6.20.11 Adam News & Info
Jun 20, 2011 2:57:28 GMT -5
Post by Catzmadam on Jun 20, 2011 2:57:28 GMT -5
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
I have never done a recap before of my incredible Adam journey. I’ve always wanted to, but the whole experience was so totally amazing and overwhelming, that I needed time and space to process what the experience meant to me.
So without further ado... and I’m sorry about all the really personal bits, but it’s my journey and how it all came to pass.
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away - there lived a hippy, dippy Kiwi chick called Madam Catz
She had watched some seasons of AI in the past and had always enjoyed them, but once the winner was named all interest in whoever won, pretty much waned.
Fast forward to early 2009 when AI9 started. My real life (at that point) was ‘Broken Open’, I was a wreck emotionally, physically and spiritually. Please don’t get me wrong here, I loved my Mum, but by the time she passed on in March of 2009, there wasn’t a whole lot of ME left functioning. It was and had been a difficult relationship for most of my life, but for the last 15 years I had done my best to look after her through many life threatening emergencies and ill health. I was beyond exhaustion.
I can remember watching Adam’s audition and going WHOA! can this dude sing or what, but ensuing programmes were sometimes taped by me and watched later as I dealt with the final weeks of my Mum’s decline. She had fallen five days before Christmas and fractured her neck in two places - she was 84 years old and her last months were difficult.
Mum passed on on the 19th March and her funeral was the day before ROF aired here (we were 10 days behind the US) and somehow I had the TV turned on that night and was in the kitchen waiting for “what would Adam do next?” I can remember walking into the lounge and just staring at the TV and going WTF is this????. You’re kidding me right? This dude is doing THIS on fucking American IDOL????? WTF???
So.... that went well. Two years later I’m still going WTF?...lol
Anyhoo... it was at that point that the need to shut my world down began (not ROF) just RL crap. I went into hibernation, shut my business down and began trying to make sense of my life, the world, who I was, the anger, the grief...yadda, yadda, yadda. But I still kept watching ADAM!
The need grew to find out more (sound familiar y’all). I was tech and kinda internet savvy, but had never needed info on a specific someone before. In my ignorance I ended up on the AI Adam fan board. Friggin stupid place that it was, but eventually I discovered a thread there called “Adam Lambert’s Star Power from an Industry Perspective” by a guy called nymichael. Many of you will remember it. For me, for the first time I had found a thread that had intelligent conversation. This was important - and I stayed and learnt a lot.
When AI finished, nymichael - due to popular demand - set up his own website and many followed. I know there is often criticism of nymichael, but for me and others participating there, it became our haven. We grew to ‘know’ each other. When nymichael stopped posting regularly, many faded off to other sites, but there was a 'core' group and some of us had started forming bonds which grew and strengthened as the months went by. We had a live chat session every week, got to know each other better as the board got smaller.
I remember this vividly - one day back in 2009 in the middle of a live chat, we started to joke that when Adam did his first tour (we had not one single detail at that point), we would all fly in from all over the US and NZ (me), and meet up in New York, because he would HAVE TO do a concert there right?.
We were laughing (via keyboards) and joking folks!
Fast forward through a lot.....
On the 19th of June last year (after months of planning), I left the comfort of my cave, flew half way around the world to NYC and fianlly met the most incredible Nica for realz. Five others from our group and other parts of the USA were also winging their way to Nica’s apartment over the next couple of days. She was putting us ALL up there
What had started as a joke, was now a reality. Da girls for realz, were DOING IT! Not all of our group could make it sadly, but Mystic, Pippy, Adamme, Angelcakes, Pooh, myself and Nica did, along with Sleepwalker and Nukita who both lived in Manhattan.
Nine ladies from various parts of the US and the world - strangers before Adam - coming together in one place to celebrate Adam and OUR online friendships.
IT WAS EPIC!
And we hadn't even got to the Nokia NYC concerts yet
I'd love to share more if it's OK, but I don't want to bore everyone to tears lol, but it's gonna be in bits and pieces as my RL is being pretty revolting/nightmarish right now.
I have never done a recap before of my incredible Adam journey. I’ve always wanted to, but the whole experience was so totally amazing and overwhelming, that I needed time and space to process what the experience meant to me.
So without further ado... and I’m sorry about all the really personal bits, but it’s my journey and how it all came to pass.
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away - there lived a hippy, dippy Kiwi chick called Madam Catz
She had watched some seasons of AI in the past and had always enjoyed them, but once the winner was named all interest in whoever won, pretty much waned.
Fast forward to early 2009 when AI9 started. My real life (at that point) was ‘Broken Open’, I was a wreck emotionally, physically and spiritually. Please don’t get me wrong here, I loved my Mum, but by the time she passed on in March of 2009, there wasn’t a whole lot of ME left functioning. It was and had been a difficult relationship for most of my life, but for the last 15 years I had done my best to look after her through many life threatening emergencies and ill health. I was beyond exhaustion.
I can remember watching Adam’s audition and going WHOA! can this dude sing or what, but ensuing programmes were sometimes taped by me and watched later as I dealt with the final weeks of my Mum’s decline. She had fallen five days before Christmas and fractured her neck in two places - she was 84 years old and her last months were difficult.
Mum passed on on the 19th March and her funeral was the day before ROF aired here (we were 10 days behind the US) and somehow I had the TV turned on that night and was in the kitchen waiting for “what would Adam do next?” I can remember walking into the lounge and just staring at the TV and going WTF is this????. You’re kidding me right? This dude is doing THIS on fucking American IDOL????? WTF???
So.... that went well. Two years later I’m still going WTF?...lol
Anyhoo... it was at that point that the need to shut my world down began (not ROF) just RL crap. I went into hibernation, shut my business down and began trying to make sense of my life, the world, who I was, the anger, the grief...yadda, yadda, yadda. But I still kept watching ADAM!
The need grew to find out more (sound familiar y’all). I was tech and kinda internet savvy, but had never needed info on a specific someone before. In my ignorance I ended up on the AI Adam fan board. Friggin stupid place that it was, but eventually I discovered a thread there called “Adam Lambert’s Star Power from an Industry Perspective” by a guy called nymichael. Many of you will remember it. For me, for the first time I had found a thread that had intelligent conversation. This was important - and I stayed and learnt a lot.
When AI finished, nymichael - due to popular demand - set up his own website and many followed. I know there is often criticism of nymichael, but for me and others participating there, it became our haven. We grew to ‘know’ each other. When nymichael stopped posting regularly, many faded off to other sites, but there was a 'core' group and some of us had started forming bonds which grew and strengthened as the months went by. We had a live chat session every week, got to know each other better as the board got smaller.
I remember this vividly - one day back in 2009 in the middle of a live chat, we started to joke that when Adam did his first tour (we had not one single detail at that point), we would all fly in from all over the US and NZ (me), and meet up in New York, because he would HAVE TO do a concert there right?.
We were laughing (via keyboards) and joking folks!
Fast forward through a lot.....
On the 19th of June last year (after months of planning), I left the comfort of my cave, flew half way around the world to NYC and fianlly met the most incredible Nica for realz. Five others from our group and other parts of the USA were also winging their way to Nica’s apartment over the next couple of days. She was putting us ALL up there
What had started as a joke, was now a reality. Da girls for realz, were DOING IT! Not all of our group could make it sadly, but Mystic, Pippy, Adamme, Angelcakes, Pooh, myself and Nica did, along with Sleepwalker and Nukita who both lived in Manhattan.
Nine ladies from various parts of the US and the world - strangers before Adam - coming together in one place to celebrate Adam and OUR online friendships.
IT WAS EPIC!
And we hadn't even got to the Nokia NYC concerts yet
I'd love to share more if it's OK, but I don't want to bore everyone to tears lol, but it's gonna be in bits and pieces as my RL is being pretty revolting/nightmarish right now.
She had absolutely no idea about words but was singing on a loud voice and had so fun! It was great! And I had to say that I was secretly proud that I have been doing something right... 
Actually I´ve noticed that while we are driving and I´m playing my Adam albums, they won´t ask if they can replace the music with some metal stuff which usually happens if I´m listening to some of my other favorites... So the situation isn´t that bad at all! :D :D :D Why not have it all, I mean both Adam and heavy-metal! ;D