Mary's LJ

It's 8:30 AM and I've been up all night and I would really like to go to bed, but I can't. I'm staying up to play another round of the wicked game I call TicketBastard Roulette.

Way back in the early spring Adam Lambert hinted that he might do "a handful" of concert dates. He started touring in June, and by the time it's all done, that handful will have turned into something like 115 dates in the US, Canada, Asia and Europe. As we Left Coasters were hoping, he'll be closing the books on the GlamNation Tour in his home town of Los Angeles in December. The final date is 16 Dec at Club Nokia, and I was able to get a ticket through a pre-sale. Two days ago, he added the penultimate date on the 15th at the Music Box (formerly The Henry Fonda) Theatre. WHICH SEATS 1300 PEOPLE.

So here I am, waiting for 10AM to roll around, so I can hit Enter furiously and fight with 30 letter captchas, only to get the message "There are no tickets available at this time." Because I know that's gonna happen. Tomorrow is the GoldenVoice pre-sale, and Friday is the General Sale, so I get to play the Lotto three times, but I'm not optimistic.

Except that I guess I am. Because I bought my plane ticket ($140 RT! WHOO!) and have made arrangements for a hotel room for both nights, so...I guess I'm going. Someone, somewhere will have an extra ticket, right? And prices usually drop precipitously on the scalper sites the last day or two, so, I guess I'm figuring that Ra will provide.

Or maybe pigs will fly and I'll get a ticket an hour from now.

From last night in Hawaii:



ETA: YES! I ACTUALLY GOT A TICKET! *falls into bed*

So, I've tried to be good and not spam you too much with gifs of Adam snogging Tommy every. single. night. because we all know how horribly boring it can be to watch uber hot guys macking on each other night after night...(oh...wait...)

But last night was the last US date of Adam's GlamNation tour, in Puyallup, Washington. In fitting fashion, Adam capped off his 72 date, 98% sold out tour with a performance to between 8 and 10 thousand people, and instead of a kiss, we got this:



It's like, pr0n, honest to god. And I can't stop looking at it. (For reference, the one on the right is the ~straight one. ;-) )

They leave tonight for Singapore, for the first of 31 international dates all over Europe and Asia. I sure hope they have some good video ninjas over there!

So my boy Adam is playing the Warfield in July on his GlamNation tour. THE WARFIELD!! THE WARFIELD!! One of the most awesome venues in the Bay Area to see a show.

Pre-sale tix go on sale this Wednesday at 10AM. I'm having flash backs to almost 5 years ago when Green Day announced that they were playing a show at the 2200 capacity Warfield, this after playing the Oracle Arena in Oakland (15K) and two nights at the Home Depot Center in LA (at least 15K) in the previous 2 weeks. I sat in front of my computer and hit the button at exactly 10 AM and for the next 45 minutes, nada. :-(

This was before I had discovered LJ and all you wonderful people, so I was all alone in my fandom and love of Green Day, *sniff sniff* Knowing what I know now, I would have headed up to SF and hung around the box office and probably would have gotten in, but I was a fangirl babe in the woods in those days. Gosh, that seems so long ago. Still think of that day and that show every time I head down Market Street and 6th and pass the Warfield.

So wish me luck this Wednesday at 10am...don't call or ping me because I won't answer. :-)

And just to make this post pretty: