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So I just started watching Penny Dreadful and holy fucking Goddess, WHEN did Josh Hartnett get so unbe-fucking-lievably SEXY? Seriously, the man has me drooling. When did this even happen??

I have to confess that I haven't really thought about him in a long time, as he fell off my radar with that painful Wicker Park atrocity. I knew he was out there making movies, but after that debacle, I'd kinda written him off. Which worked out just fine, because now I get to be LAID OUT FLAT by what he's turned into. He's not pretty anymore - now he's interesting, a quality worth far more in an actor. As Valentine Michael might say, he's growing into his own face. It's a wonderful thing to see.

Plus, you know, there's all that fucking SKIN.

Blessed Aphrodite - I never thought I'd get to see this guy's body. Did you notice how for a long while he almost never even took his shirt off for the camera? Now this series keeps throwing these lush sex scenes into the mix, and I'm lying in a pool of sliced tomatoes. (Because you better believe I'm watching this thing in bed.) Wow, his body is beautiful. And he's photographed beautifully, as well. He's definitely the sex object in this series. Considering how much this show has to do with hunger and vampires and devouring, it's almost impossible not to see those scenes as a decadent feast laid out for us. Here you go, ladies - hot, sweet, and juicy. Eat your fill. Oh, I get trembly just thinking about it.

And I'll tell you, I never thought I'd see Josh Hartnett taking another man. OH HOLY BITCH GODDESS. I was hyperventilating, I swear. So fucking hot, but of course the scene didn't go anywhere near far enough - they chickened out and left the guys shirtless and playing tonsil hockey. HEADDESK HEADDESK HEADDESK. But I have hopes we'll see more; I'm only on the sixth episode and I really don't see any indication that sex will be put on the back burner.

Oh my. Just...oh my. What an amazing, lovely, kindling surprise this is turning out to be. The fact that it's just a damn good series all around is icing on the cake, frankly, since I'm so dazzled by what's happened to him. So just assume that I'm rattling off a list of every word for "fucking HOT" you've ever heard. Because I am, at full volume.

Our Zekey Boy's all grown up.

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P.S. Here is my theory about the brontosaurus: Ethan Chandler is a werewolf. SHUT UP RIGHT NOW. I don't want to hear if I'm right or not. I just wanted to say it, because I am So. Looking. Forward. to his transformation. So if I'm wrong, let me be disappointed on my own.

But I don't think I'm wrong.

ETA: HA. I knew it!

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Hhhhokay, so...

I'd like the opinion of anybody still reading this journal who is in fandom. Yeah, so like, all of you. I've just had a puzzling situation come up, and I'd like your input because...well, because I really think this is just...oy.

( A little background first. (Just a little, I promise, so you get the lay of the land.) )


ETA: Added a note about my post to clarify.

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And this.

I still can't get past this. How can the Universe exist without him?

Hi, folks!

I've added a couple of items to my selling post again. Today I've got two page-a-day LOTR calendars here, Verlyn Flieger's scholarly Tolkien book, Splintered Light here, and for those of you into classic films, a lovely photobook from Japan all about that beautiful lady, Audrey Hepburn here. (Look to the bottom of the section at each link for the items.)

Take a look if you're interested, and please pass the links to anyone you know who might want to see, as well. I'll be posting more tomorrow. Thanks all!

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"I'm not an actor, I'm a MOVIE STAR!" - Alan Swann, My Favorite Year


My favorite movie quote from Peter O'Toole. What a wonderful performance in a wonderful film. He was such a great, sardonic, witty performer. He was fantastic in The Ruling Class (what a great Jesus), and phenomenal in The Stunt Man (what a great Satan). Had The Lord of the Rings been made ten years earlier, he would have had my vote to play Gandalf, as he would have played him much closer to the character in the book. (Not that I'm knocking McKellen, just that the Gandalf in the book wasn't nearly so cuddly.) And of course, his Henry II, in Becket and The Lion in Winter was not to be equalled.

*sigh* They're all going, one by one. The way of things, of course, but still...*sigh*

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It suddenly occurred to me to wonder what Smaug would be like if he were played by James Spader.

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Billy Connolly has just joined the cast of The Hobbit.


You may commence shrieking now.

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His gesture when he says "I am a Baggins of Bag End" is what clinched it. Great casting. Bravo.

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The Lazy Song - Bruno Mars


Leonard Nimoy. In a bathrobe. Flipping people off. OMFG

He is SO on my fantasy smoke-out list now.

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So it was all a hoax.

Interesting. I'm still not gonna watch it, though.


ETA: Hm. I wonder if Roger Ebert is feeling a little foolish right about now.