#Dan Harris

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Best Emile Hirsch movies and performances:

1. Into the Wild - Sean Penn (2007)

2. Imaginary Heroes - Dan Harris (2004)

3. Lords of Dogtown - Catherine Hardwicke (2005)

4. The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys - Peter Care (2002)

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Bill Hader on Ten Percent Happier Podcast

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"Both what you run from - and what you yearn for - are within you." Anthony de Mello

"Mindfulness is the ability to see what's happening in your mind and in the world without being entangled by it." Dan Harris

"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths." Etty Hillesum

"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul." Swami Vivekananda

"When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place." Bhagavad Gita

"Fear is never conquered by avoidance." David James Lees

"Revolution is only possible now, not in the future; regeneration is today, not tomorrow." Jiddu Krishnamurti

"God did not create religion. God created man. Man created religion." Anthony Douglas Williams

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Imaginary Heroes / 2004

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X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

"Once you know the extent of your power, then you can learn to control it."

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X2: X-Men United (2003)

There have been A LOT superhero movies since the genre really blew up in 2000 with X-Men. The fact that X2: X-Men United remains one of the best means a lot. There aren’t many sequels which top their predecessors but this is one of them. Full of great character moments with the characters we've come to love and with plenty of contestants for new favorites, it’s got action, suspense and many reasons to come revisit it over and over again.

After Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming) - a teleporting, blue-skinned mutant - attempts to assassinate the U.S. President (Cotter Smith), he allows William Stryker (Brian Cox) to shut down Charles Xavier’s school for mutants. Actually, Stryker's goal isn't merely to capture the mutants; he wants Professor X (Patrick Stewart) and his mutant tracking computer, Cerebro. With their leader gone and the students on the run, the X-Men have no choice but to turn to Magneto (Ian McKellen) for help.

When we met Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), the film took us for a loop by revealing that the most important mutant at Xavier's school was Rogue (Anna Paquin), not him. This twist made us even more eager to learn about Logan’s past. Was his adamantium-laced skeleton and those mechanical retractable claws (the series hadn’t yet retconned these to be a natural part of his mutation) some kind of ultimate weapon program gone wrong? Something forced upon our amnesiac hero? The answer comes in the form of the mutant-hating Stryker, a great baddie that poses an extreme threat because he’s smart and ruthless. There are some deliciously gross and squishy moments waiting for you as you piece together the lengths he’ll go to. It gives me the willies thinking about what he did to his mutant son - almost as much as learning what his son did to his mother.

There are many scenes to make your skin crawl. Magneto’s escape from his plastic prison (a favourite moment of mine), the final battle between Wolverine and Lady Death Strike (Kelly Hu), Stryker’s domination of Magneto…. you probably didn't expect those fom an action superhero film. Neither did you foresee the emotional blows. Bobby “Iceman” Drake (Shawn Ashmore) betrayed by his brother, the children being taken away by Stryker’s forces in the middle of the night, Mystique (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) teasing Wolverine with her shapeshifting powers, Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) sacrificing herself... There’s a lot going on. A lot to love.

It’s hard to pick a favourite thing about this follow-up. You suddenly find yourself routing for the mutant terrorist Magneto because we’ve been given an even bigger, more sinister foe for our heroes. That’s no small feat. X2 is a confident picture with a lot of balls in the air and director Brian Singer (who’s fallen out of favour today but was a wizard behind the camera) keeps them all afloat, all perfectly distanced to keep the balance and the excitement flowing smoothly.

What’s there NOT to like in X2? It builds on the success of the first in so many meaningful ways. You see the younger X-Men grow into adults, the love triangle between Jean, Wolverine and Scott “Cyclops” Summers (James Marsden) get even more tangled, heroes like Storm (Halle Berry) in a whole new light and villains suddenly become heroes. This film gives you a lot to digest, making it a superhero adventure you eagerly return to over and over. (On Blu-ray, May 19, 2019)

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"Make the present moment your friend rather than your enemy. Because many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment, And imagine living your whole life like that where always this moment is never quite right, not good enough because you need to get the next one. That it is continuous stress.

-from the book,"10% HAPPIER by DAN HARRIS

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Starting a Metta Practice

This is a new concept to me, and I discovered it listening to this episode of the Ten Percent Happier podcast. What made it compelling to me, was when the guest Devin Berry shared that he felt difficult to be around, angry, and easily offended. He also describes himself as sarcastic and skeptical, and that fact that all of those descriptors sadly resonated with me and how badly I didn’t want them…

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Straz Staffer Expresses Creativity in Patel Class

Judging from the flow of school-age dancers, musicians and thespians who keep our Patel Conservatory lively, one might surmise that it exclusively serves younger aspiring performers. Patel also has plenty of classes, workshops and lessons for adults in dance, theater and music. “We believe it’s important to offer classes for all ages and all skills levels,” said Alice Santana, the Straz Center’s…

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Ollie King & Dan Harry Glendinning in I Kissed a Boy, 2023 - Season 1, Episode 5

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Growing up is actually just enjoying the exact same things you enjoyed at 14 years old, but in a more gay way

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Fanfiction in the late 2000s-early 2010s was wild bc you'd find a beautifully written story with the most compelling heart-wrenching plot you've ever seen and the author's note would be like:

Author with a username like ~SasukesWaifuxD~ : Ohayo gozaimasu! ↖(^▽^)↗, I'm sowwy it took me so long to update (๑•́_•̀๑)

tsundere twink from their fic : It was about damn time you idiot (눈‸눈)

~SasukesWaifuxD~ : Hey now! It's not my fault the plot bunnies kept wunning away fwom me (╥﹏╥)

tsundere twink: W-watever, it's not like I missed you or anything (💢,,>﹏<,,) b-baka!

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Poltergeist

The term “poltergeist” in this story mostly refers to spirits that have been consumed by their negative emotions, and their forms have become warped from the stress, leading them to look monstrous. The way a poltergeist looks varies between each spirit, but in some way the design references their death. And if a spirit enters this form too often, they can get stuck like that, so far gone that there isn’t anything that can be done for them anymore. Poltergeists are far stronger than common spirits. And lastly, poltergeists behaviors are shaped around the negative emotion manipulating the spirit

In Dan’s case, his poltergeist form is full of holes because he was shot to death. And since the main thing he struggles with is his anger, he’s a very aggressive and violent poltergeist