A you appreciation thread

[Ellemeno]

I was just posting on the 123s of BBM game thread (where we are currently taking turns posting examples from the movie/story about uses of the word 'one' and "one-like" words (once, first, etc.) that appear in the lake scene).

While doing so, I felt a fresh wave of appreciation to have found my peeps here, those who would actually be interested in harvesting nuance from buckets, and rephrasing lines from the movie, and playing ABC games, and sharing how your BBM experience has and is still affecting you.

Not every thread is to my taste, but there is enough here that I find delicious.  Thank you and love,

Clarissa

[dmmb_Mandy]

Ditto, I love y'all. 
 

[DeeDee]

Back at ya! 

For me, it's a little bit of therapy and alot of fun..

[vkm91941]

Yes indeed tremblayans are a diverse and interesting group as are their threads but they all have merit and our menu certainly caters to every taste....as the barker on the midway says "Come one, Come all, Something here for Everyone! Step right this way....

[David]

OMG!  You have no idea how much I appreciate all Y'all and BetterMost!

Well, a few of you know all the losses I've had recently, so you know I would be going nuts without this as some kind of therapy! 

I wish I could hug all of you!   

[henrypie]

Huggity-hug-hug-hug.

Easter bunnies to you all.

[YaadPyar]

[Meryl]

((((((((Fellow Tremblayans and Brokies Everywhere))))))))

[newyearsday]

I'll  never pass up an opportunity to give everyone here my heartfelt love and express my joy at finding and holding dear this diverse group of wacky, funny, insightful, opinionated, beautiful, sensitive, and very human people called the Tremblayans.

*MWA* and thanks to Clarissa for thinking of it--we needed a little dose of hugs after the sometimes quiet and sometimes eventful week we've had.

(and, I'm excited tonight because Andrew and I are workingon making our archive even better!!)

Jenny

[cmr107]

Yep, hugs from me too. I was home this weekend for Easter, and didn't have much time on the computer. I missed you all so much! I would have gone crazy if I didn't find this group of people who, like me, thought it was more than just "a good movie." I'm SO glad I found you guys! 

[EnnisLovesJack]

Amen, y'all. And yee haw!!

I love you all too, my brokie brethren. You guys, through these boards and our beautiful discussions, have sustained me. Like manna in the desert.

No one else in my extra-virtual  (like extracurricular, get it?) life is a dyed-in-the-wool, clinically obssessed, goner brokie with thermometer shattering-ly high grade Brokeback fever. I was alone. Isolated like a Jack or an Ennis. More like a Jack, I guess. You guys have really kept me sane and given me this desperately needed - and from-the-bottom-of-my-heart, deeply appreciated - outlet for my love of Brokeback Mountain. Plus as latjoreme states below, these discussiona and analyses (plural of analysis, right?) have tremendously enriched and deepend my experiene of the film.

Cowboy hugs and kisses to all of you! 

Keren/ELJ

P.S. Philip (and other tech-savvy types), do you recall IMDB mark-ups included a smiley face kissing another smiley the cheek? Whaddaya say, Philip, can you create kissing cowboy smileys for us? I'd also dig cowboy smileys/smilies(sp?) that kiss on the mouth. Reunion scene smileys. Maybe one can even knock the other one's cowboy hat off before kissing commences.....Mmm...OK, that's my smiley wishlist. Thanks for reading. Mwah!

[serious crayons]

Me too!!!!! Sometimes I wonder whether I'd be sane by now if I didn't have you guys. I only know a couple of other people who've even seen the movie, and nobody is anywhere near similarly obsessed. I guess I would have a deeper understanding of what it must be like for Ennis, harboring a secret love but NEVER ABLE TO TALK ABOUT IT!!!! Thank god we don't have to go through that.

But also, I shudder to realize how much less I'd be getting out of the movie without you all. How many of the metaphors and subtleties and nuances would I have missed on my own? I might never have seen the hand holdin or heard the "hey, c'mere," might never have fully grasped the meaning of water or snow or wind, of beans vs. sheep vs. elk, of sky colors vs. earth tones, of the tar-speading scene, of all the bookends and echoes and overlapped words and ... I can tell you beyond a shadow of doubt that I would take the buckets and coffee pots for granted!

Thanks to all you insightful, intelligent, funny, clever, observant, expressive, thoughtful people!

[Daniel]

Allow me also to express the depth of gratitude that I experience to you all for your continual support of (among other things) my insane ramblings as I traverse the mystic operations this film, and my own deep emotional responses, have granted me. To say "Thank you." sounds weak in comparison to what I truly feel, and any number of very's would only further support the inanity that I rather desperately attempt to avoid.

I have only this to say. I honestly, sincerely, genuinely am truly grateful for all of you here on this board. I deeply love every one of you. I  want the best for you, no matter what happens. I want you to be successful and happy in life. And most importantly I want the way that you are honoring this film to affect your life in exactly the way that you need. It is a healing power in a world that sometimes seems power-hungry and selacious. But as the song says, this is a "world that may say that we're wrong." and it does not take into account our own sacred paths that we are walking. I have written many poems in my lifetime, and if even one of them could capture the beauty of the film and of the beloved response to it then I can say that I will not have lived in vain.

Let love reign supreme!