GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

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I don't even know how anyone can follow this show bcuz these four white girls all look exactly the same

At least the Sex and the City gals lived a little first before talking about themselves!!

I have a lot of friends like this, albeit a little older.

One likely criticism of the series is that it dwells on privileged white-girl problems; in fact, its core cast members are all famous people's kids. (Williams' dad is newsman Brian Williams, Mamet's is playwright David Mamet, and Kirke's is Simon Kirke, drummer in the classic rock band Bad Company.) Asked about the casting, Dunham says, "The only thing that would make it not a coincidence is that they came in with a preternatural willingness to play and an understanding of the creative process that probably comes from being raised around it."

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-ca-lena-dunham-20120408,0,2699677.story

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef016764b18d27970b-600wi

"The only thing that would make it not a coincidence is that they came in with a preternatural willingness to play and an understanding of the creative process that probably comes from being raised around it."

lol uh oh

ugh ugh ugh @ that quote

awareness and critical of privilege, eh

eh showbiz has always run in families

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoJwJX5B84Y

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2b/White_chicks.jpg/220px-White_chicks.jpg

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/10/dunham_girls_sex_scares_men/singleton/

There’s also a scene in one of the episodes where a guy says to one of the characters, “The first time I fuck you I might scare you a little, because I’m a man, and I know how to do things,” and it’s supposed to be a huge turn-on.

Somebody actually said that line to me, only afterward he was like, “That’s the thing my friend who works at Vice magazine taught me.” And I was like, the best way to negate the hot thing you just said is to end it with, that’s the thing my friend at Vice magazine told me.

shes on conan tonight as the 2nd guest and larry david is the 1st guest

that's way too late to be eating lunch

"if you're 22-24, the odds of you having done anything worth writing a memoir or making a movie about are pretty slim."

http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/597896-L.jpg

if memory serves, rimbaud wrote a season in hell cuz he was pissed at his mom cuz she made him empty the chamber pots one day.

this show looks funny. would watch. still haven't seen the movie. watched the downtown diva shorts on youtube and some of those are funny.

http://gothamist.com/2012/04/09/lena_dunham_girls_guide_to_going_ou.php

do you associate with "grown up brooklyn?"

oh nevermind, I was gonna harp on that but then I noticed it was a phrase used by a character and not like an actual argument. I guess I enjoy petty inter-neighborhood fighting.

Hey guys, I just read most of the literature ever published and I thought, "rich people problems."

haha she goes to the same bars i do!

max people problems

in my mind max and dunham are always in brooklyn at opposite ends of the bar

haha she goes to the same bars i do!

irl lol

I;m not surprised, she basically seems like a girl max

GIRLS (to the max)

washington commons, check, awkward sex, check, acclaimed hbo series, check

acclaimed cover art for Fever Ray, check

she goes to steampunk bars too??

steampunk cabaret

*shamefacedly hides tickets*

not sure if ya knew you can watch the debut free Monday online

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/04/12/hbo-offers-free-access-to-debut-episodes-of-new-comedy-series-girls-and-veep/128783/?

shock shock, here's Brody: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2012/04/girls-armchair-sociology.html

just saw 'tiny furniture' and was shocked by how much i liked it. i hate this sort of film, as a general rule, but the gradual shift in tone completely won me over. it was scathing and observant without being mean-spirited. in an odd way, it reminded me more of bresson than woody allen. (not that it's really much like either.)

i'm kinda floored that a couple of ppl here found it poorly directed -- i thought it was incredibly well-crafted, every shot beautifully composed. light-years ahead of someone like miranda july.

im actually really tempted to make a lena dunham vs miranda july poll

can we wait til she has more than one film?

she's got a tv series starting Sunday morbs. by the end of it she'll have more output than July.

if you have HBO

i'm going to finally watch Tiny Furniture tonight. Surely it can't be worse than a Miranda July film. Surely.

as opposed to the inescapably huge national roll-outs of Miranda July's work. xpost

plus you can watch the first episode and write it off even without HBO. Perfect!

can we campaign for a GIRLS theatrical run plz shes the next bresson fyi

yeah, there's a cable series debut and a ton of interviews, omg quick quick let's evaluate before she expires!!!

yes plz. i haven't seen this show but it really speaks to me on a personal level. so audacious but...real...y'know?

by the end of it she'll have more output than July.

"OUTPUT"? If all is equal by the clock, more than Jean Vigo too.

I got your output right heah...

"content"

art is now just as series of products morbs. get with the 90s.

i'm kinda floored that a couple of ppl here found it poorly directed -- i thought it was incredibly well-crafted, every shot beautifully composed. light-years ahead of someone like miranda july.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, April 13, 2012 8:45 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

"incredibly well crafted" might be a little over the top