nicki clyne's blog - Latest Comments

Re: love in the time of villa carlotta

Casey J. Williams — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:14:22 -0000

Not judging whether your experience in Villa Carlotta was paranormal or not, but modern medicine does offer a potential explanation...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

As usual, a very entertaining and insightful read. Keep up the good frequency of your blog entries as of late please!

Re: pretty sure i won mysticon

A R — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:48:23 -0000

Thanks for sharing. Love reading your blogs, yea to the hotel bar and locals for coming through in a pinch!!

Re: be nice to your _______ (self)

s lamaina — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:26:01 -0000

Wait until you look back when you are 45...

Slam

Re: about

Bris_man — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:28:15 -0000

The best thing about you trying to describe yourself, Nicki.....is the fact that you were both able and unable to do it at the same time...

ok, Yoda-speak...i know.....

What I mean is, that you've summed up the basics, given the hoardes enough to go on, yet you maintain that you're still on your journey..

What a fantastic way to live, and you're right......writing an AutoBio is a humbling experience...and that humble flavour is present the whole time, rather than fading away to self-righteousness like many do after sitting at a keyboard for hours thinking about themselves and their experiences. Fakes....FAKES I tell you!

I must say, I'm quite jealous though. You see, I like to think I've got a reasonably good grasp of the English language, and a vocabulary to match it...BUT.. regardless of how I seem to arrange the masses of letters and symbols....I can NEVER...no matter HOW MANY obscure and rarely-used words I use........I can never seem to look clever like you can! FRAK YOU, lady!!! :) See, with me, it's second nature to use the words which come to me out of the blue....regardless of wether or not I think that people will understand them at all, let alone in-context, but I find myself dumbing down things which I know will be read by more than a few people, and it annoys me that you can do it so effortlessly! I just seem like a puffed up, toffee-nosed tryhard when I simply write what I am thinking!

There's a lot more to be said in this regard, but I don't want to bore anyone! might have to go throw it on my blog :) The point is, you're a beautifully gifted writer.......

And I'm jealous as hell.

Tim

Re: be nice to your _______ (self)

Brad Salomons — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:37:09 -0000

Introspective memories and philosophical musings are like wine. You need to age them properly or they are just sugary fruit juice. I've never been in the public eye, so I can't comment on reading old articles about myself, but I know -- reading through my own old, old blog posts -- it's funny how you quickly and often run up against someone you barely recognize.

Re: be nice to your _______ (self)

Who — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:43:38 -0000

I think you look like a chef.

Re: be nice to your _______ (self)

Benjamin Rush — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:34:24 -0000

Why in the world would you take the time to post this?

I think it's about time to check with your doctor about your current level of anti-psychotics; it's clearly not working.

Re: be nice to your _______ (self)

Knuckle Dragger — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:26:02 -0000

I still can't believe that Cylon bitch threw you out the airlock.

Re: be nice to your _______ (self)

Who — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:26:35 -0000

You can't find yourself because you are nothing more than a appearance who founds compassion for her ugliness. The weak and ridiculous innocent part. Of course beside all these tragedy, you love and it feels right. Your _________makes it feels right.....; It is only with the heart the one can see rightly, but you must create two to see what is essential is only a construction of the heartless. Then only then you will see the invisible means nothing.

Re: be nice to your _______ (self)

I'm — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:46:23 -0000

Famous people make me laugh, they are just like poloticians, they just smile for the camera, but inside, inside they are like everybody else. Trash.

Re: about

Waz — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:41:29 -0000

You are the most beautiful person on BSG...next to Olmos. :)

Re: resolutions are my friend and i love them

Nicola Nick Parisi — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:54:33 -0000

Good evening Mrs. Clyne.
I wanted to congratulate for his interpretation of Cally (which was my favorite character from the BG).
And then I wanted to ask if it was available at a small interview for my blog.
My name is Nicholas "Nick" Parisi and I am writing from Venice in Italy, I would be happy if he wants, nothing difficult just a little chat.
The blog is called Nocturne, I interviewed in the past few science fiction writer and an Italian horror film director, she would become the first actress interview.
I apologize for the inconvenience and I renew my compliments.

Re: OH MY GODS! THEY KILLED CALLY!

Carlos Espino — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:29:24 -0000

bring back cally

Re: resolutions are my friend and i love them

Igor — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:57:57 -0000

I feel like i have a hunch growing in my back everytime my head touch my knees.

Re: OH MY GODS! THEY KILLED CALLY!

Guest — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:35:40 -0000

The back should really read, "You frackers!" Just to really bring it home.

Re: Shooting #Catfish in a Barrel

tabbymarie — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:26:34 -0000

Yay new comments!

Re: Shooting #Catfish in a Barrel

Tabby — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:05:45 -0000

Hi Nicki!

So, I am sorry it took me so long to get over to your blog post here, and really, you had fascinating things to say.

My experience of watching Catfish was interestingly similar to yours. I remember it very clearly because I watched catfish just weeks after I had my own catfish in my life reveal to me that nothing about that person was true, all was made up, including multiple online personas. That very REAL experience of a person who does these kinds of things also had a similar reaction. I remember feeling like "No, if this person lies all of the time, then how do I know that this isn't a lie and that she doesn't lie?" And then I'd wake myself to reality and remind myself that it's not math... two lies do not add up to truth in this way. So I was constantly swinging back and forth from, "No, humanity doesn't do this. It's not possible that I've been duped in this way." to "I've been duped." Weeks of this internal turmoil went by.

Then I saw catfish, and boy did that ever not help. I was sitting there thinking the same about this movie.... doubting my own experiences even MORE. "I KNOW this is possibly possible, but can this movie be for real?"

I thought about the movie for weeks. I thought about my experiences for weeks. I felt disappointed that my view of humanity had been tainted. Kind of like... when you find out at an early age that there's no Santa.

Then I thought about Angela and her intentions and I thought about the person whom I had the experience with and that person's intentions, and I think about if and/or when I've ever generated those same feelings of loneliness and lack of control and to what extremes I've gone to to both make those feelings go away and to cover up what I've done to make those feelings go away. Oddly, it helps me restore some faith in humanity to do that.

But, not enough. I still sometimes see an old face online here and there, maybe it's someone who sounded familiar in tone to that person, or maybe someone who was really involved in my life, online, and they've all disappeared, and I wonder if I was duped with those people as well. I don't know how to get rid of those paranoid spectacles on my experience of the world. It doesn't seem helpful. More helpful would be to examine my present and future relationships with more care and scrutiny and judgement, but it's hard not to consider all relationships from the past. It's just not getting me anywhere.

And with that, I say goodbye for the day. :)

xoxo
Tabby

Re: Shooting #Catfish in a Barrel

Ethan B. — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:29:31 -0000

@Shadow master

Does it matter if she's really Nicki, so long as she looks, swims, and quacks â err, speaks, acts, and writes blog posts â like a Nicki? Don't you interact with her for the content of your interactions, rather than any other particularity of Nicki's identity?

Re: Shooting #Catfish in a Barrel

Ethan B. — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:16:58 -0000

Hey Nicki,

I've been interested in getting more involved with your blog, and, although I haven't seen Catfish, I do have some fairly well-formed opinions on your general ideas here. In short, if the literal truth of our stories mattered, we wouldn't just be upset that Cally's husband had been a Cylon from the start âÂ we'd be upset that "Cally" herself was only some 21st-century woman from the planet Earth. We'd shout accusingly, "How can Nicki Clyne know what it's like to be in search of a home, when she's got all the comforts and amenities of a stable life waiting for her every evening?" So much of art is just magic tricks and lies, but we go to the show anyway, because the wonder and emotions that it produces are real. We can *feel* Cally's hope and pain and frustration, and we know that these experiences are "real" because they help us to understand our own emotions, our own sense of betrayal when people like Jt Leroy turn out not to be who we thought.

We look to art â and to interpersonal communication in general âÂ to help us capture "the human experience." When it can do that, the literal, behind-the-scenes details stop mattering. In fact, just as literal translations between languages often miss the idioms and nuance, I'd venture to say that art, as literal documentary, often loses the essence of its subject. Sometimes, lies are needed to spell a deeper truth.

However, I think it's also important to realize that, the more creative liberties we allow our art, the greater the responsibilities we assume as artists. When we're not being true to fact, we must be all the more true to ourselves, all the more honest in our shaping of perception. Some will say that art can't be "wrong," but it can certainly be false and disingenuous, and it can mislead just as well as it can inform. We each construct our sense of reality out of what other people tell us. Sometimes, it resonates within, and we know it to be true in the only sense that matters. Other times, it rings hollow, and we reject it outright. But, yet other times, it is simply new, and we do not know. We allow it to extend our model of reality, and we like to believe that we are the more worldly for it. It is during these times that storytellers are to be held most accountable, and that audiences, viewers, and readers are most vulnerable.

The simple fact is that not every individual *can* offer honest insight into every facet of human existence, and often we should know better than to try. Does James Frey understand what it is to struggle with substance abuse and despair? Ostensibly so: he managed to capture something that you could make sense of. But does a heterosexual male writing about sexuality under a female pseudonym actually advance the cause of truth in any way? Can an affluent American reporter really write a first-hand account of living with scarcity in the developing world? Probably not.

In the end, it's difficult to be a discerning consumer of emotional insight, because the usual means of scientific verification tend not to mean so much. Despite his cybernetic underpinnings, Galen Tyrol does have something to tell us about love and duty and fatherhood âand actress Nicki Clyne has something to tell us about a mechanic named Cally. I think that all we can do is keep our ears tuned to the stories that speak to us, and gradually weave them into something greater, a tapestry more rich and robust than any story or experience could stand to be on its own.

Re: Shooting #Catfish in a Barrel

Shadow master — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 05:52:52 -0000

If there is not truth and it does matter then you arent Nicki CLyne, you are just another person.

Re: Shooting #Catfish in a Barrel

Jay C — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:59:51 -0000

Maybe the above comment should be marked for spoilers?

Re: Shooting #Catfish in a Barrel

Jay C — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:54:31 -0000

SO...I've seen Catfish about 4 or 5 times now and each time I watched it I had a slightly different response. The first time it was a pretty great experience. I felt the film was well put together, the story had me glued to the screen and I felt anxiety for most of the third act, which I rarely feel in movies. I've recently had similar reactions to The Blair Witch Project, The Descent, and Signs (that birthday party scene!!!).

Somewhere between my first and second viewing, I'd done a lot of thinking about the film and the sincerity of the characters. Mainly Yaniv. After doing some reading, it seemed many people felt that his "love" for Megan was more of a put on to keep the story going. As though they all might have figured things out very early in their correspondence with Meghan and played unaware to the camera in order to see things through to the end and finish their movie. They've denied this of course.

Then there's the whole reveal at the end and the way in which they make an example of Angela. The scene that bothered me the most is the one in which Yaniv asks Angela to talk to him in the voice of Meghan. This felt very manipulative to me (in terms of the audience AND Angela) and I though it was extremely distasteful. Some have argued that Yaniv was truly hurt by Angela, but I find it hard to believe that young, intelligent, attractive guys like this would fall into a trap so easily.

BUT.....after watching the film a couple more times (showing friends), I sort of came to the realization that all of these poor choices and ethical missteps are part of the film. The three guys are characters in the story, and they have their flaws. This is what makes them complex. They might not have handled the situation perfectly, but that's what makes them interesting characters. Their flaws. I think the point where it becomes problematic for people is the fact that they're also the filmmakers.

It's hard to separate their actions from their intentions with the film. If Catfish was directed by a third party, it would just be a story about a group of young guys investigating an internet romance. But because they have stock in this thing beyond the story itself (big movie deal, Sundance parties, Paranormal Activity 3), one can't help but accuse them of exploiting Angela and her family to get ahead in the biz. I just came to the conclusion that I don't really care about any of that. I went back to judging the film based on the content within the borders of the screen and what I saw was 100% effective and definitely entertaining.

That's just part of my experience with Catfish. I've talked about it on so many different podcasts that I think the people around me are sick of hearing about it! Not sure that this totally sums up my feeling son the film, but it lays out some of the issues I initially had with hit.

Re: #NYCC and me

Allie Harcharek — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:35:13 -0000

Such a great time and it was lovely to meet you! I'm glad some areas were lesser-paced, so I could actually have one-on-one conversations with people. Glad you had fun.

Thanks for the cool shirt, too. My gods! :)

Re: #NYCC and me

Andree — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 02:00:55 -0000

Very cool writing, and picturesofthegamearereally funny..:D

Re: #NYCC and me

Kelly — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:49:20 -0000

NYCC was awesome; I'm glad you got to enjoy it as well! :)