October Music: Day Thirty-One

Panic! At the Disco, "Ready to Go (Get Me Out of My Mind)"

I designated this a "Shallow End of the Pool" post not because I think Panic's lead singer Brandon Urie is all that great-looking -- he's alright, but so are the people in half the videos I've posted this month -- but because this song is definitely at the shallower end of my musical tastes, as is the video. I usually dislike Panic! At the Disco's music -- their first-ever single, "I Write Sins, Not Tragedies," was probably my most-hated song of 2005 -- but every now and again I find one of their songs catchy, and as for the video...it starts out kind of insufferably, combining all the bad parts of young-guy bands with the overexpression of musical theatre, but somewhere around the chimney sweep sequence, it kind of wins me over. I don't know. There are a lot of costume changes, anyway, so at least it's appropriate for Halloween.

The Shallow End of the Pool: Hemingway '23, Superman, and Paul Newman

I'd always thought of Ernest Hemingway as looking like a cross between a Orson Welles and Teddy Roosevelt, but apparently he was, believe it or not, a young man at one time -- and a good-looking one at that. The picture on the left is from 1923, three years before the publication of The Sun Also Rises.

I was going to do a whole post on "People You Didn't Know Were Hot When They Were Younger," but then the only other person I could think of was Charlie Chaplin, so that idea never really got off the ground. What I do have, however, is a bunch of pictures of Paul Newman I've never seen before, plus a photo of Henry Cavill from the set of the new Superman movie, because apparently the producers of that movie realized they needed to slap a beard on him to make me care about yet another superhero movie.

Fine.

(Cavill pic via here, Newman pics via here)