Ryan Gosling reads from F*ck Yeah Ryan Gosling

Blue Valentine won its rating appeal with the MPAA yesterday, but since I wasn’t planning on seeing that hipstery ukulele scarf of a movie anyway, I thought we’d focus on the more important things, like Baby Goose reading from F*ckYeahRyanGosling (video below).  Hey Girl, who’s this “Ryan Gosling” character I keep hearing about?  I keep meaning to look him up, but I was too busy crying about this video someone sent me of ducks getting caught in a wind storm.  It’s so sad, girl.  I even wrote a song about it.  I’ll play it for you if you promise not to laugh.  It’s really personal.

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The ever-lovable Josh Brolin recently sat down for an interview with our buddy awkward Josh Horowitz over at MTV (video below the cut).  Horowitz asked Brolin about Jonah Hex, and whether he was proud of the film.  Candid as always, Brolin says no, which is one of the reasons he’s so damn cool.  But he did have a few caveats:

Awkward Josh: “Reassess the Jonah Hex situation for us, are you proud of the film?”

Keep Brolin Brolin Brolin: “You mean now that I don’t have to promote it? No.”

“We had an original intention and that got away from us a little bit. Everybody did do their best to try and create the best movie with what we had, but I think it got so derailed at a certain point that the assemblage of what we could use was so disconnected to what our original intention was that it just got mixed up.”

“I still think it’s a lot of fun if you go in and see that movie.  That’s what I told the marketing people at Warner Bros. I said, ‘I can’t lie about this, so I have to look for a truism that I can go with. So I do think that if you go in there, kind of like with ‘Piranha 3-D’ — when you go to see that movie you go, ‘This is ridiculous and this is fun’ — so if you went into ‘Jonah Hex’ with that, I think you had a good time.”

You’re wrong, Josh Brolin, I had a GREAT time.  Piranha 3D was okay, but I had a way better time at Jonah Hex.  The wink-wink, tongue-in-cheek stuff like Machete and Piranha 3D can be great if it’s done well, but it will never be as good as when you can sense that there was an  earnest attempt to create a serious movie.  It’s the difference between a clown wearing wacky clothes for attention, and John Malkovich showing up to the bar dressed like this, going “What? What are you guys looking at?  I thought we were partyin.”

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Give it up, no matter what, your band will never be as cool as “Turds of Misery”. Additional trivia: They were from Winnipeg, they started as an Alan Parson Project cover band, and the guitarist’s name was “Bagpipes MacDonald.” |WeatherEye via SF Weekly|

DAILY CIRCLE JERK LINKS

• I WROTE THIS! And it’s a subject near to my heart, awesome drunks. Behold, the Awesome Internet Drunk Hall of Fame. |Uproxx|
• Surprise, Ron Artest is crazy.  My favorite part was him wearing his Bluetooth on Leno.  “Hold on, Jay, I need to take this.”  |SmokingSection|
• Call the boner police, Betty White has nude photos. |WarmingGlow|
• Some nerds taught a robot to play pool.  Well done, nerds. |GammaSquad|
• This chick is really good at headbutting her own tits. |HolyTaco|
• Earthquake warning guy has groupies now.  As he should. |GorillaMask|
• The seven types of people you meet at a strip club. |Guyism|
• 33 ridiculous roller coasters. |Urlesque|
• The 10 best Robot Chicken Anime parodies.  This list will soon appear on my top 10 narrow top 10 list categories list. |AdultSwim|
• The top 15 most kickass robots. |Gunaxin|
• 8 rejected Toy Story 3 characters. |CollegeHumor|
• The 35th anniversary of Jaws.  |Fark|
• Brooklyn Decker is Esquire’s sexiest woman of 2010, which means I lost again. ;-(  |FListed|
• A preview of Rock Band 3. |G4|
• I thought this Awkward Josh Horowitz interview of John C. Reilly was kind of cute:

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Second perhaps only to that New Mexico soccer player video I’ve pleasured myself to so many times, my favorite sports-related story of the year was the rumor that A-Rod has a painting of himself as a centaur hanging over his bed.  Which, for the record, would be awesome.  Naturally, when MTV interviewed Rodriguez’ girlfriend Kate Hudson, they decided to ask her about it, because there’s really else nothing interesting about her.  This was the exchange:

HUDSON: That is the craziest thing anyone has ever asked me.
MTV GUY: You’re not answering the question.
HUDSON: I would never indulge in something so ridiculous.
MTV GUY: This was in a reputable magazine.  …Us Weekly. (laughs) [Ed. Note: This is him giving you an out, dummy.]
HUDSON: That’s… No.  I don’t “indulge” in those types of stories.  As humorous as you might think they are.

Oh you don’t?  That’s so noble of you.  Keep taking the high road there, chick-who-co-stars-with-Dane-Cook-and-makes-movies-about-treasure.  If you want to defuse rumors, a simple “no” and a giggle would suffice.  As for what you just said, I’m translating it as, “Of course the rumors are true, and did you know I’m a humorless bitch?”

When it comes to bringing out the awkward and uncomfortable and skeeved out in interview subjects, no one touches MTV Movies Blog. It’s been a while since we’ve had one of these, but Steven Seagal was probably my favorite.  This week they spoke to John Cusack and Amanda Peet.  While Peet comes off down to Earth and eminently cuddleable, John Cusack IS IN NO MOOD FOR YOUR SH*T, BUDDY.  I realize they’re on the tour for 2012 so he’s already on the defensive, but he treats the interviewer’s cardboard boombox prop from Say Anything as if it’s a live rattlesnake.

Granted, there doesn’t seem to be any actual question other than, “Hey, check out this boombox,” but still, Cusack acts like he suspects he’s being made fun of and all this is highly irregular.  Hey, John. This is 2012 we’re talking.  No one’s gonna ask you about your character. “Tell us about Jack Curtis. Why’s he always running from supervolcanoes?”    He comes off like a prick when all he really had to do was smile and play along.  Next time, and this goes for Cusack and all actors on silly press tours out there, just ask yourself one simple question: What would Paul Rudd do?

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