Yo-yo Adam. Always interesting, but certainly not always, as expected.
Photos good and bad, speeches good and bad, you never quite know what will happen next.
First of all, I think we could start a club of those here with a dad who is wearing Charlie Chaplin pants. My Dad is approaching 90, and that is what he wears, since his 20s, I might add. When they went out of fashion, he found a tailor, who made those out of fashion pants for him, someone who otherwise tailors for theater costuming departments and is therefore used to making stuff that is out-dated. And my father will wear his 'tailored suits' with pride, I might add, yes he will.
Especially, in that one sideways picture with Brian, Adam with grey hair and these pants and not the best posture, he looks like he is pushing 50 or something. Weird. Well I hope he likes it. Never thought I'd say that Brian looks better dressed than Adam, but in those pics, Brian looks classy and sleek, in a personal style that is just perfect for him.
Then next minute, there is the gorgeous picture of Adam's face, those eyes that you just want to get lost in, and you really wonder, how this can be the same guy. There are multiple great pics, actually.
Then he gets the honor to present an award, confirming again the major acceptance by the UK industry and LGBT community, and why the hell does he get worked up about the envelopes being fake? We all know. It's show business, it's called keeping up appearances, whatever, but you don't call the organizers out on that, especially multiple times, on a live broadcast. You can see the lady in the see-through suit, talk to the other guy on the side and mouth 'I can't believe he just said that', and then Adam does not get much of a reaction from the crowd for his 'revelation', so he says it again and again? What is he thinking? Does he want to make sure, nobody ever makes him give an award again or open one of these fake envelopes again? Why does he do that to himself? Rock-star thinking maybe, but I don't think that it is working for him. He is somebody who has to work years to recover from blunders. Are there others, who can talk trash and get away with it? Sure. But not him. I don't think this will be appreciated, especially, given that it was broadcast live and therefore went out to everyone.
Then after that, he is so nice in what he says to Brian, so humble in his presentation, even bowing down, and totally switches again into the darling we know him to normally be. Adam once said that he torpedoes himself on a regular basis. I have to say, he sure does. Kinda frustrating, tbh. Well, he has Shoshanna sitting there with him, so that should cover it and get him an earful. It just surprises me that somebody who is normally so socially skilled and adept and also caring, can at other times, all of a sudden, lack all that subtlety or situation awareness.
Well, never a dull moment.
Hope tomorrow at GUYs goes well for him. Glad he gets to perform there again and wondering who he will have as musicians? I don't think any of his band are in London, are they? Maybe they prepared tracks for him, or he has hired musicians, which should make for a unique experience.
Talon is back, it must be time to get ready for QAL. Have to say, this time, I myself am not ready at all, I hardly find time to swing by and read the threads here anymore, had to jump over many of them in the last few months. It is all happening so fast.
But it is good to see you back, Talon.