Joaquin Phoenix

maxwalrath · « **on:** 12 Feb 2009, 12:04 pm »

ummmmm....huh?

Wind Chaser · « **Reply #1 on:** 12 Feb 2009, 12:09 pm »

Yeah, I think you meant to post this in the music... I mean rap circle - didn't you?

Bigfish · « **Reply #2 on:** 12 Feb 2009, 12:18 pm »

Quote from: Wind Chaser on 12 Feb 2009, 12:09 pm

Yeah, I think you meant to post this in the music... I mean rap circle - didn't you?

My question also! I heard on a show a couple of weeks ago that Joaquin Phoenix had given up acting to be a singer. At the time I thought yea, right!

Ken

Wind Chaser · « **Reply #3 on:** 12 Feb 2009, 12:34 pm »

Perhaps he bumped his head on the set while playing Johnny Cash and figured he was a singer?

soundbitten1 · « **Reply #4 on:** 12 Feb 2009, 12:45 pm »

Quote from: Bigfish on 12 Feb 2009, 12:18 pm

Quote from: Wind Chaser on 12 Feb 2009, 12:09 pm
Yeah, I think you meant to post this in the music... I mean rap circle - didn't you?

My question also! I heard on a show a couple of weeks ago that Joaquin Phoenix had given up acting to be a singer. At the time I thought yea, right!

Ken

this would be like Michael Jordan giving up basketball to play baseball

PhilNYC · « **Reply #5 on:** 12 Feb 2009, 02:43 pm »

http://blogs.courant.com/roger_catlin_tv_eye/2009/02/wacky-joaquin-phoenix-on-lette.html

rydenfan · « **Reply #6 on:** 12 Feb 2009, 06:54 pm »

His perfomance on Letterman was really out there

BobM · « **Reply #7 on:** 12 Feb 2009, 07:04 pm »

I think he thought he'd get more girls as a singer. Or was that as an actor? Awww hell, he should just fix his damn lip.

Bob

jermmd · « **Reply #8 on:** 12 Feb 2009, 07:23 pm »

Quote from: PhilNYC on 12 Feb 2009, 02:43 pm

http://blogs.courant.com/roger_catlin_tv_eye/2009/02/wacky-joaquin-phoenix-on-lette.html

Wow! That Letterman clip was funny, sad, and painful to watch all at once. It's gotta be drugs, right? Maybe he's on potent antipsychotic medication and is zonked out. The gum chewing could be a side effect of the meds called Tardive Dyskinesia. Either way, I'd be a little worried about him if I was his agent.

Joe

Bill O'Connell · « **Reply #9 on:** 12 Feb 2009, 07:55 pm »

Letterman was hard to watch last night but Dave made the most out of a bad situation. Joaquin looked like he had taken one to many hits off of the type of reefer that paralyses the mind.
The gum chewing was for dry-mouth

bunnyma357 · « **Reply #10 on:** 12 Feb 2009, 08:19 pm »

I've gotta believe it's all a bit for the Joaquin as rapper documentary, which to me seems like it will be a performance art, Spinal Tap kind of thing. If it is all for real, then that indeed would be sad.

Jim C

Mike B. · « **Reply #11 on:** 12 Feb 2009, 08:27 pm »

I think the tape Letterman at 5pm? A little early to be toasted.

PhilNYC · « **Reply #12 on:** 12 Feb 2009, 09:35 pm »

Quote from: bunnyma357 on 12 Feb 2009, 08:19 pm

I've gotta believe it's all a bit for the Joaquin as rapper documentary, which to me seems like it will be a performance art, Spinal Tap kind of thing. If it is all for real, then that indeed would be sad.

Jim C

I agree...the giveaway was when he stuck the gum under the desk...

Bigfish · « **Reply #13 on:** 13 Feb 2009, 02:49 am »

Quote from: maxwalrath on 12 Feb 2009, 12:04 pm

ummmmm....huh?

Max:

I just watched the Letterman Clip from the show and I think you stated it best!

Ken

jqp · « **Reply #14 on:** 13 Feb 2009, 03:17 am »

There have been other bizzare interviews on this show - Andy Kaufman, Crispin Glover...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p0sr2BejUk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALapHYNSmoA

TheChairGuy · « **Reply #15 on:** 13 Feb 2009, 02:21 pm »

That was fantastic

1 Phoenix down (River), one to go

I don't expect this one to rise above it's own ashes (what a Phoenix does)

John

PhilNYC · « **Reply #16 on:** 13 Feb 2009, 06:00 pm »

Quote from: jqp on 13 Feb 2009, 03:17 am

There have been other bizzare interviews on this show - Andy Kaufman, Crispin Glover...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p0sr2BejUk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALapHYNSmoA

Here's the infamous Madonna interview on Letterman:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRSP5ZUmxP8

thunderbrick · « **Reply #17 on:** 13 Feb 2009, 06:03 pm »

As that great philosopher, Bugs Bunny, used to say:

"What a Maroon!"

satfrat · « **Reply #18 on:** 13 Feb 2009, 06:22 pm »

I've never laughed so hard in my life, thumbs up to Letterman for making the most of a $hitty situation and double thumbs up for youtube so i could see it.

I don't watch late nite talk shows myself. I also took the opportunity to watch the Farrah Fawcett interview. Hell at least Farrah talked to Dave, Joaquin was too paranoid to even do that.

Cheers,
Robin

ehider · « **Reply #19 on:** 13 Feb 2009, 10:51 pm »

Although Mr. Phoenix could be "over the edge", I for one am HUGELY skeptical that it was a genuine portrayal of his current state of mind. Just one look at Crispin's outrageous behavior (years ago on Letterman) looks way too similar. It took Crispin years to "come clean" that he was playing with corporate America's need to "control" the behavior of actors and such (which they control "what they are allowed to say" and "how they should portray themselves" through fear of future acting opportunities in films and such). Whether it be Cripsin or Kaufman or in this case Phoenix , they were all "in the mode" of caring less about placating those "who control them" and created a scenario that subsequently showed the world a "wacked out actor" just to say "Screw you Corporate America!". Of course, the "jury is still out" for Phoenix at this point. One thing is very clear though. With his current focus on singing and already making tens of millions from his prior films, Phoenix has shown he could care less about his future acting career and is now doing EXACTLY what he wants to do - how HE wants to do it.

Don't most of us all actually dream that one day we could all make fun and say crazy things and our own asshole employers' expense?