http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jun/07/loves-lena-dunham/
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
why can't the nyrb just review books
― navihchkan (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
Interesting article. Thanks.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
yeah man marnie and charlie had the worst relationship, they are both way better off out of that nonsense, i hope this doesnt mean the end of his jerky pal as a character though, that guy makes me laugh
― max, Tuesday, May 15, 2012 11:08 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I LOVE this guy. I thought he looked really familiar but I looked him up on IMDB and it seemed like he'd only been in Tiny Furniture which I still haven't seen so I decided he reminds me of an irl person but I can't work out who.
he's v good in beeswax, which is great you should check it out
― blossom smulch (schlump), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 08:56 (twelve years ago) link
“[Adam Driver] has something of an old-school strong dude’s body,” said Ms. Dunham, whose show begins filming in New York in the spring. “He doesn’t look like a wimp, which in this day and age is who most 27-year-old guys are palling around with: men wearing very small pants.”
Underestimating how much strength required to squeeze into very small parts.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 12:07 (twelve years ago) link
pants hah
idk, I feel like by 27 a lot of dudes are no longer in small-pants but this might be a lifestyle/regional thing
― mh, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
Look for NYTimes Magazine expose on this 27 yo dudes in small-pants phenom.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
I think they already had a decade worth of that shit
― mh, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
he doesn't look like an old-school strong dude. he looks like a twink
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
I beg to differ based on my knowledge from friends of who qualifies for that
― mh, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
he doesn't look like an old-school strong dude. he looks like a twink --Kiarostami bag (milo z)
Compared to the small-pantsers he's a regular circus strongman.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
ffs, he looks like a type of guy that exists
― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
he's a hologram
― Moodles, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
kind of hilarious to me that of the three dudes who have had the most screentime, two seem to be preoccupied with building things. lol handcrafted artisan ny
― mh, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
although Adam just seems to take his shirt off and put things in a vice, I haven't seen anything that looks obviously *made* by him yet, lol
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
i dont dislike any of the characters, they are all funny & good
― man down (D-40), Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7:12 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
its like 'disliking' george costanza or something
deej v otm.
shoshanna being stuck in the room w/the sexing was HILARIOUS.
― It was you. Miming to Tenacious D. (stevie), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
I loved that so much
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
rip new york review of books
― Mordy, Thursday, 17 May 2012 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
feel like that article could have saved 500 words by just saying come
― blossom smulch (schlump), Thursday, 17 May 2012 09:08 (twelve years ago) link
How often, in movies or television, do you see autoeroticism incorporated into a scene of two people having sex?
Yeah, really, there should be some place where we can see dudes jerking off onto women after sex. At the least, it'd be a good addition to porn. Hey wait a minute ...
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 May 2012 11:55 (twelve years ago) link
pretty sure it happens more often than implied
― mh, Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
this piece on women & sex & owning it openly - http://jezebel.com/5911023/rihanna-does-whatever-she-wants-with-her-vagina-and-for-some-reason-thats-a-problem - made me think of this thread
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
"But more importantly, Rihanna is very famous, kind of bonkers, and completely unfiltered. She behaves exactly like any average 24-year-old does (plus a million billion dollars)"
the thing is that the "characters" on Girls are more like people than most tv or movie characters, so much so that even a mention of "that didn't seem in character for her" is kind of hilarious to me because much of this show (all of this show?) is about how young people figure out and play with who they are as people - which funnily enough kind of involves trying on many different "characters"
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
jezebel article otm
― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
Hannah propositioning her boss didn't seem that weird to me. Jessa told her she should do it for the story and, as a writer, she was probably figuring why the hell not? That's the sort of thing you think/do at 24 especially when a glamorous, cool, foreign chick who you probably sorta emulate just a little tells you it's a good idea.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
got thru first ten minutes of the newest ep and was just too bored to continue. rip zeitgeist
― Mordy, Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
btw two of my friends apologized to me last night after making fun of me for liking this show which they'd dismissed after the first 10 mins of episode one. They wound up watching 4 back to back last night and were like, uh, yeah so sorry about that!
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
girl i'm dating FLATLY REFUSES to watch one minute of this show after sitting through the first episode and starts an argument with me about how bad it is any time I mention that i'm enjoying it. she's pretty adamant about it!but she loves game of thrones so we compromise.
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 May 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
weird. i love both shows, but game of thrones feels much more like a dumbhead guilty pleasure
― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Thursday, 17 May 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
this show is great. i am deeply suspicious of those who make such a big deal of hating on it.
― Sisig Steve (stevie), Thursday, 17 May 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
i mean i totally understanding not "getting" it or it not being your cup of tea, but actually having a big issue with it?
I am 'getting' the characters more and more and it still makes me laugh so whatever...
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
i think bc of a few factors (the kind of coverage it has gotten, its zeitgeistiness, her 'voice of generation' comment, etc) ppl have felt implicated by the depiction of characters in the show. so there's a lot of defensiveness around it. most non-millenials i've spoken to who dislike it are more blase 'it was boring' about it. millenials feel repulsed tho, which is kinda understandable.
― Mordy, Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
i know a couple of woman who find the show depressing, which translates for them as a kind of hate, but have only watched a bit of ep 1. they'll come around...
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
yeah women i'm talking about are millenials. either hits a bit close to home or they're like 'fuck these girls, i'm not them'
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
so i guess that makes me happy re: this show to be lower-end-gen-x and a sometimes tragically observational writer type
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
i think bc of a few factors (the kind of coverage it has gotten, its zeitgeistiness, her 'voice of generation' comment, etc) ppl have felt implicated by the depiction of characters in the show. ...millenials feel repulsed tho, which is kinda understandable.
oh, that makes sense. lol, i'm old, so it never even occurred to me that people might relate to it in that way. i just get to laugh at other people's problems.
― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
Even with all that I find it difficult to understand strong feelings about this show one way or the other. It's just a group of post-college young people in New York who say funny things but otherwise don't do much of anything. What's there to feel strongly about?
I always envisioned 20 somethings living in NYC as being a lot better looking and more hip than these squares.
― All kinds of heinous things, Friday, 18 May 2012 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
Kind of the point tbh
― raw feel vegan (silby), Friday, 18 May 2012 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
This show reminds me of Degrassi in so many ways.
― Yerac, Friday, 18 May 2012 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
<3 degrassi
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 May 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
that's a comparison i haven't heard that makes sense.pecs mcanal as drake
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 May 2012 03:43 (twelve years ago) link
i am usually pretty susceptible to I HATE THIS BECAUSE [EXTERNALITIES] kinds of feelings, so i've been making an effort to not do that w/ this, and it seems to be working because i've happily watched every episode and recommended it to people. i laugh more at it than i laugh at most shows.
― good men like my father, or president truman (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 May 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
^ me too, and that's the only important yardstick for sitcoms
― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Friday, 18 May 2012 04:46 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, I am too with certain things and the two I mentioned DEFINITELY are. That's why they came back and sheepishly apologized. It got kind of heated last weekend because I was totally incredulous at their level of hate and dismissal after TEN MINUTES especially coming from a pair with some pretty fucking questionable taste in television.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 18 May 2012 11:12 (twelve years ago) link
I can see people hating something that seems to hit close to home, but sometimes it's even easier to hate something that comes close to hitting that mark, but fails on some account. I think in my past I've been very guilty of the latter.
― mh, Friday, 18 May 2012 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
I wish more art "hit close to home," tbh.
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Friday, 18 May 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
lol
http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2012/05/18/tv/web_photos/18.1T102.girls--300x450.jpg
― max, Friday, 18 May 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
Girlish Gambino
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Friday, 18 May 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link