Reflections Magazine Issue #83 - Fall 2015 | Page 13

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much there in symbolism and imagery that you could talk
about for hours.”
In case movie reviewing and acting careers don’t pan
out, Adams is also a budding stand-up comedian (left). He
uses his quick wit and background growing up on a dairy
farm in rural Lenawee County as fodder for his material.
“I wear normal clothes. I don’t wear jeans or overalls,
the typical stereotype that farmers face every day,” Adams
said. “I use it as a punchline of a joke, because nobody
expects it. … In my jokes I make it a point to make fun of
myself at some point. It’s OK for the audience to laugh then,
because they know that it’s you doing it.”

He often uses the “poor college student” shtick in his
comedy, as well as material from his other part-time job,
which, not surprisingly, is working at a movie theater.
“I’m just going to see what happens,” Adams said of his
career options. “Anything in the entertainment industry I
would be happy doing. I’ve done drama, I’ve done comedy.
I would really like to be in a horror film and get mutilated
or die. I’m weird like that.” u

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