okay, i know i’ve been going a little gosling crazy for the past…ten months or so, but i gotta say this. i never really thought about him until i saw half nelson (one of my favorite movies now), and even then i was like, “he’s a cute, talented young man.” it was his band DEAD MAN’S BONES that sent me over the edge. i thought that album was beautiful; it was my favorite one of 2009. in fact, i flew to washington dc for an overnight trip just to see them, which was one of the most DECADENT things i’ve ever done. it was stupid money spent, it was chilly & dreary, i was slightly freaked out by my decision to do it - but it was totally worth it. so it was two years ago today that i fell hard for (a) ryan gosling and (b) the idea of living life to the fullest.

http://read.mtvhive.com/2011/10/07/beyonces-countdown-a-gif-wall-is-born/

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2011-10-07/the-ultimate-clooney-gosling-gif-wall/#more-114246

i’m just going to leave these here so that i can get to them later.

His coming roles suggest that the vengeance-fueled “Drive” is just the beginning of a new tough-guy phase. Mr. Gosling described “Place Beyond the Pines” as “very aggressive” and said of “Only God Forgives,” in which he plays an expat who runs a Thai boxing club in Bangkok, “The first line of the film is ‘I love violence,’ which should give you some indication.” Apart from a childhood fascination with Sylvester Stallone movies — “First Blood” compelled him to attack classmates with steak knives (he was suspended), and “Rocky” inspired a parking-lot brawl — he said he has never been drawn to brutality. But now “something’s changed,” he added. “I’m just compelled to make very violent films right now. I don’t really know why.”

the downside of working with a room of straight men is that there are no straight women who can get excited with you about ryan gosling decided to do more violent movies. there’s nobody who can stand in the kitchen with you & discuss how even though you’re not into violence AT ALL, you’re going through some sort of change of life and the idea of seeing a ryan gosling with a black eye makes you swoon - like, actually catch the vapors. there’s no one around to nod in agreement when you draw comparisons to the ryan gosling of now & the brad pitt of fight club and snatch.

saw crazy, stupid, love yesterday and i am still swooning from a shot of ryan gosling eating a slice of pizza. i remember watching something? reading something? hearing something? i can’t recall how i know this, but i remember brad pitt saying that he made the decision that every time you saw his character in ocean’s 11 he would be eating something. brad pitt in that movie was my go-to “hot man in suit” fantasy, until i saw young goose. my god, does he know how to wear clothes.

and because i’m a little slow, it didn’t occur to me until right now to google “ryan gosling pizza.” and here we go.

that’s courtesy of this tumblr, so thank you, sunshine bunny girl. thank you & god bless you.

(also, this means ryan gosling can handle a big girl. C’MON, SON.)