The Sexiest Men Alive According to Kelsy This Year

I know my readers were all, "Kelsy, when are you going to create a response post to your sister's 'The Sexiest Men Alive According to Lauren This Year' post and People's Sexiest Men Alive issue?" Well folks, here it is. I tried to keep my choices relevant to 2011 and what work these fellas did in the time. Enjoy:

Jake Johnson (Nick from New Girl, or Bootleg Ruffalo): Look, he makes Zooey Deschanel's Jess tolerable, which is a rare feat indeed.

Sexual tension and Christmas: two of my favorite things.

Donald Glover (Troy from Community, Childish Gambino, that one time his poster was in Awkward Black Girl): He manages to be dumb-funny and smart-funny at the same time.

Also, Donald took the one good thing about Bruce Springsteen (the white shirt/jeans/red thing in pocket look) and put it to work.

Ryan Gosling (hipster boyfriend/husband in Blue Valentine, impeccable dressed playboy in Crazy Stupid Love, the Driver in Drive): the kid's been all over the place this year, but he's earning his keep. Except in The Ides of March, but I'm going to have to blame that on the insufferable Evan Rachel Wood and really mediocre filmmaking.

Sporting the beard that makes The Notebook watchable.

Robert Sheehan (Nathan from Misfits, the less stupid brother in Killing Bono): I like an Irish accent and a goofy sense of humor. The curly hair, dreamy eyes, and skinny body are just gravy.

Serious face.

Adam Scott (Ben from Parks and Rec): I could watch him make an "Are you kidding me?" face all day, when he's not making cute, lovey faces at Leslie Knope.

Seriously, are you kidding me?

Mark Foster (frontman of Foster the People): This dude is the epitome of goofy-hot. He's got David Byrne syndrome on stage, but is infectiously fun. Plus, he made an adorable pair with Gabourey Sidibe in Foster's "Don't Stop (Color on the Walls)" video, because two adorable people make a lot of adorable.

He also pulls off perma-greasy hair.

James McAvoy (X-Men: First Class): For smoldering eyes and great chemistry with every co-star he has ever had, from the wooden Keira Knightly to the also sexy Michael Fassbender.

THE INTENSITY IN THOSE EYES.

Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock): I just love smart assholes.

The epitome of British hot, which is another way of saying goofy-hot, but also British.

Lyman Johnson (White Jay on Awkward Black Girl): Awkward is way better than boring Fred.

Awwww.

Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class, Jane Eyre): For the self-assured smoldering eyes.

Mmm, disheveled 19th Century realness.

Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom from the Harry Potter franchise): For getting through puberty and turning out hot as well as being one of the few characters I still cared about by the end of Deathly Hallows Part 2.

Nice Cardigan

Damon Wayans, Jr. (Brad from Happy Endings and the black roommate from the pilot of New Girl): Talk about goofy humor, his physical comedy is perfection. Plus, he knows his Gilmore Girls.

Also loves Indecent Proposal-ing.

Some great glasses

I few weeks ago, I expressed how a pair of rolled-up sleeves make any guy more attractive. This time I'm expressing my love for the more hit-or-miss attraction-builder glasses. In any case, it certainly makes a hot guy hotter or a dumb guy smarter, which is an overwhelming win for everyone. Here are some good examples:

1. Rodrigo Santoro as Karl in Love Actually (2003). No explanation needed.


2. Sendhil Ramamurthy as Dr. Mohinder Suresh on Heroes. In one of the many episodes that deal with a potential future, my TV lover Mohinder sports a more grown out beard in addition to some fetching professorial glasses when he consults the President.


3. Alec Baldwin as Adam Maitland in Beetle Juice (1988). Not only is young Alec quite a looker, he seems unsuspectedingly everyman with these glasses. Adorable.

4. Takeshi Kaneshiro as Lin Jian-dong in Perhaps Love (2005) is the highlight of the movie. I have no idea what is going on for at least half of the movie, but Mr. Kaneshiro in the mid-nineties flashbacks in those big glasses is the best thing that could happen.

5. Speaking of mid-nineties glasses, Harrison rocks a pair as Linus Larrabee in Sabrina (1995). I think they were trying to make him appear more serious and less attractive, but in conjunction with Mr. Ford's regular use of a bow tie in the film, it just makes him more lovable.

6. Matthew McConaughey as Steve in The Wedding Planner (2001) is the best example of glasses making a guy look smart. While M-squared is still slightly smarmy in this movie, this is the only movie I've ever been attracted to him, and I think it has everything to do with those glasses.

Neglecting my blogging

So I started custodial work a couple weeks ago, and I'm exhausted when I come home. So exhausted I have failed to write ridiculous things on this blog. But, I've had a good night's sleep, so I figured I'd write some highlights in pop culture from the last few weeks:

1. Iron Man is the perfect summer blockbuster. It made me laugh, it uses current politics, and is starring Robert Downey, Jr. The somewhat romance between Tony Stark (RD,J), rich weapons maker, and Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), his personal assistant, is sufficiently awkward and yet comforting. Also, a great montage featuring Downey interacting with machines Luke Skywalker/R2D2 style warms my heart a lot.

Question: Who looks better hot, sweaty and worn out: Iron Man or Aragorn? Discuss.

2. I bought the 1995 BBC version of Pride and Prejudice. It was $20 bucks for the DVDs plus a book on how they made it. I knew I was going to have to own this someday, and this was just so cheap I went for it. I read the book in a couple days and made me love the entire cast and crew that much more for creating such an awesome adaptation. The Keira Knightly version...well, I'll probably have to see it again, but it's pretty ridiculous. I'll have to blog about that sometime.

3. I caught the movie Five last night in an allergy/benadryl induced stupor on TCM. Made in 1951, it was one of the first post-apocalyptic films ever made. This one featured a post atom-bombed world and 5 people who happen to find each other. 4 men and 1 pregnant woman survive. The film does a pretty good job of bringing out loneliness, desperation, and even racism in the film. One of the creepiest, but kind of awesome scenes was a day or two after the first two people meet each other, the man tries to convince to woman to have sex since they're the last two on earth until she screams, "I'm having Steven's baby!" This is her husband that she can't find. Anyway, it kind of rocks. Some things of note: a sleazy European man makes an appearance, all corpses are just skeletons with clothes on, and the token black man quotes scripture.

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I'll leave you with a photo of Aragorn. Mmmm.