In which I am shallow
So Rachel tagged me to do this meme where you get to objectify the boys:
Lust Meme (Good Catholic WASP Girl Version)
1) List 5 celebrities you would have sex with GET MARRIED TOO BECAUSE IT IS WRONG TO DO NAUGHTY THINGS BEFORE MARRIAGE, without even asking questions.
2) Put all of them IN ORDER of your lust RESPECT AND ADMIRATION FOR THEIR TALENT for them.
3) Say which movie/show/thing it was that hooked you.
4) Supply photos for said people.
5) Tag five people.
Jon Hamm
From TV’s Mad Men. I just talked about this, and how his character’s being an asshole just makes me want him more, but seriously: dude fills out a suit. Yum, shoulders.
Stephen Colbert
Obviously, The Daily Show. I most love him when, like, a guest says something funny and he is trying not to laugh. It is the cutest thing ever. Also, being the foremost satirist of American politics and culture, in a time when America really needs a satirist, is hot.
Ryan Gosling
I remember him from as far back as Breaker High, which basically an inferior version of Saved By The Bell on a boat. Yes, I said an inferior version of Saved By The Bell. However, he did not win my, ahem, respect and admiration then, nor in The Notebook (“I wrote you 365 letters! I wrote you every day for a year!!!”), which I mostly just mocked. For me, it was Half Nelson, the most depressing movie ever, wherein he plays a crack-addicted public school teacher. But he is a sexy, dialectics-explaining, crack addict teacher.
Clooney:
I feel so generic, but the Cloon can’t be denied. Though I admit to wondering what his real life “confirmed bachelor” status means, it’s never really affected the entire world’s crush on him, so I’m certainly not going to let it stand in my way. I never really dug him on ER, but he won me over in Out of Sight, which contains one of my favourite love scenes of all time.
He gets extra points for also being a pretty good director.
Jake Gyllenhaal
IS THIS SHALLOW ENOUGH FOR YOU RACHEL? He is basically a human puppy dog; I never really think of myself as a Gyllenhaal fan, but whenever I see a photo of him, I just go “awwww.” I think I first saw him in Donnie Darko, and I found him adorable despite (or because?) of his crazy bunny visions. You just want to hug him, you know?
I’m skipping the tagging, because…I’m lazy. It is pretty fun though, so I do recommend it.
4 Responses to “In which I am shallow”
Rach on 12 Sep 2007 at 6:04 pm #
Oh, yes, yes. I’s a happy Rachel.
Ooooh, Gosling. Good one. Though, I remember him from waaaaaaaaaaay back, in the Mickey Mouse Club days. Ha! I also love that scene in Out of Sight – I don’t know why I don’t own that movie – OH MY GOD, I just remembered, that movie was on History channel recently, and I didn’t realize that Isaiah Washington played the dangerous rageaholic who tried to assault Karen, you know, when she takes him out with her self-defense stick? Gave me a scare, dude, specially knowing his rageaholic-y real life persona. Dude.
In conclusion – oh, Gyllenhaal. Look at your adorable puppy eyes. Aw.
brenda on 12 Sep 2007 at 7:54 pm #
Yeah I totally saw it on TV recently — was it on the History Channel? What is historical about Out of Sight, besides the greatness of the hotel bar/sex scene? But yeah, Isaiah Washington as “tussle guy,” totally harder to watch now.
Hee, Mickey Mouse Club.
Rach on 13 Sep 2007 at 6:07 am #
Something about the experience of the first women who served in the U.S. Marshals, and the difficulties they faced in a job where 99% of the foes and colleages were both men, since the character of Karen Sisco was based partially on a real person.
Speaking of Karen Sisco, did you ever catch the (painfully short-lived) series spun off from the movie with Carla Gugino? (Patrick Dempsey played Clooney’s role in the pilot.) It was really, really good, a precursor to Veronica Mars. I belong to an LJ group that uploads episodes, and they just posted the first two episodes, and man, I remember how much I loved it.
brenda on 14 Sep 2007 at 1:05 pm #
That seems like a pretty tenuous “historical” connection (I thought that both the novel and the movie did a good job of dealing with the “woman in a man’s world” aspect, but still, if your mandate is that your TV network deals with historical events, a fictional movie that happens to be about people that do things related to the world in any political or social way seems to be pushing it), but if it results in more Clooney on my TV, I’m not going to quibble.
I do remember Karen Sisco, and I remember thinking “gee, that sounds like a show I would want to watch” and then I remember it getting cancelled. (OMG wiki says Robert Forster was on it! Awesome.) I should seriously think about tracking it down when I finish The Wire.