SNERK

[apolla]

I just clicked a link on my People.com daily email...

And promptly forgot cos I looked up to the TV to see James Purefoy totally fucking naked courtesy of Rome. Did not see such things this weekend. There are worse people to see naked, but I think I could've lived without it. Gratuitous, Auntie Beeb, very gratuitous.

Anyway, not entirely unrelated, this People thing. 2005's Sexiest Men Alive, which by the name alone cuts out most of the people I could give a rat's arse about... so I'm flicking through it. Matthew McConaughey, snore. Patrick Dempsey, blah. Viggo Mortensen, again. Vince Vaughn, from a certain angle on a cloudy day, I suppose. Terrence Howard, don't know the dude. Nick Lachey, wtf.  Heath Ledger, understandable. Daniel Dae Kim, well I haven't seen Lost so I don't know. Keith Urban, who the fuck? but looks like one of Busted. Ian McShane, wha.... Ian McShane? Ian Leatherface McShane? IAN LOVEJOY MCSHANE? Seriously America, what are you thinking? Do you need to be told about the early 90s horror that was Lovejoy? A shitey Sunday night extravaganza of antique dealing and gently-gently detectiveness and the HORROR, the UNBRIDLED HORROR of the blazer-jeans combination. The CURLY FUCKING MULLET.

Please people, and indeed People, do not let this pass. I'm not ageist, I'm anti-fuckwit. He's a cool enough guy, but one of the sexiest alive this year? No, no, no.

Comments

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

So where do I get to see James Purefoy naked?? You tease.

[apolla.livejournal.com]

Well, it was in Episode Three (i think) of Rome. Might I suggest looking for screencaps or something?

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

Oh ROME. That show everyone is talking about but I'v e never seen because it's on HBO (which we don't have). Yes, I might have to Google for screencaps :)

[dejaspirit.livejournal.com]

There is such a thing as Sexy Ugly. Glenn Close, Jack Nicholson. Both sexy, but not so hot. You know? I think Sexy and beautiful or handsome can be mutually exclusive.

[apolla.livejournal.com]

Oh I absolutely know what you mean. But Ian McShane is a different matter. As a young man, he was a typical Handsome Actor. Watch The Battle of Britain or Where Eagles Dare.

Ugly Sexy is very cool, like most rock stars, but Handsome And Not is just blah. See most male models and most actors on the WB. Chad Michael Murray. That sort of Ken-doll thing.

But man, Ian McShane is just.... To me and most of Britain, Ian is the gravelly voice of toilet roll commercials and the permatanned face of shitey late 80s drama. You cannot imagine the pain of sitting through this nonsense week after week because your mum and dad think it's 'ever so funny' or whatever. And the blazer/jeans/tan/mullet combination can, for me, never be forgiven.

[marquiserachel.livejournal.com]

I hated Lovejoy. My Sunday nights as a child would have been so much better without that drivel tainting my atmosphere