Random Musings on Liza, Brooklyn, the News, and Summer

Ever feel like there's some sort of energy field that surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together to act in synchronicity? Oh, yeah, that's the Force. Anyway...

So a friend of mine invited me to go see Liza Minelli at a free show in Brooklyn last week... It's part of a series that's goin' on this summer. I'm not a huge Liza fan, per se, but it would've been fun to see just for the ridiculous spectacle of it all; Liza Herself, Brooklyn, free, the NYC/Brooklyn Gay Scene, etc. I didn't go, 'cause we ended up doing karaoke instead -- that's another entry. Anyway, I'm a bit disappointed that we didn't check it out now... Why?

Found out that Christopher Cross was a special guest... One of my favorite one-hit wonders, with a song from probably one of the only Liza movies that I've ever sat through.

BTW, I just tracked this video down, and it frakkin' RULEZ:


So how did I become privy to all this information? Well, I heard that Huey Lewis is performing on Thurs 8/21 - saw him a few years back, and it was a super fun show. Now here's where that "Force thing" comes in: the Back to the Future movies have been on rotation on HBO lately, along with the underrated American Psycho (a.k.a. the Dark Knight!) so I've been inundated with Huey recently. The movie's been in the news a bit lately too, because of John Edwards' girlfriend (Gawker) That Patrick Bateman really understood the band:


On top of all that, there's a movie out there that I'm DYING to see (perhaps this afternoon) -- it's become an 80s summer with Huey and his News releasing a theme song to a big summer movie... Wha? (AllAboutJazz)

Wow... That's totally a move I'd make if I was making a movie...

Billy on Oprah

Billy Joel was on Oprah this afternoon -- I'm glad the TiVo caught it, 'cause I was about to watch this evening's competition on Jeopardy!, and TiVo auto-recorded it on re-broadcast.

He opened up the show with Only the Good Die Young, which was interesting, 'cause his playing was a bit sloppy in the intro. Then I noticed he had his teeth totally done. They're perfect. I have no issue with that, but he got his eyebrows done, and that's a problem.

Lest you think I'm a hater, I'm actually a big fan. I've seen him like 25 times (plus Shea in the Spring), played his music on every format ever (45, LP, cassette, cassingle, CD, MP3), and perform (well, 'perform') his music on the piano/keyboard. I own everything he's ever commercially recorded, and a bunch of bootlegs.

So I'm a fan.

So why does it make me wince a bit when he's rockin' this look and appearing on Oprah (who I also dig), and they're promoing a segment about meeting Katie Lee and take a tour of his NYC pad later in the show?

I'll check back, apres-Oprah.

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