Seven

Deadly sins, that is. They also happen to be the basis for the movie Se7en, which I've seen in the past.

I did some considering about how many and to what extent of these sins I'm guilty of. Not that I really care, because I'm not religious, but I thought it'd be interesting to take a self-inventory here. 

1. luxuria / Lust. I don't really think I'm guilty of this one. 
2. gula / Gluttony. I think in some ways, sometimes, I'm gluttonous.  
3. avaritia / Greed. I think I'm at least sort of greedy also. 
4. acedia / Sloth. I'm very lazy, so definitely guilty of this one. 
5. ira / Wrath. I certainly feel like being vengeful sometimes, so I've been guilty of this one as well.
6. invidia / Envy. I don't think that I'm particularly envious of others. 
7. superbia / Pride. Do I think that I'm better than others? Better than some people, at least. 

In other matters, apparently there are at least a few (one?) people who delight in posting pairs of similar pictures of Jake Gyllenhaal (the amount that I've been mentioning him lately, it feels like this blog is turning into a Jake Gyllenhaal blog a little bit) and Jared Leto. They do sort of look similar as far as hair color and eye color goes, and face shape/feature arrangements, to some extent, but Jared Leto... has rounder/bigger eyes? Something in the eye area. I particularly like the Jake picture in this set, of Jake splayed out on the floor like my cats do sometimes. It would be interesting to do my own compilation of similar pictures of different actors, so maybe I'll try to get on with that. 

Also in other news, last night, I began to watch a documentary on the same subject matter that the movie Black Mass was about. I thought that it could potentially be insightful, and so far it's been pretty interesting. There was a mention of the guy who Peter Sarsgaard played, who got murdered by the mobsters. In relation to the movie, I was trying to look up this one video of Johnny Depp saying some things (really, just a thing) about Peter Sarsgaard but I didn't find it. However, I did find a review which expressed some things I would say I agree with: "The two actors who do manage a few moments of credibility are Johnson as Whitey’s girlfriend and Peter Sarsgaard as a minor criminal who ends up in Whitey’s clutches. They’re both wasted in tiny roles that make you wish the screenplay had given more time to their characters and their conflicts. Cumberbatch isn’t awful as Whitey’s brother, a senator and one of the most powerful men in Boston. However, Cumberbatch isn’t able to lose all of his posh, British aura and ultimately, you don’t believe he belongs with the other Southie men." This review also mentioned the movie The Departed (and said it was a better movie), with Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio, which is apparently about the same subject matter, which I hadn't know before. I intend to eventually watch that movie someday. 

My current list of movies I'd like to watch eventually is as follows: Inception, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Departed, Schindler's List, Fight Club, A Beautiful Mind, Awakenings, An Education, Flightplan, Boys Don't Cry, Jackie, Flightplan, Rendition, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Great Gatsby, Brokeback Mountain, Contagion, various Jason Bourne movies.  

Journaling, blogging, skulls

It seems that I really only have even partially interesting things to write about as far as keeping a journal a la Warhol or Sedaris goes when I'm out of the house, which at the time is mostly for errands. Exciting, I know. 

Stores: Dry cleaners, Bed Bath and Beyond, Verizon, Costco

At the dry cleaners, most of the people working at the counter where you hand in or receive your clothes were fairly petite looking women, which was kind of interesting in that they all had similar builds/sizes. There was one man who maybe was the boss/manager and one of the customers was talking to him seemingly about something that was wrong with her dry cleaning. He was on the larger side in terms of weight and waistline but he had really nice looking eyeballs. 

At Bed Bath and Beyond, they had expensive tweezers, trash cans in colors more interesting than the color of the trash can I currently have, and personal humidifiers even though it's summer and today was very humid. They also had peach rings, rugs, and beach chairs. One of the employees was standing around and writing on a clipboard; he was left handed but also wore his watch on that arm, which I thought was kind of weird. It would make more sense to wear it on the other arm where it would be more out of the way when writing or doing other stuff like that. 

At Verizon, it seems like they're always rearranging the layout and look of the store's interior. And they didn't seem to have a very good selection of phone cases for Samsung phones. Not that I particularly need a new one, but it's nice to look. I don't think any women were working there. One of the male workers there had very delicate looking wrists and arms, and the rest of his body was pretty similar. Most people would probably say that it's not manly to have delicate wrists and arms (and therefore unattractive), but I love that kind of figure on men. 

At Costco, I looked at the books (as well as a good amount of the other stuff) and it seemed like there were a lot in the genre of spy/mystery/murder kind of thing. I guess that's in vogue these days? There were some political related books too (one by Newt Gingrich about understanding Donald Trump), as well as a good helping of cookbooks. This one man was looking at the books and he was by himself, which shouldn't be surprising - people can go shopping when and with/without whoever they want, but I guess I usually expect men to be shopping with their wives or just not at all. He was looking at the books and he must have injured his wrist/forearm/hand because it was in some kind of cast. I wonder how that happened to him. One of my weird fears (along with: my hair catching on fire, my favorite clothes getting ruined, someone hiding in the tub behind the shower curtain) is that my wrist(s) will get broken somehow. For some reason, the idea of that bone getting broken is more unsettling to me than the idea of breaking, say, an ankle, or really, any other bone. It hasn't happened yet, but I also hope that I don't eventually end up having crocheted too much and develop wrist pains because of that.   

I just recently read an article on Slate that was about the incompetence of Sean Spicer ironically being a good thing - that it was a good thing that he was so bad at lying, and a press secretary who's actually good at lying and does it with ease would be more dangerous/insidious. It mentioned Anthony Scaramucci (maybe from now on I'll call him by his initials??) and how it seems that he's a more adept liar than Spicey. I gathered as much; in my previous post I said that he was more articulate than Sean Spicer. Which isn't exactly a good thing because the articulateness is going towards the task of lying for the Trump administration. I begrudgingly look forwards to seeing him on television due to the decently fetching looks. I promise you, I'm simultaneously chastising myself for appreciating his appearance. He's a slimy rich guy working for Trump. I don't know what I'd do with myself if Peter Sarsgaard, god forbid, were a Trump supporter, or, much worse, were actually directly working for Trump. I know that's not exactly plausible; Peter being an actor sort of precludes working for Trump (or does it really??) and if he had been in the circles of people that ended up working for Trump, that would probably preclude him being an actor and therefore I probably wouldn't be aware of him.  

  

Topic du jour: skull

Shh, I've been keeping up with the Jake Gyllenhaal newsletter... I feel like it's just ever so slightly weird to write about other people's blogs in the way that I'm doing now. But anyways, the most recent edition of the newsletter talks a little about the new Christopher Nolan movie that I'd like to see eventually (due to James D'Arcy being in it), Dunkirk. In relation to that, (this is from the newsletter) some website published a list of what they deem to be the best war movies. Without having looked at it, I'm going to throw out some movies that I think would probably be on it: Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Saving Private Ryan, Platoon (all of which I've seen except the last, to varying degrees of enjoyment). According to the newsletter, one of the movies on that list is none other than one I recently purchased a DVD copy of secondhand at a thrift store - Jarhead (starring Jake and Peter). Apparently, people are getting rid of their Peter Sarsgaard (or you could say Jake Gyllenhaal or Hayden Christensen - fun Scandinavian last names, all of them!) movies these days (hello, Shattered Glass, which I also got a copy of at that same thrift store a few weeks ago). They are also getting rid of their copies of the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report - there were 5 copies at the thrift store. Anyways, in the part of the newsletter mentioning the movie, there's a screencap from the movie featured, of Jake's character lounging and reading a book, captioned: "Here's me, reading on the beach and showing off the shape of my skull." Which then made me think about... skulls. Skulls, skulls, skulls. Seeing as the movie is about people in the military, they all naturally have very short haircuts (although in Full Metal Jacket, by the time they were in Vietnam, Joker's hair had grown out), so you also get a pretty good view of Peter's skull too. I then thought of this quote:

 "but i don’t understand why anyone would willingly make the decision to expose their gross bulgy skull to the universe."

Anyways, in relation to Peter's skull, I thought about this one movie he was in (that I don't plan to watch, ever, because even though he's in it, I don't think I'd enjoy it. I'm not a fan of superhero stuff at all) where he plays a villain. I haven't actually seen this movie but from what I know about it, he plays a villain whose head is growing to disturbing sizes. I much prefer Peter looking how he normally looks, without a deformed, swelling head, which is yet another reason to not watch this movie. This is a similar reason for why I'm not going to watch Men In Black even though Vincent is in it. So, despite me not planning to watch this movie, I did come across some of the interviews Peter had done for it and he was really bald and kind of pale looking in one of them, actually. So you could really see the shape of his skull. I assume they had him shave his head so that it would be easier to either CGI the expanding head of his character and/or to glue a fake expanding head on him. Yuck. This is certainly one of the roles I don't understand why he took. Maybe he needed the money. You're so much better than that though, Peter. 

I guess he was pretty close to bald in The Killing as well, for that matter.  

P.S. (meaning post script, not Peter Sarsgaard): I... sort of (but not really) can't believe I wrote part of a blog post about other people's skulls. Skulls. I'm not super familiar with my own skull shape because I never have had my hair short enough to really discern the contours of my skull (except maybe when I was a baby). 

Voices (blog-cast)

Transcription (completely unedited in Hubert Selby Jr fashion; I tried to pause as little as possible while transcribing. Scroll down for an edited version): "So, before I go to bed, really quickly, I was thinking about recording my voice saying things, recording me saying things and how i was pleasantly surprised that I sounded fairly decent and normal in the recording because a lot of people apparently hate the way that htye sound when they ehar a recording of their voice and for me that's not true and I thin that's a good thing I guess I not really sur what percentage of people dislike/hate the souind of their voice on recordings compared to people who don't mind it or who actually sort of like it. UI don't really kmnow what the nunbers are for that but it could be sort of interesting to know so It hought ath I'd doa recording for my next blog post and then I'd transcrip it for the blog post and maybe post the recording in addition to the trancpotion. and then naturally wiht the usbject matter of voices, in this case mine and how it sounds on a recording, I also of couirse had ot htink about peter sarsgaar dbecause i really like the wya thta he talks., I really like his voice, I think it's just absoultely lovely, absolutely loves, aldn i just wnt ot hear hi/m say things, and if he read an oaudiobook, whtaerve boo, then my life would becomplte i could die happi, not that i plant o die anyytime soon. I mean,m he could read a bookt aht i hate or dislike and i hitnk i'd probly stil be hapy; i didn't like great epxectaiong or heart of darkness, so even if he read one of htose books i think ik'd stil be plesed. it owuldn't matter that it's a book that i hate, it would only mayyer that it's him, it's ptere sargaard saying things. I thiknk that would make me really hapy. SO, with regards to that, PS 's voice, I was thinking about how pwople sound dfferent to themselves when they're sayign things vs how you would sound if you record your boice and liceten to that. it has to do with eharding things when you speak , not on a recordig, you're hearing things through the bnones in your skull and that mkes it sound a bit difffernt compared to ar ecording amd you're not hearing theboones in yorei skull, which you do hear when you speak because the sppech vbirates your sull. I'm sure ther's sa more elegant way of explainignt hat' but that's the gist of it. So now i'm super curiosu about what PS/he sounds like tohimself. Not on a recofdinw which is how i've been eperienceing his voice, how I"ve been heering his couie on videos and stuff, and i guess that's a t least someone different thna how he hears himselv. i do wonder what he think a about hearing his voice. i do remember in one intv he talks about that a littl ebnit and says something along the lines of his voice isn't exctly like anormal perosn's voice; other popel apparently ocnsider him to have a crepty sounding voice or osmething and so in this one intv the intber asked aobut his voice and he said thathe didn't htink it was exacrly like normal peopel;s voices and that he owuldn't be chosed ot sell ceral on televiosn ebcause his voice is unconventional.  I mean, I of course I don't ella yhink that his voice is crrep obviously i like ti quite a lot, i really do. so this all kind of ites into gether a litlt ebit' with the amoutn that PS is ovcupyin my thoughts lately within the last montho ro it's isn't too surpsing that a lof ot the things i've been thinking about i can relate back ot him in soem way or anyother. so yea, I dont think it's too smuch or a surprise, this combo of topics - how my voice sounds and how his voice sounds. and yeah i just i'm always in the mood to hear him say things, anything, i just ewant to hear him say things. not wreally iwht an accent, just with is normla voice, not where he's using some kind of accent. not that that's bad or anyhting I just erally like hisnormal voice. SO that is the end of this littler ercoding ,blog post thign and i'm going to ideally trancribe ikand and post it. i might just post the trancription or i might post bot the recording and the trans if i can figure out how to do that/ o'm curious to se how long the blog post weil end up beign sine the recording is about 7 minutes lone. so that is is for now and i'm propably going to ho to leep shotrly;. 

Transcription (the previous text, but edited for spelling/punctuation):
So, before I go to bed, really quickly, I was thinking about recording my voice saying things, recording me saying things and how I was pleasantly surprised that I sounded fairly decent and normal in the recording because a lot of people apparently hate the way that they sound when they hear a recording of their voice and for me that's not true. I think that's a good thing, I guess; I'm not really sure what percentage of people dislike/hate the sound of their voice on recordings compared to people who don't mind it or who actually sort of like it. I don't really know what the numbers are for that but it could be sort of interesting to know so I thought that I'd do a recording for my next blog post and then I'd transcribe it for the blog post and maybe post the recording in addition to the transcription.

And then naturally with the subject matter of voices, in this case mine and how it sounds on a recording, I also of course had to think about Peter Sarsgaard because I really like the way that he talks. I really like his voice, I think it's just absolutely lovely, absolutely lovely, and I just want to hear him say things, and if he read an audiobook, whatever book, then my life would be complete, I could die happy (not that I plant to die anytime soon). I mean, he could read a book that I hate or dislike and I think i'd probably still be happy; I didn't like Great Expectations or Heart of Darkness, so even if he read one of those books I think I'd still be pleased. It wouldn't matter that it's a book that I hate, it would only matter that it's him, it's Peter Sarsgaard saying things. I think that would make me really happy. 

So, with regards to that, Peter Sarsgaard's voice, I was thinking about how people sound different to themselves when they're saying things vs how you would sound if you record your voice and listen to that. It has to do with hearing things when you speak (not on a recording), you're hearing things through the bones in your skull and that makes it sound a bit different compared to a recording and you're not hearing the bones in your skull, which you do hear when you speak because the speech vibrates your skull. I'm sure there's a more elegant way of explaining that, but that's the gist of it. So now I'm super curious about what Peter Sarsgaard sounds like to himself. Not on a recording, which is how I've been experiencing his voice, how I've been hearing his voice on videos and stuff, and I guess that's at least somewhat different than how he hears himself. I do wonder what he thinks about hearing his own voice. I do remember in one interview he talks about that a little bit and says something along the lines of his voice isn't exactly like a normal person's voice; other people apparently consider him to have a creepy sounding voice or something and so in this one interview the interviewer asked about his voice and he said that he didn't think it was exactly like normal people's voices and that he wouldn't be chosen to sell cereal on television because his voice is unconventional.  I mean, I of course I don't really think that his voice is creepy; obviously I like it quite a lot, I really do. 

So this all kind of ties in together a little bit: with the amount that PS is occupying my thoughts lately within the last month or so, it isn't too surprising that a lot of the things I've been thinking about I can relate back to him in some way or another. So yeah, I don't think it's too much or a surprise, this combination of topics - how my voice sounds and how his voice sounds. I'm just always in the mood to hear him say things, anything, I just want to hear him say things. Not really with an accent, just with his normal voice, not where he's using some kind of accent. Not that that's bad or anything, I just really like his normal voice. 

So that is the end of this little recording blog post thing and I'm going to ideally transcribe it and and post it. I might just post the transcription or I might post both the recording and the transcription if i can figure out how to do that. I'm curious to see how long the blog post will end up being since the recording is about 7 minutes long. So that is it for now and I'm probably going to go to sleep shortly [at the time of the recording]. 

Addendum: this was really interesting to transcribe and see how fast I could type. It looks like you can't upload audio files, so no recording to go with this blog post. 

Musical selections

I've posted a lot about movies and actors lately, so I thought it might be good to throw a little variety in and write about some songs I've been enjoying lately. It's sort of an eclectic (maybe?) mix, but here it is:

Obstacle 1 by Interpol: Awhile ago, The Killers covered this song which is how I found out about it. It's fairly similar to some of the Killers' own songs from their first album. The lyrics don't really make a ton of sense but I like the song. 

Human Remains by Drowners: This song is by a band started by a former model, which is cool. It's sort of upbeat but also melancholy at the same time, and it makes me think of a certain very blonde someone. 

Falling Away With You by Muse: This song I've always liked, but recently I've been liking it even more. This is the song that perfectly fits the movie Requiem for a Dream, which I like quite a lot. If you're familiar with the movie, I think you can see how this song goes really well with the things that happen in that movie. 

Mandolin Rain by Bruce Hornsby and The Range: This song, I heard vaguely in the grocery store while in the produce section and used an app to find out what it was because it sounded sort of interesting even though I couldn't really hear it so well. It's from the 80s and it's sort of similar to some other songs that I like, like Boston by Augustana (it would be interesting if Dan [I haven't forgotten about him - nice teeth and all] ever decided to cover this song). It's nice and mellow and melancholy. Interestingly enough, I find that whatever music they play in grocery stores, Chipotle, and occasionally other stores can be quite nice and certainly more appealing than a lot of the stuff on the radio stations. Incidentally, once I was in Michaels and looking at the yarn when I heard another song by this guy, that one called The Way It Is, which is also a nice song. Awhile ago I came across someone else who had written about their appreciation for Mandolin Rain, here. 

New Dawn Fades by Joy Division: This one is another Joy Division song in addition to Shadowplay and Love Will Tear Us Apart that I know. It's from the album Unknown Pleasures, which I listened to in full once. Of the songs from that album, I think this one stood out to me the most. It's a cool song and it's brooding and melancholy, which seem to be qualities that I like in songs. I can't find a video of Joy Division performing this song live, which is kind of a shame, but I guess it was one of the less well known ones. There are videos of them performing Shadowplay and Love Will Tear Us Apart, however. I wonder what other bands out there (new or old) have similar sounding music to Joy Division. 
Correction: apparently there actually are a few live recordings of New Dawn Fades out there. I guess I just didn't look hard enough in the past. There's one that's more of a cover featuring, among others, New Order and Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins. I think it's a mix of people singing but I think I recognize Billy Corgan in parts of it. The various live versions are interesting, although they're more chaotic sounding than the studio version, which is pleasingly minimalistic. 

All of these songs  except one (Human Remains) are sort of old, some more so than others (Falling Away With You and Obstacle 1 are from the early 2000s, as opposed to the 70s or 80s). 

Skin undertones and eye candy

In the last post I remarked on the similarities between the appearance of a new hire to the Trump administration and Peter Sarsgaard. I was looking at the pictures (pictures 1 and 2) that I included to show the comparison and noticed that in comparison to Anthony Scaramucci (I haven't really decided whether I should call him Anthony [first name basis], Scaramucci [more formal], or Anthony Scaramucci [middle ground?] in my posts), Peter seems to have fairly golden and glowing skin in the picture. Anthony Scaramucci's skin looks rather pinkish in the picture of him. Come to think of it, I'd also say that he looks fairly/somewhat similar as well to the actor Sebastian Stan (who is pretty good looking, for that matter). I looked at some more pictures of Anthony Scaramucci to examine his coloring/complexion. In some of the pictures he looks more/less pink than others. Maybe it has to do with lighting?? Some nights, Anderson looks kind of pink.  Then I looked again at pictures of Peter Sarsgaard (I wouldn't mind writing him as a first name basis on my blog, but he has a cool last name) to see if there were any where he looked particularly pink. In some he looked ever so slightly pink, but not particularly so. There are a few pictures of him wearing (reading??) glasses out there, which I thought was interesting (and he looks a little pink in this picture): 

Maybe it really is all down to lighting. I know sometimes I'll be in a public bathroom somewhere and notice that whatever lighting they have in there makes me look really yellow. 

I might as well mention about eyelashes guy, in that here is another conservative who is fairly nice looking, albeit conservative (this caused me a good deal of exasperation in the past, about eyelashes guy). If only eyelashes guy were a democrat and if only Anthony Scaramucci wasn't some crooked and unsavory person working for the Trump administration! Then I could admire their appearances guilt-free, without the strings of an undesirable (to me) conservative ideology attached. 

As far as good looking liberals go, I have to say that Joseph Kennedy, one of the congress members from Massachusetts (and a Kennedy, obviously), is pretty good looking. I wonder why he's never on television/in the news. Other congress members and senators are. No fair. I need my eye candy. Incidentally, Peter Sarsgaard was in a movie where he played Bobby Kennedy. 

This is turning into a pretty shallow post - how many times have I mentioned about people I consider good looking so far? It seems like a lot. It also probably seems potentially ridiculous to care about *ethical considerations* (meaning political affiliation and/or unsavory-ness as a person) as far as eye candy goes, but I can't help it. I mean, think about it. I have liberal values and I don't support conservative ones. Appreciating the appearances (although not the political ideas) of conservatives goes a bit counter to that, I'd say. 

I have more objection to Scaramucci as a person because of the whole directly working for Trump thing, which is certainly icky. At least it's wrapped up in a more-articulate-than-Spicer and visually similar to Peter Sarsgaard package... Eyelashes guy I think is a decent person, he seems nice/alright even though he's a republican. And he's not working in the Trump administration. So he's more palatable. 

I'll end this section here with the following: Jake Gyllenhaal once wore a shirt that said "Democrats make better lovers" on it.* That sentiment applies nicely in this situation although slightly altered: Democrats make better eye candy. (how's that for a new quote by yours truly?) Think about it: Peter Sarsgaard is a liberal and I don't have any problems at all with appreciating his appearance. I also can appreciate the appearance of Joseph Kennedy guilt free.  
I only know about Jake wearing that shirt from reading that Jake Gyllenhaal newsletter that I recently discovered; the shirt was mentioned in one of the posts/newsletter editions.  

And now, back to what this post was originally about. 
I don't really know about these things, but I decided to try and discern the undertone of my own skin. There are a number of criteria by which you can try to figure out your undertone. One has to do with what color your blood veins look like underneath your skin - blue (cool) or green (warm)? I tried to figure this out but I just couldn't. I looked at them and they just kind of looked... grey. They didn't seem to be obviously more blue or more green. 
Secondly, you can try to figure out if you look better in gold (warm) or silver (cool) jewelry. I don't wear jewelry very often but I probably prefer silver. That doesn't necessarily mean that I look better in it than gold. 
Next, you can see if you look better in regular white or off-white (ivory or something). I think maybe I look somewhat better in regular white (warm).
Then, you can look at what happens to your skin in the sun - sunburning (cool) or tanning (warm). I have occasionally gotten slightly sunburnt, but I think I'm more likely to tan (warm). 

So far, inconclusive. Veins are ??? and the silver/gold is also ???. The other two are possibly leaning towards warm. A few years ago, I went to Sephora and one of the employees recommended some makeup for me. Of particular interest here is the shade of tinted moisturizer (similar to foundation, but not as heavy) she recommended: Alaska by the French makeup brand NARS. That shade is described as "Light with a neutral balance of pink and yellow undertones." Taken with the inconclusiveness of some of the previous tests, maybe it means that I have neutral undertones?? I really have no idea. I guess if I really want to know I'd have to ask someone who knows about these things, since I just can't seem to figure it out myself. 

*Maybe I should get a shirt that says that? It'd be kind of amusing, I think. I wonder where Jake Gyllenhaal got his shirt with that saying. 

Final random thought: I was at CVS the other day and looked at the magazine selection. They didn't have Time but they did have GQ featuring Brad Pitt on the cover with an extensive photoshoot of him inside. And he looked really quite good in it. Those are probably some of the best images of him out there, and I don't even have a particular affinity for him or anything. Maybe because he looked more delicate than usual in them?? 

Movie review: Jumper

(or rather, part movie review, and part other stuff...) 

First, let's get to the news (this is what Seth Meyers says in his show so I'm attempting to do an obscure reference here. Explaining it like I am now sort of ruins it, but whatever)... Sean Spicer has resigned, that freaky looking lady with a southern accent is going to replace him. Her eyeballs are freaky and they never are looking in the same direction. It's so weird. Some other guy has gotten her job, and that guy is Anthony Scaramucci. Funny last name, eh? 

Anyways, I came across a tweet comparing his appearance to a mix of Peter Sarsgaard and Robert Downey Jr. I totally see it. I also think there's a little bit of Marco Rubio thrown in. He has the coloring/complexion of Robert Downey Jr, but the face shape/arrangement of facial features is very Peter Sarsgaard esque (and everything else can just be chalked up to being similar to Robert Downey Jr and/or Marco Rubio). Particularly the eyes/eyebrows area (the Anthony Scaramucci picture below is very Sarsgaard-esque - the eyes, the half smile thing going on; enjoy the multiple Peter pictures for comparison*). If you know me, you'll know that I love comparing people's appearances so seeing that tweet was pretty fun. (another perspective could be: "I can't believe that someone would be so enthralled by comparing various people's appearances. How ridiculous/what a waste of time.")

So, on a related matter, I watched this one Hayden Christensen movie just earlier. I enjoyed Shattered Glass, and a few days ago I saw that some other movie he'd been in was going to be on tv, so I was willing to give it a chance and just now got around to watching it. In this movie he looks fairly different than he did in Shattered Glass, which I guess shouldn't be too surprising. In that movie he had longer hair and wore glasses, in this one he had a crew cut and no glasses. Plus the genre/type of character he played were fairly different. Anyways, I was looking at him in this movie (he's pretty decent looking) and I was trying to think of who he looked like. I settled on a combination of Brad Pitt and Matthew Gray Gubler (from Criminal Minds). He is Canadian, apparently, but from what I've heard he doesn't seem to have a Canadian accent or anything. Although I've only watched him in movies, so maybe he does have a Canadian accent and for the movie roles he didn't use it. I know of two other people who are Canadian and do have Canadian accents; one does a true crime podcast and the other does crochet tutorial videos (two of my other interests). 

As for the movie, it was decent. Nothing special but certainly not horrible. One of the characters (not Hayden Christensen's character) had an interesting accent; I think it might have been Scottish but I'm not sure. I was tickled when a song I liked was used for a few scenes. Apparently Hayden Christensen (he has a cool name; it looks Scandinavian plus it's rhymey enough to be interesting but not enough to be silly/ridiculous. Although sometimes I mis-think of it and think it's Christiansen, but it's not.) 

*I thought I was going to be able to find a good picture with really similar framing/composition to the Anthony Scaramucci one, but I couldn't find exactly what I had in mind. It's alright though. If he weren't looking directly at the camera, that first Peter Sarsgaard picture would probably be pretty close. 

Other people's blogs, part 3

I noticed that the last few posts were reviews, so I'm going to shake things up a little.

Recently I came across a newsletter/blog (it's close enough to be called a blog) about the actor Jake Gyllenhaal, who happens to be a brother in law to Peter Sarsgaard. The author of the newsletter has a real affinity for Jake, as do I for Peter (and also my other favorite actors). The newsletter runs weekly and the lady who writes it just writes about various Jake related things, like what he's been doing lately as well as stuff about her own life. Kind of like what I do here. Although news/information about Jake is easier to come by because he's a more well known actor, so she has a bit more material for her newsletter than I do for my blog posts. One particular edition has to do with wondering about Jake's blood type as well as discussing an upcoming movie he's in. 

I might as well let the Peter Sarsgaard thoughts run wild here, so, here goes.
A) It was broiling hot today and not a good time at all to be outside. Bleh. I suggested taking up long distance running to someone as a form of exercise; incidentally Peter does running for exercise. I wonder if I lived in New York City, would I ever happen to encounter him out and about?? For that matter, I wonder if me and eyelashes guy will ever happen to cross paths. Anyways. Given the combination of running (outdoors) and the broiling weather, I got to thinking about passing out from heat exhaustion and/or dehydration. I wonder if that's ever happened to him. Or if he's come close. I assume he (and pretty much everyone aside from me) is better about staying hydrated than I am. Sometimes I forget to drink anything during the day until it's dinner time. 
B) He's going to be in some Hulu series about the prelude, if you will (I guess that's the opposite of aftermath??), to 9/11. This seems like it could certainly be interesting and apparently it's filming this summer. I'm probably going to have to try and find a way to watch it. I think he's a main character. I hope this particular character doesn't have facial hair because I think people look better without it. I'm not sure if this is just a single season series or potentially something that could go on for multiple seasons, and if so, would he be in the further seasons? From what I've read, he isn't a huge fan of television roles because they're too open ended for him and the writers might take his character in a direction he wasn't expecting/doesn't like. Regardless, it should be nice to see him in something new. I hope it's good. 

It's always interesting to me to find other people whose writing style is similar to mine in some way or another. The other person who wrote a blog post that fit this criteria wrote about James Iha, a member of the Smashing Pumpkins. 

If you know of another blog that has a similar writing style to this one, by all means, let me know!