hi jerks!

not you, the customers who come into the store. honestly, i've rolled my eyes so much today i think i strained an optic nerve. ow, it's hurts to hate people so much!

i saw shortbus last night. aside from all the talk about the graphic sex i didn't know a ton about it, except that i do love john cameron mitchell. i don't know much about new york, or clubs where kids have sex all in one big room, but i've watched enough tv to know a sexual salon is plausible. completely, totally, intensely outisde of my range of experience, but i'm sure some people have group sex! or sex in from of other people! in any case, the sex itself wasn't nearly as porny as you might expect. i mean, it was sex and you got to see penises and vaginas and drag queens and vibrators, but it didn't feel cheap or like sex for the sake of sexy. porn tends to have a sense of the outrageous and is hyper-sexual, unlike real sex which is sometimes messy and funny and weird and not as loud. the stories about the characters were touching and easy to relate to, even though, as i've mentioned before i have no experience with orgies or sex in public places. i don't know, i liked the film quite a bit, it was funny and sweet and engaging, and just happened to have people fucking in it. i don't know that it would be everyone's cup of tea, especially if you are anti-queer sexiness, and i'm sure not everyone needs to see the sex in a film, but i thought it was refreshing. enough of the soft core sex in movies nowadays, all soft-focus pull-aways and innuendo. why not put a little porn in films? not all movies, of course, but really, what are we hiding from? the line between smut and art has always been blurry, so let's smudge it a little more. if we can put jenna jameson in mainstream films, why not let her (or any actress, really) do what she does best?

i don't know anyone else who's seen it, so if you have, i'd be interested to know what you think. i kind of want everyone i know to see it so i can talk about it with them. that's your cue!