This is the world’s largest crystal ruby. Mark Mothersbaugh had the gem carved in the shape of an ice cream cone.
“A few years ago I became friends with a gemologist, and I saw all these gems that he had lying around, one of which was this big ugly stone that I picked up. “That’s the world’s largest ruby you’re holding.” He didn’t know what to do with it, so next time I saw him I asked if I could carve it. It’s right over there. [Points across the room to a glass case.]
I was thinking: Who do you sell the world’s largest ruby to? Somebody who’s uber-rich. And people don’t get uber-rich unless there’s something dark attached to it. It’s always communists in China, or drug dealers in South America, or oil people in Russia. It’s those kinds of people who are going to want the world’s largest ruby. And I wanted to fuck with them in some way. So I said: I’m going to carve it into a turd. But it will look like a custard. I’m going set it on top of a cone, and it will look like a sweet-treat, but really it’s a turd. They’ll buy it because it’s the world’s largest ruby, but only I’ll know that it’s a turd.“ – Mark Mothersbaugh
YEP was very amusing, even as an unintentional reference. This scene was SO Louis/Lestat. I bet you all know who would be who…
^Thor’s was good, but Lestat’s “Shut up!“ is better. To be fair, Thor hasn’t been pushed far enough in that scene for that level of reaction yet.
Would have liked Lestat to try more of Thor’s physical kind of silencing, tho sorry this was the best gif of this I could find and I searched for AGES but there are better ones out there I’m sure:
Bonus: Outtake from that Thor scene where he is also being rather Lestatuesque:
the reason i love him is that he is very unthreatening, he doesn’t scare me, he just yells to make people happy, listen to his baby, his baby isn’t scared of him she’s happy that makes me feel so good so good
TAGS: #!!!!!!!! #//I WAS TAGGED IN A ANNA NICOLE SMITH POST!!! #I AM BEYOND HAPPY #AND YES #THIS IS THEIR ADVICE
I have such unbridled love for Anna Nicole Smith. I woulda loved an entire animated series in ^this style. If you had asked me then for a femme!Lestat casting, I would have chosen her NO CONTEST. She is quite Lestatuesque, at any size.
This interview… I’m sharing it bc I feel so much second-hand embarrassment for Tom whenever I watch it which is not often but I found it again today so I’m posting it here for… reasons. He shares this story, without hardly being prompted, about cutting off the oxygen of one of his passengers while in flight (starts at 2:32). Watching it, I just keep feeling, “Tom, no, stahp plz, oh gawds… begging you… FIRST OF ALL WHY WOULD U DO THAT?? Second of all, WHY WOULD U OFFER THAT STORY UP – I can’t even with you sometimes… You are in serious need of non-sexual corporal punishment.”
But the story is a very Lestat thing to do and it’s a very Lestatuesque way to tell it, as he’s cracking up, with what can only be described as manic laughter. He keeps hiding his face probably bc he knows he’s dug himself in too deep with this story, but he has to keep going, even though he probably knows he can only make it worse.
“Looking for a way to create the character of Patrick Bateman, Christian Bale stumbled onto a Tom Cruise appearance on David Letterman.
According to director Mary Harron, Bale saw in Cruise “this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes” and Bale subsequently based the character of Bateman on that.“
It reminds me of Russia in the way it’s totally the
kind of stories you can hear after the opening of a cheap bottle of vodka (it
sounds cliché but I swear I’ve seen that during the few months I stayed there) ;
“lolz we almost died/killed him it was so much fun”… EXCEPT TOM DOESN’T HAVE
THE EXCUSE OF BEING DRUNK OR RUSSIAN GODDAMMIT. I guess we can say the co-pilot
was a jerk too (since they apparently figured it too together… but also meaning
it wasn’t that dangerous?? Er, it’s still a dumb idea though). Concerning the
laugh, it is certainly… well, impressive (I’m being polite here). And to be honest,
I think he was kinda scary/manic at this time (if, as I think, the interview is
from late 90’s – mid 2000’s), even if I’m too young to remember that properly (but
you know, I did my homework).
I definitely agree with you on the lestatique attitude, the more I
think about it the more he looks like a brat for me ; sometimes charming, sometimes totally out of control,
and not thinking much about the consequences… Pretty much like Lestat, in fact.
*sigh* Why almost all my faves are
problematic as hell?? 😥
I actually really hope that he was drunk when he did this interview! It was 2004, and i know that bc he mentions his kid’s ages so I did the math based on that so we can’t say it was part of the CRAZYINLOVE that was Dating Katie Era (started in April of ‘05).
Yeah the co-pilot should get some blame too! But still. Not a good interview story, bb.
Yes my fave is problematic as hell, too, join the club, TakeMe ;A;
As I said, I don’t think he ever fully let go of Lestat. For better or worse 😛
“Looking at that from another direction, isn’t that… Attempted Manslaughter?”
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