Jonathan Day-Lewis

That is my new name, or it will be once I realize my life's ambition: to marry Daniel Day-Lewis. I've totally had a wee bit of a man-crush on him since I saw My Beautiful Laundrette in my Gay and Lesbian Film and Literature course at BU. In it, he plays the gay lover of this Pakistani dude in the United Kingdom. It's a really sweet movie and his character is this lovable little thug who hangs out with the tough kids from the wrong side of the tracks (think The Outsiders) but inside, he has a (gay) heart of gold. Obvs, the movie is incredible not because it is gay, but because it stars one of the greatest actors of our time. I fracking love him, which is why I was oh-so-excited to see There Will Be Blood, despite seeing that it was really long, about oil (zzz) and worst of all, had my beloved Daniel sporting a heinous mustache.

I can't bear mustaches since I made the horrible mistake in middle school of convincing my father to grow one simply to amuse me. He then kept it for a good six months to a year (time is fuzzy when you go that far back, but it certainly felt like forever) despite my and my brother's repeated pleas to him to shave the damn thing off, you were so much better off without it and why god why did you ever listen to us. I think in my heart it was payback for treating his face like a joke. But honestly, how was I to know, I was young and foolish.

So the roommates and I decided to go see There Will Be Blood as part of our effort to see as many Oscar movies before the possibly-nonexistant Oscars as we can. Unfortunately, it seems that every year the Oscars get earlier and earlier and the Oscar movies get later and later. And why is it that filmmakers typically refuse to offer any real "film" during the rest of the year. Must it ALL wait til December? Plus then you have amazingly wonderful movies like Waitress get shat on because movies like Juno happen to come out towards the end of the year and I hate you stupid Academy people. I mean, come on, Juno and gang were cute and all, but Waitress was so so awesome and it took more acting skill for Keri Russell to play that role than it did for Ellen Page to make some well-written quips sound funny. Anyway, /end soapbox.

The point here is that Daniel Day-Lewis was in There Will Be Blood, by Paul Thomas Anderson. Now, I'm the first to laud PTA for his amazing direction. He gets incredible performances out of people and typically has the good sense to put super-awesome actors in his movies. I mean, just look at Tom Cruise in Magnolia, Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Nights and Julianne Moore in both. Amazing. Another common thread is that these movies are insanely long and especially in the case of Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood, could have done with a bit of heavy-handed editing. Regardless, Blood is entirely worth seeing if only for DDL, who is ridiculous. He is one of those actors I can watch and forget that he's acting because he so totally inhabits the role that he's playing.

His character in this film is basically one of the worst people I can imagine, which has its own charm to be sure, as who doesn't love a good villain. (Side note: I was totally trolling IMDB earlier to suggest movies to Jason and I came across Kenneth Branagh by way of Emma Thompson (OMG I LOVE YOU, EMMA!) and he was in Othello with Laurence Fishburne and he played Iago which is my favorite villain EVS. Totally awesome.) Well, actually, I do really enjoy the villain in the video game Heavenly Sword, which Jason is playing right now, because the guy is played by Andy Serkis and he's totally insane, just like Iago. That used to be my favorite Shakespeare play, and still probably is. I wish they'd put that on around here somewhere so I could go see it.

but yes, you should all go see Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, Faithful Readers, because at one point, he froths at the mouth and you see spittle drop to the floor. And that, my friends, is hot. HOT.

Oh man, Jason is not doing well at the bow chick in Heavenly Sword. He was making the arrow fly all over the place using the capabilities of the SIXAXIS controller, which is the gayest name ever for a controller. GAY. Gay like Captain Apollo is when he rubs my back and calls me lover. That gay.

Oh Nariko you hot ho.

I was going to post this post earlier (not this post, but the one I am about to describe) about some article I saw on CNN about video games desensitizing kids to violence. I mean, it's basically a no-shit sherlock kinda thing, though a lot of other stuff desensitizes people in general to violence, but the real important part of the article was that after having the crackpot scientist guy give his shpiel, they actually gave a well-reasoned counter-argument about how video games are simply the latest scapegoat on the war against violence (har har) and that parents simply need to play an active role in their children's lives. But Kotaku beat me to the punch and now I'd look a fool (a fool I say!!) if I were to post about that. Jesus. I mean, right? Right? Totally right, I know. God.

In other news, I am a bit psychotic with the spending today and bought myself an HDTV and an Xbox 360 to be shipped to my home and work, respectively, this week. Yay. I am so very very excited to have a real television on which to play my PS3, cause currently I am using an OLD OLD TV of Tara's that can't really even be called a TV in good conscience, it is that bad. I mean, really. God. The text on the PS3's subtitles is totally awful. Horrible. But Uncharted: Drake's Fortune is great, cause Nate is a total hottie and it is a super fun game that throws zombie vampire people at you about half-way through. Random, but scary as hell. And fun. yay!

So, soon I will be a real gamer-nerd and have all three major gaming systems plus both major portable gaming systems and a big ass HDTV that I'll no doubt be paying on until I'm old (aka for six months). Word.

Ok, we're off to watch Tomb Raider and imagine Angie playing Nariko in the feature film version of Heavenly Sword.

PS: I totally bought new Lucinda Williams, k.d. lang and that-chick-from-the-new-apple-commerical cds. They are all amazing. Thank you. Go buy everything Lucinda and k.d. have ever recorded. You may thank me later.