20 who measure up

[jlh]

This Is Dedicated to That One Black Kid, comic by Keith Knight
Monday: who lives in that tiny ass town off the highway, in the middle of nowhere
Tuesday: who was not into hip hop in high school
Wednesday: who gets used as the reason why someone isn't a racist
Thursday: with hair people want to touch all the time
Friday: who gets told they're not REALLY black
Saturday: who always gets asked by white folks why they can't use the 'N Word'"

So there's this meme going around:

1. List five celebrities you would have sex with without even asking questions.
2. Put all of them IN ORDER of your lust for them. (Five to one, one is the hottest.)
3. Say which movie/show/thing it was that hooked you.
4. Supply photos for said people
5. Tag five people!

And I got tagged by lillijulianne. But see, I'd already started thinking about doing this post of 20 hot guys, sort of as my next race post, and it's a nice end to the blogging against racism week because these guys are from all over the place and they are all. really. hot.

I won't put them in order, but I will tell you what hooked me. Also, I'm giving you ages. Apparently I'm attracted to men around my age—I was born in 1969.

Naveen Andrews

Born: 1969.
Hooked by: The English Patient (1996), in which he played a character friendsofjunius and I referred to as "the Sexy Sikh."


Antonio Banderas

Born: 1960
Hooked by: Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), in which he is very young and very bespectacled.


Jason Bateman

Born: 1969
Hooked by: Probably It's Your Move (1984), a very short-lived sitcom starring Jason as a miniature schemer.


Don Cheadle

Born: 1964
Hooked by: Boogie Nights (1997) where he played a porn star cowboy who wanted to run a stereo store. He was amazing, and goofy, and seriously hot.


Chow Yun-Fat

Born: 1955
Hooked by: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) just like everyone else, but also the posters for Anna and the King (1999), I just didn't want to see it.


Djimon Hounsou

Born: 1964
Hooked by: Janet Jackson's "Love Will Never Do Without You" video (1990). Except, like, he can act and stuff so we get to keep seeing him.


Grant Imahara

Born: 1970
Hooked by: Mythbusters, though he DID win Battlebots and robots are sexy.


John Leguizamo

Born: 1964
Hooked by: Spic-O-Rama (1993), though in To Wong Foo (1995) he showed he can also make a hot drag queen.


Robert Sean Leonard

Born: 1969
Hooked by: Dead Poets Society (1989). Excellent stage actor. Glad he's getting some TV money in the kitty so he can keep doing plays.


Jesse L. Martin

Born: 1969
Hooked by: Rent (1996), and referred to him as "Tom Collins" for years after: "Tom Collins is on Law and Order!" Met him at a Hillary for Senate fund raiser and yeah, he is very hot in person.


Ewan McGregor

Born: 1971
Hooked by: Honestly, Emma (1996), because I didn't see Trainspotting until much later for no real reason.


Timothy Olyphant

Born: 1968
Hooked by: Go (1999), in which he played "the hot drug dealer." Confirmed by Broken Hearts Club, and then brought to the universe by Deadwood.


Matthew Perry

Born: 1969
Hooked by: Friends (1994), duh. I'm still looking for my Chandler, I think.


Carlos Ponce

Born: 1971
Hooked by: Honestly, posters in my neighborhood at the latin music distributors. I know, he's in a novela now (Dame Chocolate, the one that was featured in Top Chef a few weeks ago, though I didn't notice Carlos) but he's still arrestingly hot.


Paul Rudd

Born: 1969
Hooked by: Clueless (1995) because how adorable is he in that? So adorable! And yet, beneath that adorable shell, oh my god so hot.


Peter Sarsgaard

Born: 1971
Hooked by: As an actor, Boys Don't Cry (1999) but as a hottie, Shattered Glass (2003) and he's even long-haired and clean shaven in that. Also he spent all of Kinsey naked and I'm pro that.


Duncan Sheik

Born: 1969
Hooked by: The Barely Breathing video (1996). And now he has a beard! And a Tony!


Jon Stewart

Born: 1962
Hooked by: You Wrote It, You Watch It (1992). Yep, I was a Jon fan from waaay back, before the aborted movie career, when he was doing weirdo crappy shows for MTV.


Butch Vig

Born: 1957
Hooked by: Queer, the first Garbage video in 1996. He's a drummer, he's a superstar producer, he's really hot, he lives in Wisconsin. What more is there to say?


Luke Wilson

Born: 1971
Hooked by: Some combination of Legally Blonde (2001), Charlie's Angels (2000), and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001).

Comments

[morganmuffle]

That picture of Paul Rudd, the link one, I've never seen it before *rightclicksaves it*

I saw Naveen Andrews in a film, late one night, years ago and feel head over heels but could never remember the name of the film (or enough about it to identify it or him) and then Lost appeared on our screens and I rediscovered him much to my glee *g*

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Do you know which one it is now? He was also in Bride & Prejudice which is very much worth watching!

[morganmuffle]

I saw Bride & Prejudice when it came out here, it's a great film.

I think what I saw him in was Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love but it was one of those flicking through channels late at night occasions and I only saw part of the film. It seems the most likely (though having just gone to check I got the title right I see it had Indira Varma in it which I don't remember at all)

[misscake]

Look at all of these pretty pretty men who are our age!

Naveen Andrews... *sigh*

[pinkfinity.livejournal.com]

I am going to go watch Bride & Prejudice now.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

It's weird, over half of them would have been in high school at the same time I was. I think it's just a thing with me.

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm, you have excellent taste in men :D Wish I'd known that Paul Rudd link wasn't quite worksafe...you should've seen me turning my flat-screen monitor to the side and mad-clicking on that window to minimize it :))

As for Butch Vig, I pass his recording studio (Smart Studios) 5 days a week on my way to work. And I used to watch him and Duke Erikson (from Garbage) in local bands called Firetown and Spooner.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Sorry! I guess advertising just isn't that conservative—I think of NSFW as naughty bits and behinds, and breasts on ladies.

I love that Butch stayed where he was raised!

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

Was that advertising?? Mmmmm :) Oh, my only problem is that where I'm currently sitting at work, if I don't have my flat-panel monitor turned just so, people could catch a glimpse from the corridor and wonder why I'm looking at a man in a state of deshabilé...

Yeah Butch is a Madtown boy :D

[locumtenens.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. Huge Paul Rudd fan from his Clueless days! I thought I was the only one who loved him, but he's been popping up everywhere on these lists.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

When I was looking for these pictures I found a lot of "thinking woman's sex symbol" type headlines. So in a word, no!

[mahoni.livejournal.com]

Djimon Hounsou and Ewan McGregor: NNNNGH. *fans self* It's entirely possible that most of the joy I experience watching The Island has to do with the fact that they're both in it.

Also, am impressed that you met Jesse L. Martin in person and did not spontaneously combust from proximity to that much sex appeal.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

He was really nice! And very soft spoken, but with a great laugh.

Everyone is loving the Djimon!

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

Jesse was the best thing about LAW & ORDER back when he was on it *wibbles*

[mahoni.livejournal.com]

Everyone is loving the Djimon!

As well they should. That man is smokin'. And with the gorgeous voice, and the damn fine acting, and, yeah. <3

[ladylisse.livejournal.com]

Naveen Andrews, Djimon Hounsou and Ewan McGregor in the same post. I think my day's complete.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Just doing my part!

[pinkfinity.livejournal.com]

Hooked by: Probably It's Your Move (1984), a very short-lived sitcom starring Jason as a miniature schemer.

IS THIS AVAILABLE ANYWHERE?

Also? You didn't watch Silver Spoons? All my friends in 7th grade thought I was batty because I found Jason eversomuch more adorable than Ricky.

Of course, my mom couldn't tell the difference between Jason and Michael Fox, which I guess makes sense in a weirdly insane way.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I sort of did, but he didn't connect with me at that age; I don't remember his being on it. It's Your Move I totally remember.

[pinkfinity.livejournal.com]

: answers myself

Oh look. It's the 80s.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Of course this rules me.

spoilery comment

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAH! I never saw this before (it's a bit after my time). They're like Puppet!Dementors :))

[piperki.livejournal.com]

Dude, Mr. Vig looks a lot better in that photo than he does IRL. Because I live in Wisconsin too, and I have seen him...

Dang, what nice-looking men overall, though. :D

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I mean, there were plenty of pictures of him that didn't look that good. But I also have a thing for drummers liek woah.

[lillijulianne.livejournal.com]

my, you have some marvelous men here. my favorites are jon, of course, ewan and jesse and antonio, but i need to investigate some of these further.

i didn't get the jason bateman thing in the 80s- it definitely took arrested development to clue me in. (then again, i never got the ricky schroder thing then, but on NYPD Blue, oh yeah....)

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Duncan is on Blake's itunes playlist, which was one of the reasons I swooned when I read it. For real, any love I have for Blake dates from my reading that playlist.

I was a real snob in school, and the only actors I liked were Jason and Michael J. Fox. Other than those two I was all musicians all the time. Oddly there aren't many on this list. Hmm.

[consumedbywords.livejournal.com]

I hope you don't mind, but I friended you. :)

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Of course not! Just note that there is frequently a lot of random content here. Shortly, likely, more HP. And yet soon it will be another Idol season!

[springgreen.livejournal.com]

mmmmGAH the hot! (this is Oyce, sorry, just on the Other LJ)

felicitations having nothing to do with these fine lads...

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Except they'd all make pretty nifty presents.

I have been MIA from all LJ-ness because my orals are in [OMG!] a week, but LJ birthday reminders are kinda cool, yo. 'Cause I gotta keep up with my fellow virgos.

Happy Birthday, Lady!