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    Image of prismatism is Team Bella prismatism is Team Bella
    07:20 PM

    In reply to Adam Lambert: Lady GaGa Made Me Do It!
    Ok. First off - I think Adam Lambert is incredibly sweet, adorable, very real, thoughtful, and extremely intelligent. I like him a lot as a person and really want to be his friend :). And I seem to always either agree with what he is saying, or can understand why he is saying it & see his point very clearly. I respect him a lot, and admire his bravery and no-silly-bullshit attitude.

    BUT... I wasn't sure about his music (I'd only heard one original song). And no matter how adorable and cool someone is, if they can't back up the attention they're getting with actual talent and ability, I have a hard time seeing any controvercial thing they do as more than an attempt at cultural relevance. Even if it's something socially progressive, Katy Perry Syndrome kicks in and I worry that they care more about being edgy than expressing themselves freely or advocating for anyone.

    I thought Adam was awesome before the AMAs, but right after, I decided to listen to his album before watching the performance, so I could know where he was coming from. I made a huge mistake with Lady Gaga and I didn't want to do it again.

    For Your Entertainment is hands down one of the best albums I have heard in years. It's a put on the headphones, turn it all the way up, and do nothing but sit and listen until the last note kind of album. It's a be careful when and where you listen to it, because you're going to be deliriously happy, and will probably dance involuntarily album. I'm a music person, and a music snob. All of his influences are people I worship, and if someone tries to draw inspiration from them and fails, doesn't capture the essence, copies their style directly, or doesn't seem to understand them, I won't like their music. Adam has something completely unique and innovative. There are NO filler tracks. Every single track could be a single, and not in a made for radio way. In a professional, music-nerd DJs are going to want to play this way.

    I'd just listened to The Fame Monster, which I loved, and For Your Entertainment easily blew it out of the water.

    Adam Lambert is fucking talented. He can do whatever he wants (as long as, you know, he's not hurting anyone). He doesn't NEED to do anything to create buzz. He could be like Moby, Danger Mouse, or MF Doom, and have an intentionally obscure & impersonal persona if he wanted to, because his music can stand on it's own. That he doesn't do that, to me, means that his public image is coming from a very honest and passionate place. It's art, so there's nothing to debate about it in my mind.

    That this is his first album, and it was recorded so quickly, and is still SO solid, makes me REALLY excited to see what he does in the future.
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    Image of Sputnik_Sweetheart Sputnik_Sweetheart
    06:24 PM

    In reply to Adam Lambert: Lady GaGa Made Me Do It!
    I was really uncomfortable when he grabbed and dragged his dancer across the stage. I then re-watched Britney Spears Gimme More VMA performance and noticed that Britney's dancers did the exact same thing and I don't remember being upset by that (although to be fair, I might have been distracted by, ahem, other aspects of the performance).

    I have to have a little talk with whatever department of my mind is in charge of my prejudices. I'm disappointed in myself actually.
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    Image of sportz.star sportz.star
    06:16 PM

    In reply to Adam Lambert: Lady GaGa Made Me Do It!
    I was not in least bit offended that he engaged in, to use Ellen's words "a show of sexuality" or that the sexuality was between two men. I was put-off (not offended, that's too strong) by live simulated oral sex on broadcast television. I would have been equally put off if that oral sex was between two women or a man and a woman. This wasn't cable or HBO. It was ABC, broadcast TV, which is subject to lots of government rules and potentially fines for extreme sexual representations on TV, they have a right to be mad.

    Sure, there are sexual issues and sexuality explored on broadcast TV shows all the time, but you don't see simulations of oral sex - I think it crosses a line (no, I don't know where the line is and yes, I realize that my argument is not remotely close to iron clad).

    Adam, you can perform however you want at your concerts but on broadcast TV, there will be rules and I don't think you followed them. You don't have to be sorry, but good on you acknowledging (sort of) that it went too far for the venue.
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    Image of prismatism is Team Bella prismatism is Team Bella
    07:42 PM

    @sportz.star: There are, at least, very blatant oral sex references in commercials that air at all times of the day on every channel. And... I mean... the boner pill ads, the "guys never change" ads, the "OOOH look at the tiny burgers" ad, girls gone wild ads, victoria's secret ads, every single Carls Jr ad, Axe ads, "oh look Catherine Zeta Jones has huge boobs buy our cell phone"... There are TONS of EXTREMELY sexual, sexist, misogynistic ads that run constantly and nobody cares.

    I'm not sure that we can compare straight oral sex to gay oral sex. I think that, actually, simulating straight oral sex should be considered more of a potential problem, because there are so many other ways of referencing straight sex already, and there are gender role implications depending on who is submissive and who is dominant. Gay sex is, for a lot of different reasons, at least perceived as being much more about oral than straight sex. I'm not going to list the reasons, but there are so many that hopefully it doesn't sound like an arbitrary generalization to say that oral sex is often considered "just sex" in gay sexuality, whereas straight oral sex is much more loaded with statement and difficult implications.

    Especially when it's between two men... It's easy to show obvious standard "female sexuality" without directly refercing sex. Boobs, clothes, makeup, high heels, hair, voice, behavior, stripper poles, etc. But we don't really have male equivalents in mainstream culture, since society's concept of male sexuality is ENTIRELY wrapped up in domination of women. Gay male sexuality means no sexuality at all, or, at best, self-centered sexuality (masturbatory, but still somewhat asexual). Adam challenged that by showing a form of interaction between gay men that really is not that big of a deal... It's only a big deal in that sexual interaction between gay men isn't supposed to be shown at all.
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    Image of curiousgeorgiana curiousgeorgiana
    06:09 PM

    In reply to Adam Lambert: Lady GaGa Made Me Do It!
    This kid is a class act.
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    06:20 PM

    @curiousgeorgiana: at the risk of missing the irony here, i completely agree. especially given the enormous pressure he's been put under.
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    Image of kookla kookla
    06:05 PM

    In reply to Adam Lambert: Lady GaGa Made Me Do It!
    You know what, Adam? I get it. I totally get it. I got it when you were on AI and I get it now. Just like I get GaGa. We need performance art because music has been soooo boring lately. And the fact that you pissed people off and exposed such a double standard in the industry, I get it even more.

    Your music sucks, but I get you.
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    Image of dandelionbrowne dandelionbrowne
    06:09 PM

    @kookla:
    I just hearted you for that.
    I watched the 25th anniversary of the Rock and Rock Hall of Fame and thought if all those people died tommorow we'd be stuck with some bullshit.

    I'm hoping that somewhere musical monks are on a quest to find the Golden Child of Rock and Roll and train him/her in the ways of harmony and rebellion.
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    Image of kookla kookla
    06:15 PM

    @dandelionbrowne: You and me both. I grew up watching David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Prince. I mean, I think Taylor Swift is adorable, but we need variety.
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    Image of LBB LBB
    06:25 PM

    @dandelionbrowne: There are plenty of awesome artists out there who aren't famous because they don't have a big label or reality show or whatever behind them, shoving them down our throats 24/7. Which is why my first exposure to most currently-popular music is when they do mashups of it on Glee. Indie music for the win.
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    06:25 PM

    @kookla:

    Right? I'm a bit weary of all the pearl clutching.

    Need more glitter and lasciviousness.
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    Image of curiousgeorgiana curiousgeorgiana
    06:27 PM

    @dandelionbrowne: That sounds like a great description of the next super hero.

    A child, discovered by the Musical Brotherhood, trained in the ways of harmony and rebellion, will seek to revive the memory of Freddie Mercury...
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    Image of dandelionbrowne dandelionbrowne
    06:28 PM

    @curiousgeorgiana:
    Ha! I do believe we have the makings of an awesome graphic novel.
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    Image of dandelionbrowne dandelionbrowne
    06:32 PM

    @LBB:
    I'm all about indie music. But I'm still gonna be concerned when substandard is accepted as the norm in the mainstream. There's not enough indie bleedthrough if you ask me.
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    Image of LBB LBB
    06:40 PM

    @dandelionbrowne: The indie bleedthrough is happening on television soundtracks (at the Metric show I went to, the audience lost its shit when they played the song that was on "Grey's Anatomy")... it will never happen on the radio because Clear Channel owns everything, and I have given up on the major labels since they continue to have no clue how to deal with the internet. :(
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    Image of dandelionbrowne dandelionbrowne
    06:52 PM

    @LBB:
    Clear Channel is scary. You should be very afraid.

    I'm hoping the interwebs leads to more musicians change their ideas of success and develop business plans skipping the major labels all together. I get 99.9 percent of my music from the internet.

    Unfortunately, until that happens radio and major labels will have a bit of a strangehold on what's piped to the masses.
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    Image of kookla kookla
    06:58 PM

    @dandelionbrowne: Exactly! What's wrong with a little rebellion? Adam was like this before AI came along and I'm sure there are many more like him to follow!

    I hope this helps kick down the doors for many future artists that want to express themselves creatively and without censorship.
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    Image of dandelionbrowne dandelionbrowne
    07:59 PM

    @kookla:
    On a major network? Prolly not gonna happen. They just let Janet Jackson on something other than BET again and you know that had something to do with her brother dying. Shoot, they prolly would be still punishing her for the tittie slip if MJ hadn't passed on.
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    Image of sableized (mawrterdom) sableized (mawrterdom)
    04:50 PM

    In reply to Hoarders: Sometimes, A Hoarder Just Can't Be Helped
    I tried to watch this. I can't. It reminds me of my grandma, who totally stopped caring about everything when she lost a toddler to spinal meningitis in the 50's. After she died in 1990 we went to her house and couldn't walk through it. There were stacks of newspapers from decades before sitting in the kitchen. There were pathways carved through the junk on the floor.

    I feel so bad for these people. The way they treat the family around them, at least in my grandma's case, is really only a side effect of the enormous pain they carry inside.
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    Image of BytheSea BytheSea
    04:28 PM

    In reply to Hoarders: Sometimes, A Hoarder Just Can't Be Helped
    These people were abhorrent. They treated Augustine like a child or an idiot, on camera. She's depressed with OCD and possible other mental issues, but she's not mentally retarded or a child. Of course she's going to get defensive in some way, and to her, she just smiled and nodded. She was polite. These people were ripping apart her home and for once, we see a hoarder who didn't throw a fit or cry and you accuse her of not having remorse or not being grateful. That's crap. This woman has major problems and she's not obligated to act up for the cameras just so she falls into the stereotype of what we expect people with mental issues should behave so we can feel generous to give them sympathy.
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    Image of applebrown-betty applebrown-betty
    04:51 PM

    @BytheSea: i personally think that the difference in the way she behaved in not throwing a fit about her stuff is WHY she is treated that way. the other people featured on the series are genuinely attached to objects and acquire them for a reason. she appeared more to have given up on life and didn't want to take any responsibility for what she has created. you didn't see her picking through her things and needing to keep any to the extent that the other people do because she didn't have things. she had clothing piled up that she did not want to get rid of, sure, but that's because she never bothered to put anything away. it was all piled up on her TRASH. that's the main problem. it was all trash and filth and dirt. it wasn't hoarder furniture or stuffed animals or any of the other weird crap these people keep. it was garbage. and in the classic "it's not me, it's you" attitude and behavior, she couldn't even show an iota of gratitude for people going out of their way to help her or buy her a new chair or get her life on track. she doesn't seem to exhibit any of the mental or emotional illness that other people suffering from this disease suffer from. i think she appears to suffer more from narcisssism, selfishness, and laziness.
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    Image of sableized (mawrterdom) sableized (mawrterdom)
    04:55 PM

    @BytheSea: agreed.
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    Image of PhillyLass PhillyLass
    05:25 PM

    @BytheSea: Word! How is a sing-songy comment like, "You don't want people to think you don't care about animals, do you?" an acceptable therapeutic technique? It's like the therapists are nutty in the opposite direction-- they think a thorough cleaning and a can-do attitude will turn things around.
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    05:27 PM

    @applebrown-betty: Her nasty house and flat affect suggest depression to me.
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    Image of Jack_Burton Jack_Burton
    03:38 PM

    In reply to Martha & Maddow Prove Foreign Policy And Baking Do Mix
    Did she have Rachel make any of her famous cocktails? I would think Martha would want to take advantage of her mad bartending skills.
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    Image of molly pocket molly pocket
    04:14 PM

    @Jack_Burton: I think she might've in a previous episode, but I could be wrong. But I wouldn't mind having Rachel show me those bartending skills! Those drinks sound fun.
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    Image of bookling bookling
    03:18 PM

    In reply to Hoarders: Sometimes, A Hoarder Just Can't Be Helped
    Oh, man. When the frame came up that said "a more disturbing discovery is found," I thought to myself, well, it can't be worse than that episode with the lady with all the dead cats. And of course they then found a dead cat.
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    Image of SharonTaint SharonTaint
    03:03 PM

    In reply to New Gap Commercial With Little Girls Is Yeah, A Little Gross
    The only thing "gross" about this commercial is getting little kids to covet crappy clothes.
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    Image of hollygirl hollygirl
    02:52 PM

    In reply to Hoarders: Sometimes, A Hoarder Just Can't Be Helped
    The few times I've seen this, I lose interest because the hole thing seems so endless and hopeless.
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    Image of LazyHippo LazyHippo
    03:05 PM

    @hollygirl: And empty.
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    03:06 PM

    @LazyHippo: "Whole"! thank you!
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    Image of foolish-rain foolish-rain
    02:50 PM

    In reply to Hoarders: Sometimes, A Hoarder Just Can't Be Helped
    What a stupid and sadistic spectacle. Have we really gotten to the point where people's mental illness (depression, lack of affect, hoarding, etc) are our entertainment?

    This women needs real help, not some pseudo-credentialed "OCD counselor and a professional hoarding counselor." She should be getting ECT or at very least a 72-hour psych. evaluation. She needs a psychiatrist or a psychologist/MD team, not the loving, lingering cameras of A&E.

    This show is both pure evil and very, very sad.
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    04:31 PM

    @foolish-rain: The lack of affect suggests to me she has more than garden variety OCD hoarding, dn't you think? Maybe extreme depression or maybe something much worse like schizophrenia.
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    Image of Ratinski Ratinski
    02:48 PM

    In reply to Martha & Maddow Prove Foreign Policy And Baking Do Mix
    Last Wednesday, I explained macroeconomic theory related to the health care debate via videochat to my mother. While peeling, coring, and slicing 8 apples for a pie.

    Frankly, I think I'm better at discussing politics while baking.
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    Image of prismatism is Team Bella prismatism is Team Bella
    02:47 PM

    In reply to Martha & Maddow Prove Foreign Policy And Baking Do Mix
    I follow Rachel on Twitter...

    Studying 4 Martha: "Croque en bouche" google-translates as "crunch in the mouth" which google-translates as "crunch dans la bouche". Sigh.

    This is even cuter having read that beforehand. I love seeing her out of her MSNBC costume.
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    Image of ellesbelles ellesbelles
    03:21 PM

    @prismatism is Team Bella: This is not even her real non-MSNBC costume. She works next door to my cousin and used to live in my hometown (I listened to her on local radio every morning driving to high school. Best commute ever.) She usually is wearing plaid, jeans/Carharts, and old t-shirts. Freakin' LOVE her!!!
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    03:39 PM

    @ellesbelles: I am SO JEALOUS.

    I love when she's in baggy white t-shirts, jeans, converse, and awesomely dorky black framed glasses. But I also loved her when she first got her show and they made her super glam with all the eye shadow. And every time she's changed her hair color. Hell, I would love her in a burlap sack with glittery antennas, a bad Cher wig, and Kiss makeup. I just love her. A lot.

    But who doesn't? Seriously.
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    03:43 PM

    @ellesbelles: I actually started wearing suit jackets/blazers because of her... and wore them even more after I started watching The L Word, but I had them already because of Rachel. She's so adorable no matter what she wears, it makes me think, "hmm, maybe I could capture some of that adorable for myself if I buy this pinstripe blazer and wear it all the time, even though people will constantly ask me what I'm so dressed up for..."

    Aggghh I love her. Sorry, I'm going all Twihard-level fangirl.
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    Image of rodmanstreet rodmanstreet
    02:46 PM

    In reply to Martha & Maddow Prove Foreign Policy And Baking Do Mix
    By the way, does anyone else remember the scene in the movie Dick (starring Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams) in which they accidentally serve President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev her brother's pot-laced "Hello Dolly" cookies, leading to the Nixon-Brezhnev accords because the two leaders were stoned and getting along famously? Well, put it on your Netflix queue. Underrated movie, in my humble opinion.
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    02:59 PM

    @rodmanstreet: Yeah that shit is in my personal canon. You kicked Checkers, you're prejudiced and you have a potty mouth!
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    Image of miss_so_unknown miss_so_unknown
    03:49 PM

    @rodmanstreet: Great scene. I seem to remember the Russians later breaking into Betsy's house to steal the Hello Dolly recipe, but I could be wrong.
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