The Celebrity Couple Otherwise Known As McFreed

Vox Hunt: Silly Song - Muskrat Love

nobody@vox.com(Sean & Stefan) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:04:56 -0700

"Share a song that makes you laugh."

One of the worst songs ever written, Muskrat Love by Captain and Tennille is so sweet sounding until you realize what its about! So bad it makes me howl with laughter every time. It may make you groan but this video just sells the hilarity!

Quick funny story! My parents had both The Blues Brothers and the Captain and Tennille 8-Tracks... somehow a button was pushed and songs went from one 8-Track to another. My sisters and I cackled in anticipation when we heard Soul Man start up. "Shhh!!! Here it comes," one of us would yell. And Muskrat Love pounced like a hawk on a field mouse out of the giant speakers. Our mom would roll here eyes and just chuckle at our simple pleasure. Good times!

Now if Stefan only knew that this is a definite starter song at our wedding late next year! (evil laugh)

Muskrat Love - Captain and Tennille

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Vox Hunt: Sixth Grade Serenade

nobody@vox.com(Sean & Stefan) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:53:27 -0700

Share a song you listened to in 6th grade.

Sixth Grade was 1983 - 1984 for me (Sean). The original video for this was one of the best ever.

Sweet Dreams - The Eurythmics

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Vox Hunt: Yes, I Listen To This

nobody@vox.com(Sean & Stefan) — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:17:48 -0800

Audio: Share the most embarrassing song on your mp3 player.

Sean says...

I love cheesy songs and sadly this is probably the cheesiest groaner of them all! I give you Charlene's "I've Never Been To Me"! Anti-women's liberation song or gay man's rallying cry thanks to the film The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of The Desert? Take your choice I just think its a horrible train wreck worthy of listening as The Valley of The Dolls is worth watching over and over again. Unintentionable camp at its best! Runner's up are Maureen McGovern's "The Morning After" and Shirley Bassey's "Moonraker" (which I will perform one day as a spoken word event). I love them all but thank goodness for the earphones on my iPod or I would be laughed out of dodge. Enjoy!

Charlene - I've Never Been To Me

Hey lady, you lady, cursing at your life
You're a discontented mother and a regimented wife
I've no doubt you dream about the things you'll never do
But, I wish someone had talked to me
Like I wanna talk to you.....

Oh, I've been to Georgia and California and anywhere I could run
I took the hand of a preacher man and we made love in the sun
But I ran out of places and friendly faces because I had to be free
I've been to paradise but I've never been to me

Please lady, please lady, don't just walk away
'Cause I have this need to tell you why I'm all alone today
I can see so much of me still living in your eyes
Won't you share a part of a weary heart that has lived million lies....

Oh, I've been to Niece and the Isle of Greece while I've sipped champagne on a yacht
I've moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo and showed 'em what I've got
I've been undressed by kings and I've seen some things that a woman ain't supposed to see
I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me

[spoken]
Hey, you know what paradise is?
It's a lie, a fantasy we create about people and places as we'd like them to be
But you know what truth is?
It's that little baby you're holding, it's that man you fought with this morning
The same one you're going to make love with tonight
That's truth, that's love......

Sometimes I've been to crying for unborn children that might have made me complete
But I took the sweet life, I never knew I'd be bitter from the sweet
I've spent my life exploring the subtle whoring that costs too much to be free
Hey lady......
I've been to paradise, (I've been to paradise)
But I've never been to me

(I've been to Georgia and California, and anywhere I could run)
I've been to paradise, never been to me
(I've been to Neice and the isle of Greece while I've sipped champagne on a yacht)
I've been to paradise, never been to me
(I've been to cryin' for unborn children that might have made me complete)
I've been to paradise, never been to me
(I've been to Georgia and California, and anywhere I could run)
I've been to paradise, never been to me

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Vox Hunt: It Never Gets Old

nobody@vox.com(Sean & Stefan) — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:51:26 -0800

Audio: Share a song you could listen to all day on repeat.

Sean says...

Dreaming by the group Blondie. The song is both rallying cry for me about always pursuing your dream be it love or just life and nostalgia reminder. The drums are amazing! My sisters and I used to lock ourselves in their room and listen to Blondie's Best of album over and over. My memories about us dancing and singing like crazy "tweens" together is what I think propels this song forward in my memory all these years. This will be my entrance song at our wedding since it's pretty much my favorite song of all time. <smirk> Now if I remember it right, this was my song; Holly's was The Tide is High (although our "spotlight" dance at her wedding included One Way Or Another which Mikelle joined in on); and Mikelle's was Rapture because she liked the rap part (...and he shoots you dead and he eats your head). Enjoy!

Blondie - Dreaming

When I met you in the restaurant
You could tell I was no debutante
You asked me what's my pleasure
A movie or a measure?
I'll have a cup of tea and tell you of my dreaming
Dreaming is free
I don't want to live on charity
Pleasure's real or is it fantasy?
Reel to reel is living rarity
People stop and stare at me We just walk on by - we just keep on dreaming
Feet feet, walking a two mile
Meet meet, meet me at the turnstile
I never met him, I'll never forget him

Dream dream, even for a little while
Dream dream, filling up an idle hour
Fade away, radiate

I sit by and watch the river flow
I sit by and watch the traffic go
Imagine something of your very own
Something you can have and hold

I'd build a road in gold just to have some dreaming
Dreaming is free
Dreaming
Dreaming is free
Dreaming
Dreaming is free

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Vox Hunt: Dream Big

nobody@vox.com(Sean & Stefan) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:25:06 -0800

Show us your biggest dream.

Fatherhood Collage

Our biggest dream is to be Dad and Papa to a beautiful child some day soon together....

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The McFreed Holidays Begin!

nobody@vox.com(Sean & Stefan) — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:35:19 -0800

Sean & Stefan say...

Happy Holidays everyone! Well McFreed fans, the 2007 holiday season has begun and its time to decorate!!!

This is our second Christmas and Hanukkah together, but the first living together so we are very excited! We wanted to start off celebrating our family and faith traditions right so we showed our pride with a menora and a Xmas tree.

McFreed 2007 Hanukkah Display

As some of you know Sean was brought up in the Christian faith (lapsed Catholic who attends the gay-friendly Metropolitian Community Churches) and Stefan was brought up in the Jewish tradition, very much left of Reform. This means the McFreed household is inter-faith. Christmas and Hanukkah are both celebrated here!

Hanukkah this year begins at sundown December 4th and ends at nightfall December 12th.

Here is the official McFreed Hanukkah display! We plan to observe the celebration by lighting the candles together and partaking in gift giving and traditional Hanukkah foods of potato latkes with applesauce.

Your McFreeds also put together a Xmas tree! We kept with Stefan's love of a mid-century style and kept in mind the purple shades of paint in our front rooms of the condo when picking our tree. Ultimately, we went with an artificial 7 1/2 slim white Christmas tree! Never fear, Sean's "legacy" ornament know by the politically incorrect name "Chemo Girl" has made it on the tree this year - again! Check it out! We went crazy with the ornaments! Click on our pictures to get a closer look at all our decorations!

More Xmas Tree 2007 Ornaments

No Gay Couple Xmas Tree is Complete without Joan Crawford of Course!

Rose's Broach McFreed Xmas Tree 2007

McFreed Xmas Tree Topper

Retro-Ornaments McFreed Tree 2007

A Bird on The McFreed Tree

Sean's Favorite Ornament of All Time!

McFreed Xmas Tree 2007

Xmas Tree 2007 Ornaments

Sean Writes a Letter - McFreed Xmas Tree 2007

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Vox Hunt: These Are My DVDs

nobody@vox.com(Sean & Stefan) — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:17:52 -0700

Show us your DVD collection.

http://www.dvdspot.com/member=AddisonDewitt

This is a link just Sean's dvd collection... impressed yet or wondering how we watch them all? (giggles)

DVDs are Sean's library. Visual images that he can access anytime, easily. See any thing you'd like to borrow? (smirk) What would you burn?

PS: Take some time to look at DVDSpot. A great site for keeping a list of DVDs and seeing a few statistics on them.

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Vox Hunt: Hope for the Future

nobody@vox.com(Sean & Stefan) — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:40:49 -0700

Show us a politician who gives you hope.

Robert Kennedy

"Some men see things as they are and say 'Why?' I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not?'"

Robert Kennedy might be a man behind us in history and subject to revisionist discussion of his flawed personal life and political ethics prior to 1963, but he is a man who's words have always inspired me when it comes to injecting hope into politics and life. His use of the quote above (originally penned by George Benard Shaw) throughout his run for the presidency in 1968 and the cadence in which he spoke it, has always made me hope about America and even the world.

I am older and less naive now, but there are many days that I hope people will open their eyes and say 'Why not?' But it seems that it is more important lately for politicians and ourselves to answer the safer questions and not the hard ones that end with 'Why not?' I know I have retreated to the safety zone too many times in life or cowarded behind a rationalization that was purely flawed in its masking of the truth.

So I retain my hope with the echo if Kennedy's borrowed words in my head and anxiously await when I can be brave enough to tackle his eternal "Why not?". I know fulfillment awaits me ahead when I actually do.

A few more words from RFK:

“Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills -- against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence. Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the New World, and 32 year old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are created equal. 'Give me a place to stand,' said Archimedes, 'and I will move the world.' These men moved the world, and so can we all.”

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Vox Hunt: Music - My Current Favorite

nobody@vox.com(Sean & Stefan) — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:11:10 -0700

Share your current favorite song or music video.

Camera Obscura - Lloyd I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken

Sean says...

Camera Obscura's video of Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken was brought to my attention right here on Vox by Brent Cox! It is such a brilliant homage to the film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg for you francophiles)! I have to chuckle though at the sad face of the lead singer in the video at the end contrasting with the happiness of the couple in the action. Notice how the woman's dress changes at certain points in the dance sequence but the man's outfit (white belt and shoes!) does not! I wonder who Lloyd is? Enjoy!

Update! Well after some searching I found out who Lloyd is! Lloyd is none other than Lloyd Cole of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions! They sang a song called Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken? that also became a hit for Sandie Shaw in 1986. Versions of both artists interpretations are below, although Shaw's is closer to the time it was recorded and Cole's was done on stage in Madrid in 2006. Camera Obscura's song is a response to Lloyd's lyrics. Ta Da!!!! A music mystery (well to me anyway) solved!

Lloyd Cole - Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken?

Sandie Shaw & The JoBoxers - Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken?

Below is a video of Lloyd Cole and The Commotions most recognizable hit (at least to me), Perfect Skin.

Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Perfect Skin

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