1. Mathew Gray Gubler - Celebrity sightings are not uncommon in Manhattan and as someone who frequents "the city" I have had my fair share of them, but I have never geeked-out more than the time I saw Mathew Gray Gubler, AKA Dr. Spencer Reid of Criminal Minds, on the Upper East Side one lazy Sunday afternoon. My friend Laura and I had just left an appointment at a bridesmaids dress salon (I was trying on dresses for her wedding) and we were on our way to brunch at Fig and Olive when I spotted him on the opposite side of the street. To be honest, I was fairly hung-over, and when I'm in that state I tend to have less of a filter and function on a slightly less intelligent level, so it wasn't really all that surprising when I started jumping up and down like a monkey in a zoo seeing the worlds biggest banana on the other side of the cage. Thankfully MGG just smiled in acknowledgement and kept walking. He got his start as a male model (for big names like Tommy Hilfiger and Marc Jacobs), so the rugged good looks are the foundation, but he's only made hotter by his glasses, unkempt hair and gawky posture.
2. Joseph Gordon Levitt – Back when he was just another cute
kid on a little sitcom called Third Rock
from the Sun, Joseph Gordon Levitt was adorable. Then he played the nerdy
straight man to Heath Leger’s bad boy with a heart of gold in 10 Things I Hate About You and teenaged
girls in High Schools across America
saw his adorkability go straight through the roof. Now as an adult he still
sports the same sheepish grin, while working the indie film circuit seeming
calm, cultured and collected. Need to see for yourself? Here’s a clip of him
performing “Hey Jude” at the Sundance Film Festival. *swoon*
3. Seth Green – The nerd subculture has many different
species; you have your brainy nerds, your music nerds, your gaming nerds, your
Comicon nerds, and you have hybrids of all of these different groups. Seth
Green is more of your Comicon/D&D loving style nerd. A pop-culture nerd if
you will. His resume reads like a nerd rap sheet, but some of my favorites are
as follows: Chuck in Can’t Buy Me Love,
Cousin Wiley in Airborne, Oz in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Kenny in Can’t Hardly Wait (“Why y’all gotta waste my
flavor? Damn!”), Scott Evil in the Austin
Powers movies, Lyle in The Italian
Job (“YOU’LL NEVER
SHUT DOWN THE REAL NAPSTER”) and Entourage,
in which he pokes fun at himself.
4. Kevin Smith – There’s something to be said for a man of
few words. The writer/director/producer/actor/fanboy might be better know as
Silent Bob to the less-than-nerdy, but true fans know that this guy is just as
talented behind the screen as he is in front of it. An avid comic book reader
and friend of Stan Lee himself, Smith is also a Stars Wars geek. He rocks a
beard and glasses better than anyone in the Williamsburg set and avoids looking like a
full-on hipster by regularly sporting a hockey jersey. The young ice skater in
me melts for this terribly clever teddy bear of a guy; I’d make him lasagna any
day (Clerks reference – watch it).
5. Matt Nathanson – Anyone who has seen Matt Nathanson in
concert knows this to be true: he is the hottest singer/songwriter/metal and
rock aficionado around (too specific? Forgive me getting all super-fan on you).
John Mayer may have tried to work the whole self-proclaimed
nerd/weirdo/outcast, but he’s got nothing on Nathanson’s genuine dorkiness – or
his songwriting skills for that matter. Nathanson cracks self-deprecating jokes
and takes chances in his live shows - how many artists would make their
audience learn Prince’s “Starfish and Coffee” on the spot? Whether he’s
covering Rick Springfield, Pat Benetar, Journey or doing a metal intro to one of
his soft and sensitive songs, you know that this crooner is just as quirky
as he is talented
I think I can speak for most girls when I say that it's really not all about looks. If a guy can make you laugh, can make you smile, then he can make your day and, really, what's more loveable than that?
Image courtesy of flickr.com user Sir_Kenneth.
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