Last week I posted these pictures of Ethan Hawke gone platinum and you yelled at me. My friend Michelle yelled at me a little over Blackberry Messenger. It’s the Reality Bites connection. Or maybe Before Sunrise/Sunset and now Midnight. Yes. There’s a Before Midnight. Celine and Jesse almost 20 years later…

In Berlin.

This is what happened in Berlin today.

And you know he loves it. You think it’s hideous but he thinks it’s f-cking badass and totally shows off his cheekbones.

“Look, I have no idea what's going on," I said, catching my breath. "I don't like myself either. I don't know what's happening to me. I don't want to tell you to f-ck off. But you gotta understand, everything in my life feels different. I just want so badly to know if you like me. And I know how asinine that sounds. If you want me to leave you alone, I will, but sometimes... sometimes you meet somebody and you know that whatever you did before, whatever your life was before, it must have been right... nothing could've been too bad or gone too far wrong because it led you to this person. You're that person. Do you want me to go away?” -- excerpt from The Hottest State by Ethan Hawke