Boyband Rants:
August 2001 Archive
3rd August 2001 - Otomodachi wo tsukurimashita!
Well, this has been a fun week. I finished my screenwriting class and have made some new friends. Um, first gossip from my screenwriting class. Two of my classmates worked on the set of "Pop." They said Chris is short (so don't believe his listed height on *N Sync's official site... it's off by 3-4 inches) and that Justin was something of a prima donna bitch. Curly-Q has a bit of a dichotomy in his rep, doesn't he? Either he's the nicest guy on earth or he's horrible to work with. One of my other classmates (wow, RL people my age who're into boybands!) saw *N Sync in Vegas shooting craps and such. It's spiraling around me, people who've gotten chances to meet *N Sync or at least see them in a non-concert setting. Now what can I do to reach that circling level of reality? I do NOT want to meet them as a fan. Or BSB. I will if I have to, but I don't want to. So I am working on a Plan with a capital "P."
Beyond that, though, I was directed to Vanessa's page, and got AIM with the intent of joining in on the weekly discussion of Matthew Time's stories, and met a new friend there with my same otaku and boybands tastes... who also happens to live in SoCal! Yay! *happy neko dance* We're planning to meet up to do stuff.
Backstreet postponed their tour another couple weeks. If they all feel AJ needs the extra time, I very much want them to take it. However, the concert at the Creat Western Forum was not postponed... it was cancelled! So I bought a ticket to the Blockbuster Pavilion show, and will be bugging Ticketmaster about a refund.
I also watched Entertainment Tonight last night for their segment about On The Line. I want to see that movie. Well, I want to see a lot of movies, but that one especially. Of course because of who's in it! Why are you even asking me that question?
Also, I was shown a pretty solid confirmation of the fact that JC Chasez is adopted. I wonder if it's odd, having both an adopted family and a birth family. Two of my cousins are adopted, but I haven't seen them in years so I can't ask them about it. Plus my new friend (Kise-chan!) sent me some incriminating pictures of Lance Bass with silly string. Oh dear... and here I thought it was just Brian Littrell who regularly surprised me!
Anyway, not much more rant to do, and a lot of work to do, so I'm gone....
6th August 2001 - Backstreet Blues -or- JuJu With Caramel Sauce
Just got e-mailed The Enquirer's account of what led to AJ's rehab. I feel completely free to disbelieve it. This is The Enquirer for gods' sake!
In other notes, while browsing through *N Sync's site for info, I bothered checking their ice cream flavors. They're really missing a marketing niche there. I would buy boybands ice creams! Kise-chan decided Justin's flavor would be something with caramel in it. I agree. She and I are meeting up on Wednesday to see the *N Sync IMAX film.
Listening to Black and Blue at the moment (whoa, mistyped that "Black and Clue"... paging Dr. Freud...) and deciding that I really do prefer the album as a whole to any of *N Sync's as a whole. I don't know why, it's simply my favorite album of those I own. Maybe because it came at a time when I needed it and none of the others did.... The OC Register concluded that among *N Sync Justin is the more talented writer. I politely disagree. My favorite songs they've done themselves have been penned by JC.
Anyhow, stayed up late last night working on another piece for this page, so here it is. A filk of Backstreet's The Call. Peace out and later y'all.
9th August 2001 - Celebration -or- How I Spent J.C.'s Birthday
Yo, y'all. I spent yesterday with my new friend Jane, celebrating J.C.'s birthday (as well as Drew Lachey of 98 Degrees' and The Edge of U2's birthdays) by seeing the *N Sync IMAX show, then spending a few hours jabbering about the group, finally ending up at her house watching videos ranging from their Baby!Sync days to their recent Leno interview. Fun stuff all around. Today I've been skipping through their CDs. Listened to Lance's solo on the Christmas album. Jaw-dropping bass. The kind that vibrates in your chest and can get almost too deep to hear. Wow. We've decided that JC is velvet, Chris is silk, Justin is a caramel ribbon, and Lance is deep dark chocolate. We're still deciding on a metaphor for Joey. What, sanity? Where? None of that stuff around here! We also spent the time casting aspersions on Lance's and Josh's heterosexuality. Mind you, I'm attending Yaoicon later this month. Asked a friend going to Comiket in Japan to grab boybands doujinshi for me if there're any aesthetic ones. As I know there're going to be at least BSB djs there, we'll see what she turns up.
I also got some more fish for my tank today. So I'm up to Kaos, Curly, Lansten, and Ghost, with the new two being D and Crazy Spice. Plus Danny and Donnie, the Chinese Algae Eaters. [A clean tank is a happy tank!] And I'm slowly being forced to concede Rolling Stone's point. Lance is pretty. Listening to the Euro version of Celebrity, I lament that Chris doesn't sing "Falling" on the album version though he does in concert. Wondering how Lance's nickname of "Stealth" came to be and applies (I have suspicions relating to all the surprising contradictions he evidences). Closing thought of the day: on their Euro debut album, their teeth could blind you. Beware of the wholesome whiteness!
26th August 2001 - How I Spent My Summer Vacation
I went to Magic Mountain with Jane on the fourteenth and found that apparently I have grown boybands voices/chibis. It's always fun going to amusement parks with characters in my head and people who understand the habit. MM was fun--I'd never been there before. I even managed (white girl that I am) to avoid getting sunburned. But you don't want to know how many bottles of water I put away that way! HOT. We went on everything but Thrill Shot. We got on it but I started panicking before they launched us so they let us off. I need to conquer it sometime. I can't let an inanimate object scare me. And we decided on a metaphor for Joey's voice. He is champagne.
I also finally received my Japanese BSB discs. Fun stuff. Extra tracks, lyric sheets. Need to pay Monica for them. Regrettably Za-chan did not have the time to look for boybands doujins for me at Comiket. Ah well. I also recently dumped a LOT of BSB and *N Sync stuff onto tape from MTV. I spent Howie's birthday thinking on him and thinking on updating this page, but obviously didn't get around to it until a few days later. I've been doing a lot of writing recently, mostly original stuff that will not show up on my webpage, but I've also started writing a boybands fic. For a long time I've had a very serious reservation about not writing boybands stories, or real person stories at all (the BAIT fic I did being an exception because it was approved by the people who were in it, and was basically autobiography anyway) because I need to know where reality is. But I told Jane about the Nick-turns-into-a-girl saga I had running in my head a while back and she liked it and wanted me to write it. Also, a Girl!Nick story showed up on the JC and the Pussycats site a few days ago and I decided that I could write a better story from what I'd had in my head, so.... Basically, I asked opinions on a chat session, and decided to agree with the "It's only a story." response I got. So that is a way out of the weirdness in which I find myself. And it is kind of weird. I mean, I'm writing a story about Nick Carter here, when what I really want to do is write a story with Nick Carter. I do. If I ever get the chance to meet him, my first (and probably only) question will be is "Why haven't you written a novel yet?" He writes so beautifully.
One of the original stories I wrote this last week incorporates some of my dating experience. It makes me nervous as one of my exes whom I drew from for the story is still a close friend but edgy about our relationship. I sent the story before I could chicken out of it. I'll have to wait and see what kind of response I get back. It really is nerve-wracking.
Um, what else. Oh, apparently I do have at least one more person reading this page. How do people find this page? Ah, probably off of Vanessa's site since she's the only one linked here afaik.
I've been keeping an eye on the On The Line site. I very much want to see this movie. I want to see if Lance can act. I want to be able to project things from his and Joey's characters. I want to speculate (oh, and I am SO far from being the only one on this) on the JoLa potential. Y'know, I really do bounce back and forth on this page, don't I? I mean, one entry I'm saying I don't care if any of the performers/artists I follow are gay, bi, straight, whatever, and the next entry I'm cheering on the yaoi potential inherent in their relationships with one another. Can't help it somehow. I guess if guys have lesbian fantasies, girls have gay guys fantasies? I do admit it is hot, thinking about two cute guys together. I think two cute girls together is hot too. Hetero cutes together I can take or leave for my fantasies. Yet I myself am hetero. I'm sure there's a deep psychological reasoning behind all this. Really. I am. Uh-huh. It's also occurred to me that both people who like boybands [or at least the ones I've met] and people who hate boybands like to do the same thing: libel their members as gay. Odd, interesting, amusing.
I've been shanghai'd into a cosplay group for Ani-Magic. I get to play Ophelia from Final Fantasy Tactics, a game I have never even played. But the costume seems interesting. I'm starting to think like a Japanese cosplayer, aren't I?
Brief interview with Brian in the LA Times on Howie's birthday mentioned a video shoot for the new single, "Drowning." Umm. I haven't heard of this song. It's not on any of their CDs. Where is it from? Any info? Please?
Hmm, looking at the organization of this entry, I find there is none. It's just typing what occurs to me as it occurs to me. My mind is like a ping-pong match with up to eight balls in play at any given time. Anyhow. Getting late, and I have stuff to do in the morning. I'm not sure what stuff, I just know stuff. Oyasumi nasai!
Oh... the first chapter of the Girl!Nick story is written, but the story (called Angel's Tailspin) is not going to be made available until I've finished the entire thing. I don't want to have another WIP half-finished on my site. So don't be mad at me, 'K? I'll try to write fast.