Jetsam
Happy birthday, taselby! I hope you are well, and have a great day planned for yourself.
For those interested in reading about Brokeback Mountain, we just posted this very interesting article on whether this is really Hollywood's first true gay movie -- and in a way, the author argues both for and against that himself, because he says that the movie avoids all the stale cliches of what that normally means. It's quite lovely, but if you are not familiar with the story or don't want to know much about the movie, it is spoilerific. My favorite line: "In the end, Brokeback Mountain is less the story of a love that dares not speak its name than of one that doesn't know how to speak its name, and is somehow more eloquent for its lack of vocabulary."
I have been on a renewed love affair with the X-Files, enough to even start recording the daily showings on SciFi just to refamiliarize myself with them without getting out all the DVDs and carving time. It's weird. To say I was enraged at the end is putting it mildly. I still to this day have no idea what the story was actually about because the last episode made the whole thing into a weird nonsensical joke -- it was as if they were giving us the TV equivalent punchline of "No soap, radio." And that infuriated me, and they way they ran it into the ground, and the way they took the outstandingly unconvential "romance" that Mulder and Scully had for years and turned it into conventional romance... gah. But. If you ignore those last two seasons (though I confess, one of my favorite Skinner eps came in season 8, with Skinner and Doggett being all quien es mas macho with each other in an oddly attractive way), and you put some distance between the show and yourself, you find out there's still a lot of warm fuzzies there. Working on the remasters of There's No Way Out of Here and Fall in the Light made me feel kind of nostalgic for monster of the week stories. The mythology is now meaningless, but it's amazing what you can see in the show when you view it through the lens of time, and I'm feeling very caught up in it again and want to make vids. I realize the world is not clamoring for more X-Files vids, but I still feel like making them.
And now I need some XF icons and have misplaced my only one.
For those interested in reading about Brokeback Mountain, we just posted this very interesting article on whether this is really Hollywood's first true gay movie -- and in a way, the author argues both for and against that himself, because he says that the movie avoids all the stale cliches of what that normally means. It's quite lovely, but if you are not familiar with the story or don't want to know much about the movie, it is spoilerific. My favorite line: "In the end, Brokeback Mountain is less the story of a love that dares not speak its name than of one that doesn't know how to speak its name, and is somehow more eloquent for its lack of vocabulary."
I have been on a renewed love affair with the X-Files, enough to even start recording the daily showings on SciFi just to refamiliarize myself with them without getting out all the DVDs and carving time. It's weird. To say I was enraged at the end is putting it mildly. I still to this day have no idea what the story was actually about because the last episode made the whole thing into a weird nonsensical joke -- it was as if they were giving us the TV equivalent punchline of "No soap, radio." And that infuriated me, and they way they ran it into the ground, and the way they took the outstandingly unconvential "romance" that Mulder and Scully had for years and turned it into conventional romance... gah. But. If you ignore those last two seasons (though I confess, one of my favorite Skinner eps came in season 8, with Skinner and Doggett being all quien es mas macho with each other in an oddly attractive way), and you put some distance between the show and yourself, you find out there's still a lot of warm fuzzies there. Working on the remasters of There's No Way Out of Here and Fall in the Light made me feel kind of nostalgic for monster of the week stories. The mythology is now meaningless, but it's amazing what you can see in the show when you view it through the lens of time, and I'm feeling very caught up in it again and want to make vids. I realize the world is not clamoring for more X-Files vids, but I still feel like making them.
And now I need some XF icons and have misplaced my only one.