5.4.12 Bonus Track clips, Trespassing out 4 review

When I lived in LA, this was a free weekly magazine you could pick up at the corner newspaper stands. Don't know if it still is.

Overnight, when everybody is sleeping and not listening!!!!!!!!!Bah humbug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nica, durberville no need to worry. Everyone, we should have a glass of wine and relax LOL. Yes, of course there will be TV bookings, they just haven't announced them just yet (although we already know about Chelsea Lately, but that was a ninja who found out about it unusually early). We should find out about them soon. Also, TBH, I hope at least some of these bookings are in the second week, because I'm hoping he won't have such a big drop from week 1 to week 2 of sales.

We should keep in mind that we watch under a microscope everything that he is doing, and the general public does not function this way. Also, we are NOT in charge of managing his career. And his management and RCA are doing a great job so far with the first week promo.

As to what we know so far: about the iheart radio concert, please refer to my earlier (tiny squee) post. This is AMAZING exposure for radio. It will most surely mean he will get played on Clear Channel stations, which own like half of America LOL ok not quite, but they are a MAJOR presence and own the majority of Top 40 radio stations in the US. The actual audience at the concert is less important. What's important is that this builds good will with Clear Channel so that they play him on the radio.

So all is really good so far.

ETA: Where is that "everyone relax, I've got this" Adam macro when you need it???

I get that all stereotypes are based in part on truth but does that make them right? Do we really want to approve of labeling certain behaviors as typical for homosexuals/heterosexuals?

Society deems what is "right" and what isn't and the constraints on males is severe. Just like my son, who learned in kindergarten that he should be playing with toy guns and not with dolls, and he shouldn't tell people one of his favorite colors is pink. Why do you like to garden with your mother? Boys don't cry, shake it off they told him on the ball field. Sports are assumed for him--not his sister, who is fine in drama and art. Heck, now he is going to middle school and I'm worried he'll be made fun of because he chose the flute as his band instrument.

None of these things are precursors to sexual orientation but you can't tell me that the expectations we place on gender do not effect, limit and alter who you might have become without the restraints--or at the very least impress upon you the need to try to fit into the box you are told you "belong" in. And when you don't, this is when identity and self-esteem issues begin.

Stereotyping is simply labeling and assigning expectations based on these labels. The term "gaydar" implies that detecting a person's orientation is relevant. Why does it matter? And the wide-spread use of this term proves that it is socially acceptable to seek out labels for people even if they don't want one.

Sometimes we don't recognize that even if our intentions are good, it doesn't mean that the practice has no negative impact. Small things add up.

And AleksandraKV, I never thought Adam seemed gay on AI. Why did he--because he has OTT? Didn't dress like one of the repressed boys? Seemed less closed off? He just seemed like an awesome guy to me.

Sorry for the rant. I am still evolving but since Adam I have noticed that even the little things that I once didn't notice or thought were meaningless, perhaps aren't.