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Seven years, damn. How does your Brokie experience effect your life these days?

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serious crayons:
I haven't seen the movie in six years. I don't think about it probably even once a week. I lost interest in further analyzing its amazing subtleties years ago.

But it has definitely made a longlasting impact on my life. To this day, I catch myself at least thinking of Brokieisms (someone on Facebook just today asked about religion, and I almost answered, "My folks was agnostic").

I think I understand cinema and art and even literaure much better through deeply analayzing the movie here.

I also feel like I've made what I hope will be longterm connections with friends around the world, with whom I share a semi-secret connection. For example, I'm going this summer to Spain and France and made efforts to connect with Brokies in both countries (though sadly, because of geographic constraints, neither one may work out -- major bummer), but both were super friendly and helpful and, I think, would have liked to see me.

I feel like I've honed my argumentative skills (no comments, please  ;D), and am glad to have interacted with intelligent people whose views are wildly different from my own.

I know stuff like this happens all over the internet, but I feel like we've shared a really unusual and deep and powerful experience that not everybody can claim -- far deeper than anything on Facebook or Twitter -- and that people who didn't have something similar are definitely missing out.

Meryl:
My feelings are pretty much the same, Katherine.  If I weren't on the computer daily and checking in with Brokie friends here and on Facebook, I would probably lapse into occasional Brokeisms and get-togethers as the extent of my Brokeback consciousness.

But I DO check in daily, and as a matter of course I go through periods of really thinking about aspects of the movie.  If it shows up on cable, I almost always watch at least a portion of it.  One thing I mean to do soon is re-read the story.  Often people will quote a sentence from it that I don't remember at all, so it's time for a refresher.

I think if BetterMost were to disappear, I would be bereft, as this has become a part of my identity and I would miss the "semi-secret connection" as you call it.  That's why me end up here.  :-*

CellarDweller:
Wow, it's kind of hard to say.

I can't recall the last time I watched the movie, I guess it was the last "Beyond Brokeback" event that I went to.  I don't think of the movie the way that I used to.  I believe it was Jimmy (gnash) who said that "it went from being about 'Brokeback - the movie' and now it's about 'Brokeback - the people', meaning the other Brokies.

While I don't think of the movie/book much anymore, I think of the Brokies on a daily basis.  My cube is full of pics from Brokie gatherings, and I get excited thinking about future gatherings.

Occasionally a Brokie-ism will escape my lips.  Just this week my supervisor (Maria) made a comment about thinking about something, and I said "You're a real thinker there, Maria!"    If I'm at a bar and a drink comes with a twist, I automatically think of Jack.

serious crayons:
I often wish BetterMost had a "like" button.  :)

Front-Ranger:

--- Quote from: serious crayons on May 25, 2013, 12:33:02 am ---I often wish BetterMost had a "like" button.  :)



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And a poke button. I don't use it on Facebook, but I need one here for certain renegades on the lam.  ;)

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