Jan 18 2009Joaquin Phoenix has lost his shit

Joaquin Phoenix made his musical debut Friday night at Vegas night club LAVO, and surprise! He's a homeless rapper. The Oscar nominee jumped around the stage while performing/smoking for a perplexed crowd who have vowed never to take Ecstacy again. On the sidelines, brother-in-law Casey Affleck filmed the whole thing for a documentary I can only assume will be titled Joaquin Phoenix, Stay the Fuck Away From My Kids.

NOTE: Video of Joaquin "rapping" after the jump along with a clip of him falling off the stage in case anyone thought this was actually a legitimate performance by someone not on heroin.

The Musical Stylings of Joaquin Phoenix:


One of these people is going to die soon. Guess which one.


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so sad........... i hope someone who loves him, helps him. and fast.

dear lord

Unibomber?

it's so sad that I just spent the last fifteen minutes laughing at him.

I feel like a bitch who kicked a homeless person

oh well

the video wont work
not that the pics arent priceless...

Awesome!

wow he must really have an affinity for jim morrisons final days.

Poor Whakeen he is fuckin crazy, I always knew he was, but this shit is FULLBLOWN! He is in Britney terroritory and may actually pass her into Wacko Jacko land.

Note: As you can see I spelled his name Whakeen because I refuse to participate in this assanine "my name is spelled in a way that does not remotely relate to how it is pronouced bullshit". Why do all fucking hippie loosers give their kids stupid ass names like apple, sky, rain, and shit like that or spell their kids names like this: "Jahumauikplfznqwpdrbya" and then tell you "ya her name is Amanda it's pronouced A-m-a-n-d-a, the j,h,u,,second u,k,i,p,l,f,z,q,w,d,r,b and y are silent." With this look of supreme pride on their stupid dirty, hairy, hippy faces like they are so damn proud of their creativity.

What kind of loosers are so self absorbed and pretencious that they have to express THEIR uniqueness with thier child's name, a name the kid has for life unless they pull that P-diddy/Prince typw shit. It's your kid's name for fucks sake and it WILL affect their lives so try to maybe not be a complete asshole and give your poor bastard, hippy, child a decent fucking name, posssibly try not being high when you pick it, that would help. Thanks a bunch and P.S. Cartman is right about you; hippie's do suck.

Somewhere his brother is watching this from beyond saying "Jesus, take it easy on the drugs bro, you looked like a jack ass"

Is it just me or is that hole in his jeans close enough to his crotch
that we are now noticing his lack of penis??

its a hebrew name you ape. you're upset because you can only pronounce words spelled phonetically.

um, that looks like Zach Galifianakis, not wakeen!

I've noticed celebrities pick the stupidest possible names for their kids, it must be to cover up the fact that they are uneducated and can't spell so then when people say "huh that's an unusual spelling" and make that 'I think you speeld your kids name wrong dumbass' they can be all " Oh (*pretencious laugh*) we meant to spell it that way, it's unique, we want him/her to know how special him/her is!" Ya it sure fucking is "unique and special"even welfare trash kids with alchy parents living in trailers can spell their kids damn names right.

This is a mess and a sad one indeed. This guy is one of the best young male actors on the planet. His preformance in Gladiator was amazing and a far more intricate role than that of Russell Crowe. I always thought that Joaquin should have won the oscar that year. Okay, so he doesn't want to act anymore. Fine! But Christ, cut your hair, shave that mess off your face and leave the rapping to someone else. Most people would do anything to have your acting talent, good looks and wealth. Do some volunteering or something. Holy shit!

Someone's actually documenting his awful performances with a camera? I'm guessing even Ashton Kutchner would have turned that down.

Two things:
- Agree completely with #15.
- As for #9, look up "San Joaquin Valley" - a major agricultural area in the state of California, educate yourself.

#12. Well my bad. I could have likely looked that up. I do not speak Hebrew, anbd am not farmiliar with it. Anyway it was a joke and nothing serious and yes I did mistake it for one of those stupid ass trying to be creative spellings. Hey I am human I admit my mistake. Still many names are spelled in the most retarded manner and are clearly not the spelling from another language. Obviously that occurs constantly and that's fine one of my names is the swedish spelling, another is the french spelling. You have to admit that many names are the result of some dumbass parents trying to be cool. Anyway sorry if I offended.

I hate to give Carrollton TX native now Miami Beach douchebag Robbie Van Winkle any credit BUUUUUTT, didn't Vanilla Ice already pull this shit in the NINETIES?
Oh right, Robbie's drug of choice was lead paint chips disguised as a blunt, how silly of me.
What's next transvestism? TOO LATE, Kevin Rowlands beat him to that, too, though Rowlands thought he was a brummie hausfrau/debutante throwing up at the junior prom/hooker reunion; Joachim could try portraying famous First Ladies like Margaret Truman, Pat Nixon and Barbara Bush.

#17. Not everyone is from the U.S. do you know the names and spellings of all regions around the world? I hiughly doubt it. This is the world wide web, yet everyone seems to assume that we are all American here.

ROFL #9 I laughed more at your comment than at the video. The video is just kind of disturbing.

#9

Hey dipshit... not every language has the same phonetics as the English one. His name is spelled exactly how it should be pronounced for that language. Just like you wouldn't call someone with a Spanish name like juan - ''jooo-ahhhn".

You look like a complete tool for clarifying why you refuse to spell a name how it is pronounced and then fail to understand that the name's origin.

I hate to be the one that tells his kids that there's no Santa Claus but this whole thing is part of a mockumentary comedy that Casey Affleck is directing. The entire premise is actually very funny.

#22 Pup see #18. I speak 6 languages just not Hebrew. I have appologized so sorry to you too aswell. Fuck for a site called the superficial people are pretty damn sensitive. I was also joking around. Calm the fuck down everyone I appologized. Since he is a D-bag celebrity born to crazy hippies I mistook his name for an assanine we are trying to be cool and different spelling. I made a mistake, it's pretty fucking human. Lesson learned, I will now go read up on hebrew and learn a little more about it. I doubt any of you are an expert on everything and have never made mistakes yourselves. Not everyone is well versed in Hebrew. I won't make this mistake again. Now, get the fuck over it.

seeing him decline to this point just confirms for me that he's seeking some direction and that drugs are bad. that being said, i'm pretty sure he got that outfit from my high school's 10th grade production of "to kill a mockinbird"; oh Boo Radley, how ya been buddy?

I like him better this way lmfao.

Three more days til Obama gives us our fucking money! That's what this guy was singing about.

What the hell is this dude doing? I think he took the role in Walking the Line way to serious!!

Wow, nothing special about this guy...

most people go through this bum phase in college, he's just a little late, give the guy a break.

looks like he's being silly and having fun

you people are taking it way too seriously

I'm absolutely convinced this is part of some sort of grand experiment.

Oxycotin is a hellava drug!

/wish I had some :(

This. Is. Awesome.

If I was a mildly famous actor, I would love to pull a stunt like this. Grow my beard out, dress like a scumbag, act like I'm on drugs, and rap badly while secretly mocking the losers who pretend to dig my music just because I'm Joaquin Phoenix. And then I would, of course, peruse celebrity blogs and read the comment boards. Sounds like a great gig; he is an actor after all.

Heck, I thought his rap was as good as any of the junglebunnies like Kanye who get paid to do that shit professionally.

And sunglasses at night are not recommended as you tend to fall and trip over stuff, duh.

totally agreed #34. This is genius.

dirty & ugly, gross. no amount of money could make me hit that.

Good for him. If he enjoys it, what can it hurt. I too wish I looked like a homeless guy.

poor # 9, he sounded way more pretentious than all the shit he wrote, haha.
as for joaquin yeah he seems to be having fun
# 37 doubt he would wanna hit you

He looks like he spent the night sleeping on a transmission while being attacked by moths. And he won't sign his motel bill because people can tell things about you from your handwriting.

I blame his parents for being part of a "religious" cult in South America that encouraged children to start having sex with each other at age 4. A closer look would show that ALL the kids in that family are fucked up. And one of them used to be til he was dead.

easy on this kid- him and his brother were raised in a cult called The Family...im no expert but they sound wacko as shit and the leader was accused of forcing juveniles to have sex with relatives and other sick stuff...thats why river phoenix killed himself.......not sayin thats why MC J-Phoenix is doin how he do, but it cant fuckin help

Remember when he played Johnny Cash and everyone was like "ooohhh he did all the singing and gutiar for the role he's so smart and so talented we had to make up a new word smalented to describe his musical stylings."

now here we are. Clearly like all actors he became so self absorbed and started beleaving his own hype/started the drugs you know... to help him create. Wakkeen now has his own music that somehow manages to suck more then Scarlett Johansons. HAZZAH he must be so proud.

The most amazing part is how he's clearly a drug addict but yet not thin. Must be the wrong drugs. Don't do pills do coke. Fuck.

I agree that he is one hot mess. He really needs an intervention.

Oh, and #9 I'm surprised that you had never heard that name before -- growing up in S. CA I heard that name a lot...it's used in spanish speaking countries a lot as well.

i love joaquin..he's a great actor..yet i fail to understand why he does drugs after he watch his brother die on a sidewalk from an overdose. doesn't make sense..

@ #9 et al....
His given name was Rain.
I think he renamed himself Joaquin as a teenager, which, by the way; is a common Latino name here in southern california.

Get off your attempted elitist name hating and clean your room before mom yells at you.

Joaquin is actually an American Indian name that means: "He who likes heroin and sings like injured bird"

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1. You Fail on every level..... Plus what is it with people spelling losers as "loosers" WAKE UP YOU MORONS

Did he cut the top off his hat so he doesn't trap that frog he keeps in his hair?

Joaquin is spelled exactly as it is written here in my country, sometimes you just have to learn that things are spelled differently in different countries and sometimes people name their kids with names from different places. Joaquin is a totally common name here...

I bet you it's just a publicity stunt.. I mean.. Look what that guy that plays Borat does.. people don't know if he's for real sometimes or not. He might be doing this for a documentary on How Hollywood reacts to people who go off the deep end or something.. proving that Hollywood or the Paps drove Britney Crazy.. I dunno...

I'm just hoping its a stunt.. and not for real. He used to be so awesome.. Gladiator, Signs.. *Sigh*... why!!

does anyone care that the guy has a huge hole in his pants near the crotch, is that so the cops can't bust him for peeing on the street? or easy access? it just makes me sad that a guy with some acting chops suddenly finds legitimacy in mimicking Matisyahu. He's too easy a target.

What...the...hell...was...that??? Did he not learn ANYTHING from his brother's death?

No?

Guess not...

this is JUST LIkE THAT MOVIE NEVER BACK DOWN WHERE IT WAS JUST LIKE NEVER BACK DOWN. DO YOU RMEMBER THAT PART IN THE NEVER BACK DOWN MVIE WHERE IT WAS JUST LIKE THAT MOIVE? GOOD

and if it is a publicity stunt then.. go him. bet it'll be hilarious to some people. stoners maybe.

@45, you're right about him changing his name, but his given name was Leaf. I'm almost positive. Rain is his sister.

YES!!! it is just like that movie!!!!

His pupils are not constricted enough to indicate opiate intoxication. The glasses would not make a difference as opiates constrict the pupils regardless of environmental factors.

Yeah, his original name is Leaf. That's how he is credited in the the movie "Space Camp."

He may not care what people are saying about him, but I'm sure his publicist is reading all the message boards. He needs to make his career change quietly before he loses all credibility. How can Summer, Rain and Casey watch this and not tell him the truth. It's very sad....

He may not care what people are saying about him, but I'm sure his publicist is reading all the message boards. He needs to make his career change quietly before he loses all credibility. How can Summer, Rain and Casey watch this and not tell him the truth. It's very sad....

He is screwing with us, that is the subject of the documentary Phoenix and Affleck are filming - the rise and fall of "celebrities. Or so I pray to God cause if this isn't the case so much talent and such good looks are spent on thin air..

Wow, he is painfully white.

What self-important-and-yet-totally-irrelevant-younger-brothers-of-famous-people.

He should fall off the earth, not the stage.

Wow, he is painfully white.

What self-important-and-yet-totally-irrelevant-younger-brothers-of-famous-people.

He should fall off the earth, not the stage.

@18--

That was really big of you :)
I admire someone who can so adequately admit their slipup and move on.
Thanks for being a good person!

I just watched "Walk The Line" for the first time last week and thought "Wow, he sure is a talented man. I wish him luck with his musical career, though it's too bad we have to lose him as an actor."

...... uh. THIS is the musical career he wanted to pursue? IS this music? Does he think this could become a career? Good god, man, put the pipe down and flush the rest away! How many more confused spectators will you fall on before you understand?! You are a incestuous Roman emperor! You are an alien-bashing farm boy! You are Johnny Cash! And once you were even a bear-- but you are NOT a rapper.

To you multicultural awesome types: we speak English here. Monkey names and words should be ignored. If you are proud to not be a regular American type that's cool. Just go to some place where people think and spell and prattle like you do. You see, we hate all of your fucking guts in reality. This is a natural thing and all of us know it. But of course the capitalist pigs who have siezed all of our money here and there and everywhere want to do business (steal) in all places. And so they speak the language of the conquered long enough to displace our culture with their psuedoculture (tv, radio, newspapers etc.)

Joaquin sounds like an elongate section of feces. Is that what is means in classic retard?

we're being had, wake up- this is for a role! he has not retired from acting, he's doing it right now.

but don't be surprised, folks.
.......THERE INDEED IS MORE!!

God I want to hurt you Fish! I hate your fucking guts.
Who the fuck cares what this assholes' name is...it should be Double Dumb Ass. He's a fucking retard...just like Fish.

You said "One of these people is going to die soon. Guess which one." Now you know damn well if it happens and dude overdoses you are gonna feel like shit.

I just wish I didn't have to see the hole in the crotch of his pants.

Yuck....

On the plus side, maybe he and K-Fed could team up and become some stupid white rap duo. Rap sucks enough, how much damage could they really do to the "genre" at this point?

And I think Joaquin is a cool name. Rain, Leaf, Summer -- works better with 'Phoenix" than Joe, doncha think?

leave him alone man...he's following his dream!

He's just drunk ! so what ?

only thing im going to say is: HOLY SH*****t!!!

Men: Please shave. Like Joaquin Phoenix, you too can look like a yeti or Osama Bin Laden if you grow out the beard. I've never seen a huge beard that looks like anything other than a mass of pubic hair. DON'T DO IT.

They should have invite him to Osama's inauguration. He would have fit right in.
Rednecks of the country don't fail me now!


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@45 and 56, his given name is JOAQUIN you idiots. He changed it to Leaf because it wasn't retarded enough and he wanted to fit in with his hippie family. God.

i bet u this is some Borat/gonzo filming, and will eventually come out as a faux docu-movie. Or maybe he's just on drugs.

the comment before mine made me wanna kill myself. #4, i'm glad somebody else caught on to what i was thinking.

This makes me feel sooo embarrassed just watching it. What has happened to Joaquin?

#9-"he looks like Jesus cracked out brother"
It is a Spanish name you dipshit. The Joa part of his name is pronounced with a "w" sound.
I agree, he looks way out crazy maaan!

Wow,..a C-Rate Actor Making D-Rate music. What were the odds.

Take any movie he's been in and it's easy to imagine someone else doing a better job. There will never be a time/place in life where someone will look at this guy for a (positive) achievement and say "Wow, no one else could have done it quite like that"

Of course if he OD's we'll have to put up with all the idiots saying he was the greatest actor/musician ever. (I mean look at Heath Ledger,...before death mediocre performer, after death greatest actor ever.

And I don't care what the origin of his name is,...it sucks too.

@23 that's what I'm thinking. It proves how easily led,obsessed and fickle the media/celeb blog world is.

I feel so sorry for him!
he used to be one of the best players in the team. Many hot cougars on ****Agelessdate.COM*** wanna marry a man like him. I did see some supermodels there. I know many guys tired of dating the ordinary, maybe u can meet your special at the club :-).

I think it's his life and he should do what he wants. He may be a gifted actor and handsome, but it doesn't seem that's what he wants for himself. However, it is sad to watch him "fall apart". Seems like he has a lot to offer. I hope his dealer gets caught.

I like the easy-access masturbation hole in his pants.

Drugs are bad.....MMMMKAY??

#67 your a fuckin idiot... take your mangled hodgepodge of ideologies and make your bed before your mother tells me i can get my belt out on you...


I think joaquin went to his stylist and asked
" I'll just take the amber alert"

A speedball killed River yet whatever THIS a-hole's doing doesn't kill him? Life ain't fair.

Whoever you are superficial writer, you're probably right about this Phoenix dying soon. So Unfortunate that we and nobody else is going to stop him from doing this so publicly.

he is clearly THE GREATEST MC ALIVE TODAY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rr_cv_M1mk


Joaquin is a Spanish name. No hippie stuff, just pronounce it as in its original language. Like Arnold Schwarzennegger.

Hey #14
its " pretentious "
Lern To Spel okay ??

I don't get it. The guy did the chugga-chugga thing pretty well in Walk The Line. He should start a Western Swing band or something. I'd totally go see that. But no, instead he opts to jump up and down "rapping" like a fucking douchetard.

Hey #9 it's "losers" not "loosers"! God I hate that mistake, and it's so common too for some reason.

thats horrible.

he was sooo SEXY! what happen? he got fat and gross! ughhh

All I can think about is that big open festering puss leaking hole in his face before they surgeried him all up. This is an improvement (though he should get some moustache implants to cover his harelip tracks.)

Most of you are probably too young to remember, but he had a brother named River who died of a drug induced heart attack in front of a night club called the Viper Room in LA back in the early 90s. That was tragic because he was a young, handsome actor with a lot of potential left unrealised. Joaquin has had a lot of success but he clearly has issues personally. I hope he doesn't go down the same path.

thats the funniest shit ever. Another moron in hollywood

thats the funniest shit ever. Another moron in hollywood

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

You almost have to wonder if there's something more to this whole situation. What if Phoenix & Affleck are in on this together. They could be pushing the envelope on a Jackass/Mockumentary/Celebrity Overexposure genre picture. Trying to branch out and create a new kind of film that had never been made before Something just doesn't seem to add up with these stories. Or it could just be drugs. Lots and lots of drugs.

Okay, I don't want to respond to all the racist assholes who think that any name other than "John" or "Mike" is somehow un-American, but for the record, his hippie parents (and they were TOTAL hippies) named him Joaquin because he was born in Puerto Rico and it's a Puerto Rican name. But when he was four they let him change it to Leaf to match his siblings River and Rain (again, they were HIPPIES) but he changed it back again after River died and he almost quit acting himself. Phoenix isn't even really the family's last name, they adopted it because they travelled a lot, once to Phoenix.

But way more important than his name, is anyone close to him actually making sure that his problem isn't more serious than heroin (and that itself is pretty damn serious) but actually untreated mental illness like schizophrenia? This man needs HELP!

Joke or not, these guys are both douches.

Affleck left hundreds of people out of work when he dropped out of "The killer inside me" which was supposed to start filming last week, to "document" this b.s.

They are both buying into their own hype. Good luck getting hired on a film your brother's not directing, idiot.

I like Joaquin. Don't stop acting, mayn.

@45 @56 - none of those are their birth names: all the kids were told to choose a name when they were adolescents living in South America in a cult - the child sex abuse and drugs cult - and River chose River, Joaquin chose Joaquin, etc.

And Rain is his sister.

He looks like me after the Eagles lost...

It's Fake! It's for a mocumentary! The fall was also fake too.
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Come on now people, you don't actually believe this is legit right?? It's all an act, why else would he have his friend video taping everything?

That was pretty awesome.

aaand yet...again....another "celebrity" gone mad...it's like a viral disease...who's next??? aaaand no, i don't think this is legit ar all...just another fake ..

ummm...there is a hole near the crotch of his pants and he does not seem to be wearing underwear...is anyone else concerned?

ooooh, that's so bad ):

#78 WTF with your name? r u an idiot?

'll have to beg to differ with the superficial writer; I'm not convinced it's heroin. He's movin' around too damn quick. Not accurately, mind you, just quick. I believe it's more of a drink induced stupidity. Think Amy Winewarehouse...

WOW! My name says it all! There are 118 comments and all of them laugh at this ID-10-T (idiot). He totally messed up his portrayal of Johnny Cash, but he is doing an even worse job acting and dressing like a homeless guy and then singing like k-fed! Geez - this is ssssoooooooo sorry!

...but Joaquin should go back to acting. To think that acting actually made him "normal." I think he's thinking he's the reincarnation of Sublime; but hell, even that dude did not have a hole in the crotch of his pants. Oh, and even homeless people put on a 2nd layer of pants to hide holes. That is, once they steal them off a clothelines or something. WTF, Joaquin???

I'm thinking #9 just couldn't wait to post that dumb ass comment and then felt like shit when he realized what a dweeb he was, thus post #18. So many really stupid posts, so little time.

9: Well, look who's the retarded one. His hippie parents named him Leaf initially but he was the one who decided he wanted something more normal, hence "Joaquin", which is a legit Hispanic name &, considering that he's Puerto Rican, makes perfect sense. It isn't English, dumb ass. Get your facts right before you call someone's choice of name stupid. You just displayed your utter ignorance of cultures besides your own.

the media has complete control over u.s. citizens, so keep it up and keep dancing for them.

I saw all the "rap" videos they have on YouTube starring Joaquin.
Firstly, I can't hear the rapping at all but, if I had to judge by movement alone, I would hope to God this man was on drugs. Although, unlike #58, I'm not going to pretend like I'm a hillbilly pharmacist with x-ray abilities when clearly he is wearing glasses throughout.
Secondly, if he did convert to Floetry you must admit it is a step away from The Children of God.


On the other hand, if this has nothing to do with drugs, the Academy needs to do a lot of soul searching because after seeing this I became so worried I alerted Johnny Depp.

*dances*

Im a close friend of the phoenix family and you all just need to lay off of joaquin and the rest of them theyre just regular people trying to do what they like

Im a close friend of the phoenix family and you all just need to lay off of joaquin and the rest of them theyre just regular people trying to do what they like

If it's all an act or for real I couldn't tell - he's to talented as an actor for any of us to be sure! But I still love him - how can you not?!!
And any comments on his apparences are just lame - who cares what he wears or keep his hair? It's his choice... If you don't like what you see then look away, he's not forcing him self on anyone - to me he looks like he's having fun; and that on all others' expence and not his own!

HA! I want some o' that shit

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Joaquin Phoenix is such a phenomenal actor. Many would trade places with someone who is so gifted, and makes you wonder if he really is just "playing everyone " or he really is "lost" in drugs. I hope to God he is just playing it. I hope his true friends and family have a grip on his safety..whatever the reality may be.

Joaquin Phoenix is such a phenomenal actor. Many would trade places with someone who is so gifted, and makes you wonder if he really is just "playing everyone " or he really is "lost" in drugs. I hope to God he is just playing it. I hope his true friends and family have a grip on his safety..whatever the reality may be.

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