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I have lost way too much time to the Adam Lambert gif tumblr today! But in my defence: his faaaaaaaaaace, you guys, his faaaaaaaace ♥ ♥ ♥

I've been mulling. Not strenuously or anything. More like a nice gentle low-key mull. But still...[Poll #1621563]
Thoughts?

And what are your current fandoms? Show me in pictures because it's always nice to get some pretty up in a post! To no ones surprise here are mine ^_^
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This is good news.


\o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ Ok. Technically I never win anything. But my friend does and I MADE her enter, so it's kind of like me winning, right? But anyway, who cares because I get to go. BTW it's a winners only thing and I couldn't have bought tickets even if I really really wanted to. I'm so happy. YOU GUYS!! YOU GUYS!!!

[LOL. I've been flailing about this for at least 9 hours.]

This is especially awesome because out of the TWO gigs he's doing in the UK, I had no chance of getting into the other one at G-A-Y one as it's mainly gonna be members only and I don't want to deprive Adam of a room full of drunk gay boys.

Just need the ash cloud to fuck off now so he can actually get to the UK *fingers crossed*

♥ Check it out! I'm so honoured by this! My fic Come Play With Me has been made into a beautiful pdf by too_rational. It looks really pretty and includes all the amazing art made by gwyntastic . If you want, you can find the download link for it here and there are also many other great J2 fics for download here and SPN ones here. It's such a cool resource!

♥ I was having thoughts this morning about why I'm so excited by Adam Lambert. Mainly, it's because I think his voice is an amazing fucking instrument. But it's also because he reminds of a quote from the late great Bill Hicks. It's over a decade old, but still feels just as relevant when I think about all the shit Adam gets for daring to be himself in this day and age.

This is made clear near the end of the Montreal set where Hicks rants about the poor state of contemporary, state-sanctioned pop, the kind of tuneless, harmless pabulum hailed by the authorities as representing 'a good image for children'. "Since when did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children? I want my children to listen to people who fucking ROCKED! I don't care if they died in puddles of their own vomit! I want someone who plays from his fucking heart! 'Mummy, mummy, the man Bill told me to listen to has a blood bubble coming from his nose!' 'SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO HIM PLAY'." This followed by an astonishing sequence of mimed obscenities; an image summoned up of clean-cut New Kids on the Block fans goose-stepping, giving the Hitler salute and shouting 'Heil! Heil!' then ‘sucking Satan's cock’.      source

Since when did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children? What do you guys think?

♥ It also led me to think about another criticism that Adam often gets: that he's not authentic. If we really are in that stage of post-postmodernism where 'authenticity' is understood as a return to what is seen as the traditional, then I find it very sad. Not only because it's a tradition that never existed but also because I dislike the implied judgment of authentic being good and inauthentic being the other. It speaks of a conservatism that I am always [naively?] hoping we are moving past.

( New movie purchase :) )

to stay up until half four in the morning, when you're already tired, to watch Adam at the AMAs. You end up slightly hysterical and sending odd pm's to moorspede along the lines of 'ahhhh I'm to emotionally invested which way is up who am I did that just happen'. And the going even further off the rails by deciding that as you have a meeting at 9.45am, it would be better to power through staying up all night then getting only a few hours sleep. *facepalm*

My thoughts are the performance are still all over the place. Maybe I'll be more coherent after sleep?

The bad - Adam can sing like no one else I've heard in a long long time. You would not know that from this performance :( But you know what makes him all the more awesome, he owned that on twitter.

The good - The performance. Adam still sounded okay and he is one balls-of-steel fierce mofo. Stage show was EPIC! AND GLORIOUS. AND THE MOST PERFECT ROCK'N'ROLL MOMENT of an otherwise bland and dreary show [with the exception of Gaga who is growing on me].

The genius - Love him or hate him, who is anyone talking about? And I think that's just how he likes it. And how he's using it to make smart points about gender, performance and equality. Here's your politics OUT magazine!

The hideous - Here's what I really find offensive. People are complaining about their kids seeing Adam's gay sexcapades rather then Eminem rapping about how many rapes he's got under his belt. REALLY PEOPLE?

The pretty - he brought it <3


In conclusion: I love this man!