Gabriel Romero - Actor  (www.gabrielromero.com)

" 'La Cucaracha.' In the summer, I'm like a cucuracha going from bar to bar."

 

 

Esera Tuaolo - ExFootBaller, Singer (www.eseratuaolo.com)

"Oldies, without a doubt. "My Girl." that song reminds me of my boyfriend, Mitchell, because he brings sunshine into my life."

 

 

Alec Mapa - Actor

"Ever since Connie and Carla I've gone show tune crazy. I'll be listening to Idina Menzel wail the score to Wicked and Lillias White holler "And Im telling You I'm not Going' on the Dreamgirls in Concert album. Don't tell me to shush  --- sing along!"

 

 

Reichen Lehmkuhl - Amazing Race Winner (Cbs.com Profile on Reichen and his partner Chip - link here)

"I can't live without my Ipod. I'll be listening to the Greatful Dead - like every summer."

 

                                                                                Todd Graff - Director

"I love Scissors Sister CD --- songs include 'Tits on the Radio" and a fabulous, dancy,trancy cover version of 'Comfortably Numb." They put the pink back into Pink Floyd."

 

 

Jason Stuart - Comic   (www.jasonstuart.com)

"I can't stop listening to the Mona Lisa soundtrack. I'm so in love with those 50's style typr of songs."

 

                                                                         Genesis Moses - Real world Cast (Boston)

"Evanescence - I love chick hard rock."

 

 

                                                                             Billy Bean - Ex Baseball Player (www.billybean.com)

"Any Don Henley song. I grew up in New Port Beach, and his voice makes me think of drinking a Corona on the beach and summer barbecues."

 

 

John Waters - Director ( site dedicated to Director and Artist John Water - link here)

"I don't have an Ipod. I'm scared to plug things in, especially on myself. I go to Provincetown every summer,  So 'summer in the City' would be my favorite summer song."

 

 

Peter Paige - Actor (Profile from Queer as Folk - Sho.com link here)

"New Fiona Apple. New George Michael. Vintage Kelly Clarkson. Anything by Rufus Wainwright. Gay enough for ya?"

 

Wilson Cruz - Actor (IMDb profile - link here)

"My favorite song is 'Harder to Breathe' by maroon 5. I can't turn that CD off. also JC Chaez's Schizophrenic."

 

 

     

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Music geeks spend weeks filling up their iPods. Shopkeepers pass the days praying that people spend. For  boutique-owning elites who don't have time to rip the new Stereolab CD, Lara Wiesenthal and her husband, Adesh Deosaran, have created Activaire, a customized iPod service designed to wash away the Muzak malaise. Founded in 1999, Activaire provides stores, boutiques, and restaurants with  soundtracks from around the world, hand-picked to complement the space and aura of the client's shop. The sound systems of New York boutiques like Issey Miyake, Jus-sara Lee, and Marithe + Francois Girbaud are hooked up to Activaire iPods (which are loaded with 30 hours of music and restocked every three months). Their knack for matching a client's mood with the right music led Wiesenthal and Deosaran to refer to themselves as music stylists.

"Some people take it really seriously and are a bit threatened by the idea, as though we're calling ourselves music dictators,"says Wiesenthal of the title. "But it's just a labor of love."

This month, the couple launched a new version of the service-Personal Activaire (available at activaire.com). For $150, subscribers are supplied a 10-album mix (roughly the same price per song as Apple's iTunes service) geared to their personal tastes. While having a stranger select music for you might be a tad offensive to vinyl-sniffing purists, Wiesenthal says her clients are actually being genuine. "They're the most open-minded individuals," she says. "They just wanna hear great music." Bart Blasengame

www.activaire.com www.apple.com/ipod

 

 

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