Sam has noticed Adam taking a stand. Too bad Sam doesn't live over here, since he also would have been amused when watching a talkshow on local television yesterday night. Guests amongst others were Adam and his wife Patricia. When Adam isn't the supposedly-to-be A-list blogger, he's actually just a showbizz guy. Fair enough, my wife nearly jumped out of the sofa when seeing him on television, since he is that kind of guy she was collecting photographs of when she was like ... 15. Mind you, she's 33 by now. At that time, Adam was presenting a very popular Dutch TV music show called CountDown primarily aimed at teenagers. Adam faded away from (our) public consciousness when he moved across the big pond to mtv.com, so we were surprised to hear last night he's actually coming to live in Belgium, quite assumably because of the interesting tax status for Dutch people living in Belgium.
Adam has its own reality TV show in genuine Osbournes-style, and here in the Benelux is currently most talked about for some enquiries from the Dutch state tax departement on the legality of some of his business ventures. The couple appears in glossy magazines and all that. It's not quite Victoria and David, but they are really really trying hard.
Basically, it's sad to see Dave supporting people trying to cultivate a cultus around their so-called 'personality' by buying default subscriptions in Radio. But I'm sure it happens all the time. What would be really sad, is that the people involved in (n)Echo/Pie would take Curry's stand serious. I'm pretty sure they would just laugh and continue their work when somebody like Britney or Jennifer or Kelly would make a similar stand. As Kelly would say: Adam is screaming for attention, so come dig him out. He must be sunken deep in the Silicon Polder.
Don't bother with such 'stands'. It's about time we're seeing the end of the dark RSS tunnel. And if we can't break with the past, why would we ever want to live in the future?