So I was in the middle of re-downloading Lady Gaga‘s album (I’ll tell you about this soon) and finishing some templates up for the site when I realized I couldn’t upload because there’s something horribly wrong with my site’s permissions and all, and they resume operation on

Monday, which is pretty much two days from now. Google attacked, and found me this crafty little post which sent me laughing and yet still left me amazingly in awe.
http://blog.spout.com/2009/04/06/10-characters-zooey-deschanel-should-have-played/

So if you must know, I am currently fixated with Zooey Deschanel. Never mind that she pronounces her name as “Zoe”, unlike what I originally thought of as “zooie” (which is cuter, if you think about it, if you were a perpetually 3 year old girl), but all of her roles strategically place freakin’ cupid arrows on my chest. Yes, move on, Juno; welcome MPDG.

So the thing is, I’m still much closer to the personality of Juno, according to most of the people who happened to see it and realized, fuck, I know someone who’s JUST LIKE THAT. But see, that’s not true. I’m Juno and all, but she’s a freaking prepubescent who got knocked up. Yes, there’s irony back there, but making me Juno makes me stuck with a highschool persona forever. That’s like High School Musical nightmare. Make me grow up, supply me so much coffee, else, make me grow penis, and I’ll be Zooey Deschanel’s main man (that in itself is scary, if you think about it).

But then, this site comes up with an article that hits you with the truth: the reason ZD is so freakin adorable, is because she stays static, in a sense that, hey, she hasn’t grown up as well. Her roles are pretty much MPDG as it is, or Manic Pixie Dream Girl, as they say it. She tried a different role in The Happening, and see what happened (but hey, that’s M. Night‘s problem, really, not hers).

So the funny thing about it is, Juno girl, or Ellen Page, hasn’t exactly grown out of her character as well after the whole Juno phenomenon: you have Smart People, who’s ALMOST like her, except a little grown up, and then there are others. You find someone like her and you go, oh, she revolutionizes the whole Hollywood cookie-cutter women persona that’s been there since time immemorial, but see, these girls never get out of it. It’s like they strive to constantly become UN-cookie cutter, that they turn out just the same.

(Which can be said of Kirsten Stewart, if you think about it, with all her angst-grungy roles, but hey, I’m not touching her here.)

But we say, hey, let’s cut her the slack. Oh I will. After she got engaged to Death Cab for Cutie lead singer I almost wouldn’t, but still, she’s adorable. I’m ready to forgive. But give the world a few more MPDG roles, and I can tell you I’ll be ready to move on to another character just like the way I ditched Juno. Maybe then it’ll be another UN-Cookie Cutter persona who’ll defy Hollywood with her “consistent” roles.