Life, Fannishness, and Thespic Infatuation

Still one of my favorites.

Have been re-visiting some of my favorite vids. I'm not usually into fan vids, but I kinda fell in love with this one long ago and far away.



Seems a lifetime ago, doesn't it?

Now off to treadmill while I watch S1 of CSI. Also a lifetime ago.

A while back, I took to the practice of fandom "recycling"--selling my memorabilia from one fandom to finance my interest in my next fandom. It worked pretty well going from The Sentinel* to N3.

( Using one fandom to fund another )

Farrah's death was expected. Michael Jackson's was not.

I was a huge Michael Jackson fan during the Thriller album's height of popularity. I was in 8th grade/a freshman. My li'l bro and I loved the video, and watched it every night when it aired promptly at the same time every night on MTV (sponsored in part by Miller Beer, which had some hilarious commercials). I wore out a copy of the album on cassette. I had the book of the piano arrangements. I read the unauthorized biographies (most of which I'd be hard pressed to remember today). I was fascinated by his dancing (of course), and before he started in on all the extreme surgeries, I found him to be quite attractive. (He was such a cute little kid during the Jackson 5 era.) And at one point, I received as a gift (Christmas? birthday?) one of the collectable dolls. I think it might still be in my mom and dad's attic. He's wearing his Billie Jean costume, iirc.

"Beat It," "Billie Jean," and of course "Thriller" are probably my faves off that album, and I'm extremely familiar with the choreography therein.

I also really enjoyed the follow-up album, Bad, and the video to "Smooth Criminal" was excellent. Very cool.

I started losing interest after the Bad album, which is just about the time he started doing things like buying the Elephant Man's bones and all his extreme surgeries. I'd lost track of him by the time the pedophilia scandals broke. I watch the news footage now, and it's not even the same person I remember enthusing about back in high school.

Two icons from my formative and coming-of-age years have died today. I'm . . . not sure what to do with that.

This entry clearly won't be for everyone. If you find it interesting or if it speaks to you, I'm glad. It is something, however, that struck me as I was doing my Beth Moore Bible study ( this morning )

So, the SPN con in the UK is in full swing, and apparently the hot topic of conversation is . . . .

Jensen's hair.

He's let it grow out to Still Life lengths, and the debate on Twitter is does it look good or not.

One Twit(terer) said she couldn't believe he let it grow out. I realize that this is a common way to express surprise, but I still find it the comment highly amusing. He had a beard in Australia. He's let his hair grow out for the UK. He's *gasp* being Jensen.

It will take all of maybe half an hour to get his Dean cut back when they start shooting S5.

Here's hoping con goers get some good pics of all the guests. (Video would be nice, too, but I'm not holding my breath. I have a feeling the days of completely pieced together con sessions are a thing of the past. For now.)

Looks like tornado weather out my window, and I've got a schmoozefest to go to this evening. (I won't be overly schmoozing, though. The tickets were offered to us by someone who ended up not being able to go.)

Watched "Bugs" yesterday and "Home" today. Debating whether or not to corral my thoughts on them.

ETA: It's raining quite heavily, and the air smells of ozone.

I've also decided that, after reading all the posts from the various cons about how unorganized things are, say what you will about Creations, they at least seem to have their act together. True, they charge prices that constitute highway robbery, but you know what you're getting. And I had a great time at the one (smaller) Creations convention I went to.

ETA2: The Sequel . . . Pics are starting to go up at SPNWiki. Jensen looks younger with the longer hair! Or maybe it's just that I can't help but relate the longer cut to when he played Max Morgan on Still Life. The stubble is very not Max. This will sound weird, but I'm glad he has the chance to do something different with it over hiatus if he wants to. Two of my previous actor crushes (Michael Hurst and Garett Maggart) both had to keep their hair long for their roles. Story is that as soon as their shows wrapped their series finales, the first order of business was to get a hair cut. (In Michael's case, you never know if it's just going to be a cut, or a color, or a shaved head.)

Laissez les bon temps roulez!

It's Mardi Gras! Time for red beans and rice, beignets, pralines, and king cake! Time for N'Awlins jazz, beads, costumes, and gold, green, and purple.

I went to Mardi Gras with my parents and a couple of their friends many years ago. I wish I'd been keeping a journal back then, because it was an Ad. Ven. Ture. and on the out-of-control-wild scale, we were very tame. Maybe next year, if I'm still on LJ, I'll post about it. 'Cause even without the getting naked and random sex and drunkness, it was a blast! (Mardi Gras really is what you make of it. And it cannot be explained. It must be experienced.)

( In other morning news )

I'm hoping my copy of Venice magazine arrives today. I'm looking forward to sitting down with that particular read.

Happy Mardi Gras!