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The love of a good friend
Feb. 14th, 2007 02:22 pmIt's no secret that I'm a huge fan of men having sex with men until the cows come home [or, if you're in a Western, until they stop staring], and it's no secret that I've no squick with RPS. But I really love when I find something where it's just two guys being guys. They're buddies. They're friends. There's no tension. No long, lingering eye contact. No sidelong glances. Just two guys being friends.
YouTube can feed any addiction.
The above link goes to a nine-minute interview clip with Anthony Stewart Head and James Marsters. It's an Australian talk show, and they're there to talk about the convention they're attending. I grinned like a loon through the whole thing because they were so very obviously friends and so very obviously having a good time. And I realized that the way they are with each other, the easy camradirie and laughing and kidding around, that's missing from most of the male friendships on television and in movies. It's odd to realize that as much as I bemoan a lack of good female characters on television and in movies, that I never saw the whole male angle before. There are moments when House and Wilson have that laid-back feeling. I'm thinking specifically of the moment in the moment with House in the MRI ["House, this is God", followed by House's laugh], the breaking cane moment [still in my top five], and the end of the episode with the charity poker game, where they're sitting around playing cards and giving each other no small amount of hell.
When did male friendship become a whole load of miscommunication, working out together, and chasing after the same woman? Where are the missed high-fives and uncontrollable laughter?
YouTube can feed any addiction.
The above link goes to a nine-minute interview clip with Anthony Stewart Head and James Marsters. It's an Australian talk show, and they're there to talk about the convention they're attending. I grinned like a loon through the whole thing because they were so very obviously friends and so very obviously having a good time. And I realized that the way they are with each other, the easy camradirie and laughing and kidding around, that's missing from most of the male friendships on television and in movies. It's odd to realize that as much as I bemoan a lack of good female characters on television and in movies, that I never saw the whole male angle before. There are moments when House and Wilson have that laid-back feeling. I'm thinking specifically of the moment in the moment with House in the MRI ["House, this is God", followed by House's laugh], the breaking cane moment [still in my top five], and the end of the episode with the charity poker game, where they're sitting around playing cards and giving each other no small amount of hell.
When did male friendship become a whole load of miscommunication, working out together, and chasing after the same woman? Where are the missed high-fives and uncontrollable laughter?
