My #2 Celebrity Boyfriend: JP

My current favorite Joaquin movies:

  • Walk the Line
  • Ladder 49
  • Gladiator
  • Inventing the Abbotts
  • Signs (“I’m a miracle man!”)
  • The Village
  • Hotel Rwanda
  • Buffalo Soldiers

What will likely be added to this list by the end of the month:
  • We Own the Night (that one maybe by the end of the weekend!)
  • Reservation Road

Other Joaquin moments I rewatch often (and have on tape):
  • Him and Kelly Ripa legwrestling on the Regis & Kelly show.
  • Him on Conan where they discuss, among other things, him playing around with reporters and saying there was a frog on his head (during Walk the Line publicity) and it getting blown out of proportion.
  • Him on either Conan or Dave (I guess I haven’t watched it that recently!!) where they discuss, among other things, drinking. “It wasn’t that I would drink often. But when I would drink, it was like it was an Olympic sport and I wanted to be the gold medalist.”

À la Super Eggplant, currently, I am…

Making: Still nothing.
Reading: Realized I have two Jake Arnott books on the to-be-read shelf but couldn’t remember enough about the book that came before them…so back I went for a reread of #1: “The Long Firm” by Jake Arnott, ’60s mob scene in swingin’ London. Given the boarding pass stuck inside, looks like I bought and read this one back in 2004. (Yup, looks like it.) Still really enjoying it the second time around.
Watching: Lots of TV. Plus have already been to…four movies at the Chicago Film Festival (1, 2, 3 and #4 not reviewed yet) and have tickets to two more (a documentary about jump rope competitions (!!) today and the Joy Division biopic on Tuesday)…
Listening: The new Band of Horses. Over and over. Not anything else really.