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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2013 17:17:46 GMT -5
My prediction, free-style :D Adam swallowed hard, thinking that maybe, just maybe he picked up some crazy virus while cruising the space or Sauli decided to go all 'naturalle' on him and fed him some funny grass he picked on his jogging tours through Hollywood hills that made Adam’s brain short-circuit. ^^^THIS^^^  The whole thing:   ETA: I want some of that hot chocolate with cinnamon, pepper, vanilla and a little shot of rum in it! Sauli has MANY charms!  |
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Post by mahailia on Jan 9, 2013 10:36:35 GMT -5
alek ~
That is such a fun and hillarious story, you got skillz girl!
Espec. love the tantric sex angle, oh, to be a fly on the wall at the Tropical Jam!
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Post by mszue on Jan 9, 2013 13:26:17 GMT -5
My Adam prediction: The A&S Glamily Show!
After several years of bleeding audience shares and facing the spectre of being forced to accept advertising!!...a tactic that would spell the beginning of the end of public television as we know it....PBS execs decided to throw all their eggs in the same reality show pot and enlist Adam, Sauli and their extended glamily, to open their lives to the reality cam! The A&S Glamily Show! Adam and Sauli required a lot of convincing but in the end, they agreed to the privacy invasion because they saw a way to:
1. show the general public what a gay relationship really looked like;
2. to help their close friends gain some well-deserved public exposure;
3. to keep their favorite television network...and by extension, radio... healthy and viable;
4. to gain Adam the exposure he needed and that the rest of radio/TV would not give him;
5. and finally, to make a fistfull of dollars...enough to last them both the rest of their lives!
The show....needless to say....was a huge hit! The ratings dominated television and the show won every award in its categories. The sound-track took Grammies and Emmy's for Adam and Sauli, as well as supporting Emmy's for Cheeks [as the show's antagonist and chief trouble-maker] and Danielle [for best supporting actress]. Also nominated in these categories were Scarlet Cherry, Riff Cherry, SutanRaja; Carmit Bachar and Alisan Porter. Neil, Eber and Leila were also nominated....in fact, the truth is that they pretty much locked out any other show cast in their domination. Lee Cherry was the head visual person for the show and won his own Emmy's. Adam was the Executive Producer....again, Emmy rewarded.
An unintended consequence of the show was the elevation of Adam Levine to iconic status as the AL confusion was still rampant in the Fox, ABC, CBS and NBC worlds....[mostly due to the underfunding of research personelle...usually the first to go as the networks struggled under PBS domination]. Well....there is a downside to everything I suppose!
PBS was estatic and immediately spun off several shows. Cheeks was given his own show...he built on a prior effort that had amazing promise but ran out of funding....Husbands. This show grew to dominate the sit-com genre. The Zodiac glamily re-introduced America and the world to the Music Show format and introduced a whole new talent base to the world and forever changed the music reality show genre! Neil earned his own pundit show and Leila became a highly desired set decorator amongs hollywood glitterati. Eber hosted a slam poetry show that, while drawing smaller audience numbers than some of the offshoots, helped to reinstate PBS the preferred home of the literati.
Adam and Sauli became the first same-sex couple to show both their wedding and wedding night, live, with 24 hour livestreaming. The livestream killed the 8 servers set up for the evening and solidified A&S's reputation as the God's of the Airwaves!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2013 16:37:26 GMT -5
Omg, Mszue :4OMG: :4OMG: :4OMG: It's downright hilarious, but, girl, I think you just woke up the usually dormant ( made such by the meagre residues of my sanity) perv in me  Idk if I should strangle you or thank you  J/k Thanks, bb, for the  and  !!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2013 17:06:12 GMT -5
OMG, mszue! To think PBS of all things would be Adam's savior and vice versa! Can you imagine how much we'd all pay during pledge drive to get back to our regular programming!  I can't wait for the wedding. We will have a design contest then for their outfits! So creative and :4OMG: . ;D |
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Post by ksha518 on Jan 10, 2013 2:41:19 GMT -5
Second, I just saw a fabulous documentary on PBS that I thought I'd share with fellow music lovers. It's called "Under African Skies," and is about the making of Paul Simon's Graceland album (one of my favorite albums ever--I know, geez, MWP, go out on a limb there ;D). Connection to Adam? Well, Adam is doing his international touring and basking in the connective powers of music--how people may be coming from very different places, and not even speak each other's languages, but they can all jam together and feel the smile of the music spread from face to face. This documentary has many scenes in which the music is just contagiously euphoric. And the instrumentation and lyrics are just beyond excellent. On the flip side, the documentary also tells a complex and nuanced story about the difficult responsibilities and pitfalls of celebrity, especially when celebs are caught up in a bigger political situation, and how that sometimes conflicts with the role of the artist. Adam knows all about that, of course--how he's torn between wanting to play a positive political role in one of the big movements of his time, and at the same time just thinks of himself as an individual and an artist who speaks for no-one but himself, and is mostly interested in producing something genuine. Simon got himself into some trouble over these beautiful musical collaborations that happened in the middle of a nobly-motivated cultural boycott of South Africa. There was something at once both irritatingly naive and humanly cheering about how uncomfortably he rubbed up against that political storm. I like how the documentary, which celebrates the album, doesn't try to completely absolve him. Anyway, I really recommend it--terrific music and some of those South African musicians are just so fantastically lively you can help but dance with them. Also, gave me extra warm feelings to think of Adam's recent, wonderful visit to SA--how much things have changed. Here's a trailer: That's all for now, folks. Y'all have fun! MWP, thanks for posting this!! Paul Simon's Graceland is one of my favorite albums ever also!!! (I was already out on a limb, so oh well!) I actually think I watched the documentary at one point, but had forgotten about it. Thanks for reminding me! I adore that album, and find the stories around it to be fascinating. Paul Simon is such a fantastic musician and poet. I'm mostly a lurker lately and I don't always keep up with the threads, but I do periodically take a look at the Moon Garden and often am so sorry that I don't have more time to participate because the conversations are often so interesting -- as are some of the articles that have been posted by MsZue and I think Juniemoon. There were some scholarly articles -- a couple of them on fandom, I think -- that I keep wanting to go back and read. (I've said this many times before, but I find the whole experience of participating in a fandom to be a little unsettling.) Really appreciate some of the discussions -- I would love to be able to spend a *little* more time here but I have to be careful because I'm trying really hard to live a life and the computer is a little too seductive sometimes! Plus I'm terrible at multi-tasking. And I just went down the rabbit hole a little thanks to Q3's video contest. I posted a bunch of my favorites at the end of yesterday's thread. Sorry to interrupt the fun -- carry on! |
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Post by ksha518 on Jan 10, 2013 2:44:46 GMT -5
sugaree and mahailia, thanks for the updates! Here is something that was so inspirational to me. This video is about a commercial photographer who lost his sight 20 years ago. Amazingly, he continued his work and became an art photographer, using a huge view camera with 19th century technology. This quote of his reminded me of Adam: "There is an alternate world out there that is as powerful as anything one might describe as normal. Whatever it is that you think is your adversity is actually your strength." Love this, Juniemoon! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2013 11:07:46 GMT -5
ksha518, I really wanted to thank you for what you wrote here about enjoying some of the more scholarly or deep end conversations that we have occasionally engaged in here in the Moon Garden. Someone once called the Moon Garden a floating cocktail party and I loved that description. I like the idea of light conversation and deeper exploratory conversation happening in the same place.
We don't always have those discussions as much as we might because of being called out on it. So it's nice to know that someone is missing the deep end. I like it, too.
This isn't really deep end, but still seemed worth bringing over. I belong to a forum for self-published authors. Since I haven't published in a couple of years, I'm just a lurker. Lots of the discussions center around changes in the publishing business that mirror much of what we talk about around here, about the music business.
Recently Paul Krupin, who is a publicist in the arena, commented about what makes an author successful these days, and it reminded me to be more observant about the things that Adam does:
What the agents and publishers now look for are the people who have not only created a decent piece of work,but have also created and can freely exercise the multitude of media platforms that get the word out to people and result in sales. And to do that means mastering the messaging so that people get turned on and buy whatever you have to sell. ... speaking, by doing articles and interviews, blogging, tweeting, or selling books out of the back of your car in the parking lot -- you have to figure out yourself and if you aim at quantity and longevity, then it must be a process you can maintain and support.
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Post by mahailia on Jan 11, 2013 9:31:18 GMT -5
This is kind of fun: a friend sent this to me, it is called "Let's Dance" It has a bunch of beautiful and fun dancing from some of the great performers, movies and musicians that we all love, hope you enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=ab9i0s4WEY0&feature=relatedlove, love, love Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2013 11:43:10 GMT -5
For Adam and Sauli but especially for ALEKS: P.S. This song actually charted in 1974! Yet people keep insisting to me that things haven't changed.  |
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