the smoking police

as part of my ongoing grand reopening of 'planetcool,' i'm gonna raise a toast to the groovy chick who gave me the nudge to get back into it. lucynell, this one's for you. although, i'm sure you've probably seen this one before. i doubt there's a single shot of the police that you haven't seen before. i chose this one because i wickedly love to see good-looking men smoking cigarettes. i know, it's evil, i know. still... i think it's hot. okay, who wins the 'horserace' in this picture? normally, i think stewart is like, ten times better looking than sting... and i've honestly yet to see a real bad shot of andy summers, however, i reluctantly have to give the honors to weird sting in this instance. i mean, look at that pose! the angle of the cig, the curve of his neck..! yeah, sorry stewart, sorry andy, i gotta give it to gordon this time. i know lucynell will probably disagree with me, but... ( sigh, cranking gesture ) what are ya gonna do?

pete smokes

wow. pete townshend, ladies and gentlemen. it's been a while since i posted a new shot in my 'men smoking' series. and tonight, the insanely talented and 'pseudo-bisexual' mr. pete townshend is the subject.

i love pete townshend.

he's got a face straight out of a byzantine tapestry, eyes bluer than chlorinated swimming water, and a vocabulary as brilliant as the milky way. we all know he was great with The Who, but his solo stuff is almost more beautiful. alone, he has afforded us such waltzing classics as 'equisitely bored,' 'keep on working,' and 'the sea refuses no river.' (all to be found on 1982's 'all the best cowboys have chinese eyes.') he is an artist's artist. it probably goes without saying that; if it wasn't for pete, we wouldn't have the who... if we didn't have the who, then we wouldn't have 'tommy.' if we didn't have 'tommy,' then god knows how long it would've taken jean-lucien and myself to discover ken russell. and if we hadn't found ken russell at the age of 5 and a half, then i wouldn't be the same girl i am now...and the words you're reading now would very likely not exist. so thank you, pete. you're always welcome here. (click to enlarge)

bowie smokes

hello lovers. hey, i don't have a whole lot of inspiration tonight... but i didn't want too many nights to go by without a post, so hey... dig this groovy lime-flavored shot of the great mr. david bowie, smokin' hot on the cover of a 70's rolling stone. man, thirty-some years ago. and he still looks alien-great now. i loved the way he looked around that time, with his 'man who fell to earth' styled orange hair. and those shades, they make him look 'lean and mean.' (?) and he also makes a dashing addition to my 'men smoking' thing. ummm, i wish i had something like, wicked-clever to say about it, but i don't really. i just think it looks real groovy. so um, dig it, and i hope i'll have more candy for you in the near future. (click to enlarge)

leaud smokes

i've been 'aware of' jean-pierre leaud for a long time... more or less since the time my brother got a job in a local video chain. but i've really only seen him 'in action' in one film; 'last tango in paris.' he's so french and gorgeous, you know? so um, since he was more or less a stranger to me, i looked up his mini-biography to see if there was any striking information that would make him more to me than just a pretty face... but hey, guess what? i didn't find anything! he seems like just a groovy french actor that led a pretty typical 'french actor' life. i have no idea if he's like, 'boring for real,' but that really doesn't matter here on 'planetcool.' tonight he's only required to smoke a sleek cig and look very gorgeous whilst doing it. so dig him, he's lovely and french!

james austerberg the third

otherwise known as iggy pop. so, hey... i'm not the biggest iggy pop fan in the world. like, he's spent literally three quarters of his life (possibly more) without a shirt on. and apparently, he's still 'kicking it' today. but i like this... this is a really old shot of jimmy copping a fag before he takes his shirt off and hits it, the stage. in shots like this, its not too hard to see why david bowie had such a thing for him. and i haven't posted a 'guy smoking' shot in a while, so dig it!

my date for new year's eve

this should surprise noone. there's no question about it; my dream date for the midnight kiss is saint joe strummer. here's a younger picture of him, smoking what does not look like a 'store brand' cigarette, if you know what i mean. what an angelic profile. that nose is divine. and so fierce and talented. so joe, sweet darling, where ever you are tonight, please know my kiss to you will be passionate, reverent, wet, deep, slow, intense, and infinitely romantic. on 'earth,' however, i am lucky enough not to be alone in the physical plane... my wonderful new cat joanna strumbelina is here with me, perched atop my burgundy easy chair. she never had it so good. but back to joe... i've dreamed about kissing him, literally dreamed about it, several times. part of my brain would like to believe that his spirit is drifting down to earth to sneak kisses from sleeping girls. its like part of me knows what it would feel like to kiss him, just from hours and hours of studying his mouth. this is one schoolgirl crush i never saw coming. like, i've known who 'the lead singer of the clash' was for at least two-thirds of my life, and i never thought i would be dreaming about him. but i can't help it. he drives me totally absolutely crazy... crazy-from-beyond-the-grave. sleep well, joe. i love you. and happy new year. (click to enlarge)

smokin' horserace

yes, its two, two, two things-in-one! its not just a cool shot of men smoking... its a cool shot of men smoking who also happen to be... the 'world famous' beatles! and you know i'm the first one to admit, all four of them look pretty good here; but its a 'fab' horserace, and as always, you've gotta judge it on not JUST who looks the hottest, but rather, who looks the hottest when you take into consideration how good each one is generally capable of looking. and when you think of it that way, then you've almost certainly got to give it to richard. (that's ringo, to most of you.) then i think john is second, then paul, then wow... surprise surprise, my sweet george is a rare 'dead last.' and do pop stars even smoke anymore? i mean tobbaco? i mean, out in public? hey, maybe they do. it just occurred to me i don't even know who 'today's pop stars' are, so i guess i wouldn't know if they were 'blazing up' for-all-to-see in front of the cameras. yeah, who are today's pop stars? i can't even come up with one name. i think the only modern song i've 'favorited' lately is that 'all the single ladies' thing that i can't get out of my head. and its almost 1 o'clock, so i should be getting tired of that one pretty soon.

jeremy

what's cooler than i picture of jeremy irons? hey, a picture of jeremy irons smoking a cig! and what's cooler than jeremy irons smoking a cig?? a picture of jeremy irons smoking a cig with a god damn monacle hanging on! yeah, i've been sitting on this one for a long time. but since i saw the third 'die hard' over the weekend, i thought it was a good time to post this very cool and flash picture of mr. irons. he manages to pull a pose like this one without looking like a total joke. i wonder where the monacle came from? i mean, was he just walking around with it on his person, waiting for a prime photo opportunity to like, whip it out? or did he just dig one up in the midst of this photo shoot? who knows, but man, the end result is groovy with a capital g!

caine smokes

yeah, i haven't posted a celebrity smoker in a while. so i thought i'd post this shot of the man who gave

'cockney' class, mr. michael caine, going all 'dragon' on a big cigar, whilst his dishy cockney mate bob hoskins stands by, very successfully rivaling mr. caine's hotness. hey, if i was playing a hot game of 'who would you rather f***, then i gotta admit, for me, its a hands-down blow-out. i'll take hoskins every chance i get. yeah, you might disagree, but i've just got a wild thing for hot bob. i love this shot... it's got that kray-brothers british gangland thing going for it. and if you click to enlarge, and look closely, i think it says something about 'erotica' and 'striptease' on the wall behind them. mmmm, i think i'll take 'em both, and proclaim monday night as 'slut-night.' (mmm, what the hell am i talking about?)

nick smokes

okay, this site has been giving me problems for the last few minutes, so i don't know how intricate this entry will be. but anyway, last night i was watching the 80's duran duran tour documentary 'sing blue silver.' and since it was rolling, i decided i should try to get some shots from it... but man, that was some of the laziest, slowest, grainiest, worst film-slash-videotape stock i've ever worked with. its like, every bit as bad as 'evil under the sun.' i mean, it was the haziest, shallowest film i've had the displeasure of wrestling with for quite some time. but i DID manage to get this shot of the young nickety-rhodes, at a radio interview, priss-dragging on what looked like a camel... but the film stock was so poor i really couldn't tell. it did have a brown filter area. he's a cutie, am i right folks? and he's known to have a bitchy side too. (...nick rhodes? how can that be?) anyway, let me just see if this post sticks, and if it does, maybe i'll post something else... after i have MY evil Camel-on-the-deck-under-the-stars.

le grande smoque

i don't know why i spelled it that way. perhaps because the photo is so dreamy and melodramatic. yes, tonight's featured smoker is the flash and brash and genuinely talented mr. johnathan rhys-meyers. i first noticed him in the very cool 'velvet goldmine.' hey, if you wanna see a couple of man-on-man kisses between meyers and ewan mcgregor, then 'velvet goldmine' is the flick for you. i think he's great in 'goldmine.' i don't think i've ever seen him suck in anything. but here on 'planetcool,' he sucks on a cig for our wild, reckless, self-indulgent purposes. very cool.

cool richard

tonight's featured smoker is none other than mr. richard starkey himself. hey, i dig ringo as much as the next guy. and i like this shot... its nice and self-contained. it makes me want to roll some beatles. no, seriously, it does. it makes me want to hear richard himself take the lead on such great tracks as 'i wanna be your lover,' and 'shout.' (mmm, 'octupuss's garden? ehhh, not so much.) but you know i wouldn't 'pass by' a rolling of the funky 'don't pass me by.' so light one up for me, richard... if you ask me, you're the coolest beatle (left alive) on the planet.

good and long indeed

here is a frame taken from the 1980 film 'the long good friday.' it deals with the state of british gangland dealings around that time... what i affectionately call 'the diana ascendance.' i'm sort of killing two birds with one stone with this shot. i hearby proclaim the bearish bob hoskins as a prime example in my 'ugly is the new cute' movement. i have been aroused by him ever since 1987-88. i think he's lovely... so solid, so hairy, and that cockney accent... and how he managed to hold it back, turning sort of 'brooklyn' for 'roger rabbit.' and speaking of bunnies, helen mirren really couldn't be sexier. just look at the two of them laying there, smoking. i think i can admit i'm 'bi' enough to want to join them. they're both just so hot.

velvet smoking

tonight's featured smoker is john rhys-meyers as brian slade, lighting up and getting ready to '...alright, lads?' cruise some schoolboys. its a great shot that made it onto one of my covers, a long time ago.

smoking hot holland

i have another confession to make. ugly is the new gorgeous. i submit this painfully sexy shot of mr. jools holland smoking as proof; and also to celebrate the emergence of the Underling as the true Prince Charming. here he is, girls...the irrepressibly cool Julian Miles Holland smoking. have you ever watched, i mean really watched this man play piano? sigh... could you die...?? dig it.