But My God It’s So Beautiful
When the Boy Smiles!

This posting really has very little to do with Hayden except that I needed to scream after I missed being the lucky so-and-so to download the ONE BILLIONTH iTunes song, by what… minutes? hours? iTunes isn’t saying exactly when it occurred. I knew about the impending milestone and prize winnings but, frankly, it never even crossed my mind when I clicked on that button to download Anna Nalick, Chuck Mangione, John Coltrane & Duke Ellington that (22 Feb ’06) evening. The winner was a fellow Michigander, sooooo maybe he needs a girlfriend to help him spend that $10,000 iTunes music card? Okay, so I won’t have a scholarship at the Julliard School of Music named after me. Pweh! My consolation prize is immersing myself in Anna Nalick’s incredible song Breathe (2 AM) which contains the lyric used to headline this post that—need I say it—reminds me of a certain blond-haired, blue-eyed Danish god Aries. Thus, it gives me an excuse to post another picture of him—smilin’, of course. I’m not understating things when I say that heaven must contain music and Hayden! [23 Feb 2006]

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Poor Hayden. You know you have a ways to go to achieve recognition when even the tabloids don’t know who you are. As I’ve said before, I’m not a fan of gossip, but this story posted 02 February 2006 at New Zealand’s Stuff caught my eye for another reason. They got his name wrong! Christian instead of Christensen. Hilarious. At least they knew he was in Star Wars. Supposedly Hayden once said he’d start to worry when the tabloids actually got things right, but I don’t think he meant his name! Still looking for respect in NZ. [02 Feb 2006]

What’s in a Name?

Hayden’s production company is called Forest Park Pictures (his brother Tove Christensen is president). Anyone who is close to him would know how this name came about. Me? I discovered it the hard way: through good old-fashioned sleuthing. Yup, just call me Veronica Mars. When your hobby is genealogy you get pretty darn good at picking up on incidental clues and piecing them together. I had a hunch about how the name materialized. My hunch didn’t pan out, but it did point me in the right direction. What can I say… a little serendipity was also involved, however an educated guess sure helped to set things in motion. Perhaps I missed that interview where he explained the origin of FPP’s name, although I doubt it. If you know how the name was derived, I’d like to hear from you and compare notes. The only hint I’ll offer: it has something to do with location, location, location, eh.

So, how did Hayden, still a wee bairn, get the grandiose idea to start a production company? A fair question. And one I have yet to hear him address. Did he not start FPP before he collected his first Star Wars paycheck? I do have a theory. It could be Joe Lando, costar and producer of Higher Ground, who planted the idea in his head. Lando clearly took a shine to young Mr. Christensen when they were working together on HG. Joe, in turn, probably got the idea from his former costar Jane Seymour — her Catfish Productions partly financed the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line. It probably went something like this, “Hayden! Pssst, Hayden! Start a production company, man. Pass it on.” [24 Jan 2006]

Could Cosmo Actually Have a Clue?

Now, I’m not a big fan of tabloids, celebrity- or sex-obsessed magazines*, and don’t put much stock in astrology, but the December 2005 Cosmopolitan magazine might have gotten something seriously right. According to their astrology feature on Sagittarius (my zodiac sign), my optimal romantic (and sexual) pairing — scoring 5 out of 5 in both categories — is with an Aries. To my great delight, they included Mr. Christensen’s pic to illustrate that heavenly Aries match. Coincidence? I think not. Perhaps, though, I’m like that John Nash character in A Beautiful Mind, looking for coded messages that aren’t really there.

Their description of a Sagittarius-Aries duo is pretty hilarious:

You’ll be locking lips from the moment you lock eyes, and out of bed you share the same all-or-nothing attitude toward life.

Uh, sure. Me and all those other Sagittarians. Won’t the room get crowded?

Okay, I can’t put too much faith in this. After all, their celebrity sex match for me is fellow Sadge, Jake Gyllenhaal. Mr. Brokeback Mountain? While his film October Sky is one of my favorites — ’cuz I sorta had this dream of working at NASA — I simply can’t imagine me and him. together. in the sack. at. all.

Bwa-ha-ha!

From The-Internet-is-a-Godsend Department: I learned that the boy wonder spent New Year’s Eve at some place called Capri with a couple of “friends,” and entertained himself by shooting off rockets. Not counting down to midnight in the arms of a babe, mind you. On New Year’s Freakin’ Eve? Sagittarius or not, this Aries clearly needs some help. It appears that he has mastered something I like to call AREA — the Art of Romantic Entanglements Avoidance. I may have to stage an intervention.

All kidding aside, Hayden’s reticence about canoodling with some hottie is rather refreshing and gives him a mysterious aura. There are times, I’ll admit, when I try to picture His Comeliness† as something less than divine, maybe even possessing a few flaws (*gasp*). Like, he probably snores, chews his fingernails, or he’d hog the bed covers, or he’s a slob. Shattering illusions can be a fun mental exercise. Try it sometime.

*As a rule I don’t buy this stuff, but I have been known to succumb to curiosity.
† comeliness - n. 1. the quality of being good looking and attractive; in other words, the quality of being Hayden [12 Jan 2006]