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lexzillaI'm gonna be ignoring the elephant in my life for a while as my not-great coping mechanism. But I do want to give a quick THANK YOU to all of you for your messages ♥
So the crazy-peacock that is Adam Lambert hit the UK last weekend for some shows. Thanks to wise people like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
moorspede and dreamersdare, I decided I was still going to go. And I'm pretty sure that only thinking about the OMFG COLD and HOW DO I GET THERE and WHAT IS HIS VOICE and all that jazz was good for me.
This is a free-wheeling [read: rambling] and CAPS LOCK account of my time and because you are my flisters you are duty bound to read it or something. Ha.
I went the three shows: BIRMINGHAM, MANCHESTER & LONDON. And I had a meet and greet with Adam and the Manchester one. Below is the good half of our picture together. The other half was unfortunately ruined by MY FACE which could not decide what expression it wanted to be making. Probably six at once.
ISN'T HE PRETTY *insert dreamy sigh here* And UNBELIEVABLY HE LOOKED EVEN BETTER IN THE FLESH. Not possible! you say. But still somehow true. PLUS HE SMELLS LIKE CANDYFLOSS AND RAINBOWS.
The M&G was actually not AWKWARD at all like I'd feared. I'm so socially stunted that I presumed I'd just cry on him or something like a giant [well short] freak. Instead, after a most delightful hug, I rambled at him about what a great escape he's been for me during all the stuff I'm not talking about. Not much better, but I'm taking it as a dignity win on my part. And he was SO RIDICULOUSLY EARNESTLY SWEET about thanking me for letting him be that for me and how much he APPRECIATED getting to do that for someone and how he wasn't just a happy place he was a GAY PLACE and how he hoped I had a good time at the show yadda yadda yadda until I RAN AWAY. Only to be called back because the photo had been botched and we had to re do it. DAMN! A SECOND HUG!
[SIDE NOTE FOR THOSE NOT OBSESSIVELY FOLLOWING ADAM: the M&Gs are run by his younger brother Neil. Whilst Adam is a walking :D, Neil is a >:| and famous for it. But he was actually pretty nice and whilst waiting for the photo to be redone I had a random conversation with him about how it was okay for me to say I looked like I had Downes Syndrome in pictures but not okay for him to call people retarded. IDEK]
But as Adam caused me to confront the horror of my own face, I shall now post every picture I took that managed to SOMEHOW defy science and catch him looking all HERP DERP in Birmingham. REVENGE IS SWEET ADAM! Thank you crappy camera - ILU.
The Birmingham show was in a pretty small venue and the stage was teeny, so no WOLF/SKULL/BAR SEX backdrops which made me sad. BUT THEN I WAS PUSHED FORWARD TO THE SECOND ROW for justice or something. And I was happy again. After watching way too many youtubes of the show to be healthy, it was FUCKING WEIRD IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE to be seeing it in the flesh. My observations:
HIS VOICE IS IS THE VOICE THAT ALL OTHER VOICES WANT TO BE WHEN THEY GROW UP
YOU CAN NEVER GET OVER-FACED WITH PELVIC THRUSTS
I know. I know. I should write reviews professionally or something.
Anyway, if Birmingham was great. The Manchester show was OMG AMAZING. It's strange because the show itself was exactly the same, but for this one Adam was in a happy/flaily/dirty mood that made him talk about 'loving filling voids' and telling us how pretty the boys in the audience were and even though he wasn't flirting with 99.9% of us we were still all ♥___♥ at him because the CHARM and the RIDICULOUSNESS just condense into this package of JOYFUL AWESOMENESS that makes glitter seem dull by comparison.
Plus he gave us FLOORBERT, my true OTP!
And did I mention his voice?
Which was also in just as much effect at the final London show. I didn't have nearly as good a view for that one as I did for the other two, so it kind of became my default least favourite. But default least favourite in AdamLand still is a lady-boner, jizz everywhere kind of thing.
I will commemorate the Manchester show with the one vaguely decent pic I managed to take there.
OOOPS. I just realised I should be referring to him as GRAMMY NOMINATED SINGER ADAM :D
I only took one vid of GRAMMY NOMINATED SINGER ADAM LAMBERT and it's pretty shitty quality sound and vision wise, but you can see it here. Instead, over at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
hooplamagnet , they have vids by people with fancy-pants equipment: Birmingham vids are here, Manchester here and London here. Some of the WOOOOOOS you hear are me \o/ I'm probably still WOOOING now to be honest.
The pre-show experience for all three was an exercise in ENDURANCE [read COLD TORTURE]. I'm pretty sure the weather gods were laughing their asses off at the poor shlubs freezing outside each venue. Or at least I would if I were a malicious weather god. Which I then wouldn't believe in. Which...never mind.
But it did mean getting to spend quality queue shivering bonding time with some some truly lovely people likeargeneau and jeyhawk, as well as others whose lj names I don't know but at least we're twitter friends.
Post show involved hanging around the buses in a hopefully not INSANE STALKER kind of way and meeting MONTE PITTMAN [who also plays guitar for Madonna, lol and I still care about that less than Adam] and hugging TOMMY [good, but not an Adam level hugger. Tommy hugs a lot more passively lol] and seeing all the dancers and Isaac the tiny drummer and being socially awkward with nothing to say to them so backing away slowly. Followed by delicious hot food. Okay I lie, there was a McDonalds one night. But I'll stand by the hot.
So the crazy-peacock that is Adam Lambert hit the UK last weekend for some shows. Thanks to wise people like
moorspede and dreamersdare, I decided I was still going to go. And I'm pretty sure that only thinking about the OMFG COLD and HOW DO I GET THERE and WHAT IS HIS VOICE and all that jazz was good for me. This is a free-wheeling [read: rambling] and CAPS LOCK account of my time and because you are my flisters you are duty bound to read it or something. Ha.
I went the three shows: BIRMINGHAM, MANCHESTER & LONDON. And I had a meet and greet with Adam and the Manchester one. Below is the good half of our picture together. The other half was unfortunately ruined by MY FACE which could not decide what expression it wanted to be making. Probably six at once.
ISN'T HE PRETTY *insert dreamy sigh here* And UNBELIEVABLY HE LOOKED EVEN BETTER IN THE FLESH. Not possible! you say. But still somehow true. PLUS HE SMELLS LIKE CANDYFLOSS AND RAINBOWS.
The M&G was actually not AWKWARD at all like I'd feared. I'm so socially stunted that I presumed I'd just cry on him or something like a giant [well short] freak. Instead, after a most delightful hug, I rambled at him about what a great escape he's been for me during all the stuff I'm not talking about. Not much better, but I'm taking it as a dignity win on my part. And he was SO RIDICULOUSLY EARNESTLY SWEET about thanking me for letting him be that for me and how much he APPRECIATED getting to do that for someone and how he wasn't just a happy place he was a GAY PLACE and how he hoped I had a good time at the show yadda yadda yadda until I RAN AWAY. Only to be called back because the photo had been botched and we had to re do it. DAMN! A SECOND HUG!
[SIDE NOTE FOR THOSE NOT OBSESSIVELY FOLLOWING ADAM: the M&Gs are run by his younger brother Neil. Whilst Adam is a walking :D, Neil is a >:| and famous for it. But he was actually pretty nice and whilst waiting for the photo to be redone I had a random conversation with him about how it was okay for me to say I looked like I had Downes Syndrome in pictures but not okay for him to call people retarded. IDEK]
But as Adam caused me to confront the horror of my own face, I shall now post every picture I took that managed to SOMEHOW defy science and catch him looking all HERP DERP in Birmingham. REVENGE IS SWEET ADAM! Thank you crappy camera - ILU.
The Birmingham show was in a pretty small venue and the stage was teeny, so no WOLF/SKULL/BAR SEX backdrops which made me sad. BUT THEN I WAS PUSHED FORWARD TO THE SECOND ROW for justice or something. And I was happy again. After watching way too many youtubes of the show to be healthy, it was FUCKING WEIRD IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE to be seeing it in the flesh. My observations:
HIS VOICE IS IS THE VOICE THAT ALL OTHER VOICES WANT TO BE WHEN THEY GROW UP
YOU CAN NEVER GET OVER-FACED WITH PELVIC THRUSTS
I know. I know. I should write reviews professionally or something.
Anyway, if Birmingham was great. The Manchester show was OMG AMAZING. It's strange because the show itself was exactly the same, but for this one Adam was in a happy/flaily/dirty mood that made him talk about 'loving filling voids' and telling us how pretty the boys in the audience were and even though he wasn't flirting with 99.9% of us we were still all ♥___♥ at him because the CHARM and the RIDICULOUSNESS just condense into this package of JOYFUL AWESOMENESS that makes glitter seem dull by comparison.
Plus he gave us FLOORBERT, my true OTP!
gif by ninni1
And did I mention his voice?
Which was also in just as much effect at the final London show. I didn't have nearly as good a view for that one as I did for the other two, so it kind of became my default least favourite. But default least favourite in AdamLand still is a lady-boner, jizz everywhere kind of thing.
I will commemorate the Manchester show with the one vaguely decent pic I managed to take there.
OOOPS. I just realised I should be referring to him as GRAMMY NOMINATED SINGER ADAM :D
I only took one vid of GRAMMY NOMINATED SINGER ADAM LAMBERT and it's pretty shitty quality sound and vision wise, but you can see it here. Instead, over at
hooplamagnet , they have vids by people with fancy-pants equipment: Birmingham vids are here, Manchester here and London here. Some of the WOOOOOOS you hear are me \o/ I'm probably still WOOOING now to be honest.The pre-show experience for all three was an exercise in ENDURANCE [read COLD TORTURE]. I'm pretty sure the weather gods were laughing their asses off at the poor shlubs freezing outside each venue. Or at least I would if I were a malicious weather god. Which I then wouldn't believe in. Which...never mind.
But it did mean getting to spend quality queue shivering bonding time with some some truly lovely people like
argeneau and jeyhawk, as well as others whose lj names I don't know but at least we're twitter friends. Post show involved hanging around the buses in a hopefully not INSANE STALKER kind of way and meeting MONTE PITTMAN [who also plays guitar for Madonna, lol and I still care about that less than Adam] and hugging TOMMY [good, but not an Adam level hugger. Tommy hugs a lot more passively lol] and seeing all the dancers and Isaac the tiny drummer and being socially awkward with nothing to say to them so backing away slowly. Followed by delicious hot food. Okay I lie, there was a McDonalds one night. But I'll stand by the hot.
MONTE with some of my hair
MCDONALDS with the cool kids
Anywhoo, if you've managed to read this far, you deserve a cookie! Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. And now that I've rambled about me, what's up with you? Link me to anything I should see because I undoubtedly will be a fail-whale about catching up on everyone. But I hope you're all good because YOU ROCK!
And lastly, and belatedly,
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Date: 2010-12-04 01:30 am (UTC)I remember him saying his parents liked Bob Marley :o)
I could only manage a high pitched eep first time around.
It was happy inducing. Yep, there is another in a few hours time. Have fun with that EEEEEE!!!!
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Date: 2010-12-06 05:12 pm (UTC)It would have *sadface* but at least I'll have the youtubes :P
Hahaha. Yup. Hippie folks.
LOL. Don't we have that reaction to pretty much the first time we see Adam do anything? OMG did you get his acoustic ep? Just finished listening. VOOOIIICCEE ♥ ♥ ♥
oh man, this weeks was pretty meh for me. I think it's the first that I haven't loved :( The fairy one was frickin' awesome though. Ben Edlund? He really should just write all of them \o/
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Date: 2010-12-06 08:03 pm (UTC)I agree, I'm so happy he's still writing for SPN, he's got a lot of other stuff on his plate.
You know the ep where Sam gets possessed and goes after Jo? Apparently, Sera Gamble said that one of her favourite moments was when it looked like Sam was going to rape Jo. She's got some issues.
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Date: 2010-12-10 07:15 pm (UTC)OMG THE ACOUSTIC EP GAVE ME AN EARGASM ♥ ♥ ♥ HE IS PERFECTION!!
What other show does Edlund currently write for?
*shudder* The woman has issues! I mean evil Sammy was cool, but that was potential rape aside not YAY potential rape :(
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Date: 2010-12-10 09:38 pm (UTC)Yep, it's saved for repeating over and over!
I had no idea Edlund had written for Firefly and Angel! I'm looking at wiki because I can't remember. I remember it being said late last year that he was going to do his own show but I can't see anything there.
I don't know, I mean we see that sort of stuff in horror all the time, but it was her *favourite* moment, I mean, FAVOURITE? Really? I'm thinking abut my favourites and, just no.
Yeah, and so is psychopath Sam :o) But is he going to be soulless all season? I hope they don't drag it out until the end of the season.
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Date: 2010-12-23 05:54 pm (UTC)Talking of Adam, I just saw this pic. HAHAHA I ♥ him.
Oh man, I'm still listening to it! LOL I'm finally really feeling Aftermath. But Soaked...goosebumps every time.
I didn't know Edlund wrote for Firefly. Huh. Cool. I only remembered the Angel thing because I remembered some interviews with him from my Angel DVDs. I'm such a nerd.
I'm with you on that NO. YES is more like Dean crying or 'I lost my shoe', not YAY RAPE!
I am all caught up on SPN now (woohoo!!) and that looks like a no to the dragging out...although could they make the fact that at some point Sam will break the wall any more sign posted. LOL I love you show, but subtlety aint your strong-point.
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Date: 2010-12-23 08:38 pm (UTC)I'd love to do a "caption this" contest for that pic. The guy on the right looks really dubious.
I've been watching season 3. I watched a Supernatural Xmas yesterday and cried again. Poor Sammy, I miss him.
I liked the last ep. Do you think Sammy will spend the rest of the season traumatised by what he has done that year? Yeah, it's going to leak out in the final eps.
Nice to have you back <3
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Date: 2010-12-24 07:09 pm (UTC)Hahahaha. I bet 99.999999% o them would come out dirty. Did you see the other pics from that evening? Him and Phillippe Blond look striking together.
Awww. I kinda would like to do that, but I'm trying to avoid triggering TV or at least anything I know will make me sad. Had to give up my Stargate re-watch because Daniel Jackson kept dying. Thought I'd go for something light-hearted & silly & so I hired the Sex & The City box set and had to stop when there was an episode about one of the characters mum dying. Fail. Am now watching Monk (murder deaths are apparently okay!!) O_o
Hmmmm. I don't know. I feel like they kind of already did that with Dean post hell. Maybe just an episode or two about it?
And to be back and to see you again <3333
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Date: 2010-12-24 07:42 pm (UTC)Oh shit yeah, of course. Exploitation, horror, action and martial arts movies! I finally saw Inception, man it was a trip. I don't see the slash, though. Leonardo DiCaprio stopped being cute after The Basketball Diaries.
Man, I wish they'd open Spn up to other characters, they need to get out of this rut they are in. Or make Edlund write the rest of the eps :o)
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Date: 2010-12-27 07:57 pm (UTC)Yup :( I've got a pile of movies to watch and I can't face any of them. I d/l Inception. I thought it was...okay. It looked impressive, but I was, dare I say it, bored once I got over the effects. I don't get the slash either. Maybe because I'm not attracted to Tom Hardy?? OMG AGREE on DiCaprio.
Edlund FTW. I'd be down with that idea :D
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Date: 2010-12-27 10:18 pm (UTC)What about loud, fast action with virtually no plot? :o)
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Date: 2010-12-29 08:18 pm (UTC)That I can do! I'm being distracted at the moment, there's a two hour documentary on about the making of Blackadder and its really fascinating. Plus, you know, bonus Stephen Fry interviews!!
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Date: 2010-12-29 08:25 pm (UTC)I saw a twisted version of "A Christmas Carol" done by the Blackadder cast and another done by Catherine Tate back to back. Talk about Xmased out!
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Date: 2011-01-02 07:25 pm (UTC)I've pretty much avoided all the crappy xmas stuff on tv \o/ but I do find myself getting sucked in by all those 'moments' of the year list shows. The shame!!
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Date: 2011-01-02 09:45 pm (UTC)Ha! They've been, thankfully, thin on the ground here this year. I've been reading fic practically non stop. I would love to read more on set based fic or and post series rather than AUs though. Whenever I find Jensen/Misha I pounce. I even read some of a Mike/Misha!
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Date: 2011-01-03 08:32 pm (UTC)Yeah. Jensen/Misha is cool. Makes a lot more sense to me then Dean/Castiel. Got a headache last night, so didn't get a chance to read the fics you recced. Fingers crossed for this evening. Hahahaha - I imagine that pairing would be a whole lotta crazy!!
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Date: 2011-01-03 08:47 pm (UTC)Definitely don't want to read them with a headache, they are not exactly relaxing ;o)
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Date: 2011-01-04 09:11 pm (UTC)Urgh. Nope. I am feeling sorry for myself still. How's the knees?
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Date: 2011-01-04 09:58 pm (UTC):o( *hugs* My knees are a great excuse not to go jogging, as long as I don't do that they are fine :o)
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Date: 2011-01-06 08:16 pm (UTC)Damn! Are they off your TV? You can watch them only line at their respective sites I think. Well, I used to be able & then they blocked it here saying I should view them on the site for the channel that shows it here but still...
YAY knees!! And YAY jogging prevention hahaha.
Urgh. Today I accidentally got spoiled for SPN. BOO.
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Date: 2011-01-06 10:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-09 08:48 pm (UTC)OH MY GOD. CATCHING UP ON MUSTACHIO ADAM!!!!! DID YOU SEE IT? I'M SO CONFUSED BECAUSE MY EYES TELL ME THAT THERE IS SO MUCH PRETTY HIDDEN UNDER THE FLUFF BUT I CANT QUITE GET TO IT O_o
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA pretty eyes <3
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Date: 2011-01-09 09:46 pm (UTC)It's not real, is it? It's dyed if it is. My eyes are about a millimetre from the screen atm.
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Date: 2011-01-10 09:09 pm (UTC)Hahahaha. Yeah. I'm pretty sure there's a (not so good) beard darkening thing going on there. So much red.
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Date: 2011-01-11 12:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
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