L.A. Benefit without Jake

A Benefit reading/concert was programmed on 26th August Sat. at Royce Hall, L.A.
According to the schedule by bookeaters Jake should have appeared there to support this charity event, together Jenny Lewis (child actress and songwriter, whom he dated in 2001), Aimee Mann, Dave Eggers, Mark Kozelek, Sarah Vowell, The Mountain Goats, John Roderick, Fiona Apple, etc. for a 6 concert series to raise money for children's literacy programs in 826 writing centers. The first of them was hosted at Beacon Theater N. Y. on 23th. Anyway, I suppose Jake must have his motives to skip this show hosted by Andy Richter. Aside my beloved Jenny, who played "Happy", "Rise Up with Fists!" and "Rabbit Fur Coat", John Krasinski ("The Office" Jim Halpert and "Jarhead" Corporal Harrigan) replaced Jake's act.
Some pictures of Jenny Lewis with John Krasinski and others participants. I'm a big fan of her group Rilo Kiley, you all know she is a classical flame of mine.

Turn out the light!

TURN OUT THE LIGHT

"Lover, lover, why is there light
In the itchy gitchy evening and its dark outside
And whats the difference between wrong and right
Wrong and right

Isnt it funny how pain goes away
And then comes back another day
The air feels very good today
Good today

Lover, lover, why is there light
Did you forget to turn off that light
Well thats all right but its way too bright
Way too bright

See the eagle above the hill
The lake reflects and is so still
The tension has gone from my will
From my will

Moon on the mountain shining bright
First there is dark and then there is light
And sometimes the light is way too bright
Its way to bright

Why dont you turn out the light
Oh, turn out the light" (by Lou Reed).

Give me Another drink!

The power of positive drinking stays omnipresent in Jake Weird.

Give me a drink!

You can bet I needed a couple of drinks after my Blogger debacle.

Passion for Sam and Laura

In consonance with Anneka's review, here you can read another from epinions.com, where our heroic couple receives bad rewievs.
Extracts from THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW -JAKE GYLLENHAAL GOES STUPID ON US:

"You also have the stereotypical story lines - which hey - ain't a bad thing, but at least, it would be nice for the cheesy stuff to not be staged in a way in which the audience feels like they're being duped. Take for instance, the immensely talented, Jake Gyllenhaal. His performance in this movie consists of (mostly), lame scenes with this chick (Emmy Rossum) - which he has no chemistry with. Random stares. Random glares. One has to wonder why such a talented actor would need to appear in a film like this.

Emmy Rossum was - well - not EVEN attractive background noise. She had two expressions - happy, happy (joy joy) and worried/concerned.

Dennis Quaid made me laugh every time he opened his mouth and recited four syllable scientific words. Like I'm supposed to take him seriously.

Sela Ward, who I enjoyed from her Sisters days, cried a lot. She's good at crying - she may have been good at other things however, Mr. Director never clued us in.

I often wonder why bad things (at least in the movies) only seem to happen in New York. What...Indianapolis isn't cosmopolitan enough?! Anyway, maybe it's the effects of 9/11 - but it was difficult for me to feel bad for the human beings in this movie. In some ways, I did feel like Mr. Director was attempting to make some political statements, especially with the characters that played the President and Vice President. I might have zeroed in more on the message (or felt that grand swelling of pride in human kind) had he not distracted me with all of the stupid dialog.

The one saving grace of this movie was the special effects. I'm not a technical chick however, they were absolutely cool.

The Day After Tomorrow is rated PG-13 for intense situations of peril (although, comparing it to OTHER situations of perils - I find the stuff in here to be quite tame). This is one of those movies that really, you can skip altogether.

Recommended: No"
Same as the devastating review of "Proof", it will need my personal view of this Roland Emmerich film to even things out.

Alligators and Cocodriles

An anonymous reader asked me if Jake posed with an alligator or cocodrile, I only knew about differences between them, as the cocodriles are more aggressive and their skin smoother than alligators. Now I add that cocodrile's muzzle is "V" shaped and narrower than "U" muzzles of alligators.

Petitions Box

Well, if someone of you feel an urgent compelling need of revisiting some concrete post, for particular theme motives, data, or mere nostalgia, this is the place where readers and viewers of "Jake Weird" have the opportunity to request me to post some disappeared post you loved specially. I cannot guarantee you will be fully satisfied, as you know it's dependent on finding the pictures -some of them are even removed from IHJ gallery and from another sites for copyright infringement- and another factors, but I'll try to make my best.

Beautiful partenaires

Let's start this "Beautiful Partenaires" with Marley Shelton, Chloe from "Bubble Boy", an actress who is said to resemble Heather Graham, I'd add Vanessa Paradis and Mena Suvari, whom she worked with in "Sugar and Spice":

She was the crush of Jimmy Livingstone... and mine. I remember one anonymous who asked me if they dated, but although Jaked gushed over Marley during DVD commentary (as usual in his), they were just posing together in the Hollywood premiere of the film.
Now some stills of Marley from another two films hers: "Sin City" (she was "The Customer" in the beginning gunfiring scene) and she was Nixon's daughter Tricia in "Nixon".

Lust for Life

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

Guitar Rocks!

Allison Moorer, Jenny Lewis and Courtney Love in the same post. I've always had a thing for guitar players, and I know Jake belonged to a rock band named Holeshot, that rocks my world!