02:29:00 Dear Ryan:Because of the barely averted horror of the previous evening, I decided that I needed to reaffirm my manhood on Saturday by picking on you throughout the night. And just when you thought you had forever escaped the discomfort of audience sexual harassment (my favorite activity in the theater), I've decided to continue picking on you in this public forum on the Internet. I have nothing better to do right now, and you are just too damn hot not to write about?those grab-able locks of curly brownish-blackish hair, those sexy glasses, that beautiful smile. You make me feel things in my vagina.You should feel good that I singled you out to kiss me on stage. I mean, did you see that audience last night? It was one of the most attractive audiences that Brandon and I have ever had the pleasure of performing for. We were both very distracted throughout the show?Brandon eyeing hot chicks (why do you think he had a guitar in front of his pants most of the time?) and me undressing vir...
By: Bamboo Nation
The Horror, the Horror!; Or, Recapping Jukebox Stories 03.07.08
2008-03-08 20:47:00 Last night, we declared that the first person to solve The Case of the Creamy Foam would win a fabulous Marie Antoinette action figure (with ejector head!) or the fabulous prize that was hidden in a shoebox or the fabulous prize that was hidden behind the recliner or fabulous kisses from me. The "kisses from me" thing was an impromptu offering that I blurted out accidentally because I had Prince Harry on my mind. I mean, when bloggers post shirtless pictures of Prince Harry in military fatigues, how am I supposed to think about anything else for two weeks?While a guy on the couch took home the action figure, a girl in the front row was deemed runner-up. When people started shouting for her to choose kisses as her prize, I felt like I had just been transported into a horror movie. I sprayed my mouth five times with my Listerine PocketMist and moistened my lips with Burt's Bees chap stick just in case. Fortunately, there is a god, and the girl chose the trilogy of Whitley Strieber'...
By: Bamboo Nation
"Princess Leia and Prince Gomolvilas Do Some Deep Dishing"
2008-03-06 01:58:00 I retract my previous comment that we're not getting attention from the mainstream press. It just takes them a few weeks to catch up and write about us in relation to Star Wars royalty:Read the East Bay Express review.It boasts perhaps the best pullquote ever: "showmanship bordering on hucksterdom." When Jukebox Stories actually crosses over into hucksterdom, we will know that we have arrived.(Speaking of Star Wars, I love drawing the ire of my sci-fi nerd friends by insisting that Return of the Jedi is the best Star Wars movie because of those wonderful, heroic Ewoks. Yub-nub!)
By: Bamboo Nation
Open for (Show) Business
2008-03-05 01:20:00 About a year ago on this very blog, I declared that "all open mikes are shitty." So it is with that philosophy that Brandon and I dive right into hosting not one but two Open Mike Nights (March 5 and 17) in the same space that we're performing Jukebox Stories: The Case of the Creamy Foam. We're counting on our own special songs and stories seamlessly inserted in between performers and we're also counting on the amazing hidden talent of the San Francisco Bay Area to ensure that our open mike is not shitty. Bring your A-game, people!In the meantime, let's revisit my open mike anxiety from last year:~~~~~Open Mike, Open AnxietyApril 5, 2007For weeks, Brandon had been calling me up and sending me emails to tell me about how we had to do a shitty open mike in Boston on April 27. All open mikes are shitty, so this is in no way a slight against the basement performance space of Roggie's Brew & Grille, where wide-eyed and earnest acoustic guitar singer/songwriters and disturbingly ...
By: Bamboo Nation
Throw Junk Food at It; Or, Recapping Jukebox Stories 02.28.08
2008-03-01 10:52:00 During certain performances of Jukebox Stories: The Case of the Creamy Foam, Brandon makes me eat food. (I won't reveal what food, as not to ruin the show for people who have not yet gone.) On Thursday night, I did what I was told, not really paying attention to the fact that the aforementioned food had been sitting around for three weeks. Afterward, my stomach hurt. Not a "poo" kind of hurt, but an "ache" kind of hurt. (I do believe that is the first time in the history of Bamboo Nation that I have typed the word "poo.")However, my stomach quickly settled after we went to The Pub on Solano Avenue in Albany, where I consumed ginger ale, apple cider, salt and vinegar chips, honey dijon chips, a chocolate peanut butter cookie, and a 99-cent cherry pie from 7-11. That's how you cure a common stomachache.I should get stomachaches more often.
By: Bamboo Nation
Asian Power!; Or, Recapping Jukebox Stories 02.23.08
2008-02-24 21:00:00 We just wrapped up Week Two of Jukebox Stories: The Case of the Creamy Foam, and many people know by now that Asian-American audience members get special treatment. I will let them choose stories for me to perform, I will root for them to win prizes, and, like last night, I will stop THE ENTIRE SHOW to chat with them about Filipino culture. We APAs have to stick together! It's us against The Man!White people, don't be afraid. Brandon's got your back. In fact, I think he makes fun of me when I'm looking the other way.On another note, how is it that I've ended up at bars the last two evenings?On Friday, Brandon and I stumbled into Raleigh's on Telegraph Avenue. The bouncer found it amazing and rather heartening that we were older than he was because he's used to being the Old Guy amongst rowdy Cal students, many of which happen to be smokin'?and that is why Brandon GOT CAUGHT LOOKING at a hot Asian chick. That made me happy because I'm the one who usually gets caught (not wit...
By: Bamboo Nation
Just Go to See's; Or, Recapping Jukebox Stories 02.21.08
2008-02-22 10:02:00 It was cool that people actually braved the Berkeley rain to come to tonight's show, including a Birthday Girl who miraculously walked away with three prizes, the best of which was an elaborate candy-making kit. 'Cuz, you know, who doesn't want to spend seven hours trying to make a single truffle?Afterward, Brandon and I walked up and down the Telegraph Avenue area, and he kept popping into restaurants to ask how late they stayed open because we usually want to be out late after every show and our options have so far been limited. I mean, who wants to go home alone and blog?
By: Bamboo Nation
A Day Without Brandon Patton; Or, Dancing Movies Please
2008-02-19 09:14:00 Read all about it here.
By: Bamboo Nation
Give Me Your Allowance; Or, Recapping Jukebox Stories 02.15.08
2008-02-16 18:14:00 Despite my deeply cynical exterior, I must express gratitude (Oprah told me to keep a gratitude journal, and I always do what I'm told) to everybody who was at the opening night performance of Jukebox Stories: The Case of the Creamy Foam. The full house was boisterous, joyful, and fun to perform with. We talked about High School Musical quite a bit, which probably turned a lot of people in the audience gay in a matter of minutes. You'll thank me for that later, by the way, because you'll come to realize how FABULOUS it is.I was so pumped that after the show I had to have a late-night breakfast at The Original Mel's on Shattuck, which I soon discovered is no longer The Original Mel's because of some corporate something-or-rather. (I don't know the whole story, and I'm too lazy to go to Wikipedia right now to find out.) They actually (rather poorly) scraped off the "Mel's" letters, and the restaurant is now called "The Original." You can still see the faint outline of "Mel's"...
By: Bamboo Nation
My Friends Are Gonna Get Laid Over and Over Again
2008-02-15 18:55:00 Filmmaker Gabriel Fleming, who drags me to concerts by Icelandic weirdos, is going to get a lot of ass. That's because his new movie, The Lost Coast, was just accepted into the South by Southwest, the prestigious film festival in Austin, Texas, where there's lots of ass to be had. I've been wanting to tell you for weeks, but Gabriel forced a press blackout upon me until the official announcement?as if I'm not official. What a bastard! I held your boom mike on Halloween in the Castro, mofo!The movie stars former Bay Area residents Ian Scott McGregor (who some of you will remember from my punk rock musical, Emophiliacs) and Lucas Alifano (who's done a reading for me before). Both actors are terrific, and, as an added bonus, you can easily spank it while thinking about them.But wait! The talent of my friends floweth over! Nerdcore Rising, a documentary about MC Frontalot and the nerdcore hip-hop movement, is also in this year's SXSW festival. Jukebox Stories' own Brandon Patton ...
By: Bamboo Nation
Celebrating the "Boo"; Or, Recapping Jukebox Stories 02.14.08
2008-02-15 10:30:00 You know that I'm dedicated to my art because I was willing to miss Celebrity Apprentice for tonight's preview performance of Jukebox Stories: The Case of the Creamy Foam, which was UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE. The audience was jovial and enthusiastic (could it be the special free tickets, cheap bastards?!), and there were many memorable moments: the guy who perfectly delivered my Adam Ant reference punchline at the right moment; the prizes I threw at people's heads; the groans of disgust while I made myself a sandwich; Brandon and my improvised recollection of our, ahem, psychedelic experiences; and one brilliantly juvenile joke that caused the audience to mock boo in retaliation, which in turn caused me to laugh uncontrollably for an uncomfortably long amount of time.Speaking of Adam Ant, how is it that Brandon has never heard "Goody Two-Shoes"? Never forget, okay? NEVER FORGET:
By: Bamboo Nation
On the Fence Is Okay With Me
2008-02-14 01:19:00 We haven't open Jukebox Stories: The Case of the Creamy Foam yet, but we've already been selected as Critic's Choice in the East Bay Express, the East Bay's weekly, which gives us some cool momentum ramping up to our Friday opening night. Moderately bi-curious guys are invited to sit in the front row so that I can test your boundaries.
By: Bamboo Nation
"Creamy Foam" Trailer and Other Items of Business
2008-02-12 09:21:00 After being cooped up in my apartment for two weeks creating and rehearsing new material for Jukebox Stories: The Case of the Creamy Foam (and watching Deal or No Deal in between), Brandon and I spent our first day in the Impact Theatre space tonight, beneath La Val's Pizza on the north side of the UC Berkeley campus. In a fast and furious four hours, we (along with Melissa, Jon, Diana, Read, and three high school interns) dressed the set to look like the crappiest motel room this side of a crack whore's basement, tried out new songs and accompanying tech elements (a drum track, a mike, a mini-fan?don't ask), slammed through the opening story, and basically acclimated ourselves to the venue again (we performed here last about a year and a half ago).Afterward, Brandon and I had French onion soup at Au Coquelet Cafe on University Avenue, where we discussed which songs needed trimming and which needed to be reimagined, how to rewrite certain stories, and the shitload of things we ha...
By: Bamboo Nation
I Hope She Never Finds This Blog
2008-02-08 19:28:00 You will understand why my sister is an endless source of entertainment when you listen to "My Sister's MySpace Profile," one of the two free tracks now available on the Impact Theatre website for a limited time. As some of you know, that particular piece required absolutely no creativity on my part. All Brandon and I do is read my sister's actual MySpace profile word for word. It's amazing.The other free track is Brandon's funny, moving, and epic "Mixed-Up Modern Family," which will convince those of you who don't already know that he is a genius.Both tracks are from our upcoming CD, Jukebox Stories: The Official Bootleg.Listen now because I am seriously going to ask them to take that first track down soon for fear of familial retaliation.
By: Bamboo Nation
The Odds of Nerdiness
2008-02-04 19:36:00 Since Brandon arrived in California last week, this apartment has been a hotbed of creativity. We've spent long days hashing out the concept and structure of Jukebox Stories: The Case of the Creamy Foam, creating and rehearsing new material, and exacting demands upon the Impact Theatre staff, like police "caution" tape, fluffers, and lube. (I'd be happy with one out of three.)Our creative streaks do, however, sometimes spiral into lengthy periods of nonsense. Through divine providence, my weekly obsession with Deal or No Deal has rubbed off on Brandon, who finds the show fun and suspenseful. So intrigued by the mathematical probabilities involved in eliminating suitcases and fluctuating banker offers, he stayed up until about 4AM a few nights ago, trying to figure out the Deal or No Deal "formula" by punching numbers on a calculator while playing the game online and while reading thorough Internet forum postings by math students. (He reached the conclusion that banker offers follo...
By: Bamboo Nation
Musicians Can Admire Neatness Too
2008-01-29 18:50:00 Jukebox Stories: The Case of the Creamy Foam doesn't open for another couple of weeks, but Brandon flies into town tonight, which means I have to clean the apartment (so he can eat off the floor), do some laundry (fresh towels would be kind), take out the trash (the kitchen is like a swamp pit), and change the sheets on the bed he'll be sleeping in (who knows what kind of man juices are soaked into the current sheets?). I know Brandon doesn't care about such niceties (he is, after all, a musician), but I feel the house should be somewhat presentable.Since he'll be sleeping in my office space, the Zac Efron calendar will be staring him down when he goes to bed at night?which means, for him, I should make sure there's a bucket on the night stand in case he wants to throw up. You see, guys who write tender love ballads called "Munching the Cooch" and make breakup albums about girls cannot even come close to understanding the fine art of manppreciation.
By: Bamboo Nation
"Attracted by Its Tune Wind"
2008-01-04 20:16:00 Since Jukebox Stories musician Brandon Patton is almost as obsessed with Googling himself and checking his Web stats as much as I am, he recently discovered that Chinese sites have been encouraging visitors to listen to his songs. Since such sites are in Chinese, Brandon put one page through an Internet translator, and this is how they describe his music:Had found this person in the From Summer website, held the point of view which tries to download his special edition "Should Confusion", the result on has been attracted by its tune wind, on the fresh guitar main axle was twining the richly colorful element, was popular, , the village, knight even also has purely does smiles, looked resembled at will arrangement actually to let me have one kind of very relaxed feeling, specially "Auspicious Moment", the song arrived behind has linked he all in dissolute smiling.. Ha-ha, after listens to the noisy metal in brief was inferior to listens to him, rerealizes that kind of pure...I would p...
By: Bamboo Nation
Unfinished Business
2008-01-01 00:11:00 [It's the end of the year, so it's time to do some Blogger housecleaning. I found drafts of two posts that I never finished writing and never published. I'm cutting and pasting them here and now, unfinished, with no additional commentary, so you'll have to figure out how they end or what their point was on your own.]01.29.07I generally do not watch or enjoy TV shows with acronyms in their title (e.g., CSI, SVU, JAG, NCIS, ER, The O.C., etc.), but, when I read that my favorite actor of all time, Liev Schreiber, was going to do a four-episode stint on CSI, I decided to make an exception.I first discovered Mr. Schreiber in Nicole Holefcener's delightful indie chick comedy, Walking and Talking. Sure, if you glance at the DVD cover, it looks like a potentially horrid "vagina movie," but I don't know anyone who doesn't love Catherine Keener. I mean, you just want to hug her. In fact, if I ever see her on the street, I'm just going to go up to her and give her a big hug without her...
By: Bamboo Nation
Drama!
2007-12-26 19:50:00 I just noticed last night that this was on the Impact Theatre home page:
By: Bamboo Nation
Will You Please Do Your Job, Google?!
2007-10-25 01:03:00 How come lately I'm the last to see press? Damn you, Google Alert, you're not working! From the San Francisco Chronicle:DATE LINESNews, notes and updates from the Bay Area arts and culture sceneMonday, October 15, 2007Impact Theatre season announcedImpact Theatre, the gutsy - some might say anarchic - little company that puts on plays in a Berkeley pizza parlor basement, has finally gotten around to announcing its current season. We say "finally" because Impact plunged into its 12th season early in September with the West Coast premiere of Steven Yockey's offbeat "Sleepy." Artistic Director Melissa Hillman bided her time for another month, getting her full season lined up before announcing the rest.Two of the shows build on past Impact crowd-pleasers. "A Very Special Money & Run Winter Season Holiday Special," opening Nov. 16 - Impact's first actual holiday show - is the fifth episode of Wayne S. Rawley's cartoon-ish action-adventure serial. This time his outlaw heroes hole...
By: Bamboo Nation
No Double Entendre Intended
2007-09-25 20:45:00 It's official, folks. Musician and nerd Brandon Patton and I will be returning for a six-week run at Impact Theatre in Berkeley, from February 15 to March 22, 2008. Jukebox Stories: The Case of the Creamy Foam will feature new stories, new songs, and same old crappy prizes.I'm currently working on new fascinating tales, one of which requires me to stalk Ryan Phillippe. (Well, okay, none of the pieces are related to Ryan Phillippe in any way, but that's the story I'm sticking to when I get slapped with a restraining order.)
By: Bamboo Nation
I've Finally Found My Understudy
2007-09-12 03:02:00 There's a fast-spreading rumor going around that my storytelling, song-singing, bingo-playing theatrical extravaganza, JUKEBOX STORIES, which also stars Brandon Patton, may be returning for a new six-week run in the San Francisco Bay Area in the spring of 2008. JUKEBOX STORIES' 2006 incarnation at Impact Theatre was a critically acclaimed postmodern cabaret show that audience members came to see again and again and again. (You know who you are, and I love you!)I can neither confirm nor deny these rumors at this time, but I would like to inform you that, if I ever needed an understudy, I finally have one. Some Hawaiian guy who dubs himself "minouye" on YouTube also tells ridiculous stories with impeccable comic timing, cites Woody Allen as a personal hero, and is a nerdy Asian brutha! Give that guy a pair of glasses, and he's a veritable me?younger, sure, but I will always have better hair:Someone get me a worm-in-the-apple, "What's Up, Bitches" T-shirt! Stat!Tipped by:Plastic Bu...
By: Bamboo Nation
David Cope Won't Leave Philadelphia
2007-08-14 20:16:00 When Brandon Patton and I took JUKEBOX STORIES to a Philadelphia coffeehouse a few months ago, we opened for a local musician named David Cope, a stellar artist who has built a good reputation for himself in the area and who dabbles in acoustic singer-songwriter stuff, glam rock, funk, and myriad other genres. He's a really terrific live performer with a fantastic, stunning voice, and I don't know why I haven't kept in touch with him, especially because he e-mailed me shortly after we met so that he could describe his interest in breasts and how they have impacted his life in different ways. (Would he love my sister or what?)How cool is David Cope and his music? Aside from the fact that the Backstreet Boys' manager once told him that a song he wrote was "too Backstreet Boys for the Backstreet Boys," he submits this evidence to the court of your opinion?this video clip is of him and his ukulele outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art, performing a superb little ditty called "Dolly...
By: Bamboo Nation
|
|
 |
|
 |
