Look At Me, Everybody!
That was my sarcastic voice. I'm feeling crappy, cranky, bored, restless, sick, and bitchy. I don't feel like talking, but I wanted to post.
I'm still sick; I may have bronchitis or even pneumonia. I have thrown out my back from coughing. Despite that fact, I walked up and down the Financial district as well as the theatre district all day yesterday. My friend L. and I ate at Cafe Madeleine and discussed the controversy of the situation with the SFPD. Apparently Mayor Willie Brown (my arch-nemesis) doesn't want half of the force -- including the chief of police -- to stand down, understandably. It's a matter of public safety, he says. I think that the police in SF are crazy mofos, and they should be taken down. Then I walked L. to her class at the Academy of Art College, and wandered around Market for an hour and a half until my own class started, at A.C.T.
Wandering was not good, because I went to Sephora and blew $13.02 on nail polish in Church!Sex (er, Drop Out). Goddamn that Hard Candy. Then I ent to Virgin Megastore and lamented the fact that there was a sale and I could have blown my money on CDs. Well, a CD anyhow.
Sat on the roof at A.C.T. (ninth floor, baby) and read Trainspotting -- which I am re-reading so I can read Porno finally -- and basked in the sun. It was rather nice. The sun was shining, the wind was cool, sounds of metropolitan life everywhere. I could hear sirens, house music blaring from GUESS next door, and Mr. Opera Man's voice echoing from Maiden Lane. (Mr. Opera Man stands in Maiden Lane, an artsy cafe alley off Market Street, everyday for a few hours and sings his little heart out. Has been doing this for years now. It's oddly comforting.)
So yesterday good. Today not so good. I'm lazing about in pajamas, drinking tea (again and again) and bitching about my back.
Late thursday night I decided to take a nap. While chatting. This is what I woke up to, at 2 AM:
(Alanna's SN): Thanks, dearie. I really appreciate everything. Much love.
(Alanna's SN): and good night, Eve, if you're out there!
(Annie's SN): Much love in return, my sweet whore.
(Alanna's SN): heeheee. g'night.
(Annie's SN): And good night, Eve! Wherever you are.
(Annie's SN) has left the room.
(Alanna's SN) has left the room.
I scrolled up and they had been talking for a while. Dammit. I'm such a whore. I abandoned you, wisteria_ and anniesj! How can I ever repay? I'm not going to be online for the rest of the afternoon, but I'll be on later tonight, probably after ALIAS airs here, maybe before as well.
I feel like the only one -- I loved the Entertainment Weekly article. I thought Sarah was very eloquent and not "off-putting" like I've heard. I'll rant about what she said later. I'm not really motivated to do so right now. But just one note: As an actress who has been portraying the leading role in a television show that requires hard work and extremely long hours, she has EVERY RIGHT to want a break. And she's not leaving to make movies, she's leaving because she wants a break. She has basically lived BtVS since she was eighteen. She's twenty-five now, almost twenty-six, newlywed, and she rarely sees her husband because she is always working. I get the impression that they are genuinely in love and happy together; she wants to be with him whenever she can and as an actor (especially on BtVS) that is incredibly difficult.
Believe me, Sarah KNOWS that she has the danger of being type-cast as Buffy and never making it big on the moviescreen. She's an actress in Hollywood, the stakes (no pun) are always high. She knows that. But she made a decision WITH Joss Whedon, at the beginning of the season, that this would be their last.
She didn't drop the show, she didn't cause its downfall. It was a decision made between the creator and the leading actress.
She didn't like season six. So what? How would YOU like portraying a domestic abuser, especially if, in the past, your character had been a kind (if occasionally violent) person. She thought the sex scene in the Bronze in "Dead Things" was out of character for Buffy. Well you know what? As sexy and scandalous as that scene was, it wasn't in her character to LET Spike seduce her into intercourse in public. (Not even getting into the question of Spike's character in that scene.)
She thinks that Joss originally intended for Buffy and Xander to end up together. What's the problem? That in NO way implies that SHE'S a B/Xer. I am dedicated S/B fan -- even I can see that Joss wanted B/X. Just watch the first half of the first season!
She liked "The Prom." Some people are saying that proves she's just another Duck and "B/A4EVA!" But upon reading the article, I see that she SPECIFIES why she likes it, and it's not because of that. She likes that episode because Buffy finally gets recognized for all she has done through the previous three years.
I guess this was my rant. But I leave you with this final quote. BBC interviewed SMG during the filming of "Flooded" last year:
You know, there’s a part of me that will always believe that Angel is Buffy’s true love; that there will be a piece of her heart that will always be with him for the rest of her life. It doesn’t mean that that’s the person she’s meant to be with eternally.
The thing about Buffy and Spike is that they understand each other on a level that nobody else understands her. They’ve both lived a hundred lives, and I think there’s a connection there that we will see evolve over the next couple of years where she realizes that he really is someone that she can trust; someone that’s a companion to her, someone that really understands her unlike anybody else.
Sounds like she ships the S/B to me. Whether ME destroyed that opinion in her during the filming of season six, I am not sure. Many shippers' faith got destroyed through the process of season six. And I don't know of any who turned to B/A or B/X. So I doubt SMG did either.
I feel like utter crap. I'm going to post this before it gets too long. Oh, and GIP. Pretty British boys.
I'm still sick; I may have bronchitis or even pneumonia. I have thrown out my back from coughing. Despite that fact, I walked up and down the Financial district as well as the theatre district all day yesterday. My friend L. and I ate at Cafe Madeleine and discussed the controversy of the situation with the SFPD. Apparently Mayor Willie Brown (my arch-nemesis) doesn't want half of the force -- including the chief of police -- to stand down, understandably. It's a matter of public safety, he says. I think that the police in SF are crazy mofos, and they should be taken down. Then I walked L. to her class at the Academy of Art College, and wandered around Market for an hour and a half until my own class started, at A.C.T.
Wandering was not good, because I went to Sephora and blew $13.02 on nail polish in Church!Sex (er, Drop Out). Goddamn that Hard Candy. Then I ent to Virgin Megastore and lamented the fact that there was a sale and I could have blown my money on CDs. Well, a CD anyhow.
Sat on the roof at A.C.T. (ninth floor, baby) and read Trainspotting -- which I am re-reading so I can read Porno finally -- and basked in the sun. It was rather nice. The sun was shining, the wind was cool, sounds of metropolitan life everywhere. I could hear sirens, house music blaring from GUESS next door, and Mr. Opera Man's voice echoing from Maiden Lane. (Mr. Opera Man stands in Maiden Lane, an artsy cafe alley off Market Street, everyday for a few hours and sings his little heart out. Has been doing this for years now. It's oddly comforting.)
So yesterday good. Today not so good. I'm lazing about in pajamas, drinking tea (again and again) and bitching about my back.
Late thursday night I decided to take a nap. While chatting. This is what I woke up to, at 2 AM:
(Alanna's SN): Thanks, dearie. I really appreciate everything. Much love.
(Alanna's SN): and good night, Eve, if you're out there!
(Annie's SN): Much love in return, my sweet whore.
(Alanna's SN): heeheee. g'night.
(Annie's SN): And good night, Eve! Wherever you are.
(Annie's SN) has left the room.
(Alanna's SN) has left the room.
I scrolled up and they had been talking for a while. Dammit. I'm such a whore. I abandoned you, wisteria_ and anniesj! How can I ever repay? I'm not going to be online for the rest of the afternoon, but I'll be on later tonight, probably after ALIAS airs here, maybe before as well.
I feel like the only one -- I loved the Entertainment Weekly article. I thought Sarah was very eloquent and not "off-putting" like I've heard. I'll rant about what she said later. I'm not really motivated to do so right now. But just one note: As an actress who has been portraying the leading role in a television show that requires hard work and extremely long hours, she has EVERY RIGHT to want a break. And she's not leaving to make movies, she's leaving because she wants a break. She has basically lived BtVS since she was eighteen. She's twenty-five now, almost twenty-six, newlywed, and she rarely sees her husband because she is always working. I get the impression that they are genuinely in love and happy together; she wants to be with him whenever she can and as an actor (especially on BtVS) that is incredibly difficult.
Believe me, Sarah KNOWS that she has the danger of being type-cast as Buffy and never making it big on the moviescreen. She's an actress in Hollywood, the stakes (no pun) are always high. She knows that. But she made a decision WITH Joss Whedon, at the beginning of the season, that this would be their last.
She didn't drop the show, she didn't cause its downfall. It was a decision made between the creator and the leading actress.
She didn't like season six. So what? How would YOU like portraying a domestic abuser, especially if, in the past, your character had been a kind (if occasionally violent) person. She thought the sex scene in the Bronze in "Dead Things" was out of character for Buffy. Well you know what? As sexy and scandalous as that scene was, it wasn't in her character to LET Spike seduce her into intercourse in public. (Not even getting into the question of Spike's character in that scene.)
She thinks that Joss originally intended for Buffy and Xander to end up together. What's the problem? That in NO way implies that SHE'S a B/Xer. I am dedicated S/B fan -- even I can see that Joss wanted B/X. Just watch the first half of the first season!
She liked "The Prom." Some people are saying that proves she's just another Duck and "B/A4EVA!" But upon reading the article, I see that she SPECIFIES why she likes it, and it's not because of that. She likes that episode because Buffy finally gets recognized for all she has done through the previous three years.
I guess this was my rant. But I leave you with this final quote. BBC interviewed SMG during the filming of "Flooded" last year:
You know, there’s a part of me that will always believe that Angel is Buffy’s true love; that there will be a piece of her heart that will always be with him for the rest of her life. It doesn’t mean that that’s the person she’s meant to be with eternally.
The thing about Buffy and Spike is that they understand each other on a level that nobody else understands her. They’ve both lived a hundred lives, and I think there’s a connection there that we will see evolve over the next couple of years where she realizes that he really is someone that she can trust; someone that’s a companion to her, someone that really understands her unlike anybody else.
Sounds like she ships the S/B to me. Whether ME destroyed that opinion in her during the filming of season six, I am not sure. Many shippers' faith got destroyed through the process of season six. And I don't know of any who turned to B/A or B/X. So I doubt SMG did either.
I feel like utter crap. I'm going to post this before it gets too long. Oh, and GIP. Pretty British boys.