Milk

Okay, after my jerk-off, now something of substance.

I saw Milk last night with my friend Emily, the new Gus Van Sant one about Harvey Milk, the gayest gay to ever be elected to public office. While mostly about that man, and how gay he was, the movie was also about James Franco being attractive, and Emile Hirsch dancing during celebratory parties.

To jerk-off some more (I guess no substance after all): it was, as you've probably already heard, pretty haunting to watch this movie just a month after Prop 8 got repealed. Though the gay rights movement has made so so so many advancements since 1978, the time does resonate in a few strange ways to 2008. I think overall, gay people are much more accepted now on a personal level, but the movie was about politics and the political arguments that politicians were having in the movies - the debates, the arguing about various gay rights statues and amendments and such - were pretty much the same arguments that people are still having today. Nobody gets on TV and says "gay perverts" anymore, but the same points are still argued in the same way, just with PC-ed-up terminology.

Slow and steady wins the race, I guess.