Update update! I found another version of Honey singing “Feeling Good”. It was at the opening of MOTHA : Museum of Transgender History and Art ( sfmotha.org ) at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. She’s tastefully glammed out, and wows us with a middle eastern/Beyonce prelude, a slow, steady build up, and then a stunningly long and forceful final note. I put it at the end of this post, just in case you’d like to see the original:
Having a lazy Sunday afternoon, listening to my Youtube playlist: “Killer Glam Diva Performances“. It’s tea time, and I’m FEELING GOOD! Watch as Honey gives a smokin rendition of the song Nina Simone made famous.
Be sure to see Honey and her pals burn up the stage every Monday night at “Mahogany Mondays” at the Midnight Sun, in SF CA.
Honey Mahogany and the Erika Von Volkyrie trio perform at Martuni’s. Featuring Elvis Johnson on drums and Bill Noertker on bass. Video recorded by Under the Golden Gate:
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Here’s Nina:
Hey what’s that hanging off her lip?
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How bout this version from Muse:
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And then there’s this from the Pussycat Dolls:
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And finally, from American Idol Diva Adam Lambert:
Happy Sunday!
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And finally, here’s Honey again,
Published on Jul 17, 2013
Honey Mahogany performs at the opening of MOTHA : Museum of Transgender History and Art ( sfmotha.org ) at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
Video courtesy of Gitte Shmitz: http://vimeo.com/gitteschmitz
Category
Entertainment
License
Standard YouTube License
The Man From Harlem Has Arrived…
A dear friend once told me I was the person in the song “The Man From Harlem”. So I finally decide to summon my higher power, Google, and ask just what this is all about. Hmmmm. It’s a Cab Calloway ditty that tells a story about a boring party that suddenly comes alive when the man from Harlem arrives…
I kinda like it. If you really really like it, buy it via my affiliate link from Amazon:
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Look Like Nothings Going To Change
I left my home in Florida, because I knew I’d end up either dead or in jail. I was flamboyant, and dated black guys. Thirty five years later and Trayvon Martin shows that not much has changed.
Most of my new friends here were also exiles from intolerant homelands, like Tennessee, Texas, and Utah. This song resonated and became our favorite chill out song for a couple of months. Somewhere after Joni Mitchell’s Hissing of Summer Lawns, and before Nina Simone’s Wild Is The Wind album.
Pretty heavy and heady at the same time, huh?
Celibate Monkey God of Bodybuilders
Hanuman Chalisa
So I’m editing my photo assignment from last night’s CHAOS at Beatbox, a monthly circuit romp and stomp full of hot, muscly, shirtless, frisky guys. Sounds like a grueling chore, huh?
I have my youtube watch later list on in the background, and this snappy tune catches my attention.
It’s a devotional hymn to Hanuman, one of the most popular Hindu deities. He is a monkey like humanoid, with superhuman strength, agility, courage, wisdom, knowledge, hope, and devotion.
What intrigues me most about Hanuman, is that he is celibate, AND worshipped by bodybuilders:
“Hanuman remained a Brahmachaari throughout his life, an unmarried, celibate god. He is especially popular with body-builders, who believe that like him, one need to be celibate in order to have a strong body. Hanuman always treated women in the form of Mother and Sister. There are many incidences in the great epic Ramayana where this fact is proved.” — IloveIndia.com
I wonder how many muscle queens at CHAOS are celibate? The pics will be up any minute now on EdgeSanFrancisco.com‘s nightlife section.
Going To The Chapel with the SF Lesbian and Gay Freedom Band
I did a quick search and found these two videos, taken at the jubilant celebration in the Castro the day of the Supreme Court ruling against DOMA and Prop 8.
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