But somehow my brain thinks this dude from That 70s Show WAS on Buffy. You see, last night I had a dream that I had moved to LA and occcasionally found myself at celebrities' parties. One night we were at Danny Masterson's and I noticed he had done some similar work on his house that we had. I asked for the tour, but instead of showing me drywall he showed me his entire TV on DVD collection. Lame! It was all King of the Hill and Brady Bunch, nothing obscure like Red Dwarf or something. I then asked why he didn't have That 70s Show or Buffy, since he was on both of them. He replied, "I don't collect the shows that I'm on." (Which is a lie. I looked him up on imdb and he was on King of the Hill, and of course NEVER had even a bit part on Buffy). But gullible me ate it up and I started asking questions about what everyone was up to. I really wanted to know about Amber Benson, since she's a writer and continues to inhabit the role of Tara. He dismissed her and the rest of them but EPECIALLY Nicholas Brendan, whom I soon realized was his arch-enemy for being just as much of a lazy and shiftless dude, but never actually smoked pot and finally did something with his life. Masterson didn't know what anyone was up to and acted as if he'd been stuck with the job of speaking for the show after the rest had moved on with their lives. When I realized he was lying, I nevertheless continued to stop over to his house to say hello. He'd ask me Buffy questions, but I'd change the subject to renovation and talk about how his 70s-era shag carpet was cool for the show but not for real life, so get rid of it. Eventually I stopped visiting.
What does this dream mean? I wonder if it means that those of my friends who are occasionally stoners do not like Buffy as I do. That there's something fundamentally non-stoneresque about Buffy and Angel. Despite it's monsters and such, it's not a "trippy" show at all, but rather appeals to computery-booky nerds on the whole. I will generalize that rarely do the two crowds overlap. My love of Buffy is somehow connected to being at odds with my hippie roots.
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No, he never was. But you were right about the guy following Buffy around and "psychologizing" her. It only happened during one episode, however: Season Six, "Conversations with Dead People." Buffy talks to a former classmate-cum-vamp at the site of his rising, while everyone else gets visited by the First in the form of dead people. Of course, Buffy dusts him by the end of the 'sode.
Yeah, that was one of those weird "meta" episodes. There was also the moment when the pop culture professor kicked her out of his class. I doubt, though, that Buffy makes references to any other TV shows except Red Dwarf and other sci-fi fare--I should find out.
also worth noting that mr. masterson (who reminds me of my high school boyfriend, scary true) is of the Tom Cruise cult ilk, which is to say that he is all about xenu or whatever scary alien dude is called by those trying to free themselves of thetans. oh hell, i am totally out of the loop on my scientology metaphysics. you get the point. ways to know you are in the illogics of dreaming - you chill with people you would normally like to beat to a pulp with their own severed limbs.
Oh, no, not him, too!
No one really gets the $cientology metaphysics, but the pyramid scheme part of it is pretty clear.
Hey, if I recall--you're a fan of That 70s show, right? I know you don't care for Buffy, but this is just a coincidence, right? Or have you defined your love of one against the other? Just interested....
oh yes, him too. and beck. yes the long arm of wacky cultish-ness stretches far and long.
i love That 70's Show. I am so addicted. I don't think I dislike Buffy, I just never really got into it - more compelled indifference than dislike, really.
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