Zane Lowe vs Jared Leto on BBC Radio 1, in London 21st March 2013

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Jared Interview at Kerrang Radio 2013

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Jared Interview of memories ♥

Online Chat 1995

This chat was hosted on AOL during the “My So-Called Life”-era, must have been from sometime in the spring of ‘95.

Hates to shave (ha!) and likes popcorn. Wants to be a filmmaker when he grows up, musician if not an actor, might make an album someday if anybody cares.

Then: jelly donuts. Now: vegan cupcakes.

(Unknown): do you plan on doing any movies? I would love to see you on the big screen

JARED LET0: Yes, I just did a little part in a movie called How To Make an American Quilt.

JARED LET0: I’m typing this myself so bear with me

Duckworm: Do you think it’s difficult playing someone younger than you really are? 

JARED LET0: no

Duckworm: Did getting one of People’s “50 Most Beautiful People” inflate your ego? 

JARED LET0: No not at all, I thought it was actually kind of silly

Jbrice: what is your favorite band or musician? 

JARED LET0: NIRVANA 

MARGO PRO: What were you like growing up? 

JARED LET0: confused

FreFrawn: Jared, are you ever online???

JARED LET0: a couple times, but never as myself

Sheryl555: Hi Jared, I just started watching your show on MTV a few weeks ago and I think it is absolutely great. What kind of jobs have you held before you were on MSCL? 

JARED LET0: not many acting jobs but I was a dishwasher when I was 12

NtvBornTX: What was your first kiss like??? :-) 

JARED LET0: bad and sloppy

Snwboard7: Do you snowboard? 

JARED LET0: yes a lot!

HAPPEY: Jared..hi..I’m here to tell you, from all my friends, that we love you..you’re beautiful.. but you’ve got to loose the beard!!we’ve had like whole conversations about it! please think it over! will you?

JARED LET0: sorry but #1 I hate shaving and….

WmElliott: Jared, what do you think of all the on-line efforts to celebrate and save “My So Called Life”?

JARED LET0: I think its an interesting phenomenon

Snicker23: I have never done anything normal. I missed my prom. I was wondering if you went to yours and if so, how did it go? 

JARED LET0: I never went to a prom and besides who wants to be NORMAL?

LIBRA136: When is your Birthday?

JARED LET0: 12-26-71

Katie 105: What were you like in your own high school days? Were you popular or what? A jock?

JARED LET0: no, not at all. I was the total opposite of a jock in school. I like to hang out with the freaks

KUMPJ: Jared, I am a really big fan of yours, do you have a fan mail address? 

JARED LET0: No I don’t really get into that sort of thing.

Gabriellr: how do you like being sooooooooooo cute.

JARED LET0: Well I don’t feel cute at all, but thank you.

KMurthy: You are the best reason to watch MSCL. Are they going to get it back on?

JARED LET0: I have no idea but we should know on may 16

MinneyB: What do you like most about MSCL? 

JARED LET0: the honesty

Jared, did you have any feelings for Claire Danes

JARED LET0: I’m in love with Claire

Catberrey: at this point, would all the cast members return if “MS-CL” is picked up again? 

JARED LET0: I think so 

ZTREBOR: do you eat vegetables???!!what is your favorite one and why?????? 

JARED LET0: I love veggies, and I like popcorn the best!

JessC25: Hey there Jared! Great show! I heard you were doing some stuff with music! How is that going?

JARED LET0: good I am just writing a lot of songs now and I might put out an album if anyone cares.

RMalia: I SAW YOU IN THIS MOVIE W/ ALICIA SILVERSTONE,WHEN WAS IT MADE?

Boydsters: What turns you on most about a girl??

BLONDY15: In real life, would you be interested in someone like Angela or Rayanne? 

JARED LET0: maybe

Serinki: what’s it like knowing that tons of females ranging in age worship you? 

JARED LET0: I don’t really think like that, but thank you

Ejb1995: I read somewhere that you were going to SVA, what did you want to do? 

JARED LET0: I wanted to be a film maker

Krojb: I have to know. What’s it like to kiss Claire Danes? 

JARED LET0: its nice she is a good kisser

JesuzLuvs: Jared- Do you understand that MSCL is a cult show. I have worshiped it ever since the firs episode. Every episode we burn another candle. WE LOVE YOU ALL 

Gin6T9: Jared, do you wear boxers or briefs? sorry if that’s too personal 

JARED LET0: neither

Bobbo20: Do you eat Spam? 

JARED LET0: never SPAM is disgusting 

LoveJooky: Jared, you have lovely hair. What products do you use? 

JARED LET0: usually just auto grease or lard

NAT4485: How old are you and how did you get into acting? Do you have a steady 

JARED LET0: no

GAP fan: How many words a minute can you type?

JARED LET0: maybe 2 or 3 

Rheumatic: If your life was a book, what would the title be, and what would happen on page 129?? 

JARED LET0: the title would be ” “

Laure41F: Do you believe in fate? 

JARED LET0: Yes

Jared Leto plays Jordan Catalano on “My So Called 
Life”

NtvBornTX: Who is your favorite actress in Hollywood????

JARED LET0: I like several-Holly Hunter, Glenn Close, Julliet Lewis…….. 

Spi Chic2: Who is your favorite cartoon character?

JARED LET0: The fabulous furry freak bros.

SadWinter: Jordan is a very interesting person. how would you compare yourself with him? 

PHRmail: Who is Shannon Leto, who took your picture for People?

JARED LET0: Shannon Leto is my brother. He also played Shane on the show

JENNPAL: which my so called life episode is your favorite? 

JARED LET0: the last one.

 Are you talkative in real life? 

JARED LET0: sometimes

Lolly887: what are your interests besides acting?

JARED LET0: music

TDPeters: Do you feel the show is a realistic portrayal of today’s high school students? 

JARED LET0: yes and no

Sunn11589: Yiu have a beautiful voice, do you plan on making any albums? 

JARED LET0: thank you. I think so, but dont look for me in some slicked out commercial video

PRubin124: are you in New York or California right now?

JARED LET0: LA

Boydsters: what are your dreams and aspirations? 

JARED LET0: that’s a little to complicated to talk about on the computer 

Tofutti 10: when was your first big break? 

JARED LET0: it was MSCL, 2 years ago

RobPerez: Did you go to Longfellow Intermediate in McLean? 

JARED LET0: yeah

JStan6366: DO YOU FEEL LIKE WHAT YOU DO HAS A POSITIVE IMPACT ON YOUR PEERS 

JARED LET0: I don’t think that has any real value to me as an actor, however if anything positive comes out as a result then that is great

X grrl7: what kind of donuts do you like? 

JARED LET0: Jelly filled YUM.

TermXXX: I know this girl that Jared Leto hit on in a club named Element in NYC and then Her boyfriend punched him right in the face. I want to know if it hurt because he is pretty big and you are pretty scrawny

JARED LET0: that never happened

Mushroom0: What do you think is the best thing that has happened in your life?

VenusGirl: How do you like AOL? 

JARED LET0: I think its interesting

BelindaW: Are you really as shy as they say, and if so, how do you deal with all this attention? 

JARED LET0: I just sit back and deal with it the best I can.

JARED LET0: from audition Yep, just say a goodbye thing if you want…

Thanks to Jared Leto for coming to the MTV Arena 

JARED LET0: thanks to everyone who showed up…bye

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Thirty Seconds to Mars debuts single in space

March 18, 2013

Jared Leto at 2013's SXSW Festival.

Rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars wanted their latest studio album to be out of this world -- and that's just where the album's first single debuted.

"Up in the Air" was sent to the International Space Station for an exclusive listening party Monday, and the rest of us earthlings will get to listen on Tuesday. The new album, "Love Lust Faith + Dreams," will be available May 21.

A CD containing the song was launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 1. The band got to watch the rocket blast into space.

"It was amazing to feel it take off," frontman Jared Leto said. "The noise and the brightness was overwhelming, and you're still a mile away."

Leto said the challenge of sending a song into space paled in comparison to being sued for $30 million by EMI when the band was working on "This Is War," released in 2009, which sold over 500,000 copies. The band also launched an aggressive world tour to promote the CD.

"The last album was about closure. There was a battle and a war that we fought. This one is a new beginning," the 41-year-old singer-actor said.

The new single "has to do with getting to a point in your life where you're ready to let go of the past, embrace change and become more of who you really are," Leto said.

Leto said the out-of-this-world debut for the new album was fitting after the enormous weight of the lawsuit was lifted, even though sending a CD into space was no easy task. "Most worthy things are not easy to get done. I think a lot of great things have a tremendous amount of challenge, a tremendous amount of difficulty, and I think this was one of those things," he said.

Leto said he wrote and recorded more than 70 songs before determining the final 12 for the new album. "My songs must feel like discarded lovers because I'm continuously abandoning time. But that feels better than being sued."

IN 2008, EMI sued the band for breach of contract. The lawsuit was eventually resolved, and the band has continued working with EMI.

"That $30 million lawsuit in that battle was very real. It wasn't a headline. It was something we thought about every single moment of the day that was there, weighing on us. And not just the fact that we would lose and owe a corporation $30 million, but we would have our creative lives stamped out," Leto said.

The documentary "Artifact" chronicles the production of the band's third album.

"The film is highly critical of the record business, but I'm not anti-record label, at all. I'm anti-greed. I'm anti-corruption," Leto said. "I'm pro-artist. I believe that everybody can win. You don't have to steal from one another to do it, or to treat one another unfairly."

"Artifact" won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival and was recently shown at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas.

While things are back to normal, Leto feels the "cuts are still fresh."

"I think they're healing. But they're definitely not healed yet. It takes some time. The good news is that there's an entirely new group that's running things. It's essentially a new record company," Leto said.

The band, which also includes Shannon Leto and Tomo Milicivic, will begin a world tour in June to support the new album.

Meanwhile, Leto will return to the big screen this year, starring opposite Matthew McConaughey in the AIDS drama "Dallas Buyers Club."

"I hadn't made a film for five years, and this role came along to play a transsexual in a film about the birth of this horrible plague. I wasn't looking to make a film, or to take five years off, either," Leto said.

A conversation between astronaut Tom Marshburn from the International Space Station and Leto will be available on both the band's and NASA's websites.

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Light After Death by Mihoko Ogaki

March 21st, 2013

In her ongoing series of figurative sculptures titled Milky Ways, artist Mihoko Ogaki explores ideas of life, death, and rebirth. The dead or dying human forms are constructed from Fibre-reinforced plastic and embedded with bright LEDs that when lit project fields of light resembling stars in the surrounding space. You can see many more installation views over on her website.

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MARS on MTV - 'UP IN THE AIR' Preview ♥

Thirty Seconds To Mars Unveil Trailer For 'Up In The Air' Short Film

Mar 21 2013

Take an exclusive sneak peek at some of Mars' epic new short film for 'Up In The Air.'

When Thirty Seconds To Mars posted a lengthy (and insanely specific) casting call on their official site earlier this year — one looking for "a very large pet snake," "albino men/women/children" and "a chemist who does science experiments," amongst other things — you knew that had something big in the works.

And now, we're bringing you an exclusive sneak peek at just what they've been working on — a trailer for the "Up In The Air" short film, which seems to follow in the footsteps 2010's "Hurricane" mini-movie, in that it is once again directed by the mysterious (wink, wink) Bartholomew Cubbins ... and it's general largesse.

Over a bed of ominous music, we catch quick glimpses of a wolf, a lion, a line of soldiers, a plus-sized model and a mechanical bull (to name just a few), and, as Jared Leto explained to MTV News, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Because "Up In The Air" is a short film in just about everyconceivable way.

"It's hard to call it a 'music video,' because it encapsulates not just the song, but many songs form the record, and we have an incredible cast of characters: the art of Damien Hirst, and an artist in New York, Maxwell Snow, who came and set a bunch of sh-- on fire," he said. "We have the U.S. Olympic Women's gymnasts, we have Dita Von Teese, we have some Cirque du Soleil performers, we have Shannon, Tomo and me, we have a zebra, a lion, a wolf, a snake, some birds, over 100 butterflies ...it's a Noah's Ark."

There's still no firm release date for the "Up In The Air" short film — Mars will release their brand new album, LOVE LUST FAITH + DREAMS on May 21 — but based on what we've just seen, said date can't come soon enough. Get ready ... this one looks like it's going to be epic.

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