"There were about 100 trannies..."

After getting directions to "the ferry" from my TomTom, I drove for about 2 hours to "Staten Island".  The reason they are in quotes is because TomTom (which I am getting rid of ASAP) gave me directions to where the ferry lets off... in NYC.  The whole reason I was taking the ferry is because I cannot drive in the city, it is too frustrating.  So after about an hour of being lost in the city (oh, did I mention TomTom doesn't work in the city?  The buildings throw off the signal) we found a parking garage and ended up spending about 20 bucks, while the ferry would have been free.  My two friends and I spent about 2 hours wandering the city, getting some prime purchases at Canal Street, and then headed over to the Highline Ballroom.  We got in and were required to buy some food (10 dollar minimum, how nice of them) so we sat and waited.  Chris Pureka was the opening act.

She was pretty good (the lighting was so bad on her though, all of my pictures were too blurry) although I can never fully appreciate an opening band, since I get too impatient waiting for the main act.  Her one song "You Don't Know Me" was pretty good.  At least that is what I think it was called. Check her out.

www.myspace.com/chrispureka 

Jay Brannan!  He came on and told a bunch of jokes, stories, and sang a little of Kelly Clarkson's "A Moment Like This".  He was extremely entertaining.  One story had to do with all of 7th Ave filled with trannies that fought each other.  He "swore to god" it was true, an entire block full of trannies stopping traffic, yelling "Hold my bag, hold my bag!".  A video of that will be coming shortly.

He played all of my favorites, minus "Body's a Temple".  "Soda Shop" was probably the highlight, since it is his most known song.  The whole crowd was extremely receptive and he seemed like he had a great time.  He also played "Housewife", "At First Sight" (including him asking the audience to play percussion for him.  It sort of worked), and "Straight Outta Compton" (as requested by my friend).  For some of the songs, he had a cello player and a violinist, which he hadn't done before.

We stayed after and waited near the huge line (not in it of course) to meet him.  We were the last people he saw, and he didn't seem too happy to have that many people talk to him.  Regardless, he gave us all hugs, thanked us for coming, and chatted for a minute or two.  He was very nice, so I was happy about that.

Check out the video for "Soda Shop" that I filmed.  He started off with a different song, and goes "I tricked you guys!", so I got most of the song:

More videos will be on my youtube account later.

http://www.youtube.com/user/alorsvraiment