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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #120 on: Feb 27, 2007, 04:29 PM »
Some pix of the concert:

John



Trish



What a pair!







Lenny



Glenn (sorry no live pix of Glenn alone during the concert)



Glenn, by the way, your cried while you were playing the Wings, the whole crowd was crying with you.  :\'(
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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #121 on: Feb 27, 2007, 04:30 PM »
Some cowboys appreciating the show

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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #122 on: Feb 27, 2007, 04:34 PM »
There are always emotional moments during a gathering, here Trish and Glenn have some warm hug.


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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #123 on: Feb 27, 2007, 04:41 PM »
Group picture before the sun goes down  %&)

Barb and I are at the very right of the picture.  The lady turning her back has some T-Shirt:

Front:  You know friend
Back:  This is a goddam bitch of a unsatisfactory situation



Another one, no I'm not turning my back to you pals, I'm (trying to) take a picture.  :i



This is some flock of Brokies :P

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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #124 on: Feb 27, 2007, 04:50 PM »
There were loads of collector's items and other "relics"







Yes it's Ennis jacket in the middle of the last picture.
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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #125 on: Feb 27, 2007, 04:53 PM »
And the Oscar goes to... Bay City John

Another emotional moment when ''Auntie'' aka killermom (her member's name on DC) gave this award to John, a pretty much deserved one.  Sorry I got no picture of Auntie giving it to John but we were all crying.





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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #126 on: Feb 27, 2007, 04:58 PM »
I had a T-Shirt ready for both Barb and I and one was given to John.  Sorry but the pix of Barb and I from the State Theater were among the ones that were not good enough to post.   :(

The button you see with the dozy embrace was offered to everyone at the State Theater.  It's the same we got in London, thanks to Ethan for mailing them to Detroit.







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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #127 on: Feb 27, 2007, 05:22 PM »
I was about to forget...

We watched the movie too.  I'm not about to repeat what I posted so many times about the movie experience.  I cried, she cried, we all cried.  There was some serious sobbing in that theater... not me, Barb told me I was quite discreet for once  ???

It was a blessing however to have my little wolvette sitting next to me, we held each other and cried together.  This is what friends are made for, huh?

Holding a friend and crying with her/him watching Brokeback Mountain is an overwhelming experience.

Barb...   %)







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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #128 on: Feb 27, 2007, 05:24 PM »
There are not enough words to say thank you

Thank you Bay City John for inviting us and your great work of love in organizing this event.

 (:) (:) (:)

Thank you Flwrchild (Barb), Teddy and William for opening your house to a crazy camel from Montreal.  I will cherish this week-end forever.

 :^^)

Thank you michaelflanagansf for sending me a link to DC so I could find some pictures there and post there my appreciation of last week-end's gathering.

 O0



Michelle (LuvjackNasty),  you were very inspired when you wrote:

Born from their love... forever bound by ours

 ;)

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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #129 on: Feb 27, 2007, 07:23 PM »
Oh gosh love the pics, thanks.  The jacket   :-\\
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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #130 on: Feb 27, 2007, 07:43 PM »
I was on piano, and I also put together some of the MIDI sequences. The sequences were played on my computer through a software synth.
Glenn (brokenokie) from the DC forum was also on piano/synth.
Lenny (bass51) played bass guitar and sang.
Trish (jaysmommy) was the lead singer.
Lenny and Trish are professional musicians and we sounded great.
Set list:
'Opening' from Brokeback Mountain (solo by Lenny)
No One's Gonna Love You Like Me
Moondance
'Camp' from Brokeback Mountain (solo by Lenny)
Unchained Melody
King of the Road (Lenny and Trish, with audience participation)
Crazy
'Camp' from Brokeback Mountain (solo by Lenny)
A Love That Will Never Grow Old
Maker Makes (Glenn on keyboard, sung by Lenny)
and
Wings


This is fabulous!!  Do you have a tape or DVD or whatever of this performance available?  It sounds great, also, that you played some other songs -- especially Crazy, Unchained Melody.  I so wish I could have been there...

kathy
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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #131 on: Feb 27, 2007, 09:18 PM »
What a great set of pics and info Cham. Thanks for sharing them with all of us.  :^^)
There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.

Ennis, riding against the wind back to the sheep in the treacherous, drunken darken light, thought he'd never had such a good time, felt he could paw the white out of the moon.

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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #132 on: Feb 27, 2007, 09:45 PM »
Pierre, thank you very much for the pix. Thank you too, Barb, for helping spread the word about ennisjack.

Kudos to Bay City John for all the efforts putting such an incredible event. 

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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #133 on: Feb 27, 2007, 09:57 PM »
Cham & Flwrchild!  (And another EJ guy who didn't tell me his screen name- sneaky devil!  ;) )  I am so honored to meet you and have you join us all at the Bay City screening.  I'm sorry we didn't get the chance to talk/chat/connect more.  Wish you guys could've been there for all the weekends activities.  A fun time was sure had, and we are all family, no matter which board you settled on.  Thank you so much for the gifts.  Hah, they lost my luggage on the flight home and all my BBM gifts from the weekend are in there.  :\'(  They *think* they've located it, and it's on it's way, but we'll see.

I hope more EJ'ers will see the pictures and read the stories and get motivated to come to Denver in May.  It's gonna be big!  The biggest one yet.  This will be the one not to miss!  Trust me.  ;)


Lots of pictures and stories from this weekend! 

here:
http://www.davecullen.com/forum/index.php?topic=10624.msg754449#msg754449

and here:
http://www.davecullen.com/forum/index.php?topic=17560.msg756846#msg756846

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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #134 on: Feb 27, 2007, 10:33 PM »
Eric, thank you so much for the links. It was wonderful to meet you. I wish we could've been there for all of the weekend's activities. I love connecting with other Brokies and everyone I met was so nice. I hope the three forums will do more events together. I don't think I can make Denver but I never say never! It sounds like a magical weekend in the making.

John, can't say it enough. Thank you for all the hard work and for including us.

Pierre, thank you for the beautiful post. I knew you'd do it better justice than I ever could.

It's been a good weekend for a very happy Brokie. ^f^
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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #135 on: Feb 27, 2007, 11:33 PM »
This is fabulous!!  Do you have a tape or DVD or whatever of this performance available?  It sounds great, also, that you played some other songs -- especially Crazy, Unchained Melody.  I so wish I could have been there...

kathy

Glenn's friend Robert taped the entire concert on professional video equipment.

I don't know when it will be available. At least of couple of weeks.

I'll post more details later.

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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #136 on: Feb 27, 2007, 11:35 PM »
Oh John, that's wonderful! O0

I'll keep an eye out for info on that. You guys put on a fantastic show. :)
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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #137 on: Feb 28, 2007, 09:37 AM »
Thanks for all the pics - wish I could have been there.

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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #138 on: Feb 28, 2007, 10:20 AM »
Thanks for the pix and shared experiences! So very touching, my tears started to fall.

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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #139 on: Feb 28, 2007, 11:35 PM »
Wonderful posts and pictures  <^(
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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #140 on: Mar 03, 2007, 02:02 PM »
Here's the cost of putting on this event


Film Rental          $ 450.00
Theatre Rental       660.00
Planetarium            160.00
Chris Roach               100.00 (yes this was a good deal)
Printing                  110.00
Beer                        55.00

Total           $ 1,535.00

This does not include the cost of items such as
the DVD's, beer labels, invitations, bumper stickers, magnets, etc that were
generously donated by other members.



Donations Received totaled $ 1,402.00

$ 1,171.00 was donated at the dinner on Saturday, I also received
donations from a few other members directly that came to $ 231.00

I also gave $ 300.00 to Maureen to help
cover her costs for food and time that she donated.
She did not ask to be reimbursed.

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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #141 on: Mar 03, 2007, 02:26 PM »
I'm glad members helped in donating, just the time you put into this is already a lot John. :)
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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #142 on: Mar 03, 2007, 02:57 PM »
I did not expect to almost break even. People were very generous. I've found that to be the case at other events too.

I posted the amounts so anyone else who might want to host an event will have some idea of what's involved.

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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #143 on: Mar 03, 2007, 03:05 PM »
I appreciate it since we are presently working in organizing the Paris gathering. The theater rental in London was about 400 pounds (800$ US) and we brought our own DVD to be projected.
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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #144 on: Mar 05, 2007, 11:16 PM »
Thanks to everyone who got to go the screening - for providing the above information and pictures - for us unlucky ones who didn't. 

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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #145 on: Mar 06, 2007, 05:03 AM »
Cham!

Thank you for all the pictures!!
I'm so happy for you being able to see more brokies from all the "other" forums...lol
Cham,FC and jackster, our representative from Ennisjack. its sure looks like you had a great time over there!!  O0
Me jealous !
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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #146 on: Mar 07, 2007, 09:40 AM »
Diana Ossana sent an email to us regarding this event. She gave me permission to post it over at the DC forum.

http://www.davecullen.com/forum/index.php?topic=17560.msg774276#msg774276

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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #147 on: Aug 13, 2007, 08:30 PM »
I envy all of you for not having attended that gathering. Wish i could fly from side of the earth to your place. Congratulations for a succesful event!

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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #148 on: Aug 13, 2007, 09:13 PM »
Eric, I do hope you'll get to attend a gathering of Brokies sometime.  Meanwhile...welcome here, and it's almost as good as meeting in person.

kathy
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Re: Oscar Night Screening of Brokeback Mountain - February 25, 2007
« Reply #149 on: Aug 21, 2007, 10:34 PM »
I envy all of you for not having attended that gathering. Wish i could fly from this side of the earth to your place. Congratulations for a succesful event!