The BOTW to End All BOTWs

Not really. But (now here's where we get scandalous, sorry boys) this man is at the top of my 'list.' The others on my list are not in any particular order. But this man...he's number one.

Joaquin Phoenix

Didder and I were once talking about celebrities and about the fact that there are different words for different good-lookingness, such as handsome, hot, charming, and suave. We got to Joaquin, and we both came up with the same word: smoldering. His eyes are so intense, and he just has this presense that makes smoldering the only adjective that can really describe him.

Joaquin was born on October 28th, 1974 (such a nice age difference for us) in Puerto Rico to hippie-ish American parents who were missionaries with 'Children of God' (seriously messed up religious cult type deal). He is the third of five children. All the others have nature names (River, Rain, Liberty, and Summer - ok, Liberty isn't a nature name, but it's hippie-ish and her middle name is Butterfly), so when he was four he decided to change his name to Leaf. When he was 15 he decided to be Joaquin again. That would also be about the time he dropped out of school and traveled all over and went to Mexico to 'hang out with his dad' as he put it.

Leaf made a few movies when he was little, then took a break cuz he didn't like the roles out there for kids his age. Joaquin came back to movies when he was 19ish. The role that really made him a star, though, was 'Gladiator.' (Great boy movie. However, Joaquin is super creepy in it. Excellent acting on his part. He was nominated for an Oscar.) He was in 'Signs,' 'The Village,' 'Hotel Rwanda,' and 'Ladder 49' (firefighters are sexy), (all of which are good movies) among others. And then he was in 'Walk the Line.' I love that movie. It's so good - and Joaquin is so good in it. (He won the Golden Globe for Best Actor, and was nominated for an Oscar again.) And that's when I learned that he can sing. He has a great voice.

Wow, he's sexy.

Joaquin plays the guitar and piano a bit, he's fluent in Spanish, and he has those eyes. And his middle name is Rafael, which is cool. He usually brings his mom or one of his sisters to premieres and award shows. (He doesn't bring 'real' dates cuz he's waiting for me.) He doesn't like doing interviews, and if you see him do one on tv, he tends to be a little fidgety (it's so cute).

Oh, and one of my favorite things about him is the cute scar on his lip (technically not a scar I s'pose cuz he was born with it). It's not from a cleft palate - his mom has some story about feeling an angel touch her stomach when she was pregnant or something. Personally I think it came from what could've been a cleft but came together in the womb just barely in time. At any rate, it's kinda sexy.

But of course he has some unfortunatelies. Number one is that he smokes (eew, eew, eew, eew, eew), immediately followed by the fact that he's only 5'8 1/2" tall. He also has a potty mouth. And he's a vegan who's all mr. be nice to animals (the latter half of which is nice to some extent, but I don't think he'd approve of my reindeer hide slippers or my bunny fur mittens).

He also has that dorky circle tatoo on the inside of his arm, but that can be forgiven. It's just odd-looking. And hey, if he has a tatoo, then maybe he'd be go with me when I get mine and he'd get another one (with my name on it and a big heart).

Anyway, Joaquin is wonderful. (He's the only celebrity who has a fansite that's listed in my 'Favorites.') He's so smoldering. He can start a fire at my house anytime.