In Which I Blog About Joaquin Phoenix

"Joaquin Phoenix"

Okay, so first of all, I've decided to title all my blog posts until further notice starting with the phrase "In Which," both in honor of The Victorian Age, In Which Everything was Elegant and Also Capitalized, and Sometimes Even Italicized, and also in honor of my favorite web comic, Wondermark. 

"B"*, for my first real blog (i.e., more current than two years ago!), I'm going to talk about Joaquin Phoenix. Now, I really love Jesus, and so by default probably a lot of my blogs will have an element of spirituality and hopefully sarcasm, (read the Bible. Those two go hand in hand like

Mel Gibson and Danny Glover leaping from an exploding building.)... wait, where was I? I got lost in that amazing imagery. Oh, now I remember:  however, today all I can think of is the elaborate hoax/joke Joaquin (hereafter referred to as Phoenix, in the traditional journalistic styling) played on the world at large, via the media. 

Last night, on the Late Show with David Letterman, Phoenix apologized to Letterman for including him in the giant hoax back in that first interview in 2009, which hopefully everyone and their chihuahua has seen, in which he "sported" (as every. single. reporter. referring to this interview has termed it) a scruffy beard, sunglasses, and no discernible personality. Oh, and he also announced that he was leaving the music industry to pursue the life of a rap star. Then he sat there like a log while Letterman threw insults and questions at him like, like... I don't know, a David Letterman or something.

Okay. So, seriously, for the past 1 1/2 years, for real, Phoenix has been making a movie with Casey Affleck, filmed on location in real life, starring Joaquin Phoenix the movie star as Joaquin Phoenix the movie star who is now a (terrible) rapper, who has quit the music industry and has a moth-eaten beard and terrible B.O. and is possibly spiraling out of control.  Starring: everyone and anyone who happened to be in the vicinity of Phoenix for the past two years, including David Letterman, whether they liked it or not.

So all I can think of is, I know the media is all ticked off and everything, seeing how Casey A. and Phoenix manipulated them to make a point, and a movie, but seriously, how awesome was that, that for two years (ish) a major Hollywood star was able to fool just about everyone into thinking he was nutso simply by convincing the media of it?! Weird, but awesome still. It has a sort of  damn-the-establishment, hippie-esque vibe to it that is appealing to me... what's really fun now, is going back to Phoenix's twitter account (@ jrphoenix)  and seeing how he was making sly references to the thing this whole time... Some of the photos were dead giveaways, like the above one in which he wrote goodbye on his fists but wrote the backwards in a parody of rap artists. 

Pretty much that's it. I think I've gotten all this out of my system, and am extremely relieved that the very talented and pretty-eyed Joaquin Phoenix is only nuts in a socially acceptable way, and not completely off his gourd bonkers. Win! Oh, here's a picture of the "real" Joaquin Phoenix: 

Joaquin Phoenix

*See how in the first paragraph I said "first of all," and the second one, I said "B"?  That was for comic effect. 

P.S. So is this. 

P. S. S. Oh, in the second paragraph I tried to link to a YouTube video of the interview last night, but it has now been removed by CBS for "copyright reasons."

P.S.S.S. Okay, that's all folks!