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I CHOREOGRAPH (TO) KIM KARDASHIAN

I’ve been procrastinating about doing this for a while as I sat on the choreography running my mouth instead of my feet. I’m not 16 anymore. I’m more like 16 + a decade + eight years + another decade. I will always choreograph, either for someone or inside my head. My passions are dance choreography and creative writing. With four blogs going and my second book in the works, I’ve got the writing covered. Unfortunately there’s few opportunities for dance in the valley so I’ve decided to start really focusing on getting my moves and steps out there so hopefully someone will see me and need what I have to offer. I’m available!

I’ve taught various styles of technical jazz dance over the years and enjoy moving dancers into new levels of performance. However, I find that I’m a better choreographer than I am teacher. I want to create the moves, teach them to capable performers and clean the rhythms. It’s hard for me to step back into square one and teach basics. But, and that’s a nice firm tight butt, I will and can teach anyone if they in return give me positive attitudes and passion to be there. (Don’t want to shoot myself in the foot!) Give me intermediate to advanced students with energy and pizazz, and we’re gonna rock. Just being honest…

REALITY STAR KIM KARDASHIAN SINGS!

JAM (TURN IT UP)

The song “Shake” (on the YouTube video above) is one I’ve had for a few years. Kim Kardashian claims she had nothing to do with this but my friend DJ Bifford Michael informs me otherwise. Though, Kimmy has taken to the microphone and released “Jam (Turn It Up)” as a first single available here but offers that she’s not starting a singing career. Regardless, I like “Shake” a lot even though it’s been panned considerably. I enjoy what the the beats and grooves offer me as a choreographer (and forever showgirl.)

I felt like this take of the video worked best of the three I filmed. Not bad for an old man. I thought I handled my stamina during the filming very well considering I’m not in class regularly. However, it was after we stopped that it felt as if a small hammer was pounding from the inside of my chest trying to bust through by lungs. Wow… It was intense. But bitch can still move! Trust. Now, that’s the Tea.

BEAR FORCE ONE – FURRY ROCKERS RULE

In this homage to great dance club music from the 80s and 90s, Netherlands-created pop group Bear Force One or Bearforce1 (or even BF1) are here to be heard ever since 2006. As you see here on YouTube – perhaps their most popular video yet, four sexy gay bears singing a medley of hits made famous by Dead or Alive, Yazoo, Jimmy Somerville, Sylvester, Sabrina, Mel and Kim, to name a few! Love this video with our bear brigade wet and shirtless, even in their Lacoste shirts, white chinos and bare feet, dancing and showing off expressing themselves. Not sure if I’d chase the soulful lead singer around with his energetic way of moving his crew into showgirl swagger or the sexy dad in the yellow preppy drag serving up greater bear-loving realness. Nonetheless, they are all sexy, right?! Love their lets-have-a-good-time-but-be-sexy-masculine performance and attitude. Bear Force One can come sing to me anytime. They’re bringing sexy back! TRUST! Bring it this way, please…

LATRICE ROYALE SPEAKS TO HER FANS!

That’s my girl! L-U-V the Doll, Latrice Royale. I’m waiting ever so patiently on answers to interview questions I hope she has time to answer during her hectic schedule of travel and stardom. Will post them as soon as I can… I know that we, her fans, want to know the hard hitting answers on what her life is like now with the show propelling her into another fierce success story, how it felt to be eliminated (I felt a knife in my heart when she “Sashayed, Away,” I was devastated.) and the true Tea or shade about filming reality TV. Can’t wait to see what she can share!

I just think the YouTube clip above is a wonderful and honest moment of Latrice “M*th*r F*ck*ing” Royale speaking to her legions of diehard fans. Since knowing her for a good ten years now it is fabulous to see her blossom into the star she has become. She is forthcoming with the fact she’s lived a hard knock life with a brief time in prison and learning from her lessons of trusting the wrong people. Her heart is huge and grand personality, too! People can relate to her and she is approachable. Not sure if she set out to be a role model for so many, many people, but that’s what she’s become after being on RuPaul’s Drag Race. We’ve loved seeing her week after week beat expectations and shatter molds of what entertainment is.

The glorious image below is her final moment on the Main Stage before leaving. Tears filled eyes, for sure. Something tells me this is only a true beginning for Madame Royale. Keep your eyes on this one. Trust. You better work, Bitch.

WHY “DANCE MOMS: MIAMI” DOESN’T WORK (FOR ME!)

It really is a shame that the one episode I sat through of Dance Moms: Miami turned me off so much we immediately snapped it off the DVR recording schedule and didn’t look back. The premiere that aired on Lifetime TV “Television for Women and the Men who don’t date them” didn’t impress me much. Sure, the dancers are amazing but I found them slightly arrogant. I can’t believe I’ll say this but the second in the series of the franchise doesn’t have the charm of the girls in Abby Lee Miller’s Dance Moms. The Miami moms seem incredibly ruthless and I hope their actions don’t push their children away from them with resentment. I really disliked the moms on Dance Moms: Miami. Truly.

I’d rather wait and see if Abby Lee Miller returns after her emotional breakdown over Maddie’s forgetful breakdown on stage in her spring finale departure in Dance Moms. Wasn’t that something?! She was a hot mess, Miss Abby was. Good for the mothers for standing up (finally!) to her. We get it. Maddie is an amazing performer, I agree, but alright Miss Chloe for the Joffrey Ballet offer! That stirred the drama pot, a bit. Chloe is delightful! Her solo “Black Sun” (I believe it was called) was really sick (in a good way.) I’m so tired of that Cathy from Candy Apples pulling her shade. I’m with Christie, “Go away.”

At the cost of the dance, souls are offered for fame. Times have definitely changed since my modest days of competitive dance and our teachers weren’t as tough as the one’s we see portrayed on screen. They produce winners, yes. Abby, Victor and Angel are all three super choreographers. But I know as a pubescent dancing Steven Michael, I wouldn’t have handled dancing with them very well. I would have been truly put in my place quickly or found my way outside somewhere else. I know studios trained like the ones we see on television it’s just that we wen’t one of them. Sure we went into long hours of rehearsal but we also stuck with the same routines and perfected them. Not change every single competition. That is insane. My hats off to them for the stamina and discipline. And not having a choice.

I wasn’t sure of Victor and Angel’s background so I ball-changed and pirouetted over to their website and checked their Stars Dance Studio. From what I can see on the show Dance Moms: Miami, Angel is the badass tough guy and Victor plays the good cop until pushed. Their dancer’s extensions and technique is ridiculously unreal. Watching their reel off YouTube and their website blew me away. Literally. I kept looking for the wires that held their legs in places that seem impossible. This phenomenal piece of dance in video is crazy sick! Please watch, and believe in true talent. This is it.

MEET JUSTIN UTLEY

I was introduced to Justin Utley through a friend. Not in person but via our close friend the World Wide Web. He forwarded me Justin’s YouTube clips and I thought not only is he talented but sexy, too! I’m looking forward to music from his sophomore album Nothing This Real and will review when I have it in my ears.

New Music from Out Artist
JUSTIN UTLEY

Nothing This Real

Justin is an openly gay singer/songwriter and huge on the Pride circuit. He’s ex-Morman, from Utah, and survived. Mr. Utley also recently won the 2011 OutMusic award for Country/Folk song. Check out his video below and let us know what you think! Introducing Justin Utley…

MATTHEW DUFFY MANS UP

I L-U-V when new artists and entertainers come to me in hopes to be mentioned on my blog. It humbles me and when I am able to help and accommodate I’m happy to. Matthew Duffy is unapologetically one queen who is not afraid of paint and mugging for the camera. Loving it! Here with his latest offering “MAN OUT OF YOU” (all caps) starring the sexy Ronnie Kroell of Make Me a Supermodel on Bravo TV and Playgirl fame. The video toys with the notion of men being many types of men including flamboyant queers, bearded ladies, muscle freaks in lingerie, the dominant man and his submissive counterparts. The song asks begs the answer if one may be many at the same time. I have ALWAYS thought we could. Matthew turns this out and I worship his glasses, both Gaga-esque inspired mirrored and mustache-hanging black rim shades. Check this guy out and let us know what you think! Pass the words…

“Watch me walk, in my heels. Looks as good, as it feels.” WURK IT, MATTHEW!

ONE BOWL OF SUPER MADONNA

It’s early Super Bowl Sunday morning and I figured I’d better toss in my three cents and some change of sense about Madonna’s performance later today at the halftime of the Super Bowl between two teams of beefy men trying to get a leather clutch of air over some line of finality without getting tackled by the opposer. While reading up on kickoff times and how either the Patriots or Giants will reign and (Super Bowl) ring supreme over their nemesis, I see how they are describing Madonna’s performance as “imagined” by Cirque du Soleil and choreographer Jamie King. Guaranteed it will be Spectacular! Spectacular! nonetheless.

Spawning Smash Hits “Borderline” and “Lucky Star”

Album Certified Five Times Platinum!

I see her new song Give Me All Your Luvin’ as the main focus with a serious medley of her biggest hits included somehow. Hopefully, if she does a crazy light show like the Black Eyes Peas tried last year they will all function. That’s all I remember about their show as that one area giving crickets to viewers and fans with not nary a light, nor flicker. I do imagine that the magical formula of Cirque du Soleil will be twisted into a fabulous explosion of gyrations, aerialists, contortionists and at least one (hopefully) calculated surprise of “Oh no she didn’t!” be it wardrobe “re”function, male dancer on male dancer action or maybe she’ll paddle Nicki Minaj’s bootylicious booty. Whatever she does, it will be dissected, worshiped, read, watched, talked about and trending all day and night, trust.

“Ray of Light” and “Frozen” Stand Out on this Album!

This is Madonna at her Best!

When it comes to her new song “Give Me All Your Luvin’,” I have to be honest in saying that it’s nothing we haven’t heard or seen before. I’ve known Madonna since her not so humble beginnings on American Bandstand saying to Dick Clark that she wanted rule the world. That, she has, and still does in many a people’e eye. Madge has had over three decades of chart toppers, millions in album sales, amazing publicity stunts heard round the world and one horribly constructed but incredibly explicit book of stunning pornography of her as the focus appropriately titled Sex. But I have always seen her as the trailblazer and trendsetter I saw her hungry to become from the beginning. And she has become that and more, yes…

Includes the Scandalous and Brilliant “Like a Prayer”

A Favorite Among True Madonna Fans!

Now, honesty must succeed and I say the last effort and her latest of late really don’t have the presence of “Ray of Light” or “Frozen,” “Rain” or “Take a Bow,” “Holiday” or “Like a Prayer.” Among her MANY standouts in her anthology, these were groundbreaking at their time. What she is doing now is not. She seems to be grabbing on what is happening now, which I get. Throw in the hot ticket of the moment. Translation: Nicki Minaj plus M.I.A. Swirl in a catchy beat that is hard to beat and easy to sing. And BAM! New single, back on top. I get it all, trust. I know how the Hollywood Star Machine works and I ain’t mad. But, as an opinionist and gay entertainment journalist I feel I must, too, comment and weigh in. I grew up with her, came out with her and do indeed think she is a force. However, I want more.

I’ve always seen Madonna as a trailblazing leader in the music and celebrity scene and somewhere down the way, through a British accent of authority and clarity, she has lost her voice. She looks amazing in her video and was funny on the Graham Norton Show recently. I do enjoy seeing what she’ll do next. I just hope that it’s as shocking as she once was. Deliver to us, Madonna. And we pray.

ELEPHANT’S “QUEER NATION” SHOCKS

I was contacted by someone who works with these Hollywood-based gay rapping identical twin brothers about giving them some media love. Happy New Year, boys! These boys have such an edge about them and their music that gave me reason to almost not post their video. The first time I sat and listened I thought it was way too much for my website. Their music and sound is quite reminiscent of Eminem ”I Am What I Am” featuring Marilyn Manson. Their explicit lyrics are hardcore and in-your-face without apology but with humor in the moment. Then I listened again…

The second time I starting really digging the beat in hopes to appreciate their effort more. It worked. Now, it’s not for everyone. Sorry to say but that’s the truth. But, if edgy rap lyrics with a queer vernacular entertain you… Just Push Play. For Adult Minds ONLY. 18+

INTRODUCING CLAYTON HAWKINS

Clayton Hawkins contacted me via I AM (which is now my way of saying website) and asked for a shout-out and some media love for his new music. He is a cutey who is dream chasing like the rest of us. Sir Hawkins’ vehicle, singing pop-tastical music, seems to be taking off with his first video The Middle on YouTube and a gay club performance circuit starting early next year. Now, watching the video it seems that he’s really into himself since he is the only guy around a ton of girls, gals and a hippy chick with kool-aid Gaga-inspired blue colored hair running around Hollywood being really silly. I’m kidding, totes! But, not at the same time. Clayton has a growing Twitter following and at 22 years young he is destined for celebrity and fame. Think it as if Katy Perry and Jonathan Knight of N.K.O.T.B. had an offspring! Cute, right?! I think so…

Check him out and support his music! I’ll look forward to seeing and hearing more from this young lad very, very soon! EARS OPEN, people!

PETE FINLAND MAKES MY HEART FLUTTER

Just wanted to introduce a sexy buddy of mine I’ve known for a good few years. Pete Finland is one hot man and as you can see by the looks of things he has that confidant swagger in his eyes that turns me out and his fans alike. You may have seen his numerous films playing the role of “Eric York” or Jawbone commercial on YouTube. Follow Pete on Twitter and see for yourself what this sexy stud is all about, muscles and all man! Just wanted to get his scorching image on my website for all of you viewers to drool like I do. Please enjoy devilishly! I do, and have! Don’t let his gruff exterior fool you! He is a BIG Teddy Bear! LUV U MAN! X