I am hopeless ... well and truly hopeless.

[apocalypsos]

So I'm back from seeing Brokeback Mountain.

*sighs* I want that.

I mean, not the badness and the mean people and stuff. And no, before anyone asks, not Heath Ledger or Jake Gyllenhaal, although I wouldn't throw either one away if given them as a late Christmas present or something.

But, you know ... *gestures in the general direction of the movie theater where it's playing* ... THAT.

That's probably why I'm still single. Mmm-hmm.

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[ficangel.livejournal.com]

I saw it this afternoon, and...yeah. That kind of reckless, all-consuming love that really doesn't care who it hurts (which is kind of a bad way of putting it, but...yeah) and is the very opposite of mundane. That whole force of nature thing.

Which really proves that my mysanthropy and the fact that I spent a lot of high school in the library have caught up with me.

[chaosphaere.livejournal.com]

Ah, the longing. Unfortunately it's usually what we can't really HAVE that inspires that kind of longing. Sucks. I'd love to be with someone who I at least for *some time* got to long for. It's never happened with anyone I've actually been with.

[tania.livejournal.com]

It can happen. I've been with my boy for almost five years now and he recently joined the Army Reserve, taking him away from me for a month at a time over two months - right before and right after Christmas.

And I long for him while he's away... all the time. Everything I do, I do without him, consciously aware he's not there, feeling oddly like when I'm happy I'm just playing a part, when I'm working I'm just passing time 'til I see him again.

At the same time, a longterm relationship always falls into the "mundane" sometimes - comfortable familiarity. That has it's appeal too.

[chaosphaere.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. I feel like that with my (male) best friend - like we've known each other too long for me to feel any attraction. I almost always feel more attraction to people I have just known.

BTW, love the handle. I have one of my own and live with six, total :)

[stone-princess.livejournal.com]

I want someone to kiss me like they kiss after not seeing each other for four years. Yeah, that.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

OMG YES. That was just so damn perfect.

[thesumo.livejournal.com]

Apparently no theater in the state of NC is allowing the showing of Brokeback Mountain. Thank you, Bible belt.
*returns to lurking*

[weetzie21.livejournal.com]

Are you sure? My sister lives in Carrboro and she says it's playing there.

[thesumo.livejournal.com]

I knew as soon as I said that it would turn out to be just a rumor. I don't know the story behind that one, but I just looked again and one theater in Charlotte is playing it. They play everything at that theater though- it's the only one that played "Dreamers" a few years ago. Oops :)

[snowpiratess.livejournal.com]

That's exactly what I thought when I read the short story for the first time, even though it made me cry.

*sigh* Sometimes it's a little depressing being a twentysomething single girl with unrealistic expectations from reading too much, no?

[rani23.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I here you.