Happy Crispinmas!

[kleenexwoman]

April 20th has been dubbed "Crispinmas" by a small but significant portion of my friendslist. I like this. I heartily endorse this holiday to anyone looking to take a day off work.
Many interesting things happened on this day. Hitler was born, for example. And Jimmy Carter was attacked by a giant swimming rabbit. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed a bunch of kids they did not like, therefore casting immense suspicion upon every other antisocial kidlet in the nation. Bram Stoker died, leaving behind a new ideal of sexy vampires that would later lead to Anne Rice's all-too-explicable success. It's also National Toke-Up day, National High-Five Day, and National Love-A-Teen Day. (Are you surprised by this sequence at all? I'm not.)
And Crispin, of course, was born. Just the once. Without celebrating it twice or whatever the stupid rumour is.
Today is a day for all sorts of weirdness and thought. Crispin's birthday is simply a good representative for that. Also, he is 42, which is Special for different reasons entirely.
Rather than blabber on about philosophy and aesthetics and whatnot, which was what I was going to do to justify the presence of a big "CRISPINMAS!" written in red on my Edward Gorey calendar, I present you with some pretty pictures.



Small Crispin. Clearly, his propensity towards suits began early.


As the jittery, bossy Layne in "River's Edge."


I'm not sure what this is from, but I got it from rockstarsex, who's good for this kind of thing.


Someone made spray-paint stencils of Bartleby.


Looking intimidated by the scary bearded man.


I'd like to know exactly what caught his attention here. Superman? A lemur? Sam Rockwell wearing nothing but the fuzzy handcuffs Crispin put on him the night before?


Nicholas Cage doesn't seem to notice that his date has turned into a zombie at the premiere of "Willard."


Eyebrow-boy doesn't know what Crispin is doing in his picture. Crispin doesn't seem to know either, but damned if he's not going to smile politely while he figures it out.


He looks so happy, like someone asked a question he'd been waiting years to answer.


Looking like he wants to eat the award he's just been presented with.


"Do I really want these people to be my in-laws?" NO.


Giving the Blue Steel look with Werner Herzog and...Mrs. Herzog, probably. I wish I had a larger version of this picture.


I'm not sure where this is from, but I like the contrast of the foreground and muted red background.


Famous shot from "Willard." I'm always struck by how young he looks here.


Actually, without the wig and bizarre makeup, this outfit would look damn good on him. Courtney looks like she's going to a Halloween party at a frat house.


This one is marginally better.


Miraculous grilled codger!


Sideburns sharp enough to cut ya.


Also from rockstarsex. Old-fashioned and pretty and a tad spooky, what with the ghost hands.


I keep thinking he's in a red velvet straitjacket on this magazine cover. Don't know why.


I made this macro a while ago. It's from "High School U.S.A.," a goofy, fun made-for-TV movie that has robots, car races, revenge-of-the-nerds, old Nazis, Michael J. Fox looking like a 12-year-old girl, and a ridiculously cute tard!Crispin. Lew sent me the movie, Seth did the screencaps. I just added the catchphrase.


That bump in the blanket makes it look like Darth Vader caught him in the middle of...something.


Does it look to anyone else like Marty's trying to kiss him? Is this just me and my slash-colored glasses?

(Last two added in because anivad reminded me. Thanks!)