seek niche and pursue it

~~~Typing~~~ 

How to "Type" Personality Types: An Ultimate Resource 

MULDER, The Spooky INTP 

{{Extraction: Proving Mulder Is Not an INFJ/INFP}} 

SCULLY, The Enigmatic ISTJ

Mulder and Scully: Love and Touch for INTPs/ISTJs 

Dissecting ‘One Son’ (Part I)   

Dissecting ‘One Son’ (Part II) 

‘Never Again’ and Fear 

KRYCEK, An Unstoppable Manipulator

INTPs In Their Own Words 

SKINmanNER, The Bald and the Beautiful 

MAGGIE, The Passionate Scully

MELISSA, The Soulful ISFP

BILL SCULLY, Junior and Senior (and Charlie?)

AGENT DOGGETT, the Supportive ESFJ

~~~Musicals/Fan Vids/AMVs~~~

Fight Club (Finale)

Fight Club: Finale Redone with Less Kathy Griffiths

TINH: Scully’s Solo

S2 Abduction: Mulder’s Torment 

Drivin’ Right Along

Hungry: Everything Is Food

Our Town: Everything Is Food

Krycek and Marita: You’re My Little Choochie Face

Irresistible: I Whistle a Happy Tune

Syzygy: Everything You Can Do I Can Do Better

Mulder and Samantha: Miracle of Miracles

Amor Fati: If I Never Knew You 

Arcadia: People Will Say We’re in Love 

Scully, Far from the Home She Loves

CSM and Diana: The Riddle  

The Mulders: Sunrise, Sunset

HTGSC: Christmas Can Can

Melissa: Mother Earth and Father Time

Monday: There’s Always Tomorrow

Memento Mori: I Bring You a Song

Pilot: I Ride Alone

Milagro: Hellfire

Paper Hearts: Lovely, Lonely Man

Darkness Falls: Walk Outside

Emily: Come to Me

Talitha Cumi: Misty Mountains

Season 6: 9 to 5

Maggie and Dana: Everything's Alright

Samantha Mulder: God Help the Outcasts

~~~Fashion, Facial Analyses, and Seasonal Colors~~~

David Duchovny’s Face: an Aesthetics Study

David Duchovny's "Hail Mary" Nose (and Beard): an Aesthetic Study 

Dana Scully's Hairstyles, an Overview 

Seasonal Color Theory: a Reference Guide 

Seasonal Color Analysis: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson

Seasonal Color Analysis: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, and Their Colors

Seasonal Color Analysis: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson-- Skin Tones and Tricky Fashion Tips

Gillian Anderson: Think Pink (with the Color Wheel)

David Duchovny: Renaissance Orange (via the Color Wheel)

Kibbe Body Types: Gillian Anderson

Kibbe Body Types: David Duchovny 

Kitchener Essence: Gillian Anderson

Kitchener Essence: David Duchovny

Kitchener Essence: ‘Changing’ Essences 

Gillian Anderson: Think Pink (with the Color Wheel) 

~~~Extras~~~

React: "Return to Me" from the POV of Someone Averse to RomComs

React: Watching I Want to Believe for the First Time (and Losing My Mind) 

React: A Late-Canon Reviler Gives the Revival a Try

What Happens Later: Misdirection and Miscommunication

Reverse the Curse: David Duchovny’s Heartfelt Period Piece 

Personality Typing: Return to Me

Personality Typing: Bringing Up Baby

Personality Typing: Hank Moody, Maggie Scully, and ESTPs

What Happens Later: ESTJs, ESFPs, and Building Back Love ‘N Trust 

"About Time": randomfoggytiger's Review

~~~Miscellaneous~~~

Makeup Myths and Acne Realities 

Doppelbanging and Dating: an Interesting Socio-Psychological Phenomenon

Thanks for reading~

BONUS

-Interesting Admissions-

July 20-21, 2000: Q10: Hi Mr. Carter. I was curious whether you feel that as a body of work, and assuming that the X-Files is on its last season, do you feel completed, or satisfied with what you’ve done with the show, or is there anything you would have liked to have done that you’re not going to get an opportunity to do?

CC: Well, you know, I’m going on, so I have the opportunity right now to explore the things that I wasn’t going to be able to do. There was a point last season, it was actually distressing, where it was right around Christmas time and I came into Frank Spotnitz’s office and I was kind of excited and I said, ‘I’ve got this idea, and it’s be really great if we could do this and this and this.’ And he said, ‘You know, we only have ten more episodes left to go.’ And that was when we thought the show wasn’t coming back, and it was like, wait a second. I never actually imagined that the show actually ending, so there’s still a lot of things I want to explore, but I’ve got a new character now so I’ve got to integrate them in an interesting way so that I can explore those things.

Also the one to pull the plug--

January 18, 2002: The truth about Fox’s “The X-Files” is finally out there: Come May, the series will end, after nine seasons.

Executive producer Chris Carter told Fox programmers on Wednesday that he wants to end the show this season.

The pending departure of original star Gillian Anderson – David Duchovny left after last season – and a decline in audience this season nudged Carter toward the decision.

“All of the things that I come to work for every day are in place, minus David Duchovny,” Carter said. “And those things might not be here next year. So I decided to take these people to wrap this up in style. […] It’s better to go out strong.”

-To Be Fair-

November 4, 2000: Bean: Chris now, be honest, were you angry when David Duchovny decided he didn’t want to come back or were you completely like understanding– hey, this guy’s got to have a life of his own, too?

Chris Carter: No. I understood. I mean. .. It was… We are all working hard and it’s.. it’s… you know the work is actually too hard. And so, these guys [DD & GA] are still young, they have careers. They want to go out and do other things. So, it made sense and he didn’t have a contract. So, it was a good time for him to leave. But fortunately, we found a way to have him back.

May 17, 2002: Q: Why didn’t the show shift completely to Doggett and Reyes?

CC: That was the plan, but when the ratings dipped this year, my feeling was I didn’t want to sit and wait for the journalists (whom) I felt would see it as an angle and a chance to flog the show. I thought that was a new show that could have built a new audience, but I wasn’t interested in seeing “The X-Files” damaged at all or criticized unfairly, so I decided to call it a day and focus on the upcoming movies.

Further clarification--

FOX Used "Another Movie" to String along the People of Ten Thirteen

GA Liked Early Season 8 (and Envisioned a Darker Character Arc)

GA and Mitch Pileggi on the Positives of (Early) Season 8

-Disclaimer-

-Gillian Anderson-

January 12, 2003: S: We are going to cast you away and you have only these eight pieces of music for company. Tell me which is the first one. G: So hard to choose. I am such a big music person. It was really hard. And there is a little bit of irony in every choice despite the fact that they've had a huge impact on my life. The first one I have chosen is the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want" which not only was something that I listened to quite a lot in the trailer going through hair and makeup in the wee hours of the morning, and we would blast it in there as we were getting ready while we were shooting the series, but also the irony of the fact that, at times, when there were other things that I wanted, whether it was about my career or in things in my personal life that I thought that I had to have or I wanted, that at the end of the day you can't always get what you want.

S: Tell me about record number two. G: Number two actually is a Joan Armatrading song that was very alive in my life as a child and this has always been one of my very favorite songs of hers. It is "Save Me".

S: I want to talk about the rumbling inside but let us pause for some music. Number three, what is it? G: It's actually a band that just over the past few years, five-six years, has become probably my favorite band. There is an energy to their music which has its roots inside my rumblings and that is Radiohead. S: Radiohead and "Exit Music for a Film." Let us talk about the rumblings then, Gillian. What form did they take first of all? G: I had moved from my experience of a large, vibrant, vital, passionate city to a small, in my perception, boring Republican town and I started to realize that the way I felt, expressed myself most of the time, was through dressing a certain way, listening to a certain kind of music, and expressing my contempt at the time for what felt like a very rigid straightlaced American right wing small town. S: So you went punk essentially? G: I did.

S: Record number four. G: This is a song that has always been profoundly moving for me. It's Nina Simone's "Strange Fruit." S: It is an extraordinary piece, isn't it? G: So extraordinary. First of all, her voice is just... it's such a remarkable and moving instrument that she has. Anyway.

G: Number five is a Schubert piece that I have loved for many years that just moves me to tears and that's a good enough reason to have it on a desert island where I need to be crying alone. It's "Death and the Maiden". S: You made "The House of Mirth", film of the Edith Wharton novel... you played the doomed heroine, Lily Bart. Again you were chosen, apparently, because it's creator, Terence Davies, wanted you. He had spotted you and he wanted you. G: Well, what was so bizarre about that was that he had never seen any of my work. And he wanted to meet me based on a photograph of a character that I had played who was a middle-aged biker alcoholic. And that was a still from the film. S: Amazing because he wanted you to play this beautiful society Edwardian lady. But he was right. You did look wonderful in those Edwardian clothes. Did you feel right? You looked right. G: I have always connected with that time on an emotional and psychological level.

S: Record number six. G: The title of it is "Love is Everything" because I believe that. Love is everything. At the end of the day, if we are talking about the difference between being sucked under and being able to rise above, this concept suddenly comes into play very very strongly.

S: Record number seven. G: I've had this album for a couple of years but this particular song is very poignant in my life right now and very romantic and melancholic. It's Roberta Flack's "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye." S: There is a lot of talk of romance in the soul going on here. Does that indicate there's something going on? Someone around at the moment? G: Umm, yes. S: Or have they just said goodbye. G: Next topic? S: I see. Okay. G: But thank you for being so intuitive.

G: The last record is one of my favorite artists of all time, Jeff Buckley. This is originally a Leonard Cohen song. It is "Hallelujah". S: Now, Gillian, if you could only take one of those 8 records to your desert island, which one would you take? G: Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah". Definitely, I think.

-David Duchovny-

February 19, 2016: The first song I remember hearing The Friends of Distinction – ‘Grazing In The Grass’ “I bought 45s when I was a kid because they were cheaper, at 99 cents, where an album cost three dollars and 69 cents, which was too much for my budget. The first single I bought was called ‘Grazing In The Grass’. It’s kind of an R&B/soul number. ‘Grazing in the grass is a gas, baby, can you dig it?’”

The song I wish I’d written Oasis – Wonderwall “I have this as an alarm on my phone so I hear it very often. A perfect pop song is a thing of beauty and I’d say this is a perfect pop song. But there are so many songs I wish I’d written. Another one that comes into my head is ‘One’ by U2. I also wish I’d written ‘Dear Prudence’ by The Beatles, from ‘The White Album’, and ‘Thank You’ by Sly & The Family Stone.”

The song I wish I’d written Oasis – Wonderwall “I have this as an alarm on my phone so I hear it very often. A perfect pop song is a thing of beauty and I’d say this is a perfect pop song. But there are so many songs I wish I’d written. Another one that comes into my head is ‘One’ by U2. I also wish I’d written ‘Dear Prudence’ by The Beatles, from ‘The White Album’, and ‘Thank You’ by Sly & The Family Stone.”

The song I play to get ready for a gig Various “Backstage when I’m with the band we’ll start singing some songs, but they’re always different. We’ll also stand in a huddle, put our arms around each other and say something vaguely inspirational, like ‘Rock’n’roll!’ Something clichéd and ridiculous like that. Or maybe, ‘Let’s go melt some faces!’”

The song I can no longer listen to King Harvest – ‘Dancing In The Moonlight’ “I think if you can’t bear to listen to a song any more, it passes. All things pass. But there are certain songs I used to play for my kids that brutally remind me of the passage of time. This was on a mixtape I used to play in the car to get them to sleep. I hear it now and think: ‘Oh my God, my kids aren’t three any more.’ It feels rough.”

The song that makes me dance Sly & the Family Stone – ‘Thank You’ “I’m never able to stop myself from dancing. There’s no song that makes me unable to dance.”

The band that made me want to make music The Beatles “They were my favourite band for forever. But when I started to play guitar and think about songs together, it was Bob Dylan and The Band. More straight-ahead, rootsy rock’n’roll.”