This was posted under the now defunct LJ account of BunchaMuncha, aka JEN SMITH
"Lesson's I've Learned
I've learned that you cannot make someone love you.
All you can do is stalk them, hope they panic and give in.
As absurd as that statement is, it's kind of true. I call it the Julia Roberts syndrome. You watch her movies, you feel like you "know" her and if she met you, you'd be best friends. OR... you will wind up in jail, on the front page of the papers and pray that Catherine Zeta Jones doesn't show up in court and use your own derangement as a publicity coup.
I'm still amazed at the fascination with celebrity. I have a nurse who is just blown away that I could know "famous" people. She'll come in and I wonder if I don't give up some sort of info, she'll with withhold my precious IV. Today's tidbit was that Kirsten Dunst "double dips" when eating chips and salsa. Sometimes it's tough to come up with mundane things that will satisfy someone curiousity while at the same time protecting the privacy of someone who is your friend. I don't envy famous people. I'm intrigued as to why some people are famous (like Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher...what do they do that they are photographed so much???)
and sometimes what they actually do is fascinating. Like I want to go to a recording studio. I want to play with all the buttons. I just want to see how it is a song is recorded. And not the MTV behind the scenes look. I want to see that it takes 10 hours to record a song and then be told that you still have to work on it. I don't know why...it's just some insane curiosity I have with process.
Like movies, I've been on sets and watched 20 seconds of screen time take 2 days to film. I'm kind of satiated now, don't need to go to a film set anymore. I get bored. In some bizarre way, I don't want to find it fascinating anymore. I want to view my friends jobs as just that, work. Does that make any kind of sense??
It's like my friends when I send them loot. They can't comprehend how it is that I just get Gucci bags sent to me en masse. There's a whole process behind it. I wish I could say that along the way I've made friends with some of these PR folks, but I keep my distance because I know it's a business.
Now can someone please give me some more pain killers...having cancer is not all it's cracked up to be. "
Updated On: 3/26/06 at 12:22 AM