I've got to do some living

Blessed relief - in the form of a looming weekend - is in sight, dear reader! We need to let our hair down...

...and so we will - we're off again tonight to Wilton's Music Hall [for the third time in as many weeks - see here and here] with Hils and Crog for an evening with London Gay Big Band and their show A Night At The Musicals!

Having spotted that none other than Miss Alison Jiear is one of the featured vocalists, I hope against all hope that this particular number - an all-time fave (especially for the faboo video that some clever bugger put together for it) from Jerry Springer: The Opera, in which she starred - gets an outing!

Alison Jiear - I Just Wanna Fucking Dance

Have a great weekend, dear reader!

I'm tired of laughing and I'm tired of crying

Another day, another household name gone - this time, it's the turn of the self-described "talk show host and ringmaster of civilisation's end", the notorious Mr Jerry Springer.

I never watched his maelstrom of a show, of course, but we did warm to him somewhat when we saw his appearance on Who Do You Think You Are? - during which we discovered that not only was he born in London (in Highgate tube station, to be accurate, which was being used as an air raid shelter at the time), but that his family were Jewish refugees who fled the Nazis, and we saw his anguish at finding out the fate of those who they had to leave behind.

So salacious, however, were all the "trailer-trash" fights and the sordid insights into the bizarre lives of the guests who were central to his show, it (and he) became the subject of an opera. And, from it, one of my absolute all-time favourite anthems!

I Just Wanna Fucking Dance

Thank Disco Jerry Springer It's Friday!

I don't give a fuck no more
If people think I am a whore
I just wanna dance
Oh, I just wanna dance

Things are going bad for me
I am feeling sad for me
So I just wanna dance
Oh, I just wanna dance

I'm tired of laughing and I'm tired of crying,
I'm tired of failing and I'm tired of all this trying,
I wanna do some living
Cause I've done enough dying
I just wanna dance
I just wanna fucking dance!

Nothing more for me to say
It's time for me to run away
Walking through the door
I don't need this anymore.

And now my life is come with me
Finally, I'm breaking free
It's all I've waited for
I've never felt so sure.

I'm tried of laughing
Tired of lying
I'm tired of failing
And I'm tired of all this crying
I wanna do some living
Cos I've done enough dying
And I just wanna dance

Whoa! I'm tired of waiting
Tired of hoping
And I'm tired of losing
I'm tired of being broken
I've got to do some living
Cos I've had enough of dying
And I just wanna dance
I just wanna fucking dance!

Indeed.

Have a great (May Day Bank Holiday) weekend, dear reader!

I just wanna dance

We have another Fabulous at 50 birthday today - dancer-turned-TV-chef Paul Mercurio, most famously the star of the sublimely camp Strictly Ballroom, and one-time possessor of the nicest arse on screen.

Any excuse, really, to post this magnificent classic montage (that includes scenes from Strictly Ballroom) - I Just Wanna Fucking Dance!

I Just Wanna Fucking Dance

Paul Joseph Mercurio (born 31st March 1963)

I’ve got to do some living, 'cos I've had enough of dying

Apparently it is Jerry Springer's 65th birthday today. Now I do not rate the man that greatly, despite having seen his human side as he explored his traumatic past in the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are? , which was quite a revelation. His on-screen persona as host of what can only be best described as a televisual equivalent of the Roman Coliseum was reprehensible, and he has made a significant contribution to the (loathe though I am to use the phrase) "dumbing down" of TV.

I don't even like the pastiche Jerry Springer The Opera that much.

Except perhaps for this track! Thank heavens for the Dutch video artist who constructed this genius of a video to accompany what is without a doubt a fantabulosa number, sung by diva extraordinaire Alison Jiear...

I Just Wanna Fucking Dance

A tiger is a tiger not a lamb

Apparently on TV tonight was a programme where John Barrowman agreed to subject himself to all sorts of humiliating "investigations" in an attempt to find out if there is a reason why he is gay. I refused to watch it.

I do, however, have some thoughts on the matter - what makes me who I am..?

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Liza Minnelli - Mein Herr

Alison Jiear - I Just Wanna Fucking Dance

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