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- Nurses: Texas hospital 'unprepared' for Ebola Patients, in this case, should leave the hospital immediately. The... http://t.co/fj8NGzszGS
- Fully agree. Bill Maher, go out and meet some Muslims next weekend. Talk to them. Have dinner. Do coke, whatever,... http://t.co/B9sdX64jam
- “The mirage of working as a stewardess in Dubai” by Alexandra Radulescu https://t.co/9TkvfiCa3c What I... http://t.co/0rgw3xptt3
- Been following this since the beginning. RIP Eric Duncan. http://t.co/8fbtr8sdNL
- Ebola-infected American to arrive in Nebraska Things are heating up. Pretty fast. http://t.co/Zu2hi4d0zp
- Bill Maher and Ben Affleck Battle Over Radical Islam - " They Will F*cking Kill You! " ISIS and other things... http://t.co/b32NzbXnfb
- From my blogspace. http://t.co/zmzW51Rq5l
- Very true of the IBAs and NSUs in Bangladesh too. Recommended reading for university/college aspirants. http://t.co/suWyAvjiYz
- Nothing like film. That grain is here to stay. Kudos to Chris Nolan and J.J. Abrams for this excellent initiative. http://t.co/nedhg0g1Lk
- Lawyers: Immigrant detainees sexually abused Its sad but these are times when morality reigns high. Hope justice... http://t.co/tJF5M5Aeor
- Just met Karan Johar as we queued up for tickets at AMC Empire 25. I am in my classic bearded look for my... http://t.co/60pUgflnBx
- Just met Karan Johar as we queued up for tickets at AMC Empire 25. I am in my classic bearded look for my... http://t.co/HvABbu0lRn
- “The Broken Cure” by Jason Smith https://t.co/uGyiDR2gfY Recommended reading. Why drug abuse is... http://t.co/6ZDiFSb6Vv
- “How to Be Successful” by Ketan Anjaria https://t.co/1ZM0Q3wreC Recommended reading. http://t.co/d8bXLocOfx
- “Apple iPhone 6” by Jimmy Chen https://t.co/24M9dmkbVL iPhone 6 vs. Dick enlargement. Recommended... http://t.co/GdkzC9bqEE
- Two pseudo-corporate ladies engrossed in an endless rant about shitty cutie-pie gossip in the train in front of... http://t.co/M5RZl3m0oO
- Living in 2064. Recommended reading. http://t.co/cB2MW0J9wX
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- Nurses: Texas hospital 'unprepared' for Ebola Patients, in this case, should leave the hospital immediately. The place needs to be shut down if these allegations are true. This makes the hospital an Ebola hotbed waiting to unleash havoc.
- Fully agree. Bill Maher, go out and meet some Muslims next weekend. Talk to them. Have dinner. Do coke, whatever, with them. But meet them. Islam has issues. It needs to see a psychiatrist pretty quick.
- “The mirage of working as a stewardess in Dubai” by Alexandra Radulescu https://medium.com/p/e0fd98388dde What I felt like when working in the UAE. Glad to know someone else feels exactly the same. Recommended reading if you are working in Dubai or in UAE per se.
- Been following this since the beginning. RIP Eric Duncan.
- Ebola-infected American to arrive in Nebraska Things are heating up. Pretty fast.
- Bill Maher and Ben Affleck Battle Over Radical Islam - " They Will F*cking Kill You! " ISIS and other things Islamic & non-Islamic. Recommended watch.
- Very true of the IBAs and NSUs in Bangladesh too. Recommended reading for university/college aspirants.
- Nothing like film. That grain is here to stay. Kudos to Chris Nolan and J.J. Abrams for this excellent initiative.
- Lawyers: Immigrant detainees sexually abused Its sad but these are times when morality reigns high. Hope justice is served here.
- Just met Karan Johar as we queued up for tickets at AMC Empire 25. I am in my classic bearded look for my upcoming project My Last Beautiful. Not sure what look he is in for though. He's there to see Bang Bang. Me, for Gone Girl. No point in banging a girl who's gone already :D
- "CNNgo: Some school-age children have been in contact with Ebola patient in Dallas, Texas Gov. Rick Perry says." -- CNN www.cnn.com
- “The Broken Cure” by Jason Smith https://medium.com/p/64dcdc00db9 Recommended reading. Why drug abuse is actually empowered.
- “How to Be Successful” by Ketan Anjaria https://medium.com/p/93590719e800 Recommended reading.
- “Apple iPhone 6” by Jimmy Chen https://medium.com/p/5e543af875b1 iPhone 6 vs. Dick enlargement. Recommended reading :D
- Two pseudo-corporate ladies engrossed in an endless rant about shitty cutie-pie gossip in the train in front of me. Powered, of course, by vanilla-laced cups of DD coffee in their hands which they will drink until dinner tomorrow. Great start to the day, *******
- Living in 2064. Recommended reading.
- This is friggin unfair. Everybody gets the same speed. Period. Porn or not porn.
- Why does that 1% get to live? So that the remaining germ-race can continue to reproduce sustaining demand for sanitizers.
- Cool.
- This visually engaging TED talk should tell you - with brilliant clarity - that 'no one' really created the universe and us & that it will be one helluva experience to be able to meet a cosmologist who also believes in god, hehe.
- Just came out of the premiere (greeted with rain outside) of Starred Up having met the director - David Mackenzie - as well for a quick chat. A phenomenal film about prison life that deserves viewing.
- The whole idea of boycotting Burger King is ridiculous as hell. And shifting HQ to Ontario for a lower tax net is dodging taxes?! They are paying taxes - just that its going to a different country (these are regulations they have to follow to operate in that country) and Uncle Sam is still going to receive revenue from local sales like before. If this helps them cut expenditure and keep prices for local products lower to contest competition from McDonald's and the likes of Starbucks, what's wrong with that? Shifting HQ and tax investment to Canada does not make it a traitor. If that was the case, what about major Hollywood studios like Paramount that actually has bigger operations in China and other studios that are planning to set base there eventually because of the booming Chinese market for Hollywood projects like Transformers. Aren't they traitors too? To the boycotts: Better keep this pseudo-patriotism for another day.
- Time-lapse I shot of my subway ride home from work.
- Respect to Reetu Sattar.
- For a truly immersive Biryani experience at home today I did not need 3D glasses at all.
- Been writing this for sometime now. Comment with a quirky emoticon if you identify with the content of the work :O
- This is where I ended up for not being the tennis fan.
- Getting super advanced tickets to Interstellar & this - Automata. Two top sci-fis to watch this fall.
- One of the best things to have read on Facebook in a long long time. This is worth every bit of your time. The goodness in the world.
- Testing my DSLR T3i Rebel before the show begins :) This public restroom is also where I brushed my teeth and wanted a possible shower before heading out into the city (decided against the shower later).
- Professionalism is great when working in movies but over-fucking-professionalism kills it. An office space at Bank of America is where you gotta be at and not on a film set, then.
- Flashes of one of the oldest cities in America. Through my eyes. All Rights Reserved.
- Yes, Comcast, bad news travels fast.
- Recommended reading to find out the crap you are headed to.
- RIP Robin Williams.
- Heading to good old Boston tonight.
- This shit is pure madness. My kinda madness! Wow! On my radar, this one.
- This is marijuana for the ears. Watch/hear to believe.
- Well said.
- Kudos. The lengths we sometimes gotta go to.To be together :)
- The shape of things to come. First look of my 4th short film that's currently in the works. Heartfelt gratitude to my amazing crew who made it happen, notably: Christian Reeve/Cylla Senii/Michael Sherry/Md Rubel. You guys mean so much to me.
- For the love of cinema, here it is.
- Was thoroughly mesmerized by Phillip Seymour Hoffman in A Most Wanted Man yesternite. Superb direction, beautiful score and powerful performances combine to make this a very realistic look at how the world's intelligentsia work. Highly recommended watch.
- The new trailer for Interstellar Movie is pure brilliance. Christopher Nolan is officially the visionary director I look up to. M. Night Shyamalan is the other one. Since Steven Spielberg these guys have made an amazing impact on the filmmaking landscape. Nolan is the revolutionary new powerhouse. Respect & salutes to him. Watch the trailer here: http://www.interstellarmovie.com Access Code: 7201969
- This one's going around the subway tomorrow with me in it.
- Recommended reading. Respect to Elizabeth Warren.
- Snaps from the protests as I make my way through the rival crowds - the pro-Israel collective and the swathes of people in solidarity with Palestinians.
- On July 18, I put up a particular stat update here that mentions Google Airtalk. A few people liked it. Surprisingly, no one prolly delved deeper or even looked up what Google Airtalk is. If they had, they would have found out it doesn't really exist and I made it up. Except for the guy talking to the wall, of course. A quick social experiment in what people will believe these days if the prefix is a popular brand :D
- Wife says husband died of lung cancer in 1996. So she goes and sues the company that makes those ciggies. But didn't husband know that ciggies can result in death from lung cancer? That means if my rat dies of eating rat poison (accidentally, that is) then the company making the poison is responsible and not me for leaving the deadly poison out there for it to eat? And $23 billion for this? What was the jury smoking (irony) when they deliberated this? Damn.
- One of the best TED talks from acclaimed educational scientist Sugata Mitra. He does a brilliant job of telling us how schools will be obsolete in the future. This is already happening where except for the STEM subjects its useless to be going to school/universities for topics that you could inexpensively learn on sites like udemy.org or Khan Academy. An university attendance, otherwise, is just a fashionable fad - something you can brag about to get married - like in my native Bangladesh - where the most beautiful cow goes quickly under the knife on Eid-Ul-Azha. This is one domain where being ugly means you survive :D
- Perfect.
- Just saw a guy speaking to the wall at Queens Boulevard 45 St. Either this is a test run of Google Airtalk or the singularity where concrete structures have a secret life that is yet unheard of.
- So if Michael Ruppert says in Collapse that an electric car is not a viable option, then why is a brand like Tesla Motors in existence and what's stopping them from going global in terms of mass marketing and sales of electric cars aside from the fact that electric cars are not as fast as petrol-powered ones or is that issue solved already? Elon Musk can answer this, yeah.
- Traditionalists, take notice. Up your ass, too.
- Deepest condolences and respect to Nadine Gordimer - whose excellent novel 'July's People' about the Smales family fleeing Jo'burg during the Apartheid - was in my English Lit. curriculum in school. Though I found it a drag at the time, I began to understand its inner brilliance when I read it again for exam preps. It was an inspiration in itself & introduced me to the hardships of the Apartheid. RIP.
- Wow! Dubai comes to mind. A city of utter wealth and no soul.
- Tony Robbins. Watch this talk. Pure WOW. Featuring Al Gore.
- And yes, this could be happening. I am ordering thick fat books from them just to see the drone fly over my place and land in the backyard so I can steal it for my own sinister plans ;)
- Now that our newsfeed's flooded with stories from Gaza, a worthy question to ask is where are the leaders of the Muslim world now? Also what are the so-called Islamic collectives doing about this besides preaching against anti-Islamic forces in Palestine in beautiful city halls followed by lamb roast feasts. So much for a religion that talks about peace, brotherhood and etc. Their religion is only as good as sleeping after 3 am on Ramadan days after a fun family chat, waking up super late (of course) next afternoon and then visiting the kitchen to keep up on what's for Iftar. If this is the world's fastest growing religion, the leaders of the Islamic nations, by being indifferent to the Gaza conflict, are also making it the world's fastest growing joke.
- Vishal Bhardwaj back in form Kaminey-style with Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' adaptation for Bollywood. Shahid Kapoor is definitely going to turn heads for this one just like he did for Kaminey. This again reinforces the fact that an actor mostly doing mediocre flicks can be become a powerhouse in the hands of the right director.
- So they are preppin' up to shoot scenes for Person of Interest right outside the store I work in. Just used the portable crew toilets instead of the in-store one. Great to know I pissed in the same urinal as Jim Caviezel. It went smoothly (y)
- Since The Dark Knight, only two other sequels come close, one more than the other. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is the better of the two. The apes make an excellent comeback and rule the movie throughout. Effects are top notch but better fight choreography would have helped greatly. Still a recommended watch.
- Getting to know my anthropological ancestors today at the Dawn of the Planet of the Apes premiere.
- And then a deeper respect & gratitude for my loving brother Abidur Rahman - who's had the honor of being the guinea pig of my crushing blows and butt-kicks in times from the kid days. Whose romantic escapades with Urdu-speaking girls I helped resolve even as my own ambitious endeavors of the same kind were going nowhere. And then the greater moments when I wished the asshole wasn't born because he was nothing but rat-shit who was throwing around too much attitude. Considering the violence I was unleashing upon him, he may not have survived if my sister didn't pop around in time a few years later to cool the brutalities in us. These days he's a pretty decent actor trying to wash away the horrors of his past. Bro, here's a loving hug. Embrace :)
- Great trailer. Looks like Ridley Scott is back to his Gladiator form :) Christian Bale - respect to one of the best actors I have come across. A legend, if an actor has ever been one in modern times. Joaquin Phoenix is the other.
- “A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.” - Coco Chanel Self-help books for women should prolly open with this.
- Tonight, head over to Mad Lungi for an exclusive first look at the sci-fi drama - My Last Beautiful.
- Snowpiercer did to me what The Matrix did when it came out - that is - it just blew me away! (No, I didn't hit the wall or crack my head). But this is the best sci-fi movie since the latter. But fact of the matter is, Harvey Weinstein, probably underestimated its potential and hence its playing at only 3 select theaters in NY & that does not even include AMC Empire 25. Also the movie would have packed more punches if it was done in IMAX 3D. Still, this is the best sci-fi right now. Go for it - like right now! (And no, I wasn't paid for this promo by anyone :D )
- Ed Sheeran's X is dope! The track 'Photograph' is a pure f***** wow! Check it out,
- Damn well said (y) :D
- A quick final revision of the pre-prod routine for My Last Beautiful - a sci-fi thriller that goes to shoot on July 5th - one of my other projects besides Madness Theory - Bangladeshi Film coming out this year. While the latter was shot in Dhaka in the fall of 2013, the former brings together the chaos of a very intriguing and transcendental metropolis. More movie info here: Mad Lungi.
- Recommended watch. Pretty much confirms my most transcendental maxim that personal success depends on how each of us see the world and only that. Money, education, luxury and status are only accessories to that.
- The second & final installment in the series on my blog. Image supplied by: Maliha Mohsin
- Mona Simpson on her brother, Steve Jobs.
- Yup, sadly, despite having pretty cool effects, nothing DOES MAKE sense in the film but then that's how the movie was intended to be, I guess. The common rhetoric is that intelligent movies don't appeal to the general movie-going demographic in some cases where popcorn and soda takes precedence inside the theaters :D
- When I walk out after a screening of Transformers: Age of Extinction today (not a fan of the franchise but checking it out since all the super-explosions somehow resonate with my inner angst right now) you will have to speak to me louder so that I can hear you.
- So here I am announcing another of my endeavors, that I have, very glamorously, failed at. Another hard blow to days of waking up with confidence and with the feeling that this will be it. But Alas. This isn't a cinematic case as was my last failed project - a psychological thriller titled 'Purified' to be shot in LA that had to be closed down for circumstantial reasons. This new one is work-related (my day job) where I was brought in, with much fanfare and hullabaloo, I have to crazily admit, to design and setup an online marketing campaign to skyrocket sales for the store. This, of course, hasn't happened the way I envisioned it or channeled it out to be. So its a matter of time now before we meet around the block near the McDonald's where I treated you to a meal of double-cheese ranch beef burgers washed down with iced strawberry-banana smoothies with my 1st paycheck. Only this time, you will have to pop some bills into my black hat on the street so that I can have the same meal again. You might have to pay for yours this time, though I would have done it in better times. Sincerely Yours No More (Life), Mizan.
- Checked out David Michôd's The Rover today. Similar to the ambience in The Road though the latter is a better post-everything-collapses drama. But watch this one for tremendous performances by Robert Pattinson & Guy Pearce. The background score is a true winner & so is one groovy track that plays in one scene. And for the Pattinson-cheekies out there, screw The Twilight Saga. If you wanna catch Pattinson at his best, this is worth a watch. Plus, there's Remember Me where he proves his acting chops.
- In between the WC matches and trying to make a living and going after that one person who might borne your kids (guy perspective), I suggest you take time out & watch this Sundance Film Festival-winning docu Blood Brother. Its not just amazing, heart-wrenching and uplifting but a brilliant piercing look into the depths of what makes us human. Two thumbs up to this.
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