Happy Easter! Happy Passover! Tags! JC said he would kiss Justin!

[foxmonkey]

It's Egg Day! It's Bitter Herbs Day! Happiness to everyone of all ethnic diversities and cultural leanings and religious persuasions!

One of these days I'll go to church on Easter again. Man, I was probably...11? that last time Mom, bro!monkey and I did the Easter services together. One year stands out for me -- Dad was there in his best suit looking incredibly handsome and I was all poppy and fizzy and exicted, saying, "That's my dad!" to all my friends. :-)

Because I'm on crack and apparently it started early, most of my friends knew who my dad was. Though thinking back, seeing Dad in that setting probably broke everyone's brain so perhaps, like Superman in his Clark Kent glasses, they truly didn't recognize him because he was in a suit and he was AT CHURCH.

This was notable because Dad didn't go to church ever. Like...EVAR. Did I say EVAR? Now, it just might be faulty remembering on my part; I know he didn't do regular services, but I can't remember him hitting the high holy days either -- no Palm Sunday, Easter or Christmas services. But one year, for some reason, Dad showed up at church, in a suit, looking very handsome and making me incredibly proud to show him off for my friends. Easter!

I also remember, back in the days before VCRs, DVDs, DVR and cable, watching biblical epics on TV. For some reason I love these movies more than Christmas flicks. I LOVE THEM. So yeah, big time of the year for me, holiday televiewing-wise! I'm DVRing TCM's entire lineup today (most of them anyway). Ten Commandments was on last night, also DVRd. Woohoo!

So, apparently back in the day, JC said that he would kiss Justin, a la Britney, Christina and Madonna at the MTV awards.

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Seen by me for the first time in juc, posted by amber_008. Wuh? How did I not know this, and if I did, how did I forget this? My brain is making me sad. :-( Anyway, article gakked with extreme prejudice from pjordha 'cause her brain isn't dusty and full of holes like mine. LJ-cutting like a rabid dog because I'm thoughtful like that.



From the Sydney Star Observer:

EX-N*SYNCER JC CHASEZ TELLS OLIVER HALL ABOUT LIFE
BEYOND THE BOY BAND.

Possibly the gayest job title you can have is vocalist in a boy band. JC Chasez was one of the two lead singers in boy band N*Sync (the other being Justin Timberlake). N*Sync were no ordinary teeny-boppers. After wresting the throne from the Backstreet Boys, Chasez and co became the world’s number one boy band.

Since N*Sync decided to “have a break” two years ago, its members have headed in diverse directions. After a successful stint in the Broadway musical Rent, Joey Fatone is sticking to the stage. Would-be astronaut Lance Bass is pursuing a career in movies, Chris Kirkpatrick is working on an album and Justin Timberlake has become a bona fide superstar.

You’d be forgiven for thinking JC hopes his debut album Schizophrenic will follow Justin’s path, but he insists it’s more about music than money. Success seems inevitable, at least out of the US (current single All Day Long I Dream About Sex is doing pretty well in the Australian charts) but JC wants something more to be excited about.

“Success comes and goes,” he says. “My goal was to make a record I was proud of, because you have to live with that for the rest of your life.” Easier said than done in the world of pop. Chasez’s record company originally tried to pair him up with the same generic hit factory responsible for Timberlake’s solo success.

“The first thing they did when I said I wanted to drop a solo album was, ‘cool, we’ll call this guy, this guy and this guy because they make hits’. So I had to stand up and be firm and say I want to make my record my way.”

Chasez enjoyed the recording process and says he felt less confined as a solo artist. “When you’re in a band, you can’t be selfish. There is always compromise in any relationship. When you write a song, you can’t just have it from your point of view, it needs to be everyone’s.”

Outside of the US (where All Day Long I Dream About Sex is yet to get a single release) Chasez has been working the crowds. He recently flew to London to perform at the notorious G.A.Y., an experience he says he enjoyed very much: “The crowd was rowdy, man, and I love that.

“You’re always gonna play the crowd. All my shows are different. If I’m playing middle America, it’s different to a big US city. If I’m in London, it changes again. Obviously when I’m singing in middle America I know they love the ballads. If I’m performing in a gay club they wanna hear All Day Long I Dream About Sex.”

So would JC ever consider doing a Madonna and Britney MTV-style pash with Justin Timberlake in order to create some similar hype?

“I’m not sure it would sell many albums. I’d do it, why not? I can’t speak for Justin though.”

But there haven’t been any N*Sync kisses to date, he says.

“We are very close, they’re some of my best friends in the world, but none of us were ever that close. Sorry!”

Oliver Hall is the editor of New Zealand’s Express.


Also, because I'm an idiot of the highest magnitude, I just discovered that I never tagged the hundred and eleventy million Schizophrenic reviews I saved and posted. ::boggles:: What the hell, me? Honestly.

Edited to add: Holy frig, I really did save a lot of Schizophrenic-related stuff! I've gone through and tagged some of it but now my brain hurts so the rest will have to wait. ::cries::

Comments

[withdiamonds.livejournal.com]

Happy Easter!

And that's lovely stuff about your dad.

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

Happy Easter!

And that's lovely stuff about your dad.

Happy Easter! Your icon reminds me that I need to bust out something appropriate to the season. :-)

Dad! And you know, I can see it like it was a video!

During fellowship after services when people were greeting each other before heading home, etc., my brother and I ran around with the other kids (as much as you can in church clothes that Are Not To Be Gotten Dirty). Mom floated around in her very elegant (cream?) suit like Columbus, Ohio-based Jackie Kennedy, and Dad wore his (I'm thinking dark brown???) suit; he was shaking hands and smiling, looking very much like he was the first African-American astronaut, all 1960s clean cut and stuff. :-)

[withdiamonds.livejournal.com]

That's a great visual. I remember my mother looking very elegant on Easter, too. Easter always makes me think of wearing white gloves to church.

[brighton-girl.livejournal.com]

They quoted him in US Weekly too, in that section where they quote crazy things celebs say. He'd never been quoted before...