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heystasa ([personal profile] heystasa) wrote2009-05-05 09:55 pm

I think I find Zac Efron hot


Tonight, my sister (who is here staying with me for the week - yay! More on that later, but for now let it be known that this is partially why I've not been online much. The rest of the reason has to do with what a particularily astute and surprised Telstra man called "my Building's hodge podge, insane mess of a wiring system" that has ensured I've not been getting any bills and therefore not paying so Telstra cut my phone off. ANYWAY) and I went to the movies.

We saw 17 Again, which was actually really good. The idea's a huge cliche`, but the execution was great, and it was clever, very funny, and I liked it far, far more than I expected. The subplot with the friend and the principal was especially inspired. Also, Matthew Perry. Seriously you guys, I highly recommened it. (To everyone but K, because embarrassment squick liek whoa. It could have been so, so much worse, but I was still hugging my legs a lot in it)

However, while watching it, I realised something strange and rather unexpected: I think I find Zac Efron hot.

Like, really, seriously attractive. Not in the Highschool Musical movies era, because yeahno, but in this? He is gorgeous. Especially at the beginning with the curly hair. He has a really long body, which I soooo like in a man (possibly we could trace this back to anime, but we don't need to go there), and moves really well (fecking cool dance scene at the start, yo), and has good timing delivery and a good voice and is a savvy guy who is good at his job, and in this he had that paternal thing going on, which is really very nice and. Um, yeah. He's a bit of alright, I reckon.

Also, for the first like, half an hour or so I was totally shipping him with the blond bully dude.

I am... somewhat mortified at myself. My thirteen year old, Highschool Musical obsessed cousin actually had a point. Which is just not on.

If I start fancying those Zack and Cody kids from the Disney channel someone send help (and possibly the authorities, because, as I said to my cousin when she was fussing over them and asked me "don't you think they're sooo cute, Stell?", honey, if I were to dig them, that would be worrying).


[identity profile] 3771.livejournal.com 2009-05-05 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
seriously? i honestly don't see it. maybe it's all the disney, idk, but i honestly don't think he or the jonas brothers or any of the disney-produced stars are attractive. also, his eyes slightly bug me out, but i think if i found him cute they'd probably be a major selling point instead of a sticking one, so i can't really hold it against him

[identity profile] sjazzmreow.livejournal.com 2009-05-05 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I never saw it either. I always thought him too cutsey and cleancut, and just... I don't know, a bit blah. Maybe that was because he was Disneyfied (and I agree, there's always something off about Disney stars), or maybe he's grown, or maybe it's just something about this movie (which was very much not Disney. They mentioned *gasp* teen pregnancy! and sex! and ZE called another dude a dick! And there was alcohol! Shock horror won't somebody please think of the children!) - the costume or character or something - but I just found him charming all of a sudden.

[identity profile] 3771.livejournal.com 2009-05-05 12:43 pm (UTC)(link)
oh! i forgot though, hilary duff is way hot, and she's disney-bred. so maybe it's only the guys. which makes sense, because i have higher standards for guys, i think. anyway! yeah. i'm not arguing he's not hot, because well, i can see where people are coming from, i just do not see anything that special in him. maybe it's the smile...

ah well! i need to get out and see more movies :(

[identity profile] sjazzmreow.livejournal.com 2009-05-05 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think of Hilary Duff as "hot" (more very very pretty), but she did turn out quite nicely though, and I can see where others might see her differently. Ooh, wait though, what are your thoughts on Justin Timberlake? Does he count, d'you think? Started out with Club Disney, then a boy band (of all things), and has turned into sex on legs.

I think for a lot of girls that like him it's the smile or the eyes, but personally I don't think his eyes are particularily that special, and (though it is a very good smile in other ways) his teeth are so white it's disconcerting. Really, facial features-wise he's not my type (though I can see that he certainly ain't ugly). I noticed him more for his body and his vibe, I think. He's very nicely built - lithe and tall, but strong, and wears his clothes and carries himself well, and has great hair. He has a really nice presence too, and seems to be a legitimately decent actor. It wasn't so much that I liked his face, but more that I liked him, I suppose.

[identity profile] 3771.livejournal.com 2009-05-05 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)
i honestly don't see much in justin timberlake? like, he's cute, i guess, but his smile is just a little too dorky to be anything other than. he can sculpt his body all he wants, but i'll never see him as sexy, just a cute guy with this (http://cm1.theinsider.com/media/0/33/56/justin-shirtless.0.0.0x0.350x541.jpeg) for a body. besides, i always end up connecting him with orlando bloom, and seriously. he's not as sculpted, but COME ON (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/thalassatx/Orli%20Sympathy%20for%20Delicious/mq002.jpg)

his teeth! i know! it's insane. i've never really watched him in anything for more than five minutes, so i can't comment on his overall impression, so i guess i have no real response on that point?

[identity profile] sjazzmreow.livejournal.com 2009-05-05 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Aww, poor Orlando. He's always getting picked on. It's not his fault he's such a girly-man.

I don't really pay that much attention to JT, but I reckon he's a bit of alright. The shaved head matches his eyebrows, and he has good lips and skin and stubble. I've never really looked at his body though, to be honest, and if you hadn't have pointed it out, I wouldn't have known it was so built. How did I miss that?

Really white teeth freak me out, man.

[identity profile] 3771.livejournal.com 2009-05-05 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
he is such, such a girly-man. but he pulls it off so well! that, and he's hip-deep in miranda kerr every time he gets the chance, so that sort of makes up for any lack of masculinity he may display every now and then.

don't get me wrong - i admire jt for his sheer goddamn style. when he dresses suave he is seriously amazing. he's just too nice -- actually, i think it's sort of like you and hugh. i appreciate where other people are coming from, but i can't get past the fact that he always looks so incredibly enthusiastically happy when he smiles. i can't find people with that much joie de vivre sexy; it's like objectifying a puppy. (also, i don't know! here, have a shot from the guru (http://towleroad.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/29/justin_timberlake_speedo.jpg). <a href="http://cm1.theinsider.com/media/0/43/65/justin_timberlake_6.0.0.0x0.393x493.jpeg>and this</a>) they're just <i>weird</i>

[identity profile] 3771.livejournal.com 2009-05-05 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
BAH. this (http://cm1.theinsider.com/media/0/43/65/justin_timberlake_6.0.0.0x0.393x493.jpeg). there.

[identity profile] sjazzmreow.livejournal.com 2009-05-05 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
jskafbkjsc the STUBBLE. Do you not see the stubble? And with and the and THE STUBBLE.

Godammit. I'm not even that hugely in to JT, but then you go and bring out damn stubble and coherency goes out the window. I'm a sucker for a man with good stubble.

BUT! I actually like JT's goofiness. If I were more awake I would gather some links to further elaborate on the many joys of goofiness, but I'm not, so, I'll just tell you. Um... yeah. A bit of goofiness is ace. Possibly it's some maternal girly thing, but I have a real soft spot for it, especially from a guy who's usually more suave or solemn.

(God, I need to go to bed. Train of thoughts aren't going well and I have lost the ability to form wit or simile)

[identity profile] 3771.livejournal.com 2009-05-05 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
i haven't shaved in four days (it's been a really lazy week), where's my gibbering stella?!

see, if you want goofiness from a guy who's more suave or stern, you go for like... liam neeson. seriously, his performance in love actually is probably my favourite part of the movie all-up - bill nighy's storyline is my favourite, and hugh grant's girl is friggin' hot, but seriously. liam neeson being a caring, cool father. come on. i know he's not exactly a spring chicken, but it's so awesome.

(go! nestle all snug in your bed! with visions of timberlakes danc(...ing) in your head!)

[identity profile] 3771.livejournal.com 2009-05-05 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
see, now, this (http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn162/a_pelter/hugwater.gif) i can get behind

[identity profile] sjazzmreow.livejournal.com 2009-05-05 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
*snortlaugh* Bloody hell, it's like a shampoo ad, innit?

Not to dismiss your taste in men or anything (which I find both fascinating and delightfully amusing), but Hugh Jackman is someone I really don't get. He's hardly ugly and seems a lovely bloke, but he just does nothing for me. He's just so nice looking. Like, average, friendly, neutral sort of nice, the kind of nice that is entirely platonic. Granted, his face is again not my type, but, to me, nothing he does, even a scene like that, invokes any sort of sexual vibe whatsoever.

... Does that make any sense at all?

[identity profile] 3771.livejournal.com 2009-05-05 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
did... did you not see the muscles? i'm not sure how you could've missed them, but apparently you did. because um, they're... they're pretty persuasive, as far as i'm concerned. they make some salient points. about hugh. and his muscles. yes.

i mean, i guess it sort of makes sense, really. he is just such a Nice Guy, i can understand it getting in the way of everything else, but that's a lot of why i love him. some people are seductively attractive (http://www.gimpusers.de/dl/AngelinaJolie.jpg), some people are suavely attractive (http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/theremoteisland/2009/03/george_clooney_1%5B1%5D.jpg), some people are mickey (http://3771.livejournal.com/tag/on+your+knees+to+the+king), some are tex (http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/04/30/Tex2_narrowweb__300x488,0.jpg), and some people are just goddamn nice (http://static.open.salon.com/files/hugh_jackman1226353405.jpg). in the words of so many women throughout the ages, he's the sort of guy you can bring home to mother. he looks like a cuddler, you know? and when he gets his softcore-porn-outdoor-shower on, it's just sort of a bonus. it's like when that really cute girl you dig for being cute but mainly for being funny and cool to hang out with suddenly reveals she likes sexy underwear.

i could go on, but i shan't, because you made fun of my taste in guys :(

[identity profile] sjazzmreow.livejournal.com 2009-05-05 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I saw them, and they were very impressive, I just didn't really... um, care... much? Theoretically I totally understand everything you're saying, but I just can't muster anything approaching interest in Hugh Jackman.

I understand the appeal of the cuddleyly attractive - I mean, I have a bizarre and all consuming passion for men in cardigans, (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y248/clomoo/new%20icons/Misc/jpc523.png) which is rivaled only by my ridiculous crush on Germany and German film and TV, which I consider to be the most adorable thing in the world, and there are so many adorable German boys I just want to squeeze. And hey, I want to marry Colin Firth almost entirely because he is just so damn lovely.

Oh, kitten, I didn't make fun! I really am interested. And how could I tease you when you give me such pretty pretty links?

[identity profile] 3771.livejournal.com 2009-05-05 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
you have a heart of stone. or hormones of stone. i don't know, whichever.

that is understandable, i guess. but i think most men who wear cardigans (i'm going to be honest, i don't encounter them that often) are too far out the nice side for me to me to even consider them as anything other than like, teddy bears. and, you know, ew. teddy bears. i think we'll have to disagree on this vital point :p

oh, kitten now? well then, all is forgiven. ;) but i... i just appreciate guys? aesthetically? i honestly don't think i'd ever do anything sexual with one, but i can find them sexy, if that makes sense. (cuddling is another matter, of course) both genders are subjects of my objectification, and they like it, dammit

[identity profile] sjazzmreow.livejournal.com 2009-05-05 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
It is rare that I ever really dig a guy (in real life. The Boy Who Looks Like River Pheonix is the real big exception. Anything else is minor perving mostly for the lols), so you may have a point there.

Ah! But, cardigans are not limited to the nice guy! For it is the cardigan itself that is cuddly, not necesariy the person in it! Cardigans can make a guy seem more vulnerable, like he's hiding away in it. They have connotations! And, I am not at all lucid enough to properly disect this at the moment, but essentially I mean cardigans used in texts (because you don't really encounter them that often in everyday life), the IDEA of the man in a cardigan.

That's a good boy. :P To further make it up to you, shall I share my taste in women? Because I know exactly what you mean with the appreciating minus the sexual (though my cuddles are given out rarely and discriminately, I'm afraid. You cuddleslut, you), because, dude - Jana Wendt, Julia Sawalha, (http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/83507883/15229150) Emma Watson as Hermione Granger (especially when hitting people, for some reason), this chick (http://www.bravo.pl/download/multimedia/pictures/0806/pic7224606111248402022927.jpg) - all of them are astoundingly attractive.

[identity profile] phrasemuffin.livejournal.com 2009-05-05 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG I forgot about choir last night! Fail!David apologises!

[identity profile] sjazzmreow.livejournal.com 2009-05-05 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
That's okay, hun. I didn't go anyway - my throat is really bad at the moment, so didn't see much point, and I didn't want to leave Lucy all alone for two and a half hours anyway. I would have reminded you if I had been going, don't worry. ;)