Jake Weird

Welcome to Jakeweird!

2006-09-01T01:23:00.000-07:00

The Blogger team has managed to rescue all my archives from this first Jake Weird, which ones I considered as irrecoverable, as you can imagine, I've breathed in full relief, my blogwork, that was gone has come back, now the first Jake Weird url address is: http://jakeweird.blogspot.com and the new one, as you already know http://jake-weird.blogspot.com, where I will keep on updating.
So you can take a look here again remembering those good times/posts/comments, folks!

Hailing a cab

2006-08-23T00:10:00.000-07:00

(pics by IHJ) This time no Mercedes Benz at sight, origin: Big Apple, August 22, direction: unknown by me.

Jake outshadowed by Maggie?

2006-08-22T15:53:00.000-07:00

Sometimes Maggie and Kirsten wear the same plaited hairdo, a Swedish style I think.

Yesterday August 21, Maggie went to the "David Letterman" show. She was stunning. My opinion is that her attractiveness has improved in the last years. Maybe having Peter as companion now is one of these factors.

Heath and Michelle

2006-08-20T23:52:00.000-07:00

This "Land of plenty" is one of my favourite films starred by Michelle Williams in the role of Lana who says near the ending: "Because they hate America. And it came from such an honest place and from so many people, that i just... I knew that something had gone wrong... and that has become my nightmare".

Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish in the film "Candy" of Neil Armfield, based on the novel by Luke Davis.

Snakes in a Shirt?

2006-08-19T18:12:00.000-07:00

Off topic: Ugly snakes and a blonde

2006-08-19T10:06:00.000-07:00

Elsa Pataky, more known in Spanish cinema, as Maria in the infamous "Snakes on a Plane".

Cuddly cuties

2006-08-18T16:11:00.000-07:00

From Bubble Boy to Sin City

2006-08-17T14:57:00.000-07:00

Marley Shelton's character, The Customer in "Sin City", appeared only at the beginning, together Josh Harnett, who gunfires her, and that was a quite indeleble scene.

The Bubble Bride

2006-08-16T16:20:00.000-07:00

THE BUBBLE BOY

"There was a boy, who lived in a bubble.
Germs, they feared, would bring him trouble!

He fell in love, with the girl next door.
Said his Mom, she's just a whore!

Many good times, they had together,
although the boy, was kept on a tether.

Alas for him, she got engaged.
It threw the boy, into a rage.

So he took off, to track her down.
Even though, he looked like a clown!

He finally found her, in spite of all,
because he followed "True Loves Call".

To be his bride, she did agree.
Of his bubble, he was finally free."

(poem courtesy by Roconner from Jake Watch Messageboard)

True Siblings

2006-08-15T17:12:00.000-07:00

The photo of the largest Marie Claire Maggie on the cover I could find. This is gonna be her year, with five movies in a row: "Monster House", "WTC", "Trust the Man", "Sherrybaby" (September) and "Stranger than fiction" (October).

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Jake?

2006-08-14T15:39:00.000-07:00

"Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a color TV?
Dialing For Dollars is trying to find me.
I wait for delivery each day until three,
So oh Lord, won't you buy me a color TV?

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town?
I'm counting on you, Lord, please don't let me down.
Prove that you love me and buy the next round,
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town?

Everybody!
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends,
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

That's it!" -MERCEDES BENZ of "PEARL" album- by JANIS JOPLIN

Jake & Tobey part III

2006-08-13T16:39:00.000-07:00

Their similar gestures amuse me, I'm a bit scaried by some of them, like the spider drawn on Jake's face.

Compulsive shopping

2006-08-12T10:06:00.000-07:00

It's a sad truth they go shopping separately now. Not a bad idea if Kirsten buys that "Self healing" book of the store stand.

Jake and Tobey part II

2006-08-12T03:45:00.000-07:00

"I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want"-Tobey Maguire quote.
"I have and abstract mind. It doesn't fit everywhere, but it fits in the world of performing." -Jake Gyllenhaal quote.

Jake and Tobey part I

2006-08-10T05:28:00.000-07:00

These two guys have downright things in common, as their film careers as well as having their respective places in my heart
-Jake's is larger, though-.

Jake and Reese

2006-08-08T20:24:00.000-07:00

Reese Witherspoon, and Jake is a master at spoons.

Boo's comeback

2006-08-07T12:06:00.000-07:00

I bet Jake could tame a fierce king lion if he intended. Atticus, Boo and the jungle king, beware paps!

Jake at the pet store

2006-08-06T01:23:00.000-07:00

In the search of the best dog bones/sticks. I've heard they are manufactured in available fruits flavors as strawberry, banana or apple, too. Mmmm...

WTC Reviews

2006-08-05T00:55:00.000-07:00

"Just about every movie critic will immediately want to draw comparisons between Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center and Paul Greengrass’ heralded United 93, which was released earlier this year. I do not unfortunately have that luxury, as I am still awaiting United 93 to be released on DVD. I did not catch that one in theaters for fear of it being possibly too soon to be seeing films about 9/11. Since then I have changed my mind slightly about the 9/11 issue and decided to screen Stone’s World Trade Center because, as I found, it is a film that needs to be seen.

The film tells the amazing survival story of Port Authority Police officers John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and Will Jimeno (Michael Pena), who were trapped underneath the rubble of the fallen towers on that fateful autumn day. It also shows the horrific event from the eyes of the two officers’ families. As both McLoughlin’s wife Donna (Maria Bello) and Jimeno’s wife Allison (Maggie Gyllenhaal) await the fates of their beloved husbands, we lay witness to their most terrifying hours.

The film itself is meant to be a story of hope and survival; as the tag line says “The World saw evil that day. Two men saw something else.” It begins in a very somber manner, painting a beautiful picture of America’s greatest city. After this calm and serene view of New York is set forth, Stone unleashes what would become the most horrifying half of a movie ever put on film. There is no political tone, there is no vision of the terrorists, there is just shadows of the planes hitting the buildings and then the gruesome reality of what really happened on that day sets in. The visuals are spectacular in their nightmarish accuracy. As I watched the towers crumble from the inside out, a lump built up in my throat and the tears began to well up in my eyes; it was an emotional experience like no other.

After the intense moments of horror and chaos, the film slows down. The second half of the movie shows the two men buried beneath the rubble, fighting to stay alive as they await the aid that may or may not eventually come. We also watch as their families go through the rollercoaster of emotions felt by all whose loved ones were involved that day. The unfortunate part is that as the story moves on and comes to a close, the film has less and less of an emotional effect on the audience. To put it bluntly, the film goes flat in the second half as we barrel towards what we already know will be a somewhat benevolent ending.

Therein lies the problem with this film; it does not deliver the immense emotional response based on the quality of the film, but more so the horrid nature of the events portrayed within it. It feels more like half of a great film than anything else, crawling to a close with a mix of untimely humor and drawn out sentimental moments. The performances are all solid, especially that of Michael Pena, but I found a hard time connecting with the two men. I felt less like I was watching what really happened and more like I was watching two professional actors half heartedly reenact what happened. I guess, in short, the second part of the film felt less real, therefore it was less impactful."
More in: The columbus movie guy

Another review extract, by www.epinions.com:

"Michael Pena, an actor who made an impression in CRASH, being less familiar, may be even more impressive as the Latino father, Will Jimeno, married to a feisty Italian woman, who argues with him about the name of their second daughter-to-be.

Maggie Gyllenhaal (SECRETARY, 2002) and Maria Bello (A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, 2005) display a splendid lack of glamor and makeup in portraying the wives, and the rest of the cast is suitably downbeat. Many of them are retired New York City police officers, and one of the best crowd scenes is of the genuine tenderness and cameradery these grizzled men show toward the survivors being hauled from their tomb and passed along a double line toward waiting ambulances.

On the down side, in the editing process, the Pezzulo family, perhaps justifiably, objected to the graphic image of Dominick Pezullo's death. The offending shot was cut, but it leaves the viewer confused for a time just how Officer Pezzulo did die.

But I can report the film also has a very gratifying denouement."
More in: Epinions Review

World Trade Center N.Y. Premiere

2006-08-04T01:00:00.000-07:00

Maggie was glowing -maybe Peter supplied her a make-up and shampoo Victoria Secret's lot- and what a mommy-cleavage that Maggie is showing off, folks!

Fueling my cinephile addiction

2006-08-03T21:21:00.000-07:00

My Film Narrative Survey answers:

1) What film made you angry, either while watching it or in thinking about it afterward?
“Crash“, while watching and hours afterwards, and right now typing this.
2) One of your favorite movie lines: “Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff” -by Harvey Pekar.
3) Describe a perfect moment in a movie: the phone scene between George Bailey & Mary.
4) Most exotic or otherwise unusual place in which you ever saw a movie: In my brother’s bedroom, it’s a total unusual exotic place.
5) Is it possible to know with any certainty if you could like or love someone based partially on his or her taste in movies? If so, what film might be a potential relationship deal-breaker for you, or the one that might just seal that deal?
Deal-breaker: Rambo movies fan (any of the saga), seal the deal if he loves “Detour”.
6) The scene you most wish you could have witnessed being filmed: the dance scene in the bar of “Moonlight Mile”.
7) Ideal pairing of actors/actresses to play on-screen siblings (or parents and children): Gena Rowlands and Laura Linney.
8) Your favorite movie poster/one-sheet, or the one you’d most like to own: I own a one-sheet of “Secretary”.
9) With total disregard for whether it would ever actually be considered, even in this age of movie recycling, what film exists that you feel might actually warrant a sequel, or would produce a sequel you’d actually be interested in seeing?
I’d like to see a sequel to “Fallen Angels” (Kar Wai Wong)
10) Your favorite political movie: “Arlington Road”.
11) Favorite special effects moment: “Matrix”, when Neo is deprogrammed.
12) What is the movie you’ve encouraged more people to see than any other? Possibly “Donnie Darko”.
13) Your favorite movie theater: Oscar Cinemas Les Gavarres.
14) Your favorite film made for children:
"The nightmare before Christmas".
15) Your favorite character name: Betty Etamble.
16) Your favorite film of 1970s, -80s, -90s:
“Taxi driver“, “Videodrome“, “Fight club”
17) Your favorite movie based on a book you've read:
“A clockwork orange”
18) Your favorite book you'd like to see as a movie and who should direct and star:
“The killer inside me” (Jim Thompson) translated to screen by Darren Aronofsky, starring Peter Sarsgaard.
19) Describe a moment in a movie that made you weep: when Holden commits suicide in “The Good Girl”
20) Describe a transcendent moment in a film (a moment when you realized a film that just seemed routine or merely interesting before had become something much more):
When Leonard in “Memento” talks about his dead wife to Natalie, and flashs of her are shown in slow-motion.

Jake, Mark, and blonde chicks

2006-08-02T16:20:00.000-07:00

Jake and Mark Ruffalo filming "Zodiac".

Jake and Ryan Philippe working out in Westwood (June 2006)

Ryan and Reese Witherspoon.

Reese and Mark in "Just like Heaven".

Mark dancing with Kirsten Dunst.

Mark & Kirsten in a scene of "Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind".
Do some of you still remember that imaginary Jake and Mark Ruffalo "discussion"?

I searched and found a perfect movie

2006-08-01T20:04:00.000-07:00

When I was a teenager my mom was my heroine, the perfect woman/wife/friend who shared all her secrets with me. Growing up, I was slowly opening my eyes: she wasn't perfect, but she would indelibly entail the greatest influence that remained inside my persona. My mother loved American actresses like Marilyn Monroe, Joanne Woodward and Natalie Wood, whenever she defended a free-spirited woman was so passionate about it, that now these remembrances bring a warm smile to my mouth. When she argued with my dad, he always complained screaming: you're much like those American crazy women!
So, when I watched "Donnie Darko" the first time, I had to confront two myths of mine: a sacred mother figure and teenage depression. I think I could get over both of them, fortunately, and it's one of the rare films that I'm completely sure helped me to be wiser. In a personal level, for me "Donnie Darko" is a story about American matriarchy, and a proof of that it's possible a cinematographic life after Howard Hawks.

Here it is my review in response to Arden's petition:
"Donnie is a young man who thinks constantly in girls and experiments sexual pulsions.
About that matter, his parents -specially Rose- are naïve at best. The mother is afraid and prefers Donnie attending therapy more than confronting sexual growth in a chat. She pays another woman -Dr. Thurman- instead. The therapist is friendly and Donnie reveals her some of his fantasies. It's possible that Donnie is feeling some incestuous impulses for his sister, since he hasn't had real experience with girls. In Director's cut Elizabeth asks him about Gretchen while carving a pumpkin and is curious in the Halloween party when Donnie goes upstairs with Gretchen. This may suggest Elizabeth takes some kinda control over Donnie's sexuality in the same way the matriarch of the family does.
Donnie endures all this family control only in his subconscious, but he isn't capable of admitting it. Uniquely in the first dinner scene he gets rebellious remarking desdainful comments to his sisters and insulting his mother afterwards.
His search of sexual realization is giddy, leading him to a classical teenager schizo process that forms in his mind the culmination of a monster shaped bunny: Frank.
The bunny is the real Elizabeth's boyfriend, equalling him in his psyque as a sexual rival. However, the external form is devoid of human attachments, only a grotesque suit, maskering his guilt. His virtual TV fantasies and matriarchal repression, all this fight is reflected by the artificial evil bunny, who scares him dreadfully in his visions non-stop.
Franks is by this logic Donnie’s psyque reflector.
This also would explain his sudden way of asking Gretchen to going out with him, 'cause his desire is so intense. Evidently Gretchen is the perfect girl, 'cause she comes from a disfunctional home and hides herself from a violent male patriarchal figure. She is an angel to Donnie's eyes in cause of her romantic behaviour but most definitively by her sexual freedom, which separates her from the other scholar girls Donnie has met. Gretchen stops Donnie's advances in a scene showing him that an emotional contact must be involved in their future sexual relationship too. She's wiser in this aspect...
So summing up: the female figure is Gretchen and the male figure is Donnie. The smurfette lecture reveals us how important sex is for Donnie: for him life has NO MEANING without sex. When Donnie and Gretchen culminate their union, they are happy and isolated from society, so society is now ready for punish them. Donnie’s hysteria makes him to run away with Gretchen, but the tragedy will appear when Frank -the evil reflector of American matriarchy and its inherente obscenity (repression)- ends killing her. Donnie prefers awakening dead than suffering a surrender to the dominant point of view of the society".

Squatting down

2006-07-31T22:46:00.000-07:00

When will Boo reappear? Those were good times! Although I'm more fond of cats. I wish he would acquire a red persian cat as a new pet to his collection. (Pics by IHJ and JustJared)

Love is here to stay

2006-07-30T17:11:00.000-07:00

"Your skin glows like the flowers, blossoms
as the gardenias in the hope of new hours.
My heart follows your voice but I still feel shame
of meowing like a kitten whispering your name.
The evening floats as a ripped dirty mouse
I'd be so comforted if your visited my house.
I am filled with faith that maybe, someday,
I can drink feverishly your tears of milkshake;
and not, it's not what you're thinking, my sleazy Jake.
As my hips fall off my jeans, it reminds me of your lips.
In the quiet, I listen for the last rattle of the day.
Remember naughty man, I'm here to stay".
-by Kendra-

As well as it's a Lou Reed song, it's a possible title for this little poem, which was previously published in Jake Watch forum.

Almost Siblings?

2006-07-28T16:23:00.000-07:00

Both share multitasking skills, musical virtues, and even a similar pendant. On the other hand, my brother and me have a only thing in common: we're lazy.

Maggie inspires poetry

2006-07-27T11:15:00.000-07:00

"WATCHING YOU STRIP / MY DAUGHTER"

"Words evaporate (laughable)
breathing you in
in the bleached bone beam
of 760 souls perched
just like me (hypnotizable)
never did I dream
of how full you'd unlock all
the heart/lung/liver
wildness wilderness
blood flow of asteroids -

(It's driving a fucking Maserati, babe,
is what it is. Shit!!) -never did I dream this...

and so some critic's knife will try to cut
(just like Medea's logic, I suppose,
before her smiling children)

-But dies are cast, my girl proud, and so the knife?
And what? of them and theirs?
This is the stream that moves to lakes and rivers
rocks and ocean tides of something oh so far
much grander all than waht the critics see
and who they've been and what they think they know.
The future stretches out her nasty reach
and you can't hide. The growing hurts -remember
sudden ten year old longs arms knocking down a
glass? -and now you move in heels and silk
with grace that takes our fear away.
The growing hurts (and scares the weak!)
And much to learn (of course! Of course!)
Be humble, sure (but stay the course
of something so much larger now than us
or them/or king/or pauper/plumber/niece)

Unleash all of the sun flare's rage
And bet your ass you're in for it (the thick of it)

the rise and fall of all
that now has come before,
amen (no woman's friend,)
will fight you hard

but all tides turn (some modulations, yes, of course)

-but bray away
unloose old Zeus
and weep and cringe
till the cows come in

(Of course, the
fragile shit:
we walk across
the Julia Roberts dizziness
and tenderness etcetera

but how much MORE is
what I saw -to lead us all
to kingdom come? No,
queens to come! the strength of mothrs
grandmothers
great grandmothers
great great grandmothers cut fall
loose

So

look out, folks
my daughter strips
the eyes
the hips
the cheeks
the lips

the power of this!

The journey of the femenine
is soon to be put right again."

-by Stephen Gyllenhaal-
(extracted from from "Claptrap: Notes for Hollywood")

Natalie gets blonde and angry

2006-07-25T23:24:00.000-07:00

Looking back "Malibu days" of Jake and Natalie,

and of Jake and Sophia Bush in Malibu,

I remember that tune sung by Courtney Love:

"MALIBU"

"Crash and burn
All the stars explode tonight
How'd you get so desperate?
How'd you stay alive?
Help me please
Burn the sorrow from your eyes
Oh come on, be alive again
Don't lay down and die

Hey hey, you know what to do
Oh baby, drive away to Malibu

Get well soon
Please don't go any higher
How are you so burned when you're barely on fire?
Cry to the angels
I'm gonna rescue you
I'm gonna set you free tonight, baby
Pour over me

Hey hey, we're all watching you
Oh baby, fly away to Malibu
Cry to the angels
That swallow you
Go and part the sea, yeah, in Malibu

And the sun goes down
I watch you slip away
And the sun goes down
I walk into the waves
And the sun goes down
I watch you slip away
And I walk
And I knew love would tear you apart
Oh, and I knew the darkest secret of your heart

Hey hey, I'm gonna follow you
Oh baby, fly away, yeah, to Malibu
Oceans of angels
Oceans of stars
Down by the sea is where you drown your scars

I can't be near you
The light just radiates" -Hole("Celebrity Skin")

Peace Times

2006-07-24T20:55:00.000-07:00

"We don't do body counts"
-General Tommy Franks (US Central Command)

The Cavalier Daily Review

2006-07-22T19:07:00.000-07:00

"On Oct. 2, 1988, 16-year-old Donnie Darko hears from an evil bunnyman named Frank that the world will end in approximately 28 days. The same night, a 747 jet engine plunges from the sky into Donnie's Middlesex, Va., bedroom, where he would be crushed to death were he not busy sleepwalking through a nearby golf course. Meanwhile, the Dukakis-Bush race heats up, and "Back to the Future" has turned time travel into something feasible.

Pay close attention. You might miss something.

From 26-year-old Virginia native Richard Kelly comes an ambitious and highly imaginative directorial debut. "Donnie Darko" is the story of an emotionally troubled teenager who gets progressively more unsound and destructive as the movie goes on. But its psychological thrills comprise only one of the various elements of "Donnie Darko" - it's got suburban farce, sci-fi futurama, black comedy and coming-of-age dramedy carefully knit into it too.

"Donnie Darko" was released in October of last year and has since gone on to win several esteemed nominations and awards, including a Grand Jury Prize nomination at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Although the film takes place in Virginia and was written and directed by a Virginian, it has never been actually screened in Virginia ... until today!

Thanks to the efforts of the Virginia Festival Film Society, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the University's OFFScreen, "Donnie Darko" will be shown at 7 p.m. this evening at Vinegar Hill Theatre. As a special treat, Kelly will be in attendance to discuss his film after the screening.

A graduate of Midlothian High School, Kelly grew up in Richmond's southside suburbs in the late '80s. Those of us from that area will recognize in "Donnie Darko" the all-too-familiar characters of high school in central Virginia - the hickish bullies, the small-minded Southern Baptist gym teacher and the disturbingly conservative PTA. Poor Donnie. No wonder he needs therapy.

Played by promising young actor Jake Gyllenhaal ("Goodbye Hello," "October Sky"), Donnie is a sharp, perceptive 16-year-old with a penchant for profanity and somnambulant migrations. He is messed up in the head, but only as messed up as everyone else is in this claustrophobic suburban nightmare.

The film gets weird fast and quickly gets weirder and weirder as Donnie becomes more entrenched in paranoia and delusory visions. But nothing is as it seems, and even the most insignificant of details are worthy of a closer look as the stupefying climax approaches.

It's the marriage of "American Beauty" to "12 Monkeys" with "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" presiding over the ceremony. "Donnie Darko" weds suburban satire to time-bending science fiction, all within the context of the baffling late '80s. It's a film that breaks barriers of time and space as well as genre, and whose aftermath will keep viewers' minds reeling for a good while, urging a second or third viewing.

Kelly wrote "Donnie Darko" in six weeks, after graduating from the University of Southern California Film School. Although he had few contacts in Hollywood at the time, Kelly had great material and incredible luck."
-Megan Milks (Arts & Entertainment Editor)

Cavalier Daily article

"Nowhere Boy" poem

2006-07-21T17:59:00.000-07:00

"Don't you ever wonder about the nowhere boy?
Don't you ever feel happy or feel very dark?
There is no escaping from the nowhere boy.
His lips are carved in cherry and his mind is a spark
And I'm thinking in trying his game
knowing that I will never be the same.
Don't you feel temptation for the nowhere boy?
who lives in a land where your smile turns coy?
And someone tells you that his name is Jake,
that he reads and he swims in a boling lake.
Jake can burn your hair with the heat from his kiss
only he can turn your hell into pure bliss,
He can run a thousand ways without a trace,
is Jake truly of the human race?
when daily routine is such a cold place
and the future is a fairy dressed as a Hollywood star,
in my daydreams I find Jake smiling inside a bar,
and he asks me for dancing and kisses my face." (by Kendra)

This poem was published previously in Jake Watch forum.

From L.A. to France

2006-07-20T16:26:00.000-07:00

Emulating "Easy Rider" style and maybe searchin' for a romance se laissent aller dans la folle nuit à la va-vite!

Give me Another Drink!

2006-07-19T00:00:00.000-07:00

Give me a Drink!

2006-07-17T16:06:00.000-07:00

That's the power of positive drinking, folks.

A rabbit near him

2006-07-15T17:46:00.000-07:00

Gretchen Ross: You're weird.
Donnie: Sorry.
Gretchen: No, that was a compliment.

Reading my book to a horse

2006-07-14T17:36:00.000-07:00

Kendra Nasty Loves You

2006-07-13T16:25:00.000-07:00

Kendra Loves You, Baby. And you can read all the story when you come home.

Admiring Natalie's Assets

2006-07-12T15:26:00.000-07:00

Natalie's Variations

2006-07-12T04:47:00.000-07:00

Natalie Pre-4th July

2006-07-11T15:11:00.000-07:00

First, waiting tulips in hands, now a relaxing stroll near Malibu beach. Mmm... will this story continue? where are they going?

I couldn't stop it at IV Part

2006-07-10T04:25:00.000-07:00

I've replaced this pic by another in IV Part entry -and I've enlarged/changed pics in several previous Jake&Kiki entries- for watching this single because it's one of my favourites of them.
Her coy smile and Jake leaning towards her is combustion stuff.

Couple Swapping?

2006-07-07T04:23:00.000-07:00

Watch out, Jake. That guy Peter is a stone fox.

Democracy by Stephen Gyllenhaal

2006-07-06T00:33:00.000-07:00

"Democracy"

"I windshield shimmer her
jaunt down Wilshire Blvd.
just west of Rodeo Drive,
her beauty all past benz
and maseratis
legs,
dear god, she wears
nothing
below her belt
(pudenda v
as clear as black)
her dancing joints,
no skirt, no pants,
I?m lost. A prostitute
on drugs?
And brown as Africa
this deep princess lost
just past our dawn
as business men retreat to work
and I drive east,
her limbs a puppet?s gift?
no
my mistake up close
a mini leather, lace and gold confederacy
are mocking my slave owner?s naked dreams
as she, amphetamine dressed, and graceful
stutters on past grinding gods
of glass and stone and stainless steel
her lantern dim held humbly high to bless me, god,
for I have liberty from what I feel."

-Excerpt from "Claptrap:Notes from Hollywood"

Whimsical Resemblances

2006-07-06T00:23:00.000-07:00

Richard Kelly & Kevin Smith reunion

2006-07-05T04:57:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow,Thursday, July 6th, from 6:30-8:30PM Richard Kelly and Kevin Smith will meet at "Secret Stash" (1045 Westwood Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90024)for signing copies of the "SOUTHLAND TALES" prequel graphic novel.

"Claptrap" Jake Poem

2006-07-02T17:03:00.000-07:00

"At 25 "

"a man now stand you
on roots no one can claim
as good as you
(pure born god-son
look at you anywhere
across the globe).
At birth you were blue
I witnessed you suck
that first breath in and turn
as white as snow on top
of Everest. Pure. Pure.
Goodness and Mercy.
Jumble of words my only
clue to give to you
for your mountain view
to burn the libraries
and burn us too
(all that’s come
before you.)
Your (my side) grandfather’s
head handed him
on a silver Salome platter (he knew
more than he could hold on to)
and your great grandfather
stumbled and I shamble
and out of the phoenix ash
of my/your ancestral men you flew
out of the John Baptist ash
you flew beyond the pebbles
in the Jordan where we, the men
before you wash our sad, sad feet
but not for naught—the truth
when sung soothes far beyond
all gold.
I remember your grandfather
(not sober) singing, weeping
in my high gliding stone dead
gothic church—
“A voice of one, crying
in the wilderness, prepare ye
the way of the Lord.”
I remember holding you, screaming
with good rage in a Sea Ranch night.
Taking you outside under the moon
and the giant pines—screaming, screaming.
Holding you. I didn’t know what else to do.
Kicking. Screaming with good rage
till you slowly trembled yourself into rest.
Forgive us, Lord, we know
not what we do.
Good rage. Burn us to the ground.
Good rage. So little good seems
to have come of John the Baptist
and what followed. Your grandfather
loved John the Baptist. Wept and sung
his words and went too easily
into their good night
which I won’t do.
All these words and others too
are here for you, may they be true."
It is from the Book "Claptrap" -Notes from Hollywood

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Peter "Jarsgaard"

2006-07-02T07:51:00.000-07:00

"There's a quality my character has about not caving in to the physical or mental demands of your job" -Peter Sarsgaard quote about "Jarhead".

Donnie Darko Poem

2006-06-30T23:43:00.000-07:00

"AMAZING STORIES FORBIDDEN CHAPTER"

"He has fallen in the dreams of somebody, it remains the same scene on the screen,
through the junctions of the television set the blood flows hauntingly clean.
After collapsing, his prescription is tolueno, inexpressable Placidyl pill.
His vision field is based on an infinitesimal infest of a new insectile...
During a fraction he is seeing his image and the dining room,
at least it's what he thinks,
I'm such a loon,
in the film reel, alternating and turning his gear wheels Donnie sinks,
until the point and the line that forms a few atoms of each gear to surmenage.
The forks perforating his flag on the ceiling, undoing the package,
Hiding his placebos, a back giant pink spot arises and fixes in his grimaced face.
He sleeps soft and there it is the sequence. The image tube makes it wait and arrive.
It is disconnected and goes away. Donnie is travelling, feeling divided.
His blue eyes in a route map to Selten City, to the crowd dive.
The future will let be outlined like abstract besieged by past.
Miss Sandrace of Palm Springs beaches she is not.
A ruthless muse of an indie rocker which was really hot?
Donnie tells foreigners he met a girl who drives him nuts,
that her fiancèe name is Gretchen Ross.
She looks like a ray of old Europe, a trace of a gloss.
He had dreamt when he remained slept in her land.
He unzipped his trousers every night with his left hand.
He had seen a forbidden chapter of Amazing Stories.
There was a perverse magician showing chops and gories,
who extracted from a top hat a terrific rabbit with enormous teeth.
Glut the market, he said to the rabbit whose eyes were so red lit,
flouting of Donnie. I missed watching that chapter, Gretchen told him.
It wasn't more than an inoffensive rabbit, Gretchen asks what did it seem?
when the magician removes it to the outside: a monster-rabbit Donnie replies.
Gretchen dropped some tears when Donnie stopped telling the dream.
She knew since then he hadn’t been making it up, Donnie never lied.
The boy who watched cartoons was persecuted by the rabbit and died." (by Kendra)

Selma's Appeal

2006-06-30T03:41:00.000-07:00

Sweet Enigma of Natalie

2006-06-30T02:48:00.000-07:00

"I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet -these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy" -Natalie Portman quote.

Déjà-vu, time travel or Deadly is the "male"?

2006-06-29T02:14:00.000-07:00

I love that old noir-film about a gun-passionate femme fatale, from Joseph H. Lewis (1949): "Deadly is the female". Peggy Cummings was sexy, and Jake was even mooore sexy as neophyte rifle teen and as Marine sniper.

Seduction Games

2006-06-25T18:14:00.000-07:00

Back to the blonde times

2006-06-24T19:21:00.000-07:00

Some people support the theory that they really weren't meant to be, that it was about a dazed messed love, but damn they made a shocking cute couple.

Jake's weird war

2006-06-21T18:11:00.000-07:00

"A man fires a rifle for many years. And he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armoury. And he believes he's finished with the rifle. But [...] His hands still remember the rifle"

More Ellen

2006-06-21T06:34:00.000-07:00

Call me sentimental, but Ellen Pompeo and me are namesakes in part, and moreover, she was phenomenal in "Moonlight Mile" -her debut in big screen- and as Nicole in brainless comedy "Old School".
I look forward to seeing her soon in "Life of the Party".

When the shy guy met a fab woman

2006-06-20T23:30:00.000-07:00

Great film "Moonlight Mile", featuring Ellen Pompeo as Bertie, love interest of Joe Nast, performed in a subtle mood by Jake.

They seem so attractive together despite the age gap.

The Decisive Aura of Maggie

2006-06-20T22:58:00.000-07:00

"Secretary" is one of those films I can't live without. And this delicious film improved significatively Maggie's career. Lee Holloway is my heroine.

When she was a close friend of Kirsten Dunst.

With her present companion actor Peter Sarsgaard.

A Potential Ladies' Man

2006-06-20T22:48:00.000-07:00

Another possible companions:

Beauty Natural Reserve

2006-06-20T21:09:00.000-07:00

Breathless!

2006-06-20T20:27:00.000-07:00

Now, if you love me,
let's please don't tease
If I can hold you then
let me squeeze
My heart goes 'round and 'round
My love comes tumblin' down
You leave me breathless
Oh, I shake all over and
you know why
I'm sure it's love and
that's no lie
'cause when you call my name
I burn like wood inflamed
You leave me breathless
Oh, baby! Mmmm. Crazy!
You're much too much
I can't love you enough
Now it's all right to hold me tight,
but when you love me love me right
Now, come on, baby Don't be shy
'cause love was meant for you and I
Wind, rain, sleet or snow
I will be wherever you go
You leave me (breathe out...)Breathless

Shadow of a Jake doubt

2006-06-20T19:19:00.000-07:00

Someday,
Tomorrow will come.
Though I'm not afraid of today,
That's for sure.

You laughed at me,
For the last time.
You've got to understand,
It just wasn't in the plan.

To me, your life was ended,
When I said goodbye to you.

Ah ha ha, you laughed at me,
For the last time.
Now there's nothing left,
Tired of playing games.

Your mind is lost,
In a world that wasn't made for you,
Though I feel the same way, too
I still got some things to do.

Weird Exclusive!

2006-06-20T18:46:00.000-07:00

Yeah, a lot of sane people figured that something disastrous would be the result of that rollercoaster relationship and breakup between these two: an unexpected pregnancy. Kirsten doesn't assume any responsibility, and Jake is too sensitive for struggling alone.

the Graduate version Grunge

2006-06-18T12:08:00.000-07:00

Mysterious Smirk after stunning shots

2006-06-16T03:15:00.000-07:00

Glamour and dorkiness

2006-06-15T20:32:00.000-07:00

Sublime Dorkiness

2006-06-15T19:20:00.000-07:00

Is there out a dorkier Hollywood star than Jake? I doubt it, folks.

The GODDESS of Fuck

2006-06-14T21:51:00.000-07:00

"I like it... Hit the road, flee for your life, meet a doll whose got "once and a lifetime girl of my dreams and reason to believe" written all over her like so much graffitti. It could only happen to the god of fuck." -Pilot Kelson in "Highway"

HIGH VOLTAGE KISSES

2006-06-08T07:36:00.000-07:00

Curvaceous and patriotic, give it a chance, Jake!

2006-06-01T19:13:00.000-07:00

No, and this doesn't relate to those Maggie G's declarations and the fact she has made 3 films about the same controversial matter.

I love when he seems sad

2006-06-01T18:49:00.000-07:00

Beautiful partenaires

2006-06-01T18:42:00.000-07:00

OMG more HIGH profile kisses

2006-06-01T18:37:00.000-07:00

Lust for Life

2006-06-01T18:30:00.000-07:00

Bebe Buell was once my muse, when she was crazy, young and punk, and possibly she would have dreamed of banging Jake too.

Donnie Darko's Dark Girl

2006-06-01T18:18:00.000-07:00

Forget Kirsten, an ideal new girlfriend

2006-05-17T03:23:00.000-07:00

I know curvaceous women are not exactly his type, but perhaps he should try.

Recurrent typical love stills

2006-05-17T03:13:00.000-07:00

Intimate scenes

2006-05-17T03:07:00.000-07:00

Two of the most terrifying moments in my cinematic experience

2006-05-17T03:01:00.000-07:00

That crooked smile gives me neurasthenia as side-effect. The first shot is pure tension in one of the most lucid and disorienting Jake's expressions.

Abysmal American Male Beauty

2006-05-16T22:47:00.000-07:00

Guitar rocks!!

2006-05-16T18:40:00.000-07:00

I´ve always had a thing for guitar players, and I know Jakes liked playing guitar, too. Wow, that rocks my world.

The myth of Donald

2006-05-16T17:31:00.000-07:00

The creator of all this insanity: Richard Kelly, who will present his last film "Southland Tales", but without Jake it won't be the same.

Very well accompanied

2006-05-16T07:24:00.000-07:00

Anna, Emmy, Jen, Gwyneth, and by the way, what the beep is so funny for Charlize?

Scenes from "The good girl"

2006-05-16T03:21:00.000-07:00

Former lookalikes

2006-05-16T03:10:00.000-07:00

A classic flame of mine: Jenny

2006-05-16T02:52:00.000-07:00

Woman of Jake?

2006-05-16T02:45:00.000-07:00

Cute couple

2006-05-16T02:28:00.000-07:00

IV part

2006-05-16T02:26:00.000-07:00

III part

2006-05-16T02:23:00.000-07:00

II part

2006-05-16T02:22:00.000-07:00

story about a Hollywood passion

2006-05-16T02:20:00.000-07:00

Prêt-à-porter Jake

2006-05-16T02:17:00.000-07:00

romantic lines for Jake

2006-05-16T02:16:00.000-07:00

I found a reason to keep living
Oh and the reason, dear, is you
I found a reason to keep singing
Oh and the reason, dear, is you

Oh I do believe
If you dont like things you leave
For some place you never gone before
Honey, I found a reason to keep living
And you know the reason, dear its you
And Ive walked down lifes lonely highways
Hand in hand with myself
And I realized how many paths have crossed between us

Oh I do believe
Youre all what you perceive
What comes is better that what came before

Oh and you better come come to me

Dissappointment is sweet too

2006-05-16T02:14:00.000-07:00

one of these days

2006-05-16T02:13:00.000-07:00

One of these days
And its peculiar
Gonna look for me
And baby Ill be gone
One of these days
And it wont be long
You gonna call my name
And Ill be far gone

Im gonna tell you something
That I aint told no one before
That is if I cant stop dancing
And get my poor self off this bar room floor

One of these days
And its peculiar
Babe youre gonna call my name
You now that Ill be gonne (bye bye baby)

Im gonna tell you something
That I aint told no one before
That is if I cant stop dancing
And get my poor self off this bar room floor

One of these days
And it wont be long
You gonna call my name
And Ill be gone

Wild thing

2006-05-16T02:11:00.000-07:00

"You make my heart sing / You make everything"

romantic song for Jake

2006-05-16T02:09:00.000-07:00

People swear opposities attract
I don't care about that
Is it fiction or fact
We're identically sad
We're got tears rolling up our sleeves
Nobody here's putting us at ease
Is it fiction or fact
We're identically sad
Never a moon on water shone
You do here
We're got tears rolling up our sleeves
We're got tears rolling up our sleeves
Pregnant for minutes
And bored for hours
not soon enough
He'll be ours
Is it fiction or fact
We're identically sad
To be with him for just one night
would you throw away
your whole damn life
Never a moon on waterworks
Just you and me
We're got tears rolling up our sleeves

Go to bed

2006-05-16T02:08:00.000-07:00

So sexy I am breathless...

third song for Jake

2006-05-16T01:50:00.000-07:00

've seen her face
in those scented magazines

all is forgivin'
i love her still
and we're home, home
goin' home

the chrysler building
was talkin' to the empire state
the twin towers
were talkin' to each other
sayin' all is forgivin'
i love you still
and we're home, home
goin' home

what she saw in him
nobody knew
it's a mystery
what she saw in him
nobody could tell
now it's history

all is forgivin'
i love her still
and we're home, home
goin' home and we're home,
home goin' home
and we're home, home
goin' home

Cowboys and cowgirls

2006-05-16T01:39:00.000-07:00