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Tuesday, April 05, 2005 MIMI THE CAT IS ALIVE!the confab was a complete success, aside from the fact that JAMES couldn't make it on account of his grandfather dying. i was like "get your priorities together, mister! your grandfather is dead, and there's nothing you can do about that, but MIMI the cat is alive!" in my opening remarks, i said that we are all here because we love MARIAH CAREY, and having said that, you are all free to speak openly and candidly because this is a safe space. we will not hold it against you if you say something we don't agree with. you can make jokes, rant or rave. gentlemen start your engines! ARI GOLD was our keynote speaker with an address entitled "i am me(me)". he talked about how our pop stars are extensions of ourselves, and we should give them plenty of room to make mistakes, experiment and grow, thus allowing ourselves the same leeway. as a case in point, he noted his obsession with the CHARMBRACLET album and how he kept listening to it over and over, hoping it would somehow turn into the album he wanted her to make at that time. he said he never fully accepted the album on it's own terms, which he now says was his mistake. by accepting CHARMBRACLET for what it is, he is in fact accepting himself, on a core level, for who he is. bravo, lambs! then, we ate cheeseburgers while watching MARIAH: AROUND THE WORLD. since it was a special occasion, i even ate the bread on my burger and had a few fries! next up was the round table reading of MARIAH'S cover story in AMERICA magazine. me, ARI, TIM and LaHOMA each read a few paragraphs before passing the magazine to the next person. it was so much fun because we all knew how fucking sick and twisted the whole decadent evening was. 4 grown men having a MARIAH CAREY CONFERENCE... fucking outrageous! the last event was a round of the game LIST, in which each player gets to choose a category involving a facet of MARIAH'S career. i choose MARIAH collaborations: in 2 minutes each player writes down 5 people who have musically collaborated with MIMI. if another player writes down the same name as you, neither gets that point, so you have to be clever. we set the timer and i wrote 1. CAROLE KING 2. DRU HILL 3. BONE THUGS 4. MASE 5. LUTHER VANDROSS i scored 3 points because LaHOMA had LUTHER and ARI had CAROLE KING. at one point, we needed some accurate information about an MC DVD, so ARI went online to MARIAHDAILY.COM, the best MARIAH resource on the internet. we all busted up laughing when ARI pointed out that MARIAHDAILY.COM had copied an entry from my blog announcing our conference! it was so surreal. here we were at the conference as we're reading about us on another site. very mindblowing! the verdict: we love THE EMANCIPATION OF MIMI! buy it on april 12. WE BELONG TOGETHER is currently my #1 favorite song. . | Permalink 2009 RuCo, Inc.—All Rights Reserved |
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