Petits mots adressés aux fans

Je commence avec celui-ci, un tout récent, où James parle de sa tournée et adresse des remerciements à ses fans :

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Hey everybody, back in the States after a great European tour. Always good to see familiar faces and welcome to all the new ones. I'm learning that the best part of this is everyone getting to know one another and becoming an international family. Thank you to everyone who could make the trip. I think I didn't suck and gave some pretty good concerts.

Till next time - James.

(Source : http://jamesmarsters.com/index.shtml)

Mot de la part de Steve Himber (l'agent de James ^^) sur le site officiel de James :

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James Marsters’ fans are the best! Thank you to everyone who helped make the Monster Mania weekend a terrific weekend. Lots of first-time fans meeting James – which is always great. To those of you repeat offenders :-), I think I’m getting better at actual name recognition and it's always good to see familiar faces. A very special shout-out to the guys from J&J Collectibles, who were generous enough to bring James in for the weekend. Please help support them both online and at their booths – and be sure to introduce yourself! As a special acknowledgement to how great James’ fans are, J&J Collectibles will give a 20% discount to anyone who mentions the code “james” (both online and in person) - they’ll next be at Dragon* Con.

Speaking of Dragon*Con, here is a great link that will help with your plans. You can go to pages 22–23 for the location of the autograph signings. (Times for James' autograph and photograph sessions will be posted shortly.) Dragon*Con Pocket Program Pull Out Guide


James has already completed work on “Lie to Me” and has begun work on “Caprica” - more news to come...

Steve

Message de James sur son site officiel : http://jamesmarsters.com/index.shtml

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Thank you to all my good friends who came to Atlanta. I had a wonderful time at Dragon Con - especially loved the storm trooper outfit, which many people came together to give me. Next time you see a storm trooper it might be me! I look forward to seeing you all in London [the next event] and other future events.

- James
24 September 2009

Pour le dernier j'ai plus ou moin capté le début mais la fin par contre...xD

Dernier message en date de James à l'adresse de ses fans, sur son site officiel :

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[quote]Hey everyone.
Feeling tons better. I want to thank everyone who attended Hallowhedon for your concern and support, as well as, all who wrote in. It was a tough weekend, but I didn't want to disappoint - I'm glad I went, you all cheered me up. Looking forward to seeing you all in February at "Love Hearts". Steve says he's going to keep me bubble wrapped until then!

- James
13 November 2009

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Salut à tous !

Je me sens un peu mieux. Je tiens à remercier toutes les personnes qui ont assisté à Hallowhedon pour leur sollicitude et leur soutien, et tout ceux qui m'ont écrit. Ce fut un week-end difficile, mais je ne voulais pas décevoir. Je suis content d'y avoir été, vous m'avez tous remonté le moral. Au plaisir de vous revoir tous en Février à la convention "Love Hearts". Steve a dit qu'il allait me garder enveloppé dans du papier de bulle jusque là.

James
13 novembre 2009

Nouveau message de James sur son site officiel : ICI

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Joy to the fans. Peace to the world. Everyone find someone to snuggle and stay warm, and have a great holiday for whateve it is that you may be celebrating and worshipping. Looking forward to a good year ahead and seeing many of you at conventions and concerts.
Happy New Year!
Love and gratitude,

- James
21 December 2009

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(Joy ?) aux fans. Paix à tout le monde. Que chacun trouve quelqu'un contre qui se blottir et rester au chaud, passez de bonnes vacances (???). Dans l'attente d'une bonne année à venir et j'espère voir beaucoup d'entre vous lors de conventions et concerts.
Bonne nouvelle année !
Amour et gratitude,

James.

Le 31 décembre 2010, James a adressé un mot à ses fans sur son site officiel :

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Wishing the entire James Marsters family around the world a very happy and healthy New Year! Be kind to yourself, be kind to others, do the unexpected, remember to be thankful but don't look for a thank you, choose to be happy!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Sur son Facebook, James a laissé des messages aux fans où il parle plus notamment de la situation en Egypte. Le premier message posté le 11 février 2011 :

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Thanks to the good people, wise, and peaceful people of Egypt. You have reignited the flame of hope for the World.

Here in the U.S., I am weeping tears of joy. Through the goon squad attacks, through the lies and provocations, you remained strong and kept your revolution peaceful. I am humbled by your grace. I will teach my children to hope as you have.

I feel as if I were waking from a bad dream.

We here have been lied too about you. All our lives we have been told that you were a violent, irrational people. Now you have shown us that you are much more.

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt invented civilization. Today you have reawakened the hope and the promise of civilization.

I hope to know you better.


James Marsters

Source : https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150101000503770&id=122340614003


Le second message posté ce 13 février 2011 :

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O.K. now I get it. Facebook rocks! I got so many responses that I am stunned. I have the smartest friends in the world! Many of you agreed with me, many didn't. Everyone was interesting.

To Ejacquelin D., Hello! I never met anyone from Chile before, what's it like? ...and heck yeah, Power To The People United! To Toni T., So good to read your voice. You are missed. To Julie A. I don't know of a good blogger who knows about the Mid-East, but I may have something better...someone from Egypt! Mahitab Summer-Wine posted last night, and I for one would love to hear more from her, about anything she cares about, or anything that she has seen or heard, or smelled. Mahitab, please give us more! One more thing Julie, if you don't read Al Jazeera, try it. It's really good. To Jimmi L. S., You called me a poet. That feels really good. Finally to Mahitab, your post made me rattle and hum. I was hoping my message would reach someone in Egypt. I was writing to you.

Those are my shout-outs, here are my thoughts today.

Many people expressed concern and worry, both over the complex, and challenging road that Egypt will now walk, and also over what that means for the rest of the World. I share many of these thoughts, but I am also a news junkie and I think that there is good reason for a large dollop of hope, too.

From what I have seen from the Egyptian people in the last 2 1/2 weeks, they seem to be smarter, better educated, and more patient than your average U.S. voter, certainly than me. I think that they will treat their democracy at least as wisely as we do. They have, in living memory, a time in their history of great cultural richness. I speak of the Nasser years, between wars, in the late 50's, and early 60's. At this time the arts flourished, a liberal judiciary was created, and political debate rang through the cafes, homes, and streets. Faud Adjami talked with Anderson Cooper about this last night on CNN. He said this is something to build on. I've been watching this kind, angry man on the news for more than 20 years, and he always makes sense to me. He and Anderson agreed that we here in the U.S. have constantly underestimated the people of Egypt over the coarse of their revolution. At every turn we have been surprised by their patience, resilience, wisdom, intelligence, peacefulness, and the fact that most of them seem to speak English better than most U.S. politicians. I think it's time to stop underestimating them. If Tahrir Square wasn't filled with young George Washington's last night, it was filled with people who will recognize it when he or she comes forward. On another note, Switzerland has frozen ex- president Mubaraks' bank accounts. If even a part of the 70 BILLION DOLLARS, that he hid there can be recovered, it would go a very long way toward rebuilding the country. The revolution was short, with minimal damage to the country's infrastructure. If civil war can be avoided, and no one I listened to seems to think it likely, than rebuilding is very possible, although not easy.

Now to concerns of the rest of us. I read a great, if flawed, book called, 'The Next Hundred Years' by George Friedman. In it he talked of the nature of Geo-politics. He said that world leaders make their decisions based on things like how much food they can grow, how young is their population, how many ports do they have for trade and defense, how defensible are their borders, and how friendly are their neighbors. They do not base decisions on things like ideology, politics, or religion. In this way Geo-politics becomes like a chess game, and in chess the better the player, the more predictable they are. Great players are downright boring to watch, because there are only one or two good moves available at any one time. This is why George Bush's and Barack Obama's foreign policy looks so similar.

With that in mind, this is what I think is most likely to happen.

It will be in the interest of the new Government of Egypt to continue to sell us oil. It will need the money as much as we need the crude. Some one correct me if I'm wrong, but Iran still sells us oil, even though the U.S. betrayed their revolution.

It will be in the interest of the new Egypt to keep the Suez Canal open. A good part of their economy depends on the money it generates. The rest of the world needs the canal. We can't imagine world trade without it. Closing Suez could mean the worst for everybody: war. Egyptians have proven in the last 18 days that they can get what they want through peace.

It is highly likely that Egypt will make good on it's statement today that it will continue to honor it's peace treaty with Israel. It has many reasons to do this, not the least of which is the huge loss of life it has suffered because of the many wars it has fought with the Jewish state. It is said that every family in Egypt has at least one family member who died in one of those bloody wars. Also, the Egyptian Military receives more than a billion dollars a year from the U.S. as part of the peace deal. If Egypt attacks Israel that money vanishes, leaving it with very little to fight with. The same is true for Israel. Their military gets even more money. That is the genius of the treaty.

None of this is meant to say that Egypt doesn't control it's destiny, it does. It is to say that Egypt has the same concerns and constraints as the rest of the nations of the world, and it is not stupid.

One more hopeful thing, yesterday must have been a bad day to be a terrorist. Can you imagine trying to talk some one into strapping on a suicide vest now? Charlie Rose made this point on PBS last night. The self respect that the Egyptians have discovered for themselves is the best remedy for extremism and terror.

Will Egypt remain our loyal partner in the peace process? Probably not. Will Egypt open Gaza? Possibly. Let's face it, our puppets strings have been cut. From what I've seen, however, the people of Egypt are a rational bunch. I believe they will behave so.

Revolutions have counter-Revolutions. Popular uprisings in Iran and Gaza have fallen woefully short in creating real freedom. I do not know what will happen next. No one does. I do believe that there is good reason for hope. I believe in the Egyptian people, I've seen them in action.

Thank you all for your comments. I hope you all write again, especially Mahitab.

Peace,


James Marsters

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James nous souhaite une joyeiuse pâques sur son Facebook ^^

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Wishing all the fans worldwide celebrating Easter this weekend a very happy and peaceful Easter. May you be surrounded by family and loved ones.

Nouveau message sur sa page facebook :

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Sydney SupaNova was GREAT! Had a pretty good concert and the fans are all so nice and interesting to meet. Looking forward to Perth next weekend, never been there. Time for a little R&R and enjoy beautiful Sydney. Happy Fathers Day to all us dads out there

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