The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part eleven — Page 42

I can't wait to see some of the names that will be suggested on the myspace comments. The Adam & Larry Spectacular definitely has my vote. Oh well - at least he's asking for help, so maybe this time we'll get something a little more imaginative than Adam Pascal Band.

I'm surprised he keeps reading his myspace with quotes like this:
oooooo adam-we're watching RENT!!!!! and we allllllll lovvvvvve you and want ur babies...

I guess the blog could have been worse. At least he used a word like "insurmountable."

Updated On: 9/24/06 at 09:58 AM

I bet next week's Rent secrets will contain a plethora of anti-Adam as a result.

I'm sorry, but while I think it's nice that Adam gives a glimpse into his reality and whatever, there's just nothing excusable about being okay with lookling like an idiot. He's in an industry that's about image, and looking blatantly stupid is much worse than looking like you have no fashion sense and not caring what people think of the way you dress. His industry is about presentation and I think he SHOULD be posting cleaned-up communication. I can't see that as being a bad thing at all. I mean, this isn't even cute, it's a bit ridiculous. I love him, but I think he's making a really poor decision in being haphazard. He sounds like he's high, for God's sake. To me, there's a difference between projecting the image of being carefree and easygoing (which you can show via tone) and looking like you don't know English. The former is favorable and mindset based. The latter is kind of pathetic.

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Updated On: 9/24/06 at 10:06 PM

I would suggest the spectacular name (It is fabulous!) for fun to see what kind of reaction, if any, it gets. Can just the name be all I write in the post, or does there have to be a message surrounding it?

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I agree with everything you're saying, except about the spellcheck. There are no misspelled words, just misused ones. Maybe he *did* spellcheck this tiime. I have no idea whether people in a position to affect his career will be looking at his myspace or not. Casting isn't something I know much about.

Alix, you might as well go for it, unless Mandi would rather post it. I don't know if she's on myspace or not.

Spellcheck catches those kinds of errors too, though.

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here i go...

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ok, i just changed my myspace pic (to the same one i have here) and so i'm about to do it. i know this isn't a big deal at all, but just to get it right, since we (or i) are doing it: The Adam and Larry Spectacular, right? And I'll put it on the main page as a comment or as a response to the blog? I was thinking the main page because more people will see it there, but as a comment, it will stay up presumably forever, whereas as a comment, it will be pushed down and out, which might be a good thing. I'm thinking about this way too much.

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I don't think it will matter much, but all done. (It's a response to the blog.)

Goodnight.

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I'm not saying he IS stupid or that he's not creative. It's really just as simple as that I believe he's intelligent enough to know that it would be a good idea for him to present himself in the most impressive light possible, and to well, know basic grammar. And I even know that it just doesn't matter in the grand scheme as much as it should -- people don't give a dam about grammar; I don't agree with that, either. It's not a sign of complete stupidity and empty-headedness, but I simply see no good in excusing it based on what could be there that's not showing. Of course there are people who will put thought into this and know that he's actually not THAT dumb, but what about the people who don't? What if that was the first thing you saw from him, communicatively? I think it's bad that he does things that will allow people to think he's careless and stupid. There's a difference to me between careless and carefree. It's not about making excuses for the kind of person he is, or even just about your and you're, but in general, I think it's really ridiculous that that's not something he or his management see fit to pay attention to. I honestly think that brushing it off in the name of the fact that he's still a creative individual and that it's a matter of personal affinities doesn't say much, because the bottom line for me is that being able to write intelligibly is so basic. He doesn't have to use big words and write a dissertation, but getting the basic things right just isn't hard. He could certainly still be an artist and have his artistic mindset and write decently. And if his grammar were to hinder his self-expression, which I doubt, have someone else fix it. I would't "reject" someone for having a mindset that doesn't jive with that notion, or whatever, but for me it's just not about comparing mindsets and things. It's that these are easy things, and they're things an adult can handle. He should be able to grasp them and display them, especially when this is material widely read, not just Joe Down the Block's online diary. I mean, I'm just like "really, how HARD is it to get right?" That's the bottom line. How hard is it? I'm sorry, but I can't regard everything he does as perfectly permissible on the ground of a possible excuse. I criticize with tenacity those I love most.

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Perhaps true, rare geniuses can do both at once, but the merely talented, which is where I would put Adam, just don't have the time or patience to deal with things like your/you're, or whatever it is that they don't have any particular affinity for.

Since when have simple grammatical differences like your vs. you're become something that people have to "deal with"? I don't really understand that, and I also don't understand why it would be hard for someone in any capacity to "deal" with them. Is this a matter of Adam being lazy, not caring, not knowing.....? I just don't get why this seems so difficult.

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Updated On: 9/25/06 at 01:00 AM

I don't think this is as deep as you're making it, and nor do I think it's really even ABOUT personal comfort zones.

To me, the bottom line is this: people are going to read that and think "wow, what a f*cking moron." I don't want people thinking that about him. He can very easily deter that. His wife is a Juilliard trained writer, for God's sake. She can help him if it's really that big of a deal, which I doubt it is. He graduated high school AND he went to college. Come on.

And really, it boils down to the fact that we're not dealing with an industry that produces art for art's sake. That's just not the way it is anymore. And to me, it's his job to promote a GOOD image (i.e. look presentable, projecting a certain personality, and yes, act intelligent) just as much as it's his job to write good music and put on good performances.

I definitely buy that he might know and just not give a damn. I very much buy that. I think it would do him good to care, but that's beating a dead horse. There's a difference between the carefree "cool" internet lingo and things that are truly wrong, even though I don't condone either. One makes him look like he's trying to be cool. The other makes him look careless and stupid. It's just that we're talking about something SO BASIC, and not something that he should have to spend time toiling over and "dealing with," even if he's not great at it. This isn't like, scholarly writing, it's everyday English. It's not about affinity and he's not SO DUMB that he has to pay excrutiatingly difficult amounts of attention to it; I'm not asking him to write a novel.

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Updated On: 9/25/06 at 01:08 AM