Come see the 2010 Rocky Mountain Harmony Sweepstakes winners, Confidential, as we host the 2011 competition. It’s going to be at the Colorado Heights University is located at:
3001 S Federal Blvd.
Denver, CO 80236
2pm Sunday March 20

We’ll keep you updated as more information becomes available. For further information on the 2010 Champs Confidential, check out the homepage at cnfdntl.com for sound clips of the R&B and Funk a cappella group with original music and bumping covers.

Confidential Smooth and Soulful R&B and Funk

Plumbers of Rome Musical Comedy Trio

We’re planning a show with the National Harmony Sweepstakes Champions Plumbers of Rome! Now, all the noise you can get from just 3 guys is packed into a gut-laugh inducing, eardrum tickling, brain-massaging show. All the comedy you’d expect from the unpredictable trio mixed with thoughtfully crafted songs to satirize pop music and bully the envelope!

March 7

Dairy Center for the Arts

Ok, going to a foreign country and actually doing the travel are two different things. I’m enjoying an 8 hour layover in LAX on a ticket that “Cannot be changed to Stand-By” so look out, keyboard, here comes a post.

I’m fizzling in the afterglow of a visit to see my girlfriend who’s taken a job teaching in Taiwan for the year. We’re now about halfway through and I’ve now made 2 trips out there: once in October where I spent the majority of the time burning oil in her 125cc scooter in Hualien, a rural-ish part of eastern Taiwan, this time on a mini-tour through Bangkok and Phuket, Thailand, and then counter-clockwise around the pancreas/stomach shaped Taiwan. Here’s what I saw:

Dudes wearing moderately hip clothes that I assume were designed when the “Made in Taiwan” label was sewn on the American brands and then copied and manufactured for their own use…why not, right?! Here are the plans and materials for our style–promise you won’t steal the design?  Please! Ok, so men were frequently bordering on posh where the androgyny of high fashion starts to emerge. And by the way, for god’s sake rest-of-the-world, faux-hawks are done. Stop it. Also, stop frosting your hair. Definitely don’t frost a faux-hawk. It makes me get punchy.

Girls were dressed like they were ready for a workout or a casual dinner at a moment’s notice. Leggings (eh hem, “Je-ggings” which I still struggle to accept) with boots, striped shirts, and a jacket/sweater. Repeat as needed, ad infinitum, though not ad nauseum.

The thing that I found interesting was that what we consider a little “too-cool” in the US was almost commonplace–little cartoon kids on maps for the old-folks were rocking the look. And it didn’t seem thuggish. I don’t know, maybe it was the adorable giant sparkly-eyes. Ah ha–mayBE! Maybe the douche-y looking sun-glasses that guys insist on wearing like they’ll be throwing down a mean, intellectual rap on stage at any moment.

Also, gray is still cool, but we better come up with something to move out of this No-Good-Ideas under the guise of “Minimalist” stage. Juicy was playing some ads with balloons and confetti and it was kind of fantastic. Makes me think of the lame-ass marketing scheme from Valspar (see: High-Def Paint). I dare you to find a pixel on the wall you just painted…HA! Got ‘em.

On a serious note, I think people are becoming better at spotting “Designer” colors versus the pitfall of Ed Hardy’s prints (http://edhardyshop.com/)…Ed Hardy got really cool really fast because (I think) people saw vibrant colors and a legitimately interesting style (albeit not mine), but I think we came to the realization when it started showing up on every-freaking-thing that it’s just a print and there’s some lackey behind a recent version of Creative Suite resizing his image and hitting print…booo. The beauty I’m seeing in colors comes in the textiles, non-printed (or non-invasively). But as we get better at that, it comes down to fit, down to “little-extras,” down to lowest-bidder vs. 2nd lowest bidder…I think we’re starting to notice and I like that.

So it is now funny to me to see people that are obviously “trying” to look the part…boutique pants, outRAgeous vest, sunglasses on through the 9 hour flight; still not famous or worth anybody’s time…I’m wearing a sweater and corduroy pants and what amounts to linen flats…who am I to talk, right? I could just be justifying my not-so-high fashion, but hell if you are going to try for a 10 and fall around 8, you’re gonna look like a 6…So I’m a 6. 7 or 8 on a good day. And Sarah’s sky blue Ray-Bans (knock “it freaking” offs) still look legit in a not-so-high-quality digital camera.

Today’s suggestion to self and anybody out there. Chill out and wear what fits really well—and stop buying stupid shit that nobody cares about! I don’t like you more if you look like a jerk and just turn out to be a poser.

PS, poser is a 90s reference.