joolz

I’ve been getting all contemplative about writing lately. Like about how my word count for the last couple of months is, oh, zero, and how I feel about that. I’m actually thinking about giving up on fanfic.

That being said, I just signed up for the

eppescest

 challenge fic fest, and am thinking about signing up for undermistletoe , too. Unfortunately, the ideas for stories haven’t died out as much as the motivation to actually write them has! Maybe with a commitment and a deadline I can get something written, and see if it still feels as good as it used to.

In a total tangent, I just got back from a nice chamber music concert. I couldn’t help noticing how erotic I found it to watch those four men playing music together. I’m not a musician but it seemed to take so much trust in and respect for each other- it felt very intimate. And the way they listen to and watch each other as they create this beautiful music. How could they do that and not have a deep connection? I know the connection doesn’t have to be sexual, but that’s where my mind goes. ;)

Of course I’m sitting there enjoying the concert, thinking about how to work that into an SGA fic. (I wish Rodney played the violin, but I could work with the piano…) Ug! It might be too late to give up on fanfic, it’s hard wired into the brain. Or it would at least take some serious discipline.

How fun was that!

Okay, I blame it entirely on keiko_kirin.  I found her talking about 'The Persuaders' on her journal one day and it brought it all back.

For those who don't know, probably the majority, this is a 1971-72 buddy, crime fighting series with Tony Curtis and Roger Moore as millionaire jet-setters Danny Wilde and Lord Brett Sinclair. 
 

They're silly, absolutely adorable, and can't keep their hands off each other.   I actually consider this show to have given me my first slash experience, even if I didn't know what it was at the time.  I remember watching when I must have been around eleven years old, and  in one scene Danny had his hand on Brett's chest to keep him from moving while some dialogue is going on, and a shivery tingle went through my whole body.  Didn't remember much more about the show, but that scene stayed with me for over thirty years.  It would take me many, many years to realize that it was a response to homo-eroticism.  

And now keiko_kirin (thanks for the screencap) reminded me of it, and wrote fic (The Country Life), and I had to go out and buy the first season on dvd (the second is in my Netflix queue).  Resulting, of course, in a story idea that is being strongly promoted by my muse.  I guess I'll have to write it, even knowing there are probably about ten people in the world who would want to read it.  Hey, maybe it's the start of a 'The Persuaders' revival!  LOL

I don’t usually gush about actors - save that for fanfic – but this time I make an exception.  I’m totally taken with this guy Gael Garcia Bernal.  He’s Mexican, both his parents were successful actors, and boy did he get the talent in spades.  People are talking about him as the next Antonio Banderas, and, yeah.

I first saw him in ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ (which I highly recommend as being a great movie for many reasons) and said, Who IS That!? 

Searching out more by him, I saw ‘La Mala Educacion’, and again, terrific.  I immediately put ‘Y tu mama tambien’ and ‘Amores Perros’ into my Netflix queue, and will probably work my way through all his films.  All his films, and the guy is only 25.

AND, in addition to being muy guapo and a good actor, he’s thoughtful, intelligent, philosophical, and engaged in current events, too, in interviews.  An all around admirable person.

It’s one of the times I’m sorry that the general US audience doesn’t watch foreign film much, because they’re really missing out here.  I’m hoping he’ll be in a mainstream Hollywood film soon, so everyone can start appreciating him.  (He’s already dating Natalie Portman. *g*)

More adorable pictures below the cutline, for those intrigued.  And doesn’t he make a pretty ‘woman’, too?  ;)