KEANU: I Really Would Like To Do Shakespeare With River. I Think We’d Have A Hoot. We Could Do A Midsummer

“River Phoenix was often mocked in his day. As the vegan environmentally aware actor who made careful film choices based on his personal politics, he was seen as a little wacko, an eccentric still suffering the psychological effects of growing up in the cult, Children of God. Now he seems ahead of his time. Not only that, an exemplary figure to be revered more than ever, both for his film work and his messages. […] He remains an inspiration for those of us looking for a new masculinity. This wasn’t a man set out to compromise what was in his heart and mind to fulfil any expectations of what a young man must be” — “River Phoenix remains the antidote to Toxic Masculinity”, The Book of Man, Oct 2018

creative writing’s just like yeah sure i can deal with my issues i just need to cover them in several layers of metaphors first

The Craft (1996) dir. Andrew Fleming

PET PEEVES: War, cruelty, materialism

BELIEFS: Being good to other people, working for world peace, not eating meat

— Excerpt from a teen magazine, 1987

“He knows his mind and speaks it, even if what he says doesn’t fit in with his peers. You could call River the ultimate individualist. A vegan in the day of McDonalds, a pacifist in the era of nuclear weapons” — Teen Beat, 1988

being insane is just a part of my charm