Yaki
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
see now there's a street food we need more of in new york. i would tolerate such a hipster wave just to have more takoyaki joints than the one sorta meh place with long lines by st. marks.
― s.clover, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 04:35 (twelve years ago) link
Are you planning on bringing you intellect to bear on the show at any point sterling, because all I'm getting is "0/5 stars".
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 06:50 (twelve years ago) link
*your
i dont get how he can make fun of BEST PARTY EVAH when the characters themselves make fun of that idea, never mind the show
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 07:59 (twelve years ago) link
& that criticism of the gawker piece can really stand in for his entire criticism. garbage post
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 08:00 (twelve years ago) link
Andrew, not necessarily? I think I mainly weighed in on this thread because he brought up korean pork belly tacos. I mean I think the thread itself covers the ground pretty well in that it is sort of an ok comedy about people who are young and narcissistic and have bad ideas and make lots of mistakes. But I also think there's a poe's law element where you cannot make a show about people who are unaware and self-involved so critical that some people do not think it is about them in a complementary way.
― s.clover, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 10:48 (twelve years ago) link
idk man you enjoy episodes of Weeds, The Big C, Hung, Nurse Jackie and something called 'whatev' so your opinion is sort of tainted
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 13:36 (twelve years ago) link
Guys we should send John Cook a letter or email or something urging him to stop writing about shows he doesn't understand
― a parker full of poseys (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
Though he did have a point abt like why us this totally hip warehouse party playing top 40 and not, like, Grimes?
― a parker full of poseys (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
because of hipster irony
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
the ghostface song felt accurate but i have never been to such a party
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
it seems like they'd play ghostface? they should.
also it was really really sad/embarrassing to see a writer talk about "ironic t-shirts" in 2012
― a parker full of poseys (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
if I was at that party I would be shoshanna (ie pre cracksmoking, standing terrified in a corner)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
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hipster loft parties in montreal often play top 40
― flopson, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
tbh though i kind of like the way the show isn't meticulously hip & the references aren't super topical or up to the minute
― flopson, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
otm. and parties everywhere mostly play music people like to dance to
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
i mean it seems p clear that marnie and hanna and co. arent really "hipsters," they are like hipster hanger-ons or whatever, second-generation post-w'burg/greenpoint gentrification hipsters or something
― max, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
hipsterrunoff.com
― flopson, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
I really dont like any of the characters, except Adam, who I kinda half like. But I still have decided that I like the show. Marnie is the worst. She should be on Good Morning America, though, and follow in her dad's footsteps (kinda).
― homosexual II, Thursday, 31 May 2012 05:05 (twelve years ago) link
judd hipster apatow
― buzza, Thursday, 31 May 2012 06:39 (twelve years ago) link
I don't watch much TV, but strangely I have watched most episodes of HBO's new series Girls. Of course, the show is produced by Judd Apatow, the man who gave me my first good acting job, playing a freak on the television show Freaks and Geeks, and my first great comedy role, Saul Silver in Pineapple Express, but that's not why I've been watching. I got pulled in at the beginning simply because it seemed to portray my world -- the one inhabited by struggling creative types in New York. I'm not saying I have to struggle to pay the rent like Lena Dunham's character, Hannah, but there was a point, right before Judd cast me in Freaks and Geeks, when my parents cut me off because I wanted to go to acting school instead of UCLA. I worked at McDonalds, and my first suggestion to Hannah would be this: get a fucking job. If you really want to have experiences to write about, go to work; and if you really want to be an artist, take responsibility for yourself and wait some tables. You might mature a little in the process.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-franco/girls-hbo-lena-dunham_b_1556078.html
― buzza, Thursday, 31 May 2012 06:43 (twelve years ago) link
my world of struggling creative types in New York
― buzza, Thursday, 31 May 2012 06:44 (twelve years ago) link
I watched Steel Magnolias incessantly when I was in junior high school, and I can get off on female bonding. I watched Steel Magnolias incessantly when I was in junior high school, and I can get off on female bonding. I watched Steel Magnolias incessantly when I was in junior high school, and I can get off on female bonding. I watched Steel Magnolias incessantly when I was in junior high school, and I can get off on female bonding. I watched Steel Magnolias incessantly when I was in junior high school, and I can get off on female bonding. I watched Steel Magnolias incessantly when I was in junior high school, and I can get off on female bonding. I watched Steel Magnolias incessantly when I was in junior high school, and I can get off on female bonding. I watched Steel Magnolias incessantly when I was in junior high school, and I can get off on female bonding. I watched Steel Magnolias incessantly when I was in junior high school, and I can get off on female bonding. I watched Steel Magnolias incessantly when I was in junior high school, and I can get off on female bonding. I watched Steel Magnolias incessantly when I was in junior high school, and I can get off on female bonding. I watched Steel Magnolias incessantly when I was in junior high school, and I can get off on female bonding. I watched Steel Magnolias incessantly when I was in junior high school, and I can get off on female bonding. I watched Steel Magnolias incessantly when I was in junior high school, and I can get off on female bonding. I watched Steel Magnolias incessantly when I was in junior high school, and I can get off on female bonding. I watched Steel Magnolias incessantly when I was in junior high school, and I can get off on female bonding. I watched Steel Magnolias incessantly when I was in junior high school, and I can get off on female bonding. I watched Steel Magnolias incessantly when I was in junior high school, and I can get off on female bonding. I watched Steel Magnolias incessantly when I was in junior high school, and I can get off on female bonding. I watched Steel Magnolias incessantly when I was in junior high school, and I can get off on female bonding. I watched Steel Magnolias incessantly when I was in junior high school, and I can get off on female bonding. I watched Steel Magnolias incessantly when I was in junior high school, and I can get off on female bonding.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 31 May 2012 06:48 (twelve years ago) link
They say living well is the best revenge, but sometimes writing well is even better.
otoh, this is a killer line
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 31 May 2012 06:49 (twelve years ago) link
I don't watch much TV, but strangely I have watched most episodes of HBO's new series Girls.
http://cdn1.hark.com/images/000/017/663/17663/original.0
― buzza, Thursday, 31 May 2012 06:51 (twelve years ago) link
James Franco should stick to acting.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 31 May 2012 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
Fictional Hannah thanks u for your advice James Franco.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 May 2012 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
thanking Stevie for introducing me to Grimes. <3 Canada
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 31 May 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
this show is so great, and has improved with each episode. and john cook is just the worst, such a bad writer with such a pointlessly spiteful take on the show, a total embarrassment. like i said here or on the gawker thread a few weeks back, he needs a decent editor, not to tell him how to rewrite his dreck, but just to tell him to stop.
― Sisig Steve (stevie), Friday, 1 June 2012 04:22 (twelve years ago) link
Should we email his boss and let him know this is happening bcz seriously it's *really* bad
― "Wet chunks of China people and queers fly everywhere." (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 June 2012 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
your GIRLS fans HATE this one gawker dick
― jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Friday, 1 June 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
"taking Obama to the White House"—
Lesley Arfin, writer of the HBO show Girls, in her blog, has a metaphor for “pooping”.
Awww everyone involved in making this show just seems so charming.
― Turangalila, Friday, 1 June 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
discussed way upthread during the 1000 or so posts that happened before the 1st episode aired
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Friday, 1 June 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
That Franco article was like that one good last line and then every line before it (read backwards) is a little bit worse and worse and worse.
― Tim F, Friday, 1 June 2012 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
The Adam character jiu-jitsu is kind of amazing.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 4 June 2012 04:04 (twelve years ago) link
I caught the end of tiny furniture last nightI think she's pretty talented but I have no interest in spending time with characters in her milieuIt looked (visually) a lot better than I thought it would
― buzza, Monday, 4 June 2012 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
still haven't seen, but hot/not hot debate over this Shirtless Adam guy is as instructive about what passes for telegenic male objects of desire these days as things written about Dunham are for women.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 June 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
so…medium?
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Monday, 4 June 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
this ep was horrible
― johnny crunch, Monday, 4 June 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
thought the Adam/Lena stuff was fantastic, could have done without VC threeway
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 4 June 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
Viet Cong / Venture Capital / Valley Chick?
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 4 June 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
Two of those things mentioned in this episode actually.
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Monday, 4 June 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, don't think the three way thing worked very well (though lol at Chris O'Dowd as a Venture Capitalist decrying how shitty it is to move to Williamsburg and be surrounded by jobless kids of rich people).
Adam/Hannah stuff was really great though.
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Monday, 4 June 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
Chris O'Dowd speaking American gave me the jibblies
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Monday, 4 June 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Xa0un.jpg
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Monday, 4 June 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
the girls were fine - tho no shoshanna, :( - but what accent was chris o'dowd attempting there?
― Sisig Steve (stevie), Monday, 4 June 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
ya it seemed to be everywhere. but i thought his creepy pathetic breakdown was great even if wildly over the top.
adam is the best.
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 4 June 2012 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
― balls, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 02:09 (twelve years ago) link