Thanks, Kevin Smith, for killing my buzz.
Mar. 12th, 2009 02:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lhskarkaSee, this is why I am not the sort of fan who wants to know about stars personal lives or actual personalities. Well, I also find it sort of intrusive, but anyway...
In an attempt for my poor, sick husband to distract his brain from layout schematics, and for me to relax before this morning's midterm, we spent a Threevening with Kevin Smith, the latest in his series of stand-up routines about his life. And no, I'm not talking about his life. Mr. Smith is a geek's geek and seems like he would be pretty keen to hang out with. I could listen to him talk about his family and his dogs and his friends and his movies and even his hemroid problems (yes, he did) on a regular basis and not get tired of him. He's a funny guy.
No, it's when he starts talking about Hollywood stars and other celebrities that we run into the problem. I mean, it was okay when he said that Ben Affleck is still a pretty nice guy, or when he talked about working on Die Hard 4 and confirmed that Bruce Willis is just about as cool as you would expect from watching either David Addison or John McClane. So that's all good. It was all really funny and enjoyable, until he got to the bit about Timothy Oliphant...
This Timothy Oliphant:
And THIS Timothy Oliphant:
I mean, YUM, right?
Who is also...apparently kind of a jerk. And not like in a smart-ass Han Solo awesome kind-of way, either. More in an, I-need-to-always-be-the-center-of-attention, get my kicks from picking on the "fat kid"; no, I'M the cool kid in the room kind of a jerk. (Bonus: Kevin Smith refers to him as "Oliphantastic" Ha!)
Which is really sort of a downer on all the imaginary sex that I've been enjoying with Mr. Oliphant since Deadwood. 'Cos really, who wants to get that close to a bully? I have better places to take my imagination, thank you. *sigh*
So thanks, Kevin Smith, thanks for being a total imaginary-buzz kill. Although at least you had a great comeback line for Oliphantastic.
Q: "You know what's really cool about Deadwood?"
A: Ian McShane
In an attempt for my poor, sick husband to distract his brain from layout schematics, and for me to relax before this morning's midterm, we spent a Threevening with Kevin Smith, the latest in his series of stand-up routines about his life. And no, I'm not talking about his life. Mr. Smith is a geek's geek and seems like he would be pretty keen to hang out with. I could listen to him talk about his family and his dogs and his friends and his movies and even his hemroid problems (yes, he did) on a regular basis and not get tired of him. He's a funny guy.
No, it's when he starts talking about Hollywood stars and other celebrities that we run into the problem. I mean, it was okay when he said that Ben Affleck is still a pretty nice guy, or when he talked about working on Die Hard 4 and confirmed that Bruce Willis is just about as cool as you would expect from watching either David Addison or John McClane. So that's all good. It was all really funny and enjoyable, until he got to the bit about Timothy Oliphant...
This Timothy Oliphant:
And THIS Timothy Oliphant:
I mean, YUM, right?
Who is also...apparently kind of a jerk. And not like in a smart-ass Han Solo awesome kind-of way, either. More in an, I-need-to-always-be-the-center-of-attention, get my kicks from picking on the "fat kid"; no, I'M the cool kid in the room kind of a jerk. (Bonus: Kevin Smith refers to him as "Oliphantastic" Ha!)
Which is really sort of a downer on all the imaginary sex that I've been enjoying with Mr. Oliphant since Deadwood. 'Cos really, who wants to get that close to a bully? I have better places to take my imagination, thank you. *sigh*
So thanks, Kevin Smith, thanks for being a total imaginary-buzz kill. Although at least you had a great comeback line for Oliphantastic.
Q: "You know what's really cool about Deadwood?"
A: Ian McShane
