November 18th Ain't Soon Enough (Revised with quotes from RS interview)

I've had a thing for Joaquin Phoenix since he was in Parenthood (as Leaf Phoenix) way back in 1989 (if you've never seen Parenthood, run to Blockbuster or add it to your queue ASAP!), so I would be excited about Walk the Line regardless of its plot. Fortunately, The Artist Formerly Known As The Chef introduced me to Johnny Cash several years ago, so I am even more anxious to see the Johnny Cash bio, opening November 18th. Oscar buzz has already begun for Joaquin's performance, as well as Reese Witherspoon's portrayal of June Carter Cash. Joaquin does all the singing and guitar playing, and it is seriously fucking eerie how much he sounds like Johnny. Joaquin is a hard core bad ass.

Watch the trailer for Walk the Line, and tell me he isn't incredible. Also, check out this month's Rolling Stone for a really great article with (and a super hot photo of) Joaquin. Hint: He absolutely hates any questions about anything other than the movie he is promoting and has a tendency to walk out on interviews, which the interviewer knows. She, nonetheless, decides she has to push his buttons by asking a personal question worthy of fucking Bop magazine [sidebar: I can't believe that mag still exists!!], so he ends the interview like this:

It sucks when you spend four months prepping for something and its reduced to this shit... The press always looks for an angle. Well, fuck, man. I think the angle is that Reese and I spent fucking four months prepping for a fucking movie and we learned to sing and play instruments. If that's not enough for a fucking story, then I don't know what you need me to do -- shoot myself on the fucking set? What is going to satisfy people's need for sensationalism?

Then, when the bitch keeps sticking her foot in her mouth so far that her toes come out her ass by asking why he hates interviews, he retorts with:

It really taints what's beautiful about acting and makes me lose interst in working. I don't have the desire to be the subject of conversation.

He stood up and said "I quit." and left. Yee haw!! You all know just by reading this crap-fest of a blog that I am a pop-culture whore, but I actually love that Joaquin is so private and that I know absolutely nothing about him.