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Post by algalhi on Feb 26, 2011 14:20:59 GMT -5
Thought I'd load up my avatar today -- I know, I'm waaaaaaay behind. I'm using the same avatar that I used on Adamtopia. However, I think I saw someone else use it on Atop (not sure), so please PM me or yell at me if I am taking someone else's avatar and I will change it. Lord knows, I have more than a few pics of Adam! I use this one on the fan club, so the way my mind works, I'd like to use it here. I know, boring  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2011 14:22:32 GMT -5
HeHe, HOOPLA, I bring up NYC and RMT last night. Add a dose of Nyquil and you get Adam in a dream. With aliens, no less. Ya, bladders..sure come in handy, but not when you are getting ready to discuss album#2...you were, weren't you? Tell me it is so. Take the other half of the Nyquil again tonite and get some more info, OK? Just think NYC, cold, cold, cold and click your remaining peacock feathers together. 'there's no one like Adam, there's no one like Adam'. Report back. That is all.. HAPPY BIRTHDAY FLASHUS AND YOUAREBETTERER!! |
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Post by savvy92 on Feb 26, 2011 14:22:42 GMT -5
Hope not, I can't stand Constantine. Used to be my feelings about Constantine but last night I saw Rock of Age. It was soooo good! We had a ball. Constantine is good, really, really good! His part is nothing like I thought it would be. He plays a very sweet boy trying to become a rock star. He never loses the sweet boy, in him, with all the craziness going on around him. He sings great. I may have to change my "smarmy" opinion of him after last night. Ace Young was there, in the audience. We saw him at intermission walk by us.  (Just read a RT from Constantine. Paula was there too. We did not see her.) Wow, a Hall of Fame for Idol is a great idea! The TV audience needs to be reminded that these kids actually go on and do something after the Finale in May. It seems it would have to be a full show though, No? That's good to know because "smarmy" is a perfect word for how I felt about him from day # 1 on Idol. Rush to judgement, maybe, but he creeped me out. I never mind my first impressions being wrong. |
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Post by dyg on Feb 26, 2011 14:25:15 GMT -5
"frogs" ? I have no idea what it is? Where do you see it, kagmel? And what about the avis? I really don't understand what you mean? :-/ Oh! Thanks everyone for responding! I wonder if it's my settings that show the frogs instead of images and photos? {scratches head} For example the avis of tantum05 and annie appear as frogs to me. And the image in 4msrmy shows a frog. Does anyone know how I can change my settings to convert the frogs? Kagmel, I also see frogs instead of pictures and some frogs instead of avatars :-( |
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Post by mirages on Feb 26, 2011 14:26:01 GMT -5
Okay, this is it--just one more post then I HAVE to get busy--but NoAngel, I really loved your dream interpretation. Part of the reason I wanted to record it is because I USED to practice directing my dreams (are any of you familiar with that?) and I wanted to semi-seriously analyze it later. Have you studied dream analyzation, NoAngel? The dashboard was bugging me--yeah, Adam can change a battery and I have a crappy car right now--but I was being too literal. Loved your insights! Have to think about them more later! And I will confess I have been writing songs. (I was showing them to A at end of dream and just can't recollect the last part--damn it, I wanted to talk to him about MUSIC!) Further confession...it has always been a dream of mine to be a songwriter--not a goal, just a pipe dream I've played with for years. I posted before the Grammys (when some folks were angsting about "hurry up and write Adam") that everyone should try to write just one song before 2/13 to see how hard it is. FFS, even a silly song like Kesha's latest (Blow)--surely I could write something like that. Damn, it's hard. Try it, guys! It has given me SO much appreciation for the special skills songwriters have. I am way too verbose, for one thing (surprise :  and too much in my head. My muse visits rarely. (Wish I could get a song out of my dream!) Which led me to realize how much collaboration is a GOOD thing in songwriting. I've tried silly/serious/dancey/anthem-type songs and have only finished one. I asked my son to play guitar and djembe and help me record it. I can't imagine how I will ever be brave enough to share it. Which led to another realization: how very scary it is to put your efforts out there and hope people will like it. Adam is so fucking brave. I'm not--yet. Okay, that's it, BBL. Gotta get control of my dashboard! Hoopla, thanks for sharing your dream with us -- I love seeing what we're saying to ourselves in dreams, too (dreams? images? interpretation? MEANING?!!! -- all magnets to the N types in Myers Briggs terms), and yours is lovely not just because Adam is there, but because of why he's there. I think you gave yourself the interpretation in the post above, you just don't know it yet. You DO have a muse -- it's Adam. Who else, for us, so potently symbolizes having the courage to Be the Driver in your life and Make your Dream a Reality? The sorting through old stuff, finding touchstones (that peacock feather!), and even the tiredness all seem to speak of where you are right now, but also very powerfully of where you want to go. If you really do dream of being a songwriter or any other kind of writer, it's obvious you have the talent and the heart. We don't all have to go to the desert and take psychedelics to have "Burning Man"moments -- your subconscious may just have given you yours last night. |
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Post by aloha on Feb 26, 2011 14:26:58 GMT -5
Happy Birthday, FLASHUS AND YOUAREBETTERER!!!
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Post by dyg on Feb 26, 2011 14:30:50 GMT -5
I am so excited with the DVD-CD!!! and Sleepwalker is a dream :-) I ordered from Amazon.UK, and cannot wait to play them over and over again ;D I have to share something that happened to me today. I went to Second Life (because I teach there), and I went to the Virtual Spain sim to get some pictures I needed for a tutorial. While I was at it, I heard that voice that we all have in our minds and hearts. The background music of the sim was If I had You!!!! I could not believe it. Pointless to say, that I stayed there until the song was over So, our BB is in Second Life, too! !!!! I was elated |
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Post by hoopla1 on Feb 26, 2011 14:31:29 GMT -5
How about the pics from last night? Where are they of Adam and Marcus Molinari? Tatum, I just looked for pics--@cdmolinari and his blog and by googling OK! Magazine...LOTS of pics of others at that party last night, none of Adam (that I could find, but I'm not the best detective.) BUT I did stumble across this site which has LOTS of pics of Adam from recent events that I had not seen before. I think peeps just posted their favs of the bunch maybe. But I liked looking at all of them. www.isopix.be/view_main.aspx?MODE=HP&PG=1&INIT=1&SRC=adam+lambert&DDLB_CATALOG=1 And, savvy, lynne (according to her knowledgeable friend) tells me that gray, sexless alien might represent ME--but nooooooo way--not as long as Garnier keeps making #700 and I keep the AAA's stocked up! ;D Jablea, loved your points about the BullyBlogger--that first line was definitely an attention-getter. As AMW says in that FS WLL vid, OMFG! OMFG! Everyone forgets--she meant that LITERALLY! Cassie, thanks for the MM mashup! Great example! Zinnia, thanks for the Sauli pic--he will make a fine RC partner for Adam if the occasion arises! ETA: OK, VIV, I'm blaming (thanking!) you! And Mirages, that post nearly made me cry. Maybe I really should try to get a little more than just a smile out of that dream.  |
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Post by Q3 on Feb 26, 2011 14:31:37 GMT -5
Cassie, before I move on to RL (my treadmill is calling me) wanted to thank you for this post. I've always wondered why I thought Adam had the most fantastic voice and I loved, loved his passionate wails, and others just said he "screamed". I'd never thought that people hear music differently - that's the only explanation that makes sense to me, so thank you for sharing that! I love all of your posts, BTW! I think people also see colors differently, so why not hear differently as well. I used to work with graphic designers a lot and was often stunned at the names they would call some colors. For example, something that was clearly in the pink family to me, a designer would call orange. I couldn't see orange to save my life. This in related to the work I do..... Sensory responses to the same stimulus varies dramatically at an individual level -- everything from sound, to colors, to taste/flavors and so on. And the associated brain activity and other biological responses vary dramatically. The reasons for the differences are not completely understood but the best current research indicates that it is physiological, experiential and cultural. Here is an example -- the blues are based in part on African music traditions. When most people outside of African communities and their decedents heard this music it sounded "wrong" because of the blue notes. Two notable exceptions are people familiar with Celtic and Eastern European traditional music which use a similar scale. I think this is part of the reason why the earliest non-African American adopters of this music were very familiar with these genres -- UK-Irish bands (Eric Clapton), Jewish-American musicians and composers (Gershwin, Al Jolson) and early rock-and-roll/rockabilly artists who were exposed to Traditional Scots-Irish American Music (Elvis Presley). For example -- when people first heard the Music developed mostly in the Mississippi delta in the 1920's to 50's -- the blues AKA "blue devil music". It was not just about racism -- it was a completely different music vocabulary. Most people and music critics derided it. Note: Thank the British musicians -- who did not just copy the blues but transformed it into a louder, brasher, psychedelic-tinged rock genre that white Americans "got". Check out any of the BB King + Eric Clapton duets and you will see they are playing the same music -- and blue notes.Another example --- Look at the path of feedback and distortion in music..... Buddy Guy invented it, Hendrix learned it from him and took it to a new place (the UK), and then it spread globally. Back to Adam -- IMO just like Hendrix, Adam is changing the way some people hear vocal musicians in pop music. He has the capacity to redefine the role of the voice in pop music. JMHO I would rather Adam explore his potential more than go for quick hits that will be forgotten in a few years. Ideally, he will not need to make this trade-off. And for some reason -- the Glamnation Live Sleepwalker video seems to be crossing over to some non-Adam fans -- including some rock-loving men -- is a very powerful way. |
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Post by marie23 on Feb 26, 2011 14:40:08 GMT -5
Irish1139 said: Actually, a music major would be on my side! They would say that except for a similar note progression in the beginning, the two songs are NOT similar. A music major would immediately point out that one is in a haunting minor key and one is in a major key, giving them very different sounds/emotions. So, your observation, even if you are not a music major, is accurate. Since there is not much news in Adamland today, here is a little bit of musical theater trivia. In Music Man, (tie-in to Adam--- I think he did appear in that musical) there are two songs with the same melody and harmony: 76 Trombones and Goodnight, My Someone. One is sung by the bombastic con man and the other is sung by the spinster librarian dreaming of her perfect mate. But, the arrangements of the tune were so different, and sung so differently, that most people watching the show never realized what the composer had done (intentionally). Ironically, he even blatantly pointed it out in a duet, and the listeners didn't tumble. Here is his "mash up" of the two songs ---50 years before we did mash ups. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNG5t3qrldwIDK, my brother who happens to not be anywhere even remotely close to being a music major etc. when he heard Broken Open, the first words that came out of his mouth was, "Oh he's going for the Mad World sound" I think that there's something distinctly similar between them, even if they don't sound exactly alike. |
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