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People!

lyra_sena and I were just chatting, and somehow our conversation turned to James Dean, at which point I informed Lyra that James Dean liked to go to queer bars and get guys to put out cigarettes on him.

And then, uh, I realized I had no idea where that piece of knowledge came from.

People, please tell me I did not completely make this gossip up out of thin air and my own twisted brain. PLEASE. I worry.

Comments

[lyra-sena.livejournal.com]

Current music: Ben Folds Five - One Angry Dward

AHAHA! *points and mocks* You said DWARD!!



... I am the cutest angry dwarf around.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Maybe YOU'RE an Angry Dward. Did you think of that, miss SMARTY PANTS?

[lynnmonster.livejournal.com]

I don't know where I heard that, either, but it was definitely something I thought was a true piece of gossip in pre-internet days, even.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yay! This reduces the chances that I am completely on crack.

[brooklinegirl.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry - wait. The fact that LYNN backed you up made you feel there was LESS of a chance that you were on crack? Really?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Heeeeeee. Well, in this case, yeah! Crack would have equalled me making that up ON MY OWN. The fact that lynn and I both have the same weird idea makes it much much less likely that it was my crack behind it.

[barely-bean.livejournal.com]

from IMDB

According to "The Mutant King," David Dalton's 1974 biography of James Dean, the rumor that Dean was a masochist who liked to have cigarettes stubbed out on his naked body can be traced to a pencil sketch of his called "The Human Ash Tray." The sketch featured a human body, in the guise of an ash tray, with many cigarette stubs in it. Dalton speculates that the sketch has nothing to do with Dean's sexual proclivities but much to do with the fact that he was a heavy smoker.

so at least the rumour isn't just from your head?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

You are so brilliant, darling. *snugs* Google was not being my friend earlier.

[abelladonna.livejournal.com]

Nope, not just in your head. I've heard it too. Don't remember where- probably as a side note to one of the repeated conversations about James Dean I had with my cousin Jeff when I was a kid. I'm betting that my cousin was trying to shock me, but it's good that I'm not the only one who had ever heard the rumor!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Hee. Maybe this is one of those random pieces of knowledge that everybody knows and nobody can pinpoint?

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

*cries with laughter*

with you, though, not at you, because i come out with things like that all the time and them people just stare at me. and i'm like, "i have no idea why i know that" but it is a LIE. i always know it because of FANDOM. fandom makes you smart in ways that disturb people, i guess :)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Heeeeee. See, half my things like that are from fandom? But a disturbing amount seem to have nothing to do with fandom. Which is possibly even more disturbing.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

i try not to think about the second half. because then that is all ME being disturbing, and then i have to go have a lie down.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

This is one of the dangers of being a reading fiend that people do not tell you as a small child!

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

Thats an odd bit of fact. *G*

Btw I've friended you, hope thats okay.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know that it's fact. It's more like blatant rumor.

And hi! I never mind people adding me.