With Six You Get Higher Appreciation

Can you believe this happened six years ago today (January 18)?  (as we are told by Just Jared and I Heart Jake, anyway)

Jake driving Austin's Toyota Tundra while stopping at Beverly Hills Juice for liquid libation.

I can just hear Steve Urkel now:  "You going to drink all that?"

Knowing now how Jake and his team misguide on dates, it's hard to say for sure that this "historic" day did occur on January 18, but since that is what we're given, well, we're going to take it.

Perhaps this was a light breakfast before lunch?   The Famous Lunch that WAS.....

The. Sushi. Lunch.

Yes.  Shhhhh. 

Behold.

Jake trying to hold back his knowing smirk,

Austin always in the background, mostly hidden in the photos that he is in, but visible enough. Despite the obstructions and distractions of Adam Levine, Cigarette Guy, The PR-Type old Man, Gene Hong, hugs, mini-coup type car, yakking Jake not even looking at his guy, motorcycles, and more hugs.

It was a special time, one which many of us mis-interpreted back at the beginning of 2012, to mean more open-ness, when in reality, our fave guys were saying "We're still together" but "Sayanara for now."

We look back at these photos with a higher appreciation for we knew not what the future would forehold.

Hey angel
Do you know the reasons why
We look up to the sky?
Hey angel
Do you look at us and laugh
When we hold on to the past?
Hey angel

Hey Angel - by One Direction, lyrics by

Julian C. Bunetta, Jamie Scott Baylin and John Henry Ryan

pic source:  Giphy, IHJ, Vulture
our playlist:  Hey Angel - One Direction
                     California Day - Starland Vocal Band
                     Beautiful Day - U2
                  

 

Borrowin' the Big Wheels - Day 20

Thirty Days of Toothy Tile, Grey Goose and the Baby Tiles

Day 20

Early 2012 was kind of a surreal, magical time for anyone following Jake and Austin.  The period lasted about a month and a half with several tweet sightings of them together, the sushi lunch, the Berlinale Film Festival, and then there was the time that Jake put his big rancher pants on and drove Austin's truck.



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OH, you were unaware this happened?  Well, let's revisit. In pictures dated January 18, 2012 (same date as the sushi lunch photos were said to have taken place)....


Here he comes....

Awww.


Hmmm, so where's that guy goin'?

  
Heyyyy now...

Widescreen version (blow that puppy up):

 

Well, it's a Toyota, but it's not the Camry, which Jake used to be seen driving.  And it's not either of the Q7's....hmmm.....

I daresay.....we've seen that truck before.....


Shit I love trucks. They are useful. But not for just driving around the city. All clean. For work. For gettin dirty. For haulin stuff. - 
AUS10  2 Aug 10  (Twitter)

Once you've recovered from that rather devastating photo of Austin perched on the tailgate, we've got a couple of others...

 Yes, yes, same light colored interior as in Jake's pictures.  The picture of Austin sitting on the tailgate is from the Maxim interview dated last year just prior to SXSW 2016.

We've never seen Jake driving this black truck prior to January 2012, nor have we ever seen him driving it since.


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pic source:  IHJ, Maxim, giphy
our playlist:  Song in My Heart - Jeremy Fisher
                     Lego House - Ed Sheeran
                     You and Me - The Cranberries