Ben's Corner

Well, today was pretty good.

My mom’s friend Shawn, who moved to Australia a few years back, is in the country for a little while, so she decided to catch a bus to Ottawa to hang out with him. She sent me a text not long ago to say that apparently she’s out partying with Darrin Rose from Video On Trial.

Because she left, I was stuck looking after my brother until my grandmother got off work and could take him. Surprisingly, he was pretty good for me, so I didn’t have any problems with him.

He got picked up, then Laurel came over, we drove into town and rented East Side Story and Prom Queen, made pistachio pudding, and sat down to watch them.

I’m just realizing that that was actually the first time I’ve ever had a girl in my bedroom… wow.

Anyway, Prom Queen was really good. As I mentioned a few days ago it’s the true story of Marc Hall, a gay Canadian teen who wasn’t allowed to go to his Catholic high school’s prom, so he took his fight to the courts of Canada and won. It was a good movie, with a lot of good Canadian actors in it (including the kid from Popular Mechanics for Kids… what), and you guys should definitely give it a watch if you can find it. Especially with what’s happening in the U.S. right now with Constance McMillen and her fight to bring her female partner to the prom.

On the other side of things, East Side Story was hilariously awful. You could tell it was a really low budget film. The lighting was, well, nonexistent (they relied on natural lighting, which was often poor), sound quality was bad, the cinematography was really hit-and-miss, they recycled shots from earlier in the film, sometimes several times, and oh yeah, the plot.

Haha, the plot.

You know how when you watch porn, how there’s those cheesy and contrived scenes that happen before they actually get to the sex? The stuff that makes you roll your eyes and go “oh come on, get to the action already!”?

Yeah, that was East Side Story. Except without the sex part.

As we commented during the movie, “It’s pornography, just without the porn. It’s AWWWWWGHgraphy.” The “AWWWWWWGH” being us facepalming at the so-bad-it’s-awesome scenes and dialog.

It was a terrible movie. But it was an hilariously enjoyable one.

I also watched Trick with Laurel on Wednesday night, so that’s three items to cross off my list of Gay Things To Watch. Presently getting down to downloading all thirteen episodes of Glee. Eek.

Also, heheh, while we were watching Prom Queen Chris called Laurel’s cell, wanted to know what she was up to. She looked at me, smiled, and said “oh, nothing, just watching a movie with Ben.” You could hear silence on the other end. Then Chris said “I’ll… I’ll talk to you later then.” and hung up. Win.