{"id":4380,"date":"2006-07-16T04:13:36","date_gmt":"2006-07-16T04:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4380"},"modified":"2009-08-05T07:21:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T13:21:46","slug":"rosario-dawson-is-goddamn-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/rosario-dawson-is-goddamn-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosario Dawson is Goddamn Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cool thing about running your own site and not being under Big Media’s thumb, you get to curse as you damn well please.<\/p>\n

I love me some Rosario Dawson<\/a>. That lady’s pleasing to the eye as well as the mind. And did I mention she’s pleasing to the eye? In the following Entertainment Weekly interview<\/a>, she talks about being a “hot geek” and apparently whatever else enters her mind. The world needs more “hot comics geek chicks”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I mean, she’s starting her own comic. My gods, she may be the perfect girl.<\/p>\n

\"rosario<\/a>“The Bible has been translated into Klingon,” she exclaims, apropos of nothing. “That idea is so fascinating to me: language, how we communicate.”<\/a> From there, Dawson warp-jumps to talk of Illinois senator Barack Obama, Shakespeare, and impulse buying. “You know that movie A Christmas Story?” she blurts, her full lips spreading into a broad smile. “Remember the leg lamp? Dude, I got it! One leg and a high heel with fishnets that lights up. It’s, like, the cheesiest thing on the planet.”<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Now, all of a sudden, Dawson’s choices are forming a pattern. In August she begins shooting Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s film Grind House<\/em>. And she’ll soon reprise her role as Gail, the trigger-happy streetwalker, in Sin City 2<\/em>, Rodriguez’s second adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novels. More immediately, she’s starring in Clerks II<\/em>, the sequel to Kevin Smith’s breakout 1994 slacker salute, which opens July 21, and she’s just released her own comic book, Occult Crimes Taskforce<\/em>, which features a gun-toting likeness of her. But it seems Dawson isn’t so much a dream vixen for game-playing, metal-loving, comic-flipping nerds as she is one of them.<\/p>\n

”[She] is one of the few actresses that I’ve met who doesn’t have eyes on the prize,” says Clerks II <\/em>director Kevin Smith. ”She’s not sitting there going, ‘How many films will it take me to get an Oscar? How many to get on the A list?”’ Even so, the filmmaker couldn’t fathom why Dawson would want to play fast-food manager Becky, the seductive love interest in his low-budget dudefest \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that is, until she showed up praising Rob Zombie and quoting lines from an obscure comic called Johnny the Homicidal Maniac<\/em>. ”She’s a fangirl,” declares the director. ”The hottest geek on earth.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(photo by Katrina del Mar<\/a>)
\n(via ONTD<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The cool thing about running your own site and not being under Big Media’s thumb, you get to curse as you damn well please. I love me some Rosario Dawson. That lady’s pleasing to the eye as well as the mind. And did I mention she’s pleasing to the eye? In the following Entertainment Weekly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}