viva la vie boheme

i'm going to live in new york after college. i came to this decision tonight while i watched rent. that is an amazing movie, and i regret i wasn't able to see the play beforehand. i'm sure there will be some people who dislike the movie because it isn't enough like the play, not without reason. but for me, ignorant of the play, the movie was one of the best i've seen in a while. and i'll say this, that was the closest i've come to crying in a movie in years. perhaps it was the fact that it was all in song, but some scenes were especially moving. and now i want to live like that, broke, freezing, in a semi-bad neighborhood, surrounded by friends who are trying as hard as me to make ends meet, good times and bad, simply living. life in a small town just isn't enough for me anymore. i've had enough of the boredom, the simpleness, the ignorance, the intolerance. i just wasn't cut out for it. i can't read the newspaper anymore, because of the idiotcy of it's writers. the people who write letters to the editor just reveal their stupidity, but no one seems to realize it. probably because they're all as stupid and ignorant. i hate my coworkers and their rampant homophobia, the fact that the majority of them dismiss an upcoming movie simply because two guys kiss (sidenote: that movie, brokeback mountain, looks really good. i, at least, can't wait for it to come out). for fucks sake, i've probably kissed more members of my own sex than they have of the opposite sex. i'm tired of being a democrat in a republican state, watching every november as good proposals, to help education, build alternative transportation, protect the beauty that is colorado, are defeated solely by the often mistaken belief that they're a tax increase. i hate the fact that there is a church practically every block in this town. i'm tired of driving forever just to hang out with a friend. there is no culture here. no concerts, no art, no literature, nothing that i consider a newspaper. hell, even the liquor laws are archaic. i hate having elected officials that are racist and homophobic, or, at best just plain stupid.

**the previous post was written last night right before i passed out from lack of sleep (not drunkeness, that's tonight). that doesn't mean i don't feel like that, just perhaps it would have made more sense if i had been awake. to summarize, rent is amazing, i want to live like that, i'm moving to new york eventually, loveland/colorado sucks. that is all.