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.

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[identity profile] thorne-scratch.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Man, I read that article over my morning gatorade (replenishing electrolytes from last night's foolish carousing) and was nodding along in total agreement until they came to the comparison to swimming athletes. Which is true, for bodies! But, but, but--

"It's the hair," says Nicole Caldwell, Playgirl's editor in chief. "Swimmers are the only other athletes who have bodies like this, and they have to shave their heads. Soccer players have that lustrous, beautiful hair."

They have clearly not met Ryan Lochte. Or Aaron Peirsol. Or even Michael Phelps, right now, who is rocking the long hair and wearing headbands in hilariously dorky yet attractive fashion.

[identity profile] meretricula.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
David Villa. small, compact, beautiful eyes, insists on breaking my reproductive organs by being photographed with his beautiful offspring all the time.

Image (http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a178/meretricula/Why%20David%20Villa%20is%20totally%20a%20two/?action=view&current=tumblr_l0e51eOcU51qalumpo1_500.jpg)

Image (http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a178/meretricula/Why%20David%20Villa%20is%20totally%20a%20two/?action=view&current=tumblr_l2gxbms70f1qzzfiu.jpg)

Image (http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a178/meretricula/Why%20David%20Villa%20is%20totally%20a%20two/?action=view&current=tumblr_l4bk5bdqOH1qb7n3fo1_500.jpg)
(tragically he never strips down on the field.)

[identity profile] sparky77.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you talking about the movie I think you're talking about?

[identity profile] sarkastic.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
O.Ozil (as we call him in the German camp) is the best. I'm glad you appreciate.

This gif causes me to have very dirty thoughts:

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[identity profile] fantasticpants.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
It's less than awesome, huh? Heh, unsurprising sekrit is sadly unsurprising, but thanks for the info! I've got a feeling I'm gonna enjoy his character anyway, because I've got a thing for inappropriate scumbag types and because, well, it's Walton. I can't help it. (I actually found a cam version but it's got RUSSIAN DUB. And while I do know Russian, I think I'll wait for something a little more bearable.)

[identity profile] inmyriadbits.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL YOUR SUBJECT LINE. I think I love you.

That article is hilarious. I feel kind of vindicated by it; I've always said soccer players are the hottest athletes, and now I can back it up with SCIENCE. Excellent!

Re:hot soccer players, my mom made my week yesterday. See, I linked her and my sisters to [livejournal.com profile] sarkastic's hot players picspam; my older sister shared with her many thrilled med school buddies, which I expected. What I didn't expect was my mom (who turns 60 this year) sharing with her coworkers of similar age, who then also were delightedly perving on the handsome young men. I'm not really surprised, but it makes me SO HAPPY that I enabled this. Anyway, since you enabled me to enable them by linking to it in the first place, I thought you might like to know what you hath wrought. Namely, some very happy ladies of many ages. :D

He's not a player in this World Cup, but can I choose Alexi Lalas as my favorite? :D?
ext_3167: Happiness is a dragon in formaldehyde  (Askars is a hotass)

[identity profile] puckling.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Iker Casillas is attractive enough that he seriously endangers several of my higher brain functions.

[identity profile] maiahaha.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
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[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Predators?

Yeah boy.

Here, have some hotass.





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[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I like swimmers, don't get me wrong, but y'all have no asses and no hips to speak of. And you know I'm right. I call MP back, crack, legs. But yes, plenty of hair.
Edited 2010-07-10 17:53 (UTC)

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I love his little face! And look at that gif. GodDAMN.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
He is most definitely a scumbag. I was just like >.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Football hotass is a universal language! I'm so glad that everybody is becoming fluent this year :) And yes, you can most definitely pick Alexi, who I am so happy to have presenting this year, he's been utterly fabulous.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I most definitely agree with that. It makes me think of what [livejournal.com profile] sarkastic said about her hotass of the world cup post, when looking for someone hot on the team automatically head for the goalie.

[identity profile] sparky77.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow. I nominate them to run our soccer camp in Hawaii.

And, yeah, I wasn't going to see Predators, but then I read a review that said Walton was the best part and looked like he was having tons of fun, so then I wanted to see it.

[identity profile] fantasticpants.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
He's good at scumbag! But I do prefer his more complex roles.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I spent the first half of the movie wondering when Larry Fishburne was gonna show up, because he'd been so prevalent in the trailers and then he showed up and was dead 10 minutes later. I used to think Adrian Brody was hot, and then he did a Roman Polanski film and I lost all respect for him, and Topher Grace was there, which was just weird, and Walton was there, picking fights, but there was one dialogue exchange that was so horrifyingly not funny that it just killed that for me. And the movie ended and you were like, wait, what? Like did they just get tired of filming and decide fuck it? Feh.

ETA: We're gonna have a soccer camp? DOOD. You are so my favorite.
Edited 2010-07-10 18:06 (UTC)

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
It's like I told [livejournal.com profile] sparky77:

I spent the first half of the movie wondering when Larry Fishburne was gonna show up, because he'd been so prevalent in the trailers and then he showed up and was dead 10 minutes later. I used to think Adrian Brody was hot, and then he did a Roman Polanski film and I lost all respect for him, and Topher Grace was there, which was just weird, and Walton was there, picking fights, but there was one dialogue exchange that was so horrifyingly not funny that it just killed that for me. Like the entire theatre was silent. And then movie ended and you were like, wait, what? Like did they just get tired of filming and decide fuck it? Feh.

[identity profile] sparky77.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
That is so sad. And what the hell happened to Topher? Wasn't he supposed to be the next big thing?

And, yeah. Of course we are having a soccer camp. There is nothing more adorable then little kids playing soccer especially when they are being instructed by really hot men. Though they need to learn how to play Ultimate Frisbee too.

[identity profile] kaiserkuchen.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I recognize the hotness of your Villas, Torres' and San Iker's of the Spanish team, and DAMN SON Benny Feilhaber is seriously fine, but my personal favorite has got to be the German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer. He's adorable, tall, strapping and blond AND a kickass goalie. For some reason I don't even mind the eye-searing colors of his goalie-kits, though AUGH THAT YELLOW. THEY BETTER WIN THIRD IN THE GAME COMING UP NOW, ahhhh.

And I agree, Oezil totally has that James McAvoy vibe and holy crap did he look good in the black German footie kit (WELL OKAY, the entire freaking team did).

[identity profile] fantasticpants.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I might just end up watching parts of it, then. And yeah, I'm pretty sure I know what exchange you're talking about (seen it referenced a couple of times).

Benny Feilhaber

[identity profile] hypertwink.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)


I don't know whether to laugh or get turned on LOL

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my god, the little wobbly legs running back and forth in the backyard. You know some of them are barely as big as the ball. I think Ultimate Frisbee will be for rest days. And the beach.

Also, Topher never really impressed me and this reminded me why.

[identity profile] nicolasechs.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
That is the cutest gif EVER. Oh Mesut... &hearts

I hope he gets some of his mojo back for today's match.

[identity profile] alethialia.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I was very happy for Christina! Did you read her interview with Sepinwall about her nom? 'Mad Men' co-star Christina Hendricks on her Emmy nomination. ::hearts::

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