Throughout ZBOOK you will find a number of quotes gleaned from Northern Exposure, a television show from the 1990's (1990-1995) that has 4ever captured our hearts and inspiration ever since we both discovered the show individually just months before meeting in 1996 (thanks PSL). Jennifer first mentioned our adoration for the show in Clicking Away. Well, amongst the wonderful ensemble of characters are our main flames: Dr. Joel Fleischman, the New York doctor who we follow into Cicely Alaska in his doomed/blessed 5 year obligation as the town's physician, and Maggie O'Connell, Gross Point (Michigan) beauty turned Alaskan bush pilot. From their first encounter these two are at each other's throats AND ironically also share an intense underlying desire to devour each other, you know, in the best way. Either way, this friction creates HEAT.
"You're either lovers, or you're wanting to be lovers, or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, anyway you look at it sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow."
Maggie O'Connell (circus comes to Cicely episode)
"What I really want is to lick her naked body from head to foot like a postage stamp."
Joel Fleischman (the 2 Fleischmans episode)
And so, Z page this week, "hot," is a reveling in friction and tension and anticipation and... sweet release. The stories written on this page by our own hands feel like quotes from our psyches, from hot moments, from in or out of time? Like the page says across the very bottom...
" a fantasy ........... a memory ........... both ........... "
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"Not frequency, I am not talking about frequency; although that would have been great, too. I wanted more intensity. I wanted to be out there, outside myself, outside my skin. I wanted sex to be like robbing *life* out of the jaws of death!"
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"Are you okay?"
"Why?"
"Well, it's 20 below out, and you're breaking a sweat."
- Joel to Maggie on sex
YES!! one of the best moments ever in the show.
ReplyDeletein the episode in which Fleischman gets the dear Joel letter from Elaine and Ed tries to help him get "closure" by getting O'Connell to reenact Joel & Elaine's most special day in Manhattan.
thank you Hutch for adding this great one in here and espEcially for your vital role in turning me on to Northerns. the PSL is ever grateful to you. as I am. the best obsession ever. one that has shaped so much of how I process the world, and the the most profound and awareness expanding ways. a tv show? who knew. love you bro.
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