My Annual Grand Crushes Of 2011 (1 of 2)

a.k.a  the things I look/listen/watch at whenever I am stressed/bored/annoyed at work/home/wherever this year

Girl Crush of 2011

Jennifer Lawrence

…Have you seen the The Hunger Games trailer? You should. THG is so lucky to have a lead actress like her (look, I love Kristen, but her early awkwardness during the first Twilight movies never helped anybody). I’ve adored Jennifer ever since X-Men First Class, but I really loved her after watching this interview and this one. She has the best comedic timing ever. EVER. I can imagine her as Emma Stone’s best friend for some reason.

I also want to share this quote from an interview she did for EW. After reading this, my mind was officially convinced that she’ll do justice to Katniss’ role. The epic trailer was just an affirmation:

“I told Gary, ‘I totally understand if you don’t hire me, but please remember that after Katniss shoots a bow and kills someone her face cannot be badass. It has to be broken.’ She has to be heartbroken because she just took another person’s life. It’s so tempting, especially with a cool, big budget franchise movie, but we have to remember that she’s a 16-year-old girl who’s being forced to do this. These kids are only killing each other because if they don’t, they’ll die. —Jennifer Lawrence on her character’s mindset, to Entertainment Weekly

I love that she can be cute this time then super sizzling hot the next then throw a thoughtful quotable quote all of a sudden. This girl will do great things, I swear.

Boy Crush of 2011

Sam Spratt (<– click click click)

…there are a lot of talented people on Tumblr… but he’s one of the few who seems to really know what the fuck he’s doing. He’s not a lost 24-year-old artist groping about where he fits in this world. This guy knows. And everything he does is freaking fantastic. I remember… he caught my attention because he has the MOST eloquent answers to Tumblr Ask questions. For example, someone asked him if originality is dead, and this is his take:

Not at all—but I think people’s definition of it is skewed to mean something truly and 100% new brought into the world.

Bread was bread and cheese was cheese, but some brilliant mind combined them and cooked them to make the grilled cheese sammich and it’s a magical, completely original thing despite it simply being a recipe of two incredibly unoriginal, preexisting foods. In other words, as a society, we build from our pasts and the new things we make—the innovations and unique things that we create, shouldn’t need to start on some imaginary clean slate to be deemed original.

And my personal favorite, someone asked him what he thought of society’s perception of beauty… roughly translated to: do you only date skinny/modelesque girls? Here’s a part of his answer.

People often divide physical attraction into two categories: 1) People who say that you have to look a certain way and 2) People who say that it doesn’t matter what you look like and that it’s only what’s “on the inside that counts”. Much like being purely liberal or purely conservative, this is a narrow-minded approach that manifests as either incredibly blunt, stubborn, and harsh or extremely open, accepting, and VERY vocal. You’re either shallow or you’re not in many people’s eyes and I think it’s a tragedy that a middle ground seems incapable of existing.

You group who I am attracted to and who I would date in the same category. While there is overlap, the two are very different things. In other words, I am judgmental of people’s appearances when applied to my initial, gut, attraction to them. However, just as quickly (and much stronger) does my judgment of them as human beings kick in. It’s incredibly easy to fuck someone gorgeous, it’s unbelievably hard to find someone gorgeous that you want to talk to every day. As I said, the model-quality cookie-cutter women are everywhere—but genuinely good and smart people, no matter how “beautiful” or “ugly” on the outside they may be, are rare and valuable (in general, not just in the realm of “romance”). At the end of the day, don’t assign yourself some manifesto on attraction. It is just as easy to turn down the beautiful and brainless as it is the bland and brilliant… For me, I pursue a balance of the best of both worlds with an open mind and I highly recommend avoiding seeing attraction as something so surface-level and black and white. There are very few things in life I “only” do in one way… It’d be pretty hard to learn or experience anything unique if you only lived one way.

Also, he followed me when I told him he is adorable. LOL

Cat Crush of 2011

Maru…. because he’s like the poster cat for everything you adore in, well, cats.

I can stare at him for hours.

…and hours… and hours… and….

In Real Life Crush of 2011

LOL NO.

Sorry.

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Part 2-soonish!

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