Wednesday, April 16, 2008

shockingly beautiful but incongruously modest

Fluxblog, in describing Zooey Deschanel, says this about her:

This is what comes across on the She & Him record -- even with your eyes closed, she fully inhabits her character: Shockingly beautiful, but incongruously modest. Cute, coy, and self-aware. A bit old fashioned, but firmly rooted in the present. Small town, with just a dash of big city. She plays the extraordinarily pretty girl next door who is inexplicably unconceited and unpretentious, and has a carefully curated vintage wardrobe, a big box of old vinyl records, and a taste for sweet, low key romance. This may or may not be the actual Zooey Deschanel, but that's irrelevant -- she's so good at selling this persona that if it's at all a put-on, it's hard to spot the seams in her fabrication.

That's high praise for a girl. He basically described the girl of my dream - shockingly beautiful, but incongruously modest. Course I don't really deserve a girl like that, cuz I am not shockingly handsome and incongruously modest about it. But then I figure, since she is incongruously modest, she wouldn't mind or realize that I don't measure up. See, the reason I look for incongruously modest girls is that they are the only ones who wouldn't look down on me. Sounds like a master plan? The one flaw though is that that girl in real life might possibly not exist - I certainly haven't met her yet. So what to do? Is there another category of girls who would accept a neurotic like meself?

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