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Post by nonotme on May 16, 2023 13:47:07 GMT -5
Did you notice that celebritynetworth.com now has Adam listed as having a net worth of $45 million.
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Post by nonotme on Mar 27, 2023 23:26:11 GMT -5
Here are some sections of an article about the ticket fiasco that Taylor Swift had:
"BBC News Ticketmaster has apologised to Taylor Swift and her fans during a US Senate hearing, months after its system was overwhelmed by demand for her Eras Tour. Thousands of 'Swifties' were unable to buy seats due to the issue.
"We need to do better and we will," Joe Berchtold, president of Live Nation, Ticketmaster's parent company, told lawmakers on Tuesday. A bot attack was responsible for "a terrible consumer experience", he said.
Ticketmaster, which merged with Live Nation in 2010, has repeatedly faced criticism from fans and politicians, who say it has too much control over the live music market and artificially inflates the cost of tickets with fees and service charges.
According to Senator Amy Klobuchar, who chairs the US Senate committee on consumer rights, Ticketmaster is responsible for 70% of ticket sales in the US. "In truth, there is no other choice. It is a monopoly," she told MSNBC last year. Regarding the Swift tour, she added: "The high fees, site disruptions and cancellations that customers experienced shows how Ticketmaster's dominant market position means the company does not face any pressure to continually innovate and improve." Senator Amy Klobuchar has criticised Ticketmaster's dominance of the US live music market
Swift herself said it was "excruciating" to watch fans struggling to get tickets, and that she had been assured Ticketmaster could handle the demand. In its written testimony ahead of its Tuesday grilling by US senators, the company explained for the first time how its systems had been targeted by software "bots" used to illegally obtain tickets.
The attacks came despite the use of Ticketmaster's "verified fan" scheme, which requires customers to pre-register their interest, allowing the company to check whether they are genuine fans intending to see the show. "We knew bots would attack... and planned accordingly," wrote Mr Berchtold.
"We were then hit with three times the amount of bot traffic than we had ever experienced, and for the first time in 400 Verified Fan onsales they came after our Verified Fan access code servers. "While the bots failed to penetrate our systems or acquire any tickets, the attack required us to slow down and even pause our sales. This is what led to a terrible consumer experience that we deeply regret."
Mr Berchtold also acknowledged that the company should have staggered the sales "over a longer period of time" to stop its systems being overloaded, and that it should have done "a better job setting fan expectations for getting tickets"." ----------- That staggering of "sales over a longer period of time" sounds like a good idea to me. Why isn't it part of the plan for QAL?
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Post by nonotme on Jan 19, 2023 17:54:09 GMT -5
Was this youtube of Billy Porter talking, among other things, about straight actors in gay roles and gay actors like himself being left behind or type cast on Atop already? If not, do check it out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHN7RIQ84Ecpeace&love
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Post by nonotme on Dec 27, 2022 14:08:57 GMT -5
One possibility for the person the musical might be based on is Jayne County (stage name), rocks first openly trans singer. Also, songwriter, actress, and record producer in 1970's New York. Considered to be an influence on Bowie and on John Cameron Mitchell's musical Hedwig. Also was in some Andy Warhol productions.
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Post by nonotme on Dec 27, 2022 12:03:45 GMT -5
The article above from express.co.uk says that the person that Adam's musical is based on is still alive. So that would mean it is not Jobriath, who many have thought might be the person on which the musical is based.
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Post by nonotme on Oct 6, 2022 12:30:53 GMT -5
Here is a Billboard article about Adam returning to WMG and signing an EastWest record deal. www.billboard.com/pro/adam-lambert-record-deal-eastwest-warner-music-uk/At the end of the article it says: "In a statement, Rhino UK svp Myn Jazeel dubbed the U.S. born Lambert "somewhat of a national treasure in the UK" given the singer's high profile partnership with Queen, his performance earlier this year honoring another beloved Queen - at the Platinum Jubilee concert, marking 70 years of Queen Elizabeth II - and his role on the hit ITV talent show Starstruck." "He's also going to be hugely visible on national TV soon and, this combined with his new music, will delight his passionate fanbase, while showcasing what an incredible vocalist and performer he is to a new, even broader, audience," said Jazeel." Hmmm - "somewhat of a national treasure in the UK" - sounds as if they may be focusing on building up his popularity in the UK. Hope some of that "hugely visible on national TV" will be something US fans can see. peace&love ETA - I see Katycake also posted from the Billboard article.
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Post by nonotme on Sept 6, 2022 20:29:50 GMT -5
How cool is that? I didn't realize we had members that attended Burning Man. In 2012 our age range was 29 to will-turn-70-shortly-after-B. Man. Time slips by... peace&love
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Post by nonotme on Sept 6, 2022 19:13:56 GMT -5
Burning Man 2022 just ended yesterday, and this means...
It is the 10th anniversary of Adamtopia in the Desert, a group of Atop members who went to Burning Man 2012 together as camp WOW, Women Out Wandering
Participants were hoopla, lindag23, grandduchess, angelkrash, nonotme. One more was revlisacat, who had to cancel fairly close to the B. Man start date due to a loss in her family. Lastly, momtomany, who volunteered in Med 9 and had been to B. Man many times with her husband, was a friend to WOW, and we visited back and forth several times.
If you would like to read the thread that has our planning and, later, the telling of some of our experiences at Burning Man, you can find it here:
On the atop home home page scroll down to where it says members only in a header, below the header click on members only info -events and meet -ups This takes you to a page with a long list of meet-ups, at the top of the list is the 2021 Venetian meet-up In the upper right corner over where it says last post there is a search bar, the in adamtopia in the desert The choices now showing have been narrowed down to 3, click on Burning Man 2012 - adamtopia in the desert This takes you to the thread. It has 106 pages. Pages 1- to about 72/73 are full of our planning efforts. We started planning a year in advance. From page 74 or so on you will find some stories about our experiences, answers to Atop members' questions , and photos and videos pulled from the internet, etc. At some point after the 2012 experience there some discussions about going in 2013.
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Post by nonotme on May 20, 2022 12:37:18 GMT -5
Interesting article about frisson, that feeling of getting chills and/or goose bumps from music or art. This article is mostly about music and has a link to a 715 song playlist. bigthink.com/neuropsych/frisson-song-playlist/Adam really should be on the list. peace&love
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Post by nonotme on Apr 19, 2022 9:57:12 GMT -5
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