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Rebecca Humes


Last Updated: 11/19/2009

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Gender: Female
Status: Married
Age: 33
Sign: Capricorn

City: SAINT CHARLES
State: Missouri
Country: US
Signup Date: 7/8/2006

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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 

Current mood:  moody
Category: Art and Photography

Nomi showed up in my life at the perfect moment. He arrived during deep cravings for normalcy exposed in the darkness of the strange and unusual. He died when I was just 8, and yet, I do remember the visual of his performance art. I appreciate his sense of self, value of metaphor and desire to do what he wants no matter where he is. He offers an orgy for the senses.

I really could go on and on about him in an essay of relevance, history, success, entertainment and psychology...but I just don't have the time right now. Even though I'm strapped by the events in my life, I felt an urge to share Nomi before he fell into the basket of lost moments. I'm sure I'll catch up with him more later, and this is a gentle reminder for myself and others who appreciate art not to forget.

For a flavor of the abstract, a hint of hard core inspiration, a twist of fate or just to question what you truely stand for in the daily rantings of life...check out more on Klaus. There are so many amazing talents in the universe, so many people that I love to recognize...and yet I feel strongly that there is no one quite like Klaus Nomi. What an original!

Nomi Home Page

Klaus Nomi - Wikipedia

Currently watching:
The Nomi Song - The Klaus Nomi Odyssey
Release date: 2005-06-14
Mary Mary
mary rutkowski

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3oSqSD2coM
 
Posted by Mary Mary on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 4:40 AM
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Quidam

 
We should totally make art sometime. :)
 
Posted by Quidam on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 2:44 PM
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Brian Mora

 
Klaus Nomi is a great talent who left us too soon. Albeit a scoche bizarre --- but then again, as in the words of Seal, we're never gonna survive unless we get a little crazy --- he is one of those folks we would have liked to keep around longer, like Ernie Davis, the great running back from Syracuse who died of cancer shortly after being signed to the Cleveland Browns, or Frankie Lymon, the lead singer of the doo-wop group, The Teenagers, who passed away from a heroin overdose...
This reminds me of a recent blog that my good friend Stu Sweatman posted about Randy Rhoads, the guitarist who played early in Ozzy Osbourne's post-Black Sabbath career, who left us way too soon...We subscribe to each other's blogs ourselves, and he and I concurred that there were a lot of great folks who left us too soon...
Incidentally I should point out that I initially became familiar with Klaus Nomi via --- get this --- the Rush Limbaugh radio programme. Knowing that he is a bit controversial, but then again, so many of us are anymore, even I am a bit in that way myself, I should point out that he did use his cover of Lesley Gore's classic, You don't know me, tongue in cheek, early in the course of his programme's history, and Rush still plays the song on rare occasion...
Gotta remember even the seemingly bit players in music history too...He should have been more successful than certain other folks whom I won't take time to mention here...
 
Posted by Brian Mora on Friday, December 19, 2008 - 2:14 AM
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