Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond > Brokeback Mountain Open Forum
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EnnisLovesJack:
--- Quote from: kelda_shelton on April 02, 2006, 08:08:42 am ---Hello everyone.
I am Kelda and am 24 from Scotland.
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Hi Kelda,
I love your country! I spend 10 days there in 2001, in Edinburgh, on Loch Ness by Urquhart (sp?) Castle, and on the Isle of Skye. I loved every minute of it. The breath-taking scenery, gorgeous music. rich history, and the warm, friendly, jovial people. And the killer, knee-weakening accents! I know, it's we Americans who have the accents. Forgive my linguocentrism. ;) Something we still chuckle over that happened to my dad when we were i Edinburgh....My dad had to take a bus out to a car rental place. He wasn't sure which bus would take him there. A bus pulled up and my dad asked the driver if the bus was going where he needed. The bus driver couldn't understand my dad's American accent, and asked him to repeat the question. Still no dice. So he let that bus go. But the same thing happened with the next bus. And the third one! No one could decipher my dad's American accent! I love that.
Anyhow, the Scottish "accent" (can't think of a good neutral term) is my absolute favorite in the whole wide world! If I can find a Scottish Jew (with whom I can fall in-love) to marry I will be the happiest woman on earth! Waking up to that every morning would be a thrill. Years ago, I actually dreamt I had a Scottish accent surgically implanted! If only that were possible! Still, someday, I'd like to get a dialect coach to help me cultivate an accurate one. Boy, I'm gushing. Hope you like gushing. :laugh:
Cheers,
Keren/ELJ
luigival:
So much to do, so much life to live, and SO LITTLE TIME!!!! :-\ There just ain't never enough time, never enough, is there Jack? Dealing with finity has been a major existential struggle for me the last year, or so. A very dear friend of mine coined a phrase I now find myself using often: "sucks being finite." Well, it does. And I don't mean mortality, per se, though that sure figures in there. But mostly I mean that time is a limited and finite resource, much like money. And, the older we get, energy. (I wince at the sadness of these cold hard truths.) So many books so little time applies to much mor than books. It applies to everything!!!
Ciao Keren,
and welcome/benvenuta to Bettermost. You're right! there's never enough time, never enough...
Luigi
BBMGrandma:
My goodness....WELCOME to all our new people...<too many to name here> and I HOPE you all find a peaceful home here at our little campfire!! I've been away from our forum here...for a bit of mourning I needed to do....after losing my DEAREST friend to AIDS!! I just couldn't seem to get my 'thinking' together well enough to say ANYTHING close to intelligible. I THINK I'm getting close now though...finally!!
I was finally getting it together after my traumatic upheaval due to Brokeback Mountain and our 'boys'. And then my friend decided to give up the ghost. That KICKED me waaaaaaay back for a while. I'm like ALL of my fellow Brokaholics here in our cozy place. I was BLOWN away too....like nothing had EVER done to me before. I was stunned....paralyzed emotionally....felt like a volcano was about to erupt...DEEP inside my body and spirit.
I'm stepping out now....again! I'm starting to see the sunshine in the clearing...I can smell the fresh moss as Ennis and Jack move slowly on their path. I can inhale the sweetness of their love for each other....I can feel the warmth of their embrace. Ahhhhh...Brokeback...you've changed my life forever.
But enough about MY feelings....it's SO wonderful to read your posts....and relish the thoughts from all of you....and wrap my arms around each and every one of you. Again....my most sincere welcome to you ALL!! And a warm loving HUG....to all of my 'already pals' who have helped sustain me through the sorrow I've been through.
I love you......MUCH LOVE....Nancy :-*
Juan:
Hi everybody,
Well, finally I am here, thanks to Ray and Jude Wang. I should be long time ago as I received the invitation a month ago but just too busy to explore in here. Still busy and actually working in the office but decided to 'sneak in' for a little while and say hello to everybody.
For those that have been chatting in Pierre Tremblay, you should know me. But since I am new here, I would just have a brief introduction about myself. My name is Juan, in Cardiff, Wales, UK and I am 32 years old. Love Brokeback Mountain and have been always a fan of Ang Lee.
And guess what? I have just received my BBM DVD today through post as it is being released in the UK today. Can't wait to watch the interviews in there but I would have to wait till I finished my gym and Yoga session this evening ;)
OK, got to get back to work now before the boss catches me :)
Later.
Juan
EnnisLovesJack:
Hi Juan,
You're from Cardiff, Wales? I'm from Cardiff, California! Our full name is Cardiff by the Sea; same with your town, right?
I've visited Wales, briefly, and loved it. Stayed in Llandudno, where Alice Liddell (immortalized by Lewis Carroll as Alice in Wonderland) used to summer with her family. Enjoyed roaming Conwy Castle, rode the little train up Snowdonia in Llanberis, Port Meirion, and that town with the longest name in the world, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch. (For non Welsh speakers, like myself, the name translates as "The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave.")
Do you speak Welsh?
Anyhow, welcome to BetterMost.
ELJ
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