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Sunday Stealing: The Fandom Meme

Rules: We all are fans. Be it Star Trek or Twilight, you are a fan of something. Pick a subject, book, TV or movie series. Now tell us all about it!



SUBJECT I'M GONNA CHOOSE IS A MOVIE At first, I was gonna pick ROOTS a TV mini series, then thankfully, I read the questions first....that would've been way too difficult to choose 'best' and worst in that work of literature. So I picked an oldie but goodie....
JAWS [THE FIRST ONE...is the best one! But there were three as far as I know.]

1. The first character I fell in love with: Chief Brody. Mmmmmm, sweet. The late Roy Scheider.


[image courtesy of Photobucket search -copyright infringement unintentional]

2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Ummm, the shark dude...no, not the nasty mean drunken one...but the rich one with the great boat for shark watching with sonar and everything. "...this was no boating accident!" His name, Matt Hooper ---Richard Dreyfuss

3. The character I would shag anytime:

4. The character I'd slap: Mayor Larry Vaughn

5. Who are my 3 favorite characters. The Chief, the marine biologist, Hooper and Brody's wife...Ellen. She was funny and yet a good wife too.

6. What are my 3 favorite pairings. The shark's innards. Gross, I know....but really, this movie wasn't about any 'love triangle' or 'shagging'...nothing LIKE that. The boot, the license plate and the stomach fluids...that was the only thing paired other than the shark hunting trio. Oh and maybe the bottle of wine the three had for dinner before they WENT and SPILLED the shark's guts all over the wharf warehouse. Well, now on second thought the three hunters on Orca singing "Show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I wanna go to bed. Had a little drink about an hour ago and it went right to my head....." that was a good 'pairing' of talent don't you think? LOL Pairings...for this movie, it ain't fittin' it just ain't fittin'........

7. Which character I'm most like. Again, Brody..."You need a bigger boat!!!!!"

8. The coolest thing about the canon: AT the time...the automated and animated shark...it was more or less a movie breakthrough in effects! Oh and the music before the shark attacks!!! Chilling!!!

9. The lamest crappiest thing about the canon: The opening of the 2nd in the series with Sam Quinn's boat, the Orca, being at the bottom of the sea. For me, that scene was unnecessary.

10. My guiltiest pleasure in this fandom: This has nothing to do with 'shagging'...geez. Fantasy of the Chief saving me from a shark attack. What else?!!

11. What story I wish I could read (or art I wish I could see) Well, I'm not sure that my choice would really fit in with this question, but JAWS was written by Peter Benchley. And I think I'd hafta say the movie was better. Of course, I've never read the novel first; in fact never heard of the novel 'til after the movie came out.

12. What story I wish I had written/still want to write Maybe the script of this movie...have a remake of it...I'd sure add ME in there somewhere, just to be by "The Chief" at one point or another. Now that Mr. Scheider is gone tho, it'd make no sense to me.






POSTED: Sunday, April 25th, 2010
3:00 A.M.

Woodland Mama came up with one fantastic challenge. And Fun too! Here's what she asked of us this week:

~Write the beginning of an unusual love story (not a real one). I only want the first paragraph. You can add an illustration or a picture to spice it up if you are really daring. Now don't be afraid. You blog, so you can do it.

...and naturally I got carried away, it really should be written in more than ONE paragraph, but I kept it as one so I wouldn't be known as a 'cheater' rofl.


With my back to the sun, I was lounging on the firey sand atop my freshly laundered, but tattered, beach towel as I read my paperback novel. The sound of the surf was making for a wonderful, lazy, day. The tropical breeze was spinning its way through the reed weave of my large brimmed hat, and tossing the tendrils of my dark brown hair. The day couldn't have been more perfect. I was young back then. The day was peaceful. I was alone as I wanted to be. I wasn't much of a socialite and I enjoyed my quiet time being by myself, taking a break from a long burdensome week of working at the office in the city. The book I was reading was a sultry romance. One I was enjoying and I admit, I had difficulty not taking it to work with me and just forgetting my routine and what was expected of me at my job. It would have been so easy to just forget the mundanes of my five day employment, and .....turn the pages of reverie and daydream of a fantasy life of Jake and Sarah. As I began a new chapter, Jake was searching. Searching for his lost love. Sarah. She had mysteriously disappeared and his loss haunted him. They had made passionate love on the tropical island that for as much as they knew, no one else inhabited. Then, she left him...left him with just the memory of the beautiful, green-eyed brunette that engulfed him with such passion. As I readied my thumb and finger to flip the page to continue helping Jake with his search for Sarah, a shadow was cast on my book from behind. Tho startled, I turned to find what was darkening my world. There, behind me, was Jake!! He was deeply tanned, and he had aged a bit from the author's description in the front pages of the fiction I was traversing. But it was him. That instant I knew this man...he was the man I too have been searching for; I was so much like the second character of the artists conception between the paper pages of the book. I was Sarah---------


[Rayne will host next week]