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Wednesday, September 29, 2004 CAMPBELL LOCKINGfor the past 3 weeks, i've been haunted by the music of TEVIN CAMPBELL. it started when i heard I'M READY on MICHELLE VISAGE' radio station in L.A. and ever since, at least one of he songs has been in heavy rotation in me head (CAN WE TALK, ALWAYS IN MY HEART, DON'T SAY GOODBYE GIRL). i never really got him the first time 'round 12 years ago, but now i worship him. it sucks that someone so talented can be discarded by "the industry" so easily. apparently, there was a nasty police entrapment scene, not unlike the GEORGE MICHAEL, men's bathroom conflama. the music lives on. . | Permalink Monday, September 27, 2004 RED-HOT & RUalright, i'm back to earth, but just for a moment. the past couple of weeks have been totally outrageous with work stuff and the release of my new album RUPAUL RED-HOT. during the week, i wake up at 3am and run a hot bubble bath as my oatmeal (w/ dried cranberries, cinnamon, splenda and rice milk) is cooking in the microwave. after breakfast and bath, i check my SHe-mails and get dressed to meet the car at 4:45 am. once at THE MIX102.7FM, i read the morning papers for a half hour before we go on the air at 5:30 am. the show ends at 9am, but i usually get out of there by 10am. this morning after work, i had a costume fitting with ZALDY at 10. on the way home, i hit my favorite salad bar and loaded up with yummy-yummy green stuff. when i get home, i attack the pile of unfinished business on my desk. today, it was getting the music video for "looking good..." duplicated for for outlets that service bars and nightclubs, editing photographs taken by DUANE CRAMER on the set of said music video and unpacking, preparing the costumes for next weekend's show in JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. yes, on weekends we go out of town to do my nightclub act. weekend before last, we were in SAVANNAH, GA & CHARLOTTE, NC. this past weekend, it was HALIFAX-NOVA SCOTIA, TORONTO and BOSTON. i had never been to HALIFAX and was very excited to finally go there. my mother's ancestors had come to ST. MARTINSVILLE, LOUISIANA from NOVA SCOTIA, so i'm glad i got see it. the people in CANADA are so lovely, i could live there in a heartbeat. club LUST in TORONTO sent a man to pick us up at the airport who literally made me feel as giddy as a school girl. he was this incredibly gorgeous 6'6" GREEK dude called JASON who looked like a young TOM SELLECK, with the broadest shoulders i've ever seen on a man. even as i write about him now, my heart flutters. he was smart and present and he was to be my bodyguard for the night... boy how i wished that were true in the most literal of ways. he drove a HUMMER, which was fun to ride in, but ultimately frustrating because the seats are so far apart...i wanted to be closer to him. TORONTO has the best used CD stores in the world, and (given the limited time i had) i tried my best to take full advantage of that fact. i bought about 10 used CD's in TORONTO before it was time for my beautification process. a couple of the more precious finds were BRANDI WELLS' WATCH OUT and CATHY DENNIS' AM I THE KINDA GIRL? MATT MOSS emailed me at the beginning of the year and offered his services as a remix artist. i took him up on his offer and the result was some really awesome remixes for some tracks on my new CD. MATT lives in SOMERVILLE, MASS...so when i got to BOSTON, i naturally called him up so we could go USED CD shopping on NEWBURY STREET. we had never met, and i was happy to find a smart, funny, clever and lovely man. i now have MATT to thank for making me a fan of BOSTON. i've been there several times, but i never seemed to click with it...until saturday. the day was sunny, the people were beautiful and the used CD shopping was bountiful. on MATT's suggestion, i picked up JONI MITCHELL' COURT AND SPARK...WOW!!! upon listening, i recognized the album immediately from the 30 years i spent smoking pot in urban dwellings around the world. i haven't gotten high in 5 years, but soaking in a bubble bath in my suite at the RITZ-CARLTON while listening to the sweet sound of JONI brought it all back to me. ahhh! the power of music. in one of the magazines we picked up in BOSTON, there was an ad for my october appearance in a nearby city which eluded that i would attend a "VIP meet & greet" prior to the performance. that was news to me because i never do "VIP meet & greets" before a performance (think about it, me, getting into drag 2 hours earlier than the 4 hours it already takes me...yeah, right!). based on my past experience (and there have been many), this shady tactic is an old trick to wrangle more money out of unsuspecting fans, and make me the bad guy when i don't show up for an event i know nothing about. in the future, y’all please check the NEWS page of my website for confirmed appearances. Dear Ru, This weekend I had some old friends from L.A. visit, and I couldn't resist telling you about thier visit. Now these boys are oldschoolers from "The Catch" in L.A. (The only gay bar on the planet that ever made this little white boy slightly intimidated on the dance floor). If you know of "The Catch", you know those sistas take thier music damn serious. So when Tati (Tatianna) came to town this weekend, I was just dying to get a review of your album from her. This request was met with typical "Ferocious Queen" attitude. "I doubt any Drag Queen can break down the beats I need" was his first responce to my request. But, though ferocious she may be, Tati also understands the rules of being a good house guest. So she heeded my request, and took your cd, my cd-player and headphones, went to the living room, and asked not to be disturbed. A little over an hour later, Tati came back to the den, and made this simple announcement: "Not only did Ru pee for this.... Honey that bitch pulled over on the side of the Highway, and popped a squat for that Pee"!!!!!! No higher compliment could be given. Thought you'd like to know. Wayne . . | Permalink Monday, September 20th, 2004Put Away Your Hankies...a message from Michael Moore Dear Friends, Enough of the handwringing! Enough of the doomsaying! Do I have to come there and personally calm you down? Stop with all the defeatism, OK? Bush IS a goner -- IF we all just quit our whining and bellyaching and stop shaking like a bunch of nervous ninnies. Geez, this is embarrassing! The Republicans are laughing at us. Do you ever see them cry, "Oh, it's all over! We are finished! Bush can't win! Waaaaaa!" Hell no. It's never over for them until the last ballot is shredded. They are never finished -- they just keeping moving forward like sharks that never sleep, always pushing, pulling, kicking, blocking, lying. They are relentless and that is why we secretly admire them -- they just simply never, ever give up. Only 30% of the country calls itself "Republican," yet the Republicans own it all -- the White House, both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court and the majority of the governorships. How do you think they've been able to pull that off considering they are a minority? It's because they eat you and me and every other liberal for breakfast and then spend the rest of the day wreaking havoc on the planet. Look at us -- what a bunch of crybabies. Bush gets a bounce after his convention and you would have thought the Germans had run through Poland again. The Bushies are coming, the Bushies are coming! Yes, they caught Kerry asleep on the Swift Boat thing. Yes, they found the frequency in Dan Rather and ran with it. Suddenly it's like, "THE END IS NEAR! THE SKY IS FALLING!" No, it is not. If I hear one more person tell me how lousy a candidate Kerry is and how he can't win... Dammit, of COURSE he's a lousy candidate -- he's a Democrat, for heavens sake! That party is so pathetic, they even lose the elections they win! What were you expecting, Bruce Springsteen heading up the ticket? Bruce would make a helluva president, but guys like him don't run -- and neither do you or I. People like Kerry run. Yes, OF COURSE any of us would have run a better, smarter, kick-ass campaign. Of course we would have smacked each and every one of those phony swifty boaty bastards down. But WE are not running for president --Kerry is. So quit complaining and work with what we have. Oprah just gave 300 women a... Pontiac! Did you see any of them frowning and moaning and screaming, "Oh God, NOT a friggin' Pontiac!" Of course not, they were happy. The Pontiacs all had four wheels, an engine and a gas pedal. You want more than that, well, I can't help you. I had a Pontiac once and it lasted a good year. And it was a VERY good year. My friends, it is time for a reality check. 1. The polls are wrong. They are all over the map like diarrhea. On Friday,one poll had Bush 13 points ahead -- and another poll had them both tied. There are three reasons why the polls are b.s.: One, they are polling "likely voters." "Likely" means those who have consistently voted in the past few elections. So that cuts out young people who are voting for the first time and a ton of non-voters who are definitely going to vote in THIS election. Second, they are not polling people who use their cell phone as their primary phone. Again, that means they are not talking to young people pollster John Zogby revealed last week You are being snookered if you believe any of these polls. 2. Kerry has brought in the Clinton A-team. Instead of shunning Clinton (as Gore did), Kerry has decided to not make that mistake. 3. Traveling around the country, as I've been doing, I gotta tell ya, there is a hell of a lot of unrest out there. Much of it is not being captured by the mainstream press. But it is simmering and it is real. Do not let those well-produced Bush rallies of angry white people scare you. Turn off theTV! (Except Jon Stewart and Bill Moyers -- everything else is just a sugar-coated lie). 4. Conventional wisdom says if the election is decided on "9/11" (the fear of terrorism), Bush wins. But if it is decided on the job we are doing in Iraq, then Bush loses. And folks, that "job," you might have noticed, has descended into the third level of a hell we used to call Vietnam. There is no way out. It is a full-blown mess of a quagmire and the body bags will sadly only mount higher. Regardless of what Kerry meant by his original war vote, he ain't the one who sent those kids to their deaths -- and Mr. and Mrs. Middle America knows it. Had Bush bothered to show up when he was in the "service" he might have somewhat of a clue as to how to recognize an immoral war that cannot be "won." All he has delivered to Iraq was that plasticized turkey last Thanksgiving. It is this failure of monumental proportions that is going to cook his goose come this November. So, do not despair. All is not over. Far from it. The Bush people need you to believe that it is over. They need you to slump back into your easy chair and feel that sick pain in your gut as you contemplate another four years of George W. Bush. They need you to wish we had a candidate who didn't windsurf and who was just as smart as we were when WE knew Bush was lying about WMD and Saddam planning 9/11. It's like Karl Rove is hypnotizing you --"Kerry voted for the war...Kerry voted for the war...Kerrrrrryyy vooootted fooooor theeee warrrrrrrrrr..." Yes...Yes...Yesssss....He did! HE DID! No sense in fighting now...what I need is sleep...sleeep...sleeeeeeppppp... WAKE UP! The majority are with us! More than half of all Americans are pro-choice, want stronger environmental laws, are appalled that assaultweapons are back on the street -- and 54% now believe the war is wrong. YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO CONVINCE THEM OF ANY OF THIS -- YOU JUST HAVE TO GIVE THEM A RAY OF HOPE AND A RIDE TO THE POLLS. CAN YOU DO THAT? WILL YOU DO THAT? Just for me, please? Buck up. The country is almost back in our hands. Not another negative word until Nov. 3rd! Then you can bitch all you want about how you wish Kerry was still that long-haired kid who once had the courage to stand up for something. Personally, I think that kid is still inside him. Instead of the wailing and gnashing of your teeth, why not hold out a hand to him and help the inner soldier/protester come out and defeat the forces of evil we now so desperately face. Do we have any other choice? Yours, Michael Moore www.michaelmoore.com mmflint@aol.com . | Permalink Thursday, September 16, 2004 Dear Ru,Checked in to your website (Looks great by the way), and read your blog about how badly things are going with the election. It pisses me off too, but I hope against hope that Kerry (who is known for coming on strong at the end of campaigns) still has some fight left in him!! What hurts me even more than that, is to know that the hatred that the Repbulicans are spreading is so pervasive that it can even make a pioneer in The Power of Love, question loves power over hatred. Since I doubt you will actually get to read this, let me meander on and tell you a story. As a young man, the early 90s were an incredibly difficult period in my life. I finally had summoned the courage to "Come Out", but it was at a time when so many of my friends were either dying or had just learned that they too were HIV positive. The Christmas of 93 was a turning point for me. By that time, I was literally living life in a full blown depression, my friends were dying, and even though I didn't have the courage at the time to get tested, I was still convinced that I would, like my friends, die young. It was a time filled with fear and hatred. And I hated the whole world!!! One night before Christmas a friend (who unfortunately is no longer with us) came for a visit. He was always a huge Christmas buff and sick or not, he always played Santa to the hilt. And on that year he had discovered a new song, It was your Rendition of "Little Drummer Boy", and God how he loved that song. A few years later I lost my friend to complications from HIV. He passed away shortly after Christmas. On one of my last visits to him, I brought along your HO HO HO Christmas album. We played your song "Hard Candy Christmas" over and over. I will never forget him telling me that the lyrics of that song really spoke to him. How he felt that he was "Barely getting through tomorrow, but still I won't let sorrow bring me way down". He lived his life, and no matter the pain, be it from sickness or hatred, he never allowed his spirit to be defeated. Even in death he was victorious, for even with all the hatred he had seen in his life, he refused to become hateful. He lived and died believing in love. I hope that when times are tough, you continue to speak out and fight against hatred, but more importantly I hope you can reconnect with the power of love,. For without it we are only left to hate. And I have seen enough hatred to last lifetimes. Thanks for listening Wayne | Permalink Tuesday, September 14, 2004 FUCK!!!i’ve come to the realization that we’ve lost the election come november. the republicans are just better when it comes to running a (smear) campaign, and KERRY just isn’t tenacious enough (which is what i loved about DEAN). it’s pretty fuckin’ sad when you’ve got all this great material in your favor and you can’t even make it work for you. being politically correct and polite is so 90’s. it’s a new day and it’s time to fight fire with fire. i felt the same way last april when GLAAD’s response to the rapper 50 CENT’s anti-gay remarks was from a “take the higher road” standpoint. they should have called a spade a spade and said that 50 is a scared, ignorant idiot, and explained what his comments meant from a psychological standpoint. why does fear have to win every fucking time? do i still believe in the power of love? . | Permalink Wednesday, September 08, 2004 “I’M WALKING FOR NUMBERS...10...10...10...10...”my whole family came to see me off on saturday, and i served up the gumbo that JONNO made and froze back in january. it tasted even better than it did when it was fresh. it was a great day. the kids splashed around in the pool and we sat around the dining room table playing SCATAGORIES (ok, that whole sentence sounded like a shit joke). i moved to L.A. six years ago, and the last three of those years were the first time me and my sisters lived in such close proximity since the late 70’s. i will always cherish the time i spent in CALIFORNIA, being near my sisters, all the friends i made, and the reconnection i made with myself...but now, it’s time to get back to work (bitch!). how apropos that i would start my new job at THE MIX 102.7 FM on the day after LABOR DAY? when i did “morning-drive” here in NYC eight years ago, it was a total fluke. i never imagined i would go to work in an office building at 4am everyday for over a year, but i did it with much success and lots of sleep deprivation. this time, my sleeping habits (among other things) have changed and i’m prepared for what’s ahead of me. the music video for my new single “looking good, feeling gorgeous” will be ready tomorrow. i saw some footage last friday and it looks sickening! you are so going to gag when you see it!!! the album drops september 21st. pre-order her on AMAZON.COM . | Permalink 2009 RuCo, Inc.—All Rights Reserved |
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