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VIDEO: Icelandic Pop Beauty's "Action Man" Has "Big Strong Hands," Is A Hit With American Fans

Icelandic pop star Hafdis Huld, former member of GusGus and featured vocalist for trip-hop god Tricky, recently blew through the U.S for a quick debut mini-tour. The hit of the trip? Her slyly sexy "Action Man" (who's the mysterious neighbor with "big strong hands"?). VIDEO

Other audience favorites were her timely (at least to Broadway fans, anyway) ode to Spiderman "Kongulo" (Icelandic for "spider"), and her album's feel-good  title track, "Synchonised Swimmers," both of which were #1 pop hits for Hafdis back home.

And they loved her sweely funny unplugged cover of Beyoncé's “Single Ladies!” VIDEO

Often compared to sister singers like Sia, Kate Nash, and Cerys Matthews, Hafdis says of of the inevitable comparisons to Bjork, "She’s a megastar-of course you’re going to compare me to the only Icelandic singer most people have heard of!"

A comparison Hafdis does like came from Tricky, after she was featured on "Cross To Bear" from his 2008 album, Knowle West Boy," “He says I sound like Jesus – that has to be good!”

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VIDEO: The Saint At Large's MAY DAY Bash: A Pagan Poles, Hands/Legs In The Air, “Ding-Dong The Witch Is Dead” Affair!

It took a minute, but here's the cute post party video and slideshow from The Saint At Large presents MAY DAY.

The Sunday tea dance featured music by UK remix superstars Bimbo Jones and Freemasons—who made their own British invasion the week of the royal wedding—to DJ together for the first time ever at this special event. Making it even more special was that it was the NYC debut for DJ Bimbo Jones.

Originally a pre-Christian ritual celebrating fertility and Spring, MAY DAY was the perfect follow-up to the previous Saint At Large event, Rites XXXII: The Black® Party (March 19), held annually on the Vernal Equinox. It was also the anniversary of the 1988 closing of The Saint At Large namesake nightclub, The Saint. (Click here to watch episodes of the YouTube documentary series Stories Of The Saint.)

A floral theme, stellar DJs sets and acrobatic go-go boys (and girls) made for an appropriately celebratory MAY DAY, considering Bin Laden's demise during the party, the ecstatic energy around the May Poles was truly a moment to savour (savior?) forever.

More about the party and DJs here. Video above, pix below. (Share/Embed Codes for both after the jump.)

Missed it? You can still stream newlly posted DJ mixes from Bimbo Jones and Freemasons from www.saintatlarge.com. 

PRESS RELEASE: Gaydar.net Gets The Boys Cruisin' for a Cruisin' With $6000 Booty, 2000 Booties

New York, NY, May 18, 2011 – This week gay dating megasite at Gaydar.net launched Gaydar Passport, “your year-round ticket to paradise," with a kick-off luxury cruise giveaway worth nearly $6000! (Now, that's a booty big enough to make a snorkler out of any landlubber!)

The prize? Passage for two on the RSVP Vacations Grand Mediterranean Cruise. The extravagant package includes Deluxe Verandah Stateroom accomodations, meals and on board entertainment aboard the Holland America ship Nieuw Amsterdam plus up to £1000 (about $1600) toward travel to the departing port. Watch the promo video here.

Sailing July 9 – 16 out of Barcelona, the seven day cruise includes four countries (Spain, Tunisia, Italy, France), five cities (Tunis, Palermo, Rome, Florence, Marseilles) and approximately 2000 Speedo-clad, spritzer sipping, eager to, um, socialize booties. Neptune never had it so good. Or easy.

To enter, new and current Gaydar.net members need only register via their Gaydar profile by midnight May 25, following the instructions on the Gaydar Passport website.

The trip is just the first from a year-rpound series of luxury prizes being offered by Gaydar Passport, which throughout the year will give away exciting and exotic luxury travel prizes. As if you needed another excuse to cruise for/with boys.