This post  is from a new band from the Bay Area called Finding Jupiter.  This is our first band post in awhile and if you have a band that you would like to promote on our site feel free to email us.

Hi. My name is Sarah, and I have a confession. It’s something I’ve known for a while but was scared to admit – but here I am now, 21 years old, and I’m ready to say it out loud.

I like to pick my nose.

Another confession… I like girls. Kind of silly that it’s a confession, right? Confession implies guilt or shame, kind of like digging deep to get those hard-to-reach bogies – so I take it back.  I don’t have another confession. I have a fact to tell you. I like girls, and I like singing about girls.

One of my friends is convinced that’s how I get the ladies – maybe she’s right, but I like to think it’s really due to my love of organic chemistry, secret clarinet skills, or long history with uncomfortable situations. Either way, you should check out my band. We’re called Finding Jupiter, named after the largest, gassiest planet in our solar system. I swear our music is free of organic chemistry and clarinet playing, but I can’t promise that it’s free of uncomfortable situations. I mean, the first song on our album is called “Hey Whitney.” Who is this Whitney, and why am I saying “hey”? I am not going to tell you.

If you want to find out and crave some kickass music, go to our website to listen now at findingjupiter.com

Burlesque, starring Cher and Christina Aguilera! The film will be released in theaters nationwide on November 24th.

MTV is busy playing on Twitter and Facebook games with the tweens this year and dreaming they could be the shadow of Justin Bieber on Youtube. The network now known for 16 year old pregnancies is wanting everyone to check-in to STD clinics and get a virtual badge throughout September at these places. Really? A happy face sticker on my online Foursquare application for checking in to a STD clinic. What does MTV gain of people lined up at STD clinics anyway? Do they play MTV soap operas while waiting for results of chlamydia tests?

What the network should be focusing on this year are what no one is talking about right now the VMA’s coming in under a few weeks from LA’s Nokia Theater. They really sound lame this year because there is no major headliner or opening act and no big celeb deaths like Michael Jackson to draw the interest. Maybe too many celebs testing for the Clap? j/k.

But no Madonna, no Britney Spears, no Lady Gaga performances. Lame. Is this going to be a cheesy bubble explosion of Katy Perry coming out of icing with Jack Black peeing on a rainbow that ends with Kanye West and Taylor Swift jumping around like Glee lovers holding hands into eternity? Lady Gaga will probably be the most talked about thing at the show but how many outfits will she be putting on just to get up and accept awards all night long. We wanted to hear her perform at least!

Their focus of silly foursquare check-ins such as Facebook wanting to get into the location business instead of its core business will make these companies finally see this bubble bursting when people laugh and start hiding check-ins or use them for blackmail purposes. Hopefully someday MTV will focus on their music or at least more of the drama as Justin Timberlake begged the network to do a few years ago..

My predictions for 2010 for the MTV VMAs are that it could turn out to be the lamest in years. Last years from NYC Radio City Music Hall will be hard to top with Madonna, Lady Gaga, Janet Jackson, and the list goes on. They would have to at least have a SURPRISE appearance from Britney Spears to come close to last years and normally their LA version of the show sucks anyway but then again they could run an skit of Britney Spears checking into a STD clinic via their ridiculous Four Square App right? or have Lindsey Lohan appear which I am sure they will do anyway before she goes back to rehab.

I wrote a song once, or co-wrote it if I am to be completely truthful. It was a cabaret number, a comedy song and a list song. There are only two kinds of songs, should you be interested to know, and these are ‘lists’ and ‘stories’. Think of any song and you will be able to put it into one of those two categories, honestly. But I am already straying from the point.

The point of mentioning that song was to bring in its subject matter which was, famous gay people of history. I am sure my co-writer would not mind me sharing some of the lyrics (in italics) with you as I run through some of the more unexpected gay people from the past.

There is often doubt over far back historical characters and their sexuality. Examples:

‘Frederick the Great, Peter the Great, Alexander the Great, not one of them straight.’

And sometimes there is room for a lot of speculation. I just checked out a list on a site and it has Saladin the Sultan of Egypt and Syria listed as a famous gay man. Famous for sure, but how do they know? Where’s the evidence? The site did have a list of sources actually, but my point here is that history can quickly become myth, so to say for 100% certainty that, for example, Alexander was gay, is to make assumptions based on ancient chatter. To be certain or our famous GLB folk we need to be more up to date:

‘Herman Melville, and Marcel Proust – and all the boys that Hadrian the first seduced.’

I know Hadrian wasn’t that recent, but it’s a fun rhyme for Proust who, let’s face it, could do with some jollying up. Also on the list was Cole Porter, no surprises there except he was also married, but that’s what some gay men did in those days, and perhaps he really was bisexual. (And, as an aside, if you want clear examples of list and story songs then look at Cole Porter, the master of the list song: Let’s do it, You’re the top, I get a kick out of you, and more or less anything from Anything Goes.)

‘Kenneth Anger loved the men he’d fetter, David Hockney likes his men much wetter.’

Also on that site and its list were Andy Warhol, Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde, and you are probably not surprised to see these great people listed. But what about some of the others?

‘Edward the second, Richard the Second, James the first, it’s been reckoned.’

Pope Julius III (1550 – 1555), Marie Antoinette, Pope Benedict IX (1032 – 1044), Pope John XII (655 – 964), the list goes on, and is not restricted to Popes or aristocracy who lost their heads.

‘There’s William Shakespeare, and Marlow too, and Sophocles, Euripides to name a few.’

But what I did notice from this list, and the list we came up with for our song, is how many talented people there were. Of course there is no reason why GLB folk should not be talented, I didn’t mean it like that, and there are thousands of talented straight people from history, but some of the greats are here – I mean the really greats. From Alexander and the others who were actually called ‘Great’ to the painter of the Sistine chapel, Michelangelo, the inventor of economic theories in the 20th century, John Maynard Keyes and the inventor of just about everything else, Leonardo de Vinci.

‘…And Gertrude Stein, whose brownies would have fattened Ida Rubenstein
And who can forget Divine? That’s what John Waters taught us…’

‘Hans Christian Anderson, Walt Whitman and Virginia Woolf,
And that’s not all
There’s Lady Una Troubridge, and Radclyffe Hall.’

So it seems to me, that whatever way you look at it, being gay means that you are in good company. Such good company that it makes you wonder who the straight folk have to be proud of.