hackthis_archive ([personal profile] hackthis_archive) wrote2010-07-10 12:49 pm

It's Rex Manning Day

So, first I was gonna post and talk about how proud I am that my girl got nominated for an Emmy! Yay for my girl! And thanks to [livejournal.com profile] snowybaby for being the first person to be all, guess what! And then I was gonna talk about Southland being ignored, but like, other shows getting recognition (you know who you are). For real, Walton Goggins was robbed. Hell, even Treme got a nom for best directing in a drama (you think I'm being facetious but the Emmys *hate* David Simon, so even one nom is kind of shocking), but then I was like no. No, today we must not be bitter, because today, ladies and gentlemen is the second to last day of the World Cup.

Oh, wait. We're not supposed to be sad. And so, no, we must not be sad. We must rejoice that for the last month we have been continually blessed with the best examples of manhood on the planet. In fact, WaPo has an article, "Field of Dreamy", that sums up why I prefer football (soccer) players and football (soccer) as a sport over every other sport known to man (save special ops training, because that kind of is a sport all on its own, but we'll save that for another day).

"There's a nice balance between the prissy, girly-looking male models in the Abercrombie & Fitch ads and the really burly football/hockey player. . . . They are the perfect middle ground."

It's our evolutionary hard-wiring talking: The way their speed and dexterity hits us says, This man can chase down a mastodon. My children will eat for a month!

"It's the legs," says Daniel Nardicio, vice president of marketing at Playgirl and default man-body expert. "Regular men tend not to think enough about their legs. They think it's about getting big and puffed out on top . . . then have these skinny little legs. Pfft."


In short? FOOTBALL. And so, I will now prepare for the closing of my favorite time of every four years (::sob::) and in a few hours I will say good-bye to my favorite piece of hotass discovered this year: Mesut Ozil, Germany.

And yes, I can hear you saying, "Really, [livejournal.com profile] hackthis? He's kinda wonky looking." To which I reply, "He's like the bastard love child of James McAvoy and SNAFU from The Pacific (which really was a dreadful miniseries. Emmy voters, is your failboat called the Titanic?). But he's got talent and spunk and I adore him and he's got legs like a motherfucking race horse."

Same goes for you Team USA. You can be kinda wonky looking, but you've got talent and spunk and legs like fucking race horses. Clint Dempsey, will you and Carlos Bocanegra and Benny Feilhaber get naked for me?

And then I come to you and ask: World Cup viewers of mine: who is your favorite World Cup hottie? Bring me photo graphic evidence. Here. I will start.

Sekrit aside to [livejournal.com profile] fantasticpants: I saw the movie. Wait for Netflix. (ETA: vague Predators spoilers in comments)

Other sekrit aside to those Lambert fans, If you don't get "Whadaya Want From Me?" out of my head immediately I'm sending my ninjas after you.

[identity profile] rjunkie.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
But poor Ozil... he looked so tired today. He needed his naptime.

nice goal. wanna be a model?

[identity profile] snowybaby.livejournal.com 2010-07-11 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
it's so hard to choose, and so many of my selections have already been mentioned, but thought i would throw this one into the mix: Fernando Torres

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I know he didn't have the best tournie, and a lot of you won't agree, but I will always have a soft spot for Wayne Rooney (http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd189/tinaanna/rooney2555.jpg). What can I say? He's a freckled hooligan :D

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Finally, these boys. go here --> http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/world-cup-soccer/ (http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/world-cup-soccer/)

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[identity profile] elzed.livejournal.com 2010-07-11 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Not exactly a shortlist, is it, with all the talent available... ;)

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2010-07-11 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Not even remotely. Plus, then the USA boys went and made porn (http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/world-cup-soccer/). Kinda. I was helpless, dude. HELP. LESS.



[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2010-07-11 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
WAIT. Since when can you be on the pitch naked? I mean those briefs are pretty damn close to obscenity. Can I petition for this to happen all the time?

Re: nice goal. wanna be a model?

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2010-07-11 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
The USA Soccer team made a porn video and nobody told me?! EVERYBODY IS FIRED! (Except you obviously, you keep me informed.)
Edited 2010-07-11 02:41 (UTC)

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2010-07-11 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
I have not seen smooches. I would like to see them.

[identity profile] snowybaby.livejournal.com 2010-07-11 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
singular smooch. very quick. HOWEVER, gerrard was messing around, when xabi decided to lean it. such unintentionally hot goofballs. :D check it --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knW7iyiYAsY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knW7iyiYAsY) (not high quality; complete with cheesy music)

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Re: nice goal. wanna be a model?

[identity profile] snowybaby.livejournal.com 2010-07-11 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
::happy boogie:: I still have a job... keeping you informed of soft-core soccer porn. my mother would be so proud. eh, whatevs. the WC won't last much longer and then all the convos about soccer gods will disappear. alas. gonna enjoy it while it's at the forefront of everybody's mind

Re: nice goal. wanna be a model?

[identity profile] snowybaby.livejournal.com 2010-07-11 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
trufax. and the videos with his daughter (youtube)? oh, man. on the one hand, a little creepy; it's his family/personal life and i'm really here to watch him kick a ball around. on the other, simply hits a cord. say it with me now: awwww... happy family :)

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bingeling: photo of Aesop Rock, aka the most genius person to walk this earth (simon amstell - geek chic)

[personal profile] bingeling 2010-07-11 09:08 am (UTC)(link)
Totally with you, bb Ozil = the best. HOWEVER, I made the mistake of image googling him and I found nothing but hair-related disaster, including something that APPEARS TO BE A MULLET!!! +flails madly+ /o\

Also! Richard Kingson, Ghana's goalie. Not so much with the hotness, more like holy fuck, talent! It's amazing how often he saved his team's asses out there. I'm so sad it wasn't enough against Uruguay. :(
But really, it's his mauve-colored goalie kit. That makes him the most precious. ♥

[identity profile] dementedsiren.livejournal.com 2010-07-11 12:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, this! I kept trying to get people to appreciate the lovely, cheek-pinching beauty that is Neuer, but everyone kept going "huh"? But I don't care, I love him dearly.

[identity profile] kaiserkuchen.livejournal.com 2010-07-11 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
That first pic of Schweini is just ... GUHHH. Not bad, Herr Schweinsteiger! And of course, POLDIIIII! EVERYONE ELSE! Schland for life, yeahhh ♥

[identity profile] kaiserkuchen.livejournal.com 2010-07-11 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
More of him for us to love, then! And seriously, normally I am not so much for the babyface kind of guy, but his GIGANTOR-ness adds a dash of manliness and it becomes all good~~

Did you see this awesome picture of Mertesacker and Neuer clutching at each other yet? Image ...it never fails to crack me up with its DRAMAAA! and WHY ARE WE YELLING-ness

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[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2010-07-12 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
There are no photos of Ozil that do him justice. I know this 'cause I was gonna make a picspam, but there were mullet-type things and like one with a big blonde blot in his hair, and one photo where he appears to have zero eyelashes even though I have watched him enough to know he has eyelashes. And the are obscenely long.

OMG! The Mauve kit had me in fits!

[identity profile] esperanza12.livejournal.com 2010-07-13 10:42 am (UTC)(link)
Somehow this made me laugh :D Sometime during the WC a friend came to me and said: "What's up with everyone thinking Özil is so hot? I mean, look at his face, he looks like some weird kind of tadpole!" Well, I guss you could argue about that :D

I don't know about hotness, but I'm a sucker for Philip Lahm. He's so tiny. Everytime I see him, I want to pat him on the head and give him some candy and his interview after the defeat against Spain, when he had tears in his eyes and his voice was all shaky, made me go all "oooow" and I wanted to wrap him in a blanket and give him some good hot chocolate to make him feel better again :D

Well, I guess David Villa is kind of good looking :D
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bastard love child of James McAvoy

[personal profile] ender24 2010-07-13 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank god, somebody else other than me also sees this!!!
since the first second I saw Özil, I have been saying that he reminds me of Mcavoy, BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOO, none of my friends here agrees with me, grrrrr

you are probably not watching [livejournal.com profile] loewsmiserables , but I posted this 3 days ago:

short clip: Özil and Schweinsteiger


(just in case, the embedded link does not work:
http://www.4shared.com/video/JbxzqGd_/Oezil_Schweinsteiger_WM_2010.html
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PS

[personal profile] ender24 2010-07-13 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
if you are also looking for fic :D
spdfg wrote » Ghost in the Machine (R, Schweinsteiger/Podolski, Klose/Oezil, Lahm/Boateng, Loew/everyone, everyone/everyone)
http://spdfg.livejournal.com/9377.html
[Germany play like a well-oiled machine. Ever wonder why that is? (Total crack.)]

[identity profile] girlandetc.livejournal.com 2010-07-15 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
+10000 for benny feilhaber. UNF.

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