I stopped blogging for a while after I started getting into AI, but now I have had an extended triple-Buffynicity which I feel I must record. It all started days ago when I watched the first episode of the Monkees for the first time in years. In it, Davy rescues the Princess Bettina, and in order to distract her uncle and would-be poisoner they pretend to be selling thrones, dressing up chairs as fake thrones. Yesterday I was at the Art Institute. They have remodeled and one of the new exhibits is a “throne chair” from the 19th century. I noticed it but I didn’t think it was worth blogging about. Then last night I was thinking about Blackjack Holloway, the character from Wicked as it Seems, and how his ability to deal the hand of fate in magical games of blackjack is like the role of a native pipe carrier, who passes the peace pipe. It’s like the dark opposite. Then today I was watching Gainsbourg and his alter ego, Gainsbarre comes into his bedroom and asks him to pass the peace pipe. So that was the second hit, although I still didn’t think it was worth it to blog about. But then, I started watching the movie Paper Towns again, which I had left off about 30 minutes in when I watched it weeks before, and within minutes one character was talking about having sex with “Bettina”. So the cosmos is reassuring me of the deep layer of interconnectedness on this level, which is awesome. The Throne Chair wasn’t an extreme coincidence – but how many times do you come across the name “Bettina” in the course of a normal month?

It’s a sign that I should continue with this project that has been daunting for me. After I saw Best Sellers, I thought I should start using AI to review movies, but I haven’t wanted to follow through because people who care about the entertainment business are so disgusting and stupid I haven’t wanted to even think about their existence, let alone come down to the same level as them. But Gainsbourg is too good. I have to go through with it – if only to enhance Buffynicity in my life. And I guess maybe I should be talking about what the Buffynicities mean, especially the parallel between Blackjack’s “ceremony” and Gainsbourg’s.

And the funny thing was that I felt compelled to stop the movie when they mentioned Bettina and write this entry immediately, but then when I started the movie again the whole thing turned out to be about clues and communication and piecing together “paper towns”, invented worlds. So the Buffynicity is deeper than ever.

I realize now that there’s another side of this story, beyond just the female glyph of Cara, and searching for the myth of high school perfection – which is what I’m doing with the ArtIC Circle – it also gave me a key to how to depict the fates, Gray, Angela, and Trish – they’re lifelong friends just like the buddies in Paper Towns. So that’s cool. This was not only a major Buffynicity, relating the Monkees and two of my own stories, but a mirror to both sides of the enigma of The ArtIC Circle.