Actor attractiveness ranking

Firstly, a quick little update about the recent happenings in online dating for me. The online dating website has introduced a feature that crowdsources moderation for pictures users have reported. I was bored so I decided to participate. After actually not that many, I got this notice: (as an aside, it seems that some people don't understand the "No conservatives need apply" notice on my new and improved profile. And I haven't netted any Peter Sarsgaard lookalikes yet.)

"Congratulations

You've made it to the end of the flagged objects, come back later and there may be more offenders for you to moderate. OkCupid thanks you for all of your help."

I wonder how long it'll take until there are more offenders for me to moderate.

Anyways, recently I decided that I should try to figure out what exactly I find to be good looking - to try and narrow down what constitutes delicate looking, that kind of thing. So for a start, I decided to rank some various actors according to how good looking I find them.

At the top of the list - unsurprisingly: Peter Sarsgaard (clean shaven), James D'Arcy - they are very good looking.

In the second place position, I thought that Matt Damon would fit; this decision is possibly influenced by me having watched the Jason Bourne movies recently. Right close below, Leonardo DiCaprio and Dane DeHaan, who sort of look similar. Sort of in between Leo/Dane and Matt Damon, I thought that Sebastian Stan would fit in - he's quite good looking but I haven't paid much attention to him/seen things he's been in. Below Leo/Dane, Colin Firth. Below that, Jake Gyllenhaal, George Clooney, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Patrick Dempsey, and Mark Ruffalo - this category comprises actors who are generally recognized as being good looking, which I agree that they're pretty decent/good looking, but that just aren't quite as good looking to me personally as the people above. 

Below that, actors who are also generally known as not bad looking (or so I gather) but who I don't personally have strong "he is good looking" thoughts about: Hugh Jackman (he's just kind of... weird looking, in a way. Very subtly weird looking though.), Michael Fassbender (his eyebrows are too flat). Slightly below but still in the same category, Matthew McCollardgreens (frog), Ezra Miller (eyes too high up), Jeremy Renner (strange eyebrows, facial features look kind of weirdly squished - although he did a decent job in The Bourne Legacy, so nothing against him as an actor). Below that, Adam Driver (nose too long, really). Below him, Johnny Depp, who I've discussed before about him being creepy and not good looking. Although he used to look alright, but now he doesn't. 

A cleaned up list, potentially to be added to, but this is a start:

1) Peter Sarsgaard, James D'Arcy

2) Matt Damon

3) Leonardo DiCaprio

4)Dane DeHaan/Sebastian Stan (both quite good looking but I just haven't watched them in stuff, really)

5) Colin Firth

6) Jake Gyllenhaal, George Clooney, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Patrick Dempsey, Mark Ruffalo. In no particular order, but Brad Pitt might slightly edge out the others in this category.

7) Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender. Slightly below: Matthew McCollardgreens, Ezra Miller, Jeremy Renner

8) Adam Driver

9) Johnny Depp

I'm not sure how to analyze these rankings exactly, but I'll try to think about it. Maybe it has to do with face shape?? 

Postsecret review 8

I'm pretty late on this one again... oh well. It's getting done now; better late than never. 

"I haven't sent out the thank yous yet because that will make this mistake real" (with a drawing of a wedding ring) I struggle to understand why one would still go through with a marriage even if they knew it was a mistake...

"SNL is my only source of news" That's not very intellectual.

"I love traveling without my husband :)" Can you say 'extramarital affair'??

"I avoid meeting up with friends from college because I don't want them to know I'm a waitress" Fair enough. If I ended up as a waitress after going to college I'd be ashamed too.

"Whenever I finish a good book I eat the last page" This is just a downright weird thing to do.

"I showed up to your wedding... for the food"

"I'm afraid eating meat will mess up my intuition" What the heck?

"I judge people in checkout lanes by the quality of food they buy for their pets." That's elitist. Not everyone can afford gourmet pet food.

"Sometimes when I'm not sure if something in the refrigerator is spoiled or not, I send it in my husband's lunch." I wonder if he's ever gotten food poisoning because of that. 

"I am so sick of counting calories!" And I'm sick of having to put up with other people being obnoxious about counting calories.

"Before I cook - I spank myself with the spatula!!" That's not sanitary. 

"I take steal breakfast from hotels on the weekends. I've been doing this for about a year at the same ones and no one has said anything. I don't feel guilty." Why should you?

"I feel more guilty buying with food stamps than I did when I stole to make ends meet." I don't really see why food stamps would make someone feel guilty, but whatever floats your boat. 

"When people refuse to try spicy foods I judge them boring" Come to think of it, I kind of do as well.

"I hate catering to my VEGAN friends at potlucks & dinners." Isn't the whole concept of a potluck for everyone to bring something? So the vegan people should be bringing their own vegan foods if they so desire. 

"I only eat 'store bought' food at potlucks because I can't help thinking about how disgusting people's kitchens probably are." Interesting, I guess? You haven't met my mother. Her kitchen is far from disgusting. The handwriting on this one is really cool. 

"My son told me I was fat, so I sent him to his room... and ate some of his leftover Easter candy!" That's... interesting. I wonder how old this son was. After a certain age you'd hope children would know it's rude to tell people that they're fat (even if they are).

"My drug" (over a picture of sushi) Mine too, to some extent.

"I talk to the mirror in my kitchen like I have my own cooking show" What kind of a person has a mirror in their kitchen??

"Watching men eat meat turns me on" I guess this person should stay away from vegetarians. 

"I am not allergic to seafood like I have everyone believe. I just hate it." That's... one way of avoiding having to eat it, I guess. I wonder why people hate seafood though. I like seafood. Fried shrimp don't even taste that shrimpy or anything. 

"When I'm grocering falic [phallic] vegetables I'm always afraid people think I'm choosing them by size to use as sex toys." Um. 

"My husband stole strawberries for me on Valentines Day" how romantic! :) <3

"I was the one that ate all the fortune cookies last night... I was looking for an answer." What kind of a person thinks they're going to find serious answers in fortune cookies??!

Well, that's it for this week. Maybe tomorrow I can get a quick start on the next batch... we'll see. 

Movie review: The Bourne Ultimatum

Now that's how you do a movie! I wasn't bored for a second. This happened to be on tv and I caught it just as it was beginning so I didn't miss anything. Also pleasantly, the commercials seemed to be spaced fairly far apart, like 18 or 19 minutes instead of 12 or 15 minutes. 5/5 (I know I said I wasn't really the type to do numerical ratings, but I did for the last one so I thought I should continue the trend.) 

I was quite happy that this movie was good, as opposed to the absolute waste of time No Country for Old Men was. A few weeks ago, I caught most of the first Jason Bourne movie on television. I thought that this one was the second, but it's actually the third, so it wouldn't hurt to go and watch the second and fill that in. And now I need to watch the rest of the series as well. 

I don't remember noticing it in the first movie, but I really liked the style of cinematography used in this movie. It was shaky and frantic, which I think enhanced the movie and suspense. Although I could see other people hating it for being too unsteady and headache causing. 

There were a couple of scenes I want to note - one where Jason Bourne is being handed a towel in some apartment/hotel room and the camera lingers a little bit on his hands holding it. I liked that. Then, there was a scene where the lady he was with was changing her appearance by cutting and dyeing her hair darker. She was washing it out in the sink, although I thought it was sort of odd that her hands weren't stained by the dye as she wasn't wearing gloves. I doubt they actually had the actress dye her own hair in that scene, so I can see why the inconsistency occurred. But I've done a bit of DIY hair dyeing myself and you really should wear gloves. And clothes you don't mind possibly ruining. 

Naturally I think the Jason Bourne series probably gets compared to James Bond fairly often, and they are sort of similar in that they're about spies. But the Bourne series takes a fairly different approach/angle on the spy concept, which I would say ends up having a bit more depth than James Bond (although the Daniel Craig era films have a bit more substance to them than previous ones). And Matt Damon as Jason Bourne has a more boyish look than Daniel Craig ever did. As far as I can say, they aren't that similar in terms of the underlying themes and all. Jason Bourne seems like a more introspective character than 007. That's probably due to the amnesia. 

Also, Jason is a nice name. If I were to have a kid, which I won't, but theoretically, that wouldn't be a bad name. Although I feel like it'd be kind of weird to name your kid Jason as in after Jason Bourne. 

As far as Muse songs and movies go, I think Citizen Erased is a pretty good fit for this one (perhaps the whole series, even), as Falling Away With You fits really well with Requiem for a Dream. Come to think of it, Ruled by Secrecy fits the whole Jason Bourne thing pretty well too. 

Movie review: No Country for Old Men

The short of it: what an overrated snooze fest. 0/5

The long of it: One of my first thoughts towards the beginning of the movie was that maybe I'd like it better if Peter Sarsgaard were in it. That shouldn't be surprising. I thought I'd watch this movie because it was on Netflix and supposedly it's good and it's fairly well known. I think it's right about on par with The Shining in terms of my opinion about it. Also, this one guy I'm messaging on the online dating website said that it was a good movie. How wrong was he! 

This movie was very boring and languid and had very little tension/excitement. Blah. Shattered Glass was more exciting than this and that movie didn't even have any murder in it, just a lack of journalistic integrity on the part of Stephen Glass. Hayden Christensen was good in that role. 
This movie was supposed to be a crime movie but it was really boring for a crime movie. Nightcrawler was better than this movie. 

Anyways, that's about 2 hours of my life down the drain that I COULD HAVE spent watching Peter Sarsgaard in something, like, say, Garden State or An Education. Javier Bardem was in this movie as a murderer and he was, I guess, sort of creepy but not that much because the movie as a whole was boring and wooden. And what an awful anticlimactic ending. Not to mention an awful haircut on his character in this movie. He was good in Skyfall though, where he had a less boring role and a less anticlimactic ending. It would've been interesting if Peter Sarsgaard had had his role in this movie. The movie still probably would've been boring but at least it'd have had Peter in it who I could gaze at and hear say things, which I'm always happy to do.

There was a scene where Javier Bardem's character had recently gotten shot, so he exploded a car in front of a pharmacy so he could rob it for drugs and medical supplies while everyone else got distracted by the car fire. Which he did and then he was in a bath tub washing the blood off of his leg where he had gotten shot, and the water got all bloody. Then he started picking out the bullet fragments and stuff and injecting lidocaine into it. Ick. This whole scene was sort of gross. In an alternate universe where the movie was better and an actor I liked were playing the character washing blood off and picking out bullet fragments, maybe a scene like that could be weirdly attractive, but in this case it was just gross. Hmm, come to think of it, there was sort of a similar scene in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, which I probably liked better (the scene). I definitely liked that movie better. 

I just don't think western movies are cut out for me. This one wasn't exactly a western movie, but it was set in Texas. I have NO IDEA how this movie won an Oscar... it was so, so mediocre. Gah.  

Conclusion: unless you like boring movies and/or looking at Javier Bardem in the way that I like looking at Peter Sarsgaard, don't waste your time. 

As a parting thought, it seems like I'm thinking everyone and their brother looks like Peter Sarsgaard these days. Anthony Scaramucci, this guy in Congress I saw on CNN this evening (Lee Zeldin, if you're wondering), this guy I saw in person today (who didn't look super similar to Peter exactly, but something about him just seemed to resemble Peter in some way or another...)... my 'facial recognition software' is most definitely a bit screwy, I think. 

Jarhead, revisited

(and some other stuff, for that matter) 

I rewatched Jarhead just now, since I felt like seeing Peter Sarsgaard and hearing him say things. I also wanted to be able to crochet in the background, and it's best to either listen to podcasts or watch something you're already familiar with so you don't have to give it your complete attention and have enough to put aside for crocheting. I have just about 2 weeks left to finish the thing I'm working on if I want to enter it in the fair, which I do, and I also hope that I win a ribbon of some kind. No lie, I'll be disappointed if I don't. I'd be happy with even a third place ribbon. So there's that.

The second time around is always interesting for movies because you can notice things that you maybe didn't necessarily notice the first time. This movie was directed by Sam Mendes, who also went on to direct the Bond movie Skyfall, which has a special place in my favorite movies. Upon rewatching, I noticed some interesting parallels to Skyfall, which may have been intentional references/allusions on the part of Sam Mendes, to his previous work. 

A) in this movie, there's a scene where the soldiers have two scorpions fight each other. In Skyfall, there's a scene where James Bond is in a bar and has a scorpion crawling on his arm as a kind of dare/game. 

B) Part of the opening act of Skyfall has James Bond fighting with someone on top of a train, which is going over a bridge. M is directing Eve, who is positioned to shoot, ideally the guy Bond is fighting. She conveys her hesitance about taking the shot to M because it's possible she might accidentally hit Bond. M, in a fairly notable quote from the movie, says "Take the bloody shot." James Bond gets hit and falls off the bridge and into the water, cue title sequence (I'm pretty sure that's when it happens - I haven't rewatched Skyfall in awhile) which is quite nice and on par to Casino Royale's title sequence. This scene with James Bond getting shot is an interesting (really!) contrast to what happens in one of the final acts of Jarhead - Peter Sarsgaard's character and Jake Gyllenhaal's character are a sniper team and they've been sent to take out some enemy combatants. They have the perfect shot but must get approval from higher ups, which unfortunately they do not get because an airstrike is going to happen shortly, which will kill the people they were intending to shoot. This scene is the climax of the movie, so to speak, and Peter Sarsgaard really steals the show here. I would say that his character in this movie comes across as a bit enigmatic (or maybe that's just the essence he gives off in all his movies?). 

Jake and Peter were both in pretty decent shape, naturally, for roles as soldiers. I think they're both about the same height (according to google, they are). I think it's Jake's bushy eyebrows that make him look sort of... bug eyed. Peter, on the other hand, does not have bushy eyebrows at all. I kind of wonder how they did the casting for this movie, particularly Peter, because he doesn't strike me as the first choice to play a soldier. Not that he did a bad job in this role or anything. He's just sort of delicate looking in the face, and the stereotypical idea of a soldier is masculinity. But maybe the idea was to convey that lots of different kinds of people join the military, delicate looking or not. There was a scene where I got a good view of Jake's fingernails and they were dirty, which probably makes sense as they were in a war zone, which probably doesn't exactly lend itself to nicely manicured fingernails. I'm not sure if prison does either, but I won't go into that again here; you can read my other post for more on that topic.   

Again it's interesting to think about the fact that this movie was a portrayal of the Gulf War, a conflict in the Middle East, and that there is still yet conflict in the Middle East, over 25 years later.  

I again noticed the brightness and beige-ness of the desert. And I liked the quote "Every war is different. Every war is the same." again. Visually this movie was pretty cohesive. The same guy did the cinematography for this movie and Skyfall. As far as other Sam Mendes movies go, I think American Beauty and Revolutionary Road (with Leonardo DiCaprio) could be interesting to see. I have also been told that No Country for Old Men is worth a watch, so that is another option that's on Netflix. I think American Beauty was on Netflix, but I'm not sure if it still is. And I could rewatch Memento. 

I... take satisfaction in the idea that it's more rewarding to me to watch Peter Sarsgaard movies than the hit or mostly miss-ness of online dating. Peter Sarsgaard I know for a fact that I like his appearance and voice, and that he's a good actor so he's much less likely to disappoint me. And I can watch his movies on my own terms, whenever I want. That seems like a better deal to me. Who needs a boyfriend when you can watch your favorite actors' (I say actors plural to include my other favorite actors as well, even though I'm definitely giving more of my attention to Peter at the moment) movies? I have a finite amount of time to spend and affection/attention to direct towards people. I think spending that time watching and directing that attention/affection to Peter Sarsgaard is a pretty good deal, as far as I'm concerned. 

The online dating is going... not too differently than it has in the past, I guess. It's just going. No one has commented about the "PETER SARSGAARD LOOKALIKES WELCOME" notice. Or the other times I mention him in my profile (no "You really like Peter Sarsgaard, eh?" messages, which I thought maybe my current profile would inspire, and to which I'd respond, "Yes, I really do, and I probably like him more than you"), which maybe I did go a little overboard with, but whatever. I don't really think I have that much to lose, and again, shaking it up could be interesting. I think maybe people just don't know who he is, so the statement doesn't hold that much weight for the readers. Maybe, for the heck of it, I should change it to a different, more well known actor. For that matter, I could put Jake Gyllenhaal, maybe. Although then prospective suitors might be more intimidated because perhaps they actually know who Jake Gyllenhaal is, and don't think they measure up to his looks (they probably don't). Or maybe they just wouldn't care and would think that it's still worth it to give me a chance. I have no idea what goes on in the minds of guys my age who do online dating. But thankfully, you, dear reader(s), can have a peek at what goes on in my mind about online dating because I write about it here on my blog.

Let's finish this off with some current news related subject matter. It's certainly interesting to watch Anthony Scaramucci do his showboating, and today he went totally unhinged on a phone call/rant to a journalist from the New Yorker magazine. Something else, I tell you! "Fucking paranoid schizophrenic!" It's like a train wreck and I just can't look away. Or maybe the better analogy here is... a nuclear accident explosion, or something. 

Edit: I finished writing this post as I was listening to Muse's album Absolution, and the song Hysteria was on. I think that could be an interesting song to use in a movie, somehow. 

Edit 2: maybe, just maybe, I could watch all (minus the ones I can't find/refuse to watch) the Peter Sarsgaard movies by the end of this summer, which would make for a nice alliterative (summer/Sarsgaard) blog post title in which I summarize the experience of watching all of them. 

Re: Online dating (again)

Firstly, I think I've thought/fretted about the possibility of having a wrist injury too much and now have developed psychosomatic wrist pain. Ugh. 

Anyways, I am sort of considering yet again attempting to do online dating. But first, I think I need to update my profile information a little bit. 

So, what follows is a very honest profile which I don't actually think would attract many people (but makes for a good blog post), but this is what I actually think. 

Self summary: Notice: PETER SARSGAARD LOOKALIKES WELCOME (PREFERRED - but please shave). No conservatives need apply. 
I like reading about serial killers/murderers/unsolved crimes, as well as things related to various areas of the humanities. I'm particular about what kinds of writing utensils I use, and I like to keep my fingernails a decent length. I try to keep up with the news and what's happening in the world. Occasional giver of strange compliments, like "you have nice teeth" or "you turn pages nicely" - two compliments I've actually said to real people. I think I have pretty good attention to detail regarding lots of things, like set decoration in movies or tv shows. I like to write down my dreams if I remember them when I wake up so I can try to analyze them. 

What I'm doing with my life: Spending/wasting time putting (too much?) effort into my blog, sleeping a lot, trying to finish crochet projects, worrying that other people I know of will be more successful than me, staying in the house and not having a social life, contemplating becoming a future starving linguist and/or copy editor and/or set decorator, 

I'm really good at: Obsessing over anything and everything, spending too much time thinking about things that "don't matter", shopping, staring at people, being indecisive, collecting stuff (all kinds of it), a certain illegal activity, staying in the house because I'm too lazy to walk to the bus stop, plucking the leaves off of pineapples, eating unhealthily and not getting that fat from it 

Favorite (books, movies, tv, music, food)
books: Into the Wild, Millennium trilogy, Cloud Atlas, 1984, Sabotage in the American Workplace
movies: Shattered Glass, Experimenter, Casino Royale, Shutter Island, Memento, Requiem for a Dream, The Philosophers
television: Law and Order Criminal Intent, 1999-2011 Law and Order SVU, The Killing, Arrested Development, The Office UK, political humor like Colbert & the Daily Show
music: Augustana, Muse, The Killers, an assortment of other more or less similar artists 
food: various types of hot sauce, spicy salmon sushi, chicken parmesan from Macaroni Grill, Big Macs, peach rings, caramel cream candy, salt and vinegar potato chips, funnel cake, onion petals from Outback, filet and cheese and bacon fries from Outback, tres leches cake, frozen cheesecake, fried shrimp, crabcakes, orange/vanilla ice cream, certain frozen tv dinners, Caesar salad with lots of dressing, buttery biscuits

6 things I could not live without: internet, air conditioning/heat, food, good looking people to feast my eyes on, all of the stuff I've collected, 

Spend a lot of time thinking about: if my writing is actually similar to that of David Sedaris, which movie I should watch next, what would be interesting sayings to put on a t shirt, Peter Sarsgaard, Peter Sarsgaard's face and voice, what Peter Sarsgaard buys at Whole Foods (or whichever grocery store he goes to, but I feel like he's the kind of person who might shop at Whole Foods), other favorite actors aside from Peter Sarsgaard, what yarn I want to add to my already sizable collection, ideas for movies I'd make if I were a director, if I'll ever get to travel to Sweden, how I'm going to forget the other languages I know (sad face), people who look like other people, what it would be like to be a drug addict  

Most private thing I'm willing to admit: So many of the people on this website [okcupid] are one or a combination of the following (none of which are appealing to me): only average looking, boring, ugly. So what, I'm sort of shallow. Sue me. 

On a typical Friday night: at home relaxing/being lazy, spending a lot of time thinking about the things I put in the "I spend a lot of time thinking about" section 

Message me if: you look like Peter Sarsgaard/are otherwise good looking, are around my age, are interesting (this is a MUST), can hold a good conversation (also another must), value proper spelling and grammar, want to go shopping and people watching with me, are not obsessed with video games, value the humanities, have an opinion about modern art, are not a psycho and/or murderer/rapist, have well-kept fingernails   


It would be interesting to put this as my actual profile and see what happens... Maybe I will to shake things up a little. I wonder how likable this profile comes across.

Also, out of curiosity I googled "prison fingernails" to try and find out some information about how prisoners clip their nails. It turns out that I was right about nail clippers being a restricted item. I think it would have been really cool, from my (meaning someone who just can't get enough of Peter Sarsgaard) point of view, to have a scene in The Killing where Peter's prisoner character is getting his nails cut (according to something I read, in some prisons the prisoners will get their nails cut by the medical staff, or the guards will watch them closely while they cut their own nails. I don't think I'd like to work in a prison). Since they were so nice and neat looking in that one picture. It reminds me somewhat of that one postsecret from the person who didn't like getting their hair washed in the salon because they felt it was too intimate of an experience. I think the theoretical nail clipping scene could be sort of intimate in a weird way. If I ever am in charge of a tv show/movie that takes place in a prison, I think I'd want to have a nail clipping scene like such. If, theoretically, I saw Peter in public and happened to get a decent glance at his hands and fingernails and they looked well-kept, maybe I'd tell him "You have nice fingernails"... 

Interesting semi-relevant article: https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/series/top/15/all-you-know-is-the-room-in-here-a-close-look-at-solitary-confinement

Journaling, shirts, etc

Today was another errands day, this time the grocery store. It was about the usual amount of crowded for a Sunday. I did see another person who apparently had a wrist injury, which makes me ever so slightly more paranoid that my own wrist(s) will get broken or injured somehow. There was a guy with his wife and small child looking at the live lobsters in the tank and I thought that he looked sort of like John Green, but with longer hair. He was kind of short but really not bad looking. Then there was another guy who was minutely reminiscent to Peter Sarsgaard, from the short glance I got at him. If I'd been able to look at him more/better, I probably could say with more certainty how much he really looked or didn't look like Peter. He was drumming on the watermelons to see which ones sounded better, which is how you're supposed to tell which ones are good. In addition to these two men, I saw a few other men who had really tiny ankles and bird legs. 

I was looking at some other pictures of Jake Gyllenhaal, and in one of them he's wearing another interesting graphic t shirt. This one said "good looking revolutionaries wanted" and the one I mentioned previously said "Democrats make better lovers." These both are sayings that I wouldn't mind having on shirts of my own, in addition to "future starving linguist" and/or "future starving copy editor". 

Somewhat against my better judgement, I'm contemplating using the online dating website yet again. I... don't see how this time will turn out any different than all the other times, but I just can't seem to stay away. I need to update my profile information a little bit though. 

Now on to a little more about one of the things (people) that is more guaranteed to bring me joy, rather than the hit or (mostly) miss-ness of online dating. My newest favorite actor, Peter Sarsgaard. There are a few pictures of him I'd like to comment on. 

Firstly, this one: 

I have no idea at all of the context of this picture. Honestly, I'm not even completely sure that it's him in the picture. It looks pretty much like him, but I can't be completely sure. It probably is a pretty old picture (90s, I'm guessing) since he looks pretty young and I can't find any information about it. Only tonight did I figure out how the shirt is on him in this picture. Previously, it had really puzzled me and I thought that it was a shirt that buttoned in the back and he was wearing it partly unbuttoned. I've seen a few women's shirts or cardigans like that, that have buttons on the back instead to be unique. I thought about it and realized that the buttons are on the right side of the shirt, which means it's a men's shirt and I got out one of my own buttoned shirts to try and recreate how the shirt is on him in this picture. Usually, I put on buttoned shirts or jackets, things that open in the front, both arms at the same time. A written description of my technique: hold the shirt in front of you, inside facing you. Cross your arms (right over left) a little bit and turn them a little to the (left) side so they go in the correct sleeves. Slide the left arm fully into the sleeve and bring the rest of the shirt around your back with your other arm/hand, in the process put the right arm fully into that sleeve. Adjust the shirt and pull your hair out. There you have it. In this picture, it looks like he was in the process of putting on (taking off??) a shirt, but one arm at a time. In this picture, the left arm is in the sleeve and the collar is draped over his shoulder, and the right side of the shirt with the buttons is draped over his back. Due to this revelation, I'm going to try to remember to pay extra attention in the things I watch for people putting on shirts or jackets so I can see if their technique is like mine or not. 

I also like this picture because it shows his spine a little bit and I have a thing for spines. I have this interesting little glass, heart shaped picture frame that currently just has the sample picture in it because I haven't gotten a picture of my own to put in it. The sample picture is of a bride and groom, and the bride looks kind of like Madonna. I think this particular picture of Peter could certainly be interesting to print out a copy of and put in the frame, but to other people it would probably just be weird to have a picture of him in that frame. I think a black and white picture would go nicely in that frame, and it wouldn't waste the colored printer ink.

Secondly, this one: 

This is from when he played a death row inmate in the show The Killing. It was quite a role and he did a really good job. I like this picture because it's just nice and/although he really doesn't look very murderous at all here. Perhaps that was on purpose to add a bit more dimension to the character. The thing I really noticed in this picture was the well manicured fingernails. To me, that's pleasing to see on people of any gender. For some reason I feel like prisoners don't usually have such nicely groomed fingernails. Those are some unusually well kept fingernails on Peter's prisoner character there. I bet in prison, things like nail clippers and other manicure tools probably are restricted because they could be used as weapons. (Speaking of which, I need to trim/file my nails soon.) I wouldn't know for sure though since I've never been in prison. Maybe I could find out by watching Orange is the New Black (which, for whatever reason, actually doesn't really interest me). I just realized that both of these pictures have him sort of looking to the side/over his shoulder, like he was in the middle of something and something/someone else caught his attention for a moment. 

I was also thinking about going back through at least some of the actors I evaluated the appearances of in a past post so I can attempt to pin down specific features that I consider attractive. That... could be interesting. In general, I'd say on the delicate side, but what exactly constitutes 'on the delicate side'? 

Since I mostly write about actors here, it might not hurt to comment a little on actresses. I don't exactly have any particularly favorite actresses, but Chloe Sevigny might be a candidate. I've actually seen more things that she's been in than I realize. Somewhere I read someone writing that she looked sort of similar to Peter, incidentally, and I can kind of see it. They have similar eye shapes. Particularly in this picture, which I think emphasizes it due to lighting and/or makeup. I think her and Peter have actually been in 3 different movies together.

This one too. I think it shows best when she's more lightly made up.

P.S.: Some people might think that I put way too much effort into this blog that probably very few people read. So, am I pleased with the amount of effort I put into this blog? Yes.