Nope. I guess I've never really considered Johnny Mathis' private life at all. But my friends and I did go through a phase when we listened to a lot of that 50s/60s pop, like Mathis and Doris Day.

...I didn't know Mr. Mathis played for our (MY!) team.

But then, I'm so far out of the gay "mainstream" I live on Mars. The club that Jilli and I dance at is in the basement of the largest gay disco in Seattle. I've been going there for 20 years. I never knew there was a basement until the Vogue moved there.

(sigh)

I never knew until this moment either. But I must admit I never gave it much thought.

This is awesome! From FWMU:

Nouvelle Vague Live at WFMU - hot vidz!

Oh my gawd, y'all, when these people were in Love Room, it was all I could do to keep myself from reaching through the glass and gently stroking their faces as they sang.

The two sexiest voices in English-speaking Frenchpop, covering Sex Pistols, Violent Femmes, Depeche Mode, and Talking Heads....DANG!

Their cover of "Blister in the Sun" is jaw-droppingly awesome. I'm going to grab their new album when it comes out, but their WFMU session was all acoustic, which works really well for them so I'm going to have to grab the audio from these videos or else from the show audio....

Their cover of "Blister in the Sun" is jaw-droppingly awesome.

They're having so much fun! The blonde singer was even doing Christopher Walken's little cat-hands dance move.

I will need the audio from these tracks once you have done all the hard work, tommy.

I recently crashed into their cover of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division (as the background at a very shishi restaurant, the Blue Hour) - and it was like running into a wall at high speed. I was with my family over the 4th of July weekend, and suddenly all the blood drained from my face. My sister said, concerned, "What? What's wrong?"

I pointed at the ceiling. "Is that...Joy Division, as muzak?"

My sister listened, and said, "No, it's not muzak if it has words."

Then I found the youtube of the song, and...as startling as it is to hear Sisters of Mercy's "Marian" in this mode, I *like* Nouvelle Vague. It's fascinating.

I recently crashed into their cover of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division (as the background at a very shishi restaurant, the Blue Hour) - and it was like running into a wall at high speed.

Next up from Novelle Vague: Bela Lugosi's Dead

I would NOT be surprised.

I would NOT be surprised.

No, they already did it.

I was a little disappointed in that one because I thought they were going to go for more of a tropical voodoo I Walked With A Zombie feel.

But it's a little too close to the original in its arrangement.

However their version of Just Can't Get Enough as an Andrews Sisters a capella number? Pretty cool.