GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

I have to keep watching so that I can learn more catchphrases from Hannah's non-bf

silby, humans can be appalling

I don't know that I've ever identified w/ a movie or tv cast outside of Dazed & Confused.

Which was more about identifying with the sense of place than characters.

The only reason I mentioned identifying with the characters is because several other posters say they identify with Hannah. I just don't feel like I do. I also don't need to identify with a character to enjoy the show.

I find this show, on the whole, so horrible - yet I can't stop watching it.

Jon Lewis, I had no idea you posted on ILX! I love True Swamp! Like a lot!

I mean i had seen the name, didn't make the connection! I'm a fan!

It's part of his secret takeover of the place.

Aw <3 !!!

Have we met ever?

(hardcover collection coming out end of this year)

I met you briefly at the BK indie con and bought a few books of your stuff but was too shy and generally wobbly (conventions confuse me; i feel guilty for not buying everything) to strike up a convo. Had i known you were THAT jon lewis i surely woulda had more to say.
I will buy your hardcover collection.

friend me on fb, i am jon croaker lewis there.

that is such a great con btw, my favorite in the country right now.

it is a rad time; i spend something like two hundred bucks each year.

yer friended.

cool, true swamp! i'm also a fan.

I thought Jon Lewis was a Department store

lots of close female friends but ~still a virgin~ (for another year)

I knew Jon was Jon but this made me do a ! and recalibrate my reading of TS interestedly

john cook's episode recaps of this show on Gawker are really bad. like, 'he needs an editor to tell him to stop writing like that' bad.

Yeah, if you are making it hard for people to side with you against Gavin McInnes, you are doing more than one thing wrong, possibly with your life.

I guess I feel like I relate to Angela Chase on My So-Called Life and Lindsey Weir from Freaks & Geeks far more, to draw parallels from other 'girl'-centric shows.

Did you see Tavi's TED Talk?
http://oi47.tinypic.com/33opmxz.jpg

lots of close female friends but ~still a virgin~ (for another year)

I knew Jon was Jon but this made me do a ! and recalibrate my reading of TS interestedly

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Yeah it's pretty much the rosetta stone for reading those first 4 issues, LOL. I was horribly ill from ages 17-21 which is mostly how I managed to get into my 20s with maidenhead intact.

(Sorry for making Lena thread about my comics! But feel free to FB me anyone who likes them, I have exciting announcements coming up.)

maybe i should start a true swamp thread here, but i always wondered why you didn't sign on with fanta or d&q or first second... can't imagine there hasn't been an offer?

i should start a true swamp thread
True Swamp by Jon Lewis

Late to the game, but watched the first 4 episodes today.

Pilot didnt go well for me, wanted to punch pretty much everyone esp the dudes.
But it got REALLY good with the following 3 episodes, and this last diary episode was like HOORAY now things are happening and things are really funny now.

But forks made a good point wayyyyy upthread: I've found it a lot easier to like this show as a comedy than as a drama or w/e. sure, situations/emotions are relatable but for the most part they're pretty much aliens on another planet to me, lol.

But now that I've gotten past feeling some kind of responsibility to be deeply affected by this show, I'm a lot more cool with it.

Omg @ the Mexican teenager eyebrows. Just, wow.

^ yeah, that was one of the funniest tv bits i've seen in a long time. loved her trying to have a serious boyfriend talk while still wearing them.

thought the eyebrows made for a terrible joke tbh

show's getting weirder

show's getting better!

that also

some great direction with Marnie realizing that she can't still be with Charlie, just sticking with her face uncomfortably long

so gross, everything, so gross

I'm interrupting my own viewing enjoyment to say: do none of these girls own a skirt that isn't a mid-thigh flare thing? It's making me crazy.

That is all. Brb.

So much awkward. And yet! So many funny things!

Charlie is suddenly more interesting in the Marnie-dumping phase but lol that he can be bought with blowjobs and Marnie is a walking rmde

Hannah/Adam jerkfrontation was awkwardly hilarious. He is so almost-likeable and almost repulsive, it's kind of amazing.

Hoping part of the lynchpin of this is that she eventually stops doing what
everyone else tells her to. It's crazy! Like she wants to jerk off to her dude
& he says no? But then I remember it taking me a long time to own myself so hurm...pot kettle black lol

its like a target ad

It was like a Target ad though

they never point out that girl on top is gonna bang her head on the loft in the target ad

fwiw, i didn't think she was gonna touch herself; I thought she was just gonna expose herself so he could watch.
"these are all hundreds!"

I am only up to episode 3, but I am reallly missing what people are seeing as almost-likeable about shirtless dude.

he's equally adrift and clueless and occasionally compassionate in a totally confounding way
"a guy like that will try anything. even love"

I haven't seen compassionate as much as "Oh yeah I've heard about this, this path leads towards no sex - well, better do something". He really seems the incarnation of the lowest possible amount of effort necessary for a guy to be in a big city relationship in 2012.

Tho it's possible that he gets better - certainly I'm hoping that demanding an apology after straight-up lying about getting a STD test is his low point*.

*or that if there's anything worse, it dents his charm.

I feel like this show finally shifted into second gear

really wasnt into this ep

hannah trying to sex boss & jerk off scene feel like storylines so far from any semblance of reality or how ppl behave irl that they could only be constructed on a sitcom

Since she only directed the first few episodes and only wrote the first...six?...it'll be interesting to see how this evolves.

Saw a teaser for season 2 where they go as a group to Abu Dhabi but can't afford to do or buy anything there until they get hooked up with a Prince whose parents pay for everything, including a palace, but who is sad because he'd trade it all to live in Brooklyn, based exclusively on what he's seen on TV, teaching the girls a valuable lesson that they should appreciate what they have going for them. It's sort of meta.

'there's no suing app for your iphone' was pretty funny

and pretty otm

yeah he pretty much had her number with that one line.

her response bugged me a little. seemed overamped for comedy's sake, but not in a successfully funny way. would have preferred that she just be mortified.

Hannah's pretty easy to troll

otm

I'm trying to figure out if I really like Jessa or not. ie Britisher.

I kind of like the way she goes about things. Except for showing up late to everything bcz that makes me IA. Feel like it's going to be awkward city once she starts fucking Weed-Dad.

I have the biggest crush on her, her hippyish ways notwithstanding. I kind of think that Weed-Dad's wife is cottoning on to her husband's attraction.