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There is some hardcore Joe action happening all over the YouTube and I wanted to let everyone know about it.

First up, three clips from the legendary TRIUMPHANT BABY! The Songs of Iconis and Maddock, starring Lorinda Lisitza. This show was done a couple times over the past few months at the swanky Metroplitan Room. It's an evening of songs I wrote with the awesome Robert Maddock. I wrote the music and he wrote the lyrics. The music sounds sorta different from a lot of the stuff I do, so check it out. Also, how much does Lorinda Lisitza rule? So much, man.






Next, we got a super-talented chick from the University of Michigan singing "Blue Hair," from Black Suits. I never met this girl but I think that she is both cute and a good actress. Ya know. Like Annasophia Robb.




Finally, as many know, I've spent the past ten summers of my life working at the Hosfstra Summer Musical Theater Camp, a musical theater camp devoted to having teenagers sing age/race inappropriate songs. I'm not gonna be there this summer, but I am proud that I played a small role in performances as remarkable as these.

13 year old Brooke Shapiro, as evil alien Captain Piggy Butterflies, fuckin ripping it up with "Ladies Who Lunch"



12 year old Brendan McCann singing a Barbara Steisand medley and then ride away on a train he built himself.


To see an enchanted Mer-Man sing "I Am Changing" or a robot sing "I Am What I Am," just type in Iconis on youtube and be rocked and shocked by the talent of the young.

Should I like Ben Kweller? I got his last album and I liked it but it didn't stay with me. Nothing on there was as good as Radish's "Little Pink Stars." Anyway, maybe I should like him more. That "Penny On The Train Track" shit is good.

I wish the Bronx wasn't so far away.

I realized this morning that so much of my underwear is riddled with holes. I have holy underwear.

I find tall people tremendously frightening. Like, I realize it's not their fault that they are so scary and inhuman and tall, but I can't help but hate them. Well, I don't hate them. I'd be afraid that if I hated them, they'd get angry and try to get close to me. Gross. [Shuddering.] Okay. I need to put tall people out of my mind. There. Ahh. Much better.

I think that's plenty for my first real blog post. I would write more fantastic words, but today is Free Iced Coffee Day and there is a disturbing lack of iced coffee in my mouth right now.

-joe

Oh, and just to clarify comments made earlier, I am scared by all kinds of tall people. Not just people who have giantism. Don't get me wrong- those ones scare me bad, but I'm also creeped out by your run-of-the-mill tall folks as well. Basically anyone who is more than half a foot taller than me is frightening. It's worse if they are lanky.