Word: jakes
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...habit of donning his hat to ward off anyone coming too close. Del Mar doesn't have too much to say, but he's got a Russian novel's worth of body language, most of it about loss. "If you can't fix it," he tells Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal), his lover, in a rare moment of reflection about his life, "you've got to stand...
...games have been regularly cancelled or delayed at the QRAC because of equipment problems.” Spanos said she had to drive to the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) to replace the Quad facility’s one flat volleyball. The manager of Recreational Services in the Athletic Department, Jake Olkkola, said that the situation would change soon. “I have a plan right now to get new equipment up to the QRAC for many different sports,” he said. “Everything will be replenished.” The renovated QRAC reopened last month...
...subject of violence. As it follows the action of the first Gulf War, we sense chaos indirectly. We see bomb blasts reflected through windows; we watch smoke rise above the bodies of Iraqi civilians, recently burnt off-screen. This violence is filtered through the eyes of narrator Anthony Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal), the everyman U.S. Marine, or “jarhead,” whose war autobiography this movie adapts. While training, Swofford is selected to join an elite scout unit, and he trades in his girlfriend for a sniper rifle and Peter Sarsgaard, his increasingly unstable spotter. Sergeant Siek (Jamie...
...Glorious Noise interview by Jake Brown, Darnielle claims sincerity in this fiction, saying that “a carefully constructed song is the mark of a sincere songwriter, not a spilling-out of random un-retouched demons.” In a genre marked by endlessly self-referential artists aurally laying claim to the authenticity of their experience, Darnielle’s sincerity lies in his commitment to well-crafted falsehoods...
...When they finally meet the enemy long-range bombs have already burned them to various grotesque crisps. Tony (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his buddy, Troy (a wonderfully cool, emotionally hidden Peter Sarsgaard), who are snipers, come close to actually doing something-killing a pair of Iraqi officers holed up in an airfield control tower-but at the last moment one of their own senior officer swans in and countermands the orders. In short, Swofford and his unit have nothing to show for the half year they spend in the eye of Desert Storm...