Love Is In The Air ~ Ben vs. Noel

J.J. Abrams is one of my favorite writer/producers.  Chances are you've seen SOMETHING that he has worked on. The new Star Trek series, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Super 8, and Morning Glory rank among his movie credits. Felicity, Alias, Lost, Fringe, Person of Interest, Alcatraz, and Revolution are just some of the TV shows he has written or produced (or both). So, if I know that he is a part of ANY project I am more inclined to give it a Whirly-Go.

The first TV series to his credit was Felicity. It aired on the WB (now CW) from 1998-2002. It lasted four years because it chronicled four years of college for Felicity and her friends. I really enjoyed this show because it took me right back to the whole Being In College thing. It was interesting for me to watch someone else struggle with the Coming Of Age process. Felicity didn't do everything right. In fact, she made many mistakes. ::Don't we all???::  To make things tougher, she had two love interests. (Okay, I didn't have that problem, but that is part of the joy of this show!!!) Both were great guys in their own way. Each week I found myself changing my mind about who was her Mr. Right. To be fair, Felicity had the same problem.

Below are Felicity's First Kisses. One is with Noel and the other with Ben. I hope you watch and let me know which scene you prefer. It isn't a contest. I'm just curious!!!

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I am tagging all of these Love Is In The Air (even though the hop is over) and the following is a list of all the posts with links, so that you can watch any of your favorites that you missed.

Moonlighting 

Roswell - Michael and Maria

P.S. I Love You

The Gilmore Girls

Buffy/Angel and Firefly/Serenity

Grey's Anatomy (dedicated to Unicorn Bell)

Lois and Clark (Smallville) and Some Kind of Wonderful

When Harry Met Sally and The Way We Were
The Princess Bride and Serendipity 

Castle and Firefly 

Gossip Girl (Chuck and Blair) and 10 Things I Hate About You 
Veronica Mars and The Notebook

Back at the beginning of this thing I asked YOU to share what you think are the most romantic moments on the big and small screen. I posted four of them over the weekend. I will still post them if you share in the comments!

Speaking of comments, some of your comments crack me up! Over the weekend I ran all movies and several of you indicated you'd never seen those TV shows. Hahahaha. I realize I must be more clear about what I am posting, since I am doing both.

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Once again, these scenes are from J.J. Abrams first TV show, Felicity.

First up, Noel at the Plate:



And now, Ben at the Plate:


So who wins for Best First Kiss???

How A Thursday Post Comes Together (or not)

Over the years, many of you have addressed in the comments my "process" regarding the HERE'S TO YOU THURSDAY posts.  When those posts do come together, it is *magic.*

Let me give you a few examples of how it has been this week.  This week has not been magic, but only because YouTube has not been working for me.  Ironically, in terms of what you guys have been writing, it has been *magic.*

For instance, klahanie wrote a tongue-in-cheek post offering up his services as a Sex Coach.  This sparked my mind to immediately go to a scene from the amazing John Hughes film She's Having A Baby.  This is another 80s wonder, and I have seen it about 50 times give or take.  In college, it was on Play on our VCR All Of The Time.  I think I know most of the lines by heart.  Yes, this film is about having a baby, but mostly it is about adjusting to being married.  Towards the end of the film, they do decide to have a baby, and hence the name.  Anyway, even that doesn't come easy and it involves doctor visits.  The husband, Jake, is very upset about the whole thing.  They are lying in bed and his wife makes the mistake of saying, "I talked to my mom about it..." And he just blows.  (this is me guessing at the lines more or less)

"You talked to your mom. Did you talk to the neighbors?  Who didn't you talk to?  Geez."  Then he goes into one of his fantasy sequences.  He pictures her parents at the end of the bed with flashlights on their heads giving them... Sex Lessons.  Her dad is saying things like, "Jake get your butt a little higher."

And now we have come full circle to how She's Having A Baby just tied in to klahanie's post on Sex Coaching.  Voila.  Only problem:  they don't have that clip on YouTube.  They have lots of other great clips from the movie, but NOT that one.  Sorry klahanie.  I did think of you.  This sort of thing happens a lot.

Jay Noel posted on his blog about purposefully changing the words to certain songs.  He had an entire list of songs that he lyric-changes on purpose.  He gave his version of the lyrics above and then the actual lyrics below.  Soooo funny.  Well, that made me think of this scene from the movie Bull Durham.  Yeah, another darn 80s movie.  Crash and the boys were on the bus and Meat starts to sing a song, but he is getting the lyrics wrong.  Not on purpose, though.  It is driving Crash crazy.  He finally starts correcting him.  H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S.  Is it on YouTube?  Nope.  Other funny scenes from Bull Durham are there, but not that one.  Drat that YouTube.  It is killing my process.

Red Shoes wrote a rather naughty post giving the nod to No Panties Day.  Shoes, Shoes, Shoes.  We are going to have a talk someday.  LOLOL.  The post was fairly harmless and a typical Naughty Shoes post.  They are always labeled, so you know what you're getting.  Moving on... That immediately made me think of this specific episode of the long-defunct TV show Felicity.  That was the first brain-child of JJ Abrams.  I took several tours through that show since I have it on DVD.  The first time I watched it on TV, the second time I was desperately trying to understand Felicity's choices, and the third time I just enjoyed it (again).  JJ Abrams writes really amazing characters.  Now, how did this episode relate to the Shoes post?  Well, let me tell you.

Sean and Meghan were secondary characters on that show.  Meghan was rather wild, but gave up that side of herself when she got together with Sean.  She was beginning to feel the strain, and was clamoring to go out to this Underground Party.  Sean was wanting to get in touch with his Jewish roots and that was his Holy Night, so he didn't want to go.  They were clashing Big-Time.  In the end, she ended up ditching the party for church and he went looking for her at this party in asslass chaps.  And we have now circled back to No Panties Day.  She is waiting for him at home and he walks in all decked out in leather.  He is ticked.  He has been looking for her all over NYC.  When he turns to go upstairs is when you see the lack of ass in the chaps.  Hahahahaha.  Happy No Panties Day, Shoes.  I know it wasn't what you had in mind, but that is what made it so perfect.

Unfortunately, that has been what this entire week of reading has been like... Thursday is not looking promising:(

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