The Affair

13 Apr 2013

The Unresolved Affair 13 April 2013

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Or The Unresolved [Sexual Tension] Affair, so to speak, because this week’s trope is the infamous unresolved sexual tension, and the song selections were inspired largely by songs which invoke UST & LUST-ful feelings.

Ken Hirai – Strawberry Sex

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNFMeMkYRLc?rel=0]

PJ & Duncan – If I Give You My Number

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Oa2kFB2zQc?rel=0]

Al Jarreau – Moonlighting

(for many people this show defined UST, and how to kill a show by resolving it)

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkrawE4dE5c?rel=0]

Kazuhito Murata – See You Again

(Kazuhito was the subject of a jukebox earlier this week)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTf5RuLDvPw?rel=0]
Isaac Hayes – The Look of Love (Live)

We at The Affair like to say that we do to television what Isaac Hayes does to the Burt Bacharach songbook, but we do have time constraints. So here is a classic Ike deconstruction of The Look of Love from 1973

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lo_r5GzPqE?rel=0]

The Midweek Affair came into its own this week, not only with the 2nd part of The Second Coming of Hugo, and the debut of MAR, but also with the new film anthology, The Squeeze by local gay filmmaker Johnny Lemon, who joined me in the studio.

Episode One of The Squeeze with Johnny Lemon: UST
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV26sVoFLSY]

Our closing jam session was from Tomita Lab & Hirokuni Tanaka of MAMALAID RAG.

Tomita Lab – Warm Rain (featuring Hirokuni Tanaka)

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6pWBzvmjws?rel=0]

(click here for a live version)

This edition of The Affair with Hikaru Freeman is also available in an ultra-portable podcast format