George Clooney, James Marsden, Hugh Jackman and Paul Rudd as my best friends and wingmen.
Zooey Deschanel as my holiday date (I’ll also accept her as my forever date, i.e. girlfriend), or if she is unavailable, Scarlett Johansson as my holiday fling.
That everyone on the net take a six month sabbatical on inane BATMAN 3 rumors, and just let Christopher Nolan take his time (without any pressure) to figure out how to properly follow up THE DARK KNIGHT.
M. Night Shyamalan to finally make a good movie again, so I can stop apologizing for him and stop feeling perpetually more unjustified in having written my Masters Thesis on his movies.
For nobody to ever ask me “How about a magic trick?” and then subsequently produce an ominous pencil.
Kate Mara to teach me how to appreciate American football.
It might seem like this site is turning into theMUSICaddict, but after recently posting about my recent concert experience seeing She & Him (featuring Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward), I came across this music video for one of their songs and thought I’d post it so you get a sense of a) Zooey’s voice, and b) how adorable she is (if you didn’t know that already). The video is a bit of a strange little concoction, mixing strange dark (murderous) humor with bubbly skipping and dancing, but it certainly has its off-beat charm and dry humor, which is more or less what I think we’ve come to except from Ms. Deschanel at this point.
Those of you who are regular readers probably know that I have a massive crush on the adorable Zooey Deschanel. It should come as no surprise then that when I heard that she and M. Ward (making up the band She & Him) were going to start off their month long tour at the Opera House in Toronto, I had to be there.The day of the concert (Wednesday, July 23rd) I warned all of my friends that if they didn’t hear from me for a while in the subsequent days they shouldn’t worry because most likely it would mean that Zooey and I fell madly in love with each other and ran away to some exotic and romantic location.
Sadly only a third of that fantasy was realized. It was only me who fell madly in love with her. Then again, it would have been impossible not to, and I’m pretty sure I wasn’t the only one in the audience to do so.
If you think Zooey is charming and cute in her films, just times that a hundred and you’ll get an idea of what she’s like in person. When I previously wrote about her I mentioned that with her you get the sense that her on and off screen persona is actually pretty close to her real one. Standing just a few feet away from her on stage, that assumption feels all the more true now. There is this aura that radiates out of her, one that has nothing to do with her being a celebrity, but the kind of aura that surrounds remarkable regular folk.
Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. What, you need more reasons than that? Fine.
Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt sing! All right, all right, I’ll give you more.
Even though the long thought dead musical genre seems to be making an extremely welcome yet moderate comeback (MOULIN ROUGE, CHICAGO, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL, HAIRSPRAY, ACROSS THE UNIVERSE), the genre is still somewhat on thin ice with jaded modern audiences who nearly killed it in the first place with their unwillingness to buy people can believably burst out into song. It seems musicals now either have two directions they can take to survive: go completely gung-ho with no apologies or pass all the musical numbers off as dream/fantasy sequences and with a fair amount of restraint.
500 DAYS OF SUMMER seems like it’ll fall in the latter, while taping into a good dose of (oddly enough) William Faulkner like stream of consciousness. According to an MTV interview with Mr. Gordon-Levitt himself, the film is told through the point of a view “a hopeless romantic, a love sick young man” whose non-linear memories of the 500 days involving the young woman played by Zooey Deschanel guide the course of the film, one memory bleeding into the other. Because “the movie is all from the point of view of this guy, and this guy has watched way too many movies and listened to far too many pop songs … his life becomes a pop song.”
With Zooey Deschanel there’s no one specific thing that makes me have such a big crush on her. It’s rather the amalgamation of so many things that make her so adorable and admirable. It’s the knee-weakening sexy, sultry, raspy voice. It’s that face that somehow manages to be both gorgeous and utterly cute at the same time. It’s that sheepish smile that seems to always suggest she knows something you don’t, but likes you anyway. It’s her dry, devilish (and funny) wit. It’s the expressive and lively eyes that seem to convey so much warmth, regardless of where they are directed. It’s her range of talent that allows her to seem at home in both mainstream Hollywood films and quirky, dramatic indie flicks. It’s the major hipness credit she gets for being the lead singer in an indie music band (She & Him), and the fact that she has a phenomenal voice.
It’s the personality that comes across both in her public appearances and in her film roles of being an endearing, adorable, down-to-earth everyday woman. She seems completely natural and totally at ease with who she is, and the world around her (check out the Kimmel interview below to see what I mean). She’s the type you could see yourself talking to into the wee hours of the morning about everything and nothing. The type who would be happy going on silly mini-golf adventures, dressing to the nines for a night on the town, or watching movies together (she loves old movies, especially screwball comedies, another thing I love about her).
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