My Theory Is That Vincent Is God

Last year, Evangeline Lilly held down the #2 spot on my 2008 Laminated List...

Well, it's getting to be that time of year, babycakes...Can she hold tight to #2? Will she even make the list? Stay tuned...

BTW - I didn't do the photoshopping on this pic, but I don't remember where I found it on the web, either...

Hotcha! Hank

Sweet Sideways Laminated Weekend Maneuver

Well, I certainly didn't plan this, or even give it a single thought, but I direct your attention to the #1 and #2 ladies on my 2008 Laminated List...

Winona Ryder and Evangeline Lilly...

I now direct your attention to tracks 5 and 6 on Matthew Sweet's 1991 album, Girlfriend...

Matthew Sweet: Girlfriend: "Winona" [mp3]

Matthew Sweet: Girlfriend: "Evangeline" [mp3]

Like I said, I didn't plan any of this, so I can only attribute this phenomenon to one of two possibilities...First, that I've listened to this album so many times over the past 17 years (sweet lord, 17 years!), that this sequence has been floating around in my subconscious for awhile now...OR secondly, that Matthew Sweet is a warlock...

Now, these two songs are fine songs, but they're definitely not the strongest cuts on this great album...However, if I wanted this to be a stronger post, there'd hafta be hot starlets named "Divine Intervention", "Thought I Knew You", or simply "Girlfriend"...

If only Dr. Girlfriend was real...

Hotcha! Hank

2008 Laminated List # 2

Whenever I see Evangeline Lilly, Outkast's "So Fresh, So Clean" starts spinning on the turntable in my mind...A turntable that looks remarkably similar to the one found down in the Swan Station on LOST, but I digress...

Yes, "fresh" and "clean" are the two best words I can think of to describe Evangeline Lilly's appeal. There's nothing complicated about her beauty, nothing exotic about her face - she's just sublimely good-looking from top to bottom. Her beauty is so pure that it's nearly impossibly to "ugly her up", try as the writers and producers of LOST might...I mean, covered in dried mud, knife wounds and whatnot, her character, Kate, still manages to radiate...

I think it's fair to say that Evangeline Lilly is a bit of a tomboy, although the term "tomboy" itself might not be fair in this post-feminist world of ours. On LOST, her character Kate is a tough-as-nails, take-no-bullshit kinda woman, and as her backstory tells us, she certainly doesn't take any shit of men, doesn't believe that any woman should take any shit from any man. Part of this characterization includes the fact that Kate, as a woman, can do anything that a man can do, or at least believes this to be so, and typically she's involved in actions that have long been relegated to the masculine - she tracks and hunts animals, she tracks humans, she fights, she's handy with knives and guns and isn't afraid to use them...On a mysterious island teeming with alpha-males, there's Kate, always in the thick of it.

And yet, as much blood and dirt as they cake on her, as many sweaty man-things as they have her character do, she still looks like she ought to be doing those things, under those circumstances. She doesn't look like some sort of dainty princess flung into the muck. Her beauty transcends all.

And so it happens that Evangeline Lilly lands at #2 on this year's Laminated List, which is probably as high as any woman can climb as long as you-know-who lives and breathes. Of course, her profile has been extremely high in my mind lately as Season 4 of LOST was absolutely stellar, and LOST has easily been my favorite drama on television since about episode four of Season 1 to begin with...

Finally, freckles are always hot.

Hotcha! Hank