Life, Fannishness, and Thespic Infatuation

Do I really need to remind you how much I love these guys? Or would that be redundant?

I was writing something today (just personal ponderings), and I ended up writing about one of the reasons I really like Jensen Ackles.

( Reason #1,301,127 to love Jensen Ackles )

One of my dear flisties, who insists on enabling my thespic enthusiasm for one Jensen Ackles, sent me this link.

Seriously, how can anyone stand to be in the same room with so much awesome? (I'd be willing to try.) Is that much awesome even legal?

I cannot adequately explain how much I love and agree with so much of what Jensen says in this article, or how interesting I find other of his comments. Or how much I would love to observe, maybe even work on, a professional set. With them. With people who know what they're doing and have fun doing it. It just kinda makes me want to 'splode.

Articles like this (and the vids) make me want to attend a convention. I would love to see and hear these guys (especially Jensen) in person. I want to sit down with him and pick his brain about everything--especially acting.

Sadly, chances are slim to none that I'll ever meet them in person, and I'll just have to make due with TV. Ay, me. I think, if I had my choice, I think I'd want to go to a foreign con to see them, and that makes it especially impossible because, ya know, I don't have a gajillion dollars to my name. Alas.

For those who haven't seen this yet, with mucho thanks to the awesome flistie who gives me a heads-up on stuff like this (because despite impressions to the contrary, I do not actually have my finger on the pulse of all things Jensen):

( Dang! Why do I know that voice? )

This weekend has been one of my best in what seems like a long time.

( A wonderful day )

As some of you know, I love doing theater. My first love is acting, but directing, ADing, SMing, and costuming work, too. As some of you also know, I worked costume and wardrobe on My Mummy, the independent movie Geo co-wrote/starred in/co-directed. The woman I worked with was amazing--I love her to pieces--and she at one point told me I'd missed my calling. I should have been a costumer. "But I prefer acting," said I. "I know," said she, "but you should have been a costumer."

Well, now not only does the fan!girl in me and the actress in me have reason to love Jensen, but the costumer in me does, too.

It's been said at previous cons--and it's in the commentary on The Inch Hero--that Jensen is the one who picked out Priestly's kilt. That, my friends, was a bold and daring move, both character appropriate and hilarious.

Now I come to learn that it was Jensen who picked out the gym shorts he wore as Coach Roth in "After School Special." Yes, my friends, he did that to himself. I cannot properly express how amused I am by that.



Which takes me back to an early con comment he made stating that he wanted some ghost hunter-type accouterments for Dean, which resulted in his amulet and his bracelet.

I love that Jensen as an actor understands his characters enough to see where the humor can be had, and how costuming choices make the character. "Clothes make the man," as the saying goes. And I love that Jensen is smart enough to play with that.

This concludes today's session of thespic enthusiasm.