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What Does Your Favorite Wes Anderson Movie Say About You?

With the advent of Wes Anderson’s latest entry into his compendium of eight—the movie Moonrise Kingdom, out in New York and Las Angeles Friday—there’s enough of a catalog to ensure that there’s one for each of us. So, what’s your favorite Wes Anderson film? You would be amazed at what your preferences say about who you are, at least according to this entirely unscientific but completely authoritative exploration:

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

You like bands that other people like, but you only like their really obscure stuff. When you describe a piece of art or something as “difficult,” you mean it as a compliment. You probably have a graduate degree in something specific or you just work at a used book store. You want to move to Portland but you just haven’t done it yet. Sometimes people call you an asshole and you respond, “All I’m saying is that it’s important to understand what the term ‘craft beer’actually means.” If you’re a straight guy (and you probably are) you have a girlfriend named Cara who is a research assistant and wants to move to France, but not Paris. When you have a kid (not with Cara), it will have, for a first name, the last name of a writer you like. (Maybe Wallace, because you love Infinite Jest.) One summer when you were a kid you spent a month with your cousins at their island house in Maine and something big happened that you never told anyone else.

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vintagesesame:

Big Bird and Robin Gibb prepare to record “Sesame Street Fever” with producer Joe Raposo in 1978.

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“The headline for me here is that Facebook’s success has the unintended consequence of leading to the demise of Silicon Valley as a place where investors take big risks on advanced science and tech that helps the world. The golden age of Silicon Valley is over and we’re dancing on its grave.”

Steve Blank, a professor at Berkeley and Stanford (and serial entrepreneur), on social media’s effect on Silicon Valley. (via theatlantic)

(via theatlantic)

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npr:

If you want to see the strength of America’s beer industry, you may want to look past beverage giants like Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors. According to the Brewers Association, nearly 2,000 American brewers operated during 2011 — the most since the 1880s.

(via U.S. Craft Beer Brewers Thrive, Despite Small Share Of The Market : The Salt)

Photo: Bill Chappell / NPR

Love the micro-brew industry!