i think it was my favorite movie of last year... can't wait for the dvd!
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Absolutely my fave of last year as well!!

yay!

I missed it in the theatres.

DITTO.

God, I bawled my eyes out at this movie. One of the few films of the last 10 years to actually capture the human experience at its fullest.

I SOOOO CAN'T WAIT. I didn't think John Cameron Mitchell could top the glorious "Hedwig" but he did.

"We all get it in the end..."

eleven said:

my favorite part is probably the anthem. not for the sex that is occuring at the moment, so much as it is the sheer comedic genius of that moment.
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CarrieMpls said:

you, of all people, will probably love it.

what's it about?

SnakePeel said:

i thought he was bound to hit a huge sophmore slump with SB, seeing as hedwig was just pure genius, but he managed to top hedwig.

quite a feat.

jerseykrs said:

sex, love, fear, nyc, 9/11, freedom, introspection, suicide, relationships, heterosexuality, bisexuality, homosexuality, ed koch, liberation, the national anthem, orgasms, etc...

oh, its not the one about retarded people?

Ribbed4UrPleasure said:

depends what you define as retarded, i suppose.

cborgman said:

I know, I know, I know. I can't believe I missed it first time around.

CarrieMpls said:

it was quite an experience seeing it in a large theatre with lots of people. it made it feel a lot less explicit to me.

CarrieMpls said:

So did I. But I read a quote from the director (who is gay) that cracked me up. He said he didn't want to ask anything of his actors that he wouldn't do himself. "So I ate some pussy. It was delicious, but I didn't get turned on or anything."

FunkMistress said:

it's true. he has a cameo where he is going down on a girl. he also said something about how happy it must have made his mother to see him on screen performing cunnilingus like a good boy.

well god damn it, if i weren't going to be on a plane to iceland THAT VERY DAY, i'd be first in line to get a copy! though i have doubts this will be available at the local best buy...or borders...or, well, uh...where the hell am i gonna find this thing!?!?

carrie, are there any artsy video store places in MPLS where i can pick up a copy on the way out? i can embarrass D&D by watching naughty bits on the plane trip.
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cborgman said:

If you think about it, the GD forum is itself a short bus of sorts.

Anx said:

yea, i don't think a lot of places are going to carry it because of the explicit sex.

Imago said:

"This place is kind of like the '60s, only with less hope."

Imago said:

as someone who saw the film, you have no idea how true that is.

shortbus is actually the name of the sex club in the film that the characters end up at. comprised of several different rooms, often with a specified grouping (for example: there is a group of lesbians in one room talking that one of the main characters, a sex therapist who has never had an orgasm, ends up in), the center of which is an orgy.

so, it's just like the org.

cborgman said:

well, it wasn't just a sex club. it was an art space, too.

Anx said:

"was that the first time someone sang the star spangled banner into your ass?"

"no."






"land of the FREEEEE-EEEEE-EEEEE" edit.
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Anx said:

...like the org.

cborgman said:

TOTALLY!

Anx said:

Ok, seriously, if I rent or buy this movie, what am I suppose to expect from it? It's not one of those hip, urban, gay themed movies with love seeking out-of-work 20-somethings who live lofts I can't afford is it?

CBorgman, have you been to any of the Shortbus events in NYC? A lot of the cast members are also musicians, and they've been doing a lot of shows around the Lower East Side. The sex therapist woman and two of the three guys from the gay threegie trio do music, and Justin Bond has started doing a live on-stage talk show...Debbie Harry was a recent guest! I would SO love to be in on the JB thing.

Imago said:

no. it's a very bleak, sad, but yet funny and fun and uplifting movie. not really about seeking love as it is seeking meaning through sex and relationships and realizing it can't be done.

have you seen hedwig? you should really see it first.

but i do have to warn you, it is extremely sexally explicit covering all of the human sexualities.