Mary's LJ

Well, everyday is turning into twice a week, but hey, that's still an improvement, right?

Been so busy, but did catch Rob Thomas at the Mountain Winery a few nights ago. It's an amphitheater set literally in the middle of a vineyard at the top of a mountain overlooking the Santa Clara Valley. Even Rob said it was the nicest place he'd ever played a show. It was an acoustic show, very low-key, about 1200 in attendance. Very suited to showcasing Rob as a singer-songwriter, which he totally is, despite that whole Matchbox-20 thing. :-) He's also pretty funny and charming with his long involved song intros. He did mostly his solo stuff, with one or two MB20 things (Bent, Unwell). They did one of those things where they were selling soundboard recordings of the show on little USB wristbands. Unfortunately they were $40 -- I probably would have gotten one if they were $20. The whole thing gave me a hankering to see MB20. He did say that they would be working on a new record soon, which made a huge chunk of the audience very happy.

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I'm way behind on answering comments, but I'll get to them all, I promise!
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Latest "how Adam Lambert continues to fuck with fan-girls heads'" chapter:

ADAM: Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Tommy Joe. He's the bass player.

Do you like him?

And you want to know something funny? He likes girls!

TOMMY: *giant O-face of surprise and shock*

ADAM: Sorry about that. *exaggerated shrug*....*voice turns soft and seductive*...but also, he likes this.

Then he puts his hand on Tommy's neck and proceeds to have a minute long make-out session with him, causing Tommy's knees to buckle.

Oh boys!

It starts at 01:40

Well, I missed yesterday, but greater than 90% is an A, right?


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Sorry figure skating fans on my flist, but Evan is now officially an asshole forever:

TahitianFantasy
@evanlysacek Hey Evan, is Johnny Weir really a guy? hard to tell from the photos I've seen LOL ;)

evanlysacek
@TahitianFantasy verdict is still out.

Screencaps here

Yep, asshole.
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In nicer news The Westboro Baptist Church was at Adam's show tonight protesting and there was a lovely group of counter protesters that Adam actually went out and said hello to and thanked. Adam tweeted:

adamlambert
Amazing Anti-Hate protest outside venue. Completely outnumbered the Westboro Bastard Church of Ignorance. Love overcomes hate. I LOVE FAGS!!

ILHSFM!
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Random thoughts on Fandom: Tommy Joe Ratliff's father died 2 days ago, which is sad, and I feel badly for him, but what's with so many fans who act like their own dad died? I mean, want to try to trend #RIPRonRatliff? Asking about sending money to the family? A little weird to me. Sending Tommy a card or a twitter condolence is OK, for sure. Pretending to be a close personal friend when you're really just a fan is not being a good fan, it's kind of creepy. And frankly, it's more about saying "Look at Meeeeee, I'm such a gooooood fan! I care sooooo much!"

Enough ranting. Here, have a pretty picture of two people who are definitely real men:


Pic by SB1965 in San Francisco, CA