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Post by virg1877 on Jun 26, 2012 10:15:47 GMT -5
I finally got around to figuring out how to upload vidoes to YouTube. In honor of the 1 month aniversity of Adam's concert at Six Flags on May 26, 2012 I've uploaded this set to: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA5898FED24510D89&feature=edit_okThese videos were taken with my new Q3HD video camera which has 2 external microphones. This gives much better sound quality, i.e., no distortions, than the usual video cameras. However, the sound level is lower so you will need to turn the sound up, or even better, wear headphone. I think it automatically turns the recording level down to avoid some of the distortions from loud booming sounds. P.S. Cuckoo is still processing, so please check back in a while to view. Wow! Nice work. I can actually hear the individual instruments and vocal parts. I embedded here so people can click easier and check out your other videos. Great video and sound!! |
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Post by gelly14 on Jun 26, 2012 10:16:11 GMT -5
MTV Style @mtvstyle Summer leather pants are definitely a THING according to @justinbieber, @kanyewest, @adamlambert, and @darrencriss on.mtv.com/MXlh2W - GW style.mtv.com/2012/06/26/justin-bieber-kanye-west-leather-pants/?xrs=share_twitterJustin Bieber, Kanye West, And More Dudes Wear Warm-Weather Leather Pants  Leather pants + summer is a combination that doesn't often bring about the most pleasant of mental images. Actually, the only images they bring to mind (for the MTV Style staff, at least) make up a constant loop of that episode of Friends wherein Ross tries out a pair of leather pants, overheats, and winds up totally unable to put them back on. Either Justin Bieber, Kanye West, Adam Lambert, and Darren Criss missed that episode or they sincerely believe themselves immune to Ross's plight because all four of these dudes have sported thick, leather pants this month. Adam Lambert channels glam rock with a more skin-tight, more painted-on looking pair of leather trousers than Yeezy and Bieber. Those over-the-knee wedged boots, though, take the summer leather look to an entirely new level. |
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Post by cassie on Jun 26, 2012 10:18:36 GMT -5
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Well spoken and smart @adamlambert is all grown up and talking about being a gay role model #Watch! www.newnownext.com/adam-lambert-on-being-a-gay-role-model-video/06/2012/Adam Lambert On Being A Gay Role Model: Video In a new interview with Billboard, Adam Lambert talks about initially feeling ambivalent about being America’s gay role model, with his characteristic confident honesty (“I didn’t audition for American Idol because I was gay, I wanted a record deal”), and why he finally just embraced it. Lambert also praises TV and movies for including more gay characters, but criticizes them for being “very safe.” Video, above. Perfect comment under this article: "I just bought this album based on this interview alone" |
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Post by murly on Jun 26, 2012 10:22:16 GMT -5
Good for you, Smokey!!! I really admire your courage in speaking up and drawing the line.
The rhetoric from the haters may seem like it has grown worse, but I'm not so sure it has. It's just that it stands out more now because it used to be accepted as the norm. The good news is that far more people are becoming open-minded. Most polls show that a small majority are in favor of marriage equality. Thirty years ago that would have been unthinkable. Even one of the witnesses who testified in support of California’s Prop. 8 gay-marriage ban during a 2010 trial has changed his mind. David Blankenhorn wrote in an op-ed published in the New York Times that he has now come to “accept gay marriage and emphasize the good that it can do.”
We're making progress. Hate speech is still with us, of course, but those people are being left in the rear-view mirror and they know it, which is why they're screaming louder than ever. Buh-bye, bigots. You're on the losing side of history.
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Post by mehitabel on Jun 26, 2012 10:24:54 GMT -5
MTV Style @mtvstyle Summer leather pants are definitely a THING according to @justinbieber, @kanyewest, @adamlambert, and @darrencriss on.mtv.com/MXlh2W - GW style.mtv.com/2012/06/26/justin-bieber-kanye-west-leather-pants/?xrs=share_twitterJustin Bieber, Kanye West, And More Dudes Wear Warm-Weather Leather Pants Leather pants + summer is a combination that doesn't often bring about the most pleasant of mental images. Actually, the only images they bring to mind (for the MTV Style staff, at least) make up a constant loop of that episode of Friends wherein Ross tries out a pair of leather pants, overheats, and winds up totally unable to put them back on. Either Justin Bieber, Kanye West, Adam Lambert, and Darren Criss missed that episode or they sincerely believe themselves immune to Ross's plight because all four of these dudes have sported thick, leather pants this month. Adam Lambert channels glam rock with a more skin-tight, more painted-on looking pair of leather trousers than Yeezy and Bieber. Those over-the-knee wedged boots, though, take the summer leather look to an entirely new level.
No one holds a candle to Adam in leather pants  (wish they would get it right re: boots, but anyway). Beiber looks like he's wearing his daddy's clothes :-) |
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Post by houselady on Jun 26, 2012 10:26:16 GMT -5
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Well spoken and smart @adamlambert is all grown up and talking about being a gay role model #Watch! www.newnownext.com/adam-lambert-on-being-a-gay-role-model-video/06/2012/Adam Lambert On Being A Gay Role Model: Video In a new interview with Billboard, Adam Lambert talks about initially feeling ambivalent about being America’s gay role model, with his characteristic confident honesty (“I didn’t audition for American Idol because I was gay, I wanted a record deal”), and why he finally just embraced it. Lambert also praises TV and movies for including more gay characters, but criticizes them for being “very safe.” Video, above. These interviews do pay off! 8-) Comment under the article and video: I just bought this album based on this interview alone. |
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Post by gelly14 on Jun 26, 2012 10:26:40 GMT -5
@sthelenaqua: Official poster of Elton John, Queen & Adam Lambert concert in Kiev on the street. (June 30: Concert Kiev, Ukraine. Maidan Nezalezhnosti (еру Independence Square) with Queen and Elton John. Organized by Pinchuk AntiAIDS Foundation, live broadcast. 8pm to midnight local time.) pic.twitter.com/QJ5lyW3J |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2012 10:32:05 GMT -5
Darren looks great! Kanye and Beiber look hysterical!! Aren't leather pants supposed to be tight?  |
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Post by houselady on Jun 26, 2012 10:34:37 GMT -5
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Well spoken and smart @adamlambert is all grown up and talking about being a gay role model #Watch! www.newnownext.com/adam-lambert-on-being-a-gay-role-model-video/06/2012/Adam Lambert On Being A Gay Role Model: Video In a new interview with Billboard, Adam Lambert talks about initially feeling ambivalent about being America’s gay role model, with his characteristic confident honesty (“I didn’t audition for American Idol because I was gay, I wanted a record deal”), and why he finally just embraced it. Lambert also praises TV and movies for including more gay characters, but criticizes them for being “very safe.” Video, above. Perfect comment under this article: "I just bought this album based on this interview alone" You beat me posting that comment! Another glambert is born! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2012 10:37:30 GMT -5
The closer to the tipping point things get the harder those who hate will fight. The war is most vicious right before surrender. I take the escalation of rhetoric as a sign that the very ground beneath our feet is changing and moving in a way demands people step out of their silence - and that will play out on both sides. For Adam, he is unfortunately on the front lines and for better or worse has to deal with that. It is both a burden and an opportunity and clearly from his Billboard interview he sees it as such. In the annals of history this time will, like other civil rights movements before be viewed as an inflection point in history - a point where the trajectory changed and on every timeline of this time, Adam will have a place. I didn't comment earlier because I would like to read about the incident in a fuller report first. I don't know yet whether the horrible person who did this was motivated by hate against lesbians in general, which would provoke one kind of soul-searching, or some personal vendetta against the girls, which would provoke another. It's awful no matter what. I really agree with what bridgeymah posted earlier. We are at a turning/tipping point with gay rights. This is history in the making. I can't tell you how many time my dad has told me about the terrible 1963 bombing in Birmingham that killed the four little girls going to Sunday school. Before that time, my dad said he wasn't that enthused about the civil rights movement ... he wondered why the activists had to push so hard. After the bombing ... any decent person in America had a broken heart. How many times have we seen folks insist that homophobia really isn't that bad out there? It is as if decent, regular people need to see the hate, naked and raw, before they really understand that we are all in this together.  But there is good news: the reality is that Americans are becoming more accepting of homosexuality, particularly in the last 5 years. There are a number of recent studies from organizations like Gallup and the Pew Research Center demonstrating this trend. In 2011, a study by the Pew Center reported that the majority (58%) of Americans said that homosexuality should be accepted by society. In questions related to parenting, only 35% said that gay/lesbian parents are "bad for society". Gay marriage is still polarizing; just under half of Americans approve, but this is a significant improvement from 2009, when only 35% approved. Link to Pew Research Center study: pewresearch.org/pubs/1994/poll-support-for-acceptance-of-homosexuality-gay-parenting-marriageI think the reason why the hate groups are seemingly more vocal is that they know they are losing the battle, particularly among the young. Two-thirds of adults under 30 say that society should be accepting of homosexuality, compared to 47% of those 65+. Recent history and demographics are moving against the haters and they know it so, as Bridgeymah said, they are fighting more vocally and viciously. But they ARE losing and that is a very good thing.  |
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