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Razor & Guido Do It Again With Karmin's Brokenhearted #karmin #razorguido

It's no secret that I like/love dance music - and there are a quite a number of New York based DJs that I am completely devoted to - Chauncey Dandridge, Chris Padilla, Susan Morabito, Randy Bettis, DJ Baker, Robbie Leslie, Lina, Rich King, Phillip Kimball - to name just a few will get me out of my self-imposed apartment/cave dwelling stupor.

Over the past 12/15 years or so, I've drooled everytime I went out to the clubs and heard DJ's Razor and Guido's "Do It Again". I first heard it at a Black Party and it made such a strong impression that anytime I've heard it since, I'm instantly taken back to that five/ten minutes I first experienced it (and btw I heard it while I was performing up on stage with a couple other porn stars and while I can't remember exactly what I was doing - wink- I do remember thinking 'this is one of the most amazing moments of my life" and when, in subsequent years I've felt "what the hell am I doing with my life?" I think back to moments like that and go "well, yeah for moments like that, it's been worth it".

That's pretty powerful stuff.

But music is. Like Morabito spinning on the Intrepid back in 1994 is still a benchmark that I judge every other party on - which isn't completely fair since not only was Susan's music spot on and incredibly joyful that night  - and no one can touch her as far as selection, mood and transitions when she's on, but I was also surrounded by three hot gay couples from the DC area who decided that I was their "it" guy that night.. I didn't go home with any of them, but the attention was pretty awesome.. ah to be 30 again! LOL :) 

Anyway, one of my newest favorite songs, "Brokenhearted" by Karmin has just gotten the Razor & Guido treatment and what makes it even better, is that I can hear faint echoes of "Do It Again" --- which makes me very very happy. :)

Yesterday was a totally crappy day where I openly said to the sky ala Griffin Dunne in AFTER HOURS, "what do you WANT from me??" but Karmin and R&G made it a little better today. Thanks! :)

First the Karmin remix followed by the (audio only) "Do It Again" .. enjoy!

Razor & Guido will appear in Philadelphia this Friday May 25th at FriGAYS at the Sumo Lounge 1224 Chestnut Street.

 

 

Will Clark's Journal: First Night at The Ritz April 19th, 2012 #theritz #dallasdubois #justinlukenyc #willclark

First off I want to thank drag queen extraordinaire Dallas DuBois and author Justin Luke (who's book, Gulliver Takes Manhattan, is out now) for being my guinea pigs, er my first brave guests at the new location on Thursday April 19th. And thanks too to our first beneficiary - the incredible Cheer New York crew who always bring a sense of occasion with them.

Truth to tell, it hardly seems as though that was nearly six weeks ago now as I write this on a rainy Monday.... Time seemed to sort of slow down and speed up simultaneously as soon as the move to The Ritz got underway in earnest and there were a couple weeks in there where it seemed as though only two or three hours elapsed between shows..... thankfully it's all evening out now and I can go back to the gym and back to eating a full meal or two a day... (knock on wood)

Yes, I will readily admit that the move was a tad more complicated and involved than I expected but after a few weeks, we're doing well and it allows us a lot of room to expand. We're still looking how to make the most of the room.... but we're getting there.

You can click here to see the free gallery of images from our first night - thanks to AB and Chauncey for coming along for the ride in the new space... we've had a lot of changes these past couple months but we're hanging in there and throwing a weekly party that you are invited to!  (and thanks to AB for continuing to take pretty awesome pics for us!) :)

Starting June 23rd Sea Tea Season Starts Again; Get Season Pass Til June 1st #seatea

Good afternoon peeps! For those of us in New York, today was yet another beautiful summer day - even if yes, technically summer is a month away (and by the way June 21 which is Midsummer's Day is also our friend Kylie Edmond's birthday, more on that in the coming weeks).

Speaking of summer, the weekly Sea Tea party aboard the Queen of Hearts gets going in just a month - on Saturday June 23rd and Sunday June 24th as the Sea Tea revs up it's engines for another season of sailin', dancin' and lots of fundraisin throughout the summer.

For the 9th year in a row, the Bad Boys will be sailing - featuring Michael Brandon and DJ Jonny Mack along with a cast of hotties who'll join us to again raise funds for our friends over at Braking the Cycle! :)

This year you can save tons of cash by buying a season VIP pass for the summer but only until June 1st - so you have about 10 days to get it together and pony up the $99 that'll get you into a full season's worth of parties. If you go to just five parties over the summer, you've more than made back that investment and with the VIP you never have to worry about getting turned away at the door again.

And best of all, with the VIP pass, you can also bring a friend. So really this is an incredible value. 16 parties for a fraction of the cost. Hurry though, supplies are limited.

Meanwhile, full lineup for the Bad Boys Sea Tea is coming in the next few weeks...but just go ahead and buy your tickets now (last year we sold out).

 

TODAY May 19th: DANCE PARADE NEW YORK CITY #DP2012

GOOD MORNING PEEPS... If you're in New York City today you know just how amazing it is outside - so if you're reading this indoors, slowly reach over to the 'off' button and press... and then go outside and enjoy this amazing day.

And I know that you have a million and one things to do in town (don't we always?) but there is one big event that you have to check out - and that's the annual party event, the New York Dance Parade where thousands of dancers entertain spectators in vibrant costumes (preview below).

The parade kicks off at E. 21st and Broadway at 1 and runs down University Place and over on St. Mark's Place to the dance party following in Tomkins Square Park at 3.

I've never been but the Will Clark Show DJ Chauncey Dandridge says he lives for this event every year - and after seeing the pictures, I can see why!!

No matter what you do, have an incredible day!

 

Marriage Equality, Homophobia and "What Makes You Beautiful" #marriageequality #anythinggoes #broadway

Good morning peeps!

It's dark and gloomy in New York City today but you don't have to be (dark and gloomy). Sure, the recent events from North Carolina and all the buzzing from Biden and Obama to Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton seem to have given every homophobe in the country reason to be openly hateful (and stupid) but hey at least the public - the ones that are somewhere in the middle on their opinion of teh gayz and same-sex marriage are seeing what we've seen all along - just how rude and ugly things are for us.

Contrary to others who are wishing them to stop - I hope every homophobe weighs in with their crazy opinion so that the world can really see what they sound like - because sometimes when it's a comment here and a comment there, I think the general American public just doesn't really get how awful they themselves sound.

Naturally this will be validation for some (ie a public figure institutionalizing homophobia) but I think, in the end, these open and virulent attacks simply underscore the need for laws in place to protect the LGBT community. And of course they wouldn't be quite so intense if this rapidly shrinking group of people didn't on some level recognize that the time of this being acceptable conversation is, at last, over. No one fights harder than when they know the end is near.

And for some, especially closet cases *coughRickSantorumcough* being anti-gay is the shield they protect themselves with against having to deal with the truth of their own selves. I'd rather think that they are simply lashing out at us out of a sense of self-presevation (not because the LGBT community will cause -what nonsense- the end of humanity, but in the fragile protection that being anti-gay gives them) than that they are just batshit crazy or downright mean.

To wash away this negativity, please take a few minutes to watch this video made by the cast of ANYTHING GOES. It's a lip-sync of "What Makes You Beautiful" by One Direction. I want to meet the hottie with the shaved head.. he seems like he's awesomely fun! :)

Enjoy!

 

 

Thursday May 17th: Colton Ford & Rocky LaBarre on The Will Clark Show

Just a few days til our biggest, hairiest and most muscle-y show of the spring - Pop idol Colton Ford will return to the Will Clark Show and along for the ride, Pantheon Productions star Rocky LaBarre, an up and coming stud making a name for himself in the XXX industry.

And if that weren't enough butchness for you, the beneficiary is the Gotham Knights, New York's gay rugby team - so mmm you know, hotties all around -- and they'll be kicking off their trip to the Bingham Cup next weekend in Manchester, England so, you know, drunk rugby players ready to have fun before they hop on a plane and come back with broken limbs or missing digits. :) .... how often do you get this kind of opportunity?)  And as well drinks are a mere $4, you can get them (and yourself) toasted for very little cash!

The May 17th show starts at 7pm and runs through til 9(ish). Colton's got to bolt by 8pm so come early for Colton and stay til the end to get the opportunity to bid on Rocky's jockstrap - yum.

 

FINALLY! Tough Talk From the Obama Admin. Oh, it's ON, Hold My Baby #obama #koch

In what I hope is an ongoing and intense trend for the Obama campaign, today this video is making the rounds - watch it and pass around. This is a response video to a ludicrous attack ad from the Republican's where, as usual, they simply lie about things that the President has done/not done. You know, I've certainly been a supporter of Mr. Obama but even I have been frustrated by the lack of rebuttal over the years to attacks. On one hand, you could say that giving them attention is akin to validating them (and I agree) but on the other hand, even the 'coward of the county' got it together and beat the crap out of the bully eventually. Thankfully while I don't in any way shape or form think that Obama is any kind of coward (I'm a firm supporter of his attempts to bridge a very large gap between our two - sadly only two- political idealogies) but really enough is enough.. and the moment that they say in the video "we're going to call them out on their BS" was the moment that I swooned.

Dude, we got your back - go get 'em. The Koch Brothers might be spending 6 million on attacking you, but you got millions of people supporting you - and while our culture is seriously screwed up in terms of where we place our priorities, in the end, it is the people that will win out. And it is the truth that will also win out. And that's actual truth, not "truthiness".

It's at this point that we need Al Franken to wake up like Sofia-like from THE COLOR PURPLE. Lying liars who lie need to be defeated!

Oh, it's ON. Hold my baby. :) (AB will be happy about that reference) :)

 

Good Monday Peeps - Best of Times on Fire Island #fireisland #willclark

I'm not going to go into great depth of what I was doing walking through the Pines this past Sunday morning at 6:15AM, but you can probably make an educated guess. I was clothed and I wasn't alone if that helps. :)

Anyway, for those Fire Islanders who are, like me, in love with the island the most when the sun is rising and all the little ones have let their heads land softly on the pillow (as well as those whose heads are on the pillow but they ain't exactly sleeping), it is an opportunity to enjoy, admire, drink in, the natural beauty of the place at a time when there is little other kinds of beauty to distract from it.

The stillness of the air around the blossoming complex, even on a windy day, washed over me refreshing my soul with the promise of new adventures to come. I could relate. My life, like the Pavilion complex, had sort of burned down and was in the middle of a fresh, hard won reconstruction.

I hoped, for my own sake, that the new complex would both improve on the clunky rebuilt pavilion of the recent past (I always felt it lacked any kind of character at all - you could be on any dance floor in the world  - and that's fine for an Arby's but not so much for the Pine's party focal point) and the Pavilion that everyone remembers from the past few decades (maybe without the feeling as though the entire enterprise might collapse with one strong wind). I sure hoped so. If I'm feeling a sort of sudden kinship with the new building, I want the finished product to be the best of all possible worlds (with apologies to Candide). :)

As we moved past the site, the morning sun streamed in through the wooden beams creating a sort of halo effect. The building bathed in the glorious spring. I wanted to enjoy it as long as I could. I had seen the construction site on my way in on Saturday afternoon (the pic above) but the morning light gave it a life it had lacked before.

The boardwalk reflected the morning sun with dazzling patches of orange creating a sort of road of light leading back to the house where I was staying, visiting a friend who was celebrating his 55th birthday at a big blowout party the night before.

The party itself had been the best kind of Fire Island event - music, lights, great looking men, great food and free flowing liquor. The night had been cool, but what better incentive to find someone nice to curl up with?

After a kind of morning nap, I turned to more drinks and a walk on the beach picking up seashells (the left pic), a perfect, contemplative end to a 'go with the flow' kind of experience.

You see, this is, I think, when Fire Island is at it's best. When it's not about high tea or low tea and all that "showing off" crap that, for me, gets old real fast.

For me, it's best when it's about hanging out with friends and meeting fun, new, interesting people. When everyone pitches in and cleans up the party house the next morning while sipping cocktails and dancing to high energy music. When even mopping the floor and tearing up boxes for recycling is fun because of the company enjoyed.

And of course Fire Island is also at it's best when one is walking home at 6:15AM. <G>But maybe that's just me. :)

 

THE WILL CLARK SHOW'S NEW ERA BEGINS AT THE RITZ 2NITE AT 7PM

As you can imagine, myself, AB and Chauney are very excited to be starting our new adventure tonight at the Ritz starting at our new time, 7pm! A new venue, a new night and a new time - it's a lot of change for us but the one thing to be sure of is that this will be the great show it's been for over 7 years! Fabulous guests, erotic prizes and, as usual, whereever we have landed, cheap drinks!

Tonight, I'm welcoming author Justin Luke (GULLIVER TAKES MANHATTAN) - Justin also produces/promotes his "Boi Party" nights around town - and the always gorgeous Dallas DuBois!

Naturally since this is our first night, I wanted it to benefit one of my favorite groups - and I can't think of any other group better to launch us off with a bang than the men and women over at Cheer NY who just a few weeks ago at the old place raised a big chunk o change for Camp CHAM, a summer camp for kids with diabetes.

There's happy hour drink pricing and the usual fabulous Ritz bartenders at the helm and of course great erotic prizes for the winner of each round.

Looking forward to starting this new adventure with all of you on board!

We've Been To The Bistro, We've Gone to Pieces, Starting Thursday April 19th, It's Time to Move To The Ritz

Hey peeps! I am very proud to announce that as of Thursday April 19th, The Will Clark Show feat. P*rno Bingo will be moving to it's new home, THE RITZ!! (located at 369 W. 46th Street near Ninth Ave. along Restaurant Row, look for the blue awning)

A new home, a new night and also, a new time - 7pm to 9pm as we become the first Happy Hour show in New York's mid-town! :)

Long time friends and fans know that I used to produce/emcee Micky's "Cocktails with the Stars" back in my West Hollywood days and ever since I moved back to the city in 2003, I have been on the lookout for an opportunity to do a Happy Hour show. And ever since the 9th Ave. Bistro closed in September 2008, I've been missing working in midtown. So am I pleased beyond belief that now I'm able to make both of these desires reality!

As for the first show, I've booked the fabulous Dallas DuBois and author Justin Luke - plus we'll have a visit from New York's Cheerleading group, CHEER New York!

I hope you all will join myself, my awesome Ed McMahan - aka AB and the newest member of the Will Clark Show team, DJ Chauncey Dandridge, for this fabulous show and our first night in our new home!

Coming up on April 26th: Lucas Entertainment stud Vito Gallo, the award winning Terese Genecco & Shaynee Rainbolt raising funds for Marriage Equality New York!

I want to give a huge shoutout to Eric and the guys at Pieces - you've been terrific to work for/with and I wish you much happiness and success in the years to come at both the current Christopher Street location (which is slated to be open for a good long time to come) and the new location, Hardware, on Tenth Ave. between 47th and 48th opening later this spring.