Why So Sex[b]y, John Simm?

Just finished watching Channel 4’s new period drama The Devil’s Whore (set during the English Civil War) and darn it made me almost cry at least 3 times (making me actually cry is next to impossible so…) all i can say is, watch it watch it watch it, if you can. it’s gorgeously shot and gorgeously acted too…which brings me to John Simm…

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you call this your ugly role? you’re dirty, scarred, not to mention wearing a dress (can’t see it much in this shot but he’s wearing a dress) and all I can think ugh, sexy [forgive me as my mind melts into a puddle.]

Really, if John Simm were undressing in front of me, I won’t be pointing a gun at him

Sexy Edward Sexby knows he’s hot. yes, he does.

which our heroine finally notices too…

I’m sorry if my hormones are getting the better of me but darn it simm, it’s unfair that you’re this attractive and why aren’t there men like you in real life? (at least my reality)

[insert dirty jokes here] because isn’t this shot just asking for it?

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In Other News…

I am sooooo addicted to True Blood. I’ve been reading the books too (finished 1 and 4, skimmed through 2 and 3) but i really hate reading ebooks because it gives me headaches (hence the skimming) and can’t wait to find hard copies so I can read it better. anyway.

spoilerish comments laden with raging hormones on True Blood below cut.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Nakasabay ko sa elevator si John Lloyd Cruz!!!!!!!!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!

[pero siyempre di ganyan ang reaksyon sa tabi niya. dapat cool lang. haha]

in full “Armando” (or whatever they’re calling Betty la Fea’s love interest) attire siya. gray suit with pink tie. (and can i just say I’m glad he’s Armando because no one else will do, really. except I’m sad he doesn’t wear glasses. kasi naman sa lahat ng movies niya with Bea Alonzo one of them is usually wearing glasses but does it really have to be one or the other? Bawal ba na ang dalawang leading characters ay may suot na glasses? anyway…)

haaaaaaay. wala lang.

I Really Should Go to Sleep But…

I’m getting distracted by this:

Hubba, hubba Richard Armitage. Please don’t fall in love and get married before you get to meet me. And why couldn’t you have a shirtless scene in North and South? Now that really would have thrown the reigning king of Smouldering Gazes, aka Colin Firth as Mr. “Wet Shirt” Darcy off the top of the sexiest men in period dramas list.

Sorry, I should be thinking of a way to promote North and South (showing on Velvet this July) in a way that would give it justice but I’m just…weak. People [in the office] keep rolling their eyes at me for liking Period Dramas. Hello? Men. In. Breeches. Quod Erat Demonstrandum:

Mr. Thornton, North and South (Richard Armitage)

Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth)

and Mr. Rochester, Jane Eyre (Toby Stephens)

Ah, yes. Smoulder, men in breeches, smoulder. Although technically, I think only Rochester and Darcy wore breeches. Thornton wore Trousers. Still…the point is…guh. I’ll take these men over the fresh-faced uninteresting boys people insist on going gaga over.

And then I stumbled on this:

Bwahahahaha. That had me laughing for a good five minutes.

Okay, now that this is off my chest, I’m going to sleep.

Oh my…

Heath Ledger is dead.

You’d think it was another big marketing ploy for The Dark Knight.

But, no. It’s true.

Did not see that coming.

Did not see that coming at all.

In other news, the Academy Award Nominations are here! I’ll post my comments and predictions later.

Cartoon Crushes

or a list of illustrated characters that make me wish I were illustrated too.

7 Tasuki  from ‘Fushigi Yuugi’ (Animated TV Series)
Fushigi Yuugi was one of the Anime shows I faithfully followed (until GMA cut it because it was actually more risqué than they originally thought) and Tasuki was my Anime crush. Really, the rest of the guys were a bore. And his power was fire and fire fascinates me. Only thing I didn’t get was why he (and everyone else) was gaga over Miaka. 

6 Eric from ‘The Little Mermaid’ (Animated Film)
“What would I give to live where you are? What would I pay to stay here beside you? What would do to see you, smiling at me? Where would we walk? Where would we run? If we could stay all day in the sun. Just you and me. And I could be part of your world…”

5 Batman / Bruce Wayne from ‘Batman’ (Graphic Novel, Animated TV Series)
I just love Batman. Sigh.

4 The Beast from ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (Animated Film)
As I said in an earlier post. The Beast is cute…so cute that it would be okay if he never transformed back into a prince. Hmm, though, the prince is cute too.

3 Captain Shang from ‘Mulan’ (Animated Film)
Really, who didn’t love it when Captain Li Shang took his shirt off in Mulan and started singing “I’ll Make a Man Out of You?” Case in point, in Princess in Love, Mia Thermopolis lists the 10 guys she could see herself committing to for all eternity, and her number six is…and I quote…”that hot soldier guy from Mulan”.

2 Dream / Morpheus from “The Sandman” (Graphic Novel)
Yes, it’s the poster-boy for the Emo look himself, Mr. Dream of the Endless. Tall, pale and handsome and when you look into his eyes, you’ll see the stars. How gorgeous is Dream supposed to be? Creator Neil Gaiman says that his dream Dream for a live-action film is a certain fellow named Johnny Depp. Hello, gorgeous!

1 Howl from “Howl’s Moving Castle” (Animated Film)
Howl, I do love thee, even if you’re a vain, lazy, and childish wizard. How can I not when you’re just so…pretty. And you know how important that is. In Howl’s own words after a hairstyle-gone-wrong “I give up. I see no point in living if I can’t be beautiful.”

…tries to pick up jaw from floor

i’ve just been mindfracked! in a good way. i mean i heard many times how good battlestar galactica is. so finally was able to find a copy and have just finished watching seasons 1-3.

gah.

can’t get the season3 ending from my head.

for those of you who haven’t watched battlestar galactica but are curious and want to watch it, here’s a short plot summary:

many years ago, humans created machines called cylons. the cylons rebelled and there was a war. the war ended and the cylons disappeared. but not for long. in the years of peace, the cylons evolve and can now look, feel, and act like humans. there are 12 humanoid cylon models and most of them are placed as agents in human colonies. One such agent (known as Caprica Six) seduces Dr. Gaius Baltar into trusting her which allows the Cylons to invade the 12 Human Colonies and destroy them. Around 40+ thousand humans are able to survive the genocide and escape into space. Under the leadership of former-schoolteacher-turned-president Laura Roslin and Battlestar Galactica Commander William Adama, they travel through space looking for the lost planet Earth while trying to avoid the Cylons that continue to pursue them.

okay, now i just have to get this off my chest so i’m warning you. SPOILERS AHEAD. which you probably won’t be able to understand anyway, if you don’t watch the show.

i’m so happy that i guessed right, that Colonel Tigh was one of the last remaining  Cylon models. I don’t know why I thought he was Cylon. it’s just that when D’Anna Biers apologized to one of the five then-faceless Cylons, I thought it’s gotta be someone in some high position, namely President Roslin, Admiral Adama or Colonel Tigh. And I thought, it can’t be Roslin because she had Cancer. It can’t be Adama because he has children and if he were Cylon then his children would be hybrids thus knocking Hera off the list as 1st Human-Cylon child. So it had to be Tigh. Or Dr Cottle. Or Tigh.

What i didn’t expect was Anders, Tory and Chief Tyrol. How amazing is it the two main leaders of the Cylon resistance in New Caprica (Anders and Tyrol) are actually Cylons? Or that the guy who hates the Cylons the most (Colonel Tigh) would be a Cylon himself? Only the BSG writers would be so fracked-up to think that. I mean, my jaw just dropped. I should have seen it coming (since they were the only people who could hear the weird music. i love the song they used, Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower.” it gave me goosebumps) but my jaw dropped nonetheless.

Or…they may not be Cylons and instead were rigged to think they were Cylons (after all, they were all in New Caprica and were held in detention cells were the Cylons could have easily played with their brains and all…) But that would be too complicated, especially since next season is the last season and therefore i choose to believe that they are Cylons.

and i knew starbuck would still be alive (duh. it’s been said over and over again that she’s has a “destiny” so it’s safe to say that her destiny is not to die for some unknown reason like she supposedly did in that episode.)

Ah well. it’ll be a long wait till the 4th and last Season comes around in 2008. gosh so excited.

and before i go, here are some…

…rants: I absolutely positively hate Cally Tyrol. HATE her. i don’t think i’ve ever hated any tv character as much as i hate her. i keep on wishing that they’d kill her off so i don’t have to watch her anymore because she irritates me. She irritates me more than Gaius Baltar does, and you must admit, Gaius Baltar is an irritating cockroach of a man.

…raves: is it just me, or does Laura Roslin and William Adama make the cutest TV couple ever? Oh, i want them to just run away and live happily-ever-after. i thought i’d be a Lee-Kara shipper or a Sharon-Helo shipper but I must admit, I get tingly inside whenever Roslin and Adama share a moment.

…other reasons why my jaw is still on the floor: Jamie Bamber as Lee “Apollo” Adama

oh greek gods above. hotness. and you should see him without his shirt on.