Heath Ledger was so F*ing cool...

Haven't felt like this since River Phoenix passed away. I saw Heath last time I was in New York, it was last November. I was there for Ad:Tech. 

I fell in with a crew I shouldn't have, ended up at a place I shouldn't be, with a bunch of other people who shouldn't have been there, and kept to my little crew, as I rubbed elbows with the drinking, smoking, you-name-it-ing NYC underground. It lessens the shock a bit. Most of that scene looked as StereoLab described SF in 1999 - "So much beauty, that just won't last...". 

I remember identifying with him in Ten Things I Hate about you, a modernization of the Taming of the Shrew. I identified with him in a Knights Tale, The Four Feathers and even Cassanova. I wouldn't admit it though. I rarely admit that I take after certain fictional characters. Well, I'll admit Catcher Block from Down With Love.  

I'm saddened by the loss. I haven't seen Brokeback Mountain, but I think it hits my rental que this weekend. Expedited in honor of his only Oscar nomination. 

Considering his only unpublished post production work is the role of The Joker in the upcoming Batman film Dark Knight, it looks like Brokeback is the only Oscar nomination he'll have achieved in his palpably unfinished lifetime.

Sid