Chelsea Mourning: Wanting Rufus Wainwright
Kandia Crazy Horse, Rock's Backpages, September 2003
YOURE WALKING, youre virtually running, exhilarated, exultant, across West 23rd Street, away from Chelsea where youve tripped the Apocalypse of Rufus Wainwright and at once viscerally intuited and obliterated the essence of his Mystery.
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