Good Asian Drivers Tour

So…it’s time for the big move. Boxes are already packed. Kit has been going a little bit nuts trying to mail his new landlord back the lease. I fortunately already have a place to live in Brooklyn and don’t really need to argue with realtors and dig up old pay stubs or anything like that.

Put on an all ages show on Wednesday at the Cloud Place, a place I really consider home for many years. My history with it sorta goes back to when I was 17 and I attended an out youth theater troupe called True Colors, which eventually led me on this journey towards musical theater. I know the space well (and the folks who worked in the office downstairs) and together we brought together a show for the young people who love, appreciate, and support our work. 

We kicked off the night with Johnny Blazes’ gay cousin Swizzle Sticks, clad in all his fur coat and hula hoop glory. Indeed, Swizzle did meet us on the set of the Jay Leno show, which was when we realized we absolutely NEEDED him to be at the Cloud.

We did a couple of numbers from our “musical” (in quotations because it’s a 4 act musical with only 4 songs - I’m kind of a rebel composer, you see) including our new love ballad “This Time It’s Love” which is just like any other love ballad in a musical. I also got a chance to play the piano, which is nice, but I’ll betcha the cute girl in the front row who also said she played the piano could do a million times better than me because I messed up a lot. (That’s what happens when you don’t have a piano on tour…)

Kit did a lot of audience favorites, like “Food & Sex”, “Strap-on”, and even taking a request for Third Gender. He got nervous during “Badass” when Kayla’s mom got up in the middle of his piece, but realized that she was just going to the bathroom. Yay for Kayla for bringing her mom - did anyone else bring their mom? I know someone brought their 6 year old child, though.

Kit gave away some CDs and a shirt as a trivia prize - a sort of an unexpected surprise, since we didn’t even think of the questions beforehand. 

The theme of the night was lesbian sing-along. That included getting the entire crowd to sing “Such a Nice Guy” with me (which was totally fun, esp Gio who was the loudest of them all), and our new hit folk song entitled “Lesbian Love Song”. Kit busted out his alter ego, Lesbian Heather, who played the finger cymbals and sang along with me.

We didn’t talk a lot between our set, though - we figured folks just wanted to hear us do pieces. Afterwards, we offered folks a chance to take pictures with our in-house photographer Andy to be posted on our new fab fansite that will be launched within the next month or so. It was great to see Erin and her friends Lauren and MK, who all came up to talk to us afterwards and take pictures. They all posted the pics on their Facebook profiles - I was especially grateful for Erin as she (as well as many others) helped get me back on Facebook during the debacle.

Allix, with her hot new haircut, made delicious vegan ice cream pies, even though some of them melted. Thanks to James, Audrey, Caroline, and a million other people who helped - I’m so sorry if I didn’t mention you here. Thanks for making this happen so smoothly! :)

We’re going to start posting video blogs about our day soon, including new unrehearsed pieces, jam sessions, and other video goodies, so check the site frequently!

I’m getting sick - have a serious splitting headache - and I’ve been lying in bed all day even though it’s been beautiful out. I hate getting sick. Tomorrow we’ve got a short set at the Quincy Asian Festival, which hopefully won’t go long.