Friday, April 24, 2009

Happy Birthday Mr. Nichols


Every decade brings something different, but your twenties is something different completely. Full of dreams, chances, leaps, rewards, life defining moment. Finding your future, doing it your own way, making your mark in the world.

Here's to:
the charmer,
the devil, the angel,
the liar, the thief.

Finish it in style Mister



Happy 29th Birthday!
From Austin Nichols Journal and Oh My Godot

Spooky and I have been wanting to do something together, what's more perfect than something for Austin's birthday. Lots of email, many hours, and lots of fun, together we created joint post with a fanmix to share with all of you to celebrate, complete with our own twist on the visual interpretation for each track. So check out both Austin Nichols Journal's and OMG's birthday post and help us send him best wishes for the coming year.

Thanks Spooky!!


MusicPlaylist
MySpace Playlist at MixPod.com



The Player is loaded with all the songs on the fanmix, click through and you can listen to one or all. The links below are there for you to download at make your own copy.


This Charming Man - A Fanmix Front Cover



This Charming Man - A Fanmix Back Cover


Track 1: Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World

Lyrics



Track 2: The Kinks - See My Friends
Lyrics


Track 3: Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
Lyrics



Track 4: Nick Lowe - All Men are Liars
Lyrics



Track 5: David Sylvian - Forbidden Colours

Lyrics



Track 6: Echo & The Bunnymen - Make Me Shine
Lyrics



Track 7: U2 - One
Lyrics


Track 8: Kaiser Chiefs - Love is not a Competition (But I'm Winning)
Lyrics



Track 9: The Smiths - This Charming Man
Lyrics



Track 10: Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs - Maps
Lyrics



Track 11: John Lennon - Look at Me
Lyrics



Track 12: Zero 7 - Destiny
Lyrics



Track 13 : Michael Penn - No Myth
Lyrics


Track 14: Univ. of Texas - Eyes of Texas
Lyrics



Bonus Track : The Rubinoos - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
Lyrics

53 comments:

Anonymous said...

This morning I wanted to be the first to wish Austin the happiest birthday of many birthdays yet too come.

I enjoyed what we did this past week and I hope Austin can feel some of it through the songs we choose.

Thanks Special

:) said...

Great post for a great guy.

Happy Birthday Austin!

Florida Tom said...

Happy 29th Austin. Sure hope you enjoy your day.

Clarity said...

Happy Birthday Austin!!

Wicked said...

Happy birthday Austin! Many happy returns.

I highly recommend that article that Destiny linked in the last thread about the man losing his husband.

Special K said...

Happy Birthday Austin! May you have a year of filled with family, friends, love, happiness and success. Here's hoping you spend it with those who you love, your family and friends.

And hey - hope you get another super awesome cake. ; )

Special K said...

One more thing - hope Jake gives you something good, really good. ; )

kc said...

Hope the birthday boy gets to spend the day with that special someone...

Ruby said...

Happy Birthday Austin.

Please eat lots and lots of birthday cake - you can counteract the effects with more cycling(wearing Lycra, with Jake).

:)

Lane said...

Happy Birthday Austin!

Wicked said...

I believe that the older you get, the more accepting you become of the person you truly are. This is my birthday wish for Austin.

Seaweed said...

Happy Birthday Austin, you've proven to be such a good friend to Jake and now a very special one for us as well. May you always have your heart's desire and the good health to enjoy it.

A major shout-out to Spooky and Special for this tune-full tribute. This is all fun and filled with hopefulness. Enjoy a great Austin Friday everyone.

S.

Special K said...

Not sure if it was clear in the post. Want a song, just click on the Track Title for each picture, and its yours. Austin's birthday and you get the gift.

OK! said...

(LOL) Reese is tired of the constant speculation about her love life, and is considering tying the knot to put a stop to it.

fyi said...

^ That's Life & Style rag story.

NETB said...

Wow, what a great post for Austin Friday, and Austin's Birthday! It's like a party - great idea, Spooky and Special.

Happy, happy birthday wishes to Austin, all the best! Looking forward to The Informers. :*

flf said...

Happy Birthday, Austin! Hope you have a wonderful day with family and friends :)

Kacie said...

May you have a wonderful birthday
with family and friends and many
wonderfully happy days ahead!!

Stubborn TB said...

Happy Birthday Austin!

Hope you have a fun birthday again with your friends and family.


And thanks you, Special and Spooky for the special birthday post!

destiny said...

Happy Birthday Austin! I hope that as you finish your third decade you will have the wisdom to remember and/or recognize what matters in life, and the courage to act on that knowledge.

Special and Spooky, this post today is amazing, truly a work of art. Thank you.

I can't wait to get home and play all the music.

Wicked said...

***I can't wait to get home and play all the music.***

Me too. Can't even get the player to load here at work.

m said...

Happy Birthday Austin. I hope you and Jake spend the entire day enjoying each others company, followed by a few leaked photos for our pleasure.

A review of The Informers in today's SF Chronicle gave it a "very good". No mention of Austin though. The Sacramento Bee gives it 1 star out of 4. Mixed reviews will be the norm for this one I'm sure.

destiny said...

The NYT did not give it a good review, but it did start the review with the following paragraph, which kind of cracked me up:

Graham (Jon Foster) and Martin (Austin Nichols) are sitting in a Porsche parked in the hills overlooking Los Angeles. Graham is doing a lot of coke. Martin has been doing Graham’s mom, and also Graham’s girlfriend, Christie (Amber Heard), and also — as he points out just in case we were having trouble identifying the naked blond bodies piling up in various beds — Graham. But such doings are not on Graham’s mind. He is in a moral crisis: “I want someone to tell me what’s good. And I want someone to tell me what’s bad.” He goes on to ask what happens if there’s no one around to tell you what’s good and what’s bad.xx

Link to Full Review

Music Lovah said...

Love the fanmix, haven't heard No Myth in forever - talk about a Romeo in black jeans. Happy Birthday Austin! :)

Wicked said...

Rotten Tomatoes on InformersRotten Tomatoes on The Soloist-RDJ's new movie

Wicked said...

***Austin Nichols as male hustler Martin (who, naked and perched over a prostrate Basinger, looks like Rubens's cherub as hallucinated by Elton John).***

***WaPo review***

Okay, maybe I want to see this movie now!

destiny said...

Have you seen the short clip of that scene Spooky has up Wicked? It left me wanting to see more.

I was looking at Rotten Tomatoes last night, but I see the number has dropped. Yikes!

Well, I'm just going for the pretty people, especially Austin. Apparently one of the problems is a lack of humor, which I guess means I can't expect it to at last be another Showgirls. I also have to remember that Bubble Boy has a "Bomb" rating from Leonard Maltin which kept me from seeing that one for way too long. Plus there have been a few good reviews, the one M pointed out, and Time Out liked it.

I'll probably to to a matinee showing tomorrow.

destiny said...

go to

Elinor said...

Hey everyone,

Hope you had all a good day!!

It's a special day for us and for our Austy!!

Happy birthday dear Austin, my best wishes for you in your proffessional life and private life! I hope today is a wonderful day , full of surprises with people you love.


"Austin Nichols as male hustler Martin (who, naked and perched over a prostrate Basinger, looks like Rubens's cherub as hallucinated by Elton John)."

Whoa !!! I need to see this film right now LOL

london tb said...

Same here!

Happy birthday, Austin! :) :*

And great work, Spesh and Spooky.

Ruby said...

Now that I'm home, I can get the most from your post. Thank you for the music. ;-)

I like the sound of Martin! :D I hope I can find somewhere nearby that will show The Informers

Informers said...

Praises for Austin's performance:

Despite solid performances all around, particularly with the suitably scumbaggy Rourke and the oddly charismatic-yet-devious Nichols (who gets to do something in this role besides look blank and speak incomprehensibly as the alien in the infuriating "John From Cincinnati"), the film is never quite able to make a case for itself.link /

Two positive reviews:

SFGate /

Film Journal

Special K said...

Glad everybody is enjoying the music and the post. Spooky and I had a lot of fun working together.

The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Austin was promoted to series regular on OTH.

"Jane Lynch has been upped to a regular on Fox's new series "Glee," Austin Nichols has been promoted to regular on the CW's veteran drama "One Tree Hill," and Eddie Jemison has been made a regular on HBO's upcoming comedy "Hung." All have filled recurring roles."


The Hollywood ReporterRubens's cherub as hallucinated by Elton JohnGreat description of Austin playing Martin in WaPo.

Good to hear the despite the mixed review, Austin is getting good mentions for his work - the comments over on New Yorker are people want to see it, and there have other places wonder if the Informers will achieve cult like status despite/or because of the reviews.

They have been running the commercial more here, seen it a couple times just this afternoon.


Great Austin Friday, Austin's Birthday, the player worked!, Informers opens, Spring has really come to New England (and Summer tomorrow) and it's the first game of the Red Sox and Yankees of the season tonight. All is good.

Go Sox!

X17 New Pics said...

X17 pics Jake had lunch with some director guy.

writer's block said...

It's Steve Gaghan who wrote Traffic, Havoc, and Syriana

What day exactly? said...

4/24 Caffe Luxxe Jake pics. X17: Jake in jeans and gray T. IHJ: White shorts and gray hoodie. Someone in PR fucked up.

PR said...

OK people I told you the pictures have to occur on different days so it looks like he's in town and he's busy doing things so no one thinks he's with the boyfriend. Fuck.

Special K said...

A Toyota SUV in the picture, I know I know it might not be his but - it always makes me think of one person, like some one who's birthday it is.

Looks like Caffe Luxxe might have been a morning breakfast and clearly to go.

I don't know I just get the feeling it wasn't a just Jake there.

Special K said...

Notice how he doesn't have his keys out and in his hand ready to open the car.

Southern Gothic said...

Happy birthday Austin

Special K said...

Sorry if people can't get the player to work right now. We've exceeded our daily limit. But not to worry we will have the player available for you to click and play tomorrow too.

Back to the Sox.

Wicked said...

The player is no longer working. You know why? Because all of yiz (as we say in Philly) used up all of our daily bandwidth. Dunno, guess you must have liked it or sumthin'! :)

Tomorrow we will have renewed bandwidth and the player will be working again.

Wicked said...

Great minds think alike!

destiny said...

Now you tell me, after I've spent the past 10 or 15 minutes trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. :-D

'apondering instead of sleeping said...

So, Jake was allowed out, to be seen out and about, establishing him there in LA, in Santa Monica, in Austin's Santa Monica on his b'day, while Reese was out of town? Shouldn't he be with her and all, I mean since she hearts him and all, he should want to be there for the scheduled photo ops, uh, I mean her.

Could he have been actually caught unawares this time?

flf said...

I don't think Jakey was caught unawares. If he was, the photos would never have seen the light of day. Nor do I think he's on such a tight leash. Maybe he got bonus points for Coachella.

sienna said...

great birthday post. i hope Austin had a wonderful day. i can't wait to check out the tunes. thanks for all the work ya'll do on this site. hugs. s.

smile said...

"So, Jake was allowed out, to be seen out and about, establishing him there in LA, in Santa Monica, in Austin's Santa Monica on his b'day"

Don't know if it's unaware but he doesn't seem particularly happy on these pics.

Curious said...

Ok all you Austin N. fans, so what did you think of the movie? I have not seen it yet, but the Washington Post tore it apart. Seems like most of the critics are taking jabs at it.

How was it?

Elinor said...

Good Morning you all, I am surely the first to be wake up here LOL


I love the new pics of Jake , specially the Lunch pics cause our boy looks in better mood than in the first breakfast pics : don't want to speculate but can't help to wonder if there is new on the professionnal side, a futur project! It would be fantastic!
I had no idea who was this scriptwriter but "Traffic" and "Syriana" were interesting although very serious and dramatic: it's rather a good sign.

A fan said...

You mean to tell me there were no Informers Partys?

Elinor said...

"Ok all you Austin N. fans, so what did you think of the movie? I have not seen it yet, but the Washington Post tore it apart. Seems like most of the critics are taking jabs at it.

How was it?"

Like you I am looking forward the reactions!!
I am sure we are going to have all the details soon , I trust our OMG experts !!!!

dead spy said...

Already speculations :

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/04/24/speculation-is-jake-gyllenhaal-a-dead-spy-running/