Brain Assassin

You claim that I’m too lazy? Hell, over the last two weeks I’ve had more work to do than I’m used to. Still, I could’ve … no, I’ve been down that road before. So, Mr. I-​​want-​​the-​​low-​​down-​​on-​​every-​​fucking-​​thing-​​Bauer, here’s what I have to say about the world of enter­tain­ment. Of course, you’re refer­ring to Heath Ledger’s untimely death. I sim­ply couldn’t write about it because I didn’t know the man. Sure, the inter­net was abuzz with rumors but there hasn’t been some­thing sub­stan­tial besides the fact that he has been found dead in one of his res­i­dences in Soho.

After more than a week has passed, there are shit­loads of rumors shroud­ing the truth. At least, what looked like an over­dose may not have been the case. TMZ reports that sources inti­mately con­nected with the Heath Ledger inves­ti­ga­tion told TMZ »it’s pos­si­ble the actor died of nat­ural causes«. Appar­ently, the »level of tox­i­c­ity (from med­ica­tion) in Ledger’s sys­tem was low enough that it may not have caused his death«. The web­site fur­ther reports that it could have been a heart attack but they don’t know for sure yet. Any­way, you should take this report with a grain of salt.

I’m sorry he died that young — he was only two years my senior. I enjoyed most of his movies and I thought him a tal­ented actor. But then, I didn’t have the chance to get to know him per­son­ally which makes it impos­si­ble to say any­thing more. Any­way, I’m sure he’s made a name of him­self and fans will kindly remem­ber him and the last two projects he par­tic­i­pated in: I’m Not There and The Dark Knight. I for one will surely watch the latter.

18-​​year-​​old Alli­son Stokke became a vic­tim of unwanted inter­net pop­u­lar­ity. Appar­ently, Miss Stokke is one of the best pole vaulters the United States of Amer­ica have to offer. If some reports can be believed, she’s just a cou­ple of inches off the best high school girls mark. That makes her an excep­tional ath­lete, I guess.

Unfor­tu­nately, she’s quite beau­ti­ful too, as you can see on the pic­ture. This com­bi­na­tion has led to a relent­less inter­net atten­tion. In fact, it has led to a cult of some sorts. A quick search I did on Google just con­firmed that, even though it looks like the Stokkes got things some­what under con­trol as of lately. Some­times, igno­rance is bliss, they say. But that didn’t work out with poor Alli­son. Ignor­ing these events just didn’t work out. Fans turned her pic­ture into the back­ground pic­ture on their com­put­ers which felt like »becom­ing the vic­tim of a crime«, accord­ing to Miss Stokke.

Of course, most peo­ple want to become famous, a celebrity of some sorts. For Alli­son it’s only sports that mat­ters. Pole vault­ing, that is. She com­plained that »nobody really sees me«. I couldn’t agree more. Most peo­ple don’t care. All they see is a beau­ti­ful young woman with olive skin in a span­dex uni­form. Sadly, that’s all they need to start writ­ing about their sex­ual fan­tasies. It is demean­ing to be reduced to a sex object, espe­cially if you’re a promis­ing young ath­lete. I feel sorry for her, even though there are many oth­ers out there who share her plight.

Even though I’ve seen most episodes of the Dark Angel series and lots of movies fea­tur­ing her, Jes­sica Alba hasn’t lost her charm. She’s one of the most beau­ti­ful women I know and I always enjoy her easy smile. Sadly, I’ll never gonna get to know her per­son­ally. Well, that’s OK con­sid­er­ing that I don’t really have an excel­lent com­mand of the Eng­lish lan­guage and that I wouldn’t know what to talk with her. Unfor­tu­nately, that doesn’t quench my desire to know more of her than I do now.

Every time I see her in Sin City or Fan­tas­tic Four — I’ve grown up with this comic series — I’d like to get to know her. Ha, I can almost hear you think­ing »Whatta freak!« or »Wow this guy is obses­sive!«. I can assure you, I’m not obses­sive and I wouldn’t threaten her in any way. Nor do I feel like I’m in love with her. That’d be quite an achieve­ment in self-​​deceit and quite a cheat on my girl­friend I’m absolutely happy with. No, it’s just that I’d like to know her as a per­son which is also known as plain inter­est in peo­ple. You know, TV and mag­a­zines try to trans­form celebri­ties into more than they really are. They try to exploit every­thing just to get a top sell­ing story and, ulti­mately, more read­ers and view­ers respectively.

With­out a doubt there are many celebri­ties I’d like to get to know but she’ll always be my first choice among them. I absolutely love that she doesn’t want to do nudity which def­i­nitely doesn’t make her a bad actress. This is too easy a way for actresses to get their fame up and build a career (By the way, ain’t it funny that one can’t assert the same for actors? Well, noth­ing is ever easy.). Yeah, I’d really like to hear some of her opin­ions on dif­fer­ent mat­ters. That’d make a more rounded pic­ture than I’ll ever get by gath­er­ing facts some­where in the net.

All the best, Jes­sica. You’re already held in high esteem and you’re ambi­tious. You’re act­ing abilites have yet to be really tested but I’m con­fi­dent that you’ll rise to the chal­lenge. Just take your time. Don’t rush things and all will be well for both you and your audience.