What is it with stardom?

Ate is now, as of present time, a BLOOMER. And what is a BLOOMER? A BLOOMER, my friends, is someone who is an enthusiastic disciple of THE BLOOMFIELDS.

I've never really understood how some people can be groupies. As in, follow the band around, be friends, get backstage invites and the privilege of being protected from the backstage bouncers. I've often wondered how I'd act around a band that I was crazy about. Probably I'd be too starstruck to even ask for a picture, let alone doggedly follow them around. I shun talking to "stars" (well, not that the chance comes by that often)-- I think I might make a bad conversationalist. If you talk to someone you admire, of course you can't really say anything else except how good they are when they do their thing. Most likely this is going to come out in an excited rush, topped off by a fan girl squeal and glittering eyes and nimble fingers reaching for that camera button. But who wants to be treated like that 24/7? It does get awkward after a while (according to my imagination's theory), because if you don't run out of exasperatingly redundant compliments (that most likely everyone else is tired of), you're now faced with the problem of talking to them in the setting of Real Life. Meaning, how you talk to anybody else. That's one thing I crack my head thinking about. I know it's supposedly simple but-- oh bugger. I'm just not good at it.

I'd rather watch, thanks.

On a sidenote to this whole thing (my bland musings aside), I'm actually happy that Bloomfield groupies have a decent name. I thought they would be called FIELDERS (which is campy) or BLOOMIES (which, honestly, reminds me of flowery underwear worn by old ladies).

Since I am on this topic already, one other thing that often had me wondering was how bands with hopelessly unconvertable names cope with it. Cueshe didn't have much of a problem with that one-- they just forced an '--ean' on the end of their name: we now hereby declare this legion of ardent fans as... CUESHEANS!!! Awkward stressing, and it's damn fugly, if I may say so.

I haven't heard Orange and Lemons' groupie name. Nor Bamboo's. Nor Mayonnaise's, nor Kwjan's... Come to think of it, there are a lot of unconvertable band names. *shrug* Maybe I'm just unimaginitive with these things.

I'd like to discuss that interesting topic of band groupie names a little further, but that's a story for another time. I need research.