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And it don’t stop. From the AP:
After video hit the Internet last month capturing part of Phoenix’s debut rap performance at a Las Vegas club, speculation swirled that he was perpetrating an elaborate practical joke.
“I don’t know where that comes from,” Phoenix said. “If it comes from people that I’ve had a falling out with, that are (ticked) off at me?”
The video shows Phoenix, in a long, scraggly beard, rapping nearly inaudibly and ends with him losing his footing and falling off the stage. It was an inauspicious start, but Phoenix was adamant that his hip-hop career is real.
I was going to say that it comes from a hyper-aware public who’ve been forced to remain perpetually cynical and “on guard” due to generations of public hoaxes perpetuated by people like Phoenix with nothing better to do, and sometimes with genuine harm in mind. Even more simply put, it comes from people having seen hoaxes before and knowing what hoaxes look like. But insofar as we’ve all had a communal falling out with Joaquin Phoenix, and are all “ticked off” at him, then yes. That is where it comes from.
It is absolutely no surprise that Phoenix’s “final film,” Two Lovers, co-stars Gwyneth Paltrow. These two guys. Get thee to a jailery.
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let me just say, i think this joaquin phoenix story is awesome. i can’t get enough of it. I don’t know which scenario would be more appealing to me, if he was actually rapping and he was just slightly retarded, or if he was faking. If it is the latter i am going to wait in line, possibly for three days, to see what will be possibly the greatest mockumentary of all time. It will be great because none of the characters will be in on the joke. They will be how they actually are, which is kind of the point of a mockumentary isn’t it. Also, that was one annoying Hamlet reference videogum.
YES! I am glad someone finally said it. I love Videogum like a Canadian girlfriend, but Gabe is wrong, wrong, wrong on this Joaquin Phoenix thing. This is the best celebrity story since like Jane Fonda becoming a communist or something. Even if it’s just a hoax, when has a celebrity of Joaquin’s level of success and complete lack of humor ever done something this batshit?
I kind of still don’t believe it?
Ok Joaquin, you’ve had you’re fun now its time to go back to the hell from which you came.