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Feb. 25th, 2008

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oscars spotlight...

... on george clooney, duh!

=D

s'okay, he didn't win the best actor award which is expected because of movies like no country for old men and there will be blood (well one consolation for michael clayton is that tilda swinton again got the best actress awards--although again, she's included in the worst dressed list -.-) but he can top the best dressed list, as usual! tell me one time when george is not counted as 'best dressed'; he always looks sharp, no matter in a plain shirt and shorts playing basketball, in a 'formual' (formal-casual; like blazer over shirt) or in any tux! although yahoo!oscars put him at best dressed award it's because of his other accessory--his girlfriend, sarah larson, who apparently looked like a curtain (and yet another reason why he should just break up with her: she cramps his style). 

(yes, okay. i'm jealous of sarah larson. who wouldn't be?)

and yet, it's ironic because if she cramps his style, he adds the glamour and blingbling no diamonds can ever add to a girl. when george clooney is hanging off your arm. oh god. what kind of girl wouldn't trade any gold, diamond or gucci handbag for that kind of accessory?

here's him at the luncheon, wearing a formual.


(picture: yahoo!oscars)

it should be illegal to look that hot, okay. i'm just looking out for someone who may look at him and smoulder to death. =D (i know my heart can almost stop beating if i look at an especially hot picture of him).

funny thing, yahoo!oscars put a poll: what's the biggest surprise of the night? 
a. marion cotilard winning best actress? 33%
b. the woman from "once" got to come back for her thankyous. 26%
c. george clooney actually showed up with a girlfriend. 26%
d. the show kind of felt short for a change 15%

although the last time he joked that his mom would be his date (when was that? last year? can't really remember), i'm not at all surprised he showed up with dear sarah larson what. i mean, they've been going out for almost half a year to a year--jeez, these people have failed in following george's life (but then again, his life doesn't really make it into the tabloids here as much as it does in the us)! although i kind of expect him to show up without anyone/a new girl since uhm there has been some scandals with sarah which included her leaking to her friend (who leaked to the public) george's uhm sex life--and he likes to keep his life private. so yeah, maybe him showing up with a girlfriend is quite a surprise. :O

ohh oh and a picture of casey affleck at the luncheon:

(picture: yahoo!oscars)

and best quote ever from tilda swinton on her costar in michael clayton:

""George Clooney, you know, the seriousness and the dedication to your art, seeing you climb into that rubber batsuit from `Batman & Robin' — the one with the nipples, every morning under your costume, on the set, off the set, hanging upside-down at lunch — you rock man." 

and daniel dayton lewis! you already got your best actor awards and you still stole a kiss from george? you, you... clooney kisser! =O

ahh thank god the strike's revolved in time for the oscars. =/ god forbid we are deprived of this glamorous star studded event!

seattle times sums up the fashion wins and disasters of the events pretty well:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/movies/2004199100_fashion25.html
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Feb. 3rd, 2008

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afflecktion

this year's actor to swoon over: casey affleck

that's right--casey's ol Ben's younger brother and he's inherited his good looks: black hair and beautiful blue eyes. although he's been in Hollywood since. forever? XD. but i dont know why this year he's like even hotter than ever. is it the many movies he has playing in the theatres right now--gone baby gone and assasination of jesse james? is it his great acting skill and godsent good looks?

i mean, i've noticed him before in the ocean series but it wasn't the 'zomg casey affleck is so frikkin hot' reaction i'm having right now. =D 

and gerald butler is also worth swooning over. is he cute or what? 

just a footnote: still love george clooney <--- ultimate man. i saw someone said in some forums "God created sex and named it George Clooney". i so agree. 

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this comes a bit late and stuff but i'm so happy for screen actors guild award for running smoothly. the thing i like about this kinda award show is that it just oozes power. celebrity power. hollywood power. with tuxedos and dressses and diamond necklaces and other expensive designer items. it's really a thrill to see today's world's most influential and greatest actors and actresses packed together in a uber high class ballroom, interacting with each other, congratulating each other and maybe even bitching about each other. =D 

what is it about celebrities that excite us? psychologists and researchers say it's an instinct programmed deep in us--a recent research with monkeys show that monkeys would rather be around celebrities, fawning over them, rather than playing with their favorite toys or eating their favorite food. celebrities are like. gods. worshipped. all high and mighty above us. one day infallible. another day, scorned, bitched about and they fall from the clouds wih theirwings cut off. and we keep track of their lives even more than we keep track of our friends' lives, cheering when the stars rise and cheering when they fall. a bit sardonic huh? 

celebrities are like. reality tv stars and the whole world is their stage. like any other show, it will be boring if everything goes smoothly so of course it must be littered with sex tapes, drug scandals, psychotic bouts... and somehow watching all these are more entertaining than watching most movies, tv shows and reading books. 

maybe we human beings are just nosy people who're always bored with our lives and must always look at others' lives as entertainment. or maybe we just love the feeling of knowing that celebriies are human--or in some cases even have a life worse than an average man, i mean the pressure is huge--and every little thing they do are just more exaggerated versions of what we do in our lives. (like omg we normal human beings buy houses to live in and celebrities do too--only they live in bev hills and private islands with houses hundreds of times bigger than ours! of course everytime they buy a house we must feature it in the papers!) also, the bigger they are, the harder they fall--celebrities' downfalls are chronicled, made into bestselling books and movies and we consume them hungrily, eager for more.

why are we so interested in them? because they're the pantheon, the powerful gods living above us all in fluffy white clouds and yet they're all the same as other human beings with sex scandals, drug addictions, depression, drink and driving and psychotic bouts. somehow, because of their status, the impacts of what they do are in godly proportions compared to the same things we do--and the bigger they are, the harder the fall. 

it's a guilty pressure, i guess. a hell of a guilty pleasure--like sundaes with extra scoop of mint and butterscotch icecream each, with extra whip cream and three cherries on top and washed down with an extra large rootbeer float. very sinful. and yet, delicious.

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Nov. 14th, 2007

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delay (and a long post)

after relentless campaigns and encouragements from close buddies like george clooney and brad pitt and picking himself up every year after failing again and again to reach that coveted throne, matt damon is finally PEOPLE's 2007 SEXIEST MAN ALIVE.



Oh yes, honey, with those blue eyes, those delicious good looks, that mischievous smile, that sense of humor, that 'suburban dad' thing going on... gosh, i can just go on and on and on and on about him. not mentioning he's so humble he can give george clooney and hugh laurie a run for their money on that departement.

he actually refused the title.

he wrote a letter to the editors of PEOPLE with lines like, "you just give a suburban dad the ego boost of a lifetime" and something about aging (oh come on, you know that people like him and george clooney, brad pitt, keanu reeves, blahdiblah get better with age; just like fine wine ;) (a majority of the alumni of people's sexiest men are also not on the young side)) and something about passing it this year and getting it next year instead, which only emphasize him being so humble it's at the point of "too-cute!", his sense of humor, his family-man-ness and thus, his sexiness.

so in the end, he's on the cover page, with the letter printed in this issue of PEOPLE (the november sexiest man alive issue, of course).

i know he is JUST the person to take the throne from george clooney. he's been joking about that for ages, george clooney and brad pitt have been 'endorsing' him ever since ocean's eleven (and that unfortunate event about the leather! ahaha). well, just as brad pitt posted a full page ad congratulating george with his second title as the sexiest man alive (complete with an old picture of george with a mullet)--george retaliated by showing brad's mullet pictures on a talkshow later on XD--i hope those two do something hilarious to celebrate matt's ascension to the throne.

i've been wanting to do a post about post exam activities (or lack of it) and the research camp i'm in right now (it's a blast), but i just feel so... uninspired. maybe next time XD but i'll just leave this beautiful, beautiful picture here for eye candy:



the beard is there to prevent us girls from melting due to high concentration of hot-ness. it barely works.

he doesn't make the list this year (i can't believe that brad pitt's in when he isn't -.-) but he's hauled in a barrage of titles just this year alone so yeahh, give others a chance =D

those two look just so good together, don't they? they got involved in 2001 and 2006, been good friends for ten years and they feel like they've been married for "28 years," renee says, and george corrects her something like this, "27 years; we lived together for the first year and there was a lot of fighting..."

the chemistry is still there! =D

i can't wait for michael clayton and leatherheads, although i'm not sure if i can watch the former despite turning sixteen in less than half a year's time.

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i've finished watching bones season 1 and 2 and wow i'm hooked. ahaha if i live in america, east coast, i'd be able to get my weekly fix of crime mystery and medical mystery two hours in a row on tuesday, fox, 8-10 pm. unfortunately (really really unfortunately =( ) for me, i don't live anywhere near there so i can't get to watch season 3 bones and season 4 house.

if the writer's strike is not ending soon, and all these dramas lose fresh episodes, they may be taken off air to accomodate 'america's next big band", "america's next big rapper", "america's next big singer" and all those reality shows. they keep on saying the finale season of scrubs is in danger of being unaired at all because of the strike! nooooooooo. =(

because we're in the subject of male eye candies and bones, i'd like to say that david boreanaz is hot.

i know that, really, and i feel a bit stupid that i need to say that because it's like so obvious. it's a fact. it's a truth. it's that kind of thing that goes without saying, like the fundamental laws of science. like the earth revolves around the sun. like the birds and the bees.

like george clooney is hot, david boreanaz is hot.

(yes, stef, he is)

david boreanaz shot to fame because he played the vampire angel in buffy, and then in the spin off series, angel. both series finished already, but you can still see him on the silver screen (oh, thank god) as special FBI agent seeley booth in bones.

i can't possibly describe his hotness in words, so:



okay, i can try: those soft dark brown hair and captivating chocolate eyes; that velvety voice that seems to wrap itself around you like a blanket. and those arms and chest... hoo boy!

nah that sentence doesn't really do his hotness justice.

and here's another eye candy from bones:



actor's name: tj thyne. character's name: dr jack hodgins. sole heir to an uberly wealthy group that apparently generates more GNP than europe combined annually, and yet having a 'secret life' working as an entemologist--or a 'bug and slime guy': expert (with three degrees) on bugs, spores and minerals. oh and he's a conspiracy theorist. and he's got those blue, blue eyes that are like magnetic pools that draw you in.

but anyway i watch bones not only because of the hot guys or the hot girls or whatever but also because of the great concept,  usually cool script and most importantly, the beyond great chemistry between the characters.

five things you need to know about bones, the series:

1. based very loosely on a book by a forensic anthropologist, kathy reichs--and also on her life as well.

2. a forensic anthropologist is different from a forensic pathologist (normally what you see on shows like CSI) that forensic anthropologist uses the bones of skeletal remains, decomposed/mutilated/charred/burnt/disfigured/blown up remains to identify the remains, determine cause of death and they are so good that they can even tell a story about the person's life just by looking at the bones. only about 100 of them exist in the world today and only about 50 or so who are active in field. usually, they do academia-based stuff, like research (being also an anthropologist, they do a lot of research on humans, which is always cool) but they usually help out on cases if needed.



3. dr temperance brennan is a forensic anthropologist working in the fictional jeffersonian institute who gets into a partnership with special agent seeley booth to work on cases involving remains which... dont look human most of the time (blown up, burnt, decomposed, blahdiblah). booth nicknames brennan 'bones' the first time he meets her because she works with bones and that name sticks. bones and booth first start out bickering and arguing about everything--booth wants her on his team to work on extreme cases where the remains cannot be identified by normal forensic team (and the next nearest forensic anthropologist, according to brennan, is in montreal) while bones use him to get out onto the field and out of the lab.

4. brennan doesn't own a tv (the last one she had was her ex boyfriend's, which she broke when he tried to sneak it out of her apartement) and therefore she leads a very 'secluded' life from normal pop cultures. the phrase 'i don't know what that means' is her trademark phrase whenever someone mentions something related to pop culture to her, for example, when booth says, "we're scully and mulder!". funnily enough, her being literal and seemingly having very little sense of humor--that at least 'normal people' can understand--does not seem to get in the way of her being a best seller novel writer, about a forensic anthropologist named kathy reichs and some fbi guy that booth believed to be himself, although brennan always denies this. then again, the sexual tension between the two of them is like a time bomb that's just waiting to explode and the chemistry between the two of them suggests that (of course) the both of them will have a happy ending.

5.the show is very addictive. (;

so what are you waiting for? go on, go watch it! =D