ack, i dont know how to respond! first you made me cry and then you made me laugh, so that by the time i came to the end of your post i was a mess of giggles and tears
oh my gosh, its so absolutely shattering what happened to klaus. like i said, i cant imagine how it must have felt to have been him in those days. especially when only months before the trajectory of his life seemed to be going nowhere but up. i read somewhere that klaus used to watch his videos in the spring of 1983 when he was housebound and had remarked to joey or somebody "this is what i used to do"--which would have been poignant coming from an old man looking back through the years at himself in his younger days, knowing he couldnt turn back the clock, but this was someone who was still young, who had only recently been doing these things, and who now was cruelly forced to come to terms with the fact that all of that was now forever relegated to an unrecoverable past. i just cant imagine what that would have been like. im glad at least joey arias, to his eternal credit, was a good friend until the end. i wish they had interviewed him for the Nomi Song.
the ending of the nomi song struck me as so sad when they replayed his sensation-making appearance at the new wave vaudeville show. it seemed to me a perfect summation of his career: he descended upon new york, seemingly out of nowhere, held everyone rapt, and then just as quickly as he came, he was gone. i love what the nice english man says about him: "he was just a very affecting little guy--who made a huge impression".
the thing about klaus was that he was just listening to his heart. so many people struggle with that, but for him it just seemed to come naturally. if he wanted to do something he did it, and he believed in what he did. and isnt that how we should all be? which is why it seems so extra cruel what happened to him.
the SNL performance was gold. they were all so great i didnt know who to watch. "three freaks in dresses" someone called it. lol. i wish i could see the full version of tvc15 somewhere.
where are you off to?!