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I managed to catch this film at the Sydney Film Festival a month ago. I've bee a massive JGL since the 3rd Rock days so this was a must-see for me. I had high-expectations going in and the film managed to beat those into the ground. It's joyous (even if it's about a break up), imaginative and down-right entertaining. There is a musical sequence which is absolutely magical. Probably would have ended up as my favourite of the festival had it not been for those damn dolphins (The Cove - on limited release 31st July. Another must see.)

Dom!! Welcome back, dude! This place has seriously missed you. Here's hoping we see more of you

Here are the cards in question for those curious...

Lol. Sorry guys. Make that "TV industry slang". After we saw them embracing outside the cube, they had a quick interview with Lachlan, saying how happy he was.

I was so happy hearing this this morning as I've followed Matthew's story since first hearing about it earlier this year. Wish I stayed up last night to watch it happen. I was quite interested in Channel 7's (the host broadcaster) and their rival Channel 9's nightly news service when reporting Matthews's triumph. I wasn't expecting much in the way of mentioning sexuality and I guess Channel 7 met expectations by showing Matthew and his partner, Lachlan, embracing outside the cube, as well as airing a grab from Lachlan - without categorically stating Matt's sexuality. Channel 9 on the other hand had a little more backstory in explaining his history and his decision to come out as gay before going to the games. Though I was quite puzzled by the pointed use of referring to Lachlan as a "friend". I guess there isn't much to complain about, the point is still getting across. Congrats Matt!

Thanks everyone for their kind wishes. I had a great day (even though I had to work ) Partying is being done next weekend, so let's hope its a great one!

Happy Birthday Rich_e!!! Hope it's a good one!

You should definitely give this a shot. I managed to catch this at the Sydney Film Festival last year and I liked it very much. It was well made, touching and extremely funny. I particularly liked Kelly and her sarcastic attitude to the whole situation. Highly recommended.

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Woohoo! Kevin's getting some lovin'!!! :wub: Congrats man

Woot!!! Happy 24th Dom!!!! Hope you return to us, soon.

Wow. Nice fantasy you got there. Mind if I share? For some reason I felt the need to shout "You go sister!" as soon as I read this. I definitely ain't a fan of American spelling. ("Mom" gives me the irrits)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEVIN! Hope you have a brilliant day!

Yay! BIG congrats

Aw, thanks guys! I wasn't really expecting a great day, but it turned out to be effin awesome! Ended with a party that I'm still recovering from and (luckily) won't soon forget.

No. Succinct, but the truth. And there haven't been many candidates but that's a whole other issue. I thought I was in love once. I'm one of those tragic stereotypical gay boys that fall in love with their best friend. Woe was me. Fast forward a few years; add a little hindsight and all it was was a little crush and a whole lot of wish fulfillment. But that's a story for another time. I believe in love, or rather, believe in the hope of love. A lot. To the point where I was momentarily saddened that yourself doesn't want something like that. But I'm not irrational to think that not everybody wants to fall in love. Me? I'm hoping for the wife and 2.5 kids scenario or whatever the gay equivalent maybe. Pipe dream? Ask me again in 30 years. Alex

Here's some interesting titbits I found. This came from an interview with Anthem magazine: "This is kind of embarrassing, but I recently put my name into a search engine and someone posted, is Joseph Gordon-Levitt gay? and the answer posted was: Is he an alien? because I played [one on 3rd Rock]. Right now I'm in Toronto playing a psychopathic murderer. And recently I played someone who was in the U.S. army in Iraq. So it's like, what's harder? Kissing a dude or killing people? I would hope that I can feel at least a bit of the horror of what it must be like, when I was playing a soldier, how hard it must be, the hell they go through. So, kissing Topher Grace is like, whatever." Though perhaps the most intriguing would be this video he made himself, entitled "Pictures of A**holes," and posted on his website. He turned the cameras on some Paparazzi that were following him and began filming them with the video camera he had and asking them why they were taking photos of him. What makes this interesting is that he was with a male friend at the time and hence why they were taking photos. Hope that fuels the fires.

I read this least night and went through the same thoughts that Viv did. Eli's naivety had me screaming at him by the end. Open your eyes, man!! Loved your descriptions of Devon (and the name!) and couldn't help but immediately fall in love with the character. Well done, Comicality!

Ahhhhh.....the joys of retail. Happy Anniversary :2thumbs: Hope you and the man have a great day!!

Very tragic indeed. The Carolina Scribbler is one of those names that cannot be ignored in online gay fiction. All my best to Johnny and family during these hard times. Alex

A HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the master storyteller! Hope you have a great day!!!!

I'm putting it out there that I'm a big fan of BSG, even to the point of bucking the trend that the second half of this season was lacklustre. Personally "Dirty Hands" was one of my favourite eps, and not the worst as some people are suggesting (that, to this day is Blackmarket of last season). I absolutely loved the finale and the return of Starbuck, even though I knew it was coming from the moment she died. Though I didn't foresee that she would know the way to Earth. The trial - excellent. What I also loved was the slow reveal of four of the remaining 5 cylons. How they came together, to that room with the music blaring and the symbolic square on the floor (4 sides, anyone?). Excellent television right there. And that final song - fabulous. A re-imagining of Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower, with a lovely Middle-Easter-Indian flavour that suited the BSG universe. OMG I'm babbling. LOL Anyway, least it's not exactly a complete wait til 2008. We've got the TV/DVD movie about the Pegasus (before it was destroyed), which will mean the return to our screens the excellent Michelle Forbes. Yippee. Geek. Out.

I agree with you about how it all depends on context, tone and the person whose lips the word come from. Faggot I don't think I will ever be comfortable with. Its too much of a hateful word to ever become neutered into common speech and you make a very sensible connection to a certain 'N' word. I also feel a connection to a certain 'C' word, in its hatefulness and level of distaste the word brings. Fag I don't personally use but I think it's better than its longer cousin. Queer bothers me. I think its the original meaning of the word that gets to me. That something's wrong or its not how it's meant to be is not something I want to be identified with as I certainly don't believe that to be true. Gay's okay and it's how I identify myself, though I still have an issue with Gay as a synonym for shitty (thankyou Fall Out Boy). I'm getting used to it, who wouldn't with its common usage these days? But it still rankles me. I agree with you on homosexual and its clinical nature. Though the word has become a joke for me ever since my Year 12 English teacher would pronounce it as hom-a-sex-sual, with the hom part taking on the throaty growl for the 'h'. A bit hard to describe in writing, I guess. Unlike you, no problem with Homo here. Queen, I don't associate with the generic gay. Queen is probably wrongly associated in my mind with a possibly older, but definitely effeminate man. I once got pissed at a friend for calling me a queen once. I don't have a problem with effeminate men, but I don't want to be called something that conjures up that association. Maybe that's an oxymoron, and when I think about it I'm not really proud of admitting it. It's something I need to think about maybe. Dyke. Now to talk about something else I'm not proud of. In my mind I don't think this is a very nice word. I don't think I have ever called or referred to a lesbian as a 'dyke,' but lately I've found myself verbalising the word in my head, instead of 'lesbian'. And it bothers me. Something I have to work on. Anyway thanks Kevin for the (lengthy ) analysis, you bring up some worthy and important points. The chance for me to go over some stuff in my mind was also nice. Alex

Congrats on finding a new place, Kevin! It sounds like you've found yourself a keeper and I am so totally jealous. I'm dying for this last year of Uni to be over so I can get a job and then hopefully a place to myself, because sharing a place with other ppl isn't as great as I thought it would be. Especially after three years (at least at the end of this one - though it feels like more ) and with the same people is like taking a very slow ride to hell.

Hehe...I've been in love with Kevin since I saw him in Transamerica. If you haven't seen it you definitely should - A. because its a fine film and B. because you see a lot of Kevin.