I remember hearing about Brokeback Mountain months before it came out and thinking, even if the film is good no one is going to see a film about gay cowboys. How wrong I was. The film was an indie hit. It was also very good.

Said I'm goin up to Yasgir's farm gonna join in a rock and roll band, got to get back to the land and set my soul free.

We are stardust, we are golden. We are billion year old carbon, and we've got to get ourselves back to the Garden.

Well then can I walk beside you, I have come to lose my smile, and I feel myself a cog in something turning. And maybe it's the time of year, and maybe it's the time of man, and I don't know who I am but life is for learning'.

We are stardust, we are golden. We are billion year old carbon, and we've got to get ourselves back to the Garden.

By the time we got to Woodstock we here half a million strong, and everywhere was a song and a celebration. And I dreamed I saw the bomber death planes riding shotgun in the sky turning into butterflies above our nation.

We are stardust, we are golden. We are caught in the Devil's bargain. And we've got to get ourselves back to the Garden.

-Joni Mitchell

Don't ask me I don't give a damn, next stop is AFGHANISTAN!

And it's Five, Six, Seven, Eight, open up the pearly gates...

Bush dosen't care to wonder why WHOPPEEEE we're all gonna die!

Ang Lee did us all a favor by putting on screen what millions of consenting adults do (hetero and homo) around the world without apologizing for it. If that's icky, then all of human sexuality is icky.

I'll take you at your word that you weren't judging anyone and I suppose it's fair enough if you prefer not to watch the film (there's almost an inexhaustible source of great non-contemporary cinema anyway). As for our different reactions to Brokeback, I'll just chalk it up to probably being raised in a different time and place.

As for "yeah that shit is gross" ... okay, good for you, Optimus. I didn't mean to say that we should all want to watch defecation on screen. I was saying if you are going to compare a common, consenual act between adults to child abuse and label them both "icky," then I think you have bizarre judgment. And if you want to call a large segment of the population "deviants" who do "gross shit," then I hope you can handle the horrors of being called a freakin' child on an AICN talkback. Not that I hate you or anything. But you're a child who slurs a large segment of the population and then gets defensive when someone calls you names.

Crash was far superior and deserving of the Oscar nod.Brokeback was a ok movie(storywise) but not the masterpiece love story some hype it out to be.

Now, you might say that this is a perfect project for Ang Lee, the most overrated director of our times recreates the most overrated concert of all time. I know, I know, his movies are gorgeous and deep, but personally, they leave me as cold as a crouching tiger sodomizing a cowboy hulk poodle in an ice storm.

Oh, and people who are afraid to watch Brokeback make me laugh.