i just saw that adam's recent descent into mental illness is all the attention adam got & feel this must be remedied. (oh right, he's obnoxious & cute too. like i said.)
adam took my 11-year-old, boring, suntan-parlors-&-gift-shops suburban world (yes i was raised on LI) & turned it upside down with one viewing of "stand & deliver!" a pretty boy in makeup with pistols & tall leather boots?! GIVE ME MORE!! my teenage self yelled: antmusic for sexpeople, indeed.
he's the reason i discovered joe orton, kenneth anger, "dr. strangelove," marc bolan/trex, & dirk bogarde. i am eternally grateful.
he also gave me a lyric that armored me through all of jr high & high school - "ridicule is nothing to be scared of" - & an entire musical education as well, from burundi to zydeco. his unapologetic glam in the middle of punk rock's nihilism showed that style was not lost - just angry.
& for the record: his '86 album "vive le rock" is a fucking thesis on masculinity.
i hope adam is getting the care he needs (mental illness runs in his family, who are by descent romany gypsy & so were hugely decimated/traumatized by the nazis) & that in some way or another, he'll find some kind of peace.
*am4sp*