It's been a whirlwind of a week in Whedonland (excuse the alliteration). On Sunday, I found out that my videos had gone viral after being posted on the Joss Whedon Facebook fan page as well as Whedonesque.com. (So far, "Wherefore Art Thou Juliet?" is at 1622 hits and "You Renegade Vamp" is at 956.) I have been feeling the love from far and wide. I even got a message from two Buffy fans in Sweden! It's amazing how art (and Internet) can link people who are seemingly worlds apart.
It also astounds me how small the Whedon world actually is. On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, I was working on the set of Make It or Break It -- the ABC Family TV show about gymnasts. One of the crew guys randomly struck up a conversation with me after seeing me breaking out into random yoga, which I am wont to do. As it turns out, his name is Tom Caton, and he was one of the sound guys on Buffy! He told me some really fun stories about Joss and the Buffy set. I gave him a flyer for my videos, and he totally dug them. He even offered to possibly introduce me to Joss!
Meet Joss Whedon – that’s the ultimate, right? Isn’t that what I’ve been striving for? Isn’t that the purpose of this whole crazy fan video project? Theoretically, yes. But in actuality, I’m really not sure. I mean, if we happened to stumble into each other at a cocktail party, I wouldn’t avoid him like a plague of Reavers. But I’m also not jumping out of my skin to meet him this instant. First of all, I’m superstitious that meeting him might jinx my creative mojo, and I’ve got songs to write! Second, he’s like the geek Mecca and I’m not sure if I’ve studied long and hard enough to merit making the Hajj. I guess what it really comes down to is that—given my fan piece, as well as the fact that I have 1° of separation from him from about 50 billion different angles -- I’m pretty positive we will meet at some point, probably sooner rather than later. And when it happens, it will be glorious. But it doesn’t need to be now. For the moment, I am content knowing him vicariously through his dancing dialogue, quirkily crafted characters, and deliciously delightful demons, whose praises I will continue to sing.
And now a message from a fan in France: I loved your videos, I thought they were the very definition of "awesome" and although your name has many syllables in it I've made a point of memorizing it to be able to recommend your songs to any English-speaking Buffy/Whedon fan I may meet.
ReplyDeleteAs for meeting Joss Whedon, this is amazing! But then, he's not the last boss of the game before the ending credits. Meeting him would be an event, an important step, but don't see it as "the ultimate". You don't know what it might bring...
Now this doesn't have much to do with your post and I hope you won't mind it.
Yesterday, on Twitter, Nathan Fillion requested his own "theme song" (not Mal's, not Hammer's, not Castle's...) and fans gave him a few. I listened to several of them and then thought: man, that'd be amazing if Karuna Tanahashi could make one!
So maybe you already knew about it, but just in case you didn't, I had to let you know.
Found your blog via whedonesque.com.
ReplyDeleteGreat work, lady!