Wanted: gopher wood.

[ellid]

Given that we got 18" of snow yesterday and today, and should have another half foot arrive tomorrow, it's probably time for me to start building a giant wooden snowmobile in the back yard.

Seriously. We had to shovel the deck today because there was so much snow on, and when I was clearing off Sapphy there was so much ice on her windshield wipers that I nearly snapped one in half trying to clean. And it snowed continuously from 1:00 p.m. yesterday until I got home from the movies at 8:00, and for all I know it is still snowing.

ARGH.

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As for the movie...Mistress C and I went to see Milk at the Pleasant Street Theater. It was very, very well done, with all the correct 1970's details (including the horrible hairstyles and earth toned everything), and Sean Penn (Harvey Milk), Josh Brolin (Dan White), Emile Hirsch (Cleve Jones), and James Franco (Scott Smith) were perfectly cast. Penn and Brolin deserve every nomination they get or will get for this one, and Gus Van Sant did an excellent job of recreating the 1970s.

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[shalmestere.livejournal.com]

Gus Van Sant did an excellent job of recreating the 1970s.

I'm not convinced that this is a good thing :->

[ellid.livejournal.com]

*snorfle*

There was no disco, thank God, but the fashions and hairstyles were spot-on. I had some serious flashbacks to the Lil' Orphan Annie perm I sported one year, let me tell you.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

I felt such a pang of shock/memory when I saw Josh Brolin with Dan White's helmet hair. Intellectually, of course, I knew I was watching an actor thirty years after the fact, but yowza.

[ellid.livejournal.com]

He really looked like Dan White, to the point that I had trouble telling them apart. Ditto Emile Hirsch as Cleve Jones. Sean Penn doesn't look that much like Harvey Milk but he did an excellent job of capturing the man's personality and charisma.

I really wish this movie had come out in time to influence the vote on Proposition 8. And that we still had Harvey Milk. If he had lived, you know very well that he would have been leading the charge against that dreadful law.