James Marsters – take 1

(Unlocked, so feel free to link.)

Ah, the Borderline. Lovely little hole in the wall place off a side street that was practically closed due to construction. Ah, London. Lovely sun-shining London. That would be a not! LOL! Although, I do have to admit that I actually did see the sun when we initially swung by the venue to get our bearings. It was while we were having lunch (we’d not eaten since early that morning and it was going on 3:30p.m.) that the clouds re-appeared.

We finished eating and meandered over to the Borderline. Got there about 5-ish; the queue had gotten a tad bit longer, about 30ish people then. Stepped in line and promptly started chatting up the people in front of us (that we didn’t know) and a couple of others that spikesdeb knew.

Ten minutes after that? You guessed it! The lovely clouds opened up, and it began to rain. *snerk*

*cue umbrellas opening*

It’s like we created our own roof, the line of us. Or, once spikesdeb trotted off to go retrieve one for us.

About 6:00p.m. two lovely ladies came out and said they were gonna open the doors about 6:30p.m. to get us in out of the rain. Yeah, didn’t happen. I can’t remember what time we were let in, but I’m pretty sure it was right about 7:00p.m.

Barring the extremely tall woman that was front stage center and broke out in dance a few times, and another “taller than me” person directly in front of me that also decided to sway to the beat from time to time, I had an excellent spot in which to view the Q & A and concert.



The first part is pretty word-for-word. I’ll let you know when I start guessing at remembering the questions. (I didn’t bring a pen so I couldn’t jot down key buzzwords from the questions to refresh my memory later.)

James: Just to kick it off, for those of you that came out on Saturday, I want to apologize that I couldn’t come out and play music. I had bad jetlag along with a bit of intestinal flu. (He TMI’d us with info that he’d been in the bathroom for over an hour.) The good news is I’m feeling better. The bad news is that I seem to have given the disease to Steve Himber; so he will NOT be performing. (Went on to say that he doesn’t talk about his children.) So, I have a mike and you don’t. Sorry. But, I guess if you guys want to raise your hands and I’ll point, you guys can ask some questions and I’ll be as honest as possible.

Question was made about him being inducted into the “Mile High Club” and whether or not he learned anything else from her, or she him.

James: Did I learn anything else from her? Oh yeah. *chuckles* [Did he teach her?] In a sexual sense, no… *said extremely drawn out* I think I taught her to be a little more patient with her kids.

Mentioned that he felt like he was in an auction. Someone shouted out that “we wish!”

A new friend we met in line, Joanie, from Switzerland – a JM con newbie – asked if James liked Swiss chocolate. I believe he answered with an emphatic YES! And, she gave him some. Yay!

James: Question was “a lot of people from the Buffy the Vampire show have been on Supernatural, and am I planning on going on” and the answer is I’ve not been asked yet, but I’d love to.

Someone asked him something about home, I believe.

James: A poet once said homes that home is where, if you show up at the door, they can’t lock you out. And since have a key… My house. Yeah, it’s when you really can relax.

James: So the question is “in a relationship between Captain John and Captain Jack, who is the submissive, and who is the dominant?” That I think is probably why the relationship didn’t work, because they BOTH thought they were the dominant and the other was the sub.

Question: I just have to say that I thought your version of Chocolate Jesus was almost better than Tom Waits version. And, I wanted to see if you like the P. J. Harvey band?

James: Oh, wow! I don’t know P. J. really totally well but, very good. But, I don’t know any songs.

Comment: I think you should do some covers.

James: Right on. And then I don’t have to write songs, and it won’t take so long.

Someone asked about James liking U2/Bono.

James: The question was "Do I like U2? And what do I think of Bono being a humanitarian." I think that U2 has always been one of my favorite bands; I think that they’ve always been honest and powerful. They’ve always meant what they sing about. And, I think that Bono has taken that same passion and just as he becomes older and more mature his concerns get wider and wider. They say that, you know, you start just kinda hopefully caring about yourself. And then you get taught to care about your family. And then you get taught to care about your classroom at school. And then hopefully, it keep expanding until you care about your larger community, and hopefully at the end, the whole world. So, it’s no surprise that he’s doing that, but I think that GOD, someone needs to. And, I’m glad it’s him.


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