The Devil Made Me Do It

You may think he's an angel but there's more devil in that man than most realize or want to admit. Tonight we get to see Austin show more of his bad boy side as Julian in another episode of One Tree Hill. Austin's gotten some great mentions from just the first look at Julian, and it shows that he's getting recognition for great acting. It just stands apart, you can just see the talent. You have to believe that he'll be getting more coverage about his performance in the weeks and months to come.

Episode 6.09 "Sympathy for the Devil"
Summary: In a flashback scene, Peyton meets Julian for the first time as soon as she leaves Lucas' book signing in LA. (credit: Austin Nichols Journal/Spooky)

OTH has completed new episodes for the entire month of November, and then will be in reruns until returning after the first of the year with new episodes. What are the sweeps (February) without some devilish fun.
Now some may say that Austin's made a deal with the devil, or that Jake's the devil, or this hair cut on Austin makes his forehead have a horn pattern. Oh 666 it no more! Damien or Little Nicky they aren't but you know together they make sinning look a hell of a lot of fun.

Rick and Steve," the happiest gay couple in the world" on Logo were trying to think up Halloween costumes, and they think of Jake as Jesus would be a Sexy Savior and perfect to go with the Hot Hot Devil. Check it out.

There are pictures out of Gemma back in Morocco, you think Jesus and the Devil, oh you know who I mean, could be doing the whole new Twist on the Temptation in the Desert too?

Of course in the future if they get caught they can just say "they devil made me do it" and cover all their bases. Thank you Ms. Geraldine Jones.



You think they'll put this into the Namath movie? Cause this would be hysterical to see Jake get try to pull this off. Oh Tracy Morgan be his Geraldine!

Jesus, Joe, Jake, Austin AND Geraldine in one post - " Ohhhhh, now that's just too much honey!"

Tomorrow: Dates for JFC Discussion, OMG Movie Club, and OMG Cooking Klatch

Photos: Austin Nichols Journal

Out Spotlight XXXXVII

Today's Out Spotlight is about SAGE (Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders). Started by lesbian and gay activists and aging service professionals in 1978 as Senior Action in a Gay Environment, the New York based organizationan is the world's oldest and largest non-profit agency addressing the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender elders.

A watershed moment came October 12-14th , when the AARP — the largest advocacy group for Americans over 50 — for the first time sponsors a major national conference focused on gay and lesbian aging. It's being organized by SAGE. There are 2.5 million LGTB seniors in the United States. Workshops included a whole array of issues: mental health care and suicide prevention, transgender seniors, rising levels of HIV/AIDS among gay men over 50, and special challenges facing elderly gays in suburbs and small towns.

SAGE works with LGBT elders to address and overcome the challenges of discrimination in senior service settings, while also being an essential component in the creation of informal caregiving support, and development of new "family" networks. SAGE's programs include:

* The nation's first Friendly Visiting program for frail and homebound LGBT seniors
* The country's first support group for LGBT seniors with HIV
* The nation's first program dedicated to caregiving services for LGBT seniors.
* The nation's first LGBT Senior Drop-In Center,
* The creation of the first national conferences devoted to LGBT aging concerns
* The only Robert Wood Johnson Foundation "Faith in Action" grantee (of more than 2,000 nationwide) specifically targeting GLBT older people for supportive services.

With all the great advancement in LGBT civil rights, many senior care providers never stop to consider that their older clients may be lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. And those who do may not know how to provide services in culturally-sensitive ways. As a result, many LGBT seniors often avoid seeking needed services out of fear of discrimination. It is those kinds of issues that SAGE and other organizations for LGBT seniors addresses.

There is tendency for LGBT seniors to go back in the closet, particularly in situations where they are most vulnerable, such as when accessing home health care or residing in assisted living or residential care facilities. Can you imagine how after living your life openly, you find yourself going back in the closet? Because of fear of homophobia for your healthcare or housing? For some who fought in the early days they are going back into living situations with those people who they are fighting discrimination against 40 years ago. Even most basic rights such as hospital visitation or the right to die in the same nursing home are regularly denied same-sex partners.

One study indicated that LGBT seniors may be as much as five times less likely to access needed health and social services because of their fear of discrimination from the very people who should be helping them.

And then there's the whole social isolation that has an enormous impact in the health and well being of LGBT seniors. With LGBT seniors twice as likely to live alone than heterosexual seniors, more than four times as likely to have no children, the informal caregiving support we assume is in place for older adults may not be there for LGBT elders.

And its not just healthcare, it is housing and income issues. Many LGTB seniors do not have the pension or the survivor benefits of their partners, they have no legal rights from the government. Some LGTB seniors worked in professions or positions that did not have pension plans. Many were freelancers, artists, performers where pension plans where never a part of the picture. While many see the LGTB community having disposable income, that could be true of the younger generation, but not that of those in their 60's, 70's and 80's.

And even sadder many LGBT seniors experience social isolation and ageism within the LGBT community itself.

SAGE and other organizations around the country are working hard to change these things. There are a growing number of retirement communities, senior housing and other high-end housing options targeting LGBT seniors. But there hundreds of thousands of LGBT seniors who will be aging in place in their own communities, SAGE is work to provide programs and services giving them the link they need to a safe and welcoming community.

While most here are not even close to retiring, there is so much to learn, do and act to participate in the good work that SAGE and other agencies like SAGE do. It is all about becoming aware and educated that reduces the prejudices and increases diversity and acceptance.

There is a great documentary on LGTB seniors and those who are trying to serve them called Ten More Years. The entire documentary is up on LOGO. Encourage everyone to take a look at a clip or two or but hope people will take the time to watch the whole thing.

SAGE

Aging as Ourselves - LGTB -San Diego

Azetca : 50+ LGBT Latino/Latina Community

American Society on Aging Lesbian and Gay Aging Issues Network (LGAIN)

Gay Retirement Guide

Griot Circle - LGTB Elders of Color

National Center for Lesbian Rights - Elder Legal Issues

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force - Aging

New Leaf : LGTB Senior - SF/Bay Area



AP: Gay Seniors

LOGO --- Documentary : Ten More Years

Good and Bagged Behaviors

The Times [UK] Online posted Jake's workout to make that princely body. Looking at what is involved and what you can't eat , it could make a person King Crankypants. Now Jakey what did you have to do for that little scoop of ice cream in Morocco? No wonder you didn't look that thrilled you knew it was 10 more pounds on the flak jacket and 2 more cardio sequences to work that that off.

Jake Gyllenhaal's daily regimen

Fitness expert Simon Waterson prescribed this daily regimen to build the normally lithe Jake Gyllenhaal into a hulking warrior

5.30am Pre-workout snack: half a banana, some nuts and an espresso.

6am An hour-and-a-half cardio outdoors workout while wearing a 20lb flak jacket to simulate the weight of armour. Interval training - 10min uphill sprint, followed by abs exercises, eg, sit-ups, at the top of the hill. Repeat sequence five times, then a 10min run, followed by stretching exercises.

7.30am An egg-white omelette, a small protein shake and an isotonic drink to replenish salts lost during training.

Lunch Baked potato with tuna and salad.

6-7pm An hour of resistance training using cables to simulate sword fights, pull-ups, press-ups, abs exercises using weights; finish with stretching.

7-8pm: An hour-long deep tissue massage

Dinner: Soup and a protein shake

Snacks/supplements Two litres of water, protein bars, dark chocolate, supplements rich in omega-3, 6 and 9. No foods containing refined sugar, occasional glass of wine allowed.

No wonder he can run ahead - he's so fit he could just run away and keep going. Run Jakey Run!

Course when filming is done -get that man the pasta. Molto Molto pasta! He will be heading to best Italian places to enjoy all his favs with plenty of red red wine. Oh for the love of carbs! And ice cream the real stuff, and panna cotta and tirimasu! He's making a list and checking it twice.

Not that he's going to throw out the whole regime you know he'll still work out maybe not as intense. And who could give up hour long massages - maybe just have a different person giving him the rub down. Less therapeutic but definitely more fun. ; )

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OMG called it about Jake and his bags, but he's now setting trends with his bag behavior and getting noticed by the fashion bible.Vogue UK mentioned that he's so cool that he uses the dust bag for luxury bags as a bag itself and did it way back in July. But what came in the bag for that size bag ? Hmmm?

Now Keira Knightly is following his lead, fashion wannabe.... is this going to be a Prince vs Pirates' throw down?

Jake's got the treasure trail. But who's got the bigger chest and more booty ?

And who's the best shivering the timbers? ; )

Spelling.. A B C's

Happy Halloween

For those who grew up trick or treating remember getting two pieces at one house. Total candy bonus. So a little Austin bonus today.

Actor Austin
We're getting a chance to see Austin play a delicious devious guy in his role as Julian Baker on One Tree Hill, but just how bad can he be? You know, there's is a bit of a darkness that lurks behind those eyes, and undoubtedly we will get to see it again in The Informers. For an actor is those kind of parts that can be the most interesting and exciting to play. Because you get to tap into something else, something that may only come out when allow it. Or something you don't always share with your audience

Looking past his All American boy looks and those "rich, snotty, kind of a jerk " roles he's had, on the other end of spectrum from John, its there. There's sometimes a look of intensity, and other times a possessiveness. Undoubtedly he has given both looks to certain a someone that fell under his spell long ago. But then there's this other look kind of lurking, smoldering, bubbling away, not sure when it will boil overs that can take the legs right out of a person. One of the best examples of this picture. Sweaty, glowing, little rough, and some smeared liner, that gaze tells a real story. How can you not fall under that?




Bat Austin
The Bats of Austin. The Congress Avenue bridge in downtown Austin is the spring and summer home to some 750,000 bats with up to 1.5 million bats at the peak of the bat-watching season. It's the largest urban bat colony in North America. While bats have been in Austinfor many years, it was after renovations to the Congress Avenue bridge over Town Lake in 1980 that they found their favorite hang out. Narrow but deep openings created in the bridge turned out to be perfect accommodations. Each evening around sunset the Congress Avenue bats emerge like a black cloud from the crevices of the bridge. Covering the countryside in search of food, it is estimated that the bats consume from 10,000 to 30,000 pounds of insects. Giving birth in June or July, the bats and pups hang around til October when they head back south. Watching the nightly forays for food is a favorite evening activity, especially in late summer. People come out every night to watch the black cloud fly out of from the bridge as the sunsets.


Costume Austin (and Jake too)
Last call for Halloween. Nothing like those last minute costumes.
But now its your turn. What are your suggestions for them for Halloween?

Together or single sure you have your own ideas for costumes for them.

Austin raiding his closet for his rubber boots and grabbing a hose to be a fireman?

Jake pull out that sparkler from Saturday Night Live and and tease the his own hair for something quick? Although I would shorten that dress, you know why, cause honey those legs should not be hidden. (see above?!?)

A couple more for me. Jake's been a tube of toothpaste as a kid, but how about just going as a tooth this time? Would Austin be the Brush? Or the Dentist ? Cavities Cavities! What?!?! Good dental hygiene is important and what a reminder on this day of candy goodness. What did you think I meant?

Or maybe Jake as Reese and Austin as Jake - Come on Jake's got her number and probably already imitates her, but this Reeke both would smile and really want to hold hands .... and do some of the stuff people think Reese and Jake really do.

Uh crap - that's gonna cost me candy at the Witherspoon house - I'll get a rock or the box of raisins for sure now.

A Serious Serial Relationship?

David Fincher showed why you should never take the box in Seven. He did show how to take a punch in Fight Club. But do you take the part if he gives it?

Despite the tough love working relationship, and then a bit of mutual admiration in Interview Magazine, are Fincher and Jake ready to make another together? Movie that is. Or will Jake get passed over for Matt Damon to take on Eliot Ness?

Talking Torso here, and Jake showed his interest way back when, showing up with Torso "tattooed" on his arm in the Summer of 2006 (aka the Summer of Sad Wolfie). Now really Eliot Ness would never do that. But maybe the killer would?

Torso is a historical fiction limited series published by Image Comics. The story focuses on the "Torso Murderer," an actual serial killer in the 1930's who left behind only the torsos of his victims, making them very difficult to identify for police without DNA testing. The investigator on the case and protagonist of Torso is Eliot Ness, Cleveland Chief of police and one-time head of the Untouchables, the police task force that enforced Prohibition and went after crime lord Al Capone.

Of course the talk is about Jake playing Eliot Ness, that's such a given. But what would be more interesting would be to see Jake play the killer. Not as big of a part, but then again a bigger challenge. Talk about stretching. Jake's done the disturbed before with Donnie Darko, but this is different. This is a killer. It is sometimes those dark parts that are the juiciest to tackle. Tapping into something they didn't know they are or had in them. Jake has started to get a little darker with Brothers and Nailed - but both have an element of redemption to them. Playing a serial killer there is no redemption or remorse. It is a part of pure darkness, feral, animalistic, disturbing provocation. Could Jake's fans handle seeing him take on such a part? Will they always look as him for the good guy role? Would playing a killer kill his career?

If anyone could make Jake get to his darkest, suspect it is Fincher. His relentlessness of perfection and pushing drive could alone take someone over the edge. He bullied Jake on the set of Zodiac, what would he do if Jake did became a Fincher killer?

But then again Jake may just end up on the good side of the law yet again. Guess we will have to wait and see.

ComicMix: Torso Grows Legs


Now for: From the sublime to the ridiculous:

Don't think there are any costume options for two or three in the family? Think again. And Ted's to blame. If Goose is grimacing why not just be Grimace this year. And who would hang with the big purple man? Hamburglar. Jake's already got the shirt. Change the hat and add a cape. And hey Grimace and Hamburglar held hands and no one ever made a big deal.






And how to make it a threesome ?- add some fries. Well a maybe just a wee Fry Guy.

Hustle and Flow

Today is all about the Hustle, if you don't like it you can skip it. You know like skipping work, skipping school, skipping stones, and of course like PG said skip to my lou. But do you know the last verse to Skip to my Lou?

Skip, skip, skip to the Lou,

Skip, skip, skip to the Lou,

Skip, skip, skip to the Lou,

Skip to the Lou, my darlin'.

Off to Texas,

Two by two,

Off to Texas,

Two by two,

Off to Texas,

Two by two,

Skip to my Lou, the darlin'.

Couples would dance around a lone male who sang "lost my partner, what'll I do." At the appropriate point in the lyrics, he would "steal" the partner of a dancing man as he sang "I'll find another one prettier than you."

And Lou? It is corruption of the Scottish word -loo or love.

Oh just skip it -- moving on.

There was a whole lot of moving and not a lot of grooving despite what gets out to the media over the last weekend. We've got three different reports, sightings and wayward children in various locations with various people. Continuity people! Come on hire a better script supervisor. Native American warriors shouldn't wear wrist watches in the Old West, and beards can't be trimmed and then all grow back in, in hours. Continuity!

Ok maybe just skip the continuity thing and get get on to skipping.

Skipping? Seriously. When's the last time anyone's skipped? What 7? By then you've realized - what the heck am I doing. But a couple skipping down the street? Next time we will hear about running in field of flowers in the English countryside. Or sweeping up on horseback all Darcy like. Ohhhhh Mr. Darcy... WAIT just skip that part...

Now Jake may get his skip on by himself. Can anyone say Lemon Twist. Oh yeah... that's right... going old school.... with the lemon twist - which later actually got the name change to Skip It. Hours of fun jumping and bumping, skipping swirling twirling. Hey! that's what the package says.

Skip it. Skip it good.

But actually Jake did skip it. He skipped out of town as soon as he could. And yeah he was hustling. Right back to London?

Now for more Halloween Hijinks, or costumes (fancy dress as they say in the UK) for Jakey.

Its all getting your dance on Jakey. And what better choices than:

Tony Manero - from Saturday Night Fever. Some time in the chair with those dark long locks Jake could get the hair lookiiinnnng gooooood. Just add the white suit and gold chain. Come on Jake's got the moves from disco club and he can sing his own accompaniment of Bee Gees' songs.

Next - Total Laker Dancer. You know he's thinking it as he's jogging. "I got the yellow shirt and the purple headband, I'm tight, toned, conditioned and I can even do a split after all this stuff for Prince of Persia. If Paula can I can. And my hair looks really good bouncing to the beat. " And yeah he's got spirit fingers. You know got that from Kiki. BRING IT ON!

Got ya Pegged?

What a difference between coming and going. Look for yourself. Just a "bit" of tension on the way to LA and a lighter mood when back in London. Is that a smile? What's the difference? Could it be that the business trip is done. Or is it the baggage he's lost? Imagine if he really lightened the load for good. Maybe just leave it on the carousel to keep running round and round on its own.

Looks like Ted is taking this whole business down a peg or two with his strongest statement about the whole thing. Whoa! He might be legally blond but he's sure not of fan of the other legally blonde. And we're not talking the new musical either. The mystery is what really did happen to cause this blond vs. blonde situation. Highlights?

But Jake isn't the only getting pegged because last night on One Tree Hill, Austin's Julian Baker is getting pegged as the very bad boy for this season. And it looks like he's gonna be very very bad. And that's in the very best way.

Missed the episode? Or for some want to watch him walk past the pool table one more time?

For those in the U.S. and Canada you can catch the whole episode at Fancast.com. (Last night's episode should be up by the end of the day) For those outside of U.S. - am turning to the super skills of Hjulia and Spooky for help.


Now you're own your own find all the rest of the meanings and uses for the word peg. But this one comes from the way back machine and a quirky little song from Rolf Harris.

I'm Jake the Peg, diddle-iddle-iddle-um
With my extra leg, diddle-iddle-iddle-um
Wherever I go through rain and snow
The people always let me know
There's Jake the peg, diddle-iddle-iddle-um
With his extra leg, diddle-iddle-iddle

Today's its Austin's turn for Halloween costumes ideas and we go straight to the movies for inspiration. How could you not with such a cinephile.

First there's Pygar from Roger Vadim's 60's futuristic sci fi Barbarella. The blind and innocent angel Pygar who's seduced by a famous sibling from a Hollywood family (Jane Fonda) . And hey a heavenly creature with no shirt -that sounds like a mash up of a couple of Austin's projects. The advantage of this one is that Robert Rodriquez is remaking Barbarella and production has been pushed back to 2010 - Austin could celebrated Halloween and show what he's got for casting. One word of caution just don't show up at the studio and pull a Sean Young/Catwoman thing.

The other advantage? Heard something about a certain fellow who has a thing for birds -a goose particularly and well Pygar's got the feathers, wings and lives in a nest.

The other option? A Peter Sellers! Hey it was "Shot in the Dark". And it is the easiest costume since a Santa hat. Just a guy and a guitar - you just have to make sure that strap is securely fastened. Or would you have to? Talk about a G-string.