Let’s be friends

“The evidence shows that our nation’s show-business capital is a town of virtually boundless goodwill and camaraderie, where the backstabbing, ego-rivalry, and grudge-holding common to the rest of society do not exist,” said UCLA sociology professor Gina Carlisle, lead author of the five-year, 700-page study. “The entire region is a veritable utopia of deep, abiding interpersonal affection and mutual respect.”

Additionally, the report found that 98 percent of Hollywood residents “love [their friends'] work.”

The findings, published this month in the journal American Psychologist, were based on information culled from DVD commentary tracks, promotional junket footage, talk show appearances, more than 1,500 behind-the-scenes magazine profiles, and hundreds of poolside cocktail party conversations.

I freaking love The Onion.

A Viennese Trip

If you had taken LSD and suddenly realized your trip was heading seriously south, what music would you put on the stereo to restore your emotional equilibrium and silence your demons?

Erik Tarloff answers, in this highly interesting discussion on the similarities and differences between Hadyn and Mozart.

Incidently, the Better Third and I scored a pair of tix for the Calgary Philharmonic’s presentation of “The Brilliance of Mozart and Hadyn” this Thursday evening. Having never experienced a live orchestra before, I’m at once excited and apprehensive: Excited because I do have a slight appreciation for classical music and would like develop it further; apprehensive because I am afraid I’ll fall asleep.

Red Bull will be consumed, be sure about that.