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Sunday, October 13, 2002

IDOL WORSHIP

yesterday, after i got my car washed, i drove over to beverly hills to see part two of the DAVID BOWIE exhibit at the MUSEUM of TELEVISION & RADIO . featured was footage of BOWIE from ‘73 thru ‘76, when he was at his most anorexic and most beautiful. and, just like my other visits to the exhibit, i cried watching this rare glimpse at my teenage idol. i love him so much. recently, i went back and discovered a wonderful song that i had previously overlooked on his BLACK TIE, WHITE NOISE album called MIRACLE GOODNIGHT. the song is currently my favorite song of the day.

that evening, i loaded up my minivan with a bunch of friends and we drove out to riverside, california. we went there to see this marathon drag show called FANT-A-SHE. it was two hours of non-stop fun featuring “dragons” from the surrounding area, impersonating every female pop idol from JUDY GARLAND to BEYONCE KNOWLES.

while en route to the riverside municipal auditorium, where the show was being held, i got a call from my friend CARLOS in miami, who was having dinner with MARIAH CAREY. i answered i the phone and he says “MARIAH wants to say hi.” she gets on and tells me that CARLOS has given her a ton of HELLO KITTY t-shirts and stuff that she has never seen before and that she’s tempted to go into the bathroom and put it all on. i told her that i was excited to hear her new album, and she asked me if i had heard the single. i said “yes, i love it !” i told her that i was driving down the riverside freeway, on my way to a drag show, and then she said we’ll have to get together and do “something fun” sometime. the whole time i was talking to her, TOM was leaning in from the backseat, with his ear to my earpiece, trying to listen in on the conversation. later, he said that he was so excited, he could have just popped. MARIAH is to TOM, what BOWIE is to me.

when i was 13, BOWIE articulated all the feelings of alienation that i had, but wasn’t yet able to express. so, when i see the old tv clips of him, an overwhelming sense of love and compassion comes over me for the 13 year old who still lives inside.

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