Regrets, I've had a few...

Kelly Love Johnson

Skirt! managing editor

Writer, editor, author, independent girly feminist hipster, slightly neurotic, cynically optimistic, compassionately liberal, fiscally conservative, somewhat intellectual, and always irreverent. ...

Kelly Love Johnson

Tuesday, January, 8, 2008

Okay, just two at the moment:

One, I wish I had seen Brokeback Mountain at the theater when it came out instead of waiting until last weekend and watching it at 3 o’clock in the morning on HBO. Why? Because after seeing all of the spoofs of the movie – and Jake Gyllenhal’s opening bit on Saturday Night Live where he sang “And I Am Telling You” from Dreamgirls (very convincingly – it was hilarious) – it was really hard to watch it without all of that noise going on in my head. I think if I’d seen it at the theater, I would have found it to be a well-done, sweet movie. At 3 a.m. on Sunday morning, it was just mildly entertaining and the score just called up bits and pieces of various Brokeback spoofs. But Ang Lee, I love you still.

Two, I wish I’d known that the protein drink I had for breakfast was going to leave a vitamin aftertaste in my mouth for five hours and that the empty bottle in my trash can under my desk was going to reek so much I want to wear a face mask. Tricking myself into eating breakfast = good. Suffering through gross protein aftertaste = bad.

That is all.