Manjoyment Monday: Tea Time

This movie. What can I say about this 7 minute clip other than Alan Rickman is incredible?

And now I'm going to go have some tea.

Manjoyment Monday: Brother Dan

Today is my brother Dan's 30th Birthday!
In celebration of this auspicious occasion, Dan is today's Man.

"No International Incidents."

I have 3 words for you Dan:
Happy Natal Day!
Fuck yo couch!

Menjoyment Monday: BBC

I felt the need to share this. My sister found it and let me preface this video and this Monday's Men with a few things:

1. If you haven't already seen Series 2 of the BBC's Sherlock, don't watch this unless you don't care about spoilers.
2. We (meaning my sister and our friends and I) are completely obsessed with this series because it is SO VERY WELL DONE.
3. This video is also incredibly well done and makes me both laugh and cry.

Hope you enjoy.

America FUCK YEAH

I'll always remember that I was sitting in bed rolling pennies while watching the Swan Princess when my brother txted me to tell me Bin Laden was dead.

My manager said something funny this morning when he went to sign my time sheet.

Well if they killed him today it would have been 9/11.

5/2/2011
5+2+2+0/11
9/11

T's a little special with the numbers sometimes.

But Ding Dong Bin Laden's dead. Justice has finally been served. Thank you yet again you fine men and women in uniform for giving America a sense of closure.

MM: Totally Making my List

Today's man isn't a real one.

I'll be the first to admit that this is crazy. But listen, it's totally legit even if he's animated, right? RIGHT?

Ashley and I have discussed at length how some cartoon characters are just freak'n attractive as all get out. Apparently she even has a very in depth list she made with her friend years ago that they add men (real and animated - they don't judge) to as the years go by.

We may or may not fight over Dimitri and I may or may not often agree with Ashley over the fact that Robin Hood is the foxiest fox in town (Oodelaly!).

But damn, just watched Tangled for the first time this weekend and hello. Sexiest man ever animated in my opinion. Go ahead, judge me. But don't deny that Flynn Rider is hot!

Maybe it's the floppy hair. Maybe it's the big nose (we know how I love me a good schnoz!), or maybe, just maybe it's that he's just a pleasant type of theif. Whatever it is, I thoroughly enjoy this Tangled character...like woah.

Check out his smolder.

MM: He's so hot right now

If for some reason you forgot. One of my all time favorite movies is Zoolander. It's just so priceless, how could you not LOVE IT?!

Anyway, one of my favorite lines from the movie is right at the beginning when Hansel is talking about people he admires.

I wasn't like every other kid, you know, who dreams about being an astronaut, I was always more interested in what bark was made out of on a tree. Richard Gere's a real hero of mine. Sting. Sting would be another person who's a hero. The music he's created over the years, I don't really listen to it, but the fact that he's making it, I respect that. I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I'm selling? No. Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot.

"I don't really listen to it, but the fact that he's making it, I respect that." QUALITY IN A CAN.

Manjoyment Monday: Mystery Man and Mutt

Dear Sir,
Thank you for proving my point that men can look manly while walking tiny dogs.


Love, Elise

P.S. Your dog is fluffy and adorable.

P.P.S. Your arm veins frighten me.

Manjoyment Monday: V-Day edition

Although I'm not militant about it. I am a Batman fan. No Superman here.

In high school I had a friend who equally enjoyed Batman. One day he showed me this Valentine and I thought it was the greatest thing I'd ever seen. I think about it every year, without fail.

It wasn't exactly the design of the Valentine or the cheesey saying, no, it was the fact that he'd found it on Cap'n's Unfortunate Valentine's Cards and it had the following most amazing caption:

Hello, I'm Batman.

When I was just as child, my parents were murdered right in front of my eyes. I made a solemn vow that day to commit my life to fighting crime. I've sacrificed my childhood and any efforts toward personal enjoyment. My nights are spent in deadly combat with everything from common street thugs to grotesque psychopaths. What little sleep I ever get is usually interrupted by horrible nightmares and my waking up soaked in sweat. I fight a war that can never ben won. I strive toward a goal that can never be reached. I am haunted. I am relentless. I am tortured.

Won't you be my valentine?

Manjoyment Monday: Lulu's Hero

This morning, Lulu and I had quite an adventure. And whenever there is an adventure where Lulu is concerned it morphs into quite the Saga.

My morning started out a little off to begin with. For some reason the heat in my bedroom is set to come on at like 5:30am at 10000 degrees. So I was warm and irritable.

I hit the MOTHER OF ALL POTHOLES on Peninsula Boulevard right before the Hospital. It was regretably unavoidable even though I knew it was there from previous drives down the road. There was some other car in the left lane riding the line so I couldn't really go around this MASSIVE pothole.

So I'm on the Southern State and right around the Meadowbrook this fun little light pops up on my dash. It kind of looks like this: (!) and it is also a very vague light. It could mean anything from Lulu requires windshield wiper fluid to holy hell the rear axle is going to fly off at any second!

I don't smell anything strange leaking out from under the hood, nor can I hear anything that sounds remotely threatening so I just slow down and continue on.

By the time I am approaching the Wantagh and I realize, yeah, that's the tire. I get off on the Wantagh reasoning to myself that at least I'll be closer to my Dad's office and he can come and help me out if things get ugly.

Things got ugly.

I couldn't make it to the Sunrise Highway exit (although I wound up stopping within sight of it), and when I called AAA they said they couldn't send someone because the Wantagh doesn't have a shoulder and their trucks are not allowed. So I'd have to call a tow, have it tow me off the Wantagh and then call AAA back again.

At this point my Dad was on his way and he told me to call the HELP Truck and see what they could do. Before I even called he pulled up behind me and pretty much all he could do was give me the tow truck's phone number. Awesome.

Dad arrives with a pump and we get some air in the tire and drive it off the highway and into a parking lot nearby and inflate some more.


Yeah, it was a fun morning.

Finally we get to the nearby Subaru dealer's Service Shop and drop off the car. I'll definitely need a new tire and I might be in the market for a full new set (which wont' be so happy for my bank account) but we'll see what the prognosis is later today.

So here he is, Lulu's hero and today's Man. M'Dad.

Don't he look so cute in his little safety yellow vest?

Manjoyment Monday: A pained man and a guitar

You know I find loads of different men sexy for different reasons. But one of my biggest turn ons is a man that can sing. Throw in a guitar and I'm infatuated, it really doesn't matter at that point what he looks like.

There is something about a pained voice and a guitar that cuts right into the heart of me.

Last week when I was quarantined Julibean tried to send me things to watch and listen to and ponder throughout the day to keep me from going crazy. At one point she asked for "2 minutes of judgement free time" so she could show me this, or rather have me listen to this recording of Rob Pattinson sing.

I know what you're thinking, pretty boy, pretty voice. No, not at all.

Listen to the whole thing. Please. It is heartbreaking, truly. And it gives me the chills and it makes me love Rob Pattinson in a whole different way.

I never found him very attractive, but this really does it for me.

Manjoyment Monday: Schnoz Special

I have the plague. More on that later.

As I'm basically quarantined off for a few days I spent all day today in bed watching horrible movies on SyFy. What can I say? I got sucked in by Basilisk: The Serpent King and stuck around after that for Attack of the Gryphon.

It was as I watched Tara from Buffy run around as a warrior woman princess trying to find half a sword to kill a sorcerer who was using her kingdom's legendary gryphon against her own people that I realized two things:

One: SyFy makes some QUALITY made for TV movies. (I'm pretty sure it's the super cheesemo CGI animation that is a mockery of itself.)

And Two: I am really attracted to men with big noses.

Case and point:

Jonathan LaPaglia, oh hello.

Don't know what it is, but there's something sexy about a man with a schnoz.

(Image borrowed from imdb.com)

MM: JT FTW

Hate me if you want.

Seriously.

It's alright.

Because sometimes I hate myself.

But there's always been something about this break away boyband artist that I've adored.

Jason can't stand it.

Sometimes I can't stand it myself.

When Future Sex Love Sounds came out Julibean gave it to me for Christmas because it's totally a guilty pleasure of mine.

I love Justin Timberlake's music. There, I said it.

It has a good beat, I like the way his voice sounds and most of all he doesn't take himself seriously. I mean, I'm not sure I can count the number of times he's been on SNL anymore.


Plus this morning we drove past the golf course in Bethpage off of 135. Normally we don't take that route when carpooling but it gave me the willies a little.

Long story short a girl I knew was found there. When we worked together we would always rock out to JT whenever he came up on the soundtrack. So between that, NKOTBSB epic reunion this weekend and thinking about disco balls for some reason yesterday, here is your Man for today!

MM: Eat My Shorts

I really can't stop looking at this.




Please enjoy this Monday's Man...in cartoon form. He's the 10 year old everyone loves, and will always love.


(Image borrowed from SenorGif.com)

MM: Tasty

Okay so legit, this man is hot.


Whether he's dancing in baggy clothes, running around in a ridiculous GIJoe suit, or just plain lying around in his underwear Channing Tatum is freak'n gorgeous.

This one's also enjoyable:


Okay I'm done drooling now...

Manjoyment Monday: I Miss Him

Last week I sat down and watched a movie with my Dad. He had gotten The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus from NetFlix and neither of us really knew anything about it except that it was Heath Ledger's last movie.

Let me just throw this one out here. Ever since 10 Things I Hate About You I've loved Heath Ledger. I thought he was a tremendous actor, looked nothing like all the "pretty boys" of Hollywood that every other girl swooned over, and one day I hoped he'd give me a tambourine.

As he was in more and more films I respected his acting exponentially. The Patriot, Casanova, Brothers Grim, and of course his chilling portrayal of the Joker in Dark Knight - words can't even describe the incredible job he did with that part.

I still remember going out and buying the Vogue that he was on the cover on just so I could read more about his career. This photo was in one of those spreads:


That was right around the time he was filming A Knight's Tale because I remember them talking about him riding around on set. I enjoyed the way he tried different parts in different genres of movies. I've never seen them but I heard fantastic things about Brokeback Mountain and Monster's Ball. All around he was a great actor and I seriously believe it when they say he would have been the greatest actor of his generation.

The day I heard he died was a sad day indeed. I remember folding laundry with my mother and listening to a news report about how RENT was closing on Broadway (which upset me enough) and then there was an urgent report about how Heath had been found dead in his apartment in the City. That officially killed it, right there.

Horrible. Day.

But back to Doctor Parnassus...

We sat there watching it and were like...ummm...huh? We had no expectations for it nor did we know anything about the plot line and it was super intriguing. We couldn't stop watching it even if we wanted to.

The first time Tony (Heath's character) steps into the Imaginarium my Dad turned to me and said, "I can't believe Johnny Depp didn't play this character, he would have been perfect for it." And then as if the Imaginarium heard him, Heath Ledger turned into Johnny Depp.

It wasn't until the second time he was in the Imaginarium and Heath turned into Jude Law that we realized what was going on. At that point I was really interested in what the heck was happening and hopped over to IMDB to figure it all out. Once I read a little more about it I remembered that not only had it been Heath's last movie, but he had died in the midst of filming it. It suddenly made so much more sense.

Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell all stepped in after Heath's death to finish the movie for him. The producers, directors and staff actually decided to make a few re-writes and complete the film using other talented actors as stand-ins.


The result was phenomenal. I'm not saying it's my favorite movie ever. It was written and directed by Terry Gilliam so it was a little weird to begin with. The best I could describe it was Monty Python meets Tim Burton with a dash of Toon Town. But overall the way they wove the footage together if I hadn't know Heath had died in the middle of filming, I wouldn't have noticed. It wasn't disjointed at all, it was marvelous.

I thought it was also great how Jude, Johnny and Colin not only stepped in to finish Heath's work but they also gave all of the money they made off the movie to Matilda Heath's daughter. While we were watching some bonus footage one of them said basically: "We thought if Heath had finished the money would have gone to her anyway and we wanted to support her future."

So totally sweet. So unexpected. So strange a movie.

MmmmmMarsden

How 'bout a little Manjoyment to start your day?



(Image borrowed from Coventry Telegraph.)

MM: Still Got It

My parents just got back from Seattle. Rather, my mother came home last Monday and my father stayed on to help my brother recuperate from surgery and just returned this weekend. (Dan's fine by the way. He had some nerve pinch-age that was giving him pain in his arm so they went in and plated two of his vertebrae together. Sounds a whole lot scarier than it is but at least he won't be in pain anymore, plus he'll have an awesome scar across his neck that we'll have to create an awesome story as to how he got. Knife fight? Mugging? Sword duel?)

I was thinking about Seattle and how enjoyable a city it was, and I was getting photos sent to me willy nilly while my parents were out there. I decided now was as good a time as any to watch Sleepless in Seattle.

And while I was watching it I realized that Tom Hanks was adorable back then.

And then I realized that Tom Hanks is STILL a fine looking man.


Young or old, he has my full attention.

Also, little boy who played Jonah, Ross Malinger, every time I saw this movie I though, damn, he is so familiar, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Thank you IMDB for solving the mystery. He was the voice of TJ Detweiler on Recess which just happens to be one of my favorite cartoons EVER.

Tender.

MM: No, it's Hairspray

I felt very very conflicted about this one.

As we all know, I have a lot of guilty pleasures. Trashy romance novels, shoes, ugly things, etc. but there's one guilty pleasure I've been holding back for a long time now and it wasn't until Ashley said the following words to me that I felt okay coming out and saying it.

Ash: I watched 17 Again today at work on youtube. Zac Efron is really really attractive.

Here's my thing. I don't really find Zac Efron really attractive on his own. However, as Link in Hairspray, ummm, break me off a piece of that please?

And apparently I wasn't the only one who enjoyed him as this character, nor was I the only one who felt old and even slightly pervy for thinking so...

Ash: Hairspray is when Mel and i decided that he WAS cute, and we left that movie feeling bad about ourselves.

Mel: I felt so conflicted. I was like "dance around in that skinny blue suit some more, Zefron!"

I think the only reason I allow myself to enjoy him in this role is to me, he doesn't look like himself and therefore I don't associate him with High School Musical or the other Disney movies he was in when he was young and therefore I don't feel old and dirty.

It's totally the 50s style that gets me. What can I say, I was born in the wrong decade.

MM: Casey? Kasey? Whatever!

Sometime last week Ashley and I were discussing the WORST NAMES you could ever give your child.

It was a pretty awesome conversation, mostly because I kept on considering how they'd sound with Jason's last name.

Cortez Koala took the cake with that one.
However, Ashley has decided her children will be Jedward and Reneseme.

Anyway, long story short I love the name Kasey for a boy. I've had this conversation many times with Casey who agrees that she thinks her name is better suited for a man.

Plus Casey Jones is pretty effing sweet:


Is it the horribly fake long hair? The brooding stare? The fact that he carries around a Louisville Slugger and a cricket bat in his golf bag? Not sure.

But I do certainly enjoy him.

Manjoyment Monday: Is it a Full Moon?

I swear I'm not one of those people who is obsessed with vampire lore and the like. However True Blood on HBO is pretty spectacular.

The first time I ever saw it I was at a birthday party in Connecticut for my wifey Veebs. I hadn't seen her in awhile and her and her husband Nathan's new house is freak'n adorable. Plus their friends are pretty freak'n hilarious. We drank and ate chili and then played some beruit and life was good.

Then when we were all nice and sloshed Veebs turned on Season 1 of True Blood. Nathan had bought it for her for her birthday and she was so antsy to watch it.

She described it as "Like skinomax with vampires!"

This is why I love my friends.

Meanwhile I had no idea what was going on and was so confused (probably the tequila's fault) that I couldn't follow what was going on. But it was freak'n hot.

The hotness only continues to grow exponentially throughout the seasons. Hello Mr. Joe Manganiello!

Well you should have known better! I always prefer my men a little wolf-like. :P

(Photo borrowed from imdb.com)