So the clicking
contest is now over and in a few short hours (20 to be
exact), we'll know if it was all worth it. What a
story though...
As I've said
before, I hated that this was unlimited.
It's not a fair way to judge talent. It feels sleazy
enough to vote for yourself once - but when it's
unlimited, that voting button becomes this symbol for
your entire career. It is all that stands between you
and finally getting a shot...and you'll be damned if
you don't hit it as many times as humanly possible
hoping that you have more will power than the other
contestants that enjoy SLEEPING.
Truth be told, it
was all of you guys that blew me away. So many of you
spent the majority of your days voting and good
LORD Suzannah? Had a camp of people on SHIFTS hitting
that button. Her house became "Adam Kontras Central"
as she got her entire family in on the act with
multiple computers day and night. It got to the point
however where I became a bit concerned. If you
hold down the enter button (at a slow enough refresh
rate) you can register like 2 votes a second. I was
imagining that it'd be like 10 million to 20,000 or
some shit and I didn't want to be disqualified.
I finally called the producer in New
York...
She was
awesome. It's funny, I've been on the phone
with so many different producers the past 2 months and
she has been the most down to earth, approachable
person ever. She giggled at my predicament and said
she'd go check the votes to see if it was
"ridiculous". Alas, it was not. Hmm. She said I was
leading, but it wasn't by some outrageous amount. So
what does that mean? Does it mean the other
contestants are doing the same thing? Or that our
votes weren't counting... AHH. I figured we better
just keep doing what we're doing and then figure it
out later. If I do win tomorrow I will ask if she
can figure out what did and didn't count because there
has to be some transparency on how they count votes.
It may be as goofy as 1,000 per IP address or
something like that. In which case many of us wasted 2
days of our lives.
I do have to
say though, all of your support has been incredibly
overwhelming. I can feel the frustration in
many of your emails and posts and I gotta say -
I'm right there with you. As weird as it sounds,
I rarely feel like the guy in these videos, or on
TV... I feel like the guy reading about it and
wondering why the fuck everything keeps imploding. So
I really do understand where you're coming from and
how you keep clicking that button because it feels
like the only time you've ever had any control over
it. I believe Heather from the boards (Hekele24) is
speaking for all of us when she says:
"Clickity
click mutha f-in click. Dude if you dont win Im gonna
be freakin pissed."
Noooooooooo
shit.
Media
wise, they did a quick
re-cap
of the contestants today on the show, oh
and yesterday WBNS 10TV did a little
package on me in the morning during the
local segment right before the Early
Show!!! THANK YOU!!! Unfortunately
610 WTVN felt it wasn't newsworthy. Ironic
considering they started my career. In a
surreal 3 hours on Monday, Joel Riley kept
teasing: "Former WTVN employee
makes a splash on a national level..." yet
never announced who he was talking about
or even told the story. ?!?! Ya got me.
I assume it will be different if
I move further along in the
competition.
I still have
to give my buddy Joel shit though. Little unknown
fact: He was the "other person" in the room
when Darryl Parks fired me. You know, the guy who has
to be a witness so you don't sue for sexual
harrassment or some shit. LOL. What a memory that was.
March 6th, 1998.
Anyway - not sure
if CD101 covered it as it's hard to monitor everything
- but I'll visit them when I'm back in town.
Unfortunately my grandmother isn't feeling too well
and I'm going back for a couple weeks on Tuesday. Life
certainly has a way of giving us perspective and
balance that keeps us well grounded. At the hospital
most of my family were able to see the local broadcast
that said: "Vote for Adam Kontras" and
I just hope that this development can provide a
few smiles in between all the stress of everything. It
was actually one of the biggest letdowns to America's
Got Talent as she was in the hospital during the
premiere and I wanted so badly for the family to be
able to have something good to look forward in
such an dreary environment. This competition on CBS is
thankfully a much classier deal and I'm ever so
grateful that they don't have to sit through what
I still consider to be the trashiest show on TV.
All apologies again to those who sat through that last
week. You are true supporters. ;-)
So tune in to
CBS tomorrow (looks like it'll be in the 8
o'clock hour) and keep your fingers crossed. That is
if your fingers can still do that after "Click Wars
2006". Heh. I have to believe I'm gonna win given
everything we all went through. I'm curious as to how
I'll react to it however. The biggest thing for
me...honestly? Is just being able to feel positive for
2 weeks. You know? If I win, there will be at least 2
weeks where I just get to feel good.
That's been missin' even with all the highs of the
past 2 months. It's been happy for literally a DAY and
then WHACKADOO - smacked back down. With this, at
WORST, I'll have something positive to look forward to
for a couple weeks and with everything that's
happening, I really need that...
...and just ONCE
the egg has to land in my hand. Just once.
LOL.
