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Dec 04, 2007 - 22:30 PM PST
Weird. A lot of what's being shown feels so familiar to me. I came to LA at roughly the age of the QLife characters, pursuing, well, a lot of arty things. Most of the people I knew at the time were similarly engaged. We were in each other's lives, in and out of each other's beds, supporting and betraying each other in big and small ways apparently at random. I won't diminish it by saying we were kids. We were NEW, which is different. Anyone can be new at any time. What I'm enjoying about QLife is what I enjoyed about THE COMMITMENTS and FAME (not the TV show. dear god, no). It may not be realistic, what on TV is? But it functions as a naturalistic distillation of how that time felt. At least to me. What is interesting is, despite the advent of the internet and the supposed protean sexuality of today's Qlifers, i find almost NO difference between "them" and "us." Some of "them" might find that depressing, as if I'm saying nothing changes and every road has already been walked, but that's not it. What it is is something that makes the striving feel less lonely, less strange, less out of step with those people who, maybe, don't seek the precise things as me but still SEEK. Screw what happens with NBC. I'm digging this. I don't think I would watch it on TV. I like it better this way: close, intimate, like I'm in it with them. Cuz i am.

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Feb 01, 2008 - 20:38 PM

Grigori on
This is very honest and insight4ul. The FAME movie (I agree) Geoff --You seem like "A Stranger I Know"