May 2012
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Gael García Bernal, Pablo Larraín 'No' Cannes 2012... →
If you had any doubt about whether people in advertising can create positive social change, No seems to be the film to watch.
Bernal: I knew about, obviously, Pinochet. I mean, I grew up with a lot of Latin American exiles in Mexico, but I didn’t get a sense, a real sense of the pain, and the deep pain that a dictatorship cost until I arrived to Chile.
Larraín: It’s unique because...
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Increasingly, Men Seek Success in Jobs Dominated... →
A male dental assistant, Mr. Alquicira is in the minority. But he is also part of a distinctive, if little noticed, shift in workplace gender patterns. Over the last decade, men have begun flocking to fields long the province of women.
Mr. Alquicira, 21, graduated from high school in a desolate job market, one in which the traditional opportunities, like construction and manufacturing, for young...
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WatchWeekend Update Favorites: May 19, 2012 (Saturday Night Live) (by NBC)
This reminded me of Monica describing Chandler in Friends: ” You were so funny!—JOKE, JOKE, JOKE, JOKE!”
Bam, bam, bam, every one.
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Meditation Misunderstood
A funny story, from my housemate Iris.
Tonight’s solar eclipse aligned with the new moon, so she joined a group for an extra special new moon meditation at Venice Beach. They’re sitting on the grass, meditating and singing, and a man nearby starts speaking to them, flatly:
“It’s not going to work. The world is still going to end. It’s not going work. Trust...
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"Who can say that someone flew across the Atlantic...
Yes, you can, Marwa!
Here’s the story: shortly after visiting us from Amsterdam for the first time, Liza started planning her return to her beloved Los Angeles—without telling Marwa. For more than two months, we kept her trip a secret: figuring out what dates she should come, how we’d get her home from the airport, how we would surprise Marwa. We had to guard our mouths, stop...
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The Other Facebook Founder - WSJ.com →
Last one, then I’m out. Most broad in its coverage of the different issues at play: how Saverin compares to the rest of the founders, what exactly his investments have been, locals hoping for star sightings, etc.
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IPO will keep Eduardo Saverin’s party going in... →
The Social Network portrayed jilted Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin as a victim. His character portrayed by The Amazing Spiderman‘s Andrew Garfield was trying his best to implement profitable strategies at the startup while Jesse Eisenberg‘s Mark Zuckerberg and Justin Timberlake‘s Sean Parker partied their way to not-so-accidental success. Now, with 2% of the company heading into an IPO that...
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Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin Renounces US... →
The Harvard classmate of Mark Zuckerberg, Saverin helped provide the financing for the initial founding of Facebook. With the social network giant set to go public, Saverin, who was born in Brazil and moved to the United States in 1992, will become a citizen of Singapore — where he currently resides — and avoid full taxation on the massive windfall he is set to receive from the...
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Joss Whedon Writes Thank You Letter to Fans for... →
With over $700 million in ticket sales and abounding critical praise, Joss Whedon, now over 20 years into a Hollywood career that’s had its ups and downs, could be excused for basking in the spotlight and even getting a big head. But the writer-director of The Avengersdidn’t build a passionately devoted fan base through arrogance, and in a new letter to those fans, he makes it clear...
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WatchNow that’s what I’m talking about. Bravo.
Preview “Born and Raised” on iTunes.
johnmayer:
“Queen of California” lyric video
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