Regular or Fancy Joe?

It looks like Jake is done with Enemy so why didn't head to ComicCon today with Mike and David to talk about End of Watch?

EoW did release a new clip for Comic Con and it looks like Jake is getting busted on his fancy coffee.

If you remember they improvised a lot of the dialogue themselves.  And check out Jake doing his impression of his partners cousins.

 

Will  we see Jake head west before he starts rehearsals for his play?  You'd think he want to get a little West Coast in with EoW based in LA.

Wonder if Austin could start a West Coast countdown and keep the count this time. ; )

A Tall One

Fancy Coffee seems to be the perfect analogy to the current twosome.

It's full of beans.

A machine presses it out.

There's more stuff added to it to make people want to buy it.

There's more froth than anything else.

And despite what you do, how well you make it, what you add or how you sell it, even then it sometimes leaves a bitter taste in the mouth.





Today marks World AIDS Day. Twenty years ago, HIV/AIDS diagnosis was a death sentence, today millions are living with HIV/AIDS. And babies born with HIV then are coming of age now. But that is not to say the work is over. According to UNAIDS estimates, there are now 33.3 million people living with HIV, including 2.5 million children. During 2009 some 2.6 million people became newly infected with the virus and an estimated 1.8 million people died from AIDS. There are ten of thousands of doctors, researchers, nurses, healthcare workers, educators, and volunteers who continue in the fight working on eliminating the spread of AIDS/HIV.

They need everyone's help. Take the time to volunteer, give, get educated, spread the word, get tested, practice safe sex everyone can contribute in the fight.

"On World AIDS Day, we mourn those we have lost and look to the promise of a brighter future and a world without HIV/AIDS." - Barack Obama



Today is the first night of Hanukkah. Hanukkah commemorates the story of the oil that kept the lamps lit in The Temple. Where there was only enough oil for one night, it lasted for eight. During Hanukkah friends and family gather to celebrate the "miracle that happened there".

Happy Hanukkah!

Coffee Crawl or Tea Trailing

April means biking and something about September says coffee.

Instead of Jake running all over Pittsburgh to find coffee, thought would help him out with a list of places to check out.

Kiva Han - named after the world’s first recorded coffee house, Kiva Han, reputedly opened in Constantinople (Istanbul)in 1471. Funky, quiet good for reading scripts, txts, etc, it does have a hangover burrito (do you know anyone who has hangovers and likes burritos?) and if you just can't stand it, Starbucks is right across the street the coffee ogres they are.

61c Cafe - Located in Squirrel Hill it was name on of the 100 great things about Pittsburgh in 2006. Let's be honest that's a tough thing to do for a coffee shop in a city where The Steeler, Penguins, Primanti Brothers, Pitt, Iron City Beer, Perogies, are dominate. Great coffee and inhouse baked good straight out the owner's grandmother's recipe box.



Beehive Coffee - Pinball and Coffee. You bet. Their decor is a funky mix, some retro, some modern, and all of it mismatched. The staff are unconventional, and friendly. Hmmm this reminds me of suspenders, tie bars, and shabby sweaters. They also have an Artomat. A reinvented vintage cigarette vending machine that now gives art instead. But word to the wise they have webcams, including a bathroom one, to see if you actually do wash your hands.



Quietstorm great coffee, brunch,music and its Pittsburgh's favorite vegetarian/vegan place again and again. And it has milkshakes. That reminds me of a hurricane and an actor who couldn't work the milkshake machine at a McDonalds. Wait back to coffee. And how can you not love a place that has an owl in it logo.
La Prima Espresso is one of the best espresso and cappuccinos in the Three Rivers located in The Strip District and all over the Pittsburgh area. traditional classic Italian coffee and sweets.La Prima roasts its own beans as well, and supplies coffee to many of the better Pittsburgh restaurants.

And the there Nicholas Coffee Company They've been roasting and selling gourmet coffee beans in Pittsburgh since 1919. Their Market Square landmark store is in downtown Pittsburgh has daily roasted coffee, and also offers teas from all over the world. And who wouldn't like the easy anagram of Nicholas.

Speaking of the tea.

Te Cafe Pittsburgh's best for loose teas. Located in Squirrel Hill, it has over 100 varietals so there must be something that will substitute for the jones for Intelligentsia's King Crimson .

So you see there would be no need for all the those photos of you and blondes (legal or otherwise) trying out different coffee places. You and brunettes, bring it on. Annie, Josh, your other co-stars, .....big Southern stirrers with funky accessories...you get the idea.



I like coffee, I like tea...

Field Trip

This past Wednesday night was a field trip for today's Austin Friday and NE joined me on this mission to gather information on The Informers.

And where would you go for best information, a seat of higher learning of course, and there is no seat higher (or at least they seem to think that) than Harvard University. So just off Harvard Square, we went to check out The Informers at the Loews Harvard Square just us and 4 other people ( hey private screening with stadium seating) and here is our virtual coffee talk follow up.

NE: I really liked The Informers, because I was starting to have sympathy for the characters - it was like a character study.

SK: I liked what I saw but I kept thinking did I miss the beginning ? Wait we've been here since the previews. It just seemed like they chopped the start off. I felt like I got dropped into a movie that already started. I don't think they really gave a back story to anyone. I was missing the 90 minutes they cut five minutes in. And I realize now that a lot of the Austin stuff from the original trailer is in that 90 minutes.
So what did you like?

Especially Brad Renfro's character, and Kim's character. As you say, it seemed like there should have been more, and I read a little bit about the book of stories by BEE and some of the stories seemed slightly different, like the Mickey Rourke/Brad Renfro story. BEE did co-write the screenplay tho. I think it would make a very interesting read. Mickey was beautiful, and a great actor; he really becomes a character, but in this case his character was a absolute horror! Brad Renfro's character seemed to have been abused as a child, and he seemed to be used to using his body as currency, as I thought was implied when he wanted a part in a film. :(

I think was interesting about both Brad's character and Kim's characters, is that they had moments of moral conviction, and someone had to in the movie. BEE did co-write the movie, but I think with the way Gregor Jordan filmed it and edited it that it became Gregor's Informers not Bret's. Mickey's character skeeved me out big time.


The ossified rock star who only seemed to come to life when he was walking out onto the stage, or when he missed his son. Kim Bassinger's fragile mother and wife who gained strength to leave her husband. Only in LA would the kids not want there parents to get back together, but I think we can see why. Billy-Bob Thornton's husband and father's very contained feelings, and living in such an artificial world.

It was totally artificial, it reminds you of an 80's video. It reminds of what the band says to Martin when they are shooting the video, to paraphase, it doesn't have to make sense its a video. The Kim, Billy Bob and Winona storyline just reminded me of people who are not only fragile but almost brittle like they could snap at any moment. You're right about only in LA would kids not want to get their parent back together. And Winona, you think it was way too many espressos, or what? Cause man was she twitchy. And she made Nancy Reagan look fat, I mean most in the movie was that LA 80's thin, but man, she had them all beat. I'm glad she and Billy Bob didn't have a love scene, cause that would have been disturbing and dangerous with all those sharp angles.

Interesting point about Brian Metro. Have to say though the concert of the Greek, well that brought back some concert memories.

What did you think about the others?

Graham/Kristie/and Martin and friends - all young, jaded, rich and beautiful, drugged and sexed out indolence, wanting for nothing, feeling nothing, not even when a mutual friend dies, all but one barely able to work up enough feeling to mourn. Thinking they were invincible. Until Graham starts to care about Kristie, to his surprise. Martin was beautiful but rather soulless, becoming anything that anyone desired, living from place to place.


Couldn't put it any better. My one thought during the more was, "Man, Martin is an equal opportunity slut." You could see why everyone wanted Martin he was beautiful the description in the Washington Post of him as a "like Rubens's cherub as hallucinated by Elton John" is a perfect.

But was Laura (Kim's character) convicted by morals or just crazy to say no to Martin as he perched on top completely naked. See that's what made it a movie, cause in reality who would do that? ; )

I liked the story about Chris Isaak's character and his son - trying to bridge the distance between them, and failing. There seemed to be more to this story.

So it wasn't just me that thought that. It was almost as if he was trying too much to be the stud, when he was trying to pick up the in the bar. And who picks up women with their 20 -something year old son? Then he was checking out guys on the beach in Hawaii, and then mentioned later that the guys were checking out his son. (Again ewww) You don't know what the reason the divorce was so bitter, is it somewhere in the magic missing minutes?



Lots of interesting stories to tell. I loved the opening sequence with New Gold Dream by Simple Minds, perfect song, and I Ran by Flock of Seagulls, and some of the cinematography. But whether it was out of focus or grainy by design, I don't know! I forgot to watch for the soundtrack in the credits! The Hollywood sign's white letters all defaced by grafitti, when the rest of us see it as unmarred. The beautiful LA lights, and the ugly urban sprawl. The beach scene at the end when Kristie was dying, and the fly landed on her, as if she were already dead.

The opening was good and captured the feeling of an 80's video. But yeah some of the stuff looked out of focused, one point I looked like Austin's ears were doubled. I like your mention of the Hollywood sign and the graffiti, and the LA lights and urban scrawl, Christie on the beach was is Jordan's visual cue to tell you that appearances are not always the reality.

I had heard so many mixed reviews that I wasn't sure what to expect. I think it wasn't that bad, and had a lot of potential. I think Austin is maturing as an actor.

No it wasn't as bad as some of the review made it out to be. And I think Austin had one of the stronger performance in it, as did Brad Renfro.

But you know what? It's gonna make an awesome drinking game. Times Martin sleeps with someone drink, Christie topless drink, Christie sleeping with someone else drink, Martin in bed with a guy take a shot, threesomes - take a shot, someone lights up drink, Raybans take a drink, Flash of a Rolex take a drink, Members only jacket a shot, Topsiders take a shot, Billy Idol mention take a shot.

You know what it need a least one joke or something - ok, I am admit I did laugh out loud when they played Pat Benatar's Running with Shadows of the Night at the funeral but I don't think you really were supposed to.
Excuse me, Martin is that a bolo or a broach?