Ewan! I still think I like him best in "Brassed Off!", but I haven't seen "Velvet Goldmine" yet.

Susan, hold off on renting Velvet Goldmine and we'll watch it together when you visit! It is one of my favorite movies, and the one that made me adore Ewan McGregor to pieces. Before that, I have to admit, I mainly thought of him as a turgid Jedi. But since then I've seen and liked just about everything he's done. He was awfully sweet in Little Voice, wasn't he?

The Velvet Goldmine is one of absolute favorite films. I guess I have a "thing" for queer drugged out punk rockers. They look all rough on the outside, but they're usually softies through and through. heh heh.

I really like Velvet Goldmine (I just went and put on the soundtrack to prove it), but I guess I have too many bad hairspray memories from teendom and druggy musician memories from bartending to really lust after the boys in it. I realize this is a flaw.

I forgot all about Brassed Off -- that's another sweet, good one. Like Billy Elliott before Billy Elliott. Kinda.

p.s.

Dear Lusting in Youngstown:

Remember that the lady who owns thy heart could kick those druggy, queer punk rockers' asses without breaking a sweat.

Best of luck,

Dear Abby

(wink)

Listen to Dear Abby, she is always right and she's hip to the kids these days. But I share your "thing", Chris.

(cracking up)

Mayonnaise! This place has turned into girl talk central. Guess me and Rob o' Luahvuhl better start talking about how schweet Renee Zelegger is. (Though Renee has, in fact, been replaced by Maggie Gyllenhaal as my current fave screen hottie.)

See, this is the problem when you start dating someone who, at some point in her life, decided to do the whole montage scene where the girl learns how to kick ass in about three minutes of training (onscreen, that is) from mainly bad movies like "Enough".

But I've had my rounds with queer druggies, and can say that, although I was correct in saying they're rough on the outside and soft on the in, they're also in the end, well, queer druggies. <nodding head and pursing lips in retrospective lesson-learned sort of way>

But they're still cute.

As for Renee Zellwegger...she has everything over queer druggies, and most others. I bet J-Lo couldn't kick her ass as easily.

Oooooo Donnie Darko's sister is scorching hot Christopher. And I haven't seen the movie she's in with James Spader. Time to rent a dvd tonight.
And who doesn't dig the butch looking J-Lo?

Hey that piece of meat has a name -- it's Jake.

I want that ONE STORY! Hah! I win!

Well, you can't have it. Nanananana!

I ordered Christopher's chapbook and the latest "Say..." from Small Beer. But to tide me over I'm reading Glen Hirshberg's "The Two Sams". Very haunting stuff.

Gwenda--How you feeling about Carnivale lately? I'm still there but they better have a decent payoff.

Have you seen the bat stamps? I also like the tundra stamps, since it has a ptarmigan. I'm so easy.

Bat stamps? Aw, man. I want bat stamps. And ptarmigan stamps!

Some stamps they have now are creepy. I won't elaborate.

Rob, I'm with you on Carnivale. I'm still watching, mostly, though often I catch a repeat. I'll try and get my thoughts more coherent about it. I think that part of my problem with it, is that it feels like a novel that's not been adapted for the screen, if that makes any sense whatsoever. Like it's really a book, and non of the necessary changes have been made to adapt it. Which sounds harsher than I mean it to. Really, there are lots of things I do like, but I often feel like I'd rather read the things that happen in it because the characters are written very... sphinxy to me. The main character Ben as played and/or written is too much of a blank slate for me to find his whole crisis very interesting. He's an asshole and not even very definable as that.

I did think there was one great moment there where the dead girl looked out the window at the end of the second Babylon episode, but again there are some things that don't make sense... Like why Ben's powers never came up there. I dunno. It almost feels like they are intentionally avoiding drama. I have ceased to really pay attention to the preacher storyline because I find it overwritten and am just waiting for the pay-off of it.

Wow, guess that was my answer. Rambling rambler answer.