Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

Trapped In The Closet – The R. Kelly Sing-a-long at the Coolidge Corner Theatre on Friday, April, 29th:

We spared no expense to import from Austin, Texas, one of our favorite ideas ever. Our friend Henri, from the Alamo Drafhouse (one of the best theaters in the country, period), joins us as host for this very special event.

To the uninitiated: Every chapter of R. Kelly’s TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET soap hip-hopera ends with a cliffhanger. The last lines of Chapter 1 are, fittingly enough: "He walks up to the closet (closet) – He’s close up to the closet (closet) – Now he’s at the closet (closet) – Now he’s opening the closet (closet, closet, closet)." Then the video fades out and you have to wait for Chapter 2 to find out what happens when he opens the closet (closet, closet, closet). Fortunately you don’t have to wait long because it’ll fade right back in with Chapter 2 and we all get to see what happens when he opens up the closet and finds R. Kelly there in a post-adultery hide-away.

To those in the know: You’ve seen the videos online. Maybe you’ve even seen them on DVD in a room with friends. But you haven’t fully experienced them until you’ve rapped along with R. Kelly in a theater full of hundreds of friends and a bevy of props hidden around the room. We’ll screen all 12 chapters with bouncing-ball sing-a-long lyrics, a bevy of other classic R. Kelly videos (everyone ready for the Bump N’ Grind?), a special on-screen "interview" with the man himself, an amazing 10 year old kiddie remake of the first chapter of Trapped, and more! By the end of the show, Sylvester won’t be the only one who’ll scream out, "Oh my god, a rubber!"

It is so on. Let me know if you can join. I want to make a night of it. 😀

Look what Steve and Joseph made:

Well done! Makin’ JP proud! 😀

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In other news, the artist with the stereo across the way has started playing music out his window again. That means Spring has sprung. Right now he’s playing Curtis Mayfield. Love me some Superfly!

I got this message on Flickr today:

… I am writing to let you know that eight of your photos with a creative commons license have been short-listed for inclusion in our Schmap Boston Guide, to be published mid-April 2006…

It went on to say how I could approve my images for use in their guide. Pretty cool! I was really flattered. Hopefully, some of my pics will make it in.

I’ve recently started uploading some of my videos. I have lots of them from the past few years. I did a little bit of looking around, and You Tube seemed to be the most intuitive interface, and that’s what I wanted. While it’s not perfect, so far I’m very happy. Some of the features I really like are:

• Automatic trackbacks for each public video you upload
• The ability to create infinite categories of friends, so I can upload myself doing virtuous things and only share those with my Amish relatives (OK, you got me. I’m rarely all that virtuous – too much cussing – and I have no Amish relatives), and I can upload videos of me and my friends acting like fools and only share those with people in the proper inner circle to see. This took me a few days to work out, but now I have it all straight, and I’m pretty happy about it (as, I’m sure, are my friends).
• Videos seem to start and load much more quickly on You Tube than on Google Video.
• Super easy to get things on my blog. No learning curve at all.
• Tagging, beautiful tagging.

I found this article comparing You Tube and Google Video. I think I made the right choice.