Emilia Sings "You're My World"

By West Village Bill

Starting at about one minute and 20 seconds into the trailer for Violet Tendencies that I embedded in my previous post, there are some snippets of a song with the lyrics "Your lips on my lips; your body heat lingers on me" that I was eager to hear more of. It turns out the singer is Emilia Rydberg, or just Emilia for short, and she performed that song, "You're My World," at last year's musical competition that selects Sweden's entry into the Eurovision Song Contest. I think it's lots of fun, with a '60s-girl-group vibe on the chorus.



Here's a more-polished version of the song, without much in the way of visuals:

Violet Tendencies

By West Village Bill

Last night, Tony and I caught Violet Tendencies, starring Mindy Cohn as a 40-year-old fruit fly who decides she needs to stop hanging out with her gay BFFs if she's ever going to find a man who loves her pussy too. It's a fun little rom-com that gets some points off for being too predictable. But it offers up a lot of laughs and some hunky eye candy—in particular, Sam Whitten as Riley. And Cohn is delightful as the self-described "oldest living fag hag."

I loved loved loved Cohn as Natalie Green on The Facts of Life growing up, and I kept waiting for one of her gay co-stars to break out with a Mrs. Garrett–like "Girls! Girls!" But that wink to the audience never happened. *sigh* Violet Tendencies has been extended through Nov. 18 at Quad Cinema.