Oy Vey!
Stressful fandom day Wednesday. My boo, Adam, and his boyfriend spent about 8 hours detained in a Helsinki police station yesterday.
Now, fandom is not real life, and I generally don't confuse the two, but I have to say I felt pretty sick to my stomach initially, because the first reports were that Adam was arrested for assaulting Sauli. Of course, that seemed just impossible based on what I know of him, but it was upsetting because there's no way I could continue to stan someone who beat up a significant other. No way. After several hours and a million iterations of the story, complicated by the fact that all the info was in Finnish, and google translate doesn't do that language particularly well, it appears the story is this: Adam and Sauli were at a popular gay bar in Helsinki called DTM (Don't Tell Mama), got very intoxicated, got into an argument, got kicked out where the argument continued involving some physical contact (probably grabbing/holding) and the cops came. They were brought in, sobered up, questioned and released without charges.
Sauli made a blog post a few hours later, saying that celebrities are people, apologizing for any distress, joking about the hangover, and saying
"Love isn't easy either, but it's forever,"
which soothed my fangirl heart immeasurably, because it's clear that Adam worships Sauli, and them breaking up would not be a happy thing for him or his music.
Then Adam tweeted this:
Jetlag+Vodka=blackout. Us÷blackout=irrational confusion. jail+guilt+press=lesson learned. Sauli+Adam+hangover burgers= laughing bout it. :)
https://twitter.com/#!/adamlambert/status/149878311244410880
Followed a few hour later by this:
Violence is not to be taken lightly. Embarrassed by drunkenness. No punches thrown, no injuries and no charges. Media always exaggerates.
https://twitter.com/#!/adamlambert/status/150044853584134145
(Just to show you the kind of family Adam grew up in, after the first tweet, his father tweeted:
@adamlambert on the plus side: best morning google alert of the year
and his brother tweeted
Finnish police are HUGE fans of Outlaws Of Love. They play it at their work parties. This arrest does not come as a surprise. [OOL is a song on Adam's upcoming CD])
Anyhoo, short version is that nothing came of it but embarrassment, and a whole lotta fandom angst. And oh yeah, Perez Hilton is still pissed that Adam wouldn't fuck him, so he keeps posting shit like Adam is an alcoholic domestic abuser. DIAF Perez. Slowly and painfully.
The happy news is that there is still some nice buzz about Adam's new single, even though it won't be officially released to radio until next month. My local station is actually playing it once or twice a day. *\o/*
In case you missed it ;-) :
Better Than I Know Myself by adamofficial
RL is pretty much the same. I've been going to a Fitness Boot Camp 4 days a week for 10 weeks now, and while it still continues to kick my sorry old fat ass, I am seeing definite improvements. Next step is to work on the diet so I can actually drop some weight. I don't know who those people are who say the weight just falls away from working out, but I ain't one of them!
I'm working Xmas and pretty much the whole week, but I'm taking a week off in January to visit my friend Christine in The Netherlands, so I'm excited about that.
Merry Christmas or Happy Hanukkah to those of you who celebrate, and Happy New Year to you all!
Now, fandom is not real life, and I generally don't confuse the two, but I have to say I felt pretty sick to my stomach initially, because the first reports were that Adam was arrested for assaulting Sauli. Of course, that seemed just impossible based on what I know of him, but it was upsetting because there's no way I could continue to stan someone who beat up a significant other. No way. After several hours and a million iterations of the story, complicated by the fact that all the info was in Finnish, and google translate doesn't do that language particularly well, it appears the story is this: Adam and Sauli were at a popular gay bar in Helsinki called DTM (Don't Tell Mama), got very intoxicated, got into an argument, got kicked out where the argument continued involving some physical contact (probably grabbing/holding) and the cops came. They were brought in, sobered up, questioned and released without charges.
Sauli made a blog post a few hours later, saying that celebrities are people, apologizing for any distress, joking about the hangover, and saying
"Love isn't easy either, but it's forever,"
which soothed my fangirl heart immeasurably, because it's clear that Adam worships Sauli, and them breaking up would not be a happy thing for him or his music.
Then Adam tweeted this:
Jetlag+Vodka=blackout. Us÷blackout=irrational confusion. jail+guilt+press=lesson learned. Sauli+Adam+hangover burgers= laughing bout it. :)
https://twitter.com/#!/adamlambert/status/149878311244410880
Followed a few hour later by this:
Violence is not to be taken lightly. Embarrassed by drunkenness. No punches thrown, no injuries and no charges. Media always exaggerates.
https://twitter.com/#!/adamlambert/status/150044853584134145
(Just to show you the kind of family Adam grew up in, after the first tweet, his father tweeted:
@adamlambert on the plus side: best morning google alert of the year
and his brother tweeted
Finnish police are HUGE fans of Outlaws Of Love. They play it at their work parties. This arrest does not come as a surprise. [OOL is a song on Adam's upcoming CD])
Anyhoo, short version is that nothing came of it but embarrassment, and a whole lotta fandom angst. And oh yeah, Perez Hilton is still pissed that Adam wouldn't fuck him, so he keeps posting shit like Adam is an alcoholic domestic abuser. DIAF Perez. Slowly and painfully.
The happy news is that there is still some nice buzz about Adam's new single, even though it won't be officially released to radio until next month. My local station is actually playing it once or twice a day. *\o/*
In case you missed it ;-) :
Better Than I Know Myself by adamofficial
RL is pretty much the same. I've been going to a Fitness Boot Camp 4 days a week for 10 weeks now, and while it still continues to kick my sorry old fat ass, I am seeing definite improvements. Next step is to work on the diet so I can actually drop some weight. I don't know who those people are who say the weight just falls away from working out, but I ain't one of them!
I'm working Xmas and pretty much the whole week, but I'm taking a week off in January to visit my friend Christine in The Netherlands, so I'm excited about that.
Merry Christmas or Happy Hanukkah to those of you who celebrate, and Happy New Year to you all!