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getting hit hard by offhand revelations (story discussion)
mlewisusc:
Post to find later
Toast:
The New Yorker Magazine
Just a note to remind everyone that it was on October 13, 1997
NINE YEARS AGO
that Annie Proulx saw the publication of
Brokeback Mountain
in this edition of The New Yorker Magazine.
since then it has appeared in their magazine as
a movie review,
a spoken word recording by Suzy Amis
and grist for their cartoons
What if I dont want to be Jack or Ennis.
Thank You Annie and The New Yorker
for getting Brokeback off to a start.
serious crayons:
Nice post, Barbara.
:)
serious crayons:
Yours too, Mel.
:)
Mikaela:
--- Quote from: nakymaton on October 13, 2006, 02:49:24 pm ---With all the Tremblayans celebrating their first six months on Bettermost, I started thinking about my own anniversaries. I'll have been on Bettermost for six months next week, but more importantly to me, I first read the story almost a year ago, on October 23, 2005. I found the exact date by hunting through my livejournal... and I want to post my first reaction to the story here, in honor of the anniversary of the story's original publication.
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October 25, 2005
So this weekend I was introduced to this short story by Annie Proulx (yes it is profic, but there is a copy posted on line), and I immediately read it again, and again, and again. And then I hunted down the trailer for the movie. And then I watched the trailer several times. And then I got on google and started looking for more information, even though I had other things I should have been doing.
Some of you might recall that you've known me to go through this behavior before. This is what I do when I get obsessed about something. Wheeee!
--- End quote ---
I'm completely certain that that particular LJ entry of yours was the first time I ever heard of Brokeback Mountain. :) In that sense I'll soon be having my 1-year anniversary too. It's all thanks to you, Mel! :-*
I continued reading bits and pieces about it in LJ-land as the weeks progressed into November, getting more curious..... Watched the trailer, more than once........started reading stuff about the film online........bought "Close Range" when visiting London on 2nd December, and read the short story for the first time immediately after that. (I remember the huge thrill of finding the book with the movie poster as front. The paperback was then not yet featured prominently in London's biggest bookshop - I had to search for it. And one of the smaller Odeon cinemas in central London had a tiny little notice about upcoming premieres, where BBM was one - I was so excited! ) The first BBM-related entry in my own LJ, a very mundane one having to do with movie ratings, is dated December 6 - and after that there was no stopping me and I've gone on about it endlessly.
Of course there's this special "before and after feeling" attached to January 22, which was when I finally got to see the actual film. Reeling for days afterwards, despite knowing so much about it beforehand. Felt like I'd been hit over the head. Could hardly talk about it. Couldn't find the words, neither spoken nor written, for a while.
So........ one whole year of BBM. It's been a fantastic, rewarding and enriching ride, and it ain't over yet. :) :)
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