Plotting for Adam
Jan 14, 2013 10:46:00 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2013 10:46:00 GMT -5
You guys you guys you guys!
Here is what Adam needs to do.
Album #3 should be a concept album that goes with a MOVIE. I poked around through some of the gay literature and found a highly acclaimed novel called The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens by John Rechy, a crazy comic adventure about a young man's journey through the underbelly of America, from a fundamentalist small town in Texas to the gambling palaces to Las Vegas and finally to LA! This is our vehicle.
Our story begins in Texas in 2000, where Adam has grown up the illegitimate, emo-haired son of a former beauty queen who wants him to become the image of the cowboy father who abandoned them years ago. He loves his girlfriend Maria, with whom he sings in the mega-church choir, but she is puzzled as to why Adam won't help her break her abstinence vow like all the other girls' boyfriends.
Maria is not the only one, for Adam possesses an "ungodly" appeal to women, though his inclinations lie elsewhere. Upon graduation, Maria's preacher father starts recruiting Adam to become the star soloist (and other things) to propel the mega-church to greater heights of TV fame. Adam grants only one of his wishes, loses his virginity at last, and then hits the road!
Adam's zany adventures find him encountering a cast of characters from charlatans to hustlers, gamblers and showgirls, pornographers and magicians, ultimately being swept up in the mad comeback scheme of an aging starlet that involves crashing the Oscar ceremony. Through it all Adam retains his romantic nature, learns to love himself, wears every kind of hair, melvin, and costume you can imagine, and ... the boy becomes a man ... the Naked Mystery Cowboy of Hollywood Boulevard, to be exact.
Because of the nature of the movie, Adam covers classics and records new music in every genre as you can imagine, from gospel and country to smoky jazz to Vegas power pop to LA rock! The songs are full of wicked humor and soaring vocals. Critics call the album "otherworldly," "obsessing" and "unclassifiable." Its smashing creativity is nothing less than a modern-day Sgt. Pepper.
The cover of Def Leppard's "Photograph," which in the movie Adam sings during his porn star period, becomes a huge hit in the US and the UK. Adam's original song of the LA underworld, "Vampires," becomes the theme song of a new HBO series and as such culturally iconic, particularly since Adam's take on the undead makes them the personification of hope.
The movie (directed by Robert Altman) is nominated for 11 Oscars, including Adam for Best Actor and "Naked Cowboy of Hollywood Boulevard" as best song. Adam doesn't win but no one cares because he owns the night.
Here is what Adam needs to do.
Album #3 should be a concept album that goes with a MOVIE. I poked around through some of the gay literature and found a highly acclaimed novel called The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens by John Rechy, a crazy comic adventure about a young man's journey through the underbelly of America, from a fundamentalist small town in Texas to the gambling palaces to Las Vegas and finally to LA! This is our vehicle.
Our story begins in Texas in 2000, where Adam has grown up the illegitimate, emo-haired son of a former beauty queen who wants him to become the image of the cowboy father who abandoned them years ago. He loves his girlfriend Maria, with whom he sings in the mega-church choir, but she is puzzled as to why Adam won't help her break her abstinence vow like all the other girls' boyfriends.
Maria is not the only one, for Adam possesses an "ungodly" appeal to women, though his inclinations lie elsewhere. Upon graduation, Maria's preacher father starts recruiting Adam to become the star soloist (and other things) to propel the mega-church to greater heights of TV fame. Adam grants only one of his wishes, loses his virginity at last, and then hits the road!
Adam's zany adventures find him encountering a cast of characters from charlatans to hustlers, gamblers and showgirls, pornographers and magicians, ultimately being swept up in the mad comeback scheme of an aging starlet that involves crashing the Oscar ceremony. Through it all Adam retains his romantic nature, learns to love himself, wears every kind of hair, melvin, and costume you can imagine, and ... the boy becomes a man ... the Naked Mystery Cowboy of Hollywood Boulevard, to be exact.
Because of the nature of the movie, Adam covers classics and records new music in every genre as you can imagine, from gospel and country to smoky jazz to Vegas power pop to LA rock! The songs are full of wicked humor and soaring vocals. Critics call the album "otherworldly," "obsessing" and "unclassifiable." Its smashing creativity is nothing less than a modern-day Sgt. Pepper.
The cover of Def Leppard's "Photograph," which in the movie Adam sings during his porn star period, becomes a huge hit in the US and the UK. Adam's original song of the LA underworld, "Vampires," becomes the theme song of a new HBO series and as such culturally iconic, particularly since Adam's take on the undead makes them the personification of hope.
The movie (directed by Robert Altman) is nominated for 11 Oscars, including Adam for Best Actor and "Naked Cowboy of Hollywood Boulevard" as best song. Adam doesn't win but no one cares because he owns the night.