Those weird moments you have when Gatchaman just intrudes into real life....

Okay, so I may be going more insane than I already am, but I had a moment. You know what I mean. A moment when your imagination just adds things that shouldn't be there...

Blame this one on having a day off from work and not doing a whole lot more than listening to music and working on fics...

There I was, just re-reading a couple of things when the next song in the playlist popped up. 'When You're Good to Momma' from the Chicago Soundtrack - the Queen Latifah version.

Well, before I knew it my brain had Katse in full purpled glory shaking and shimmering his/her way through the song. Did a danged fine job of it too, I might add. And the goons doing backup weren't bad either...

The sad thing is that Katse doesn't actually appear in the fic I was working on. And there is absolutely no outside influence to be blamed beyond the minestrone and a banana I had for lunch...

Now, I've been listening to music most of the day and this is the only song that set my brain off - I can't find any reason to explain this odd occurence. So the only conclusion - besides total insanity - that I can come up with is that this just happens.

What I would like is if someone else shared their 'moment', just so I know I don't need to check myself in for a full psych exam pronto...

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Hmmm ... I forgot to add this ...

Do you know how Gatchaman intruded into my real life just a few days ago?

I had just finished writing a small part of my fic in which a dialogue between Jun and Ken had been the main subject. As I was cooking dinner I continued to think about what I could have written next and I heard the key turning in the main door's keyhole ... it was my husband returning from work. As I called out to him in order for him to bring me something from the interconnecting garage before he made his way through the corridor and entered the kitchen, I realized that the first consonant that escaped my mouth was the letter "K" ... I was going to call my husband "Ken"! Thanks God I stopped just in time and that my DH was still far enough and unable to hear me well ... Gatchaman could have been responsible of an inevitable fight between husband and wife! Phew!

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To be or not to be a gatchamaniac - that's the dilemma!

I think we are all a little "insane". If you think about it we all dream and write about cartoon characters as though they were RL characters.


And I too have moments when I want to call out one of the team members names. Especially if I have been deep into a new "story." I get a lot of new story ideas while driving, some times I will arrive home and want to call out one of the characters names when I call hello as I walk through the door.

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I find that its certain lines in songs that set me off.

Leeann Rimes' (excuse the spelling) song 'I Hope You Dance', there's a line that says something to the affect "Don't fear those mountains in the distance' and I always thing of Joe looking at the Himalayas, then the rest of the song makes me think its being sung by a girl who fell in love with him but knew it could never work, so she's wishing him well.

The other is a Duran Duran song, can't think of the name, but many of the lines remind me of Wendy Dismore's 'Out of the Shadows', when Ken thinks he's going crazy seeing Joe everywhere. I think its 'Ordinary World'. One of the lines talks about having to get along in the ordinary world, which would be a problem for Gatchaman after fighting for intensely for so long. Another asks 'Where's my friend when I need him?'

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I'll have to dig it out for the exact title, but that song with the chorus 'Flying through the danger zone' (or something very similar) prompted thoughts of a Gatch music video. It has a lyric about 'red line overload' and others that just demand that someone make a video.

Green, look up the thread 'You know you've been watching too much Gatchaman when...' There are some funny ones there.

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There was a fic challenge not too long ago to write a fic using Kenny Loggins' Danger Zone song. There were quite a few entries.

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Originally posted by MrVampire Take that back! Stop saying Gachaman isn't real life.

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Instead of real life, how about movie life?

I have this habit of watching a movie and changing the storyline in my mind to become something dealing with the team.

I went to see Avatar with my son and it happened again. In my mind, I'm thinking its Spectra invading Pandora and an injured member of the team is sent to infiltrate to learn the true situation.

Does anyone else find themselves doing that and if so, to what movies?

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