Here’s the new Jeffree Star song featuring Matt Skiba:

So my friend Jeffree released one of his new songs on iTunes the other day.. and it’s quite fantastic if I may say so myself.

He went from having songs that had some silly lyrics, but I honestly wasn’t that into… to better sounds that I could enjoy… and he just continues to grow the more time passes by. This might be his best yet. I’m proud of you.

Jeffree Star's -Prisoner- now available on iTunes!

• To listen to the full song on MySpace, visit www.myspace.com/jeffreestar
• To purchase & download the full song on iTunes, click here!
• To read his blog about it, click here.

So… Anyone remember when I said I was starting to feel better? Apparently it bit me in the ass and I’ve been sick again at full force. I don’t even think I’d wish this plague on my enemies.

Anyway, even through sickness and pain, here I am, attempting to get work done, some of which should have been done weeks ago before I felt ill.

While I wait on approvals, I figured I’d blog a bit to make up for the past couple of days.

** In case it slipped your mind, you only have a week left to see Coraline 3D before the 3D theaters turn over to the Jonas Brothers! As I’ve stated before, although Coraline is pleasant either way, the 3D version is a whole new experience and definitely worth viewing at least once while you can! Put it this way… my friend Taylor had no desire to see the film in any way, shape, or form, no matter how much I raved on about it [that he passed on as a bias for me being a big Gaiman fan]… or how many times mutual friends [who weren't big Gaiman fans or didn't know who he even was] were raving about it… So what did I do? I offered to pay for his ticket. Who can say no to a free ticket? AND NOW HE’S SO GLAD I MADE HIM SEE IT. I win!

** Speaking of Jonas Brothers, my buddy Danny is out on the east coast right now. Apparently he had a drunken karaoke night with the Jonas Brothers drummer. Click here to view a video of them covering Guns ‘N’ Roses’ “Welcome to the Jungle.”

** While on topic of silly things, my buddy Daniel sent me this Josh Freese album promotion list, and now I can’t stop laughing.

** For those in San Diego, CA… March 6th, my friend Gerard McMann/G Tom Mac will be there for a Lost Boys reunion with film cast members Corey Haim, Brooke McCarter, Jamison Newlander, and Chance Corbitt. They will be doing an in-store signing and Q&A session at M-Theory Music Mission Hills from 2 to 4 PM. Afterwards, catch them at the Brick By Brick!

** Speaking of San Diego… I will, once again, be at this summer’s Comic-Con from July 21st/22nd until the 26th! Although I will be wandering all over the place like last year, you have better chances of catching me at the War Machine booth.

** Go check out Miss E’s blog. She just posted some Q&A that some of you might find interesting, and she posted some great insight into the music business a while ago… (For those who are not familiar with my friend Elissa, she used to work at some great, big-name recording studios, and is currently working as a tour manager for Jeffree Star).

** Speaking of music business stuff… A lot of you might have learned by now that a couple years ago, I contributed to a book called Tour:Smart, mainly put together by mastermind and great musician Martin Atkins. He is currently on tour with this book, holding seminars and such. Check for dates here!

** Still on topic of music related things, if you are in NYC this weekend (ahem, Danny)… go check out my buddy Rami Dearest!

** Check out my friend Beth’s blog (Wicked Affair) for some rad artsy things. She just posted this awesome jacket that I am now in love with.

And with all of that being said, I think I have given enough links for all of you for the day, yeah?

Elissa did these of us and some of our friends. I thought they were cute and figured I’d repost:

For more, visit her blog…

Put on random:

• Dommin – “I Still Lost”
• In This Moment – “Ashes”
• The Cult – “Painted on my Heart”
• Jeffree Star – “Starstruck (f. Danger Radio)”
• Kelly Osbourne – “Papa Don’t Preach”
• Nylon Pink – ” Hello Drama”
• Lady Gaga – “Beautiful, Dirty, Rich”
• Hyro da Hero – “Glimpse into New America”
• Fear Cult – “Boys and Girls (Floor Slammer Mix)”
• Five Finger Death Punch – “Never Enough”
• Justin Timberlake – “Lovestoned/I Think She Knows Interlude”
• Long Since Forgotten – “Posters on the Wall”
• Lunar Fiction – “Le Cabaret”
• Madonna – “Jump”

We all have to enjoy the silliness:

(featuring myself, Jeffree Star, Miss E, Alicia Way, and Davey Suicide…. hahahahaha)

Sorry it’s been a few days since I’ve blogged about anything at all… I’ve been in the process of moving!

As some of you might have caught on by now, I’ve been moving to a sweet spot in North Hollywood…. and I’m still moving stuff back and forth. Hopefully be done by this weekend and go back to my regular babbling!

On a quick note, my friend Cheyne bought some fun playing cards for me while he was on tour with Jeffree Star:

I’ve had a lot of emails and MySpace messages recently from those who still can’t see why I am AGAINST the passing of Prop 8.

One of the things mentioned was, “Sarah, why do you care? It doesn’t even effect you.”

For those thinking that– that’s where you’re wrong. So very, very wrong.

Some of my closest friends are gay. Some of my former tour managers who have taken VERY great care of me on the road are gay. Some of my own blood relatives are gay. These people that I LOVE… are gay. And you know what? Even if I didn’t have a homosexual that I was personally connected to in my life… that doesn’t change the fact that this Prop is just wrong.

If you are still looking for better explained arguments, then please take the time to read the following blog a very dear friend of mine had posted in mid-October:

Today is National Coming Out Day so I have a little secret for you:

I’M A FUCKING FAGGOT!

And I’m proud of it. I barely ever talk politics but I’m putting down my Louis Vuitton for a moment to be real with you.

There are ballot initiatives all across the country trying to deny equal rights to gays and lesbians. Not special rights – equal rights. No one is asking for an “I suck cock” tax break. All gay marriage initiatives do is provide the same rights and protections to gay couples as straight couples. Denying anyone rights, such as being able to visit your loved one in the hospital, is inhumane. If these laws were to ban mixed-race couples or inter-faith marriage or any of the other differences that make people unique, would it have such strong support?

There is strong support to give gays equal rights and its coming from people of all sexualities. Everyone should come together for tolerance. Newly married hot hetero Pete Wentz and all of Fall Out Boy donated money to the No on Prop 8 fight in California. The sexiest straight man on the planet – Brad Pitt – gave money. They know its not about protecting rights for their marriages but extending the rights they already enjoy to the deserving and loving gay couples that don’t have the same protection. Pete Wentz could be sitting at home with his pregnant wife and not care about the rights of gays. He’s not gay so it doesn’t affect him. Brad Pitt could be chasing after his 16 children and not bothering to fight for someone else’s happiness. But they, and many others both famous and not, are fighting for the rights of gays even though they, as married straight people, already have the rights gays are fighting to receive.

A lot of the support is based around faith. Well, like it or not, we’re not a Christian nation. If we allow one religion’s view to legislate the rights of all our citizens, where does it stop? If gays can’t get married because “God made Adam and Eve”, then why doesn’t the government revoke citizenship status for anyone not Christian? If we’re going to legislate Christianity, lets burn the Natural History Museum down for having skeletons of dinosaurs. Hell, burning is fun, lets go back to burning witches since the Bible says you can’t suffer a witch to live. Maybe Congress can set up some stakes and we can burn all the Wiccans. That’s equality!

That is not how this country works. There is a video by the Yes on Prop 8 camp that gets up in arms that San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom says gay marriage is going to “happen whether you like it or not.” And you know what? That is true. Just like women got voting rights and black people finally got the right to sit wherever they want on the bus. Equality will happen whether bigots want it to or not and that is a BEAUTIFUL thing. As these old assholes who were raised in a culture were hating gays was acceptable finally do the world a favor and drop fucking dead, their children who grew up watching Wil and Grace will take over and equality WILL happen. But we have to fight for it because that day could be 30 years from now but with our voices raised, it could be tomorrow.

Connecticut just became the 3rd state in the nation to make gay marriage a reality for the many loving couples that live there. Again, the bigots who are behind the Yes on Prop 8 campaign posted this very deceptive video where a little girl comes home from school and happily tells her mother she learned in school today that two princes can get married and when she grows up she can marry a princess if she wants. Really cute, right? What an amazing message for tolerance and equity. But no, promoting tolerance and acceptance of everyone’s lifestyles in schools is something to be feared and avoided! I personally don’t think schools should teach anything about marriage – gay or straight – because that is a family matter. But schools should absolutely promote tolerance and acceptance of all. Or should we not learn about anyone who is different from us? Should we stop teaching white school children about Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks? Should only the deaf, dumb, and blind be able to learn about Helen Keller? Hell, if you have a vag then you get to skip out on most of American History because you don’t need to know about our Founding Fathers. You should just be barefoot, pregnant in the kitchen making me a fucking sandwich. And lets not talk about that Ghandi dude. He’s not the same as me so obviously nothing he said can have any value on my life!

This “defense of marriage” crap is largely based on a bunch of bullshit. A few weeks ago at a Senate hearing on equal family benefits for gay and lesbian federal workers, Howard Weizmann referenced the plot of “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry” as evidence the program would be scammed. Since that movie was about two STRAIGHT guys scamming the system, don’t you think it would prove heterosexuals are more likely to commit fraud? Oh wait, its not proving anything because its A FUCKING MOVIE! What’s next, dictating our education policy based on Ferris Buller’s Day Off? How about giving a copy of Tropic Thunder to our troops in Iraq and telling them to copy that?

Oh and speaking of gays in the military, fuck your Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Being gay shouldn’t be some secret shame. We allow people of every color and creed in our nation’s armed forces. Why should who you fuck make any difference? The government, based on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell fired Arabic and Farsi translators in the middle of a war with groups that primarily speak those languages. Even though we are desperately in need of competent translators to help us figure out terrorists threats, what hole you stick your dick in or if you’re getting dicked at all is more important to the government than national security. This report goes back to 1998 so is it so outrageous to think that maybe if we had a competent translator working on the pre-9/11 chatter that tragedy could have been avoided? Is what goes on in someone’s bedroom so important that we’d put the nation at risk because of it?

Denying gays their rights is NOT defending marriage. Gays are not mounting a crusade to make sure heteros can’t get married. We are simply asking for the same LEGAL rights they receive. That is the issue at hand. Marriage is not just a union between you, your spouse, and God. The government grants you a whole slew of rights to go along with it and it is simply wrong to deny these rights to a group of people for any reason. And civil unions are NOT enough. Separate but equal did not work for racial issues and it will not work for issues based on sexuality. I’m sure the water at the “colored’s only” fountain was just fine but I’m sure that it was a bitter drink for everyone who had to swallow it knowing that they weren’t “good enough” to drink from the same fountains as their fellow white citizens. Intolerance and bigotry is intolerance and bigotry no matter how you label it. A consolation prize is not good enough. This is about erasing intolerance from our law books. There is no legal reason why gay people should not have the same exact rights as everyone else. None.

Intolerance should be legislated against. Just like voting rights have been granted to all citizens instead of just white landed males. Just like people who are killed based on their skin color are charged with a hate crime. I have a tattoo of a hate crime victim – Matthew Shepard – on my shoulder. He was murdered because he was gay – no other reason – and it is still not considered a hate crime because gays are not currently protected by hate crime legislation. How on earth the murder of Matthew Shepard, which was clearly motivated solely based on his sexuality, is not a hate crime is beyond me. I memorialized him in a tattoo and I have him to ‘watch my back’; a sad reminder that until this nation is more tolerant that I have to watch myself because I’m gay and some hateful bigot could hurt me too.

Yeah, I’m fucking fabulous. I have great cars, amazing clothes, wonderful fans, and a great life. But I still can’t marry my boyfriend and get the same protection the poorest redneck in a trailer park has. No amount of money can buy me that right. No amount of fame can protect me from a bigot trying to hurt me just because I like men. For all I have, for as lucky as I am, myself and thousands of other gay men and women just like me are lacking the same basic rights guaranteed to the straight world.

So PLEASE, if there is a gay marriage initiative on the ballot in your state, please vote for EQUAL rights and vote to give gays the SAME rights as everyone else! Vote NO on Prop 8 in California! Vote NO on Prop 102 in Arizona! Anywhere you are, vote to give gays and lesbians the same rights as everyone else!