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Jun. 16th, 2018 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatI can't believe someone actually did THIS . Okay, not true. I can. But it's a lot of work. What did they do? They constructed a database of all of the answers James Marsters ever gave at interviews or Q&A's, because he keeps getting asked the same questions over and over again. And they thought they'd track the questions he's getting asked in order to come up with new ones to possibly stump the guy or not be repetitive. (Personally, I think someone should make Marsters aware of it -- so he can know what he said before and try not to repeat himself. OTOH, if I were Marsters? I'd stay off the internet and just do promotional stuff on Twitter and FB, which is what he does. Bright man. Actors get themselves into trouble on Twitter. Writers...get themselves into trouble everywhere on the internet. Mainly because the internet is like crack to a writer.]
I've been playing around with a story idea lately...entitled "Chasing Mr. Marsters"...which is about the people who basically go to all his Q&A's, cons, and shows and chase him as fans. Their relationships with each other and with him and what this does to both...the toxicity of fandom, but also the beauty of it. I like the dichotmy or the contradictions, the fact we can have both at the same time, be toxic but also be healthy. And how thin the line is between the two.
I'm fascinated by the groupie mentality. Had a boyfriend in college who went to every Grateful Dead Concert, he followed them around all summer, had bootleg tapes, and signed album covers. Wore the clothes and the hairstyle. Even lived the life. And played the music. For a long time I had an insane number of bootleg copies of Grateful Dead songs. And my cousin follows Oasis, been to a ton of concerts and when she visited London for a week, had to go to all their hangouts and sites. Also, I remember going to the marketing launch of two DVDs, one that I helped plan. And I did meet famous musicians in person -- people far more famous than Marsters, Oasis, or the Grateful Dead -- such as Roger Daltry of the Who, Davy Jones of the Monkees, Martin Landau, Lorraine Braco (Sopranos, and various big ticket films), the guitarist of Springsteen's E Street Band and a star in the Sopranos, Barbara Bach...and, they look smaller in person, and sort of weird. And no, I like the fourth wall firmly in tact, thanks. Also, it's weird to be talking to someone that you recognize, seen, and read a ton about and who has no idea who you are, didn't know you existed until now, doesn't really care that you do exist, and is wondering why the heck you are into them. I have social anxiety -- to me a fan convention is one of the many layers of hell.
So no. I don't share this passion really - mainly because the idea of meeting an actor or anyone I've seen on screen in person makes me shudder or cringe. I don't know how people do it. I have had many friends who have...they even invited me to a show of Marsters, and I found it cringe-inducing. Actors look better far away and on screen. I don't like breaking the fourth wall. I want it to stay up and fully intact. No interactive theater for me. I remember when I studied theater in London, we'd get to meet the cast after a show and ask them questions, and it ruined it for me. Same thing when I was a kid. It was like seeing how they do the magic trick. While I have no problem reading about how they do it, I don't want to see it up close and personal.
I've been playing around with a story idea lately...entitled "Chasing Mr. Marsters"...which is about the people who basically go to all his Q&A's, cons, and shows and chase him as fans. Their relationships with each other and with him and what this does to both...the toxicity of fandom, but also the beauty of it. I like the dichotmy or the contradictions, the fact we can have both at the same time, be toxic but also be healthy. And how thin the line is between the two.
I'm fascinated by the groupie mentality. Had a boyfriend in college who went to every Grateful Dead Concert, he followed them around all summer, had bootleg tapes, and signed album covers. Wore the clothes and the hairstyle. Even lived the life. And played the music. For a long time I had an insane number of bootleg copies of Grateful Dead songs. And my cousin follows Oasis, been to a ton of concerts and when she visited London for a week, had to go to all their hangouts and sites. Also, I remember going to the marketing launch of two DVDs, one that I helped plan. And I did meet famous musicians in person -- people far more famous than Marsters, Oasis, or the Grateful Dead -- such as Roger Daltry of the Who, Davy Jones of the Monkees, Martin Landau, Lorraine Braco (Sopranos, and various big ticket films), the guitarist of Springsteen's E Street Band and a star in the Sopranos, Barbara Bach...and, they look smaller in person, and sort of weird. And no, I like the fourth wall firmly in tact, thanks. Also, it's weird to be talking to someone that you recognize, seen, and read a ton about and who has no idea who you are, didn't know you existed until now, doesn't really care that you do exist, and is wondering why the heck you are into them. I have social anxiety -- to me a fan convention is one of the many layers of hell.
So no. I don't share this passion really - mainly because the idea of meeting an actor or anyone I've seen on screen in person makes me shudder or cringe. I don't know how people do it. I have had many friends who have...they even invited me to a show of Marsters, and I found it cringe-inducing. Actors look better far away and on screen. I don't like breaking the fourth wall. I want it to stay up and fully intact. No interactive theater for me. I remember when I studied theater in London, we'd get to meet the cast after a show and ask them questions, and it ruined it for me. Same thing when I was a kid. It was like seeing how they do the magic trick. While I have no problem reading about how they do it, I don't want to see it up close and personal.
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Date: 2018-06-17 02:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-06-17 10:41 pm (UTC)I do not understand how people do this. The only time it's worked is when I've met them by accident, and have no clue who they are. I have a lot of actor friends, none are famous, none have been in anything...major, outside of being extras or day players. So know a lot about the industry through them.
I don't like meeting famous people, their fame sort of takes up all the air in the room.
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Date: 2018-06-18 07:25 am (UTC)