Justin Month, Day Twenty-One

How beautiful is he right there? The spare furnishing, the worn clothes - he's all smalltown retro rocker boy. Just lovely.

Papertrails by imogen

After the Storm: Justin Talks
"I'm just putting my life back together"

…When a pale but calm Timberlake made a brief statement, Bass stood behind him with Justin's mother, Lynn Harless, and his publicist. As the "unidentified man" in the pictures in every magazine from US and People to Forbes, many had no idea who Bass was. The 24 year-old junior PR executive has avoided the spotlight since then, declining interviews, including this one.

I ask Timberlake what was going through his mind as he faced down the media that day. He glances down at his hands before giving me a level look. "I was really fucking pissed off," he says, "and really fucking relieved."

-- Rolling Stone, June 20

A really cool idea. A cool little alternate reality just a couple degrees off from our own that tells the coming-out story of Justin through the people around him. Someone famous said something vaguely memorable about the company you keep, no?