RhymePhile's Rat Race

I don't seem to have an icon to use for this post that is gay yet non-sexual. LOL. Such is the state of my teh sexxxy icons, I suppose.

Here is what all you musical/gay film with cute boys/Shakespeare (really!) lovers out there need to add to your queues for June 9: Were The World Mine.

It's a modern, semi-musical with a gay twist, inspired by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Timothy (Tanner Cohen) is the lone gay boy in his all-male prep school, and when his eccentric drama teacher encourages him to try out for the play, strange things happen. Timothy gets the role of Puck, and while studying the play, discovers the ingredients for a Love Potion. Using his flower, he squirts the magical potion into the eyes of school rugby star and unrequited crush Jonathan (Nathaniel David Becker), who immediately falls in love with him. Then, to make others understand how he's been ostracized and been made fun of for being gay, squirts the flower on everyone in town to turn them all gay (which, truthfully, is the weakest and silliest part of the film).

Now, the movie itself is okay with some minor weak points, but what really sets it apart is the fantastic (and I mean FANTASTIC) musical score, as written by Tim Sandusky.

And, for your convenience in case you're intrigued, here's the title song Were The World Mine, a duet between Cohen and Becker, in MP3. I paid for it and downloaded it from Amazon, DRM-free. No more iTunes for me. Enjoy!

Also, not really related, but last night I had a dream that my dream self was having a dream with me in the middle of an episode of Supernatural. Get that? I don't do things easy, apparently -- even my subconscious is dreaming of dreaming! It did have a totally awesome ending in which Sam used his powers on Dean, who basically freaked out and ran, so that was cool!

By now everyone and their brother have watched Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Well, I hope you have. If you haven't, you can visit iTunes to watch the whole thing, or, y'know, obtain it via other means *coff*.

BUT! I thought maybe some of you might be interested in a few MP3s I made of my favorite songs from the video/blog/musical. The songs don't have official names yet, so I guessed. You'll notice an abrupt ending to the first song. That's because in the video Dr. Horrible's friend Moist comes in and interrupts the song. It's complete.

Laundry Day, the first song in the musical
http://www.sendspace.com/file/tlaa1l

On The Rise, in which Dr. Horrible embraces evil, a duet with actress Felicia Day (my favorite!)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/lyj7ln

Brand New Day, when Dr. Horrible realizes what he must do to Captain Hammer
http://www.sendspace.com/file/86f0is

The Finale, the last song in the musical
http://www.sendspace.com/file/r232nc


These were made by converting the video files on YouTube (uploaded by "Ryhthmdefined2") to MP3 with Mediaconverter.org, a free online app that works wonderfully.

Also! Neil Patrick Harris as the Shoe Fairy on Sesame Street's new season, starting August 11.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/x1057v
You can see the video at YouTube here.

Enjoy!

Note to self: Stop watching SciFi Channel's GhostHunters before going to bed. My mind gets carried away with itself.

Last week BoingBoing linked to this really fantastic mash-up of snippets of dialogue from Disney's Alice in Wonderland coupled with trip-hop, electronica-ish music. The artist's name is Pogo, and you can listen to the transcendent track, "Alice" at his LastFM page right here. If you like, download the other three for free. They're wonderful.

Also, before this weekend, does anyone want here are the MP3s of Lee Tergesen singing from Oz. I can upload them today. Those would be "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good" from Season 1's "To Your Health," the "Days Like These" reprise from Season 5's "Variety," and the Beecher-Schillinger duet, "Last Duet," also from "Variety." Lemme know.

Here, I just did it.

"I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good": http://www.sendspace.com/file/quq1gt

"Days Like These": http://www.sendspace.com/file/9i33cz

"Last Duet": http://www.sendspace.com/file/4mh312

Okay, I finally had time this afternoon to play around with my soundcard and figure out how to hook up my cassette player to the computer, in order to bring you a bit of the introduction to the audiobook Touching Spirit Bear as read by our man Lee Tergesen. Wow, that was a long sentence.

It's an MP3, but please be aware we're going from tape to digital, which means the quality isn't fantastic. It is in stereo though, which it wasn't when I first started. *shrug* I figured it out.

It's a little over 5 megs. Thanks to scissorknot, I uploaded it to a site where you can simply press play without having to download it, in case you just want to hear the little bit of him reading. Of course you also have the option of downloading it too. Oh, and if you're running Firefox, you might want to switch to IE to listen online. I can't seem to get Firefox to work with it, while IE is fine.

Listen to Lee read a bit from Touching Spirit Bear here

I tried another upload service and it was like poo. Poo, I tells ya! I'm sick of how slow YouSendIt is, so now I'm trying it with SendSpace. Everything is in MP3. Here we go again...

Season 1 "To Your Health"
Beecher singing "I Got it Bad and That Ain't Good"
http://www.sendspace.com/file/rqduro

Season 4 - "Famous Last Words"
Commentary 1, in which Lee Tergesen explains to Dean Winters and Tom Fontana why he loves to smell men and why the smell of men is "like snowflakes." If you download any of these, download this one, because just the sound of Lee's voice will crack you the hell up.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ztuphv

Commentary 2, in which Dean wonders if Lee and Chris Meloni "really are gay, right?" after Meloni leaves a voicemail on Lee's cellphone. This is where you can hear the famous "LEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
http://www.sendspace.com/file/pnzqdi

Season 5 - "Variety"
Beecher and Schillinger's "Last Duet." Listen to Lee hit that high note!
http://www.sendspace.com/file/xxsfbv

Beecher's reprise of Sister Pete's song earlier in the ep, "Days Like These."
http://www.sendspace.com/file/lo5g5o

Father Mukada singing a bit of Tori Amos' "Leather." B.D. Wong nails it beautifully.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/qm3tpf

Season 5 - "Impotence"
Hear Dean Winters singing parts of "Summer Lovin'" from Grease to Tom Fontana when Keller and Beecher kiss.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/4uipdi

Hear Dean discuss who was the on-set fluffer the day of the infamous Nun Strip.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/hd5g5t

And because maybe you'd like to hear Keller say "Show me your tits" like I do when I turn on my computer, here's that soundbyte.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/3i1pao

Enjoy!

Okay, so I have to re-re-upload the Oz MP3s I made because although that previous site worked for sending, it obviously didn't work for allowing people access to the files. Sheesh.

I do, however, need a better way to send stuff than YouSendIt because it bugs the hell outta me and is slower than shit. Anyone have any good suggestions?

Once I find a better way to upload the stuff I'll send the links again.

This is for badtyler and whomever else is going crazy over that fantastic song FX has been playing during the Nip/Tuck promos.

It's Goldfrapp's "Strict Machine."

Download that puppy here and imagine Christian Troy nekkid, because that's what I do.

(Link courtesy of music maestro Bill my cubemate)

Someone mentioned a song by the Christian hard-rock band Three Days Grace called "Animal I Have Become" on one of the SVU comms yesterday because it sounded like Elliot, and I wanted to hear what it sounded like. My brother is into that type of music (which I'm not, incidentally, but if it's SVU-ish in any way I'm there) and it does indeed sound exactly like Elliot.

I got my brother to upload it here:
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=2B16C5C759F72FE7

I wouldn't go and buy their whole album, but this song is pretty damn good because it's driving and angry-sounding, kinda like Ell this season. I'd love for someone to vid it.

Moving along on my Meloni screencapping extravaganza, we've now hit the comedy Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. For those of you who haven't seen the film, Chris Meloni plays this bizarre character named Randy -- "but everyone calls me Freakshow."



I capped, um, 67 images! Yeah, I know. And he's in the film for like 10 minutes total.

I also made MP3s of two different commentaries for the film, in which the writers, and the director and stars talk about how awesome Chris was.

( More examples and links to MP3s behind the cut )

I kept meaning to do this. I have yet to make the screencaps of the movie, but I thought I'd create an MP3 of the song "The Devil is Everywhere" that Randy, a.k.a. Freakshow, sings in the film Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. Of course Chris Meloni plays Freakshow, and in the commentary the creators say that Chris came up with the song on the spot and that everyone on the set was singing it for days afterward.

I've had to play this song over and over to get the recording right, and I swear every time I do I still crack up laughing.

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=8F8F78D0006AF41D

Okay, so after a decidedly frustrating afternoon of searching for a freeware program that would allow me to copy sound files from DVD and convert them into MP3, I simply went back to my trusty ol' iMac and did it from there. *sigh* I don't want to pay $29.95 to take audio clips on my PC! Sheesh. The freeware I have for the Mac works like a charm. And also: FREE.

The reason for this hunt? I wanted to hear Teh Meloni when I turned on my computer. *Rhyme giggles*

That previous rambling paragraph is to offer up this little sound file. I made a .wav of Keller saying "Show me your tits" for my Windows startup sound!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!

Now every time Meloni's pretty face comes up on my wallpaper, I get to hear him too.

Of course, the rest of my Flist benefits:
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=06CC258A28C82DF3

Good for 7 days. If it expires and someone wants it, lemme know.

And if someone has a request from Oz, let me know that too. I can make either .wavs or .MP3s of your favorite dialogue!

I finally got around to recording the two short commentaries by Tom Fontana and Dean Winters for the Oz Season 5 episode "Impotence," with Dean humming "Summer Nights" from Grease when Keller and Beecher reunite, and Dean discussing who the fluffer was on set during the exchange between Keller and Sister Pete. Heh, "Show me your tits!" Classic.

Commentary when Keller returns from court and strips nekkid in front of Sister Pete:
http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=09PIXPGO1389U065XI8ZCWC7YE

Commentary during the Beecher/Keller reunion with Dean hilariously singing from "Summer Nights":
http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1PGY3XUDT1D6M092GHTPEQD23R

Enjoy!

I got this new CD today from one of the music reviewers in work. It's folk and Gaelic, and there's this song on there that when I heard it I immediately thought of Mulder and Krycek.

You can download it here
http://s55.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=35715Z7TA3WW11KWLQ3Y2OAZOE

Who knows, you might be inspired to write something. It's certainly going through my brain.

Here are the lyrics:

Persuasion
written by Richard Thompson and Tim Finn
sung by Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh on her album Daybreak

You and I
Tempted by the promise of a different life
Time has fled
There's a constant battle running through my head

I don't know what to do
'Cause I still believe
After all the foolish things you put me through
I could always make a start on something new
And I'll always be someone who's open to...
Persuasion

Blind romance
There'll be no half measures given half a chance
But we never learn
Trusting in the fire while the cruel flames burn
And we need to rebuild

What was never there, what got left behind
After all the foolish things that we've been through
I could always make a start on something new
And I'll always be someone who's open to...
Persuasion

And it's written in my heart
So that everyone can see it
And it's written in my soul
After all I still believe it
I still believe it
I still believe it

I don't know what to do
'Cause I still believe
After all the foolish things that we've been through
I could always make a start on something new
And I'll always be someone who's open to
Persuasion
Persuasion

More MP3s for you...

badtyler mentioned Father Mukada's song, Tori Amos's "Leather" (which: awesome!) from the "Variety" episode of Oz, so I made an MP3. And then drc1 mentioned the theme from the moment Kate was researching Angel's origins in the "Somnambulist" episode of Angel Season 1, and I made that too. Anyone is welcome to the files.

Father Mukada (B.D. Wong), Burning it up:
http://s60.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=02ROGJ4E6CGHY04U8K3T4FM7KH

Kate researches:
http://s60.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=08FQDJ1WI99FB1PSJJBW9RIWGK

Enjoy!

Over the weekend I made high-quality MP3s of three Lee Tergesen-sung songs from Oz, "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good" from Season 1, and two songs from Season 5's "Variety." I also made MP3s of the hilarious commentary from Season 4's "Famous Last Words" in which Tom Fontana, Lee, and Dean Winters speak. Stick 'em on your iPod!

I already offered these to fanfromfla *waving* for the B/K Bin and the Annotated Lee Tergesen site, so if the links runs out you *should* be able to find them there.

From Season 1's episode "To Your Health": Toby sings "I Got it Bad and That Ain't Good" to the Oz cafeteria.
http://s60.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2D4P1ATSLLPJK0VT6ARCIYPRTJ

From Season 5's "Variety," the fantastic Beecher/Schillinger duet.
http://s60.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0ZBCXIW45AUC23JZ9I00OB6JQA

Also from "Variety," the "Days Like These" reprise at the end of the episode, sung by Toby.
http://s60.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0SERSVK3TT9RH3OG1H99NOXUQU

From the commentary during Season 4's "Famous Last Words," in which Lee, Dean, and Tom speak about a scene in which Toby hugs Said. Find out why Lee thinks "men smell like snowflakes."
http://s60.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3J7O58ZXXBM9902896I57JXUAB

And finally, also from the commentary on "Variety," Lee plays a phone message he got from Chris Meloni in which Chris tells Lee that he "loves and misses" him, and then Dean replies, "You guys really are gay, right?"
http://s60.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0EMQ1GDSE1OTU1H7R5CXE13DCJ

Enjoy!