TODAY'S THOUGHTS....
May. 3rd, 2009 05:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fannishliss... LET ME SHOW YOU THEM.
1. Song by Shinedown = Sam's theme exiting s4.
Please don't cry one tear for me
I'm not afraid of what I have to say
This is my one and only voice
So listen close, it's only for today:
Tell my mother, tell my father I've done the best I can
To make them realize this is my life, I hope they understand
I'm not angry, I'm just saying
Sometimes goodbye is a second chance
2. Finally Able to put my Love for Dean Winchester into Words
As a little kid, one of my favorite TV shows was "Kung Fu" (I was born in 1968). In it, David Carradine strolled barefoot through the southwest, speaking softly, carrying a bamboo flute, yet always ending up in a big kungfu faceoff because he had to defend the Widow against the Corrupt Landlord. It was so VERY awesome a show.
Then later, more of you right remember David (Bruce) Banner, warning people NOT to make him angry! and always thumbing a ride out of town at the end of every episode...
So for a while now, I've been trying to understand my EXTREME LOVE for the character of Dean Winchester. It's not just that he loves his brother more than himself. It's not just his love for the shlocky underside, the cheeseburgers, the ROCK MUSIC, the Impala, and the moment for the corny joke. It's not even JUST his desire to save people while hunting things or even that he puts a smile on the face of the tired waittress.
I also knew that I was really reluctant to see Dean as anything more than Everyman. He's not Bruce Wayne, Billionaire Industrialist -- he's just a guy with a nice car, skill at pool, and a winning face over a fake credit card. He's not Tony Stark, even if he keeps a 40 year old gas guzzler purring down the road, or can build his own emf reader and electropulse, kills ghostfacer hard drives dead device. He's just a guy-- like my dad, who could drop a deer with a 30.06, rebuild a corvette, fly a small plane, wire a house, birth a calf, answer all the questions on Jeopardy, and read himself to sleep every night. A guy with grease ground in under his nails, but who would have been prissy if he'd had a chance.
Still, I think what really gets me with Dean is that he does all these things AS A DRIFTER. Dean is the ultimate Drifter. He's given up not just his home, but every chance at a home, because he has a mission and he's sticking with it. It's not for nothing that when I went to make my own Metallica t shirt, it read ROVER, WANDERER, NOMAD, VAGABOND.
Dean is a man who longs for a home, but won't settle down when there's work to do. He's a man that's made to love his family more than life itself -- but he won't give in to making a family for himself.
Dean's sacrificial devotion to his calling is, apparently, my definition of a righteous man.
3. Fannishliss joins the "Demand a Drabble" meme -- PLEASE demand a drabble because....
4. I post, yet do not get comments. :(
5. Jimmy Novak =
portmanteau of Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak from Vertigo -- a person who seems to be one person yet appears to be possessed by another, a person who is afraid of falling because his comrade in arms fell.
1. Song by Shinedown = Sam's theme exiting s4.
Please don't cry one tear for me
I'm not afraid of what I have to say
This is my one and only voice
So listen close, it's only for today:
Tell my mother, tell my father I've done the best I can
To make them realize this is my life, I hope they understand
I'm not angry, I'm just saying
Sometimes goodbye is a second chance
2. Finally Able to put my Love for Dean Winchester into Words
A very stupid song by Theory of a Deadman finally allowed me to put My Love for Dean into words. Do you know that in the song "Here I go Again" by Whitesnake (an eighties hair metal classic), David Coverdale originally sang, "Like a hobo I was born to walk alone..." but for the American release, he changed it to "Like a drifter?" Talking about this with my husband, as we hilariously imagined an A&R guy showing Coverdale slides of a Hobo (a stubbly old guy in patched clothes and crumpled hat, smoking a stubby cigar while cooking a can of beans and a weiner on a stick over a trashcan fire) vs a Drifter (Clint Eastwood, or the like, in a long black duster, riding into town and cooly surveying the wrongs that need set right)....
As a little kid, one of my favorite TV shows was "Kung Fu" (I was born in 1968). In it, David Carradine strolled barefoot through the southwest, speaking softly, carrying a bamboo flute, yet always ending up in a big kungfu faceoff because he had to defend the Widow against the Corrupt Landlord. It was so VERY awesome a show.
Then later, more of you right remember David (Bruce) Banner, warning people NOT to make him angry! and always thumbing a ride out of town at the end of every episode...
So for a while now, I've been trying to understand my EXTREME LOVE for the character of Dean Winchester. It's not just that he loves his brother more than himself. It's not just his love for the shlocky underside, the cheeseburgers, the ROCK MUSIC, the Impala, and the moment for the corny joke. It's not even JUST his desire to save people while hunting things or even that he puts a smile on the face of the tired waittress.
I also knew that I was really reluctant to see Dean as anything more than Everyman. He's not Bruce Wayne, Billionaire Industrialist -- he's just a guy with a nice car, skill at pool, and a winning face over a fake credit card. He's not Tony Stark, even if he keeps a 40 year old gas guzzler purring down the road, or can build his own emf reader and electropulse, kills ghostfacer hard drives dead device. He's just a guy-- like my dad, who could drop a deer with a 30.06, rebuild a corvette, fly a small plane, wire a house, birth a calf, answer all the questions on Jeopardy, and read himself to sleep every night. A guy with grease ground in under his nails, but who would have been prissy if he'd had a chance.
Still, I think what really gets me with Dean is that he does all these things AS A DRIFTER. Dean is the ultimate Drifter. He's given up not just his home, but every chance at a home, because he has a mission and he's sticking with it. It's not for nothing that when I went to make my own Metallica t shirt, it read ROVER, WANDERER, NOMAD, VAGABOND.
Dean is a man who longs for a home, but won't settle down when there's work to do. He's a man that's made to love his family more than life itself -- but he won't give in to making a family for himself.
Dean's sacrificial devotion to his calling is, apparently, my definition of a righteous man.
3. Fannishliss joins the "Demand a Drabble" meme -- PLEASE demand a drabble because....
4. I post, yet do not get comments. :(
5. Jimmy Novak =
portmanteau of Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak from Vertigo -- a person who seems to be one person yet appears to be possessed by another, a person who is afraid of falling because his comrade in arms fell.
