better living thru chemistry, Hugh Jackman

Well, we're all coping much better through the use of antidepressants. At any rate, they say it takes up to 6 weeks for antidepressants to kick in, but Cymbalta didn't. Thank god, or I would've never survived the past 3 weeks. I think it took all of 4 days to kick in for me, and then I stopped needing 12-14 hours of sleep a day; the physical ultra-exhaustion disappeared. And my mom started Lexapro the same day I started the Cymbalta, so within a few days she had stopped weeping at the drop of a hat or turn of a phrase.

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Last night I caught part of the movie Van Helsing on my mom's satellite. Which I'd seen when it came out on the big screen, and subsequently got on DVD for my birthday. And since I also saw X-Men: The Last Stand, I've decided that Hugh Jackman is my current favorite male specimen. Damn he's handsome. I can't decide which role I've liked him in best.

I haven't seen him in anything on stage or TV -- nor any of his Aussie-made films (which I think I should check out). But I liked his role in Someone Like You (which is also the role in which you can see the most Hughflesh, except for the anti-erotic scenes of Logan/Wolverine's creation in X2). He was romantic-hero dreamy in Kate & Leopold. He was a good tragic-hero-with-an-unknown-past in Van Helsing (and looked damn good in the long leather coat and tight-fitting cloth or leather breeches or whatever they were... I don't really care what they were... it's just, his thighs...)

And then there's Logan/Wolverine... and, having a fetish for man-beast characters (what is a vampire if not a beast with human qualities or a human with beastly qualities?), I can't not love Logan/Wolverine. Besides, Logan is such a man -- cigar-chomping, rugged lone biker that he is. If I'd been Jean, I'd have taken Logan over Scott any day. But that's just me.
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favorite Hugh Jackman role?

Well, since I can't create a poll and I'm procrastinating working on my nursing care plan due Monday, I'd like to ask people:

What is your favorite Hugh Jackman role?

(1) Logan/Wolverine in the X-Men movies
(2) Eddie in Someone Like You (with Ashley Judd)
(3) Leopold in Kate & Leopold (with Meg Ryan)
(4) Gabriel Van Helsing in Van Helsing
(5) They need to write Hugh Jackman a vampire starring role... that would be a revelation...
(6) I don't care, I just like to watch parts of my Hugh Jackman DVDs in slomo or zoom and fantasize...

Comments, questions, drool welcome.

Also, I don't know why I didn't consider this before -- what was I thinking? or, rather, what was I not thinking?! -- but the Gabriel Van Helsing/Dracula interactions in Van Helsing are rather slashy in spots. I think I should write some Gabriel/Dracula slash... an AU flashback to their unknown past together... yeah, that sounds pretty good. After, of course, I write more Joe Dick/Billy Tallent slash.

(I just read over at http://www.imdb.com that a Wolverine film is in preproduction (scripting) right now! Yes! A whole film devoted to Logan/Wolverine!)