Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Nostalgia is Seductive.




{inspired by The Office's series finale last week, I spent a couple of hours this past weekend sketching, calligraphy-ing and watercoloring the above.  
It's not as great as I'd imagined in my head, but what are ya gonna do!}

Have you ever seen or read an interview with an actor best known for a television role talk about how because he's in our living rooms every week (on tv, I mean!), people seem more likely to approach him and equate him with that character?  That can't go very well for King Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) of Game of Thrones, but I get it.  You grow-up with certain shows, they can inspire or provoke change in you, they make you laugh and cry and feel like you are a part of a world that is built, piece by piece, over years.  And when you think back on them or go back and watch a show all over again, you remember little bits of who you were during that time so powerfully, it's like a rabbit hole of memories.  

Here's a few for me:
  • The Office first, in honor of its recent ending: "Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica." "You must be PMS-ing pretty hard right now, huh?"  And of course, "That's what she said."  All substituting for actual conversation for like 2 years.
  • Texting my law school roommate/best friend (who now lives in a different state), "do you think we're really going to meet The Mother tonight?" - and all those times we've discussed Ted Mosby's search for his future wife over the last few years.
  • Throwing a four-course Westerosi feast for Game of Thrones' season 2 premiere.
  • CryingOpenly sobbing at "I got off the plane" sitting next to my college roommate on our awful futon during the FRIENDS series finale the last night of sophomore year.
  • Having friends over to watch Dawson's Creek almost every Wednesday night senior year of high school; Team Pacey!
  • Friday Night Lights.  LOST.  The Vampire Diaries.  Harper's Island.  I could keep going for way too long on this.
One last quote from 9 years of watching The Office, a good summation: "I wish there was a way to know you're in the good ole days when you're in them." -Andy Bernard.  Or as I prefer to look at it: all days are the good ole days; you just don't realize why until they're over. 

xo. di.

*image property of Diane Crary

10 comments:

  1. beautiful art work, Di:))

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  2. Wednesday night Dawsons!

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  3. your water color and calligraphy is very pretty! And I'm the same way with series. I feel like I'm breaking up with my best friends whenever they end.

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  4. very pretty! dawsons creek 100%.... I am re-watching Felicity on Netflix and I think Dawsons Creek needs to be next. Brings back so many old memories. And YES to getting off the plane quote!

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  5. "I got off the plane" gave me goosebumps! And my sister and I have a million Dawson's Creek memories. "Hi Amy, it's Mom" can make her tear up in an instant because she had an 8-month-old at the time! I'm rewatching Gilmore Girls and remembering all the Lorelai-inspried outfits I used to have, and how I still wish my town was a cute as Stars Hollow!

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  6. SO many! I started a Felicity rewatch a few months ago too. The season 2 haircut, holy smokes!

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  7. thanks so much, Jessica! there really is a bit of a mourning period, isn't there?

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  8. thanks, Diane - it is flawed, but fun to do.

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  9. oh man, Jen's goodbye was just brutal, wasn't it?

    and I so wanted to live in Star's Hollow - I STILL do!



    I have so many emotions wrapped up in old WB shows :)

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thanks so much for the note! i love reading your comments. xo. di.

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