Rufus of Montreal: viewing Canada's multicultural mecca through the world-weary eyes of its native queer bard.(Star Paths)

Publication: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)

Publication Date: 26-OCT-04

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In "Oh What a World," one of the rapturous tracks on Rufus Wainwright's album Want One, the singer-songwriter asks, rhetorically, "Why am I always on a plane or a fast train?" He goes on to lament that he's "always traveling but not in love." Wainwright penned the ballad on a train from Paris to London at the end of his Poses tour. "It's about looking at the world and seeing what's actually there," he explains, phoning from a lake in New Hampshire, "not feeling either good or bad about it, just feeling apart." Dislocation is an underlying theme in nearly every artist's life, but Wainwright has truly journeyed to hell and back, fighting his way to sobriety after wallowing in the lonesome depths of crystal meth addiction and sexual roulette. Now, in addition to wrapping up a U.K. tour promoting the album Want Two, which follows Want One in exploring his postrehab yearnings,...

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