1) Mary J. Blige has done a version of “One” with U2, which since it sounds 70% like the original I thought was a huge turd (this was the night before Grammy noms I think)
2) Prince had a recent single that sounds like “Raspberry Beret”
3) a tAtU video will be immediately turned off
4) Technology enables Paris Hilton to sound just like any other pop-dross princess
things i learned in a gay video bar in baltimore, md: montages of cut-up footage of mommie dearest set to the tune of “mama mia” are always funny
mayb change thread to things we learnt in gayvideo bars
Things that I learned in a gay (video?) bar in Madison, WI: a bad techno remix of “Good Times” is like an oasis among other bad techno remixes
what is a video bar? srsly, dudes, i live in the sticks
The only video bar I’ve been in was a gay bar — I think the two are inextricable.
a bar where instead of a Dj playing music it’s an endless stream of pop music videos with the music playing loud on a dancefloor. So people watch videos while dancing. The Castro has a couple- Badlands, Midnight Sun.
where do y’all stand on the house remixes of Fleetwood Mac’s “Sarah”? For a while they were in every goddamned gay bar I went to. How about the deep house graverob of Nina Simone’s “Turn Me On”? Truly, the list is endless . . .
huh. who knew. you gays are crazy!
i just learned that one of the bars here in town “used to be” a gay bar which was both :D and UH, because this is (a) a small town and (b) in Western Montana, a place not generally known for opening its arms to the gay community
Thing I learned in a gay bar—knock before entering toilet cubicles.
The Green Lantern in DC was playing some remix of the B-52s that sounded like the gals were being drowned. (I think it was “Love Shack” w/ Fred cut out — makes sense, Fred does not inspire bonerism.)
Also, if you’re lucky, the bar will actually be playing the AUDIO of the videos they’re showing. (I was 1–1 on this score.)
The only video bar I’ve been in was a gay bar — I think the two are inextricable.
This isn’t true, but I think the non-gay video bars are all outside of the United States.
It actually makes a certain amount of sense because of that specifically gay pop diva adulation thing- so when Janet’s song comes on you can dance to Janet and dish about her nails and her implants, when Mariah is on you can get down to her song and also discuss the anal bleaching rumor etc.
gay video bars also tend to have cultish nights where certain tv shows with a high camp factor are watched with cocktails- I never actually made it to “Golden Girls” night at the Midnight Sun but apparently it was quite festive if you like that sort of thing.
“I think it was ”Love Shack“ w/ Fred cut out — makes sense, Fred does not inspire bonerism.”
:( why you make Fred cry
I thought the Midnight Sun’s whole thing was TV shows (Ellen! Simpsons! Melrose Place!)
How about the deep house graverob of Nina Simone’s “Turn Me On”? Truly, the list is endless . . .
oh yeah, they played this. i thought the video was actually kinda fun but the remix was godawful.
i was surprised by how many songs were played non-remixed (justin, beyonce, nelly furtado).
a place not generally known for opening its arms to the gay community
arms??
When I went to gay clubs back in the early 90s they used to have videos playing that had nothing to do with the music playing. It was weird but sometimes funny.
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alright, let’s just say Fred’s voice apparently does not prep for bonerism the way the pop divas do (but not for me). It was all like nude nuns and dead kittens to me.
they used to have videos playing that had nothing to do with the music playing
I’m now thinking of The Flashing Blade, overdubbed with silliness on kids Saturday morning TV back in the 80s.
when Mariah is on you can get down to her song and also discuss the anal bleaching rumor
?!
Since gay guys like The Golden Girls, does that mean that lesbians watch Coach?
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Uh, I was referring to a rather antiquated news item there. Apparently Mariah’s publicist heard that Vanity Fair was going to do some big takedown article about Mariah, and in a goofed attempt at a pre-emptive strike the publicist fired off an email saying “we want to absolutely and categorically deny the rumor that Mariah has the hairs around her anus bleached”. The editors at Vanity Fair were taken aback but promptly printed the email itself in the magazine as the ultimate in TMI.
None of the gay bars in Miami have video screens; for audio-visual enjoyment we depend on the groaned exertions of the Nicaraguan guy in a tanktop shaking his ass to an outdated Tenaglia mix.
Well that made me cringe.
what, Mariah’s anus or the thought of sweaty go go dancer boys?
i’m going to go with both
Y’all need to get “out” more, obviously.
Or see a specialist about that cringe. It makes for bad posture.
yeah these are perfectly common big city sights
though i’m not sure if i’ve been to any of baltimore’s particularly sleazy gay bars yet
All notable tracks from the 50+ year history of the Eurovision Song Contest have been covering by drag queens.
new order works at leather bar.
NIN works at weho pretty boy bar.
television, talking heads and eno work at gay/mixed bar, only because of me + jukebox.
things i’ve learned from having control of the video monitor at a gay bar while DJing: women really, really don’t like watching m/m rimjob scenes in pornos. (well, those ones didn’t anyway)
I learned that Robyn (the “Show Me Love” one) once made a video that was a blatant homage to the traffic jam scene of Godard’s Week End, I shit you not. It wasn’t some kind of cute coincidence, no, it was shot almost exactly the same (roughly the same camera angle, height, speed), the main difference being that what’s holding up all the cars turns out to be not a dead family but a couple kissin’ in a car, awwww.
I learned that Babyface made a version of “Whip Appeal” where he sings “whip that pussy” over and over again.
I learned that, suprisingly, there’s a Hi-NRG remix of “The Trolley Song” out there.
I’ve learned that people at the sleazier bars don’t really mind it if you put “Death Disco” on the jukebox.
(Jesus H., I meant Robin S., not Robyn.)
I’ve learned that people at the sleazier bars don’t really mind it if you put “Death Disco” on the jukebox.
A “sleazier” bar here would play Nine Inch Nails’ “Closer” and require some sort of Max von Sydow death’s-head clergyman wildly making signs of the cross outside.
yeah these are perfectly common big city sights
“Big cities” usually have gay video bars.
the original anal bleaching rumor was about Lara Flynn Boyle, and she was having the skin bleached, not the hair
I learned that on Fametracker about 5 or 6 years ago, and not in a gay video bar, though
i’ve learned at the Metro that the scissor sisters make amazing videos and that even though that place always looks packed (no homo) it’s pretty lame on the inside and they fake this crowded feeling by having all 10 of its patrons outside on the balcony.
xpost Of course you could just flaunt your vagina (and anus) like Britney Spears does. No need to send off an email to any magazine.
notable tracks from the 50+ year history of the Eurovision Song Contest
There are some?
hehe, joseph, I would like to observe those women next time you have such control.
“Waterloo”!
OK, that’s like the one ABBA song I like.
“Volare”
well i’m DJing at a non-gay-bar tomorrow night in wburg and i think i have control of the video monitor. whether or not i play anything with a high rimjob content is up in the air.
Okay I would like to make Jess prove his assertion that Mariah’s anus is a common sight at gay video bars.