phantom of the h-e-b

i was just at h-e-b, buying my dinner of lone star, and i was in line behind a guy that totally looked like winslow from phantom of the paradise. i kept looking at him and thinking, wow, so that's what william finley must've looked like when he was in his mid- to late 20s. he even had the same glasses! then, of course, i started building his backstory. he's a fan of phantom of the paradise, of course. and has been since he was in high school. when he gets those myspace/e-mail questionnaires that have that assinine "what celebraty do you most look like" question, he answers william finley, to which most people have no idea what he's talking about.

i couldn't find a photo of finley from back then when he wasn't in his phantom of the paradise garb, so here's a clip where you can see his face.

in a non-phantom note, i had this dream a couple of days back where i was talking with velouria and hot gig at work about how i find buster from arrested development very attractive, and hot gig was all "really? buster?" and made that shrug-i-dunno face where he cocks his eyebrows, frowns, and jazz hands a little. but in the dream, he went on and on about how buster wasn't attractive, but velouria backed me up by saying he's cute. i woke up laughing from this dream because hot gig DOESN'T watch arrested development, never has, doesn't get any of our references, and it seems like everytime we start talking about arrested development (which is kind of a lot, because one random quote tends to lead to many others), he chimes in with how he starts thinking about the band. so in my dream, having him bring up instances from the show like "but he kissed liza minnelli" ... well, that's comedy gold right there.

ok, back to veronica mars. i'm almost done with the first season! that means i'll probably have to go out and buy the second season tomorrow because velouria is still in houston and leanne is still in angleton, so i have no one to borrow it from. le sigh.