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I would like to take this opportunity to thank Jon Favreau. I would like to thank him for portraying my childhood, my hometown, my culture, and especially the food from my culture in a way that was accurate and honest. I would also like to thank him for the nostalgia, the music, and showing my fiancé and I Little Havana, Versailles, and Hoy Como Ayer in all its historic Miami beauty, relevance, and glory.

As I go off on a tangent about a much wider spectrum that goes beyond a movie review, I’ve learned something from living in Los Angeles. And I guess this goes with every other place on the planet… When you move to a new place and you tell people you meet about where you came from, they’re never truly going to understand your perspective. It’s not because they’re dumb or ignorant, it’s just that they’ve never been there. I’ve also learned just how prideful I am about my hometown, the food, and how much I miss it. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, right? 

2012: A Year-End Review – A Year to Forget Despite Being Surrounded By Reminders

2012 is coming to a close in the next few days.  This year, I think more than ever, social media has truly transcended from time-wasting hobby to an important and vital tool to inform just as much as entertain.  As an aspiring filmmaker who has already tasted snippets of success because of social media, I am witness to a “changing-of-the-guard”  in how marketing and advertising as a whole has evolved in ways that no one could have possibly imagined.  With that in mind, the same can be said to the biggest stories of the year.

Social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and blog sites like this one have all become the greatest and most effective way to share information from news to viral videos.  So it should come to no surprise to anyone that social media helped crown the two biggest new artists of the year.  The first, would you believe, is a Korean rapper?

My First Old Man Rant (At 29)

How many of you have had your parents or grandparents that started a story with, “Back in my day…”?  Chances are nearly all of you have.  I, of course, am also one one them.  What are the things they mainly complain about?  Everything is so damn expensive, advances in technology, personal privacy being invaded for one reason or another, political strife, etc.  You get the point.  Now I’m not a parent yet.  Nor do I claim to have some sort of “infinite wisdom” like people much older than me claim to (and for all intended purposes) do have.  What I am is observant along with a wicked memory.

Times are changing faster than we can keep up with them.  (That sounded like an “old man” thing to say already…)