Shit is amazing. I'm not even afraid to admit it.
I saw it on the first night I arrived in Denver, Colorado (for a barbershop convention) after about 14 straight hours of travel time. Jet lagged off my tits, slightly dizzy from the climate change, alone in a hotel room, and unable to sleep; I turned on the TV. I flicked through the ridiculous amount of channels trying to find something to watch. After getting over the funny situation of watching Spanish soap operas I couldn't understand, and not being able to find any porn (what's up with that shit?), I decided I would try one more channel before I give up and look at the ceiling until I pass out. I can't remember the exact number I pressed but for the sake of this story I'll say 87. Wait no, I'll say 69. Haha, 69! Instantly I was drawn into this world of friendship, love, laughter, comical mishaps, and serious drama. This world of the sisterhood.
There was Lena, a girl who's insecurities stop her from feeling love and living life to the fullest; Carmen, a bubbly personality who's positive outlook on life and idolization of her father gets shattered when she discovers he has a whole new life kept secret from her; Bridget, her father couldn't handle the passing of her mother and became distant, she now searches for that needed male connection in anyone with a dong. Then there's Tibby, a budding film maker who finds an unlikely friend in a 12 year old girl called Bailey... Who has cancer. Fucking cancer! Do you know how sad that shit is? She dies at the end! What the fuck!?
Divorce, sickness, death and depression - It's like they tried to find everything that brings out intense emotion in people and then put it in to one big package of sadness. I was half expecting someone to start beating up a puppy.
I cried like a bitch until the end when it all came together in a sisterhood hug of forgiveness, closure, and happiness. I then finally fell asleep.
The next day I emailed my girlfriend to tell her about how my life had just changed and that we should all learn to enjoy every day and never take anything for granted. How it was unfair that Bailey died because she was just an innocent little girl, how I hoped that Tibby would one day become an accomplished filmmaker, and that it was great that Lena is now comfortable in her own body.
And that's the story about how I almost lost my girlfriend by getting way to involved in a movie aimed at 13 year old girls.
Wait, what just happened?
Oh, don't waste your time with part two. It's shit.
What goes on at a barbershop convention? Lots of singing, sure, but what about the other stuff? How about the dark side? Is there lots of illicit drug use? Dogfights to a barbershop soundtrack? Are there barbershop groupies, like in that episode of CSI where there was a fat chicks convention, in which the fatties are swarmed with chubby chasers? Not that I'm saying that barbershop singers are only sexually attractive to people with fetishes. I'm not NOT saying that either... Anyway. If you're desperate for blog content, that could be a future post. I look forward to reading it.
ReplyDeleteOr, you could just make this blog all about the girly movies you love. The other night, I got a little teary-eyed watching "Love Actually" and I've seen that movie at least five times.