Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Planet Two

Since Chris is in Cali, I took it upon myself to say some things.

ONE! - If you are not friends with Chris on the facebook, please seek him out. Bug him until he does something silly with it, like having a personality test. Maybe we can turn him into a zombie...

TWO! - Tom Waits. If you don't listen to him, start. This will aid in your hangover recovery. After you get into him, get trashed and wake up in a strange situation. I promise you you'll have the realization that, "God, I just woke up in the middle of a Tom Waits song..."

3 ? - The Nomi Song - a movie about the life and times of Klaus Nomi. I finally got to see it on the Sundance channel. He was a german who sang opera in a new wave band in the East Village in the late 70s and early 80s. He's most famous for singing backup for Bowie when good ol' David was on SNL.



Klaus is the one in the black singing backup. He's pretty amazing.

He was also an early victim of AIDS, or as it was horribly called then, "gay cancer". His friends didn't know if they could catch it by being around him. As a result, this wonderful artist died alone. A sad end to such a great man.



-ccmas
reporting from planet 2

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