10:10 PM 11/7/2017
I spent the whole night on 3D again, I’m doing some amazing stuff, but I’m forcing myself to resume the narrative of my life through Buffynicity. Now, even though I should be sleeping, I’m going to go back through some scripts and get some action.
Buffynicity #1: I just realized that I decided to get back to writing on the same night that Angel loses his soul and becomes a vampire again (after doing the nasty with Buffy).
Buffynicity #2: The Scoobs wound up fighting Angel and the Judge at the mall tonight. There’s a big battle in front of a movie theater. Today is $5 Tuesday at AMC theaters and I was looking up showtimes today, although ultimately I was too obsessed with 3D to join.
Buffynicity #3: Yesterday they resurrected the Judge by assembling his coffin. Earlier that day I was looking at Egyptian stuff on the web and specifically found a couple of sarcophagi I’m planning to get.
Buffynicity #4: From tonight:
THE JUDGE
I fought an army. They hacked
me to pieces. For six hundred
years my living head lay in a box
buried in the ground.
(turns to Spike)
I’ve learned to be patient.
I was thinking about patience right before I went to run. Specifically I was repeating to myself the old joke about the two bulls which ends “Let’s walk down and fuck ‘em all.”
Buffynicity #5: From tonight –
GILES
Cordelia has a point. If Buffy and
Angel were… harmed, we don’t
stand to fare much better.
XANDER
Yeah, well those of us who were
born with feelings are gonna
do something about this.
Having feelings in life and in action movies was something I was thinking about quite a bit the last couple of days, as I plan more illustrations of my heptalogy.
Buffynicity #6:
SPIKE
Are we feeling better, then?
DRUSILLA
I’m naming all the stars.
SPIKE
Can’t see the stars, love. That’s
the ceiling. Also, it’s day.
She giggles, never taking her eyes off the ceiling.
DRUSILLA
I can see them. But I’ve named
them all the same name, and
there’s terrible confusion. I fear
there may be a duel.
Today I found a figure of Hecate for Victoria 4 who I think is perfect to be the Queen of Darkness in my illustrations.
Buffynicity #7: I was specifically thinking of “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai” today on the way home because I saw an ad for a movie with Will Ferrell, Mel Gibson, Mark Wahlberg, and John Lithgow – and John Lithgow is in Buckaroo Banzai. And so is the guy who played Jenny Calendar’s uncle, the Gypsy who gets killed in tonight’s episode.
Buffynicity #8: From tonight –
OZ
So, do you guys steal weapons from the army a lot?
WILLOW
Well, we don’t’ have cable,
so we have to make our own fun.
I was thinking about the specific phrase “make your own fun” earlier tonight. Tonight seems like a big stream of resonance with minor thoughts I was having, but this one is a specific echo of a thought that I had focused on enough to remember the very words I was using.
10:33 PM 11/7/2017
This one is more tenuous, which is interesting coming right after I noted the most specific Buffynicity of the evening. However today I was looking at Freestuff on Renderosity and noticed “funky backgrounds”. Funky is a word I always notice as a strange throwback to the 1970s. Then reviewing yesterday’s script I found this passage:
XANDER
Absolutely. Ready to get down,
you funky party weasel?
So that’s kind of a voyage backwards in time in two ways, going back to “funky” and also reading the scripts in reverse order to catch up.
Furthermore, I just remembered that yesterday I was thinking about the song “Night Fever” by the Bee Gees, which is not actually funk but which is from the era of funk. It shows some kind of temporal resonance in my thinking.
10:41 PM 11/7/2017 Then I just found this second use of the word:
They round a corner, and Buffy sees something going on.
Buffy: This looks funky. Stop for a sec.
So that’s cool. I scanned through the rest of the script but I’m too tired to focus. I know I had plenty of Buffynicities for the last week or so, but now I’m just going to consider myself caught up and move ahead.
I need some sleep so I’ll resume with transits tomorrow.