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Title: Show Us Your Shrine!
Post by: Front-Ranger on March 20, 2007, 11:15:09 pm
Do you have a shrine to BRokeback Mountain? I do! I'm gonna photograph it for here. But first, I'll describe it. It's simple. Just three things: a lodgepole pine cone, a rock, and a book. The pine cone comes from the top of Brokenback Mountain, and so does the rock. The book is Telegraph Days, by Larry McMurtry. It comes from the library in TenSleep.

I love to see the pine cone and rock together. The pine cone is all tawny and rough like Ennis. It also reminds me of Devil's Tower in Wyoming. The rock is all grey-blue, horizontal, and serene. It reminds me of Jack, and also of the grieving plain that stretches before Devil's Tower.

Tell us about your shrine, or show us. BetterMost yet, after you done told us, you're gonna show us!!
Title: Re: Show Us Your Shrine!
Post by: SFEnnisSF on March 20, 2007, 11:24:57 pm
You've all seen my 'shrine'. 

Muwahahahaha   :laugh:
Title: Re: Show Us Your Shrine!
Post by: Front-Ranger on March 20, 2007, 11:40:54 pm
Aw, c'mon Eric, post it once again. We have a lot some new members who haven't seen it! Whadah I haveta do? Beg??

Title: Re: Show Us Your Shrine!
Post by: Front-Ranger on March 21, 2007, 11:45:28 am
Here is my shrine. I want to see yours!

(http://athena.divshare.com/files/2007/03/21/262696/myshrine.jpg)

Oh, BTW, the book has a stamp that says "DISCARDED" on it, not DECEASED.
Title: Re: Show Us Your Shrine!
Post by: Ellemeno on March 21, 2007, 03:33:12 pm
Lee, I think a Larry McMurtry book from the Ten Sleep library caries a kind of distinction.  Great shrine.  There's a Pinecone Motel near my house.  :)

I don't have one shrine - other than the world, where even some little word or breeze can remind me of what we have.  Barbara goadra got to see the same brown sweater that I wore with Lynne and Truman that makes me feel so Ennis-connected. 

Title: Re: Show Us Your Shrine!
Post by: Front-Ranger on March 25, 2007, 07:22:43 pm
This is what my little shrine reminds me of, and it also reminds me of Devil's Tower, with the grieving plain stretching before it.

(http://athena.divshare.com/files/2007/03/25/285717/thetowerandtheplain.jpg)

Title: Re: Show Us Your Shrine!
Post by: Front-Ranger on June 05, 2007, 11:37:25 pm
Have any of you BBQers added things to your shrine? Tell us about it!!
Title: Re: Show Us Your Shrine!
Post by: Kerry on June 10, 2007, 09:24:54 am

My entire apartment is a shrine to Brokeback Mountain. On permanent display on a lamp table in my living room are my much treasured copies of Annie Proulx's "Close Range" and also "Brokeback Mountain - Story to Screenplay."

Here on my desk (I'm looking at it as I write) is a framed copy of this iconic image:

(http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o126/kez4oz/BBM10.jpg)

On the bookcase in my living room is a framed copy of my favourite still from the movie:

(http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o126/kez4oz/BBM9.jpg)

In my kitchen is a copy of the theatre poster:

(http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o126/kez4oz/BBM52.jpg)

Yep, pretty much everywhere you look at my place, you'll see something to do with Brokeback Mountain. And that's just the way I like it.  :D


Title: Re: Show Us Your Shrine!
Post by: Kerry on June 10, 2007, 09:34:10 am
Oh, I forgot to mention that I carry a copy of "Our Brokeback" (based on the Lord's Prayer) with me wherever I go, in my wallet:

Our Brokeback
Which art in Wyoming
Hallowed be thy icy Peaks
Thy Snow-Melt come
Thy will be done on Grand Teton
As it was in the Big Horn Mountains
Give us this day our daily Beans
And forgive us our four years in the Wilderness
As we forgive those who bear tire-irons against us
And lead us not into the Grieving Plain
But deliver us from Childress and Riverton
For thine is the Love between Cowboys
The Love between sweet Jack and Ennis
For ever and ever
Yee-Haw

Title: Re: Show Us Your Shrine!
Post by: delalluvia on June 14, 2007, 11:06:48 pm
My entire apartment is a shrine to Brokeback Mountain. On permanent display on a lamp table in my living room are my much treasured copies of Annie Proulx's "Close Range" and also "Brokeback Mountain - Story to Screenplay."

Here on my desk (I'm looking at it as I write) is a framed copy of this iconic image:

(http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o126/kez4oz/BBM10.jpg)

On the bookcase in my living room is a framed copy of my favourite still from the movie:

(http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o126/kez4oz/BBM9.jpg)

In my kitchen is a copy of the theatre poster:

(http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o126/kez4oz/BBM52.jpg)

Yep, pretty much everywhere you look at my place, you'll see something to do with Brokeback Mountain. And that's just the way I like it.  :D

These 3 pics are at my desk at work.  Once, when the movie first came out, a fellow employee stopped by my desk.  He got this amazed look on his face (it was easy to guess he was gay) "Is that Brokeback Mountain?"  then after a long pause, said, "Good for you." and walked off.
Title: Re: Show Us Your Shrine!
Post by: Kerry on June 15, 2007, 10:35:12 am
These 3 pics are at my desk at work.  Once, when the movie first came out, a fellow employee stopped by my desk.  He got this amazed look on his face (it was easy to guess he was gay) "Is that Brokeback Mountain?"  then after a long pause, said, "Good for you." and walked off.

I had a similar, quizzical thing happen to me at work. I don't have any BbM photos on display at work, but the screensaver on my PC is a constantant rotation of pics of mountains, snowy peaks and flowery alpine meadows, etc. It doesn't take much to put two and two together, I guess. It was sometime early in 2006. A work colleague had been away on vacation. On the day she returned, we were chatting and she was telling me about her wonderful vacation in France. The highlight of her trip, however, appeared to be the inflight movie she saw en route. Yes, you guessed it! She made a point of telling me that BbM had been one of the in-flight movies, and how much she'd loved it. And yes, there was a tear in her eye as she did so. I cannot recall anyone ever before telling me what in-flight movie they saw on vacation.   ;)   ;)   ;)   :) 
Title: Re: Show Us Your Shrine!
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on June 15, 2007, 11:16:10 am
Aw, c'mon Eric, post it once again. We have a lot some new members who haven't seen it! Whadah I haveta do? Beg??



Maybe he needs one a your matin' calls.  :-\  ;D
Title: Re: Show Us Your Shrine!
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on June 15, 2007, 11:21:38 am
I had a similar, quizzical thing happen to me at work. I don't have any BbM photos on display at work, but the screensaver on my PC is a constantant rotation of pics of mountains, snowy peaks and flowery alpine meadows, etc. It doesn't take much to put two and two together, I guess.  

Well over a year ago I found an autographed poster listed for sale on eBay. I printed out a picture of the poster  ;) and have it framed and hanging over my desk at work. A coworker once asked me, "Is that Heath Ledger's and Jake Gyllenhaal's autograph?"

I replied, "Do you really think that if I had Heath and Jake's autographs I would leave it hanging up here?" We both had a good laugh over that!
Title: Re: Show Us Your Shrine!
Post by: Kerry on June 15, 2007, 11:29:26 am
Well over a year ago I found an autographed poster  listed for sale on eBay. I printed out a picture of the poster  ;) and have it framed and hanging over my desk at work. A coworker once asked me, "Is that Heath Ledger's and Jake Gyllenhaal's autograph?"

I replied, "Do you really think that if I had Heath and Jake's autographs I would leave it hanging up here?" We both had a good laugh over that!

Is this it?
(http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o126/kez4oz/BBM53.jpg)
Title: Re: Show Us Your Shrine!
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on June 15, 2007, 12:12:04 pm
Is this it?
(http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o126/kez4oz/BBM53.jpg)

Actually, no. The one I printed the picture of has Heath's signature in red and Jake's in black, and they did not write their character names under their signatures. Actually, it looks just like the poster that you wrote that you have in your kitchen.

Unfortunately I don't have an electronic image of the picture I printed. Back in those days of early 2006, I was still using dial-up, and downloading pictures was almost impossible. Printing the image wasn't, though.  ;)
Title: Re: Show Us Your Shrine!
Post by: delalluvia on June 15, 2007, 08:59:44 pm
The highlight of her trip, however, appeared to be the inflight movie she saw en route. Yes, you guessed it! She made a point of telling me that BbM had been one of the in-flight movies, and how much she'd loved it. And yes, there was a tear in her eye as she did so. I cannot recall anyone ever before telling me what in-flight movie they saw on vacation.   ;)   ;)   ;)   :) 

This shocks me, honestly.  Wait, I'm going to suppose she was not flying on an American carrier?  Even with the sex and nudity cut, you think you would hear howling from the captive family audience on airlines.
Title: Re: Show Us Your Shrine!
Post by: Kerry on June 16, 2007, 12:30:03 am
This shocks me, honestly.  Wait, I'm going to suppose she was not flying on an American carrier?  Even with the sex and nudity cut, you think you would hear howling from the captive family audience on airlines.

I didn't ask her what carrier it was. However, flying between Australia and Europe, it was probably QANTAS, the Australian airline. I'm lead to believe QANTAS is very gay. Hard to find a straight steward on a QANTAS flight, I believe!!!  ;)  :D
Title: Re: Show Us Your Shrine!
Post by: Kerry on June 16, 2007, 12:32:25 am
Actually, no. The one I printed the picture of has Heath's signature in red and Jake's in black, and they did not write their character names under their signatures. Actually, it looks just like the poster that you wrote that you have in your kitchen.

Unfortunately I don't have an electronic image of the picture I printed. Back in those days of early 2006, I was still using dial-up, and downloading pictures was almost impossible. Printing the image wasn't, though.  ;)

Here's one of my favourite BbM pics, signed by Jake, as Jack:

(http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o126/kez4oz/BBM41.jpg)
Title: Re: Show Us Your Shrine!
Post by: ffrn on June 17, 2007, 08:46:15 am
This shocks me, honestly.  Wait, I'm going to suppose she was not flying on an American carrier?  Even with the sex and nudity cut, you think you would hear howling from the captive family audience on airlines.

I didn't ask her what carrier it was. However, flying between Australia and Europe, it was probably QANTAS, the Australian airline. I'm lead to believe QANTAS is very gay. Hard to find a straight steward on a QANTAS flight, I believe!!!  ;)  :D

The third time I saw BBM was on a flight from Sydney to LA in May last year.  And yes it was Qantas and no, NOTHING was cut.
Title: Re: Show Us Your Shrine!
Post by: Kerry on June 17, 2007, 08:57:39 am
This shocks me, honestly.  Wait, I'm going to suppose she was not flying on an American carrier?  Even with the sex and nudity cut, you think you would hear howling from the captive family audience on airlines.

I don't fly myself, but I am told by those who do fly that the screen is mounted on the back of the seat in front of you, and that you get to choose what film you want to watch. So, presumably, you can also choose what you don't want to watch (or what your children watch). Is that correct? I don't know about this personally. Just second-hand.
Title: Re: Show Us Your Shrine!
Post by: ffrn on June 17, 2007, 09:44:18 am
Yes Kerry, that's correct.  There's dozens of movies to chose from too.