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felonius_monk ([info]felonius_monk) wrote in [info]qaf_coffeeclub,
@ 2009-05-08 13:31:00

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Current mood:curious

Why A Jeep?
Hello! I am brand new here on IJ and to this community. I didn't know I could join this community right away and now I'm nervous but also excited! If I do things wrong, please have patience and any advice will be appreciated.

I've been reading fanfic at http://morpheusqaf.com and it has a lot of Brian's history. It describes how he came to love designer clothes and furnishings and other fine things.

But I don't understand why Brian would choose the black Jeep as his car! I have one Friend I have discussed this with, but I'd really love to hear what other people think.

Thank you for having this community for people to talk!

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[info]vl_redreign
2009-05-08 12:50 pm UTC (link)
I don't know if that was ever explained, but Brian's tall, and Jeep Wranglers are a bit up off the ground, depending on the year. Plus, it's American made, and IIRC, C/L stated that Brian would want an American car, especially a muscle car, which explains the hideously fugly Corvette. there was a scene in 109, I think, when Brian went to the ealership to get a new Jeep, and the dealer told him that he didn't want that, that "fags drive them." Which explains him driving it through the showroom window.

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[info]ahaw9913
2009-05-08 01:38 pm UTC (link)
OMG!! You did not...er...not just call the fuckmobile fugly!!! (okay, technically you said hideously fugly, but...WTF!!!)

That has got to be the baddest, hottest, teh shit-iest car EVER!!!

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[info]vl_redreign
2009-05-08 02:29 pm UTC (link)
I hate Corvettes. They're rolling pieces of shit. When I was a kid, the motto was "Wrap your ass in fiberglass, buy a Vette today!"

The only good model was the 1958/59 model.

I see Brian in not a American car, but a foreign sports car, like a Ferrari or Lamboghini.

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[info]ahaw9913
2009-05-08 02:39 pm UTC (link)
"Wrap your ass in fiberglass, buy a Vette today!" ROFLMAO That is freaking hilarious!

See, I had an uncle who was like "Joe Cool" and he had a Corvette, must have been a late sixties/early seventies, looked exactly like Brian's and my cousins, brother, and me all thought it was the tuffest thing we had ever seen. It's still the epitomy of cool for me. I freaking orgasmicly LOVE Brian's vette, but I have to admit that with his love of Italian food, furniture and clothes, I am kinda surprised that Brian doesn't have an Italian car, too!

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[info]maxymama
2009-05-08 07:47 pm UTC (link)
With Brian's dad being tight with the union guys, I imagine "buy American," at least for cars, is because of his upbringing.

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[info]pghbekka
2009-05-13 09:59 pm UTC (link)
I'm with you on loving the vette. It's just so beautifully pornographic to me.

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[info]ahaw9913
2009-05-14 05:16 am UTC (link)
OMG Yeah! It's like a huge dick on wheels!

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[info]ahaw9913
2009-05-08 01:45 pm UTC (link)
That was an awesome scene! I have often wondered if the fact that Brian Kinney, stud of Liberty Avenue, had one was the reason that it was known that fags drove them.

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[info]felonius_monk
2009-05-08 07:10 pm UTC (link)
The first comment to my first post ever and I just got distracted from my original post. I also think the Vette was hideously fugly! Not the car itself, but the colors.

I prefer a classic Camaro myself.

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[info]runiebug
2009-05-08 01:01 pm UTC (link)
"IIRC"?

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[info]maxymama
2009-05-08 01:18 pm UTC (link)
IIRC means "if I recall correctly."

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[info]runiebug
2009-05-08 02:02 pm UTC (link)
thx

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[info]pendulumchanges
2009-05-08 03:51 pm UTC (link)
I didn't know what it meant either, so thanks for asking! Also... I should probably have known what it meant since apparently I included it in the QAF Acronym Dictionary... I just went to add it and it was already there :P

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[info]not_yet_defined
2009-05-08 06:36 pm UTC (link)
lmao.

that's pretty funny pendy, you are getting old.

i had no idea what it meant either btw.

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[info]pendulumchanges
2009-05-09 06:30 am UTC (link)
that's pretty funny pendy, you are getting old.


Don't remind me! I'm almost 25 and it's freaking me out!

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[info]maxymama
2009-05-08 01:21 pm UTC (link)
There is a jeep mentioned in the original Highschool Musical, the song that was rewritten for QAF for Justin's dance routine. I always wondered if the producers had that song in their minds even before the show. I doubt it, but it would be cool, huh?

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[info]flamencanyc
2009-05-08 01:42 pm UTC (link)
Lol! Cute misspeak.

The original was "High School Confidential," a classic lesbian lust tune, and the car in the song was a 'candy pink Cadillac' not a Jeep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsJHtzdvfKg

The Jeep was only mentioned in the version written for QaF.

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[info]maxymama
2009-05-08 02:10 pm UTC (link)
LOL at Highschool Musical. Doh to the lyrics. I remember it was about a girl, from another girl's perspective, but I thought she had a jeep. Boo to my brain.

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[info]flamencanyc
2009-05-08 01:31 pm UTC (link)
I've heard Gale say in interviews that he thought Brian should have been driving a cooler car than a Jeep.

You should also check out [info]qaf_comingout, the comm that directs new members of the fandom to all the good QaF stuff on IJ and helps with IJ logistics.

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[info]felonius_monk
2009-05-08 07:15 pm UTC (link)
I really liked the Jeep! My thought (which I should have put in my original post) is that Brian bought the Jeep for cheap shortly after he graduated college.

Thank you for guiding me to qaf_comingout. I think I'm going to have a busy night.

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[info]ahaw9913
2009-05-08 02:06 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, Brian is not the great outdoorsman one normally pictures hitting the open roads in a Jeep. But, didn't he say in Ep 101 that it was a company car? Maybe he didn't have a choice.

Anyway, Hi! Nice to meet you! If you're really into the fanfics, check out [info]qaf_retread for the best of the best. [info]happier_bunny is always recommending great stuff and the archive there is just chock full of awesomeness!

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[info]vl_redreign
2009-05-08 02:31 pm UTC (link)
He did, and it wasn't. It was his. He said that to blow off the grafitti.

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[info]felonius_monk
2009-05-08 07:21 pm UTC (link)
Tx! Nice to meet you, too! Oh, shit, I'll be up all night checking out your recommendations.

Brian did say it was a company car, but I just never bought that. I've been working for big corporations for over 25 years and they never give you a Jeep. I always thought Brian was just being a smart-ass about the "company car" thingee.

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[info]colleen2328
2009-05-08 02:24 pm UTC (link)
Hi and welcome! I think the jeep is another borrowing from the UK series. Stuart drove a jeep, and the scene at the dealership is very close to the scene in the UK original. I've been trying to find the interview where Gale says he doesn't think Brian would drive a jeep. I know I've heard it before.

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[info]felonius_monk
2009-05-08 07:25 pm UTC (link)
Tx for the welcome! I really like your icon. Thea is so beautiful. I've never seen that picture before.

I haven't seen the UK series. I guess that's another addiction-in-waiting.

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[info]colleen2328
2009-05-10 12:16 am UTC (link)
Glad you like it! This one is from the same party, 2004 LA season 4 premiere. There are lots of photos from that and other events here:

http://duchovny.net/barenakedmulders/

Enjoy!

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[info]xie_xie_xie
2009-05-08 02:26 pm UTC (link)
Jeep-like cars for urban gay men and lesbians who would never set a toe or a tire "off road" were a real fad for a while... they were (and actually, still are) ubiquitous all over San Francisco's gay neighborhoods. I am fairly sure Brian was just getting the best, top of the line version of what was coolest for his crowd... and then later, he chose something quirky and less stereotypical, because he was growing up. :)

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[info]vl_redreign
2009-05-08 02:36 pm UTC (link)
Then why'd he get that POS, Xie??? WHY???? It hurts my sensibilities!!!!

I didn't know that about the Jeep, though. When the dealer says that, I was like, "I like it, and I'm not gay!"

Srly, he should have gotten a 58 Vette. They're worth more, and are real collector's cars. I've never seen that particular Vette (71, right?) in a Road & Track Classic Car Calendar, and I used to get those every year.

Oh, splain the lesbian/pickup truck thing, will you? Also makes no sense.

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[info]xie_xie_xie
2009-05-08 02:55 pm UTC (link)
Dunno, Red. You know I hate cars and never think about them. I particularly dislike sports cars.

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[info]noteverything
2009-05-08 05:00 pm UTC (link)
I don't know why I thought this...I probably read it in some of the ridiculous meta I (sadly) read when I first came to fandom...but I always thought he bought the '71 model because that's the year he was born.

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[info]_alicesprings
2009-05-08 06:31 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I remember reading (in Camper's TWOP recaps actually) that Jeeps were huge with teh gays in West Hollywood at about the time season 1 was airing.

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[info]felonius_monk
2009-05-08 07:32 pm UTC (link)
I never think of Brian as doing anything to "go along with the crowd." If anything, I think of him giving the finger to all convention--gay and straight.

BTW--I read your fics at bjfic.net and enjoy them.

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[info]xie_xie_xie
2009-05-08 07:37 pm UTC (link)
Yes, that's his image, and one he cultivates, but the key to his depth as a character is that he's more, and other, than his image much of the time.

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[info]michira_70
2009-05-08 02:54 pm UTC (link)
I can't say anything about the Jeep or the Corvette. I don't know which car would fit Brian.

But what do you think about Mickey's metallic-gold ridiculous, ugly car?? This thing looks like a Barbie car.
It looks like something a spoiled, rich, bored girl would get for her sweet 16'th birthday from daddy.

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[info]felonius_monk
2009-05-08 07:37 pm UTC (link)
LOL!! I never thought about it before, but you're right!! Mikey does look like that with his gold car!!

I really like your icon. Brian doesn't smile very often, does he?

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[info]pendulumchanges
2009-05-08 04:10 pm UTC (link)
Hi and welcome! I just read your profile and if this is true - I'm just hoping to connect with other people who endlessly love QAF and never tire of watching it and discussing it - then you've certainly come to the right place!

I recommend checking out QAF Coming Out first as it'll give you some information about the QAF fandom here on IJ as well as some info on how IJ works.

It would take forever for me to type them all up here, but if you click on my username and look at the left side of my journal you can see a list of a whole bunch of the IJ asylums that we play in. Join one, join ten, join them all!

You'll probably find the QAF Acronym Dictionary helpful too.

Again, welcome! Don't be scared :)

PS - I just tried to post this comment on your first entry in your journal, but IJ told me I couldn't because you've got it set up so only friends can leave comments. I highly recommend changing the setting. Chatting back and forth in comments is the best way to get to know everyone!

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[info]noteverything
2009-05-08 05:03 pm UTC (link)
IJ told me I couldn't because you've got it set up so only friends can leave comments. I highly recommend changing the setting. Chatting back and forth in comments is the best way to get to know everyone!

Or maybe just add some friends?

I don't think leaving it open is really that great an idea anymore...but of course the OP might feel differently.

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[info]felonius_monk
2009-05-08 08:19 pm UTC (link)
Whew! Tx so much for that!

This OP doesn't feel comfortable opening IJ to everyone.

I'm reading your drabbles right now. I added you as a Friend.

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[info]noteverything
2009-05-09 05:30 pm UTC (link)
Thanks! Enjoy yourself...you'll find this a *great* place to play.

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[info]felonius_monk
2009-05-08 08:10 pm UTC (link)
Tx so much for the welcome! (whew) I'm scared in a good way, like Justin on his first night with Brian.

You are my first Friend on IJ. I read "Night Moves" by phobosgirl. OUCH OUCH OUCH. Awesome that she likes some of the same TV programs I do!

EEK. I'm not comfortable opening up my IJ to everyone.

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[info]dottie_jane
2009-05-09 04:45 pm UTC (link)
Hi and welcome!

I always wondered about Brian's jeep too. Down here in the dirty south, jeeps are pretty commonplace as far as SUV-type vehicles go. In fact, I always associate jeeps with girls because so many of my girl friends have them!

But reading these comments, I guess it was cool to the writers. *shrugs*

You can friend me if you want. No worries if you're not comfortable with that.

DJ

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[info]felonius_monk
2009-05-13 06:04 am UTC (link)
Thank you for the welcome and the add.

LOL. I live in the south, too and you gave me a vivid image of all the little wannabe-debs in their pink RAV4's. You're so right! Just never thought about it before.

I love Brian's Jeep. Everytime I see one now, I think of QAF.

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[info]1bongo1
2009-05-10 10:18 pm UTC (link)
I thought he said he didn't care when it was covered with graffiti because it was a Company Car.

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