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The Girlfriend Experience

Chelsea: "Sometimes clients think they want the real you, but at the end of the day, they say they don't. They want what... they want what you want to be. They want you to be something else. They don't want you to be yourself."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1103982/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1103982/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1103982/

I kinda liked it, mainly because I thought the role was perfect for Sasha Grey. There is something in the way she looks that might get her a successful career outside the porn industry.

Harry Potter

My (short, late and uninteresting) take on Harry Potter:

1. B1&2 are fun to read and they are a decent start to the series.
2. B3&4 are pretty good. B4 has been one of my favorite reads in 2010.
3. B5 made me want to kill myself. It is super long, super slow and I couldn't care less about some of it.
4. B6 was just ok, but quoting Nacho: 'It has the best cliffhanger ever".
5. Book 7 was a decent end, even tho there was a point were I thought I wasn't gonna like it.

I also tried watching the movies, but I thought the first one was very bad and couldn't keep going.

The ghost writer

Polanski+Ewan McGregor, whose name is never revealed.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139328/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139328/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139328/

Invisible (by Paul Auster)

'I shook his hand for the first time in the spring of 1967...'

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6345193-invisible
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6345193-invisible
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6345193-invisible

Read it.

(500) days of Summer

'This is a story of boy meets girl. The boy, Tom Hansen of Margate, New Jersey, grew up believing that he'd never truly be happy until the day he met the one. This belief stemmed from early exposure to sad British pop music and a total mis-reading of the movie 'The Graduate'. The girl, Summer Finn of Shinnecock, Michigan, did not share this belief. Since the disintegration of her parent's marriage she'd only love two things. The first was her long dark hair. The second was how easily she could cut it off and not feel a thing. Tom meets Summer on January 8th. He knows almost immediately she is who he has been searching for. This is a story of boy meets girl, but you should know upfront, this is not a love story.'

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1022603/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1022603/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1022603/

Summer: I woke up one morning and I just knew.
Tom: Knew what?
Summer: What I was never sure of with you.

Awesome. And pretty. And extremely well done. And moving. And charming. And all those other good things.

Free (The future of a radical price)

by Chris Anderson.

Really good food for thought.

'In a world where food, shelter, and the rest of Maslow's subsistence needs are met without having to labor in the fields from dawn to dusk, we find ourselves with "spare cycles", or what sociologists call "cognitive surplus" -energy and knowledge not fully tapped by our jobs. At the same time we have emotional and intellectual needs that aren't fully satisfied at work, either. What our "free labor" in an area that we value grants us is respect, attention, expression and an audience.

In short, doing things we like without pay often makes us happier than the work we do for a salary. You still have to eat, but as Maslow showed, there is more to life than that. The opportunity to contribute in a way that is both creative and appreciated is exactly the short of fulfillment that Maslow privileged above all other aspirations, and what many jobs so seldom provide. No wonder the Web exploded, driven by volunteer labor - it made people happy to be creative, to contribute, to have an impact and to be recognized as expert in something. The potential for such a nonmonetary production economy has been in our society for centuries waiting for the social systems and tools to emerge to fully realize it The Web provides those tools, and suddenly a market of free exchange arose.'

And the audiobook can be downloaded for free.

http://hyperionbooks.com/free/
http://hyperionbooks.com/free/
http://hyperionbooks.com/free/

Sue Grafton

Read A, B and C. So far, so good. Looks like I'll be reading the complete series.

Wolverine.

Surgeon: When it starts, whatever the reason is that you're doing this, focus on that.
Logan: Trust me, I've been through worse.
Surgeon: No you haven't.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458525/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458525/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458525/

Watchmen

Adrian Veidt: It doesn't take a genius to see the world has problems.
Edward Blake: No, but it takes a room full of morons to think they're small enough for you to handle.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409459/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409459/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409459/

Thinkingrock (GTD)

Opensource. Testing on a USB stick. Looks promising.

http://www.trgtd.com.au/
http://www.trgtd.com.au/
http://www.trgtd.com.au/

Slumdog Millionaire

Police Inspector: Admitting murder and fraud is not exactly clever thinking.
Police Inspector: Now why would you do that?
Jamal Malik: When somebody asks me a question I tell them the answer.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010048/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010048/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010048/

Danny Boyle is a genius.