Gracie - Loved the story and song references.  Very creative!

Dear Clare - I love the feeling of being immature again.  Actually, I was never immature.  I was always the serious, mature, dependable one who missed out on all the irrational, illogical fun.  In the past year, I have had to close my fourth-generation business, discover that, at 53, I am unemployable and realize that I can no longer generate enough income to afford the home that I personally designed and built eight years ago.  In the face of these issues, I find emotional support from the persistant positive attitude that Adam exudes.  My husband and I are opening a restaurant and catering business on a shoestring and I am loving the challenge and opportunity.  I cannot wait for tommorrow and the opportunity to meet new interesting people and develop new friendships and relations.  Maturity?  Trust me, it’s overrated!!!!!

count me in too….with all of you! cannot get enough adam and i am SO excited at the propect of ( FINALLY) perhaps some NEW music i can get addicted to….i AM addicted to the vid of ring of fire…i think that was my favorite performance of all…( whole lotta love a close second)..but that ring of fire performance was just so smokin’ HOT in so many ways and utter genius, musically…but adam ‘had me’ way before that…with his audition of bohemian rhapsody…i said to my BF…’he is this year’s david cook’…and i was hooked from the beginning….and i thought no one could ‘out-do’ david cook…but he did….i thought he was gay but who cares? i love gay men…my best friend in the universe is a gay man!

i am not sure exactly ‘what’ it is about adam but i think in general he emits a very sweet and positive spirit that people cannot resist…he has that ‘thing’ that people want to be around…it is obvious he is a very kind and generous, positive thinking person…no ego problems and no phoniness…he is self- assured, yet has humility…that is a hard balance to achieve…and perhaps it is unconscious with alot of people but many are drawn to that..

i adore him and am so looking forward to what he will do in the future..he makes me SMILE!

True, Adam is just a singer (what a singer!), but he seems to have a quality that entices people to project onto him their own dreams. Perhaps that’s something else he has in common with Obama? Or rather, like Obama, he has become the focal point for the collective yearnings of so many of us who have felt that our country has lost its way… Such a curious phenomenon.

Great story about your husband! Mine has never had an issue around gay men. We have plenty of gay colleagues and friends, along with transgendered and sexually ambiguous ones, but then again, I couldn’t get him to go see Brokeback Mountain. (I thought the sex scenes were HOT.)  However, he was eager to see Milk. I guess homosexuality in a political and social context made it palatable for him.

I share your love and appreciation of gay men and all they have contributed, especially in arts and culture. It sounds stupidly simplistic to say it’s because they are a synthesis of maleness and femaleness, but that’s how it seems. Adam’s voice ranges from a rich baritone to a pure, ethereal countertenor (the kind that used to be achieved through the castration of young boys). His emotional range is similarly vast. He can  embody a strutting sexual predator and then morph into a vulnerable child. And he has that sense of camp that I always love in my drag queen friends. Wasn’t that twinkle in his eye and arch of his brow when he was singing Beth to die for? It’s wonderful that he is open about it. I find it tragic that so many others have had to hide their true selves. I wonder if Elvis was gay. He has that androgynous quality, and his relationships with women seemed ambivalent. He was deeply unhappy and lonely. 

I’m glad your sons turned out so well. My husband is a musician too, a composer. He doesn’t "get" my Adamania, although he admitted that the performance with Kiss was impressive. Music is a big part of our lives too. We are more in the classical music world, although our tastes are quite eclectic (which is another thing I love about Adam, his mastery of so many styles).

It’s been a struggle to keep our girls involved with music. They seem determined to do nothing that will betray an interest in an "uncool" activity or to be different in any way. The tyranny of girl peer pressure in middle school is truly depressing to see.  I am in awe that you produced a family of musicians! Bravo!