Aiden James

August 9th is a day that burns in our hearts here at Homopop. It's the day that one of our favorite people in the whole wide world was born! So everyone please wish a very gay Happy Birthday to the stud-muffin Aiden James!! (You can of course follow him on Twitter @aidenjamestour or find him on Facebook to send him a personal message.)

We met him a little over a year ago when we did this interview and have been in love with this brilliant and talented musician ever since! So what's new with this crooner? Well the official video for "On the Run" has been all over Logo's New Now Next, VH1 and MTV, which you can check out by going to either site. And it seems that AfterElton.com writes about him every other week! He is recording a new album appropriately titled "how you doAH?" that is AMAZING! How do I know this? Because I am one of the very, very, very few people who got messaged a snippet of his new work and I didn't even have to do any special sexual favors either! But you all can help Aiden out by contributing just a little bit to help make his album right HERE through Feed the Muse. What a great birthday present!

Speaking of presents... we have one for you! Check out the studio session he did back in January at 88.5 WXPN during The Folk Show with folk legend Gene Shay. (It's the video in this article.) Catch Aiden live in various venues around the country! I'm tell you folks, the bitch is blowin' up and you don't want to miss him preform live!

*Philly: 8/26
World Cafe Live 7pm

*Newtown, Sq PA: 9/24
Burlap & Bean 7:30

*Tucson: 10/9
Tucson Pride 1pm

Seriously though, I have been bitten by the lyricist bug so here's a little number I wrote. Aiden, you are allowed to use this if you want.

They say it's your birthday, bitch.
Well happy happy to you!
With your beefy, hairy chest and your soft brown eyes
you make all men go wild.
We follow your prophetic tweets
like it's our job
because all we do is live vicariously through you.
With your trucker hat, lazer-kitty t-shirts and trendy shades
We know you will never fade.
They say it's your birthday, bitch!
We sincerely hope you don't get the itch.

Love you, mean it!

For more info about this superstar: aidenjamesmusic.com

I could write a verbose article about all of the antics and chaos that ensued in 2009, but that would just deter us all from watching the MASH-UP Video.

HAPPY HOMO NEW YEAR from HOMOPOP! Peace on Earth ya'll. Thank you to all of our loyal supporters for following us throughout the year. 2010 is already shaping up to be balls-out fabulous. Here's a sneak preview: Queer Idol (Dwayne and Al think they are on the show of American Idol with Adam Lambert), MORE of Matthew Montgomery and an exclusive interview with............... JANE LYNCH! And that's just in January.

Love ya. Mean it!

Remember when GAY was the new BLACK? Well now, it's turquoise. Seems very gay to me. This soothing blue/greenish tint is the color of the year according to Pantone, LLC who is apparently the world authority on color and decides such things.

But this whole deciding the "color of the year" thing facinates me though. How does Pantone choose the lucky one is? (BTW last year it was mimosa yellow. Also resembling a whole-lotta-gay since we homos love to brunch on the weekend and love mimosas!) Anyway, why is the color of the Carribean ocean "in" for 2010? Heinz has been using turquoise as the color of their Baked Beans cans since 1901. And of course Andy Warhol used the color in his iconic pop art when he painted Turquoise Marilyn and Turquoise Liz. Incidently Hugh Grant (notice the bluish/green tint on a lot of the boxes here) owned Turquoise Liz and sold it a year or so ago for some nice chump change. You can certainly find this vibrant hue on various porn boxes too like one of our favorite titles is Trunks 3. Hell you can even buy a leotard in the 2010 color of the year.

In the realm of fashion though, this bold and beautiful shade will certainly pop. It has been said that women can wear the the color as is, but men should go with a pale tone or one that has more blue in it. I say whatever to that. Gay men can wear whatever shade they want to! Why just today when I was getting my haircut, a cute little fag boy was rockin' bright turquoise pants and put some of the same color in his hair too. And our favorite singer/songwriter Aiden James just posted a pic of himself this morning on facebook wearing a turquoise kitty with lazer eyes. (He is soooo cute!) So in celebration of the 2010 Color of the Year, we are changing our logo... just for this post.

Who the heck is Aiden James you ask? Well, we discovered (and I don't mean "discovered" like we are his manager) this talented cutie-pie during Philadelphia Qfest this year when his music video "On the Run" got it's World Premiere. We pretty much fell in love with him the moment we met him and he has been a huge supporter of Homopop, not to mention the BFF of our very own Nick Starr. But that's not why we adore Aiden. He is one of the nicest, funniest, genuinely good-natured people you will ever met! On top of that, he is wickedly talented (Yes, I used talented again. Just read the dictionary and you will know why.) Anyway, check him out on myspace for his touring schedule—the dude is all over the country folks! And his facebook page (you can find him through our page) or twitter which is the most fun of all! Or just go to his site: aidenjamesmusic.com.

To see the full video on Youtube click HERE!