Rufus! Rufus!! Rufus!!! :-) blaurosen and I saw Rufus Wainwright for the fourth time on Saturday night. It was so wonderful. I'm still riding the high. Clip of the incredible number he did as his encore (not from our show, obvi): Get Happy, in which he's in drag as Judy Garland in sort-of drag. Choreography completely faithful to the original, from Summer ( Read more... )

All by myself, with the piano at the house where I babysit and a pencil and some paper, I figured out the accordion part of Rufus Wainwright's "Hometown Waltz." I pecked it out on the piano, wrote down the notes, figured out the measures and note counts and drew myself little music paper and put notes on it. And then I came home and hauled out the ( Read more... )

I want to take Rufus Wainwright and (in an unevil way) shrink him down so he'll fit in my coat pocket and I can carry him everywhere, and he would sing to me for all time and we would be best friends and I would shrink any boy he liked down to pocket-size too so he wouldn't be lonely and I would love him and pet him and call him My Darling Rufus ( Read more... )

What a week! blaurosen and I are off to see Rufus Wainwright again tonight!

Laura and I saw Rufus Wainwright again on Friday night. 'Twas lovely. He played all by himself all evening, which was a very different vibe from the show in February. I could run on and on about how wonderful Rufus is, but I'll just say that I find it endlessly endearing that the man always gets mixed up in the middle of "Hallelujah." So, so cute. ( Read more... )

So I'll be brief. I've gone into a bit of Internet hibernation the last week or so. Work is busy, outside work is busy, sleep continues to be a requirement... Just not enough time in the day.

1. Saw Rufus Wainwright Friday night. It was amazing. See Laura's run-downif you want the skinny. Short version: We love Rufus. He rocks our world ( Read more... )