More Michael Cera love
I would say at this point the chances are about 63% that I will create a Michael Cera tribute page. My appreciation for Michael only increased after reading this piece on him in the International Herald Tribune (via CC Insider). Some highlights:
Nothing amuses him more than the wincingly awkward silences that freeze a room in the moments after someone blurts out something embarrassing in a trying-too-hard attempt to look cool. He revels in it.
“Yeah, that’s my favorite thing,” he said somewhat sheepishly during a recent interview at a coffee shop in the Beverly Hilton Hotel. “I always kind of end up in situations where I don’t know too many people, and I’m not very social, and I feel, you know, extremely uncomfortable. But there’s some secret pleasure I take in things like that, in things going horribly wrong.”
Amen brother, though he’s obviously more ballsy about it then I.
“I sort of gave up my ambition to be handsome,” he said, describing how in seventh grade, as a fan of facade-skewering comedies like “Mr. Show” and “The Tom Green Show,” he began wearing a pink bicycle helmet to school and assuming fake, sometimes obnoxious personas to interview classmates. “I was excited about people thinking I was an idiot.”
Holla at me