"Another Country" out of R1 DVD at last

[chicken]

Remember when I recommended that every Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, gay film, indie film, and/or Brit. historial film fanatic see Another Country? Well, it is finally coming out on Region 1 DVD on September 7th, 2004.

You can already pre-order it at Amazon.com.

I have never "squee-ed" in my journal before, but here goes:

*Squeeeeeee!!*

keever, this is especially for you.

angelchicken, I know you are a Colin fan, so this is for you, too.

Oh, and here are some icons:

Comments

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

For a moment there, I thought maybe your icon was from Different for Girls (what with all the motorcyle-riding in that film).

More people should see it, anyway, great film.

So where is your icon really from?

[jamaisneutral.livejournal.com]

it's the bloody pet shop boys sweetie! :)

Hang on.. you're American right? (not that it would matter if you weren't... 's not like they're that well known overhere still)
synth-pop duo. Big in the 80s. Big on the gay imagery. Lots of camp. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe. "West End Girls", "What have I done to deserve this", "It's a sin", "Rent", er... "Go West" *cringe*

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

I know their music pretty well, just not their pictures -- when people made me queer-ish cassette mixes (say around 1988), they didn't include pictures. The mixes would usually include Erasure, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, Yaz, etc. etc.

The one exception to this "no pictures" thing is Depeche Mode -- owning Depeche Mode 101 on VHS really helps there -- my partner (soon to be wife! yay gay marriage) was in the 5th row at one of their big tours, so we once had just about every Depeche Mode single, T shirt, movie, poster, etc. We sold most of it on eBay when we were short on cash, but we kept D.M. 101. It's just a great film and Dave Gahan had so much energy when they were on stage, very sexy and intense.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

P.S.

I am sadly an American, but not the stupid kind, not the kind that likes George Bush (I hate that guy), not the kind that can't find his own town on a map and doesn't know where to find any country on a world map. I try to be wordly and I try to constructively criticize this stupid government that we have (ok, sometimes I get really angry, it isn't always constructive).

When our family lived in China in 1979 and 1980 (my father is Chinese, he was born in Guangdong in 1928), I came to really see what was bad and what was good about America (and about China), because when we got back to America, I had an outsider's perspective. I went from being an innocent nine year old child to someone who could be pretty cynical about the world.

As for pop culture, my parents tried to shield me from it -- my mom is one of these academic professor types who likes Bach and Mozart and jazz but hates rock, pop, folk, and country, and who disdains almost all TV shows. Sometimes I really resented that, but sometimes not.

When I got to college in 1988, I got a crash course in pop culture from everyone I met. This included queer and indie cinema, queer music, and even crass mainstream commercialism and products (e.g. spray cheese, pop tarts, Taco Bell, Burger King).

[jamaisneutral.livejournal.com]

I didn't mean "you're American" as in "you're an ignorant Bush voting hillbilly republican" :), just as in, "they were bigger in Europe than they were in the States, especially now".

Browsing through your LJ and taking the fact that you're marrying your girlfriend pretty much gave the "not-idiot" thing away.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Sorry, of course -- I didn't really think you thought that -- just a bit defensive. Bad me. ;-)