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What IS Gabriel's Byrne's secret Mojo?

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Help me understand this please!

I am a professional single female with a post graduate degree and a healthy income. I have friends and family and normal interests. I enjoy television, plays, and literature but am not consumed with the characters within them. I have admired the physical beauty of many male celebrities but never to the extent that they occupy my thoughts while I work, while I eat, while I visit friends and while I sleep. But all of that has changed now...

Gabriel Byrne?.Gabriel Byrne? Gabriel Byrne?.What in the world have you done to me?

I can only surmise that the producers of the show have developed some sort of secret pheromone hypnosis beam that they shoot right out of his eyes, through my television screen into my living room. How else can it be explained? Gabriel Byrne is handsome, of course, he has always been so. But, I could list 20 men that are younger, with bigger biceps, less wrinkles, more chiseled jaws etc. and NONE of them can make my heart stop beating just by the way they whisper the word ?IF?. (See Laura week 8). When I am watching the show, which is pretty much whenever I am at home, I often stop breathing when he speaks. I don?t mean to, but my breath just stops. I replay episodes over and over again, I can recite Laura Week 6 word for word, ?I?m really glad that you called?, ?Losing you is a big deal?, ?It's because when I wash the dishes the soap gets under my ring and? ???.long agonizing pause,??.irritates the skin?.

My obsession is full tilt at this point. I surf the net every day to find out what show he might appear on this week. I am renting and buying his movies as fast as I can get them, I would buy his book or his audiobook but I am afraid that reading or, god help me, hearing him describe his inner most thoughts, childhood memories and experiences in that melodic, soft, lilting voice would just put me completely round the bend. I am dreading the end of the series next week but hoping I can snap out of this trance once it?s over.

Anyway, I?m interested to know exactly what?s he got that other men don?t have? It's some very powerful mojo whatever it is. Obviously most of it is Byrne himself. His face is not only beautiful but its kind, its compassionate, his intelligence shines out of his eyes and he is a brilliant actor. But I think part of it is Paul Westin too. This character is what women all over the world secretly want and never get; a kind, verbal, soft spoken, strong, caring, listening, beautiful man with a eyes that can see right into your soul, a vulnerability that breaks your heart and expressive hands that could?.brush your hair back over your ears?or etc etc etc.

What a man, what a man, what a man, what a might GOOD man.
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Re: What IS Gabriel's Byrne's secret Mojo?

Jul 15, 2009 2:41 PM
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We admitted we were powerless over Gabriel, that our lives had become unmanageable
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Jul 15, 2009 2:36 PM
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The Poet Cowboy video should come with some kind of Government Health Advisory or something, because of the serious risk of fire and flooding that viewing it causes.

But you know, I think I like THIS VIDEO EVEN BETTER:

http:/<wbr />/<wbr />tiny.<wbr />cc/<wbr />VWSsD

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Jul 15, 2009 2:15 PM
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Is the only way to go back through the threads page by page? There's lots I'd LOVE to catch up on but that is so tedious...

sweetbud,

I can answer this question, because it only took me ages to figure it out.

you can type in the "page" that you want to go to, and instead of clicking on the back arrow, click on the word "GO". It will take you to that page.

Once you see the date on that particular page, it's all guesswork from that point on.

Touched recommended that we all visit the first page of the "Dangerous Video" thread, reminding me how hysterical our reactions were to our first viewing of that video....

Please, feel free to enjoy our insanity. We certainly did!;)
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Jul 15, 2009 12:46 PM
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Neek, yes, thanks for CR link! I've only seen the most recent one. Also, don't forget the Actor's Studio, has someone mentioned that? GB at his most charming, I think. Prolix--that's us about Him!

I have tech questions. Is the only way to go back through the threads page by page? There's lots I'd LOVE to catch up on but that is so tedious... And how do you reply w/in the same box as the original poster? I attempted that this a.m. with my fellow poster in Oakland and it didn't work.

And one MH question. Is there now no way to acces Stories From Home? I fear not.

I got my tapes of Pictures last Pm. Drove from SF to Oakland smiling in bliss. What a storyteller, what a voice, so warm...right there with me.

Emmy noms tomorrow!
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Jul 15, 2009 11:55 AM
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Yes, Noraa, I can also attest to the fact that there is no "treatment" once you encounter Gabriel Byrne. We're ALLL on that same "boat."

While waiting for your Season 1 DVDs to arrive, I'd highly recommend that you "surf" these threads for past links and postings. There's a goldmine of Mad Handsome-ness in here. (And, way to go, Neek, with the Charlie Rose interviews!)
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Jul 15, 2009 11:34 AM
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Hi Noraa, your words are so familiar I see them repeated here over and over again, you have come to the right place.... and if you are crazy, then we are all crazy - maybe they'll make a facilty where they can put us all, and our punisment is they show his movies, interviews and IT all day long, and part of the therapy is the Gabe has to come visit at least once a week.

Here is a link to 5 Charlie Rose interviews from when he was about 45 years old. and goes up to when he was around 57 (after season 1).
http:/<wbr />/<wbr />www.<wbr />charlierose.<wbr />com/<wbr />search/<wbr />?<wbr />text=<wbr />gabriel+byrne
Scroll down to start the interviews from youngest to oldest in order, don't bother with the very bottom link as its repeated in the next to bottom link (sans the Czech premiers interview.) Pay attention to the very beginning of that (youngest) video where Charlie is introducing him etc, his tounge comes right out between that perfect mouth and he kind of licks his hand. I am one sick puppy! But nobody here cares, they get it!

Welcome to the divine agony of loving Gabriel Byrne, the man.

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Jul 15, 2009 10:40 AM
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Hey, misc, no, not the state. I toil in the fields of higher ed and live in SF. Nice to know you're round the corner. Now if we could only have a local sighting! I was in NYC last month, went to Waiting for Godot, dreaming that HE might come out that very same night to see a fellow countryman's play...no luck.
Keep cool today!

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Jul 15, 2009 10:35 AM
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Indeed, we've been magicked! I'm 57 and I was a responsible woman once too...that is before the 1st disc of IT...
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Jul 15, 2009 10:33 AM
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We Do understand and are all in the same byrne-ing boat!
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Jul 15, 2009 9:43 AM
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WE UNDERSTAND!!!

You've showed up to the right place.....

A glorious addiction........YUUUMMMMMMMM

P.S......

You're gonna try to fight it. And, sometimes, you're gonna think that you have it beat.....AND THEN.......BAM........he's back in the front of your brain....driving you crazy again.....

I, personally, have given up the fight....he's won.....:)
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Jul 15, 2009 9:10 AM
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Noraa, I'm so glad you got your profile set up and so glad you posted here! I think you must know that you do not sound crazy and you do not scare any of us...there's hardly a woman on this thread that hasnt lost sleep or avoided activities they were supposed to be doing just so they could read, watch, write, talk, dream about Mr. Byrne.

I'm glad the show has made it to Norway, hopefully a bigger audience means a greater possiblility for a Season 3!

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Jul 15, 2009 3:46 AM
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Gabriel Byrne as Paul Weston has changed my life, from a normal life to a life filled with dreams and thoughts about Gabriel Byrne as Paul Weston. I am a 48 year old Norwegain woman. Well, I was quite normal before In Treatment appeared on Norwegian televison. From the first episode some weeks ago, I was spellbound. So I forget to sleep, to eat and to work when I am at work. I only read about Gabriel Byrne and In treatment every day. I think about him every hour. I have ordered everything of DVDs on Internet with Gabriel Byrne. I have ordered his book, of course. I have watched Byrne on every video on You Tube. I have slept only 4 hours every night so I can learn as much I can about In Treatment and Gabriel Byrne.
Am I crazy? Well it is sure that I am crazy about Gabriel Byrne as Paul Weston. I can see Gabriel's burning eyes before me all day, I can hear his voice with this accent. I can not avoid to think about his handsome, tormented face, and his gorgeous hands...

The strange thing is, that I am quite a normal woman when it concerns other things... But I have got this Gabriel Byrne disease. And I dont want to get well again. I want to dream and feel, and think and learn.

Well, that's me.
Hope I not scare anybody with this description...

Your
Noraa

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Jul 15, 2009 3:24 AM
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Ahnomnomnomnomnomnomnom. :D --
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Jul 14, 2009 9:46 PM
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This one I think reminds me of Henry Winkler - just a little. lol http:/<wbr />/<wbr />www.<wbr />imdb.<wbr />com/<wbr />media/<wbr />rm329292032/<wbr />nm0000321

But for sure he can look totally different from one shot to the next, even in his movies.

This is my all time fav pic of him, (so far.) I have a version of this as wallpaper on my desktop, but mine is bigger, has more yellow wavy lines and lots of blue and its just the pic, not the other stuff..but I cannot think for the life of me where I got it.
http:/<wbr />/<wbr />www.<wbr />byrneholics.<wbr />com/<wbr />gallery/<wbr />displayimage.<wbr />php?<wbr />album=<wbr />random&cat=<wbr />0&pos=<wbr />-251

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Jul 14, 2009 9:18 PM
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Thanks for posting Lozzie, last time I saw these I had to have the sound down..but I am alone here today so I am laughing my ass off.

I think even GB would find these hysterical as well. Plus we also get to see his sweet sweet face :)

If you havent found the SNL link you should!

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