Thursday, March 16, 2017

We Saw What You Did, Buddy


If one wants to find news on Jake's current world tour, Narnia Dispatches will not be the live-action, late-breaking, team coverage source for you.  There are quite a few fan and management created Jake Tumblrs, Twitters and smattering of blogs for that kind of information.  

Just for entertainment purposes, let's take a quick peek-see at the Life movie promo tour thus far and I'm expecting to see next...

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Oh. 

LOL!  No Switzerland?  I thought -- oh, okay.  Well, they're telling me no Switzerland. Scratch that.  ;-)

 Here's what we at Narnia have taken away from this "surprise", whirlwind world tour.  Jake in London yesterday.....

Hmmmm, something on Jake looks awfully familiar. A pair of sun specs so er...unique....such a style and color is hard to forget.  Where have we seen those before?


Snap, yes!

 That's a three pointer, buddy.  👍

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pic sources:  Instagram, Twitter
our playlist:  Closer to Fine - The Indigo Girls
                     Hear That Sound - INXS
                     Must Be Dreaming - Frou Frou
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Broken Hearts Can, Do and Will Mend - We'll Be Right Here Waiting, 1D


It's been over two years (hard to believe) since the One Direction band performed on the X Factor Final, joined by the Rolling Stone's Ronnie Wood.  They sang Where Do Broken Hearts Go and the performance was electric, full of life and enthusiasm.  No doubt, the young men were thrilled to be performing with Ron Wood, particularly Harry Styles who was a co-writer of the song. 

Here's a clip of the performance from December 2014.  If one would like to skip the hype at the beginning, the performance begins at 01:08.  Not only that, but I think it must have been played a kamillion times because it's kind of green at the beginning. Although the color is appropriate for the approaching holiday, it can be a bit disconcerting. But don't despair, that part doesn't last long, lol.  This performance is what snapped me out of my stereotypical "boy-band" mindset and catapulted One Direction as a group of multi-talented, outstanding entertainers.
CRANK IT !!


One Direction - Where Do Broken Hearts Go Live @ The 2014 X Factor Final (w. Ronnie Wood) from Vitor on Vimeo.


Just looking at the over-72 Font size, the capping, the high-decibel, Let's Get Ready To Rumble voice of the announcer during the beginning intro, it is now plain to see what a source of income, fame and self-importance One Direction provided for Simon Cowell and Syco.  Subsequently, the "pain" of losing One Direction would be 100 fold, even though the loss comes by their own hands.  

While One Directions fans have been hurting from not seeing their favorite group singing together, they have coped quite well.   These are the trying times indeed with babygate stories, airport drama, obvious separations between band members and overall frustration.

Each of these young men have said they will be back and while no one knows when the time will be, they seem to be individuals of their word.  

"One Direction is who we are and who we always will be." - Liam Payne (February 2017)

"We will be back." - Niall Horan  (November 2016)


 

"We fully intend to come back" - Louis Tomlinson (October 2015)



That looks like a unanimous group of voices saying "we'll be back", lol.  Whether Zayn could possibly at some point make an appearance during the return, who could possibly know, but if it were to happen, that would just be icing on the cake.   In the meantime, the young men have shared what they can and support is all that can be provided to them during this mega-length of a hiatus to beat all hiatuses.  ;-)

 Here are all five glorious members and participants of the above finale performance and we look forward to that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow when we know that at least the foursome will return to perform again as a group.  What a day indeed that will be.

Mr. Liam Payne




Mr. Louis Tomlinson
 


Mr. Niall Horan



 Mr. Zayn Malik



Mr. Harry Styles
  

 Thanks guys, for this extraordinary, thrilling performance.





pic/gif sources:  nauticalhl tumblr, yahoo, periodico, celebuzz,
                          mtv.uk, Royal Things, vimeo
our playlist:  Walking in the Wind - One Direction
                      Where Do Broken Hearts Go (Live at the X Factor
                        Finale) - One Direction w/Ronnie Wood
                      Stockholm Syndrome - One Direction
 
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Sunday, March 12, 2017

BYOS - Bring Your Own Sunglasses For This Look Back at March 12, 2016


Today Narnia Dispatches celebrates a phenomenon that happened one year ago today, March 12, 2016.   After nearly four years of not being photo'd together,  Jake Gyllenhaal and Austin Nichols were seen outside a sausage house and beer garden (hold the snark, please! LOL) called Bangers in Austin, TX.  The appearance was unexpected for Austin - not so much for Jake.  Jake was scheduled to appear at Bangers, as part of his promotion for the movie Demolition which was showing at the SXSW Film Festival.

We had a preliminary teaser when tweeter Carlos Chavez revealed he thought he saw Jake and Austin at the "A Conversation With Jake Gyllenhaal" event held at the Austin Convention Center.


 


 


And darned if we did not then follow Jake's train schedule to Banger's after this event, and what happened?  THIS happened.





Penny for the baby, sir, could I have some more????




Look at them!!!!  Just look at that!!   Three and a half years that dadgummed Jaustin / Toothy Tile & Grey Goose drought lasted, surviving on a diet of crossed paths, coincidences, gas fumes and ships passing in the night supported by social media alone, come to fruition and gloriously sated with this one single photo.

Why, I think time may have stood still for a mere second, the stars and planets aligned, sunbeams burst through the clouds, and those clouds - if you were not present at that moment, you may have missed the clouds....

 

 It was and still is something to behold.  Today, Narnia Dispatches celebrates nearly 15 years of Jake and Austin still knowing each other, still seeing each other, doing things together, sharing a meal, walking, being together, however you want to see their association.  It cannot be denied, will not be hand-waved, ignored or tucked away here at Narnia Dispatches.
Today, we celebrate Jake and Austin.  Here's to you, fellas.  xoxo












pic sources:  IHJ, Twitter, Oh My Godot
our playlist:  Any Way the Wind Blows - Southern Pacific
                     Don't Stop - Fleetwood Mac
                     What Makes You Beautiful - The Piano Guys
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Saturday, March 11, 2017

Trains, Cars and The Great Escape

Sometimes Jake's people let their guard down just long enough for their official narrative to take a hit.

About three and a half weeks before Sunday in the Park with George opened, Jake began to very publicly be placed in New York City in preparation for Previews, which kicked off on February 11th.  [Recap: Jake began 2017 with the highly visible St. Bart's photo essay, which circulated well into the new year. The Caribbean respite then quickly morphed into his appearance at the Golden Globes in Beverly Hills, CA on January 8, peaking with a spotting at the Taco Bell in Southgate MI on January 14th.]  

And, not surprisingly, since Jake's return to the Big Apple for the duration of his Broadway show, his daily social media searches have been stretched to Violet Beauregarde levels of hot air inflation. A torrential flood of memes and robot tweets followed one after the other, not only stretching credulity, but making the head spin with the seemingly omnipresent flow of nothing to hide Jakeness. 

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 Right? lol.  Social media activity filled with tweets and Tumblrs on being "robbed", being under-respected, not knowing how to hold a dog, not knowing how to physically run with dignity

the way he looks at Heath, Natalie, Anne, and a host of others from his life history (except Austin Nichols), sharing gum with other men at the Tony's, catfishing Amy Schumer, picking up bagels off the subway floor and eating them, just to name a few.  Yes, these and more have been robot tweeted with an obviously robust purpose.  It's a way to fill up space - this author likes to refer to the phenomenon as "Twitter Botox". 

However, while Mgmnt has been busy stuffing Jake's social media activity, what they had forgotten to do was to continue carrying out their client's "living in New York City amongst the people" and waving-from-the-front-porch narrative.  From previous time periods in NYC, Jake has been reported to be: sitting against brick walls drinking coffee at La Colombe, grabbing a workout at the gym or Soul Cycle, reading books on the subway, walking down the middle of random streets amidst the taxi cabs with earbuds, standing on subway trains [see December 9 2014 tweet of being a "subway stud"], entering crosswalks with the likes of Marcus Mumford.... No, Jake wasn't seen to be doing any of these previously routine, papped activities and in particular, pictured or tweet sighted on the NYC trains. (Jake and trains being the key rinse and repeat words.)

 Then, a few weeks ago (around February 20), this Tumblr post appeared:



http://closetwithaview.tumblr.com/post/157524041371/myirishjaredlove-yesterday-i-went-into-the-city
 
Oh wait that was interesting; read that again, what did it say? 

"After the show i waited outside to meet Jake! It was terrible cause he was heading to the car and I was farther down on the line so I walked up like everyone else"

Since that time, Mgmnt has tried to gradually up their game a bit.



Ella Cerón (@ellaceron)
2/21/17, 08:21
Real New Yorker™ level unlocked: saw Jake Gyllenhaal on the subway.


On March 8, these two tweets were particularly entertaining:




This tweet above was interesting because the picture is an old one. And it appeared in Jake's search timeline on March 8, although the date on the original says January 17.

And it was on March 7, that this particular robot tweet below had a resurgence in life after being in incubation from the first go-around back in October of 2014 (not particularly easy to "dig up" an old tweet like this unless you have a link):


 

See how that would subliminally work?  Repeat, repeat, repeat an association and the mind associates or is "reminded" that Jake lives in New York City now and he is a "regular" on the subway.

Even though, @myirishjaredlove reported seeing him headed to a car after the show.  Interestingly enough, there just are not tweet sightings of Jake on the subway trains prior to or after his shows this year.  There have been several random ones, but they are few and far between. Which lends to the curious question of why this practice would pretty much cease to non-existent this time around? 

Just wondering.  :-)

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Remember to "Spring Forward" the clocks tonight!  #DaylightSavingsTime


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our playlist:   Groovy Train - The Farm
                      Took the Last Train - David Gates
                      C'mon and Ride It (The Train) - Quad City  DJ's



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Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Hot Scrapbook Moment - Reminiscing on Kradam

Would love to spend a little bit of time speculating and discussing Kris Allen and Adam Lambert, Kradam, did they or didn't they, was it or wasn't it, whadya think, huh huh, hmmm???? Definitely a strong probability in the future.  In the meantime, we're not just here for the sleuthing and analyzation, we're also here to enjoy and celebrate these wonderful OTP couples, past or present.

Kradam has got to be one of the most lovable, fiercest pairs ever. Both competed in American Idol Season 8 in 2009 and in fact, became the Final Two.  They became very good friends and their chemistry so strong and palpable, the moniker "Kradam" was quickly born.  Fan fiction, blogs and videos ensued.  

 The purpose of this post was merely to share a video of Kris and Adam, and then follow up with some lovely pictures.  See what you think....

 Enjoy!!

Talk about stars and planets colliding.


















Kris and Adam.

picture creds:  f***yeahKradam, idolforum, fanpop, saarfantasylivejournal, AV Club
our playlist:   Teenage Dream - Katy Perry
                      Colors - Yuna
                      So Good, So Right - Brenda Russell
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Sunday, March 5, 2017

Thursday at the Airport With Jake - A One-Morning Performance

(Reader warning:  There's an "F" word and graphic picture used in one of Austin's instagrams in this post)


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One bleary-eyed blink and you would have missed it.  I mean, the alarm clock needed to be set mighty early to catch this one.


 

While we're not positive where the "mom" is, we know that this tweeter is in....New York City.  Since she says "the airport", that seems to infer a local airport for her.  If it were an airport in another state, I would think she would refer to the actual name, but I'm not going to throw down the gavel on that one.

As is always the case with Jake and Austin, there are rarely cold steel, smoking guns.  You have to look at the events surrounding, leading up to and following a sighting.

Last we left this rumbling, stumbling pair, we had Jake in New York City performing Sunday in the Park With George at the Hudson Theater, following a stop-off and run for the border at a Taco Bell in Southgate, Michigan.  And Austin?  Well, Austin was in Michigan as well, we assume driving the rehab-bus after his sister and bro-in-law skipped town.  ;-)   For further reference to this, please see:  source

Well, this current weekend, Austin is SUPPOSED to be in London at a Walker Stalker convention.  It had been set up since last year. Well, lo and behold, what happened?  Let's allow Austin to "break" the news to us, starting with his tweet and Instagrams from March 1:


 

And another Instagram on March 2: 

austinnichols  Gettin on a plane to London

 

But by Friday morning, something had gone terribly wrong:

 

Then in what I'm sure could be an attempt with some humor to set fans at ease...

 

Pfft!  That's it.  He's done.  No other flights available, I guess.  No mechanics around. Throw in the towel.  Pack up the camping gear and go home.  Don't pass go, don't collect your $200, just call a cab and pick up a sandwich for the ride back to....where?  Michigan where he's the bus driver for his recuperating father?  Austin, TX where all of his vehicles are located in his garage?  Or to Los Angeles, where he visits the beard, I mean girlfriend, according to Maxim magazine?  

 

[Aside:  Oh but wait! Guess the patriarch Dave Nichols is "on the mend".  More on that later.]  But in the meantime, we will scratch Michigan from the short list of return-destination possibilities.

 

We return to the tweet sighting of Jake at the airport on Thursday morning and wonder why it could have been viable?  We know he couldn't have been departing because he had performances stateside to do this weekend.  And this airport tweet came at 05:33 am ET. That's pretty darn early. Could he have been giving his boo Austin a lift to the airport for his weekend trip to London?  I doubt it. These two guys have parted ways due to business trips an endless amount of times. Nothing new there.

 

Or could it be that Austin was coming in on an arrival flight? Couldn't he have taken a cab from the airport, though? Surely - after all, how incredible of a driver could his hubs be?  But wait. What if Austin and the Baby Tiles had still been in Michigan, but were coming into the Big Apple?  Could that explain the very early arrival?  Less chance of being seen.  And it could explain why Jake would risk being spotted because he could not wait to see his children.  He likely had been waiting to see them for some length of time, how long we are not sure.  But waiting nonetheless.

 

And as has been the kind of luck that Jake has had sometimes - well, he got caught. Again.  Now, let's throw one more log onto this little campfire.  Who has a birthday coming up this Wednesday, March 15?  Jake's mom, Naomi Foner.  And who could have been disembarking on this wee-hour arrival flight to help celebrate? Possibly her grandchildren - the Baby Tiles en masse. Two tweets from last night's Sunday in the Park performance:

 







Since Wednesday falls during the work week, it's very possible that a 71st birthday shindig is being/has been held this weekend and that's why the grandchildren were flown in.

To help deflect and flag wave through, we had some help from the two rumblin', stumblins'.  Let's take a look:


 

Austin in Los Angeles?  But of course.

And Jake?  


http://jacobbgyllenhaal.tumblr.com/post/158003500216/ashleyparklady-prefers-clean-shaven-march-4
 

and


http://dailygyllenhaals.tumblr.com/post/158001591041/jakegonline-sundayintheparkwithgeorge-bts
 

Because we know that Jake playing with other people's children for the world to see, must mean he couldn't have any of his own.  Yeah, we know, bud.   Nice try.  ;-)

Huzzah! Let everyone have cake!  

Another rare Twitter catch.  And another round of broken planes and Broadway backstage moments.  

Btw, for those wondering about the patriarch Nichols, looks like he's "on the mend" from that quite-serious, mysterious malady his son-in-law wanted all the world to know about.  From the well-timed re-opened Instagram account of Austin's bro-in-law, any curious questions on Dave Nichols status have been generously answered:
A post shared by Rowdy (@rowdyatx) on

Interesting details to these pictures are noted.  It's good to see that Austin "returned" to where he was more badly needed, isn't it? Taking care of his fur child in LA. Instead of the wheelchair bound dad that Randy is selling via his Instagram account.

 And that's how you know, what you are seeing is what PR wants you to see. What is actually happening behind the scenes is not going to be posted on Rowdy or Austin's Instagram. Who would like a slice of birthday cake, now?  Order up!

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pic source:  Giphy, Instagram, Twitter
our playlist:  Waiting To See You - Dan Hartman
                     I Knew You Were Waiting - Aretha Franklin &
                                                            George Michael
                     Waiting for a Star to Fall - Boy Meets Girl
                    


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