Fandomination

So I opted to watch American Idol rather than the finale of Lost, though I’ll be making up for that decision tonight. All in all, it’s been a fairly good couple of weeks for finales: I enjoyed the Tarantino CSI ep. unreservedly, monologues and all, not least because it managed to communicate the potential cost of trusting evidence over people in a very direct way (and did it give me Gentler flasbacks? Yes, it did. Also, WOW did that chick they cast ever look like Frank Gorshin); 24 brought a fitting end to one of their oddest seasons yet, especially factoring in the welcome return of Mia Kirschner. And David Palmer! Laying the self-righteous smackdown on yo’ ass! Very nice indeed.

As for AI, I’d’ve been voting for Bo if I was allowed to vote, but what the hey—it was nice seeing everyone again, even if Mikaylah had somehow managed to have become yet more annoying still in the interim. I didn’t think it could be done, but you really have to tip your hat to good, old-fashioned American ingenuity…obviously, that chick is determined to milk her fifteen minute ‘til they scream. Less power to her.

Okay, anyway. I’m off to the Mommy-lunch today, after which Steve’s parents are stopping by, which means I should wrap this up fairly expeditiously. But I’ve also decided that I’m going back on the Atkins for June, which means I need to factor that into our next shopping trip—see if I can go down maybe one more size or so by the time I go back to school (Rick says the contract is coming, hopefully not like [next] Spring)—while still keeping up the same exercise schedule I’ve maintained thus far (aside from switching my primary exercise time from 7:00 or 8:00 PM to 6:00 or 7:00 AM). It’s going to be meat central for a while around here, folks; mmmm, MEAT. Not something I ever really thought I’d be saying, at this point in my life, but there you are.;)

Meanwhile, gakked from musesfool, in all its navel-gazing glory: The Fandom Meme.

Current fandoms—

Watching: Lost, 24, CSI, Battlestar Galactica 2003, Doctor Who 9, American and Canadian Idol, Rescue Me, The Shield. I’d be watching Carnivale season three, if there was going to be one. You’d think there’d be more movies on this list, wouldn’t you? But you’d be wrong.

Reading: Stars Wars, AGAIN—the ability of Lucas’ sadly limited source material to rope in apologists with the skillz needed to fill in his mythology’s manymanymany gaping emotional/plot holes will never cease to amaze me, but fuck it: I’ll take that cream, please. Plus a variety of other fandoms in which I am not, nor will probably ever be, active—Kingdom Of Heaven, King Arthur, Pirates Of The Carribean, Kill Bill, Sin City, etc. Plus OZ, because I can’t seem to completely give up on it; for all that the walls are made of glass and everybody wants to kill you, it’s a weirdly comforting place to be. Must be all that…limitation.;)

Writing: Ah, hahahahaha…oh, wait—you’re serious, aren’t you? Well, that’d be the usual suspects, I suppose. OZ, Gangs Of New York. The only new fandom I’ve attempted in the last year or so was Blade: Trinity, and I don’t think I’m going back there anytime soon, though not for lack of (limited) interest. It’s a time thing, or maybe an inspiration thing, or maybe a community thing…not enough of all of the above to bother. Sad, really.;))

My first fandom ever—

You know, I usually say Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (Brutus/Cassius rules, old-school!), but that was really the first thing I tried to write for (disguising it as original fiction and, ahem, poetry); the first fandom proper, in terms of obsession, probably was Star Wars. Because I am just a geek.

Oh no, wait—actually, it was Cyrano de Bergerac! Man, I loved that huge-nosed bad-ass. The quips, the swordplay, the rhyming scheme! Yeah, I feel MUCH better now.

My most recent fandoms:

I agree with musesfool here—does this mean Fandoms I Still Have My Toes In, But Am Not Active In At The Moment? Which would be most of them, come to think. Or maybe it’s Fandoms My Virtual Friends Love, Which Tweak Me Not At All—again, a long list, though in some cases due to lack of access: Deadwood is pay-TV, Veronica Mars isn’t up here ‘til next "year", same with Stargate: Atlantis (though Stargate generally, like Due South, fails to push most of my hot buttons…I like it more than when they weren’t showing it every five seconds on Space, but that’s not saying much, is it?).

As for the rest, well—Desperate Housewives makes me want to grab every character by their pubic hair and shake them vigorously; Alias has the J. Gar factor to get over; Law & Order: Sports Utility Vehicle can be depressing fun, but it’s not exactly must-see TV, and I turned Criminal Intent off halfway through last night, because the spectacle of Goren psychologically abusing suspects no longer amuses me. DC Comic, eh. Anime, ech. Wiseguy and Murder One seasons one are finally out on DVD, and I’ve been vaguely thinking I might like to re-assess Blake’s 7, which I last saw when I was maybe eleven, but it’s certainly not an imperative. What does that leave?

Five fandoms that mean a lot to me—

And this one is difficult. Fact is, when put next to my "real" writing, they’re all fairly disposable—they have to be. I’ll be interested to see where factoring in work on top of everything else leaves me, in terms of fandom: Will I just let it all slide, catch up on DVD or video later on? Will it matter? Certainly, there IS something about seeing a story unfold as it should, in chunks with week-long pauses in between, but there’s much to be said for taking things at your own pace, too. And then there’s Cal, and exercise, and writing, and (God forbid) just hangin’ with friends. Etc.

And now Cal is up, so I have to go. Mommy-lunch in t-minus sixty minutes. Back soon.