Reports of my demise were slightly off the mark,

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I am not dead (WTF! if you said I was; nevermind, if you didn't notice) -- I'm just v v busy. If I missed something important, lemme know, because I'm not checking back over four weeks of LJ.

In other news, I managed to get my smarmy paws on a copy of Brokeback Mountain which was not terribly easy as it's not being published anymore, full stop. (Yes, that's the gay cowboy story) And I have to say that considering it checks in at a whopping 58 pages long there's a whole lot of room for interpretation.

Did I mention that said book is travel-sized, the font is at least 14 pt, and I read it in 90 minutes?

Yeah, so, um, I can't wait to see the movie. I think. If it's true to the text then 'yay, we get smut' - but while I was reading the story I kept thinking 'dude, it's like a short fan fic,' -- only not quite as well written. The entire thing was published in The New Yorker at some point, I believe, and there was some beautiful imagery and I'm not even an imagery girl. So, if you can get a copy you should, but don't, like, wear yourself out or anything. Go read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay instead.

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and yeah. AM SO EXCITED FOR GAY COWBOY SEX. especially with gylenhaal and ledger. for some reason, though, i kind of expected jake to be ennis, and heath to be jack. i don't know. ennis seemed more jake-like. *shrugs*

Wait you mean it's the other way round? But -- but that's not right!

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i know, isn't that weird? i think ennis seems much more like a jake gyllenhaal character, and jack much more a heath ledger sort of character. i guess i read the whole thing assuming jack would be heath and ennis would be jake, so that might be where it came from-- i don't know, though. it just seems like it would be better that way then heath playing ennis.

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That's how I read it as well, I mean when you think about the character descriptions and all, it just seems better with Jake as Ennis. I'm very sad now.