Just today, by my final hour, the news was hot. I heard the story a total of two times in a class of ten people. Our school has three lunches right in a row splitting up students. Something went wrong during the second lunch. Students got up from their table and ran outside, inspiring others to join them until a large mass of people had run from the lunchroom. Largely, no one knew what they were running away from. Some thought it was a fire. The reason why the students got up and ran was because they were grossed out. Why were they grossed out? The outrage was a public display of affection. To be precise, the problem was that two girls began kissing.

Yes, that is correct. A large crowd of students got up and left the lunchroom because two girls began making out in it.

What was the principal saying? "We've got it under control."

05/27/2008

I recently saw a movie by the late Derek Jarman of the title, "Sebastiane."

Before Derek Jarman had died, he was found to be HIV-positive. He was open about homosexuality. He once regarded the British film industry as containing "hardly any room for us to kiss."

The movie Sebastiane was released in 1976, and it was the first movie entirely in Latin. The latin even goes so far as to be naughty at moments. But of course, the majority of the movie was fairly naughty anyway.

Basically the story goes something like, the kingdom is failing, the emperor blames the christians, and sets up a bloodhunt to destroy that particular faith. The movie follows the days of one squadron.

The movie contains no war scenes. The movie has less than five women within the first ten minutes of the film. The majority of the costumes are loincloths and there is only one... "sex" scene. All of the conflict is within the squadron.

The characters are really strong, and some of the messages are powerful as well. Sebastiane is a christian who refuses to fight. Much of the group is prejudice against him. The captain wants Sebastiane as a lover, but Sebastiane resists. Sebastiane endures lengthy punishments and appears quite delusional throughout the film.

The group talks about all of the sex they plan on having when they get back to rome. When any of them have gay relations, the rest are completely open about it. The guys prank eachother, and there's one scene showing an erection.

I'm going to say that I didn't really know what was going on through some of the film. I understood the characters, though. Some were mean. Some were nice. A lot of the time, I think I could make references and quirks relative to modern society.

All in all, it was a very pleasant experience. Old acting is really hard to handle, though. There's a lot of loud and unnecessary yelling that hurts my skull. It's why I don't usually watch old movies.