The Buffy Diaries 03-12-2021

Buffynicity #1: I just did a facebook video where I talked about “red meat”, and then Monica joked that her boyfriend was a “doctor of meat”. Is this major? I wouldn’t have thought so but …

Buffynicity #2: A little while ago I was thinking about doing a video beating my stuffed Ewok with a baseball bat and then in the episode Monica’s father walks in the room with a baseball bat.

Buffynicity #3: I was listening to “More Than A Feeling” today and really clicking with the characters from The Darkening. I talked about it in my video. And for some reason I am thinking this is absolutely the best episode of Friends yet. All the characters are well known and in full swing. Almost no exposition, all revelation. I feel I’m seeing more in this show for the same reason I can sense my characters more deeply. I suddenly got the idea of making The Darkening some kind of combination of Friends and T7S.

Buffynicity #4: Additionally, Joey “moves out” temporarily and I think that’s a resonance with Jennifer dying, but I’m to shift the purpose of the story to talking about life after death. And I just realized Phoebe is talking about the afterlife when she says her “small blue dot” is the way her mother sees her from heaven.

These aren’t terribly strong or specific Buffynicities, but that’s okay because this episode felt fantastic, with everything clicking and flowing in what I would call ecstasy.

Buffynicity #5: Yesterday I dreamed about “moving out” of an empty storefront right before I started “The One Where Joey Moves Out”. This morning I dreamed of moving out of another apartment, this one also in a state of disrepair. I was living with my roommate from college and I felt his spirit strongly when I woke up. The other key thing I still need to decipher is that I had several white boards and I was having my old rommate, whom I’ll call “Dan”, donate them to charity. I had thousands of markers lined up on the walls.

If I hadn’t just written that paragraph I wouldn’t have seen the connection … as I woke up I felt genuinely connected to this spirit, so I decided to call him “Dan” and he will have some part in the character of Dan Dare, or Gavin Arnold, in The Darkening. And just as I don’t have a lot of specific synchronicities today, I have an ecstatic sense of the flow of all these beings around me. I wish I knew how to express it.

Another thing I’m going to note is that I also started listening to Motorhead’s “Inferno” today. This and “Phantoms” by the Fixx are my new focus, musically.