I'm sure I'm completely alone on this one, but the whole time I was watching the new 007 Quantum of Solace movie last weekend, I was distracted by the creepy villain. Not for his sheer creepiness or for the floppy hair (that I adore on non-creepy dudes — shout out to Hugh Grant and Patrick Dempsey), but because he bears resemblance to the non-creepy singer from Simple Minds, Jim Kerr. Creepy actor Mathieu Amalric has crazy eyes.
This is Jim Kerr. He's a cool guy from Scotland who happens to share my birthday (along with OJ Simpson and Tom Hanks). He is the singer in Simple Minds of "Don't You (Forget About Me)" fame and he used to be married to Chrissie Hynde from the Pretenders. Sounds like a fairly cool guy to me. How can you not love someone who sings a song from the soundtrack of your life? He's on my list of cool guys from the British Isles with Mick Hucknall from Simply Red and a few others.
This is creepy Mathieu Amalric . I'm sure he's not creepy in real life, but he was damn creepy in 007.
He's French and apparently an accomplished actor in his homeland — his IMDB credit list is pretty long, not that I've seen any of his other films. For one thing, my French is super rusty — I can tell you what color my pencil is, but that's about it. And I hate reading subtitles. If I want to read, I'll pick up a book, not watch a movie. And I never believe that the subtitles are really what the actors are saying. I don't know why, but I always suspect they're saying something completely different. Like "look at the stupid people reading the screen, fools! Ha! We are mocking you, you dumb English-speaking people with your nachos and popcorn and your giant $5 beverages!"
It's like when Megan and I go for pedicures and the pedicure women are speaking in their native tongue and we have no idea what they're saying. It's probably "damn chubby girl comes in here always talking about stupid things and playing with her phone." Then the other woman says, "her friend's no better, laughing at Ellen and talking loud to us like we don't speak English!" I'm fairly certain that's what they're talking about. That's totally it.
Anyway, you can count on the Kerry blog to bring you quality info like this. Musicians, actors, and the pedicure ladies — this is what's on my mind on a Sunday in November. This is Kerry signing out, thinking about stupid crap so you don't have to.
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