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Chapter 28 -When Travis gets ready for his first day of shooting a movie called Disturbia. "I Just Want to Celebrate" by Rare Earth -When Travis gets transformed into his character Ronnie. "Swing Swing" by All-American Rejects I thought Tyson Ritter was so hot. LOL -When Travis excitedly tells Will on the phone about his great first day of shooting, while he navigates the notorious 405 expressway traffic. "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield -When Travis turns down the official watch party and he and Will "reunite", so to speak. "Luxurious" by Gwen Stefani -When Will contemplates Travis's birth as a celebrity. "Catch Your Wave" by the Click 5

I don't think Shia went off the rails until Indiana Jones in '08. Something snapped once he started getting those big leading man roles. I actually had a crush on a guy on my high school cross-country team who reminded me of Shia in terms of mannerisms, but like later Disney star David Henrie in terms of looks. He absolutely hated me which made me want him more. LOL Anyway, nice cameo from Dylan O'Brien. He was absolutely adorable! Here he is 2 years later at 16: YouTube really starts hitting in the middle of 2006, if I remember right. I think I started watching YouTube around January 2006, mainly for the 90's music videos that would get posted that you could no longer see on MTV. Then I got into the whole LonelyGirl15 thing, which was a spring/summer thing. I had the experience of having friends who were born around that 1990-1993 range and it always kind of struck me how pretty much everyone I knew who was in that age range had a YouTube channel. There was such a massive shift in culture once YouTube became a thing and everyone started having video capable phones. (We're not quite there yet in CAP-Land, though, at least in terms of the video phone thing. That's more of an '07 thing.) So yeah, 2006. Ooh, that means I can use Amy Winehouse soon. LOL

I don't think you're wrong, but I do think Mark is probably going to work on that with Will.

As Mark had put it, Will is at to evolve into Tonto. The problem is that Tonto as a teenager was likely a big asshole.

Happy birthday!

Or the Hemsworth boys. Man, it'd be funny if Will or Travis ever ran across Liam Hemsworth given that Zach's face is supposed to look like his. LOL (His acting career doesn't start until '07, though.)

Yes. Mark has repeatedly told me that he's going to use me as his source of pop culture references because my mind is font of Gen X and Millennial pop culture up to about 2016. LOL (Except for anime. That stuff is beyond me so he's going to have to recruit people to help him with those references once the story shifts to the Gen Z characters like Riley, Maddy, and Bobby.) Gary, Fraternity Memoirs is a Nifty Archive story that started posting around 2000-2001. It follows a young man's journey being initiated into a frat at a party school on the American East Coast sometime during the early to mid-1990's. He starts off as small-minded Irish Catholic kid from a conservative middle class Brooklyn neighborhood and his mind gets "opened up", so to speak, by a snobby rich kid named Kevin who is bisexual and very experienced with gay sex. The story attracted a pretty dedicated online following, including a Yahoo group that I started participating in when I was about 17 years old in 2003. (It's where I know Mark from. When he started posting CAP and I became his beta reader, that's why I went over to here.) The author had cultivated a strong friendship with Adam Phillips, who was inspired to write the semi-autobiographical story Cross-Currents. That story was actually pretty big here. At one point, John Walsh had a breakdown and realized he couldn't continue the story because he didn't want to relive the traumatic experience of being outed in college. Adam Phillips kind of "took over", so to speak, the Fraternity Memoirs fandom and turned the focus into his own Cross-Currents story. Adam himself would have issues with keeping the fandom going (there was an online stalker who had gone to high school with him, he had a lot of issues in dealing with his own bisexuality, etc) and a few years after he finished Cross-Currents, he ended the discussion group for good and retreated off of his online persona. John Walsh has never publicly resumed his online persona, as far I know. He might have posted other stories under different names but he's never gone back to finish Fraternity Memoirs. Fraternity Memoirs (and the book Cross-Currents) is actually pretty important to genesis of CAP, because they inspired Mark to write his own semi-autobiographical story, On the Mark, which is on Nifty Archive. Mark posted about 15 chapters of this story but decided he could not continue it because he did not want to relive his traumatic experiences. If you read the story though you can see a lot of elements that go into CAP.

*paging John Walsh of Fraternity Memoirs* I mean, okay, I'm sure he probably would have eventually come out as gay/bi/whatever (during his last public chat in 2005/2006 he mentioned that he still felt attracted to women but felt it more convenient to stay gay), but I don't think it would have happened in college if he had instead attended a GDI school. Short for Goddamned Independent; essentially means Greek life is minimal or not there at all. Like UD was GDI- Greek life was there, but small enough you didn't need to do it to have an active party life before age 21. But yeah, Kevin and his fraternity experience definitely gave John the boost he needed towards his gay awakening.

Chapter 26 -When Will decides that Travis has blown him off, and not in the good way. "Don't Forget About Us" by Mariah Carey -When Austin and Will finally give into their attraction to each other and have sex in the plane. "Hung Up" by Madonna -When Travis has a panic attack as he realizes that Will was disappointed by the present he got him because he didn't put enough thought into it. "Marching Bands of Manhattan" by Death Cab For Cutie It is so fucking weird to me that we're covering time from when I was 20 years old. We're less than three years off from when Mark started writing CAP. lol

He's seriously lucky this is happening before social media and camera phones blew up everything. Remember the Hot Math Teacher Who was Also A Underwear Model? Pietro Bosselli welcomed the attention, though. The interesting thing is that Will is the ultimate extrovert but he HATES this attention because he knows it's fake, instead of his actual friendships with people that actually like him for the loveable rake that he is. Anyway, I ran across this update video of the Pacific Palisades from a plucky L.A. realtor named Shelby Church. It's interesting to see how that area will get re-developed.

Will needs an Angie to his Andy from Cross-Currents. Basically Jenny from Love Story. Mark has never really written that kind of a relationship with Will where his love interest plays hard to get and constantly calls him on his ego.

So what delusional asshole client hurt your feelings this week?

No, no, no. Jeremy is Blair Waldorf from Gossip Girl. Right down to being stuck with someone who takes up all the attention. Although, as Gossip Girl would say, having Will in Jeremy's life does make it richer.

I honestly think it's so much more fun now that people seem to be joking with Will about that. He needs that.

Right. You're totally free to disregard this. I like this because I think it's fun. I've been in the fancasting game for Mark for almost 18 years at this point. Grok has been a fun tool for me because I can take actors I liked the look of for a character and make changes that make them closer to what Mark wrote in the text. I'm seeing it as taking someone that had the right foundation and making some tweaks that get things closer to book-accurate. You have NO idea how hard it is to find actors that actually fit Will's book description of being 6'2" with green eyes and thick brown hair with subtle red tint. Green eyes alone are actually really rare, making only 9 percent of the total United States population. I did actually find a young male actor who was at least 6'2" and had green eyes with brown hair, but Mark was TOTALLY disinterested in him for Will. LOL (Go figure.) Also, Mark has been using A.I. to run free with his own imagination about what characters look like and their cars, houses, etc etc. You're also free to disregard that. It's kind of hard to explain this, but I "think", as Adam Phillips once put it, very cinematically. My mind and how I process information plays out like a movie in my head with a soundtrack blaring as well. When Adam told me once that a photo he had alleged was him was actually someone else, I kind of spaced out for a bit. His reaction was something along the lines of, "You think cinematically. Your mind is now recasting the scenes as we speak." LOL If that didn't sum it up, I don't know what else would. Adam was always really great with the quick wit. LOL