no boys allowed in the room!!!!

And he looks pretty much the same now.

http://www.101lifestyle.com/images/celebs/joshua_john_miller/DCELEB-joshua%20john%20miller%20pics%20001.jpg
http://1.fwcdn.pl/p/25/97/102597/132422.1.jpg
http://www.thefancarpet.com/uploaded_assets/images/actor/2989/Joshua_John_Miller_28405_Medium.jpg

He was cute in Halloween III

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100409182303/halloweenmovie/images/8/86/Willie_Challis.jpg

but played to type in Near Dark

http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af323/ChillerPop/homer.jpg

Poor guy. Kirk Cameron and that snotnose from Whose the Boss are getting centerfold spreads in Teen Beat and Joshua John Miller gets immolated in Near Dark and typecast as that asshole kid.

omg Halloween 3! I loved that movie

I dunno, I think he made good choices considering the long run. Dude's got a much cooler legacy even if he will always be the mouthy asshole kid brother.

Ha ha, LL, I'm impressed that you manage to remember how to spell Marty Willson-Piper. (My former housemate had the most tortured and complicated, um... crush isn't even the right word, on him.)

Damn, this thread moves fast when I'm at work and can't answer.

I know the subject has moved on, but there was a throwaway comment up there that did kinda make me think, about the weird cognitive tricks that the mind plays on you, with regards to ageing.

Because it's funny, Blur *don't* look really young to me, on this thread. They look like, well, Blur. And I get the same thing when I look at pictures over the years of Thom Yorke - I can usually tell what year it is by his haircut, but I don't usually think "he looks really young there" even in the ones where he's like, 22. (OK, there's one where he's 15 that I think "jailbait... but still would.) I feel like I'm the age that I was when I first saw that photo, and he is about my age.

But then, with other actors posted on this thread, who are the same sort of age, I think "jesus christ, how can you perve over him, that is an CHILDE!"

But I think it doesn't happen with Blur and Radiohead, because I've been following them for 20 years, and they have kind of aged along with me. The same way that when I look at photos of my family from, like, 1985, I don't think "oh god we're all children" I just think "oh that's my cousin, I remember that Christmas."

Am I the only one that gets that? Does that particular cognitive trick only really work on people that you have been looking at (or looking at pictures at) continually for the whole of the aging process?

p.s. I don't like that porn star at all myself, but compared to what straight-porn dudes usually look like, yes, vast improvement.

loooool thank you! i loved the lower half of his face a lot!

He had a sassy mouth. And sassy things came out of it. Shame about the butt-chin, though.

Wait, one of the album covers, he was wearing a ponytail, so you could see his whole face!

(I remember this clearly, because my housemate had a photo of me sitting on the sofa, holding up said album cover pretending to be him.)

He was not bad looking. He was just hilariously pretentious. Romantic Gypsy Kin-gah and all.

Ha ha, Art Attack!

You can still only see half his face, mind. Just a different half from usual.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vKD7WiDMrVM/TJNusLoeMqI/AAAAAAAABQM/Ultp8_VMPco/s1600/marty.jpg

hahaha this is the one i was thinking of

http://www.vinylvendors.com/Pictures/c/h/church15491.jpg

still no shame in his game even today

http://www.popmusicology.com/images/thechurch1meg0031.jpg

that ponytail pic is kinda embarrassing on account of the earrings
i don't like super clean looking dudes

Ooh, I remember that one. I remember this one the best, though...

http://en.smalltownromanceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/gaf-marty.jpg

Do not under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES google what he looks like now. Mountain man! HAHAHAHHAHAHA x-post

(I like the earrings. I like the ponytail, too. I have always loved ponytails on men, it's a ~thing~)

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/5800000/Nick-Cave-Friends-nick-cave-5885461-450-320.jpg

This picture did a lot for me when I was 19.

Aw Rowland, bless. Such a loss.

http://cdn.wg.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/animated-siren-gif.gifhttp://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/25/article-0-13C797CA000005DC-898_634x695.jpghttp://cdn.wg.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/animated-siren-gif.gif

I've heard rumours they'll be in a movie (non porn!?) together. I CAN'T WAIT.

Yep. A Bret Easton Ellis flick apparently.

As soon as I saw the sirens I knew/hoped it was James. I've got to get over this crush, it's silly.

ok so i watched river's edge again. exceeded my expectations tbh. i had forgotten that keanu (1) was so angry (the scene where he gets interrogated by the police is great, you've got FOOD EATER!)and (2) them moral center of the movie, aided by the stunning Ione Skye, who basically every hip young lady with long hair tries to look like now, amirite?

i had also forgotten the DOUBLE down by the river stories (John's and Feck's) and how they talked about it, and wondered if people recognized this as a classic murder ballad plot back when the movie came out, or?

also the music was great. the end.

the moral center, not them!
oops

theres some real bad acting in that movie

crispin ftw

i love it when the mom freaks out at the top of the stairs

keanu is really ott but that's part of what i like about it. the cartoonish behavior of teenagers is cartoonish, right? maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.

i feel like keanu is one of the best actors in that movie, sadly!

obv dhop and crispin are good

i guess all teenagers are acting, so i couldn't really see the difference between acting for the movie and acting because they were real life living breathing teenagers

I feel like Alex James has slimmed down for this whole Olympics/rooftop show splash. Also I want to go to this 'feastival' he and Jamie are putting on but that's unlikely. ;_;

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/181160_351446408260970_424341239_n.jpg
hubba hubba

college radio station was playing a song off Phantasmagoria earlier, which reminded me of another teen crush:

http://resiman.bravehost.com/myPictures/0023.jpg

his last feastival was a huge disaster wasnt it??

Dunno, never heard of it! Things only enter my radar when Blur are involved. :)

Vanian is still not bad looking! But looks strangely like John Cusack these days.

omg he does look like John Cusack now!

lol after I posted that pic of deen this morning I kept thinking that I remembered him from somewhere and I remembered where and, yeah, I get it.

Hah! :)
He sneaks up on you.

yeah alex james had a feastival at his house and no one got paid and a primary school had to fire someone because they went into debt, or something

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2011/sep/15/day-the-festival-dream-died

oh ps that kid upthread typecast as every asshole kid ever in the 80s came up last night at trivia!!!!

Nice!

oops wrong link above

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/mar/04/alex-james-festival

I'm sure the organisers of the Aus Harvest festival might have had words with him about the name too, perhaps. lol.

Welp, my parents are still crazy about weight, notably everyone else's, including famous people on tv.

Watching The Pelican Brief, my dad says of Julia Roberts, "By the time she made this movie, she was already not thin anymore." (This is nonsense, her chin was sharp enough to cause bodily harm to the other actors and possibly the furniture.)

My mother told me I could lose weight if I "worked on portion control."

My dad said if I stopped eating doughnuts (I was eating a doughnut at that moment), my work-outs & activities would go further. I told him yes, but my life would also be terribly sad.

To all of which, I say: FFFFF UUUUU!!!

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Thanks. I just needed to get that off my chest.

Blehh.

oh, man, Laurel. fwiw it took me about three years to wean my mother off making unsolicited remarks about my weight and how I could lose it. but she has stopped, unbelievably. i wish i could stop her from talking about how disgustingly fat she is around me, but i guess that's her business. anyway, i'm sorry, but i found that telling my mother it was inappropriate for her to police my body and that i wouldn't respond to any such comments in the future eventually worked. it took a long time.

that was two separate thoughts: i'm sorry your parents pulled that on you. and also, this is what i did that eventually worked on my mother.

Would probably have just taken the doughnut and mashed it into his forehead.

But that would have involved the loss of lovely delicious doughnut, so...

Blehh indeed.

haha i like your way better, WCC

Sounds like my parents. :(

I was eating some froyo last weekend while walking around and realized that I was really self-conscious about doing so and felt like people were judging me for eating yogurt. I know that sounds crazy but this is what happens when you've dealt with parents who say those sort of things and incidents like when I was about 14 and enjoying a cone while walking down the street with friends in Fire Island and some fucking meathead I didn't even know shouted at me "I don't think you need that, sweetheart".

It's okay! I quipped back and ate another doughnut! What is probably worse for me than being burdened by them about my weight, is the anger that I carry instead about their small-mindedness. It makes me window-punching, fight-starting mad.

Also neither one of them could bike 5 miles, drink for 5 hours, bike home, and then get up early to highland dance in another state, in the sun, all day.

I basically trained my mother out of making those kinds of comments by putting the phone down every time she started in on them. This does not work if your parents are there in person.

Reminds me, I did mean to post a copy of Health At Every Size to my Mum, as I have mostly got her to stop fat-shaming me, but talking about herself is another story. :-/

Parents are so hard to deal with. I worry about having a daughter in the future because I know I'll have to work really hard at not passing along my own issues and even having to acknowledge that makes me sad.

TBH my parents have been better in recent years. I think though that's mostly because my mother realized how completely fucked up I am about this stuff when I started coming home for visits and immediately asking how I looked and if I lost weight. Every single time. She hasn't really said anything to me lately. Actually, she commented on how she didn't understand why I was so obsessed with weight and appearance since she never told me that was the most important thing. To a certain extent she's right that she didn't but I do think she underestimates the toll that certain attitudes and comments can have over time.