I loved Drinking Buddies. It's like Scenes from a Marriage for Midwestern hipsters, but in a way that's actually great. (That apartment is just up the block from my old place back in Chicago -- love to Humboldt Park/Logan Square!)
The film holds the camera on its aimless characters like a magnifying glass over ants -- it's squirm-inducing and hilarious at the same time. I've never seen duplicity, obliviousness and love depicted like that. I think the closest we've gotten to something like this is Nights and Weekends or Like Crazy -- both of which are rather dull on paper and vibrant in execution.
Anyway, of course we have no shortage of stories about white person ennui, but I felt this movie was seriously funny and beautiful.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to never do another fucking Nicholas Sparks movie.
How much money people make is 100% related to the profession they pursue, not where they to to school.
A banker who went to a state school will always out-earn a kindergarten teacher who went to Harvard.
Similarly, a pharma rep without a degree will still out-earn a public school teacher pretty much every damn time.
It's all about how much society values your profession. For instance, I work in the journalism field and am consequently a trillionaire.
Odenkirk seems to be one of the hardest working people in show biz. Listening to how seriously he takes this role in interviews, I cannot imagine they'd expand this story without a real plan for doing something special.
I think healthy skepticism is great, but I have a weird amount of faith in this project.
Typical Euro baby. Just get someone else to do it. Maybe the Euro baby can just sit around and wait for an American baby to swoop in and save the day. AS USUAL. #freedomcandles
You can hear the Norther Lights here: http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=northern-lights-make-noise-too-12-07-11
SPOILER: it sounds like a bull whip
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