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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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Apr 10, 2008 1:44 PM
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> Enabling is a BAD thing.

It CAN'T be if it feels THAT good....:-p]:)
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Apr 10, 2008 1:28 PM
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......love to
> see that irish blood boil.....


the last 7-8 minutes of Episode 15...
great freeze-frame moment : response to Ginas comment: " and sometimes it seems you're not that upset about Kate..."

"WHAT?!"

he's so gauwjus!
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Apr 10, 2008 1:10 PM
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Nope. No peeking. Seriously ladies I do not need more tips like this. You're just enabling my addiction. Enabling is a BAD thing.

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Apr 10, 2008 1:07 PM
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VioletBlues - Oh, yes, I see you peeking through your fingers!
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Apr 10, 2008 1:00 PM
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I really don't need to hear stuff like this.

Hands over eyes "La la la, I'm not going to look anymore".



> Patient also has downloaded all pictures of GB since
> 1981...You can do a photo "search" on Yahoo and
> download your brains out. I get a case of Byrneholism
> and just hit "My Pictures" and there his royal self
> is. You can even blow the pictures up really big on
> your screen.....


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Apr 10, 2008 12:38 PM
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Hangouts:
Gabriel's been spotted: Someone on the street saw him in NYC: This is the area his kids live with Ellen Barkin, a few blocks away.
Apr 8th, 2008 @ 11am
17th Street
"Gabriel Byrne, very much in a hurry and almost ran over my dog who was busy being distracted by food on the ground, which in turn gave me a chance to check out how nice Mr. Byrne's black suede shoes were/are."
Hangs out in Brooklyn Heights, near his house. Likes to walk, walk, walk everywhere. The Connecticut Muffin is down there, he's been in there, it's on 7th Ave. in Brooklyn. Tazza on Henry Street, Lower Manhattan, East Village. The Mercer Hotel has a restaurant that lots of famous faces go to eat besides GB-- a little pricey, but not crazy. Have fun...
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Apr 10, 2008 11:56 AM
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> > Just watched that one on monday
> morning......love to
> > see that irish blood boil.......I love the part
> when
> > he says "I'd like to know how does it make
> you
> > feel to come home feeling all HAWNEY, and
> helping our
> > son with his homework, really how does it make
> you
> > feel"

>
>
> Kate answers: "It makes me feel like shit! And then
> the next week, I go back and do it all over again"
>
> OMG! I haven't watched that episode in a while, and
> I remember her words. This definitely belongs in
> 'The You know you've been watching too much In
> Treatment' thread.
>
> --
> ---



Amen to that one sista, I watch that one on a regular basis, actually a portion of it this morning before coming in to work. Will also probably rewatch, Laura week one and four again, and throw in six for good measure before seeing who gets kicked off American Idol tonight.

Stupid American Idol Gives Back, suckered me into giving again this year, damn $10 mosquito nets. I bought 20 of the damn things again, knowing good enough well that I need to be saving my money for my NYC trip.
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Apr 10, 2008 11:52 AM
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> Just watched that one on monday morning......love to
> see that irish blood boil.......I love the part when
> he says "I'd like to know how does it make you
> feel to come home feeling all HAWNEY, and helping our
> son with his homework, really how does it make you
> feel"



Kate answers: "It makes me feel like shit! And then the next week, I go back and do it all over again"

OMG! I haven't watched that episode in a while, and I remember her words. This definitely belongs in 'The You know you've been watching too much In Treatment' thread.

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Apr 10, 2008 11:39 AM
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> Just watched that one on monday morning......love
> to

> > see that irish blood boil.......I love the part
> when
> > he says "I'd like to know how does it make you
> > feel to come home feeling all HAWNEY, and helping

> our
> > son with his homework, really how does it make you
>
> > feel"

>
> Which episode did he say this in???


Episode 2 of Jake & Amy........when Amy runs out of the office because she was spotting on the sofa......Kate comes in to get the spot out.....Paul & Kate start chatting...good episode...
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Apr 10, 2008 11:38 AM
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> Just watched that one on monday morning......love
> to

> > see that irish blood boil.......I love the part
> when
> > he says "I'd like to know how does it make you
> > feel to come home feeling all HAWNEY, and helping

> our
> > son with his homework, really how does it make you
>
> > feel"

>
> Which episode did he say this in???



Jake & Amy, Week 2
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Apr 10, 2008 11:34 AM
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Just watched that one on monday morning......love to
> see that irish blood boil.......I love the part when
> he says "I'd like to know how does it make you
> feel to come home feeling all HAWNEY, and helping our
> son with his homework, really how does it make you
> feel"


Which episode did he say this in???
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Apr 10, 2008 11:31 AM
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I didn't chase him down the
> street in Chelsea, I didn't even talk to him after
> the theater, I don't go to his favorite hangouts to
> wait to see him, so what's the big deal?


Want to fill us in on his favorite hangouts, so when I make my trip, I just happen to come up on him :)



Can't I have
> this one last love of my life? Oh, yeah, right, Paul
> said that, didn't he? And he needs help.


Sista, we all do. :)
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Apr 10, 2008 11:28 AM
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> > > house in a timely manner. All of a sudden,
> a
> > thought
> > > washes through my head: I just have to
> hear him
> > say
> > > "Who the fook is he!" So, I go into
> auto
> > pilot
> > > mode, put on Jake & Amy Week 2, and fast
> > forward.
> > > "Who the fook is he!" Ahhh ...
> the
> > drip
> > > p goes into my veins.
> > >
> > > Help, help, help, help .... I want to get

> off.
> >
> > OMG, that scene is always cued up and ready to

> go.
> > How freaky is that.
>
> Just watched that one on monday morning......love to
> see that irish blood boil.......I love the part when
> he says "I'd like to know how does it make you
> feel to come home feeling all HAWNEY, and helping our
> son with his homework, really how does it make you
> feel"


The way his voice gets a little squeeky when he gets really mad.
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Apr 10, 2008 11:15 AM
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Hey RUBY: ya don't sound a day older than 49

Must be all those drug flashbacks......
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Apr 10, 2008 10:21 AM
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> Ms421: They say up here in the Psych Unit the first
> step to recovery is recognizing you have a problem.
> OK, I tell them, I knew I had a problem years and
> years ago. So, where is step number 2 in the 12-step
> program?? I have not gotten there...Married for 33
> years, I have raised two sons, held a wonderful job
> here in the hospital for 20 years, (yes, yes, his
> picture hung over my desk even then, as it does now.
> I just keep updating his photos..), I paint and have
> actually sold some, and am highly functional except
> for this one teeny, tiny disfunction. What the hell?
> So I have one compulsion? OK, shoes...must have my
> stilletos....but why can't I have one little
> obsessive compulsion? I didn't chase him down the
> street in Chelsea, I didn't even talk to him after
> the theater, I don't go to his favorite hangouts to
> wait to see him, so what's the big deal? Can't I have
> this one last love of my life? Oh, yeah, right, Paul
> said that, didn't he? And he needs help.


Curly, I am constantly amazed that its taken me so long to see "the light". Still cant get over how I used to just think he was a nice looking, talented actor. Nothing more.

Anyway, I dont think I can stay this way forever.

But I commend you for your self-discipline. It is a little nutty to hold a torch for so long but I definately live in a glass house where this is concerned so I shan't throw stones!
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