YOU KNOW YOU’RE OLD WHEN…
(A special thanks to transman for suggesting this post, and for allowing me to steal my comment from his post [here]).
You know you’re old and really ARE reading just because it’s transman’s post when you look at a picture of cute Johnny and cute puppy and only wonder why he’s wearing two watches…
There he is, with his soulful eyes and his casually shaggy hair, being held by the world’s most gorgeous man–hah! Gotcha, didn’t I? But really, two watches, Johnny? What am I missing?
The kid (I’m old, I can call him a kid) is obviously younger in this photo, so maybe it had to do with his 21 Jump Street character, a role which I only heard about from my sister after extolling to her his Edward Scissorhands portrayal. Where was I from 1987 to 1990 when Jump Street was on? Oh yeah, pretending I was an alcoholic. But 1990 is also the year ES came out. I don’t know, my mind is a bit foggy about that period. Also, now that I’m officially old, things sometimes get misplaced in the file cabinet that is my memory, shuffled–unsuspected– to the wrong folder.
Then again, being the weird person I know I am knowing me as I sometimes do, I would have been more likely to watch a movie about Vincent Price creating a son with scissors for hands instead of just another cop show. But I have mourned ever since not having enjoyed Johnny in his youth. In my youth! Well, okay, so I wasn’t young then, either, but I wasn’t OLD like I am now.
Why does the kid have two watches on? Really, paralaxvu? Take your eyes off the brown spots and wrinkles on your hands and LOOK AT THE KID! Who became the Avon lady’s shrub trimmer (um, can I say that?), who became the pirate, who became the headless horseman, who became the chocolate factory owner, who became Angelina’s phony tourist (really, he was the only good thing about that film)!
The answer, as I now see–having cleaned off my bifocals–is really very simple. He’s wearing two watches because he’s wearing two watches. He can wear as many watches as he wants. He’s Johnny Depp.
And I am old. *sigh*
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July 2, 2012 at 6:54 am
What does it say about me that I first requested more recent pictures ofJohnny, then – when Transman obliged – I questioned the third hand Johnny appears to have?
July 2, 2012 at 10:20 am
Two collars! lol!
July 2, 2012 at 11:08 am
This reply obviously goes with transman’s comment, farther down. I try to reply in the order in which my email time clock says the comment came in, but somehow WP (Not I! Oh, never I!) did something wrong…
July 2, 2012 at 10:55 am
It says that, even though you’re much younger than I, you may have an old soul (an old mind, at least). I
diddidn’t see that third handbut was too hung up on the watches. And didn’t even want to think for a second that Johnny may be deformed in any wayuntil you pointed it out. One of those watches could have gone there.July 1, 2012 at 11:42 pm
*applause*
July 2, 2012 at 10:30 am
*smile and a bow*
July 1, 2012 at 10:06 pm
Good point. I never had much interest in the younger JD, when I was also younger, but it appears he is becoming the mature (thankyouverymuch) thinking woman’s pin up man. Hope he doesn’t go the same way that the previous candidate, Hugh Jackman…
July 2, 2012 at 10:27 am
‘Tis too bad about Hugh, but I hope there’s room at the top for him, too. There are so few up there for us mature thinking women. Uh oh, I feel another post coming on…
July 1, 2012 at 9:15 pm
Johnny Depp is the only person that can get by acting the exact same way in a whole bunch of movies without getting bad reviews. Steven Seagal wishes he was Johnny Depp.
July 2, 2012 at 10:24 am
Oh, I dunno…you’re, ahem, too young to remember but Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne did the same. John even got an Academy Award for his last movie…which was only right, since he had finally gotten the cowboy role down pat by then;-)
July 2, 2012 at 10:25 am
PS: None of them, including Steven, were as cute as Johnny.
July 2, 2012 at 5:31 pm
Oh yeah… hahahahah I am a little bit unfamiliar with their work. But I have at least heard of them and know who they are, if that’s any consolation!
July 2, 2012 at 5:41 pm
Hmmm, I’m unsure about that, but then I don’t know a lot of today’s younger stars so I guess we’re even;-)
July 1, 2012 at 8:40 pm
I believe you’ve witnessed the first step in Depp’s evolving eccentric look. Johnny’s first fashion-related rebellion against being packaged for Tiger Beat and the like. Now, if only dog was wearing two collars.
July 1, 2012 at 8:41 pm
There should have been a “the” in that last sentence. Poor Dog.
July 2, 2012 at 10:21 am
Perhaps not…knowing Johnny, the dog could have been named “dog.”