Joe Lavelle
@joelavellesongs
Songwriter in Los Angeles. Special fondness for my once adopted home of New Orleans. Supporter of indie film and small local cinemas. Supporter of local live entertainment. Will answer to He or She pronouns, They isn’t really my thing but I’m fine with it.
Even before To Wong Foo, he had been gender bending on stage for years. And filmed versions of these stage shows were regularly being played on Comedy Central during a pivotal moment in my personal exploration of the gender spectrum. Crush fully understood, fully endorsed.
Humbly submitted for consideration, Isabella Rossellini in Death Becomes Her.
Whenever BlueSky starts a “my bisexual awakening” discussion, it tends to mostly be women recalling a moment in formative years taking notice of some iconic hot woman. My first celebrity boy crush was early 90s MTV VJ Steve Isaacs. *swoon*
Nothing says my sense of American-ness is tied to my sense of Whiteness like celebrating American Patriotic Zeal with Swedish Fish.
“When you’re being inundated with all this Fourth of July brouhaha, don’t forget what you’re celebrating, and that’s the fact that a bunch of slave-owning aristocratic white males didn’t want to pay their taxes.”
FYI: Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass is the funniest movie I’ve seen in a long time and probably the best feature film to come from a collaboration of members of MTV’s The State. Wide release is July 10th.
Name a fictional musician/band that *would* play at the Great American State Fair.
So, if you want to know whether or not Big Tony has been injured… call this number, I guess?
Establishing a new Cinco de Mayo tradition of going to a French Bakery and defeating a Napoleon.
Songkran Festival in Los Angeles Thai Town on Hollywood Blvd today! I look forward to this every year!
So disappointing. Although Master Splinter mostly provides his boys with sage & nurturing guidance, he clearly still maintains some pent up hostility towards his successful cousin Chuck E. Cheese. This wayward business venture he’s set the Turtles on is a clear manifestation of his petty resentment.
Julia Ducournau at a Los Angeles screening of her new film Alpha! Loved it. Probably her most accessible film… but that doesn’t mean she’s gone normie. Artistically, it fits in very well with her other works.
One shudders to imagine what unspeakable tragedy befell Rail Safety Month that no other month since that fateful September has been granted a theme.
Hey, Kids, today is #BandcampFriday When you buy music from bandcamp today, your money goes directly to the artists you want to support! Today, I bought music from Pacifica, CARR, @charlotlaveau.bsky.social, and @johnelliott.bsky.social!
Happy 2/27 everybody! Celebrate with an apartment building full of neighbors you love! I’ll be breaking out the DVD set a little later for my annual 227 Marathon! (or, should I say, “Mary-thon”? “Marla-thon”?)
Hey, @pftompkins.bsky.social Werner Herzog is going to answer questions about his new film and, time permitting, the Silverlake Trader Joe’s this Thursday at the Century City AMC!
First time in 11 years I’ve had the opportunity to recycle this joke, only now it’s not fun anymore.
Trying to learn a bit about sports. So, if my read is correct, the Sea is beating Nebraska 3 to zero. Is that right? Nebraska probably never should have challenged the Sea to begin with. No landlocked state would ever stand a chance.
Mel F couldn’t have been Sexy Spice, that was original Geri’s name. (can’t believe I’ve found an opportunity to share this knowledge) Screen shot from Wikipedia to back me up: