1.12.12 6 New Tracks, Interviews, A+S at Katsuya

Love both the posts quoted above, but especially the bolded part of rabbitrabbit's post. I guess I have a tendency to do a little navel gazing too, lol. I believe in the power of visualization and the setting of intentions, but I'm not as good as I'd like to be about actually using that in my own life. I have friends who have successfully used this approach in their lives, and my daughter does so regularly with remarkable results. And letting go of expectations and attachment to results has been incredibly difficult for me, but I've actually been able (forced?) to learn that over time.

Adam for me is an example of someone doing just what rabbitrabbit has said -- setting his intention(s), putting them out to the universe, and creating abundance in his life -- both literally and metaphorically. I am one of the people who finds that Adam's voice resonates for me in a powerful way. But POSSIBLY even more important than the voice for me, is the fact that I admire the way he lives his life -- especially his courage and determinedly positive energy. None of us are perfect, but I admire his ongoing effort to live his dreams and continue to learn and evolve. I'm attempting to do the same thing.

Blah blah blah. I have said a lot of these things before and I'm tired and feel like I'm stumbling over my words. I have very little time to stan right now, but I'm ok with that. I've been stanning since May '09; time to be a little more present in my own life. I have big things I would still like to do/be/experience. I am looking at era 2 with a mixture of excitement and detached curiosity. There has never been any doubt in my mind about Adam's success. I can't and don't want to predict the degree of that success, but I have no desire to nitpick or worry about it. His talent is being recognized, he's being given tons of opportunities, people are flying in to LA from all over the world to interview him (to me this HAS to have significance), and lots of people appear to love the new single. I feel it's likely that Trespassing will be more successful, possibly a lot more, than FYE. There will always be people who don't care for his voice, his style, or whatever, but most of them aren't 'haters'. Everyone has obstacles, and Adam has actually, I feel, broken some of them down already, for himself and probably for others who follow him. For myself, I suspect that I will love a lot of this new album and era, but that there will probably be a few things that I don't like as well as the last era. That's just life. And reality, lol. Didn't mean to go on so long, and I won't be surprised if when I hit 'post', I'll find the new thread is up. Oh well!

p.s. Also love this part of Skylar's post:

Project pure win into the universe, don't shut it down. When we protect ourselves out of fear of failure (ours or theirs), or we predict small, we shut down the possibility of the dream. Adam breaks the barriers. We take part : ) and if by some strange chance he doesn't become the king of pop for everyone. Who the eff cares

Read more: www.adamtopia.com/index.cgi?board=daily&action=display&thread=660&page=16#ixzz1jJZQ9VqT

On a more shallow note...I agree with those who don't care for the Paris pictures. And I also agree that the Vevo performance look was the absolute pits. The Vevo commercial pics, where he's jumping on the bed, were great, tho. Young Hollywood wasn't that bad, although I didn't like it at the time. Love so many of his looks, but have to say that he's looking pretty spectacular right now.