So Valene and Gary Ewing's son just added me on MySpace...
This PERFECTLY exemplifies what I mean when I say how EVERY move you make, no matter how seemingly trivial or unrelated to Big Pressing Life Issues, can become a trigger for something far grander in Life's Big Scheme. This week-long videotape streamlining/reviewing/labeling epic project of mine...well, it's complete, and i'm overjoyed with the practical benefits of my labor. Both the extra space I have and the whopping organization of it all is THRILLING. And now i'm spurred to KEEP GOING onto the remaining cluttered areas of my life...far more important ones, I may add. BUT...but...but...that's beside the point. As I mentioned the other day, reviewing all this shit has reminded me of the past 15 years of my life. There's a greater clarity to things...a reminder of people and places and dreams. It's been both wildly entertaining and incredibly thought-provoking.
But then there's THIS one final benefit...something SO odd, so surreal, so "if you told me a week ago that..." in its randomness. So after viewing my old fave KNOTS LANDING's reunion movie from a decade ago, curious me yearned to know everything about the stars of the show. Specifically, I wanted to know 1) how old the main stars are now, and 2) what in the HELL happened to many of the more peripheral characters, like the kids. Well, Google yielded Wikipedia, which gave up mucho info on everyone. And in the instance of the kid who played BOBBY EWING (named after Uncle Bobby on DALLAS, who was killed, but then it was a dream, yet they never addressed that little fact on KNOTS), I was stunned to see a link to his MySpace page!! I couldn't fucking believe it! And it wasn't even locked for privacy! Now, this guy isn't "famous" or anything -- in fact, he's out of acting now -- but I still found it remarkable that I so easily tracked him down. He's 24 now, still living in LA. And, yes, that's right, I wrote him an email. And he wrote me back a few hours later. In the first email, I stated how I wouldn't request a Friend Add for fear i'd seem a bit, um, presumptuous...but he said I could...so I did...and now we're on each other's pages! And I'm corresponding with a former child star! A TOTALLY well-adjusted one! Looking at his personal photos, reading up all about him...this kid who had Joan Van Ark as a "mom" and hung out on the set of one of my all-time fave shows! It's FUCKING CRAZY!! I somehow doubt most will be able to grasp how cool this is to me. I'm so NOT the celeb-ass kisser type...that's not what this is about. It's just...neat. And unbelievably random. And something, yet again, that ONLY could have happened in this internet age. I LOVE it! It'd be SO cool if we forged some kind of online friendship, but i'm not gonna push things, lol. Is it too creepy to state that I'd love to have him over for tea...ok, beer...so I can pick his brain on Nicollette Sheridan and the rest of the cast, and then present him with a copy of my KNOTS LANDING: CHILDREN'S EDITION manuscript that I wrote when I was like 12 and 13 and still sits in my desk drawer? Too creepy, right? And you know what else? He also now becomes I think the 3rd resident of the LA area on my page. MUHAHAHAHA...as I plot my infiltration into the hearts and minds of Southern Californians! And allllllllllllll this from my frustration over videotape chaos. Do you SEE the lesson? I hope you learned something valuable from Uncle Gary today.
But then there's THIS one final benefit...something SO odd, so surreal, so "if you told me a week ago that..." in its randomness. So after viewing my old fave KNOTS LANDING's reunion movie from a decade ago, curious me yearned to know everything about the stars of the show. Specifically, I wanted to know 1) how old the main stars are now, and 2) what in the HELL happened to many of the more peripheral characters, like the kids. Well, Google yielded Wikipedia, which gave up mucho info on everyone. And in the instance of the kid who played BOBBY EWING (named after Uncle Bobby on DALLAS, who was killed, but then it was a dream, yet they never addressed that little fact on KNOTS), I was stunned to see a link to his MySpace page!! I couldn't fucking believe it! And it wasn't even locked for privacy! Now, this guy isn't "famous" or anything -- in fact, he's out of acting now -- but I still found it remarkable that I so easily tracked him down. He's 24 now, still living in LA. And, yes, that's right, I wrote him an email. And he wrote me back a few hours later. In the first email, I stated how I wouldn't request a Friend Add for fear i'd seem a bit, um, presumptuous...but he said I could...so I did...and now we're on each other's pages! And I'm corresponding with a former child star! A TOTALLY well-adjusted one! Looking at his personal photos, reading up all about him...this kid who had Joan Van Ark as a "mom" and hung out on the set of one of my all-time fave shows! It's FUCKING CRAZY!! I somehow doubt most will be able to grasp how cool this is to me. I'm so NOT the celeb-ass kisser type...that's not what this is about. It's just...neat. And unbelievably random. And something, yet again, that ONLY could have happened in this internet age. I LOVE it! It'd be SO cool if we forged some kind of online friendship, but i'm not gonna push things, lol. Is it too creepy to state that I'd love to have him over for tea...ok, beer...so I can pick his brain on Nicollette Sheridan and the rest of the cast, and then present him with a copy of my KNOTS LANDING: CHILDREN'S EDITION manuscript that I wrote when I was like 12 and 13 and still sits in my desk drawer? Too creepy, right? And you know what else? He also now becomes I think the 3rd resident of the LA area on my page. MUHAHAHAHA...as I plot my infiltration into the hearts and minds of Southern Californians! And allllllllllllll this from my frustration over videotape chaos. Do you SEE the lesson? I hope you learned something valuable from Uncle Gary today.
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