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When I first got into Heroes and, by proxy, some of its actors, one thing disturbed me. Guess who this is:

• was originally studying to follow in his father's footsteps
• accidentally stumbled over acting classes while doing so
• fell head over heels for acting, and went to drama school in London
• got married with an actress he met there and had a daughter
• entered the Royal Shakespeare Company after graduation
• starred in a certain TV series directed by Tom Clegg

One hint: not Sean Bean.

Although it fits, you know, to the letter. It's actually Sendhil Ramamurthy. Because I'd been (still am) a hard-core Bean fan before getting into Heroes, every time I read or saw an interview with SR I was boggling so hard at the similarities. When I saw the name "Tom Clegg" while looking at SR's IMDb page, I honestly thought someone was pulling a prank on me. Clegg is, to Bean fans, just synonymous with Bean's early carreer.

The Tom Clegg series SR was in is Ultimate Force, that one about the SAS starring Ross Kemp (the guy from EastEnders). I've been trying to watch it, and ... uh ... so far the only thing that's left an impression on me is that ... he has short hair in it. I just ... can't seem to get over that. He looks, like, 16. It's horrible. Can it be that my love for Sendhil Ramamurthy has been all about the hair? That can't be true, it's also about the voice and the hands. But ... gah. I miss those curls, dammit!

I'll try to watch it again some other time, I guess.

I have no idea what the show is about, but I was watching a clip of it on youtube because Sendhil Ramamurthy is reportedly going to be in it today.

I'm still not sure what the point of the show is (morning talkshow?), but they had wobbly chairs.

I hope he falls down ...

(Coincidentally, the first clip on youtube for a "Regis and Kelly" search is with Sophia Bush fangirling Sean Bean. Wheeeeeen is The Hitcher coming out on DVD in Europe, anyway?!)

part 1
part 2

To watch before or after the finale, that is the question.

ETA: I succumbed. Definitely a must-watch. The host is an ass (is he doing it on purpose? Is he always like this?) and apparently enjoys asking private questions, and SR tells how he proposed to his wife. Heeeee! Also: money issues.

TENNIS?! Competitor league?! I wanna see that so bad. Also, half-seriously considering going to the French Open. Although you probably can't get decent tickets anymore. He probably got centre court for his dad ... better luck trying to spot him on the telly than going in person, I suppose. Lucky me it's tennis and not something like basketball; I was going to watch it anyway.

Seeing as this show is supposed to be live, he grew back his stubbles. Yay! And I was watching some middle-season episodes yesterday, and I noticed he's probably been gaining weight since then; he looks not so much thin but so sharp around episode 10. I like him both ways, though he looks older now and that's really nice.

Okay, enough creepy obsessing. 23 is almost here!

I dreamt of two things today.
• Someone posted HD caps of the season finale, but when I looked closer the caps were solely of Nathan.
• Mohinder went to lunch with Matt but couldn't eat anything because someone had bitten through his tongue and lips.

Having said that, here, have a small picspam.

Nine pics; 424kb; sadly quite work-safe.

And now, I go away to study. See you Friday night or thereabouts.

ETA: Oh, perfect. I fee like I'm coming down with something now. Great timing.

... am I doing up at this hour? Ack gah geez fuck.

The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that

Ian Malcolm

Which Ela said was sick, but I loved Dr. Malcolm when I was a kid. I'm fairly certain he was one of the very first characters I made gay in my head. Also the very first one that proved problematic for me because I had no one to slash him with. Not much has changed since. I was what, twelve? Oh, how time flies and we stay exact the same.

Heey, it's Sensui Shinobu's birthday. Congrats, wherever you are.

What the hell are you doing, man! Bwahahahahaha. It can't be this cold in West Hollywood?

But also, cap + glasses + sandals = love:

The cap is obscurring it, but I think he's been growing his hair. I wonder if it's just for the hiatus, or if they're going to bring back Mohinder as Adam Adam.

Both (and more) from s-ramamurthy.fan-sites.org

(Yes, this is the studying-for-exams-but-can't-concentrate-grrr-nerves! spam week.)

It's kind of a running joke in fandom that if God created man in his own image, God much have been a SMOKIN' HOT Indian dude. I'm certain this will make more people in fandom want to convert to Christinanity, but I'm not sure it'll be enough to scare us off the porn. Probably not. Especially since the smokin' hot Indian dude is -- duh -- naked.

Sendhil Ramamurthy as Adam; 14 pics; 2.36mb; some non-graphic nudity.

Beware of HAIR.

I also made an animated icon of the "eating the forbidden fruit" scene:

I got it from violet_anchovy who got it from lalunelune.

I very briefly considered making it into an icon.

Me: I can't use this as an icon, it's too ... Patalliro.*
Anna: Gay?
Me: Well yes.

Though that's not exactly accurate. It's sort of ... Aesthetic, with a capital A. Interesting, but I don't think I actually like it.

And SR totally forgot to tell them he looks awful in green lighting.

* I can't believe wiki still doesn't have an article on Patalliro.

ETA: Speaking of Patalliro, I want a Tamanegi tee-shirt SO BAD.

"My first agent suggested I change my name. What was I going to say my name is -- John Smith? It’s ridiculous."

Hee hee.

I feel like I should blog about Comic Con, but I believe I'll just be reduced to squeeing (which I've done already elsewhere, multiple times) so it won't be particularly interesting. In short: Yay Kevin Smith! Yay James! Yay Greg and Sendhil! Yay Ali y u so hot! Yay Milo you're sane! Yay at how Zach sits there and waaaaaits for the cheering and squeeing to come to him, while Sendhil gets interrupted by it and looks embarrassed every single time! Ah, love.

And really nice photos. Leslie Bibb! ♥ And oh yeah, the Heroes cast, too. Is Leslie Bibb doing something sci-fi-y these days?

ETA: I just now realized that I actually like there are two months till season two starts, because there's so much stuff I still want to do with season one. Sort of like the limbo between 1x18 and 1x19, where I was anxious as all hell but also happy that I could explore everything up to that point without having to rush too much.

So, September. Don't come too soon. But the DVDs should come as soon as possible kthx.

Just like yesterday, the temperature in this room will probably not drop below 30 degrees Celcius all day today (for the record it's 33 now, which is better than this morning when it was 39), but today is a good day anyway.

I went to buy Men's Health after work, but they only had the August issue. They did have L'Uomo Vogue, though, so here, have a scan. 330kb.

A video is up. (As usual, I get all my SR fixes from violet_anchovy.) A bit of blogging while I try to find a way to download it.

• 'Ramamurthy, not Rama'murthy.
• "Look, listen."
• plz to be doin bollywood on heroes nao
• Lots of women in acting class. Got a B-.
• He read Asterix! ♥
• They turned his accent British because of the sex appeal?
• He is clearly embarrassed when they bring out a copy of the top 100 hottest people issue. He moves in his seat and covers his face.
• Spends 15 seconds on hair every morning. Got flack for the "15 min" quote. The hair and makeup people spend 15 min on it.
• No, it's not just the producers that like your hair long and your face with stubbles, Sendhil.
• He's not method. (Called it!)
• He's looking for something to do along with Heroes. I think something Artsy, European, & Naked would be good.

I went by my local magazine kisk after classes (after aimlessly wandering around town with some course mates, you know in that window-shopping girly way, which I usually never do but hey, I apparently missed these people or something? Though I never ever miss people. Who is this person?), because I know they get new magazines on Tuesdays.

And they had the September issue of Men's Health.

Except SR wasn't in it.

And now I'm like, D:

Really, D:

Worst is I don't know why. Do they have UK and US editions? But the magazine didn't say anything about country. The owner (really nice guy, no hard feelings there) said they usually have more editions, but today they only had this one, and I could come back next week and see. I guess I will. Or go to that other big magazine kiosk after class tomorrow.

Just. Well. Meep.

Anna: I read a book that had more gay sex than I expected.
Me: That's a nice surprise.
Anna: It made me laugh inwardly.
Me: Only inwardly? XD
Me: And was it any good?
Anna: Hmmmm...!
Anna: I liked it, it was entertaining.
Anna: At first I thought of you, though.
Me: Well. You would.
Anna: Because the main character mentioned that he had long fingers.
Me: ... XD Awesome.
Me: Did it play a part in the gay sexing?
Anna: Uhm. It was not THIS explicit.
Anna: But probably.
Anna: Wait.
Anna: It goes "Those who have followed these incoherent memoirs may recall that my long and rather lovely hands are not to be trifled with. A youth of my acquaintance once compared them to Our Lord's as depicted in Caravaggio's Ecce Homo. I was, naturally, immensely flattered, though my digits had been engaged in singularly un-Christ-like activity at the time."
Me: I might have that painting somewhere, brb
Me: HUA HUA HUA UN-CHRIST-LIKE
Anna: You would.
Anna: He is also middle-aged so I thought of you. Problem is that he appears to top all the time. :(
Me: Naaah, SR's are both longer and prettier.
Me: Aw, a top, eh?
Anna: Well, SR is beyond any mere mortal.
Me: ... lulz
Anna: ... :P
Me: <3

I think I promised Anna I'd post this, because the first one isn't online, and then I scanned them, and forgot all about it. Sorry. Here you go, though: smarmy Sendhil! All quite big.

This photo shoot is so him. Fun, carefree, elegant, not trying too hard (like some other pics he's had taken). I love it so much.

Speaking of penises.

Jenn linked me to a blog entry from someone who was at Heroes Day yesterday, and her descriptions of Sendhil Ramamurthy are so exquisite, I had to quote them here to share.

If I, during my quoting, cannot contain my urge to repeat select words, sometimes even in capital letters, please don't think I do this with the intention to mock. I don't. It's just that they're so, well ... exquisite.

Sendhil Ramamurthy and Dania Ramirez arrive together, looking like an improbably beautiful pair of gazelles, all legs and great bone structure.

Gazelle!

In his blinding white shirt, it’s easy to monitor Sendhil’s progress as he streaks like a comet through the assembled crowd.

Comet!

Like so many actors, he’s built on about three-fourths the scale of a normal human being, without an unnecessary ounce of flesh anywhere on him. He seems to be sculpted entirely of spun sugar; when I shake his hand, I’m thankful it doesn’t break off in mine. He’s lovely and gracious.

SPUN SUGAR!

He makes some remark about the good turnout. The turnout, thus far, is not good – it’s surprising not more people are here – and I can’t tell if he’s being polite or brilliantly deadpan.

I vote deadpan.

The actors are corralled together and forced to sing Christmas carols with the lyrics changed to pro-WGA jargon. Sendhil and Greg mysteriously vanish into the crowd while this takes place. Sendhil and Greg are the smart ones.

OTP. OTP.

Sendhil takes off at the stroke of one o’clock. The last I see of him, he’s booking it madly across Lankershim Boulevard, as though he’s late for a terribly important appointment. If he leaves his glass slipper behind on the palace steps, I don’t find it.

Cinderella! CINDERELLA! CINDE-fucking-RELLA!!!!!!

... Okay, that may have left me breathless. Exquisite.

Also! More pics! I am a happy camper.

I feel like one of those Brangelina (is that what it's called?) fans (do they have fans?) who buy and read weekly gossip magazines (US Weekly? Something like that). But. Can't help myself.

Two choice Olga Sosnovska quotes from a 2001 Sunday Mirror article:

[She and her husband] made a pact when they first met that they would never name each other in interviews. "We both want to be self-sufficient and not use each other for anything. We met at drama school, but it was nothing like love at first sight."

I was convinced this was the case, what with the 'Unexpected' commentary and Regis and Kelly, and hardly ever showing up anywhere together.

They have been married for two years and she refers to her husband as "probably the most beautiful man in the world".

Why yes. I do believe she's right.

I finished that translation I was doing, and:

Me: I'll be off making icons of the "colored" people on Heroes now.
Anna: Of the PRETTY people!
Me: Yes, those. :D
Anna: As it just happens to be.
Me: Odd coincidence, in a way. But really, how much prettier can anyone get?
Anna: ... I.... I... I....
Me: See?
Anna: This is a question that would cause super computers to short circuit and explode.
Me: XD It should be a deus ex machina on the Trek movie.
Anna: Yes, this is totally how we will save the world in some science fiction story.
Me: That novel should be written.
Anna: The heroes will find themselves face to face with the super computer that is controlling the universe, and that is about to start the countdown for the destruction of the world...
Anna: But it is programmed to also answer any question that it is asked!
Anna: So they ask, in a moment of desperation "How could someone be more beautiful than Sendhil Ramamurthy?" and the computer tries to solve it.... overheats.... explodes...
Me: HAPPY END!
Anna: Yeah, it will be the end of a long, serious SF novel.
Anna: I need to write it.
Me: Plz do.

I've suspected for a few months, since I saw caps from a Japanese TV show covering the World Tour, in particular this one shot:

But according to a blog entry linked from TWoP, it apparently is true: Sendhil is having another baby!

Hehehehe. All the best of luck. If he knew back in the end of August, she must be at least four months pregnant. I suspect more. Heeee.

I was juuuuust thinking of bed. Then Jenn sent me this.

I love it when Sendhil randomly pops up in magazines like this. The SHIRT! What the fuck! And the print on those BOXERS! I only wish there was a better look of his stomach. Damn.

ETA: There was also text.

Sendhil Ramamurthy just wants breakfast in bed
SR: Literally! Do any of the readers want to bring me some? I have NEVER had breakfast in bed.
Glamour: Have you ever made it for somebody?
SR: Yes. I made breakfast in bed for my wife. Anybody could bring me breakfast in bed. - I wouldn't care.
Glamour: Your wife might feel differently.
SR: Yes (Laughs) She'd probably have a problem with it.

WTF? No one has ever made breakfast for him? That's ... sort of very surprising.

I scanned the Sendhil page I got in the mail yesterday (♥), but I never know how to clean up magazine scans. They're so ... print-y and ugly. Meep.

On the opposite page was Jonathan Rhys Meyers. I knew he was on US TV, but I had no idea he was playing Henry VIII. I just looked at his IMDb page to check the spelling of his name, and he has the weirdest trivia ever. "Uncle of his brother's child, Dylan." What.

And I just noticed that him and ZQ aren't dissimilar. The shape of the head and the downwards curve of the eyes and the nose, I think. And the fact that they're both too odd-looking to be attractive, but are hot anyway.

I just sat through ten minutes of an American Football game. (I think it was live, actually.) I ... didn't get it.

doctor_caduceus on LJ informs me that these frames

are Prada PR 07E, with the color 1AX-1O1 Black/Mango Pearl (details).

I find pieces of information like this highly valuable, but I can never decide if it's interesting enough to be posted to the main community. Hmm.

At any rate, a "Sendhil Wears Prada" joke seems inevitable.

Also: Psych = ♥

OMFG WHAT

I don't know what to do! What! What! What! Should I? Should I? But I've never, ever ever ever ever ever in my life been to a convention, and I honestly never thought I ever would!!!

Suffice to say, Zach's "Sendhil! Sendhil! SENDHIL!" is echoing in my brain right now.

ETA: I mean even if I could work around it logistically and financially (which I probably could), I'd have to worry about making a complete fool of myself, AND worry about how his hotness might burn a hole in my retinas, AND deal with my brain who will with no doubt be going, "Hi I write porn about you on the internet OMG I'M SO SORRY PLZ DON'T KILL ME I'LL NEVER DO IT AGAIN ;_______;"

ETA2 of unrelatedness: The air smells of spring today. It makes me want to go to the park just up the street, if the weather is as good when I get off work.

Caps I made months ago and neglected to post.

He looks fifteen. For the record, this was in 2005. Trufax.

In which he plays an intern who eats a chocolate bar while witnessing an appendectomy.

Ew.

Caps mostly of the eating (because I'm a perv) and funny faces (because Anna likes them) in extended entry.

A movie about a blind guy (played by Chris Pine, the new Kirk) who meets an Indian girl and falls in love. Sendhil plays the Indian girl's fiance, Arvind. Arvind isn't a bad guy, but sort of a clueless semi-jerk who assumes that because they're engaged, the girl will want to do exactly what he wants to do, and take over the family business. He also seems slightly sex-crazed. I don't know what that's supposed to illustrate.

In some of the frames it looks like he's trying to rape her, but he's not. In the last frames it looks like he's clutching onto his daddy's shoulder as he's being cruelly dumped, which he is. That detail alone made me love the guy; he's clueless and probably came crying to his daddy afterwards to get him a new fiance! Awww. He needs a hot boyfriend and a good spanking.

61 caps in extended entry. Most of Sendhil with some Stephen Tobolowsky, because he's cute.

Caps! (Because, as you've probably noticed by now, taking caps of SR is one of my biggest hobbies.) 94 in all. He (again!) sits with a bottle between his legs.

ETA: Aw, it works again. Sorry if you got a 500 error earlier!

Sendhil has a fanboy!

Well, Sendhil is original. He's so fucking beautiful that I forget what he's saying sometimes and I begin to imagine him with his male co-stars in far too many inappropriate "scenerios".

Don't we all?

(I was image-googling his name when I fell over this, and now I can't remember what I was looking for. Erm.)

There will come a day when I stop talking about Sendhil Ramamurthy, but that day is not today.

Now I don't know about you, but I think that's adorable.

P.S. 'Parasite' airs in Japan today!

P.P.S. violet_anchovy informs us that Zachary Levi is über-Christian. I don't know why, but that shocks me more than ZQ being Catholic that mostly just turns me on.

I'm conducting a highly scientific poll of great relevance (translation: it's distasteful and not to be taken seriously). Wanna vote?

No, not an RPS entry about what I think he and Joe Pokaski did in hall closets.

Wait, did I say that out loud?

Anyway, Jenn was showing me:

i didn't recognize him from the photo but this same sendhil was famous for stopping traffic and inspiring drool on a certain new england college campus back in the day. his then long-term girlfriend was the target of some desi verbal voodoo but when i finally met her she turned out to be one of the most intelligent, earnest and well-read women i have ever met. just mentioning this because i think good taste in women makes a specimen of eyemithai (mocha or otherwise) all the more de(si)licious. [link]

Also awww:

Yes he is really my cousin. Yes he is a great guy and even ever better father. [link]

Sort of unrelated, but a pretty quote:

The teak tree gave you your body
The baby elephant gave you its walk
Flowers gave you their laughter
Wasn't it gold which gave you your color? [link]

I'm still quite in love with HS AU RPS though, thankyouverymuch.

A blog post informs me that Sendhil has a bit part in Broken Lizard's the Slammin' Salmon planned for a US release in 2008. I have no idea who Broken Lizard is, but it sounds like a comedy and it stars Michael Clarke Duncan. They have a MySpace where you might be able to find more pics (I can't; I don't have a MySpace so they won't let me check their album), but there is one pic of him at the bottom of the blog post. He's wearing a pink shirt. Mmm.

The blog entry also has this quote about him:

He was more delicious than the seven pieces of key lime pie that we ate in a scene together... but it was his cousin Jay's ass that took my breath away... that's what I would really like to eat.

We all know Sendhil is more delicious than pie, but he has a cousin ... named Jay? Interesting! Also, this does imply that Sendhil eats pie in this movie, right? Yay! I've wanted a Mohinder eating scene for forever! Though seven pieces of pie makes me think of Sendhil as Agent Cooper in Twin Peaks. Which cracks me up.

ETA: I crossposted to heroes_mohinder, and there are more pics and quotes in the comments there.

I've come to a point where the wank is making me nauseous. No, not the contents of it; just like when you eat too much salt, or something. Too. Fucking. Much.

I imagine some of you may feel the same way. So I composed a small Sendhil picspam of some of my favorite pics. Clickable.

Ahhh. Much better.

I was talking to Amanda this morning and she suggested that if I wanted more Z/S, I should pay people for it. I can't give money or blowjobs, sadly, and I have no idea what people want in this fandom, so I think I may be a lost cause. Then she reminded me of the few badfics that do exist in the Heroes RPS fandom, which made me feel better because I'd rather have no fic than badfic.

I guess. Maybe. Sometimes.

Much more here, article here.

Try not to explode.