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First things first:

mitethe sent me musical distraction for my happy Friday night work session...and it totally worked. Wow, great song. Don't let the link go to waste! Check it out: Action by Saint Etienne

And onto my current obsession: I love goodies tucked in comments. Thanks to a comment in

worldserpent's LJ, I managed to read the short story Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx online. XD

It's interesting reading the short story after seeing the movie. Overall, I like the story better. The "water under the bridge" moments moved so quickly in the story...after all, what takes two lines of prose can take quite a bit of screen time to show. It moves faster. I also have a strong affinity for words over pictures and sounds. Her prose fits the story, though I wouldn't want to read a novel-length story in that style. What made the reading better was that the moments I thought were great in the movie, those scenes from the movie flashed in my head very vividly when I read them in the story. And only those moments. Otherwise, I didn't visualize the movie at all (that tells you how much of an impression a good portion of the movie made on me). The movie definitely made reading the story a richer experience.

There was, however, one scene in the movie that worked fairly well by itself, but was a thousand times better in the short story. ( An excerpt and some comments. )

And then I broke down and spent some time looking for fics on LJ comms. One problem I had was that what appears to be the two bigger BBM comms with fics allow RPS. I'm sorry, I think RPS of the actors in a movie/series and slash of the characters they play are different fandoms. Heath/Jake is not the same as Ennis/Jack. I got quite a shock upon finding tons of the RPS variety in comms dedicated to the movie. ;_;

I waded through the non-RPS fics, and found some that I thought were pretty good. Some are short and sweet, some are not so short or sweet: