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Title: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: silkncense on May 09, 2006, 11:56:41 am
I enjoy the little pics people have & sometimes have wondered why they were chosen?  Although I am more of an Ennis, I love Jack's 'effort' with life.

My favorite quote, used by Jack as reassurance to Ennis twice in the film (before the 2nd tent scene & when Ennis collapses during the lake confrontation), is "It's alright; s' alright".

And so, I love the picture of Jack, bruised, somewhat rejected, yet still making an effort by wisfully asking, "You goina do this again next summer?"

How about yours?
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: chefjudy on May 09, 2006, 11:59:02 am
 :) I chose mine because the pics in this collage are all happy/contented and that is the way I like to remember Jack and Ennis.................. :D
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: Lumière on May 09, 2006, 12:13:48 pm
I chose this B&W pic of Clint Eastwood because he was the first cowboy I fell in love with.  :)
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: EnnisDelMar on May 09, 2006, 12:18:36 pm
 cause Naomi Watts..........................................;)
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: littleguitar on May 09, 2006, 12:43:13 pm
Mine clearly has nothing to do with brokeback.... I guess I just wanted to display a young sexy david bowie in all of his glory  ::) Ahhh I love me some Bowie....
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: slayers_creek_oth on May 09, 2006, 12:51:59 pm
Because I like Jarhead..... :)
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: YaadPyar on May 09, 2006, 01:21:09 pm
'Cause it's just gorgeous, and so reminiscent of the beginning and ending scenes of the Ennis riding in a truck down the mountain as the sunlight begins to change.

Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: DeeDee on May 09, 2006, 01:38:23 pm
Have you seen my avatar???  :o
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: slayers_creek_oth on May 09, 2006, 01:39:58 pm
Have you seen my avatar???  :o

LOL
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: serious crayons on May 09, 2006, 01:53:59 pm
I wanted a picture of Ennis, because I like to see him whenever I can. But I am inept with photo stuff, so when I  finally took the time to figure out how to do an avatar, I just grabbed the first beautiful Ennis picture (redundant phrase!) I could find, which was on a message that Julie posted. There are probably some I would like even better, such as the one in the upper left corner of chefjudy's avatar. But this one was handy and it certainly meets my standards for beauty!
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: Ellemeno on May 09, 2006, 02:09:01 pm
Because all the others I tried came out too tiny and dark.  This (the tree and sunset one, for posterity, after I've moved on to another) was the first one I was satisfied with.  And it reminds me of us (the branches), and nature (Our Film), and the beautiful melancholy of sunset (Our Film's tender, sweet yet tragic blissfulness).  Something like that.
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: silkncense on May 09, 2006, 02:11:57 pm
YES DeeDee - As you know, I even sent you a PM about it!

Love it.

And latjoreme - That is one of my favorite Ennis pics - probably cause that is where Jack is saying, "It's alright..."

PS  Clarissa - Did you ever get to the Crest??
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: ednbarby on May 09, 2006, 02:42:44 pm
I chose one of Jack because he's come to represent all that is good to me in this world.  He's not  perfect, of course, but he's passionate, open, optimistic, and unafraid.  I chose this particular shot of him first because I love this shot from the movie - when he looks down on second thought rather than approach and introduce himself to Ennis when Ennis isn't ready, and second because I love the composition - I love the way the various shades of blue in the background meet the black of his hat and eyebrows and lashes and the white of his face and then come full circle with the blue of his shirt.  Makes me think of that Kenny Wayne Shepherd (ironic, ain't it?) song called "Blue on Black" ("Blue on black, tears on a river, push on a shove, it don't mean much.  Joker on jack, match on a fire, cold on ice, a deadman's touch.  Whisper on a scream doesn't change a thing, doesn't bring you back - blue on black.")
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: DeeDee on May 09, 2006, 03:02:59 pm
Hey Lat, try these..2 of my favorites.
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: serious crayons on May 09, 2006, 03:10:05 pm
Hey Lat, try these..2 of my favorites.

Thanks, DeeDee! Mine too! Now I'll have to remember how to work that avatar thing ...
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: RouxB on May 09, 2006, 05:40:37 pm
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Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: slayers_creek_oth on May 09, 2006, 05:51:17 pm
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YOu know RouxB.....yours looks an awful lot like Ennis... :laugh:
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: FuzzyChanny on May 09, 2006, 06:02:16 pm
I chose this pic because I love it basically. I love the way they're intertwined and (although this doesn't have much relevance) I love how it was inspired by the picture from Titanic. I was looking for picture to go with "Youth is watsed on the Young..." and it was either this or one of them fighting (which would have reinforced how youth is wasted on the young) but I decided to go for the slightly happier picture.
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: Becky on May 09, 2006, 06:08:27 pm
Well one thing: Jake! Also I think it goes with the "no one can resist the Twist" caption.

Chan: Dill is bacK! ;D
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: FuzzyChanny on May 09, 2006, 06:10:40 pm
Chan: Dill is bacK! ;D

Lol, I saw!! Woooh!!!

PS: We should so set up an account for our royalties.
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: Becky on May 09, 2006, 06:15:25 pm
Yeah we would be millionnaires by now if we had done it earlier. I am off to bed now, but try my quiz if you have time. I will talk to you tomorrow.
Beckala :-*

DILL! ;D
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: FuzzyChanny on May 09, 2006, 06:18:10 pm
Yeah we would be millionnaires by now if we had done it earlier. I am off to bed now, but try my quiz if you have time. I will talk to you tomorrow.
Beckala :-*

DILL! ;D

Bexs, I tried it earlier but it kicked my ass!! I plan on trying it again once I've received my DVD this weekend (hopefully).

I'm tired too. Good night.
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: CoyotePiper on May 09, 2006, 09:36:52 pm
I liked this avatar 'cause its an image from a scene which was cut. Its from the "Ennis and Jack encounter the hippies" scene. In the full size pic you can see the hippies in the background.

Link Here (http://www.bioscop.cz/_web/_filmy/b_zkrocena_hora/fotografie/058_zkrocena_hora.jpg)
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: littleguitar on May 09, 2006, 10:12:26 pm
Thinking of the hippie scene still cracks me up...  :laugh:
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: ednbarby on May 10, 2006, 12:45:59 pm
I liked this avatar 'cause its an image from a scene which was cut. Its from the "Ennis and Jack encounter the hippies" scene. In the full size pic you can see the hippies in the background.

Is that who they got the doobie from?  ;)
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: delalluvia on May 10, 2006, 07:12:09 pm
'Cause I like Angelina's style and her way of life.
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: Sheyne on May 13, 2006, 11:24:25 pm

Golly, I make too many changes to my avatar to warrant a single justification.. lol.. I usually keep a pic of me on there. Just so people know who they're talking to.

But I put Jake G on there sometimes too. Don't reeeeally think THAT needs to be explained does it??  ;D
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: Ray on May 14, 2006, 12:37:39 am
My avatar chose me!
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: IdahoLonely on May 14, 2006, 01:15:02 am
My story isnt as interesting as some of yours. I have been on Phil's Bettermost since around the 2nd week it started. I didnt have an avatar/pic because I could barely admit I saw the Mountain. I have had a rough time this year so far with lots of stuff in my head about what the film said to me and then a car wreck and now figurin myself out all from a state like Idaho which is about as closed as you can be to different thinking about stuff. I am now brave enough to put my pic up as an avatar here because Im not afraid anymore. I still dont know exactly who I am inside but at least I am thinking about it for the first time ever in my whole life!! I cant believe I am so different after a movie. I have done more crying about things this year than I have done my whole entire life. You folks may not know how much this place is important to me because without it I'd still be the shuffling around in my life going nowhere.

So now I can put my pic up here cuz I know I am with my buds (heh Phil hates that word so I can say friends too!!)
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: Ellemeno on May 14, 2006, 01:27:18 am
PS  Clarissa - Did you ever get to the Crest??

Sorry, LJ, just ran across this.  Yes, I went 2 or 3 times, I saw the second to last showing of BBM in Seattle.

Hey IdahoLonely, I love the word "Buds," and love when Ennis uses it in the film.  Glad you're here.  Glad I'm here.
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: Ray on May 14, 2006, 01:40:23 am
My story isnt as interesting as some of yours. I have been on Phil's Bettermost since around the 2nd week it started. I didnt have an avatar/pic because I could barely admit I saw the Mountain. I have had a rough time this year so far with lots of stuff in my head about what the film said to me and then a car wreck and now figurin myself out all from a state like Idaho which is about as closed as you can be to different thinking about stuff. I am now brave enough to put my pic up as an avatar here because Im not afraid anymore. I still dont know exactly who I am inside but at least I am thinking about it for the first time ever in my whole life!! I cant believe I am so different after a movie. I have done more crying about things this year than I have done my whole entire life. You folks may not know how much this place is important to me because without it I'd still be the shuffling around in my life going nowhere.

So now I can put my pic up here cuz I know I am with my buds (heh Phil hates that word so I can say friends too!!)


Hey mate.  It's good that you feel safe here.  So do I.  It's a great feeling hunh!
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: Pipedream on May 14, 2006, 03:36:48 pm

Haha, my picture was a piece of hard work. So I just had to turn it into my avatar!  :laugh:
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: DeeDee on May 14, 2006, 03:45:25 pm
Will repeat my former post on this topic, just for the heck of it.

Have you seen my avatar??? :o
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: Pipedream on May 14, 2006, 03:50:48 pm
Will repeat my former post on this topic, just for the heck of it.

Have you seen my avatar??? :o

Lol. Yeah, DeeDee, yours is unbeatable! Although, these fantasies aren't exactly healthy ya know...  ;D

Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: DeeDee on May 14, 2006, 03:56:55 pm
Lol. Yeah, DeeDee, yours is unbeatable! Although, these fantasies aren't exactly healthy ya know...  ;D




I gotta have someting....My mind is a dark and scary place....lol :-\
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: Pipedream on May 14, 2006, 04:11:14 pm
I gotta have someting....My mind is a dark and scary place....lol :-\

Hmmm... Don't worry about it! ;D

(http://www.cool-pix.de/pix321/00008507.jpg)

Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: DecaturTxCowboy on May 14, 2006, 07:33:48 pm
Becasue its a one of a kind!

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Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: ptannen on May 15, 2006, 12:46:04 pm
I am now brave enough to put my pic up as an avatar here because Im not afraid anymore. I still dont know exactly who I am inside but at least I am thinking about it for the first time ever in my whole life!! I cant believe I am so different after a movie. I have done more crying about things this year than I have done my whole entire life. You folks may not know how much this place is important to me because without it I'd still be the shuffling around in my life going nowhere.

That's all wonderful and I am so happy for you!  The movie is real powerful!  I'm 57, I came at at 29, and after seing BBM eight times in the theater, I STILL cry each time I see it and sometime when I just listen to the music!

I like your picture, with that great hat.

Pete in SF
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: j.U.d.E. on May 15, 2006, 12:59:57 pm
So now I can put my pic up here cuz I know I am with my buds (heh Phil hates that word so I can say friends too!!)
  ;D

I chose my avatar because of HEATH!! I am also definitely more an Ennis than a Jack.

Then I started becoming more and more a Jake fan, rather than a Heath fan, but I came back 180° to Heath, after I got the results from celebmatch.com!  :laugh: 

So after trying about 5 or 6 different avatars, this one stuck.

~ j U d E
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: cmr107 on May 15, 2006, 03:01:45 pm
Jude, my roommate has that page from Rolling Stone with your avatar pic up on our wall. It's quite appreciated!  ;)
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: LilyValley on May 16, 2006, 04:19:03 am
Well, I guess it's because it's always been by avatar for all kinds of different boards and also for Messenger. One day I was looking on the net for BBM pictures and then, like a beacon of light it shone out. I guess there are better pictures, but I'm just so used to it. One day I changed it for another picture of Jake G. and it just looked wrong. :( So it stayed.  ;D
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: j.U.d.E. on May 16, 2006, 04:28:32 am
Jude, my roommate has that page from Rolling Stone with your avatar pic up on our wall. It's quite appreciated!  ;)
Cool! And great idea! I have the RS issue too.. but I haven't had posters on my wall for quite some time now...  ;D

~ j U d E
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: opinionista on May 19, 2006, 01:00:02 pm
I realized I didn't have an avatar after reading this post. Well, I got myself one. I've chosen a beach from Puerto Rico because it is where I wish I were right now!
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: CellarDweller on July 04, 2007, 02:56:43 pm
because I like the way I look in that pic!
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: MaineWriter on July 04, 2007, 05:17:52 pm
Because I like the way Hugh looks in that pic...HAWT is good as my friend Paul says...

L
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: notBastet on July 04, 2007, 06:02:04 pm
I like Jake's expression........  strikes me as, "are you kidding me?" or, "yeah, right........" or, "is that sort of behavior really necessary?"

I think stuff like that in my head about a thousand times a day.
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: Ellemeno on July 04, 2007, 10:40:25 pm
Gosh, I hadn't read this thread in over a year.  I've had a lot of avatars under the bridge in that time.  :)
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: chefjudy on July 05, 2007, 04:34:19 pm
 :) I've never changed mine because this is how I want to always remember the boys - so happy and in love :D
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: Ellemeno on July 05, 2007, 05:16:54 pm
Judy!  Good to see you!  :)
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: RouxB on July 05, 2007, 10:32:14 pm
Hey Judy! You still pop up in my AIM whenever you are on line so I always feel you are near.

This is my second avatar. I am looking for a new one and my choice will always be of Ennis and Jack because they are what brought me here. I have to honor that.

 O0
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: ifyoucantfixit on July 05, 2007, 10:44:01 pm


     Because I come from the land of volcanos.  I think this is a beautiful pic of
       Mount St. Helens.  My middle name is Helen.
        And because it reminds me of the lake scene
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: chefjudy on July 06, 2007, 09:05:14 am
 :)  thanks Rouxb and Clarissa for the kind words :-*  I'm never far and check this site daily even though I don't post much :D
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: Sashca1007 on July 06, 2007, 02:52:04 pm
JACK'S PANTS -

%% What's to explain?!%%   :laugh:

Okay, okay....  I specifically cropped this image to accompany me in my role as 'JACK'S PANTS' on our Performance Thread, and...well...  does anyone NOT like it?  ;)     Those muscular thighs.... Wranglers wrapped tightly around every curve and bulge..... hands cockily placed on hips......   

Let's take a closer look, shall we?

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/sashca1007/BBM/thCUpants.jpg)
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: welliwont on July 08, 2007, 05:43:47 pm
JACK'S PANTS -

%% What's to explain?!%%   :laugh:

Okay, okay....  I specifically cropped this image to accompany me in my role as 'JACK'S PANTS' on our Performance Thread, and...well...  does anyone NOT like it?  ;)     Those muscular thighs.... Wranglers wrapped tightly around every curve and bulge..... hands cockily placed on hips......   

Let's take a closer look, shall we?

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/sashca1007/BBM/thCUpants.jpg)

beautiful!!!  I'm in love   :-* :-*
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: Pipedream on July 08, 2007, 06:13:24 pm
I have had a couple of avatars now. The newest one is something my little daughter made in her Kindergarten: an owl, stiched on cardboard. The original is glued to the cupboard next to my desk. Well, you know my special affiliation with owls, dont'cha?

 ;)

(http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j131/pipedream_photos/Schrank.jpg)
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: Meryl on July 12, 2007, 11:43:08 am
All hail the PT for inspiring such avatars!  Melinda and Anke, yours rock!  8)

Much as I love the HP, though, I think I'll always have my Ennis avatar, being an Ennisite and Heathen forever and aye.  :)
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: j.U.d.E. on July 12, 2007, 11:56:13 am
I once was deeply and madly in love with dead Dean.. I was 13/14 at the time and had seen all his major films by then..

Haven't seen any of his films in years, but his bio-film, which shed even more light into his way of life.

j. U. d. E.
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: Front-Ranger on July 12, 2007, 01:24:43 pm

     Because I come from the land of volcanos.  I think this is a beautiful pic of
       Mount St. Helens.  My middle name is Helen.
        And because it reminds me of the lake scene

That is a beautiful name and a beautiful picture! Question: Why did Mt. St. Helens erupt? Answer: She forgot to take her earth control pills!
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: serious crayons on July 12, 2007, 01:28:01 pm
I will never change mine because it's red. If I'm looking for my last post on a subject, I can quickly scan up or down a thread and it stands out.

Plus, it's of Ennis.  ;D
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on July 13, 2007, 06:55:37 pm
Because I got tired of lookin' at my own mug, maybe?  8)
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: Meryl on July 13, 2007, 09:07:54 pm
That's a cute avatar, Jeff!  I know I always see you that way.  ;)  8)
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on July 13, 2007, 10:27:55 pm
That's a cute avatar, Jeff!  I know I always see you that way.  ;)  8)

Pooh!  ;D
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: Front-Ranger on February 06, 2009, 12:12:56 am
My current avatar is a sculpture of two frolicing horses that I bought at Goodwill. I light the candles around it at night on my little BBM altar, especially when the full moon is near.
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: Kerry on February 06, 2009, 11:00:59 pm
My present avatar shows Alexander the Great in profile with the horns of Amon. The Greek underneath reads  "Alexander the Great."

2,400 years before Ennis & Jack, there was Alexander & Hephaestion. 

Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: horo04 on February 07, 2009, 01:33:18 am
My current avatar is a sculpture of two frolicing horses that I bought at Goodwill. I light the candles around it at night on my little BBM altar, especially when the full moon is near.
Mmm....full moon? Altar? This sounds like a call for an esbat ritual!
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: Front-Ranger on February 07, 2009, 02:00:29 pm
Mmm....full moon? Altar? This sounds like a call for an esbat ritual!

What's that, friend? Do tell more!!
Title: Re: What is the reason you chose your Avatar?
Post by: horo04 on February 07, 2009, 05:28:39 pm
What's that, friend? Do tell more!!

Sorry, thought you would know what a esbat ritual is.  I've read in your past posts that you seem to a have had a passing interest in pagan/or Wicca. An Esbat ritual is a ritual concerning the phases of the moon in the Wicca religion. But it really wasn't a serious quote....no need for an esbat party! ;D