Hi Brendan! I remember you and your profile on IMDb....it's been a while now, but I rememeber thinking we had some non-BBM literary and music tastes in common (I'm thinking it was U2 and Catcher in the Rye?? We'll have to tawk.) Anyway, welcome back to the fray!
I've always put off posting on all the various introductions and getting to know you threads, from the original Pierre Tremblay board to here, so I'll try to make up for that now:
My name is Jenny and I'm a 35-year-old bi woman living in Brooklyn, NY since last April. I've been a big Brokeback fan since seeing the movie opening night on December 9th, 2005 in NYC (and saw it 12 times after that in the theater). Some of the best things about my life are my adorable niece and nephew (and their parents), my wonderful old friends all over the country, and all the new friends and community I've come to know and love here at Chez Tremblay. Among the challenges I deal with are working at a tedious temp job, and the frustrations of having too little time, money, and energy left over each day to play here and also make my many dreams come true.
On that note, I've been more absent than present here for the past 6 or 7 weeks as I am trying to get some things in my life to be the way I want them to be. That means looking for a more fulfilling and better-paying job, and also working on the larger life goal of starting my practice in body-centered voice and movement coaching, for which I've trained and studied for the past 10 years. It's slow going, but I do make progress bit by bit.
As a brokie, I like to do visible and tangible things for our community, and for all brokies, really. To that end I have worked a lot on the IMDb Chez Tremblay/"Big Board" archive that littledarlin, myself, and others created after the IMDb troll attack in March. I have also made several silver double-cowboy-hat-charm-necklaces/keychains for myself and others to wear as a symbol of Jack and Ennis' love. Another project I'm a fan of is the as-yet-to-be-planned brokie convention that we hope to hold next summer in Calgary, Alberta--I can't wait to party, share the elk meat, and drink some whiskey or som'n with everyone a yas!
Perhaps the biggest contribution I've made is the online t-shirt store I created for brokies called revelationtees (see the link in my sig line.) The store has been my way of helping all brokies share and wear their love of Brokeback Mountain. I give my profits to the Matthew Shepard Foundation, which was started in 1998 after Matthew was murdered in a horrible hate crime in Wyoming. I'm doing this because I want to help make the world a safer and better place for all the real-life Jacks and Ennises everwhere. We've got to turn the tide so we can be free to live and love in this world as we are, without fear or shame. Being more like Ennis than I'd like to admit, I battle those and other things regularly. As I integrate the movie more deeply into my life, I hope I can "let be" and find love like Jack and Ennis had.
I love this group of people and am so glad I found everyone here! Even though I'm no longer staying up till 2 am every night with y'all, you're in my heart and soul, and whatever might be difficult in my life, things are always better when I come to BetterMost.
xox,
:-*Jenny
