Jay Brannan has returned from his worldwide tour

The man and music that I am an absolute dork for has returned from the overseas stretch of his Fat Is A Feeling Not A Shape Tour in which he has already visited a ton of other Cities in the USA, Canada, all across Europe, Australia (which yes, Governor Palin, is both a country and a continent), South America (a continent), and South Africa, (a country). They also have penguins, (pic to right), lol!

The following are the remaining Dates for Fat Is A Feeling Not A Shape Tour and other dates will be added as the information becomes available.

NOVEMBER

08th Northampton, MA Iron Horse Music Hall
09th Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda's
13th Orlando, FL Anti*Pop 08 / Gibson Showroom
15th Boulder, CO Club 156
(NOTE: VENUE CHANGE!)
*Meadowlark tickets will be honored*
17th San Diego, CA Delta Room @ HouseOBlues
18th San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill
20th Vancouver, BC Biltmore Cabaret
22nd Houston, TX Jet Lounge
23rd Austin, TX Cactus Cafe

DECEMBER

12th New York, NY Joe's Pub (sold out)
14th New York, NY Joe's Pub

As always please check out F6's LINKS PAGE for everything Jay Brannan and scroll through the video player at the top of this page to follow along the tour and view some of the other Dorks For Jay Brannan fan videos and commentary. Lastly check out GODDAMNED his first independent released CD and purchase it for 12 dollars or on iTunes for 10 dollars.

200th post! Let's Do The Topher Time Again!!

.... An Introduction?

Just as I promised in the post on the fifth of this month, (8th ip/4th pic) in preparation of this event - our 200th post, Christopher Bennett, a local author, former journalist, budding musician, artist, and social and political cartoonist has agreed to bring back his illustrated views on the world today. I asked him to write a small biography.

I could have very easily reminisced about some of the crazy things I have experienced along with him, Mark Stevens, his partner of nine years, and Mark's good friend from college, Dave, whom has shared residency with the couple and their two ornery cats for years. Mark also writes @ Welcome To My World occasionally, and has previously been spotlighted on F6 last Christmas/Yule.

Christopher obliged my request with the following:

Christopher "Topher" Bennett is a thirty-something self-taught talented artist that feels no need to impress self-important gobs who can't sell their own art and therefore have to become low-quality school teachers and/or frustrated art critics..."Topher" is a rebel, a free-spirit, a free-thinker, an individualist, an anarchist, liberal, pagan, bisexual... "Topher" is in touch with his inner-child and is not afraid to dress-up and play every once in a while... "Topher" grew up in an abusive dysfunctional family he was adopted into and once lived in small-minded small town USA (Gas City, IN - It really exists!)...."Topher's" life experiences have led him down the path he currently walks and have made him the person he is today.

AND NOW, WITHOUT FURTHER ACCOLADE,
F6, LET'S DO THE TOPHER TIME, AGAIN!!

"Mary and Mohammed are screaming through the clouds,
for you to lay your goddamned arms down, rip your bigot roots up from the Earth,
and salt the goddamned ground."
~ Jay Brannan, Goddamned
(c) 2007 Great Depression Publishing

Jay Brannan: Goddammed and Holding Trevor premiere this week

Two days ago Jay Brannan's new album GODDAMNED came out for worldwide distribution on iTunes and a hard copy will be available when he begins his tour around the 15th of this month. Here is what Jay wrote to fans on MySpace and everywhere else too:

Well this is it, Release day! The big moment that...I've....been waiting for. My first full album is available on iTunes NOW!!! Yes, that means worldwide. There are 6 tracks from the album on my myspace page for your listening pleasure, and here's a long video of me talking and playing an all-new song from the album. To watch Jay sing a Norwegian lullaby in Norwegian click here.

In other news about Jay, a couple years back, after SHORTBUS (which has been the source of a huge debate locally) ended production Jay Brannan (as Jake) and his best friend Brent Gorski (Trevor) got together and created with the help of Co-Producer Rosser Goodman and the beautiful Mellisa Searing (Andie), hottie Eli Kranski (Ephram), and farm boi Christopher Wyllie (as Darrell) round out the cast in this indie film HOLDING TREVOR which debuts in certain venues on Independence Day.

Everybody’s looking for something and Trevor Holden (Brent) is desperately looking for himself in all the wrong places (yet still seems to come up short) …or maybe he is just looking in all the wrong people. It’s pretty safe to say that he won’t find enlightenment in his strung-out boyfriend Darrell, as his oldest friend, Trevor feels a responsibility to help Darrell in his latest attempt at sobriety much to the dismay of his own best friends Jake and Andie.

Although after just witnessing his boyfriend Darrell overdose on heroin, Trevor is finally ready to call it quits. And just when he does, he meets the ever so charming and handsome Ephram. Despite the well-meaning advice offered by his sexually pervasive best friend and his self-righteous roommate Andie, simply being everything that Darrell is not wins Ephram a number of points up-front. As Trevor’s relationship with Ephram quickly progresses, it starts to put a strain on his friendships with Jake and Andie.

As the story progresses Jake (Jay), the self-proclaimed sex-addict, is starting to worry a little bit about his past catching up with him, namely in the form of HIV. And Andie, who drunkenly ends her sexual dry spell with a one-night stand, realizes that Jake might have less to worry about than she does. Meanwhile, Ephram accepts a job thousands of miles away in New York City, and he wants Trevor to go with him. Now, what started out as Trevor’s own personal existential journey, turns into a path that will lead everyone to what is most important: themselves and each other.



Holding Trevor is continually poignant, relentlessly self-deprecating, and just the type of cerebral dark comedy that can speak directly to the twenty-somethings of today while letting other generations in on the joke.

F6 LINKS & DIRECTORY: Other blogs on the bandwagon include:
GAYTRIX by Tom, with some awesome R Rated clips from the movie;
OBLIQUITY65 by ARG, with some more info on the actual production;
And just to provide the alternative perspective as is the F6 editorial policy
Kirby @ Movie Dearest copied Rev. Chris Carpenter's review of the film.

PHOTO SOURCE: last two photos are by ADAM BOUSKA

F6's Editor is a dork for Jay Brannan: To visit his links page click here;
To view the title track for GODDAMNED, Jay's new album, click here;
and for the song Lower My Gun, used on the first trailer (above), click here.

Happy National Coming Out Day Everyone

In honor of the twentieth anniversary of National Coming Out Day I leave you with this song by Jay Brannan called EVER AFTER HAPPILY, and the HRC Tribute Video Along with another young mans Coming Out Story, followed by a special surprise. Enjoy!



The Human Rights Campaign Tribute Video


And Sergie's Coming Out Story


Finally this is Jay's latest video GODDAMNED


Here are the words for both songs

Ever After Happily

verse
the smell of a candle freshly blown out the light of the clock shines on my skin like a sickly green moonlight on a pale white day's decay i try to wipe you from my memory but your face won't fade away

another boy kissed me today i laughed in his mouth it's not funny that i'm not kissing you i'm not laughing because we fell through it's the stories they told us when we were younger about life and love how our happiness lies in the hands of another who'd fly in on the wings of a dove

chorus
well, that's the way the fairy tale goes boy meets girl and they wed with roses but that's not the way it seems to be and i'm pissed that they lied to me cuz boy meets boy and boy runs away or girl meets girl and she's afraid to stay we end up home alone watching court tv not living ever after happily

verse
you're right you are prince charming onto the next princess when he's bored with the last he's the hero of every story he's got his chapter in every girl's book he walks away with all the honor and glory but i wonder what else he took

goodbye, prince charming and drown sleeping beauty shove cinderella's slipper where the sun don't shine toss the little mermaid back out to sea cuz the fairy godmother had to perform another abortion today and the seven dwarves live in the forest, of course, cuz they were driven away but this part of the story could spark a cultural rage so at the sound of the tone we just turn the page

chorus

outro
starting today we'll tell the story my way the king of imperfection takes back the prince of mistakes

music and lyrics by jay brannan © 2004 Great Depression Publishing (BMI)

Goddamned

i'm marching to zion a camera in my hand i hear people cryin' dyin' for this blood-stained land the streets of old jerusalem are lined with souvenirs and those buying them it sounds cold, but i cannot see how this theme park has shaped history

chorus
cuz virgins don't have babies and water isn't wine and there's a holy spirit maybe but she would never rent a room with walls built by mankind mary and mohammed are screaming through the clouds for you to lay your goddamned arms down rip your bigot roots up from the earth and salt the goddamned ground

stand in line patiently to supercharge your rosary or stuff your prayers inside this wall we once had god trapped in this great hall but we've been cast out from this place they say a prophet floated from here to outer space am i crazy? maybe it's me but this all sounds like mythology

chorus

bridge
zeus was afraid of his girlfriend so he swallowed her in bed then he bore forth athena when they cracked open his head her brother tried to rape her athena got away and when his seed hit the ground the grass gave birth that day now we all freely admit this story's clearly bullshit no one would lay down their life or start a war for it so throw your stones and pray you'll be rewarded someday i hope it all goes your way but something tells me no one's coming to save you no one's coming to save you no one's coming to save you save yourselves from turning earth into hell

outro
no one's coming to save you no one's coming to save you no one's coming to save you no one's coming to save you mary and mohammed are screaming through the clouds for you to lay your goddamned arms down rip your bigot roots up from the earth and salt the goddamned ground

music and lyrics by jay brannan © 2007 Great Depression Publishing (BMI)