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That was adorable

So I tried posting a comment and it failed because I broke one of the rules. When the hell did that start?

The shrug/grinny/cutenado (yes, it's a tornado made of cute) at 2:11 by mr. jgl is giving me the vapors.

love. it.

Huh. So they're both southpaws? What're the odds?

First off, there is no such thing as playing guitar "left-handed". It takes two hands to play the guitar, and if you're playing "right-handed" with a pick, one could argue that the left hand has the tougher job (well, that depends on a lot). Technically, there are "left-handed" and "right-handed" guitars, but you can't surmise which hand someone is likely to favor for writing or throwing a ball based on how they hold a guitar. But I digress...

That's what I noticed first. But it's just too unlikely, right? I suspect that the image is flipped. I watched the whole video looking for clues. Here's what I came up with:

1) A precious few times the head of Zooey's ukulele can be seen. It looks as though the letter farthest to the right is leaning to the left. It's not impossible that this is the case, but most guitars/ukuleles that I've seen with writing will have it leaning to the right (as left-to-write languages would be written).

2) JGL's jacket adornment is on the right breast. The few times I've had something like that on a jacket I believe it has always been on the left side. I don't know if that is a boutonniere, but Wikipedia claims that those are "worn pushed through the lapel buttonhole (on the left, the same side as a pocket handkerchief)". Of course, I wouldn't put it past JGL to go against conventions.

3) I should've just enjoyed watching the video and not hunted for clues about whether they play guitar with that orientation because a simple search would reveal the answer. Search "zooey deschanel guitar" and it's plain to see that she holds the neck of a guitar in her left hand and not her right hand. Same thing with a JGL search. I declare this image horizontally flipped*!

I made that much harder than it had to be.

* - I'd also like to horizontally flip Zooey Deschanel, but that is another story.

Samantha, the song was written in the 40s, but one of the better known covers was released in 1963 by Nancy Wilson, a jazz singer who is well worth checking out. I think this version is based on her arrangement.

You know, I heard there was a JGL/Zooey Daschnel sex tape out there...THANKS DUSTIN!!

@pissant, JGL is wearing a red circle pin that's the logo for his website/endeavor hitrecord.org. (As in, the symbol on the record button). All of the pictures I've found of him wearing it show it on his left side, so there's some support to your horizontal flip theory.

Additional support for pissant: the sheet music in the background shows the front cover of the book, but the binding is on the right; the binding would be on the left for that company's sheet music.

, , why do you attempt to resist the hotness of the sisters Deschanel? Emily is plenty hot on her own. There is enough hotness to go around. Some of the hotness comes in the form of manically wide-eyes, strangely gummy-looking skin, eternal pouting, an affected voice, contrived movements, and an affinity for getting on every nerve everywhere, and, more importantly, SOME OF IT DOES NOT.

Oh yes. I am dissenting. Brook it.

Please tell me that they are doing it, or at least have done it because those googly eyes for eachother are just too much for me.

The whole time, I'm thinking... "Nancy Wilson of Heart?.
This doesn't sound like a rock ballad."

What *am* I doing NYE, indeed. [sigh]

I didn't need to turn the sound up on this one. The images of the JGL and Zooey smiling at each other needed nothing else.

Honestly, she annoys me to death and his association with her deflates his hotness.

I can't deal with her either. The big eyes of death and the not-so-cute cuteness and quirk make me go a big rubbery one.