Best Of Totesblog

So in the midst of maintaining my rigorous schedule of stuff that I do, I completely missed the One Year anniversary of Umm...i didn't know i was starting a blog!

My recognition of this momentous occasion is only a tad belated as umm...i didn't know i was starting a blog was birthed from my creative womb on May 22nd, 2006. I'm only a couple weeks late.

Anyway, in honor of this event, I shall post the Best Of Totesblog. Each day of the week will be a new entry from the archives with some special commentary.

The first Best Of clip comes from the infancy of the archives and is one of my all-time favorites. The fourth post ever, this entry set the tone for humiliating people which has since become a long lasting tradition of this blog. Enjoy.


May 26, 2006
Defying Heterosexuality


ugh. damn you blogger. I wrote a hilarious post...Which to the dismay of me and my readers (all two of them--what up mom and her friend from work!) was erased. So I'll have to rewrite it...it WON'T be as funny though. Really. The other one was insanely funny. I peed twice while writing it.

ANYWAY. In an attempt to find something as embarrassing as the two queens singing wicked in a parking lot--I scoured youtube for something equally tingly (tingly is a word my friend Lindsey introduced me to describing that feeling you get when you're super embarrassed for someone else.) After some time, and some excellent possibilities, I settled on this monstrosity. Granted, it's not AS funny as our two friends who give gays and musical theater a bad name, this is still pretty priceless. I think I blew my comedy wad by posting the other video first, but whatever. This guy (or is it a girl, I'm not really sure) is AMAZING.



Now what gets me in this video, isn't the fact that he (or she?) is so into it he (or she?) actually believes they're on stage at the Gershwin. It's the fact that he (or she?) is SO into it, he (or she?) took the time to pick out a dress in his (her?) mom's closet, find a black wig from the Halloween box in the attic, rummage through all the make up in the house so he (she?) could cover his (her?) face in green eye shadow, and then paint pointy eyebrows (seriously, that's at least a 45 minute make up job). And that was just pre-production. He/She THEN spent at least an hour setting up the camera and making sure the lighting was good. rigging the stereo and cuing the CD to the right spot, followed by a couple good hours of filming. The post production then consisted of choosing the best shots and EDITING them together and synching up the sound. Now that is crazy as it is, but this guy/girl is a professional. for him/her, the plain video will not suffice. No. He/she needs computerized credits introducing him. her.

I am not one to judge. I did some pretty lame things as a kid (including, but not limited to: turning my sun room into a theater by rigging a curtain using fishing line, bed sheets, and duct tape; and dancing to Janet Jackson in my driveway as my mom secretly watched from my bedroom window.) BUT in no way would I EVER videotape this and post it for the whole world to see! C'mon dude, show some class! This is shit you do in the privacy of your own home, when no one is there. if you DO make a video of it, you destroy it. Clearly. ugh. When will these kids learn.

in the meantime I can't really complain, its giving me great fodder for my blog.

Special Commentary: I originally wanted to post the other video of the 2 dudes singing wicked in a parking lot, but apparently they took that off Youtube. This'll have to do. Some of you may remember that the person in this video actually left a comment on this original post. He (not a she) was honored that I found his video, and is very proud of the fact that he had the passion to lip sync and post it to the world. yay for him. We should locate all his videos that he's made (there have been many) and post them to as many blogs as possible; get his work out there!