AfterElton has an article about Gay Trek, which basically says everything that this site has been saying for years. Rock!

(There was something else I was going to talk about, but I can't remember what. Snap.)

Just watched Producing Adults, a Finnish language movie about... gosh, I don't know. Supposedly growing up, though I think a few things may have been lost in the translation on that one. This was my weekly Big Gay Netflixed movie, so the love story was between two women. It was cute and sweet and believable and had oh so many things that you'd just never see in an American movie (let alone one nominated for the Oscar) such as fluid sexuality that's just taken "as is," without any fanfare, and a definitely interesting portrayal of family, marriage, whatever. Sort of. That was sort of the subtext, and maybe I picked up a bit on it. Anyway. The main actors were very good at conveying their emotions, which was good considering it's a language I'm completely unfamiliar with (The Journey was similarly good in that respect.). So, yeah, I'd recommend it.

So I was watching a pretty bad movie on OnDemand, called When Will I Be Loved. It's really really bad. Mostly I was in it to see Neve Campbell in sex scenes with other women. Let's just be honest. I mean, it turned out pretty lackluster but, hey, it's not like I don't own Wild Things and a good enough imagination to pretend Matt Dillon isn't there. And Denise Richards isn't frightening naked.

... erm, anyway.
Right, well I thought the lead guy looked familiar so I checked him out, and he was in the movie Stonewall, which was in pretty heavy rotation on Logo about a week ago. Also a pretty bad movie, but there was a campy, quasi-touching little bus sing-a-long.

So yeah. I watch Logo. Shaddup.

[DUDE! Lori Singer was in the bad Neve Campbell movie as herself! And I didn't recognize her! I was all like "who's that funny sounding blonde lady that is apparently an actress?" I heart Lori Singer! VR5, yo.]

Do you suppose ugly people go to Dinah Shore weekend? [It's like the lesbian white party. Or, for non-gay people, the lesbian spring break. And I'm going to continue to see how many people I can offend. Just you wait. I'm about to get to the ugly people.] 'Cause if so, I'd like to go sometime. Not that I'm ugly. In fact, I know I'm not ugly. I'm just not Traditionally Hot. Therefore, being around ugly people makes me feel better about myself while I'm wandering around in swim trunks and a tank top (the arms... they flap in the wind).

I mean, this is generally the reason I avoid the "lesbian bars" in town. (As if there are any.) Just not secure enough in the physicality, and since appearance is ridiculously important (hey, look at me... I just insulted ugly people)... you know.

The funny thing is that I don't actually think there are many flat out ugly people in the world. I tend to find something in everyone. I'm just being shallow (and by that I mean I'm being a fattist, just to bring the subtext out), which I think is sort of what Dinah Shore weekend is about. That and alcohol. And sex.

Sometime before I'm dead, I'll have to try that. I've got time.

I was reading spoilers for The L Word today, mostly because I'm not too impressed with this season (why is all the sex either straight sex or gay make sex? with very few exceptions? on a show about lesbians [and, you know, the bisexual women that sleep with women]) and boy am I annoyed. I mean, I won't get into details but... wow, they've totally ruined some characters in a serious way.

( Okay, I'll get into details. MASSIVE spoilers below. )

I lost my train of thought and now I'm starting to feel nervous about the interview, and therefore naseous.

I"m going to sleep.

Oh, yes. The sexiest episode of The L Word all season and I'm hanging out and watching it with my mom. Awesome. Lesbian vampires, the return of Rosanna Arquette (I always wanted Shane to end up with Cherie, if she had to end up with anyone), strap-ons, and Helena actually getting play. And my "I love you, but don't understand you" mom sitting in the chair next to me. Rock.

Actually, I'm sure she was just fine. I was uncomfortable because of my own stupid issues.

I'll write more about it later. Maybe. We all know I always say that and then never follow through.

Monday tomorrow. Bummer.

So I saw Imagine Me & You today. As if I haven't mentioned it enough.

I won't go into Sam's Wacky Adventures Trying to Drive Around Cambridge, where there are no lanes (on Mass Ave), signs that lead to nowhere (just before Harvard Square), and inane traffic routing (Harvard Square itself). Blah blah, Cambridge is home of all things holy (and hip). Got it. Still don't like it.

Then after the movie, it was raining and we were going to go to Fugakyu, but I should be smart and know that there's no parking in Brookline on Saturday nights. So after finding parking in Brookline on a Saturday night (thus disproving the rule and sending the universe into total flux), we found out that the wait was an hour and fifteen minutes. So we went to JP Seafood which, as far as I'm concerned, is the second best sushi in Boston (second to Fugakyu), and had no wait. And a cute waitress that likes to touch me. Alas, she was not our waitress tonight.

Anyway, I'll talk about the movie now.

( In case there was any doubt. I loved it. 'Cause I'm a non-snob movie snob, and a sucker for love stories. )

And to end, a quote from a poorly-edited interview.

Q: Did you keep your accent between scenes?

PIPER: I did a lot in the beginning. People started making fun of me, so I had to stop that. We would go out at night and I'd be doing the accent, and Lena'd be like “stop.”

LENA: When we'd go out, she'd go into the accent, and I'd be like “I've never seen her before.”

Who found Imagine Me & You playing somewhere nearby? I did! Who's crossing the Charles to go see it in Harvard Square tomorrow? I am! Woohoo for me. Who really needs to go to sleep now? I DO!

So over on canonwars (which is a roleplaying game where people basically take characters from any fictional anything ever), some people just picked up Ennis and Jack from Brokeback. And Ennis doesn't want his secret known, and there's an entire thread of several people telling him that it's okay, it's not dangerous, it's not a big deal.

And it's just a fictional game, but I want to link them all to this, or this, or this, or any number of other news articles, and say: no, it's really not okay yet, and being here and being who I am, it feels like a long way from okay. But at least it's better.

I actually paid $2 to download South of Nowhere a night early. Seriously. I'm twenty five. It's well past when I ought to be asleep. I could have it for free tomorrow.

BUT IT WAS SO WORTH IT.

So, wow. And, really. Double wow, because it's also WoW. I don't play World of Warcraft, so I don't know much about what the guild setup is like, but some of the comments on Slashdot make me think that this is an inane policy bordering on ignorantly (as opposed to intentionally) homophobic.

And now we're talking about studying for the Bar and I'm mildly freaking out. But just mildly.

Remember that old scary story you tell when you're a kid? No, not the one about the dude with the hook. Or the guy who gets tired one night and checks into a weird hotel only to find out he died over night.

The one about the babysitter. You know what I'm talking about. She's babysitting and gets weird phone calls, and then they trace the call and IT'S COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE (squeal).

They made a movie out of it.

And, oh my god, the best part is it's a remake of a 1979 version of the same story. Starring Carol Kane. Apparently a pretty scary movie.

I love the internets.

On an entirely different topic, Jennifer Beals outed Kate Moenning in her recent advocate article. Or maybe she didn't. There's already arguments about it, of course. She just mentioned the name of a list of gay or bisexual women and included Kate Moenning because... she thought it'd be neat? Or maybe she was already out. Dunno, but I do love Jennifer Beals. She's a maniac, that's for sure.

(I actually wrote this awhile ago, but LJ is having issues, today.)

An AfterEllen.com columnist didn't like Gene Shalit's review of Brokeback. So, not only did she write "a review of the review," but she basically called for his censorship. Cool.

Shalit said he thought Jack's behavior was predatory. I can see that. Eh. I didn't think of it that way, but I can see it. Obviously, he must've meant that all gay men are predatory. Or, more likely, that all gay desire was predatory. I didn't think of it that way, but the colmnist did. And GLAAD did. And so Shalit issues an appology.

Cool.

The AfterEllen columnist also tells us that "sometimes a gay love story is just a gay love story." Except when it's there to show mainstream audiences how gay love stories can be tragic JUST LIKE STRAIGHT ONES. Oh my God, we're normal like you all! Come watch us be gay so that you can feel empathy! It's not just a gay love story, I'm sorry to say, but also an attempt to, at the very least, inform. Sure, Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet was the same. It even had its forbidden love and tragic ending. But do people honsetly think Romeo and Juliet is just a love story?

I don't know, maybe they do.

Meanwhile, Kristanna Loken is still bi, so I'm still happy (because her willingness to have relationships with women obviously means she'll have one with me). And I still hate AfterEllen.com for every article except the one about her.

Dear God (or, you know, whomever),

Thanks.

Love,
Sam

"To spill about whether a character currently on the island is gay would be at cross-purposes to our mission of keeping the characters' backstories shrouded in mystery. That's not saying any are… or aren't. But in the case of Ana Lucia, we will go on the record and say that her character is straight." - From Here

Hm, yeah. So you don't want to talk about whether a character's gay or not 'cause it'd ruin things, but you do want to talk about how Ana Lucia is straight? Okay.

Personally, I don't care. I'd rather someone less "obvious" were gay (or bisexual). Like the New Blonde Woman. Or Michael. But saying "shrouded in mystery" is a lot like "it's a non-issue in the future." Or, at least to me is. I'll admit that I may be a little bit sensitive about the portrayal (or lack thereof) of gay people in large ensemble dramas. You know.

In other "gay" news, wtf? A Bad Girls musical? Awesome.

And I didn't TiVo Bianca's return to All my Children, 'cause Quantum Leap was higher on my season pass list than AMC. Sigh. Hope I didn't miss the 30 seconds of talk about Maggie that I'll sit through 3 more weeks for. (And, what do you mean Kendall and Greenlee kissed? Damnit!) I don't get SoapNet here. Not sure what's up with that.

I do get BBC America, though, so I'll finally get to see Bad Girls S2 as more than just teeny little Real Media files. Huzzah.

I remain shamelessly addicted to South of Nowhere. I wonder what happened tonight! I'm ever so excited!

I think I should probably go to sleep now.