6.19.11 Adam News & Info

Amen to that. You put it beautifully, that's exactly how I feel.

There's a lot of negativity about the internet and what it does to social interactions, and I understand completely where it's coming from (I'm an awful luddite mysef, mostly out of fear and incompetence), but in the end I'm in awe--just in awe--of the way it seems paradoxically to at once expand our world in amazing and mind-bending and enlightening ways, and then at the same time make it smaller, bringing us closer and closer together and closer to understanding each other.

When I read the posts from all our lovely Finns, for example, or from Catz, or from the magical Gelly (although sometimes I refuse to believe she is entirely real and not just some sort of laboratory amalgamation of awesomenesses) or from the irrepressible ilovehawaiian (--I loved reading your tweet stream from the Moscow concert, btw, when I finally had time and felt well enough to catch up on that stuff--it was sooo happy and authentic and recognizable from half a world away) the language, the emotions, the reactions, the HUMOR!! (which was supposed to be so localized, always, but the internet has proved it isn't)--all show me how small our world is, how familiar even the farthest corners of it are, how similar we all are even in our diversity (a diversity NoAngel wrote about so wisely today).

Everyone is SO EASY TO TALK TO! and this from a girl who is generally too shy to talk to anyone in RL. It's kinda like what Adam said about music being universal, and how his world tour really proved that to him movingly--well, it's not just music, though music helps, and it sounds like a cheesy truism, cause it is, but I'll say it anyway, humanity is universal. And I'll always be grateful to this crazy-ass stanning experience, and to the brave new wifi world that makes it possible, for teaching me so much along these social lines. The internet lets one recognize strangers. I mean, when I was out there floating in the international ether at MJs and suddenly recognized someone who lives right next door, I thought, gosh, all these people, all these anonymous sexy Adam faces, all these weirdly spelled and numbered names, they're all real people, they're all flesh and bone neighbors, and in that big wide world of neighbors I find mine. Indeed it is a brave new world that has such people in it.

SO NICA, I loved your wave-out-the-window story. I bet everyone here could wave out their window to an Adam fan, if they only knew where to look!




I know, right? Aloha's quite right, AMW is a totally irrepressible soul, and nothing can stop her Adam passion. She still checks out the headlines here every day, I assure you. She's just real busy and also finding some wonderful balance in her life, which is good, too. But don't let her fool you, the opening strains of WLL will still get her wiggling irresistibly. She's only playing at sanity!

Just posting and running like I've tended to do lately (sorry!) because I've loved reading all these warm Adam-friendship/what Adam brought me posts and I want to contribute my own unusual tidbit. Many of you know that when I first followed the bread-crumb trail (or was a glitter-trail) from MJ's to PF to here, I was also following another poster, who urged me repeatedly to stop lurking and post more. That poster was my lovely next door neighbor, the original "get-it-girl," AMW, who still posts from time to time when she's not too busy catching babies! (Hence my online name: midwifespal). But I don't know if you know how I found her! Cause it wasn't over the fence--it was through Adam!

I mean, of course we'd already met--she and her wonderful partner had welcomed me and my husband to the neighborhood when we bought our house, and were patience itself with all the obnoxious noise we made fixing it up. We'd chatted now and then--a quick hello--over the fence, about neighborhood things, etc. But we really weren't friends in particular. Then one day at MJ's, already far gone in my obsession, I happened to read a recap of the Dallas concert on the AI 8 summer tour. An austinmidwife was posting, telling her story, talking about driving up to Dallas with her partner and her daughters while wearing her "lesbian mom" pin (I love her) and dancing her ass off at the concert despite the disapproving looks of her more conservative neighbors, and then having a real moment with Adam at the autograph line afterwards.

Finally, I'm no longer alone, I thought. No more must I worship my Idol in silence. I mean, how many lesbian mom austin midwives can there be? So I shoot my neighbor an enthusiastic email gushing all over Adam like some sort of 11 year old girl and making a happy fool of myself. Then I wait. And wait. And wait. And feel increasingly unhappily foolish. Oh god, I think. Not the same lesbian mom austin midwife. Totally different lesbian mom austin midwife. And now she's probably avoiding the crazy-ass ??? , possibly dangerous, neighbor who moved in and seems to have mistaken her for her OMG<3<3<3BFF! The shame of it! :-[ UNTIL...

I FIANLLY get a totally gushy teenaged crushy email back! We giggled over the fence like a couple of idiot school girls. And since then we've finally gotten to go to a couple of Adam concerts together, including a ROCKIN' GNT show in Dallas where we got BOTH TCB and WLL (he added that in just for AMW, I'm sure of it), where AMW decked me out in full make-up and glitter (my first time in make-up, EVER--i'm such a clueless chick it's embarassing!) and where I managed to drive her car through a mid-highway LAKE (I'm not kidding, the water was coming in through the floorboards) at 2 am in on the drive back down to Austin through a tropical storm. AHHHHH fun times!

SO: Yes, Adam has brought many wonderful new friends together. But he's brought some old neighbors together, too, and now we chat over the fence all the time, and its not even about Adam 90% of the time, its just the kind of chat two friends have. I've also met other wonderful people through Adam and ATOP/PF (like the bad-ass LindaG23 and Sunflower here in town, and the wonderful Robininny and others up in NYC, and even the charming ANGELKRASH (shoutout, GIRL) who came all the way from Israel for the NYC concerts (so you're quite right, Gelly, bb, never say never) with a glittery teddy bear slung around her neck and stars in her ever-lovin eyes. But biggest thank you will always be to Adam and MJ's and all of y'all for bringing my oh-so-close neighbor even closer.