2 mars 2014
The new worry epidemic
Worry. Never has a society worried about so much—and so little—simultaneously. We’re tied in Gordian knots of worry, every Twitter refresh delivering new fretting points. “Frost quakes” and polar vortex, the scary new term for winter, have been added to climate change fears. Last week’s news that PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) caused cancer again foisted grilled and smoked meats onto the long list of foods that might one day kill us. Everybody has his or her own worry list, which might or might not contain H5NI, vaccine fear, bioterrorism, your kid passing his finals, cyberterrorism, those grey hairs, the grid going dark, drivers who text, stock market collapse, job loss, gluten, debt, that guy eyeing your job, your RSP, E. coli in packaged salad.
-Maclean's
Lettre ouverte d’une fêtarde berlinoise à ses amis cocaïnomanes
''J’ai vu les plus grands esprits de ma génération détruits par la folie, affamés hystériques nus, se traînant à l’aube dans les rues nègres à la recherche d’une furieuse piqûre…'' Voilà ce qu’écrivait le poète américain Allen Ginsberg dans Howl en 1955. Pour l’imiter, je dirais que je vois les artistes les plus fins perdre toute inspiration dans des nuits futiles. Je vois des gentlemen se transformer en d’arrogants connards sûrs de leur séduction boostée à la poudre blanche. Je vois des filles gracieuses et pleines d’esprit perdre l’appétit – d’abord pour la bouffe, plus tard pour la vie. Je vois des intellectuels ramper devant certains dealers machistes et sans éducation.
-Konbini
Bret Easton Ellis Says We're All a Bunch of Cry-Babies
Bret Easton Ellis has only got to open his mouth for the cry-babies of the world to crawl out and start berating him for being a morally depraved chancer. Back in the 80s and 90s, you could sympathise with people getting offended by his books if they hadn’t spent much time around hedge-fund managers or fashion-world dickheads. If they had, they’d realize that American Psycho and Glamorama are in essence works of journalism—dressed up in Valentino and splattered with blood, yes, but documentaries of a certain moment in history all the same. “The six or seven books add up as a sort of autobiography," he says. "When I look at them I think, Oh, that’s where I was in ’91. That’s where I was in ’88. OK, I got it.”
-Vice
“Blue is the Warmest Color” and Cinema’s Sex Revolution
Adèle (Léa Seydoux) and Emma (Adèle Exarchopoulos) lounge in a sun-dabbled park, flirting in feints at the close of a tentative first date. Few watching Blue is the Warmest Color (dir. Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013) might be surprised by what happens next: Emma, the blue-haired, older lover of the film, and Adèle, its hungry, coming-of-age lead, kiss. Now that the wall of apprehension around their relationship has broken, they leap swiftly from first base directly home, the camera cutting straight to Adèle’s bedroom. There, the lovers fall into an aerobic collage of kisses and tangled embraces. Most audiences were unprepared for the scene’s strikingly unconcerned carnality or its unheard-of length (at ten minutes, the sex scene is the film’s the longest).
-The Weeklings
1 mars 2014
The broken-down grace of Bill Murray
In January 2014, Bill Murray created a minor pop-culture event by participating in a Reddit Ask Me Anything chat to promote his latest movie, The Monuments Men. He isn’t a recluse—he appears in movies regularly, and he’s a favorite guest of David Letterman—but he’s probably as far off the grid as someone can be while still remaining a major movie star.
-The Dissolve
Le blues de l'homme moderne
Le stéréotype est tenace. Et pourtant, apparemment fondé. S'il faut croire les dernières recherches sur la question, alors que les femmes aiment, on le sait, s'entourer d'amies, les hommes en manqueraient cruellement. Attention, danger, avertissent plusieurs sociologues. Car l'amitié est aussi un puissant gage de... santé!
-La Presse
34 Shocking Mugshots That Have To Be Seen To Be Believed
Whether they are innocent or guilty, high or sober these 34 mugshots feature some of the most bizarre and frightening individuals you’re likely to ever set eyes on.
-So Bad So Good
How Mexican Marines Captured The World's Most Notorious Drug Kingpin
For 13 years Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman watched from the rugged mountains of western Mexico as authorities captured or killed the leaders of every group that challenged his Sinaloa cartel's spot at the top of global drug trafficking.
-Business Insider