An interesting article (Read the Article at HuffingtonPost) was sent to me today about the “quarterlife crisis” that people experience around the age of 22-26.
This is a common statement i’ve heard by many people. I think much of it stems from the expectations of family and society (aspirational TV, for example) going up and the realities of the world coming down (ability to get a job and succeed being that much tougher)
When the expectations and reality are conflicting, people get frustrated. Combine that with the trend that people move around so much and don’t have a solid “base” and you get a crisis. We’re malnourished in our relationships.
I can’t read an article like this and not immediately go bak to the book “Generation Me” which i wrote about here: http://loo.me/2008/05/15/generation-me/ Check it out.
A friend of mine from MN posted this on her Facebook. It’s a conversation between her and her mother. It’s amazing…
me is my friend
bcscott is her mother
me: ok. 7:05 AM
<3 bcscott: Howed you make that heart 7:08 AM me: it’s this:
<
and this:
3
pretty cool. 7:10 AM bcscott: doesn’t work on a non Apple
9 minutes
7:20 AM me: yes it does, i’ve doen it at work
you have to type them together.
but it ONLY works in this chat box, nowhere else. 7:22 AM bcscott: I typed them separately and together and I get a 3. Do you use shift or control? See if you can see the heart and smley face I inserted. me: you have to type them in this window
i can tell you haven’t because i should be able to see you doing it. 7:23 AM don’t insert them,
type them here. bcscott: ,3 There you go. me: you hit the comma. try it again.
< and 3 7:24 AM bcscott: My greater symbol IS the comma. me: doit again, barb.
< and 3 7:25 AM bcscott: #< There you go. That’s with the shift. me: mom, you can’t be serious. instead of the 3, you typed # and you did it backwards.
< and 3 7:26 AM bcscott: Carrie, what kind of keyboad do you have? My 3 IS the #. The shift controls all this. ,3 me: yes, but you keyed in a #
you need to type exactly <
and then 3
just do it. 7:27 AM bcscott: I know, maybe you have a numbers pad. I don’t have that on my laptop. Otherwise, this conversation is ridiculous. me: this conversation is ridiculous.
i am not doing this on a number pad.
you’re going to do this, mom.
type <
and then 3
you’ve been typing ,3 and <# bcscott: I can’t type < without the shift key. if I use the shift key on the 3 I will get a # 7:28 AM me: then ONLY use the shift key to get the <
and then don’t use the shift key to get the 3
do it, mom. bcscott: <3 There you go! me: that was unbelieveable.
absolutely unbelieveable. 7:29 AM bcscott: I had to do shift < and then regular 3. Now where did you get your smiley thing. me: oh boy.
As i was saying in a post i made a few months ago where i talked about how much i love milk, the drink, i saw the movie with the same name. I think it’s really good – 8 out of 10. I do have some thoughts about it
Sean Penn is f’ing amazing. He should definitely get a nod for this performance. James Franco and Emile Hirsh are great too.
There is some serious guy-on-guy making out in this movie. More than i’ve seen in any other movie. I’ve heard from a few “old” people (over 60) that they don’t like it and really can’t sit through it. I don’t know if it’s a generational thing, or if older people just don’t know as many gay folks so it seems too odd and uncomfortable. Personally, there is still shock value there for me when i see two guys really going at it out on the screen. It’s just something i haven’t seen much in real life
I like how they portrayed Josh Brolin‘s character. Nuanced and complex. I’m starting to think i’m going to see Brolin in tons of movies. He came out of nowhere to be in last year’s No Country For Old Men and now he’s in W. and Milk. I have a feeling i’ll be seeing lots of him over the next couple of years – similar to how we saw lots of John Travolta after he re-appeared in Pulp Fiction.
What did Harvey do before the age of 40? Cutting out 40 years of someone’s life is pretty substantial. The movie does mention that he was in the closet before he moved to San Francisco, but i could have used some more background about him and what was driving him. Sean Penn created an amazing character but i never got a sense of why he felt he had to the the activist for the group. He mentions that he wants to do something “he’s proud of” but why?
All in all, it’s a good movie and worth checking out.
[note: took down download links and working on getting the tracks up to be streamed only]
The good people at Brushfire Records (Jack Johnson’s label) have put together a Christmas mix of originals Christmas tunes. Let me tell you, it is FANTASTIC. There are great tunes by Jack Johnson, Mason Jennings, Matt Costa, Money Mark, G. Love, Neil Halstead and others. It’s not available for purchase or download right now – but when it is, you need to get it. I would post it but i’m trying not to piss off my Brushfire friends.
“Following” instead of “Friending” – in my opinion, only true/proper social networks that are primarily about social interactions (like Facebook or MySpace) should use 2-way friending. The rest should allow for 1-way following.
“Ambient intimacy” is about deepening people relationships via short messages and thoughts. Similar to how you get to know someone who’s desk is right next to yours because of offhand comments, you can do the same via twitter
Cooperating with others – Twitter allows others, even competitors, to utiilze them. And it seems to only strengthen twitter.
A true mobile app – for me this is the first mobile application that works better on mobile than the web. It has truly changed how i think about working on a mobile device
Twitter is an interesting beast because it’s still niche but gaining steam. People also love to bitch about how it doesn’t have a business model. This is true, it doesn’t but neither did email for a long time and now it’s one of the biggest driver of pageviews and engagement on the web.
In the first half of the twentieth century, no one wielded more power in the field of children’s literature than Moore, a librarian in a city of publishers.
She devised many of the conventions that live on today. It’s always interesting to read about people who had much a severe impact on our lives.
The company Netflix has a very sophisticated and accurate recommendation system. They also have $1 million prize for anyone who can make it better. One interesting thing is that apparently the movie Napoleon Dynamite is screwing up the Netflix’s rating system. There’s a good article in The NY Times called “If You Liked This, You’re Sure to Love That” that discusses this, saying:
The reason is that “Napoleon Dynamite” is very weird and very polarizing. It contains a lot of arch, ironic humor, including a famously kooky dance performed by the titular teenage character to help his hapless friend win a student-council election. It’s the type of quirky entertainment that tends to be either loved or despised. The movie has been rated more than two million times in the Netflix database, and the ratings are disproportionately one or five stars.
Worse, close friends who normally share similar film aesthetics often heatedly disagree about whether “Napoleon Dynamite” is a masterpiece or an annoying bit of hipster self-indulgence.
It’s funny that movie can be so widely loved or hated. I think it’s probably a generational thing with the younger you get the more you’re apt to like it. Clearly, you either “get it” or you don’t
Other movies mentioned in the article that are causing the Netflix system problems and are equally hard to classify and polarizing are:
And there you have it. I keep hearing from lots of people who didn’t like Guns ‘N Roses to begin with that the new album Chinese Democracy is garbage. Of course it is – you don’t like the Guns N’ Roses‘ music. Me, on the other hand, happen to really like GnR and think that the new ablum is really interesting. Of course the music isn’t as good as Appetite for Destruction – nothing will ever be. But it is good. And even more than that – it is nice just to have it exist. It’s a moment, an event, something worth listening to.
I would argue the same for Star Wars Episode I or Rocky II. Are they good as the originals? No, definitely not. Am i happy they exist? Absolutely. Whether you love them or hate them – it just makes the world a better place.
I don’t think i’ll know how good the music is until all the hoopla dies down. Probably sometime in mid 2009 i’ll have a sense for how good the songs are. Right now i really like them and really enjoy just experience more GnR.
There is also a good review by Chuck Kloseterman about the new album. As a fellow fan and probably the most qualified man in America to review the album, he also appreciates the album but brings up some good questions that it raises. I’ll leave you to the article. It’s here in the AV Section of the Onion: Chuck Klosterman’s review of Guns N’ Roses album Chinese Democracy
Michael Lewis who wrote Liar’s Poker revisits in an article his time on Wall Street and does some digging into what happened and interviews some people who actually predicted the crisis. In fact, reading this article you (a) wonder why more people didn’t see the financial collapse coming and (b) feel a sense of happiness that the firms got what they deserved.
As a side note – on my path through Wikipedia: did you know that Michael Lewis is married to Tabatha Soren the old MTV veejay? And did you know that Tabatha was in the music video “You’ve got to fight for your right to party” by The Beastie Boys? Interesting
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