“Counsel Me, Grantie”
October 15th, 2012
Hey guys! Check out this song that I originally wrote for my brother and that you can listen to endlessly here.
James McCarthy wrote an awesome and spooky Halloween sketch to go with it and it turned out great.
And it gave me an excuse to buy the worst shoes in production in my size. And now I own them.
I love you and your weird men.
Lena Dunham at ASSSSCAT 3000 benefiting A is For - With Lizz Winstead, Chris Gethard, Shannon O’Neill, and just a whole buncha people from SNL. - Sunday, March 3, 2013 - UCB Theater, New York - More photos here.
Super fun show. Super noble cause. Super crazy that I exchanged multiple emails with Martha Plimpton this past weekend because of it.
http://hellogiggles.com/chatting-with-martha-plimpton-about-a-is-for-asssscat (HYPERLINKS NOT WERKING)
EHRMAGERD THAT GROUP.
EVERYBODY IS SO PRECIOUS THAT IT HURTS!!
WOW. Just… wow.
NICOLE’S DREAM CAME TRUE! NOW WHEN WILL SHE BEEN ON GIRLS, LENA DUNHAM?!?!?!
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Photograph by Sara Naomi Lewkowicz
The Violence Against Women Act, which provides funding to help victims of domestic violence, is now up for re-authorization. Photographer Sara Naomi Lewkowicz’s photographs document one such violent incident — the kind that’s often kept private behind closed doors. See the work on LightBox here.
Truly breathtaking and heartbreaking.
58 Joralemon Street (by Hobo Matt)
Every city has its secrets, it’s just a matter of finding them…
On a street in Brooklyn that takes you towards the river, where the cobblestones begin paving the road, there is a townhouse that deserves a second look. Despite its impeccable brickwork, number 58 Joralemon Street is not like the other houses. Behind its blacked out windows, no one is at home; no one has been at home for more than 100 years.
You guys, this so cool.
Whoa!!!
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A rather crude young person, probably raised in a caravan by pikeys on a plot of land close to a fairground. A rude lady or gentleman. A foul-mouthed lower-class so-and-so from the estuary. American translation: Brittany Spears.
Filmmaker Jason Reitman (Up in the Air,Juno) is staging a live reading of the movieGlengarry Glenn Ross in LA with an all-female cast. It’s the latest in a series of live readings of famous movies Reitman has held at LACMA, and like his all-black reading of Reservoir Dogs last year, this one switches switches up the dynamic by turning the all-male cast female. Here’s who’s reading what role:
Robin Wright – Ricky Roma (Al Pacino)
Catherine O’Hara – Shelley Levene (Jack Lemmon)
Maria Bello – Dave Moss (Ed Harris)
Allison Janney – George Aaronow (Alan Arkin)
Mae Whitman – John Williamson (Kevin Spacey)
No word on who’s playing Alec Baldwin’s character, but I’m sure it’ll be somebody spectacular. The sold-out event is being held February 21st, but there’ll be a waitlist line (via EW).
hulu:
More than 800 films from The Criterion Collection are available for free on Hulu through this weekend! Breathless? Yup, that one, too.
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I have to admit I’m fascinated by this.
I’m also fascinated that there are people who are saying they don’t want to see this happen. Why not?
The worst case scenario is that it won’t work and you won’t like it or you won’t want to watch it and you won’t watch it.
But what if it works? Wouldn’t that be crazy? Even if it doesn’t work, it will be interesting to see a show try to switch from a single camera comedy to a totally different kind of show.
I have to admit that I’m sort of eager for someone to bring back the multi-cam sitcom in a big way. I believe that one of Dan Harmon’s shows-in-development is something like that, and it would be amazing if he knocked it out of the park and showed people that this can be done well once again.
As innovative as Louie is, I feel like a lot of people really missed the boat by not getting onboard when Louis CK made Lucky Louie for HBO. It wasn’t perfect, but when it worked (see episode 7, “Discipline”) I thought it pointed the way towards a direction that multi-cam sitcoms could go that would be exciting and new. (Although he was really just taking things back to when shows like All In The Family used the multi-cam format so daringly.)
I’m not suggesting that this is what’s going to happen with Up All Night. But at some point somebody’s gonna figure out who to make the next Cheers and it’s gonna be awesome.
[Personally, I think sitcoms took a wrong turn when they stopped actually announcing that they were “filmed in front of a live studio audience” at the top of each episode. People commonly refer to a lot of multi-cam sitcoms as having “laugh tracks” in instances where what you’re hearing is an actual audience of humans laughing at the live performance.]
TRUTH
You can’t take a lemon pie and make it pizza half way through. Leave lemon pie alone. Leave pizza alone. They both serve a purpose.
Anyone who thinks that their lemon pie would be better if it was pizza, after 2 seasons, needs to get out of the lemon pie store (leave that lemon pie there) and go back to the pizzeria and make a bloody pizza.
This has been a met-Dee-phor
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Rejected Pitches is back. Die Hard? More like Die Easy cause these guys are good!
A New Rejected Pitches! GREAT JOB GUEST Brandon Scott Jones! He’s so handsome and so fucking funny and fed up with us. Also I love my hair in this ‘sode. Great job Hana El-Assad, as always.
Bingo!
I love you!!!
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Tori Amos - Caught a Light Sneeze
You either love Tori Amos or you hate her or you want to grow old with her and spend every night falling asleep after terrifyingly passionate sex wondering if this is the night you’ll wake up in a wicker shack she made in the back yard with candles in a circle around you as she eats your heart right out of your chest.
Curtis Retherford (if he had long locks) on bass guitar towards the end…
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