Not tonight dear....

...I've got a headache.




Oh Julian - what is up with that? Do you need some Head on?



A headache? Business got you distracted? Or is there something else that has turned you into the "not tonight dear" boy when it comes to Brooke and girls like her?

One question when sporting a fivehead does that mean a bigger Head On?



Guess you are not going to rock with your .... Seriously Alex is a writer? Or is Julian and Alex just getting together to watch Grease 2 over and over again?

Next week on OTH : Julian goes camping with the guys. Will this mean he's going to tap his inner LumberJake? (Wait is that what he does on those man of mystery weekends?)

Out Spotlight CII

Today's Out Spotlight is photographer, photo collagist, surrealist, artist, writer, and translator Claude Cahun is known today primarily for creating images, including self-portraits, that play with concepts of gender.

Born Lucy Renée Mathilde Schwob on October 25, 1894 in Nantes, France, into a prominent French Jewish literary family. She studied at Oxford and the Sorbonne.

Always into literature and writing, Cahun wrote about Oscar Wilde and in 1929 translated into French the writing of sexologist Havelock Ellis. Ellis entertained the theory of homosexuals as a third sex, neither masculine nor feminine, but uniting characteristics of both. This theory has been thought by some to have influenced Cahun's photographic image making.

When Cahun was 12, her divorced father married a woman whose daughter, Suzanne Malherbe, would becomes Cahun's stepsister, and later became her lover, co-creator, and lifelong companion. They lived in Paris during the 1920s and most of the 1930s.

Cahun wrote for a number of publications including L'Amitié, a homosexual review magazine. Her feminism can be seen in a 1925 manuscript which was not published until 1999, entitled "Heroines" in which she writes of Sappho, of Ulysses as a cuckold, and of Cinderella's prince as a foot fetishist.

Independently wealthy and she never had to seek employment and was able to pursue her photography independent of economic considerations.

Cahun photographed, among others, Sylvia Beach, prominent lesbian expatriate and owner of the English-language Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Company. She began producing self-portraits from 1912 until her death in 1954. Many portraits playing with, bending, or distorting gender and sometimes race. Her images were printed scrapbook size and circulated among friends. Most were never exhibited in her lifetime.

In some of her self-portraits she appears as a man, in others as an androgyne, as Buddha, as a figure with shaved head, and sometimes in a dress and wig. In one she sleeps on a shelf in a cupboard. Cahun was active in avant-garde theater and some of those self-portraits show her in roles she played. Later, she recycled her self-portraits into collages.

Collaborating with her partner Malherbe, who used the pseudonym Marcel Moore, Cahun created Aveux non avenus (sometimes translated as Canceled Confessions): meditations, aphorisms, personal philosophical ideas, and collaged images published as a book under the imprint of Editions du Carrefour in Paris in 1930.

In the late 1930s, Cahun was active in the Surrealist movement, published in Surrealist journals, and contributed sculptural-objects to Surrealist exhibitions. Her photographs also illustrated Lise Deharme's poems for children in Le Coeur de pic (The Pick-Axe Heart).

Cahun and Malherbe moved to the British Isle of Jersey in 1937. The Germans occupied the island in 1940, and the couple, who had worked with anti-fascist political groups in the period between the world wars, practiced covert forms of resistance.they became active as resistance workers and propagandists. Fervently against war, the two worked extensively in producing anti-German fliers. Many were snippets from English-to-German translations of BBC reports on the Nazi's crimes and insolence, which were pasted together to create rhythmic poems and harsh criticism. The couple then dressed up and attended many German military events in Jersey, strategically placing them in soldier's pockets, on their chairs, etc. Also, fliers were inconspicuously crumpled up and thrown into cars and windows. Cahun and Malherbe's resistance efforts were not only political but artistic actions, using their creative talents to manipulate and undermine the authority which they despised.

Cahun's life's work was focused on undermining a certain authority, however her specific resistance fighting targeted a physically dangerous threat. In 1944 they were arrested and sentenced to death, but the sentences were never carried out. However, Cahun's health never recovered from her treatment in jail, and she died in 1954. She is buried in St Brelade's Church with her partner Suzanne Malherbe/Marcel Moore).

Cahun's public identity became a commentary upon not only her own, but the public's notions of sexuality, gender, beauty, and logic. Her adoption of a sexually ambiguous name, and her androgynous self-portraits display a revolutionary way of thinking and creating, experimenting with her audience's understanding of photography as a documentation of reality. Her poetry challenged gender roles and attacked the increasingly modern world's social and economic boundaries. Also Cahun's participation in the Parisian Surrealist movement diversified the group's artwork and ushered in new representations. Where most Surrealist artists were men, and their primary images were of women as isolated symbols of eroticism, Cahun epitomized the chameleonic and multiple possibilities of the female identity. Her photographs, writings, and general life as an artistic and political revolutionary continue to influence countless artists, namely Cindy Sherman and Nan Goldin.

Claude Cahun - pictures

Three B's

All the balloon boy talk in the news has got tweets in a twitter remembering Jake as Bubble Boy.

While not the critically acclaimed success of some of his other roles, it seems to be a fave of video store employees who play it on endless loops, those "not so low", kids, people who are Bright and Shiny and frat boys who yell 500 dollah! What is has become is another cult classic.
But you know it could have told Jake a little about his future.

Bad hair will happen

Tiny people will boss you around.

But the good thing:

Life will be in a fishbowl but you have a person who loves the sea beside you

Bubble Boy Trivia Question: What Dancing with the Stars (US) contestant was in Bubble Boy?

One more question for you: What would Jake be doing in a Pittsburgh bakery? Cause you know he's never really looked like a sweets kind of guy. Hmmm. Scone? Cookie? Cupcake? Cake for some special reason?

Tex for Tat

This weekend is one of the biggest rivalries in all of American sports Univ. of Texas vs. Oklahoma for college football. And we all know Austin is a proud Longhorn fan.


But would he show his Texas pride with a tat? The mind wanders wonders:








And some Jake on a Austin Friday.

Fran Healy and Andy Dunlop of Travis were back talking their inspirations at their“A Chronological Acoustical Journey Through The Travis Back Catalogue: Laugh Out Loud Stories, Scottish Accents, Handsome Scottish Men, Naked Torsos” show again. They didn’t deliver on the “naked torsos” promise but delivered slides, a pole poll and Jake in Austin. (their Austin show)

"And there aren’t too many performers who take time out from their het parade to go to the slide projector and poll the audience on whether they prefer the musclebound Jake Gyllenhaal (click) to the more slimmed-down Jake (click)."

Hook'em horns


Pictures: OMG/ Austin Nichols Journal/OMG

Act Dance Give

Jake doing the Macarena at the Mellon Arena made a memory for a lot of extras from the Pittsburgh area on the set of Love & Other Drugs, but that wasn't all that people of Pittsburgh got from that day of shooting.

I don't think this is right

Just go with it.

The Real Pharma may be making the money but the Movie Pharma is giving it away.

LaOD, trying to recruit extras for scenes at Pfizer convention scene at the Mellon Arena found a way to do that and to give back to the Pittsburgh. The production donated money to the Pittsburgh area film office along with the Humane Society, Habitat for Humanity, Big Brothers/Big Sisters and the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, among other groups for each extra that was a volunteer representing one of the designated charities.


The filmmakers made a $50 donation for each extra for the days work. For HFH Greater Pittsburgh that was $550. Sometimes that doesn't sound like a lot but it is amazing how much can be done with it. Every little bit helps for organizations these and LaOD is doing their part during their stay in Pittsburgh.

Vox Populi Aequitas

This past weekend thousands converge on Washington for the National Equality March in Washington speak out for equal rights for all citizens in the U.S., including the right for all Americans marry. Serendipity intervened Congress who was supposed had a break for many members to their home states, had their holiday weekend suspended so they could stay in session working on passing legislation on ground breaking health care legislation. Some of the Congress person who have argue against the need for such federal legislation couldn't avoid the call for action.

Destiny, PG, Tom and Wicked were among those who marched speaking out and demanding equality for all. The March ended up at the steps of the Capitol in a rally for equality. PG sent along some pictures of the day.

OMG says thank you to Destiny, PG, Tom and Wicked for marching.



Photos: Prairie Girl

Pitching Woo?

Jordan Mechner's keynote speech at GDC China, a game developers convention, talked extensively about the PoP franchise, his original aspirations and where the game series could be heading. He described the franchise prior to Sands of Time as "a garden that I was neglecting. By 2001 Prince of Persia was really a dead franchise -- completely and totally dead." Back to the garden Mechner to see what he could harvest from what he planted, deciding to make a pitch to get Prince of Persia made into a movie. So how do you pitch a video game as a movie to some of the biggest producers in the business? Show them your game. And this is what Jordan showed them.

It's not Persia but Pittsburgh, and Jake is deep in Friendship, shooting Love & Other Drugs.

Friendship is a quiet little residential area nestled between the bustling neighborhoods of Shadyside, Bloomfield and East Liberty Ave (part of the Strip District); many say it is the best neighborhood in Pittsburgh to live in because everything is so close.

Speaking of friends. It seems that there is a mixed message in what Bushnic is selling.

Even though Bush referred to Nichols as her boyfriend to friends, Austin played coy when our own Party Girl asked him if they were dating.

"I'm not gonna say anything except that...I'm here to drink. We were talking before. We have a bunch of friends together—we work together," Austin said.

"To be honest, I'm here to drink the free tequila and come to the Hammer Museum because I'm an art lover," he explained of why he happened to be at the event. "I'm just here to enjoy the party!"

Not the best way to woo, if wooing was the objective of the evening, cause Mas Tequila can lead to

and its gonna be a friend who's going to be holding your hair back when the worm turns on you.

Could Ted be anymore obvious with the Jake Austin connection? But he did sum it up best.

What, are you two studs too embarrassed to get frisky for all to see? Screw the proper Hollywood dating etiquette and do dumb, young-love stuff next time you're out with your significant other.


Oh Ted. Coffee trips can be exciting, it just depends on who's the pair putting the cream in the coffee.