The birds are still trying to nest in my dryer vent. Some maintenance guy came and looked at it, assured that they couldn’t get in the house (not that I was worried about that, but now I am) and said he’d be back…eventually.

But the birds are still there, and now our dryer doesn’t actually dry stuff.

Oh, and the Hubster instituted his brilliant solution for everything - spray Clorox at the dryer vent. *shakingheadmublingdumbassmubling*

Anyway, now that the birds are out of the way - metaphorically anyway, I watched Brokeback Mountain last night.

Obviously people that liked the movie must have watched a different version than I.

After I watched the movie I watched the special features and they were saying “oh people call it the gay cowboy movie but really it’s so much more than that,” but really, I think something called “the gay cowboy movie” would be a hell of a lot better.

They say that it’s this epic doomed love story. Uh, I missed it. I mean it is epic, and it is doomed, but I missed the love story part.

These two dudes kept getting back together but I never once saw that they were actually in love with one another. Was the sex that good? I dunno, but I never saw that they were in love.

Like I almost felt like the filmmakers were like “we’re stepping outside the bounds, making a gay love story, but lets not actually alienate people by showing the characters, you know, in love.”

And totally, if this movie were a romance novel, the characters would have been TSTL.

And while I knew I wasn’t going to get a happy ending, I expected at last something semi uplifting. But no. Two years from now, someone is going to find Ennis’s rotting corpse alone in his trailer after his liver explodes.

And Jack Twist is just a man ho! Where’s the romance in that? And did I really need to see Princess Mia’s boobs? I don’t think so!

The only good parts (and no, I’m not a perv) were the love scenes between Jack and Ennis. I could really feel the “I do, but I don’t” feelings there. But the rest just kind of fell flat.

So, I know I’m way late on seeing this flick, but I’m dying to know what other people thought!

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