Amelia and I met Jordan Catalano Jared Leto, erstwhile actor and singer for the band 30 Seconds to Mars. He and his bandmates were visiting our company video studio to do an interview, and they were all lovely. We were even lucky enough to snag a photo of ourselves with Leto and his beautiful silky hair. But of course, immediately after he went on his way, we realized there was so much more we should have said to him, but didn’t. In lieu of sending his publicist crazy emails (which is not entirely out of the question), we’ve compiled this post of fantasy things we wish we could have said to Jared.
1. “You’re always closing your eyes like it hurts to look at things.”
2. “I have said like eight sentences to you my entire life.”
3. “Huge events take place on this earth every day. Earthquakes, hurricanes, even glaciers move. So why couldn’t you just look at me?”
4. “I was just thinking? Could you maybe have dyslexia?”
5. “Your cuticles are like little moons.”
6. “I just like how you’re always leaning. Against stuff. You lean great.”
7. “Excuse me, but you have a tiny leaf in your hair.”
8. “We both stopped talking. Part of your sleeve was touching my arm. I don’t know if you knew. Then everything started to seem perfect for some reason. The feel of your shirt against my elbow, the fact that I still had an elbow. It was the perfect moment for you to kiss me, for you to anything me.”
9. “Quit it! I mean you have to work up to that. I didn’t open that wide at the dentist.”
10. “Love is when you look into someone’s eyes, and suddenly, you go all the way inside, to their soul … and you both know, instantly.”
11. “It’s amazing the things you notice, like the corner of your collar that was coming undone. Like you were from a poor family and couldn’t afford new shirts. That’s all I could see. The whole world was that unraveled piece of fabric.”*
*If you couldn’t tell by now, all of these are quotes from “My So-Called Life.” We also would have liked to ask him to have sex with us, but you know …
Original by Julie Gerstein
