Sexy Valjean! At least! We see each other plain!

[prodigy]

metonymy  10:30 pm
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=78687

prodigy  10:41 pm
Oh man, did not see your IM!

metonymy  10:41 pm
It's okay!

prodigy  10:42 pm
actor Hugh Jackman will be headlining it, playing Jean Valjean.
actor Hugh Jackman will be headlining it, playing Jean Valjean.
actor Hugh Jackman will be headlining it, playing Jean Valjean.
actor Hugh Jackman will be headlining it, playing Jean Valjean.

metonymy  10:43 pm
I HAD TO SHARE

prodigy  10:43 pm
actor Hugh Jackman will be headlining it, playing Jean Valjean.

metonymy  10:43 pm
DID I BREAK YOU?
OH SHIT
D:

prodigy  10:43 pm
WHO AM I???
WHO AM IIIIIIIIII???????????
I'M SEXY JEAN VALJEANNNNNNNNNNNN

So. Yes. There was that. There was also rumor talk of Paul Bettany for Javert here, and it says a lot for me that my first reaction was not "wat" but was "wait, does he have the right vocal range?" and then "can he sing?" Not that it stopped them with Gerard Butler

In other news, for the David Gemmel Legend Award auction Scott Lynch is auctioning off a cameo in one of his books. It starts at $20, which tempts me in terms of cheeky excuses to introduce yourself to famous people. I prefer excuses that don't cost indeterminate amounts of money, and anyway, there's something inherently sad about having to pay to get the attention of someone whose writing you admire. Okay, I lie, my main reservation is wondering whether or not I would get to write my own physical description, or if I am just sending a photo here. I am concerned about the photo possibility. I am concerned that the keen eye of Scott Lynch, given the opportunity to describe me, may pen a tertiary character with adjectives which are not "handsome" and "roguish" but "twinky" and "creepy-looking" and "bitch-faced." I can't be the only one who thinks about these things.

Comments

[themis]

I can't be the only one who thinks about these things.

You're not. I am sure that if I were to send in a photo, instead of "chic," "elegant gamine," or any positive variation on, like, "feline" the result would be something like "round-faced little bitch, pallid as a drowned sailor."

Which is too bad, because if IIRC I am very much Jean's type.

[prodigy]

You're a scrawny, dark, nondescript young man with an abundance of charm and a surfeit of bad ideas? I had no clue!

[themis]

Well, I am a short, bitchy, and well-read young woman. Same difference?

[prodigy]

And here I was thinking I'd gone all this time unknowing with a friend who bore a striking resemblance to Locke Lamora. If it's any consolation, I may not be pallid as a drowned sailor but I am pretty sure I have the "sunken eyes of a drunk thrice my age" and "a pouting mouth much too plump to go to sea or prison."