Jasmine Love

Jasmine Love: The fans. I love the fans. I love hearing why and how and where and when people watch television. I love the medium of television. I love creating characters that people can relate to and I love telling stories that make people think and cry. I love having viewing parties and watching people laugh and cry over a story I have to tell. I think in another life, perhaps a Native American lifetime or an African lifetime, I was a storyteller who acted out my stories every night around a fire and used costumes and the children and the wisdom of the elders. I think television and now the Internet is our fire as a culture and we all have stories to tell. I love bringing people together and television does that. I will leave teaching to have my own show on the air. I have been fortunate to pitch to a lot of networks and studios and one day one of my shows will stick. That's probably when I'll get back into it. For now I am enjoying life and reading a lot of books, and of course, picketing :-)

Jasmine Love: (on shows she is a fan of) My favorite show, above and beyond all, was Six Feet Under. I love the characters: I identified with all of them as if they were parts of me. I also loved Extras and I love Curb Your Enthusiasm. Of the reality shows I enjoy The Amazing Race and The Biggest Loser. I love stories about people, real people, funny people, ordinary people in ordinary situations. I like The L-Word, but I am a little wary about shows that are airing new episodes, wondering about stockpiling, but it could just be the timing of their season. It is wonderful to see a show about lesbians, full of diversity and drama and sexy as hell. Though I do mostly enjoy the ordinary story, I would love to see more stories about lesbians that are like the lesbians I know and love. I just love television and the way one can get any story out there if it is packaged in the right way. I love love LOVE Weeds, can't believe I didn't say this first. I loved Dead Like Me. I like Cold Case but am not into much having to do with violence, fictional or otherwise, but the writing is so fabulous. I get a kick out of Grey's Anatomy sometimes, just sometimes. I watch Medium occasionally. Oh, and Boston Legal. What a hoot.

Jasmine Love: (on being inspired by people stores) I have been inspired by the numbers of people willing to show up for their 12 -20 hours a week, especially those with day jobs and children. I have been inspired by the solidarity and the sense of community. Those of us not on staffs live with a certain amount of isolation and it has been wonderful for me to be around other writers. I hate this term "non-working writers" because I think all writers are working and writing all the time. I hate that it is the writers on the current shows that get all the accolades and focus and that was uncomfortable for me when I was on a show. Everyone wants to cozy up to you and give you their script when you're on a show, when you actually have more time and more clarity to read and give better notes when you are not on a show. But that is the cult of celebrity in this town. I am inspired by the writers who have to write, like I do, and have stories to tell. I also find writers to be keen observers of humankind and it is fun to be around them and observe together. We are all such characters.