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Cho Dependent is available now, with an instant digital download for all packages. Album features Tegan and Sara, Tommy Chong, Ben Lee, Brendan Benson, Fiona Apple, Andrew Bird, Jon Brion, Garrison Starr, Grant Lee Phillips, Ani DiFranco, Meghan Toohey, Rachael Yamagata.

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Asian Adjacent and The Business of Cho by Grant-Lee Phillips

Few people have the supernatural powers of persuasion of Margaret Cho. After collaborating on music for Cho Dependent, she got me to strum the very exotic and scatological “Shit-Tar” in her music video Eat Shit & Die while three dancing turds did high kicks about the stage. This summer I found myself in a small cage dressed in leather, on a sushi table wearing an octopus and finally with Margaret, reenacting scenes from Miss Saigon on a dolly. That’s just one day in the life with Margaret.

As a professional, I had certain concerns before I went in. I asked if my hair would be ironed. Margaret assured me that it would and we were good to go! I never had it done before but this was going to be a big video production with dancers and smoke and catering. They’d definitely have a flat iron on set. This obsession began months earlier when Margaret casually mentioned wanting to make a video for Asian Adjacent and that I could be the Ryuichi Sakamoto character, like in Madonna’s Rain video. That guy’s got amazing hair. Damn him! This was going to require some incredible acting on my part to summon that kind of whale bone straightness. A wig was never an option for a Method guy like me.

The other thing you realize when you make a music video is how you really feel about a song. You’re going to lip-sync to it a few thousand times before you’re allowed to take off whatever harness you’re hanging from and they give you food. It helps to love the song. I LOVE Asian Adjacent. The fact that it was inspired by Margaret’s mistaken assumption that I was of some Asian ethnicity ( I’m actually Creek ) makes it all the more genius and flattering. It’s a seductive recording that could hold it’s own on any dance floor. Margaret delivered an incredible vocal to begin with. It’s was a dream to write with her and a delight to produce the track. Carmen Rizzo also brought it up to a whole other level, with his beats and exotic textures. Enter Tani Ikeda who directed the video. Tani found in Asian Adjacent equal portions of beauty, absurdity and bite. She even cut out my fat parts! If you’re going to spend a day in cage you couldn’t find funnier, harder working people to share it with.

Adjacently yours,
Grant-Lee Phillips

Margaret Cho – Asian Adjacent – featuring Grant Lee Phillips from Margaret Cho on Vimeo.

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“Asian Adjacent” is from Margaret’s Grammy-nominated comedy music album, “Cho Dependent.”
Get the song on iTunes here.
Get it on CD or Vinyl with automatic download of the whole album, from Margaret!

Posted on 1 November 2011 | 9:25 am

Asian Adjacent music video!

This gem of a video was directed by Tani Ikeda and stars me and Grant Lee Phillips and some amazing dancers! We shot this in downtown LA in July on a single soundstage – really like an old school MTV music video and it was very exciting to be styled in all these incredible looks and costumes. I really love when Grant is in the cage – very goth and ominous! During the sushi scene I ended up eating a piece of tuna that had been on my leg for several hours, and it had warmed up to my body temperature. There was no soy sauce on it or anything, and it seemed to have my body odor as well as some lotion and glitter on it, and I ended up eating it and then I couldn’t think about anything else for the entire day except that I ate it. I didn’t actually get sick from it, but it was a pretty intense fish experience. I haven’t had sushi since. But I love this video and this song. Much thanks to the incredibly talented Tani and Grant and everyone in this video!

Margaret Cho – Asian Adjacent – featuring Grant Lee Phillips from Margaret Cho on Vimeo.

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“Asian Adjacent” is from Margaret’s Grammy-nominated comedy music album, “Cho Dependent.”
Get the song on iTunes here.
Get it on CD or Vinyl with automatic download of the whole album, from Margaret!

Posted on 31 October 2011 | 10:10 am

Cho Dependent screening at NewFest – NYC

After three exciting screenings in Honolulu (at the Rainbow Film Festival), San Francisco (at the Frameline Festival) and Los Angeles (at Outfest) we are honored to bring Margaret’s new concert film, “Cho Dependent,” to NewFest in NYC on July 22nd!

Filmed during a live performance at the Tabernacle in Atlanta, Georgia, “Cho Dependent” features Margaret’s uncensored uproarious views on sex, drugs, and rock & roll. Margaret skewers the Palins, Dancing with the Stars, “sexting,” her beloved mother, online porn, and marijuana in a gut busting performance of all new stand up and comedy songs from her Grammy-nominated album, “Cho Dependent.”

CHO DEPENDENT NEWFEST SCREENING
Friday, July 22 – 5:30pm
SVA 1
Tickets HERE!

Posted on 19 July 2011 | 5:22 pm

Cho Dependent 3 Day Sale – Pay What You Want!

Margaret is having a 3-day sale of her Grammy-nominated album, “Cho Dependent” and you can name your own price!

The “Sexting Bundle” includes the entire Grammy nominated album, plus 2 bonus tracks (”No Offense” and “Mazel Tov” – both featuring Garrison Starr). If you like what you hear, tell your friends: if 500 people participate in the next 3 days, everyone will also receive a copy of the new unreleased song “Sexting – featuring Margaret Cho” from the fabulous Sherry Vine!

Pay what you want for the whole package. 20% of the proceeds go to support ImMEDIAte Justice, and the top donor wins a role in “Asian Adjacent,” Margaret’s next music video!

GET IT HERE.

Posted on 12 July 2011 | 2:40 pm

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