god I love this fandom

[erilyn]

Popped over to Borders this evening to use a $10 discount before it expired (got an older Pratchett I didn't have, couldn't find anything else), but I browsed through an unauthorised biography of Justin that I haven't seen around before. It's published recently, but my main interest was in the early Nsync stuff.

Have I mentioned my unholy love of the Creation Myth? I love it more than I can put into words. The endless variations, "Lansten", the omissions (hi Jason!), the bullshit, the pentegram and JC's hand analogy from N the Mix (heh, thinking about it makes me want to watch it), just...everything.

Well this book had yet another variation I hadn't heard before. Apparently, before Lance, before Jason, there was...Charles Edwards. Proto-Backstreet Boy Charles Edwards. He and Chris were friends, you see, and I think Charles was actually in the group before Justin, from what I can recall, but leaves very early on to get married (it was the rampant homoeroticism that drove him away and into the arms of a woman!), so they got Jason, and then Lance. Has anyone heard this variation before? Sadly, as it was new, it was fullprice. If it had been $5, I might have bought it for that gem alone. Though the author seemed to have way too much info about Justin's girlfriends from when he was a teenager.

There's always another Creation Myth, and that's why I love popfandom *g*.

Comments

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

I wonder if Chris makes up crap and tells it to journalists, just to see who will fail to do research and print it?

[digital-diva.livejournal.com]

I don't doubt for a minute that at one point he did, just because he got tired of getting that same question over and over again.

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Of course he can't tell the truth - the other four are actually robots he built to form the perfect boyband.

Now I really need to rewatch N the Mix, for Chris's piano headbanging during the Creation Myth.