mostly about shirts

Wednesday, 10 May 2006 01:38 pm
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The other day someone told me about a friend of theirs who is an older man, devoutly Christian and therefore frustratedly and conflictedly unable to do anything positive about the fact that he's also gay. Apparently he has seen Brokeback Mountain twenty-seven times since it opened on circuit here. He goes to see it every afternoon, and cries a lot.

This is a level of investment in a film that I personally only associate with the madder, more geeky fringes of Star Wars and LotR fandom. In this very different context, it's probably the saddest thing I've heard in ages.

In other shirt news, I have finally worked out who the much-drooled-over Sawyer is in Lost. I'm sorry, ladies, I don't get it. No amount of pretty-boy de-shirtage is ever going to make him into anything other than a total dickhead.

Date: Wednesday, 10 May 2006 12:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pinkthulhu.livejournal.com
His bluff Flashman-style arrogance and caddish behaviour grow on you though... :)

Who would you prefer to share a remote island with then? Jack? Jin? Boone? The hobbit guy from LotR? ;P

Date: Wednesday, 10 May 2006 01:46 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I give you my father: very actively gay and very actively Catholic. In the interests of reconciling the two, he has gone so far as to study ancient Greek, the better to enable him to research homosexuality in the early church. (Not such a big deal then, apparently.) I reckon any degree of perspective on "the church" as a human institution should enable a person to resolve their conflicts, but then what do I know, I have no faith and am not gay.

And stories like that make me hate the church a lot.

Also, I'm not a huge Sawyer fan (his looks don't particularly do it for me), but I am a huge fan of men taking their shirts off. Dickheads or not. Hey, his character is made up, but the torso is real. *happy sigh*

scroob

silly

Date: Wednesday, 10 May 2006 09:16 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
You should check out the 'Greek' boyfriend in 'Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants' if you want some eye-candy - mmmmmmm :>

Thak.

Josh Holloway?

Date: Wednesday, 10 May 2006 10:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bumpycat.livejournal.com
I looked him up in IMDB, and am still mystified. Looks like a non-entity to me (then again, I haven't watched Lost, and am unlikely to get excited by men taking their shirts off :P ).

Sawyer

Date: Thursday, 11 May 2006 05:57 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
But I thought you liked total dickheads?! :)

Date: Thursday, 11 May 2006 06:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ex-wytchfyn.livejournal.com
Poor bastard. Sounds to me like the kind of dying-love homage so endlessly repeated in viewings of Titanic, except, cruelly, you don't grow out of it.

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