So I had a great Valentines Day. I watched the Shining all alone, for the first time. I must admit, it was a pretty freaky movie, with some especially disturbing scenes. I'd have to say that what added more to the entire malaise of the atmosphere was the music. I mean, the horrible, art-deco hallway carpeting, with colors that hopefully don't exist anymore, except in some out of the way, desert Pic n' Save somewhere between here and Arizona...and the blood red bathroom, where Jack has the conversation with the butler that hacked his family to bits...these things were powerful, visually unsettling, but the score, the sounds, that made me sometimes wonder if my television speaker was on the blink...this is what made the movie truly scary. Sure the acting was jarringly bipolar, and Jack's character echoes with nightmares we have all had, at one point or another, but the music. Before anything had even happened, the music told you that there weren't gay pleasantries to come...just survival horror!!! Well being the day after V-Day, I'd like to comment on gay marriage. The government has no right to condemn it, or even try to regulate it, because its frankly no one's business who you love, and who you want to go into that kind of partnership...for all those who believe that marriage is a sacred rite granted by God, unto his doe-eyed flock, that is fine for them. I'm glad there is some sagacity attached to it, as it hopefully involves more love than duty. But if God condemns people for being gay, then he condemns himself for making them, and he surely condemns those who condemn his creations. Also, if you are one of those who thinks that it is your business, and that you have a responsibility to preserve the sagacity of a religious rite, then work on your own, because there's a 3 in 5 chance that your marriage will fail. Its simply none of our business and that's that!!! If you think their becoming husband and husband, or wife and wife, will dilute your own marriage, then you really need to get a life and stop trying to make us all have nothing but Vanilla sex!!! Because you are the same people who want to get into my bedroom and make sure I do it in the missionary position, and that I'm married first, and that my porn will somehow drip poison into your childrens eyes, and that Janet's breast is the first trumpet of the apocalypse, and that George Bush should be president, and that Jesus loves Israel, and all I have to say is that you should be ashamed of yourself...for being closed minded, and uneducated. And bigots!!!
I love you all, bigot or not...except Dubya.
M
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