what's the big deal with this gay mountain business?

judy imed me and told me she'd just seen brokeback mountain recently. also, that it was good. not much to go on.

i'm not going to see it. when i said that judy brought up larry david's little piece. his article is funny, but i'm not seeing it for different reasons.

1) i don't want to see it. it just doesn't sound interesting to me. why the fuck would i want to see a love story about gay cowboys? i don't care that they're gay, if that's what you're thinking. it actually doesn't matter. why would i want to see a love story about 2 non-gay circus clowns, or 2 down on their luck old tires? i wouldn't.

i guess that's just one reason. but really. gay cowboys. that's all i've heard, from previews, from critics, from every source of information. there is NOTHING ELSE TO THE MOVIE. why would i want to see that?

other things:

ang lee? what the fuck? how do you go from crouching tiger hidden dragon to brokeback mountain?

larry david mentions 2 straight friends that loved the movie, one of whom fucking GUSHES. i mean come on. the moment a guy gushes about something, he has come out of the closet. the other one, while david does not explicitly say he gushes, definitely gives a very gushy speech. something tells me that those 2 friends are not straight.

"One of the best love stories ever," one gushed. Another went on, "Oh, my God, you completely forget that it's two men. You in particular will love it." [taken from that link above. i hope this isn't copyright infringement or some such]

oh, my god. you are gay. i don't think it's possible to watch a movie about two men falling in love, cowboys or not, and forget that they are men. and this has nothing to do with them being gay guys. if i watched a movie about two women, i wouldn't forget their genders. i mean, they're right up there on that giant screen the whole time. similarly, i could watch a movie that used the conventional pairing of a man and a woman, and i think i'd be able to answer a quiz on how many men were in the relationship, and how many women were in the relationship, afterwards.

this bothers me. i'm not sure why. it must be because i'm homophobic! boy is that overused.