True Colors Photos 4
Thursday, June 21st, 2007More photos by Diana Yanez…
Archive for the ‘On The Road’ Category
True Colors Photos 3
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007More photos from the road, by Diana Yanez and Andy Bell!
at The View
at Radio City Music Hall
Amanda Lepore and me
Beth Ditto and me
Amanda Palmer and me
True Colors in Boston
Sunday, June 17th, 2007The Boston and Atlantic City shows were awesome. In Atlantic City we were joined by The Gossip! I love them! They are incredible!!!
And last night in Boston, Rufus Wainwright brought his adorable stars and stripey looking band to the show. I love him!! I love everyone.
Photos of The Gossip, by Diana Yanez:
True Colors in Atlantic City
Friday, June 15th, 2007Diana and I walked around the Borgata until we found some True Colors crew…Yay! This is us partying in the B Bar. What are all those orbs and smoky images? None of those were there when we were in the bar… hmm….ghosts at the bar?
I am not tired anymore. Now I am homesick, which is weird because I travel all the time. But I haven’t been home in a while! I miss my family and I am having a hard time sleeping without my dogs! I put all these pillows on top of my body at night in order to replicate my dogs’ sleeping bodies, but it isn’t the same! Oh why don’t they have dog prostitutes! What about dog groupies?! I am sure that there are some dogs out there who are big fans of my work and would like to sleep with me!!!!
True Colors Photos 1
Thursday, June 14th, 2007Some nice photos from Diana Yanez!
Me:
True Colors in Columbus
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007The tour is making a stop today in Columbus, Ohio, and I know I said I was tired before but I really didn’t know what I was talking about. I have never been so exhausted in my life and my ‘t’ key is sticking. Ttttttttttttttrying to get it to work is making me even more tired.
I took a walk in the afternoon looking to buy some new shoes because I have grown completely sick of the ones I have brought. It isn’t a tremendous hardship, having to wear the same shoes every night, but when you are this road weary, everything gets on your very last nerve. I walked through a huge empty parking lot and as I walked this girl all the way on the other side of the lot was shouting at me, “Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!” and when I saw her, a tiny dot of a far away person wedged between beat up cars, she said, “Bitch!”
It’s just that kind of day.
More pics from the road, by Diana Yanez:
In Vegas, I had my breasts plastered for “Keep A Breast Foundation,” a nonprofit that raises money for breast cancer education and awareness:
True Colors in Chicago
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007The Chicago show was incredible. I love Chicago. It is one of my favorite cities, with its beautiful old buildings and warm, affectionate and enthusiastic people with their cute accents. I always have a great time.
We are now on planes, and I miss the Dresden Dolls bus terribly. After several days of sharing bathrooms, bunks and dressing rooms, now I am feeling like I am hardly seeing them at all! And then all these folks have come to me to talk about how much they love Brian Viglione!!! I don’t know why, but I have become some sort of depository for Brian love. So many people have come to me to confess their feelings for him, as if I could put in a good word for them or something. What is amusing is that there seems to be no kind of person he doesn’t attract. All genders, all sexual orientations, all different people from all walks of life are having feelings for him. It is gay men, straight men, straight women, trannies, lesbians! You know you must be a hot guy if lesbians are falling for you! I love Brian too. He is kind of like the great equalizer. Everyone loves him. But I think I would rather find myself in bed with Amanda.
Rosie O’Donnell joined us for the Chicago show and she was amazing. I love to watch her perform! She is truly one of the greatest standup comics of all time. I am glad to have the opportunity to watch her work; it is an honor and a privilege and worth the price of admission alone. The audience loves her so much and she just destroys every time. I love her message and her way of delivering it. She has tremendous power as a performer, which has made her a great talk show host and actress, but I love the purity of her comedy, because when she does standup – I don’t have to look at anyone else! It is just all about her! I am hoping since she is rocking the crowds so hard, she will be inspired to go on another standup comedy tour. Standup comedy needs her badly!! She is doing a bunch more cities on the tour, so you shouldn’t pass up the chance to see her. She fucking rules. All the other artists and I watch her sets every night just screaming laughing and looking at each other mouthing, “That rules, that rules!”
Here are some more pics from the road, by Diana Yanez:
True Colors in Denver
Sunday, June 10th, 2007Stayed up late on the bus watching “Jackass” with The Dresden Dolls crew, and then slept the sleep of a rock star on the road without a groupie. I needed it badly. This tour is pretty grueling. I am sure I wouldn’t be so tired if I didn’t insist on rocking out to every band on the side of the stage. It is a long show and not only do I have to perform between each act, I am unable to stop myself from dancing! My whole body is sore from jumping up and down like a crazy fool.
There were many highlights from the show last night in Salt Lake City. First of all, we were joined by The Cliks! I love them and they rocked!!!! I am trying to convince them to join us for the entire tour…hopefully they will. Ohmigod they are total babes and their music is amazing!!! I am shooting the video for their new single “Eyes in the Back of My Head,” which is basically them on this tour being the band that everyone wants to see. I will put it up as soon as it is done.
There were a million other incredible moments from the show, but my favorite was when Andy Bell ended the Erasure set with the gorgeous “Oh Lamour.” As soon as he started the song, I heard this incredible wave of screaming and applause from the huge crowd. It was like 20,000 people collectively swooning. Beautiful.
Today we are in Denver, CO at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre. The sun is coming down hard and I am hiding up in the dressing room trying to figure out which underwear is clean enough to wear.
It is weird to be living on the bus because you have to have a method to your luggage which I haven’t mastered. Also, one of the rules of the bus is no solids in the toilet. It is a no poo zone, which is tremendously practical, but I also keep forgetting. I peed and then tossed some toilet paper in, then I remembered the rule. I had to reach back in and drag out the now soaked paper. Why am I telling you this? I guess I want you to see that being on tour with a rock band isn’t always champagne, cocaine and cock. It sometimes means reaching in where you don’t want to reach.
True Colors in SLC
Saturday, June 9th, 2007Seriously, I am so tired I am freaking out. We had an amazing opening night in Las Vegas, and now we are just outside of Salt Lake City at the USNA Amphitheatre and it is going to rock!
We left late last night on The Dresden Dolls bus. I never toured on a bus before and I feel like such a rock star. Everyone has their little bunk and it is very peaceful and quiet. It kind of reminds me of those sci fi shows like “Lost in Space” where everyone has their own cubicle. Danger Will Robinson. Each band is like its own spaceship, and we are all headed where many bands have rocked before. I am loving it…
True Colors in Vegas
Friday, June 8th, 2007Note: sorry for the late entry - part of being on the road!
The True Colors Tour kicks off today. I have been in Las Vegas for the last two days rehearsing and getting ready and hanging out with everyone. Here are a few pics from dinner taken by Diana Yanez.
Here is me with Rob Roth, the director, left and Jonny Podell, right:
Here is Cyndi looking beautiful and thoughtful with the cute boy of the moment, Brian Viglione, from The Dresden Dolls:
and here is my new tattoo all healed!!
From The Road
Friday, October 28th, 2005
Note from webmistress: Margaret is busy on the road, so she asked us to thank you for all of the nice photos and emails and comments you’ve all sent in from the book tour. We love these! Thank you all for making it special! Hope to see you on the rest of the tour.
Hello Margaret,
I can’t thank you enough for your book reading/signing event. I drove all the way down to Arlington from Baltimore just to come see you! Getting home was hell, I always get lost in DC!! Anyway, thank you so much for answering the question I asked during the Q&A portion about how your mom is doing today…I am so happy to hear she is well!
I posted the pictures I took from the event on photobucket so that I could send them to you. I really wanted you to see them! You looked absolutely amazing as always! Hopefully you can add these to your personal collection!
Again, thank you so much for everything and I can’t wait for your DVD and to see you out on the road again! Take care, Margaret! I LOVE YOU!
Love always, B.
Hola Margaret!
I saw you at the book signing last night at Barnes & Noble. It was so wonderful to see you again as always! I was the Al-Gayda guy who welcomed you to New York! Unfortunately, when I finally got to see you all I could say in your presence was “FIERCE! FIERCE! FIERCE!” To hear you tell me “FIERCE FIERCE FIERCE!” right back at me, and see you wave back to me in your town car after the show was amazing! What I really meant to say was “You are such an inspiration to so many of us. Thank you from the BOTTOM OF MY HEART for all that you do.”
Seeing you and reading your new book last night TOTALLY GIVES ME STRENGTH GIRL to keep up the fight and to live my life more passionately. You make me proud to be me.
By the way, I just read your blog again, as always, and saw that your nerves were a little shot from the book tour. Can I PLEASE just tell you, YOU LOOKED FUCKIN FABULOUS LAST NIGHT, AND I AM NOT EVEN PLAYING AT ALL!!!!!!!!!! You keep up the tour, your voice, the fight for as long as you can. And if you ever need a break for yourself, you’ve got Army Cho right behind you girl!!!!!!
MUCH MUCH MUCH LOVE FROM NYC,
F.
Dear Ms. Cho:
My friends and I saw you read at the Barnes and Noble on 17th st in New York City. We were VERY VERY pleased and entertained. As Deaf people it is often really hard to see comedian; ASL interpreters can’t keep up with how fast they talk! We were lucky to find two who were big fans and knew your voice well enough to give us a shot at seeing you - and we were pleased you were gracious enough to allow it at the last minute. Hope you had fun in the city! Look me up next time you come by New York, we’d be happy to buy you a drink or two (or ten!)
Yours, J.
Mapquest Equality
Thursday, October 27th, 2005On my book tour, I have to be very good natured about all the racism and ignorance that I encounter because if I got angry at every single incident, I would wear myself out. It is difficult enough just to keep up with the schedule, with no sleep and no time for regular meals between book signings and press appearances. My nerves are completely shot, I have no coat or hat, and I just broke a nail!
People ask me what it was like to make “Charlie’s Angels,” and I have to force a smile and remind myself that they don’t know better, and they are trying their best to be friendly. But it isn’t funny to me, and it is starting to make me very depressed. It is not enough that there are so few Asian American women working in the entertainment industry. There has to be veiled and outright hostility towards the ones who are here.
But the countless interviewers and talk show hosts would not ever view their comments as being hostile in the least. They cannot comprehend the fact that they might be racist because they are so used to racism it feels like a second skin, the one they can feel comfortable in because no one judges the color of it. No one would ever dream of mistaking Mary J. Blige for Faith Evans, even in jest – especially in jest. Anyone who would infer that P. Diddy was actually Big Daddy Kane would be immediately fired, and likely banned from broadcasting forever and ever. Yet is somehow is totally okay to ask me why I left “The View.”
This week, we are remembering the remarkable life of Rosa Parks, and I am once again incredibly moved at the scope and power of the Civil Rights Movement. What I want to know is - how do we get there? If only it were possible to mapquest equality. “When you get to democracy, turn LEFT.”
Although racism still exists in a very real way for African Americans, white people have the sense to do it in private. It is not acceptable to be openly racist towards black people, but it still seems to be open season on the rest of us: Asians, Latinos, gays, lesbians – pretty much all other minorities. Learning the history of the Civil Rights Movement, committing to memory all the steps along the way is the only thing I can think to do in trying to somehow recreate it today.
I was on a radio talk show where an African American woman called in to caution me about comparing the Civil Rights Movement to the fight for gay marriage, but it isn’t like you can possibly conflate the two struggles. Injustice is injustice. It is that I wish to learn from example, for us to take the great strides made by African Americans in this country and use them like a map to take those remaining behind the lines of inequality to freedom.