i spent most of my time in australia sick in bed (as you can hear from my voice), but my flight out of sydney didn't leave til about 9pm, so i decided to take the ferry to the zoo on my last day!
it was really really nice, and i decided to make a video (again, this one is kind of for me, not for you....so if you think it's boring, like...don't wat...
everyone at my show in sydney was soooo nice and it was really fun, but i had to spend the rest of my time in australia sick in bed :(
i ventured out for 2 hours in the rain so i could at least see the sydney opera house before leaving. (i paid for it later, but i was actually really excited to see the opera house and a little bit of the city, so ...
thank you sooo much to everyone who came to my shows in paris
merci beaucoup especially to matthieu et guilain for making it possible for me to return to france (http://hedwigfrance.com - check them out)
and to aurélien et philippe for translating the song and helping me with my pronunciation (which still sucks, but i did my best)
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omg i'm trash
i sang this swedish children's song at my show in stockholm and everyone sang along, so i pulled my camera out of my pocket and made them re-enact it for youtube, so i wouldn't have to lug my guitar around on my day off trying to sing in swedish on the steps of the castle or something
tack for coming to the show everyone!!
xojay
ja...
danke to everyone in deutschland who came to my shows there!! it was a lot of fun, and hope to see u again soon
tschüß!
jay
a special grazie to my italian friends for making my time in italy so nice...
ciao ciao
xojay
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--
denmark
music and lyrics by jay brannan
hey there, baby, have you got a light?
im not smoking, but im afraid i might
have fallen down a dark carpal tunnel and landed in your kiss
and in the water from your big, brown eyes, i swam away from a quarter life crisis
you told me horror stories in room 426
of wooden boys falling for ...
she's like the eiffel tower. you have to see it at least once.
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p.s. i'm on a WORLD TOUR like madge -- jaybrannan.com for dates
see jaybrannan.com for WORLDWIDE tour dates!
thanks everyone for coming to the show in dublin, i had so much fun
xojay
i have no real explanation for this
yes, the audio is me
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i tried exporting/uploading this video like 5 different ways. edinburgh was soooo beautiful, and im kinda pissed i cant get the video quality to look better in a decent file size. sorry :(
just propaganda, really
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for the full radio interview -- http://www.podcastfearless.com/nmb/index.php?id=558
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the triple door!
beautiful place
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thanks everyone for making this such a fun tour!!
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"relax your necks"
a work in progress
by jay brannan & margaret cho
the sun's beating down on my back
i got me a big burlap sack
i'm smilin' cuz it's harvest time
out to the fields to get what's mine
i got your balls in my hand
i'm the queen of this fertile land
you think it's your dick but please understand
your whole package is under my command...
F.I.A.F.N.A.S. = "fat is a feeling, not a shape"
jay plays the el rey and reunites with special guest terra naomi!!
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thanks to everyone for coming to my first TEXAS show ever!! (my home state)
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sorry, i didn't get much video from these two cities, but thanks to everyone who came to the shows!!!!
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jay brannan & chris pureka do the east coast hard
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so for the first day of tour, we boarded the acela express train from nyc to boston back bay station, where we were taken directly to comcast studios to film an appearance on "backstage" (which i believe airs on tues 7/15??)
after filming the segment, we went over to Paradise Rock Club for soundcheck and to set up for the show
thanks so much to e...
i recently had the privelege of playing a show in oslo, norway, and my favorite part of the trip (besides the show!), was getting to visit the emanuel vigeland mausoleum
emanuel vigeland was a well-known artist in oslo who built this building as a museum for his work in 1926. he eventually decided that it should serve as his burial place, and now...
pls go get my album on iTunes. now.
you can listen to 6 of the tracks at myspace.com/jaybrannan
thanks for watching/listening!
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can't have it all
music and lyrics by jay brannan
applying moisturizer in the microwave window
for the tenth time, he should've called me an hour ago
would he be here with flowers if i lived in arizona?...
the very moving and intense "bæ bæ lille lam" ... live from a hotel room in oslo
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a song from my new album! (july 1 download / july 15 for the cd)
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no it's not a leather glove accessory, it's my carpal tunnel splint
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housewife (on iTunes now!)
music and lyrics by jay brannan
directed by stewart hendler (thx stewart!!)
album out july 1 online/july 15 physical CD (pre-order CD & check tour dates at jaybrannan.com)
two bodies pressed together
two boys are falling hard
the smell of sweat and leather
a kinky greeting card
crazy about each other
we both have fuck...
my friend pedro in brazil actually had the sheet music to the super mario bros. nintendo game theme song
for some reason i thought that was hilarious
i realize i'm probably the only person laughing. what else is new.
jay attempts portuguese in his hotel room in porto alegre, brazil
i saw this video -- i can't remember how i came across it -- and the melody of this song and jann's voice completely blew me away
so i decided to learn a cover of it which i played at my shows in vancouver & toronto (jann is canadian -- theme!).
here's me giving it a shot without much of a warmup here in L.A. -- so go easy on me
watch the orig...
THIS sat 2/16 - BOWERY BALLROOM! nyc
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a death waltz
music and lyrics by jay brannan
i know this song has been written already
it's not gonna stop me from writing again
not gonna lie, i don't really wanna live
i'd rather be honest than impressive
nothing has changed, and it's 12 years later
i'm more of a child than i was...
bowlegged and starving
music and lyrics by jay brannan
the stars are shining so bright
wait—that's just manhattan's light
it's been 12 hours since i ate
i think i'm finally losing weight
mixed up my armor with some knight
walkin' home wearing his white
i know what you're gonna say
no one could love me this way
chorus
i'm bowlegged and starvin...
hi dee! don't hate me.
um sorry my fingers squeaking on the strings sound like a fucking hand saw throughout this entire song.
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i haven't had a boyfriend in 6 years, so i sit at home alone every saturday night and do things like this
someone please kill me
jay brannan attempts to negotiate the need for children with the love of his life
but it's too late for all that
so i write songs and upload videos and fill in fields and wish everything could be different.
for me, for you, for all of us.