Man, I don't know what has kept me away for so long. I've been so busy the last couple of...what, weeks? Nearly a month? More than a month? since I last updated with anything worthwhile. But since today one of my classes got canceled I can squeeze in a few minutes of bloggin' time.

So I saw this movie, Almost Normal. It's about this 40-ish gay man who finally has hit rock bottom in his love-life. He can't seem to find anyone and he's getting way too old to get any real lovin' from the boys. So he's freakin' out, man! Just freaking out. Well, his sister, or fag hag or whatever, convinces him to go to his parent's anniversary party after which, driving out, he gets into a car accident with a very fast moving tree. He wakes up to find himself a resident of a world in which homosexuality is the norm and people reproduce with "parental partners" ("You know, your best girl friend." - line from the movie - kind of) and he is a senior in high school. First he freaks out again (He freaks out a lot in this movie) and tries to repair his broken car (very very Back to the Future-esque of him). His attempt at crashing his car into the tree (again) fails to bring him back to the real world, so he decides to just be content and stop freaking out. Well, he nabs a boyfriend - his high school crush - the jock of the school.

But then the protagonist (Brad something something) begins to fall in love with a girl. Straight people are abused and whatnot in this alternate reality. And there are straight bars as well as places where straight people go and go about with their sinful deeds. So, Brad gets a girlfriend and he's further stigmatized by his school for being straight.

So thus leads to prom night in which he takes his girlfriend to prom (le gasp!) and gets beat up by his hetero-hating best friend. But people at the school stop him and you know, it starts to get cheesy.

He does return to the normal world. Blah blah blah.

It was a very nice, uh, concept but the execution was very very bad. I am sure that almost every queer as pondered the question, "What if everyone were gay?". Of course, the answer being, "Then I wouldn't be single."

But the acting. The one single point in the movie in which I thought the acting was really bad was when Brad crashed into the fast moving tree the first time, he let out this high pitched scream that was absoluately hilarious. It was so staged. I mean, other than the fact that it was a movie. Well, you know what I mean.

To add, I found out that the protagonist, Brad, a.k.a. J. Andrew Keitch worked with my high school English teacher on a play production once. Meaning, I have less than two degrees of separation between Andrew Keitch (who is so cute) and myself. If I wanted to, I could be like, "Yo English teach, what's his number?" (assuming that they were close to begin with and it wouldn't be weird for me to ask for a random number) I could get a hot (and potentially rich) date. Yeah, okay. But Andrew Keitch is pretty good lookin'. His movie-boyfriend isn't. I wonder why everyone at that high school was so worked up about his boyfriend. Meh, I guess I'm just blind.

(Andrew Keitch being the dark haired boy and his boyfriend, Roland (Tim Hammer), is the red-head)

k-done!