April 2008 will go down in my books as the sickest month of my entire life. This has been the nastiest flu EVER. What the fuck is this horrible virus??? I was supposed to shoot the music video for "FAMOUS" so I did not book anything this month except for St. Louis. I had to post-pone it for the following week because I was sooooooooo frigging sick again for the 2nd time with the flu. It's come to me in 3 fazes this month. I have just been so out of it. I'm glad I did not book anything in April because if I did I would have had to have been canceling everything. It's bad enough I've held up shooting FAMOUS.

My show in in St. Louis in the club called 'Just John' was packed full and my voice was really good but I got on stage clammy and face sweating like a whore in church. I announced to the crowd, "I'm clammy but I'm here!!" I opened the show with "FAMOUS" and then went on to doing the Voices. I purposely skipped singing "FASHIONISTA" because I did not think I could do it. I was just so weak. The crowd in St. Louis was very kind. I think I was a bitch. Before the show I guzzled down lots of coffee to snap myself out of my fluish achey sweats feeling...This made me on edge. The club owner Diane Scott was so lovely I did not have the heart to cancel on her a 2nd time but I was tempted.

I had to come back to NYC Sunday and on Monday night perform FAMOUS at Bungalow 8 for my friend Michael Shulman's Bday. I was clamy again. I barely got through it too. I left soon after my performance. John Legend was there. Everybody seemed to like my performance. My voice was strong.

My label tells me that they are very excited about all the new remixes for FAMOUS. They don't get excited too easily. So I hope this is going to be something. I resang the vocals, they got back up singers, The Klubjumpers have delivered their remix and we have other exciting remixes and the artwork is going to be me as WARHOL. This August Andy Warhol turns 80 years old.

I never intended FAMOUS to be about the WARHOL era, but it matches. FAMOUS is actually written from a devastating heartbreak of mine. Oh well. Something came out of it.

I fly to San Antonio, TX April 30 and from there I go on to San Diego and Denver and Las Vegas etc... I'm hoping to catch some hot Sun rays to burn this flu away. So many other people have told me stories about their flu this year lasting 6 weeks.

So far 4 weeks down 2 more to go.

Oh by the way I've lost 20pounds, the first 15 pounds came off from the gym the next 5 pounds came off cause the flu diet takes away your appetite. Right now I hate food. You'll rarely ever hear me say that. Except when I'm in love or heartbroken....or have the flu.

Bye,
JIMMY JAMES