June 15th, at Carnegie Hall. Rufus Wainwright re-creates the legendary 1961 Judy Garland Concert

Q: Do you think younger audiences and your fans will go for this?

A: I don't think Judy is for everyone, but I do think that I am.

Last nights show at Carnegie Hall was AMAZING- magical even. Here are some photos and video from my view in the 4th row!!! I never thought id hear rufus singing "Thats entertainment!" and loved Marthas version of "Stormy Weather" Adam, you are right. I can throw out all of my CDs too and just live off of the memory of this show....





yea, i dont know how to rotate video.....

Some of us have managed to hate what "they" have made of us. Inevitably we see the other as the reflection of the occasion of our own self division. The others have become installed in our hearts and we call them ourselves. Each person, not being himself either to himself or the other, just as the other is not himself to himself or to us, in being another for another recognizes himself in the other, nor the other in himself. Hence being at least a double absence, haunted by the ghost of his own murdered self, no wonder modern man is addicted to other persons, and the more addicted, the less satisfied, the more lonely. For now love becomes a further ailienation, a further act of violence. My need is a need to be needed, my longing a longing to be longed for. How have we the courage to wish to live, how can we make a moment to preserve ourselves from death, in a world where love is provoked by a lie and consists solely in the need of having our suferings appeased by whatever has made us suffer? But no one makes us suffer. The violence we perpetrate and have done to us, the recrimations, reconciliations, the ecstasies and the agonies of a love affair, are based on the socailly conditioned illusion that two actual persons are in a relaitonship. Under the circumstances, this is a dangerous state of hallucination and delusion, a mishmash of fantasy, exploding and imploding, of broken hearts, reparation and revenge.