My birthday

Today it's my birthday, Weirdos, and I feel a bit mellancholic thinking I'm in the thirty-something group, although my mind belongs to a bored teenager. This evening I'll take a "Sacher" chocolate cake and I'll drink "rosado" wine or cava.
This is gonna be a bohemian evening.

New affiliate: Bijou Phillips

"ZODIAC" TRIVIA:

"The role of Linda Ferrin was initially played by Bijou Phillips. Her scenes needed to be re-shot but Phillips was not available due scheduling conflicts, so the role went to Clea DuVall".

Jake Weird has a new affiliate with The Bijou Phillips Fanlisting ("I'd rather eat glass").

Bijou Phillips has starred in movies as "Tart", "Bully" (2001) "Havoc" (2005), "Hostel: Part II" (2007), etc. and she made her debut album 'I'd Rather Eat Glass', produced by Talking Heads and Modern Lovers guru Jerry Harrison. It was released in 1999.

You can hear two songs of her album here:

"When I Hated Him"

and "Slow" (bonus track)

and a video-montage of pictures and scenes of Bijou:

WATCH BIJOU VIDEO IN THE SCREEN OF WEIRDLAND VIDEOS!

Jake is "funny"

"New Line could have made the press conference for the dour thriller "Rendition" a two-drink-minimum affair. Jake Gyllenhaal demonstrated better comic timing than we see in the average studio comedy.

A sample for you: Director Gavin Hood was ranting about the potential of film, Hollywood's hunger for money and why we need more movies like "All the President's Men". It was well intentioned, and Hood should totally be a guest lecturer on college campuses. But he went on a wee bit too long about his idealistic visions of a Hollywood in which studios forget about their coffers.

That's when Gyllenhaal put an arm around him—the arm was key—and made a crack about Hood's next project...Wolverine.

It was seriously hysterical. Jake made his director blush like a freshman boy in speech class. So, why won't Jake put that swift wit to use on camera?

"His family is just very serious," says one Beverly Hills-agent type. "They want to see their kids in smart films with a political angle. And their family is obviously close."

An interesting theory, but I'm more inclined to think good comedy scripts just aren't that easy to come by. And if you have a sense of humor, as Jake clearly does, then you're not gonna sign the dotted line just because your agent tells you to. In essence, he needs another "The Good Girl".

That's why a brilliant, sophisticated comedy writer—like Woody Allen, Mike White, Julie Delpy or Nicole Holofcener—should pen a script for Jake. We've seen him be serious so much, and we're getting more with Rendition and the far-off Brothers. But I don't think he'll make a Brokeback-style impression on audiences until he makes us laugh.

There is one moment of lightness in the heavy "Rendition". And it's all Jake."
Source: www.eonline.com/movies

Moonlight Mile Video

"[...] this movie bears a strong resemblance to The Graduate, the 1967 film, which also starred Dustin Hoffman as a character named Ben, and dripped with a baby-boomer generation's sense of alienation from their parents. Besides the obvious initial connection that both star Hoffman as Ben, the films feature a protagonist who escapes from a needy culture that wants to suck him in and make him one of their own. But just as Benjamin had no interest in plastics, Joe is adverse to a career in real estate: Mr. Robinson (Murray Hamilton) and the real estate agent Mike Mulcahey are both are older men who lead stiff, boring lives that make the protagonist cringe. Joe Nast and Benjamin Braddock are content only when they're on the road, leaving behind the small suburban towns where their elders reside, and venturing out into the world. The unexplored world is a place where the protagonist will find both true love and a sense of his own self-identity. While The Graduate ended with the wondering, wandering tunes of Simon and Garfunkel, Moonlight Mile closes with Van Morrison's "Sweet Thing"-a song that is an emblem of the "right" and "true" path that only an idealist would believe in. Like Joe Nast and Benjamin Braddock, each of us cannot help but search for that path ourselves". Source: www.brown.edu

MY VIDEO OF "MOONLIGHT MILE" :


-Joe Nast: That song at the bar, that was yours?
-Bertie: He never actually heard it... but...
-Joe Nast: ...But he knew you pretty well?
-Bertie: About 60%

Simpsonized Belles

Kirsten Dunst.Maggie Gyllenhaal.Reese Witherspoon.Nora Zehetner.Sarah Roemer.

Joseph NY Times Interview & miscel. video

Rocking my socks

Jake in his recent photoshoot for "Interview".
Heath Ledger ("I'm There").Joe Gordon-Levitt.Zooey Deschanel.Marilyn Monroe.Kirsten Dunst.Jenny Lewis.Julian Casablancas in "South Park" mode.Paul Westerberg.Nora Zehetner.Sarah Roemer.