C/D LENA DUNHAM (THE DEFINITIVE POLL)

It is now:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/03/25/130325fa_fact_dunham

i thought she went to india. that one's just about dogs.

i love this broad's show but that's a fucking horrible piece of writing.

i feel a weird sense of kinship with her, even though she can definitely put her foot in her mouth sometimes. she lives like a three minute walk from where i grew up (and where my parents still live) and went to high school in that neighborhood.

i know it's a three minute walk because i googlemapped it. lol.

‏@lenadunham 2h
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*fart*

she is interesting!

just watched Tiny Furniture, felt like some kind of shitty 90s Eric Stoltz movie

― Poli oppa lice style (some dude), Thursday, December 13, 2012 10:16 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Friday, December 14, 2012 1:21 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whatever that means

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, December 14, 2012 12:45 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do you just mean like kicking and screaming?

jesus christ i had to look up that film title not b/c of confusion with the mid-00s will ferrell soccer comedy but b/c of nicole holofcener's walking and talking

saw lena d. on some late-night show the other night & was struck at how much she was performing "lena dunham." that said, i think "lena dunham" is an interesting figure in 2014-era pop culture!

do you just mean like kicking and screaming?

Probably more like Bodies Rest & Motion

I want to rent her new movie w/ Anna Kendrick by the guy who directed Drinking Buddies.

Kind of suspect I'd like Dunham the actress way more than Dunham the writer/personality.

i will continue to like her work, probably, as long as i tune out everything else emanating from her.

was struck at how much she was performing "lena dunham."

in this respect the NYT profile on her was correct in citing Woody Allen as her closest antecedent

Performers have public personae! They perform them all the time.

Got tickets to see her talk next month at the Chicago Humanities Festival (tied in with her book release, I think).

Performers have public personae! They perform them all the time.

yes yes. just with her whole neurotic urbane half-assed intellectual NYer schtick

and people's seeming inability to separate persona from person

I just read a bit of that Japan article she wrote. It bored me quickly.

I guess everything she does seems more interesting if you think everything she does is a joke.

Where it's like Woody Allen is "...if you think everything she does is a joke in the face of pain and darkness."

she must feel a lot of pain from travelling so much and see a lot of darkness from her NY penthouse

can't wait for her next euripedean piece

euripidean*

do you just mean like kicking and screaming?

― jaymc, Friday, September 12, 2014 1:42 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jesus christ i had to look up that film title not b/c of confusion with the mid-00s will ferrell soccer comedy but b/c of nicole holofcener's walking and talking

― jaymc, Friday, September 12, 2014 1:43 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think you're underestimating how many tedious movies Eric Stoltz has been in.

Holofcener >>>>>>>>>>>>> Dunham

from her NY penthouse

tbf this is a pretty great vantage point to observe the scale of the pain and suffering of others

she must feel a lot of pain from travelling so much and see a lot of darkness from her NY penthouse

As does Woody, though without the traveling part in his prime. Again, was just saying that's part of where the comparison gets made. Upper East Side existentialists, if you want to call it that.

I got through as much of that NYT Mag profile as I could. She's difficult to read about.

Upper East Side existentialists, if you want to call it that.

― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Friday, September 12, 2014 8:15 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Both Allen and Dunham grew up in Brooklyn, where Dunham still lives.

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Kind of suspect I'd like Dunham the actress way more than Dunham the writer/personality.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, September 12, 2014 6:13 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I like her more as a writer (on the evidence of her New Yorker piece) than as an actress (based on a previous season or so of the show, which I enjoyed but didn't find enormously compelling). That may simply be a preference for the teen over the adult subject matter, but there's also something about her writing that I find charming, and something about her on-screen affect that I don't quite take to. I'm not sure whether the latter is her failure as an actress, or whether it's an expression of "her" to the extent she is playing herself, but while I like her slightly annoying character well enough, I still find something slightly false about the portrayal; her writing feels realer. I don't know who Dunham "the personality" is, or is supposed to be, and don't find the subject particularly interesting.

I am interested in the somewhat rhetorical question of how many of her fans (or detractors) know of and are interested in her parents' work.

Her mother is a fucking monster (worked with her). Absolutely no surprise that LS spawned LD

Hi haters

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/books/lena-dunhams-memoir-ish-not-that-kind-of-girl.html?smid=tw-share

Like the retro cover--it looks like something you'd find in a thrift store when you're twenty.

her acting is kinda iffy imo. i don't think it matters most of the time but occasionally she'll bite off way more than she can chew (i.e. the obsessive compulsive tics that suddenly became a major character trait in S2 of Girls).

I'm interested in reading her book fwiw

“Confidence lets you pull anything off, even Tevas with socks.”

Thank you, Michiko Kakutani, for leading with a quote referring to some shoe brand I've never heard of. Really fits in with those timeless Parker and Wasserstein quotes.

Teva is a thirty year old brand fwiw

better look than crocs with socks tbf

no factor in my world. xp

That's so Michio. Always with the obscure fashionista references.

In a shoeless world, the woman with Tevas and socks is queen

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"Hi Dr. Morbs! How are things in your world?"

New Balanced

oh, another Amanda Palmer:

http://gawker.com/lena-dunham-does-not-pay-1640249043

In less than a week, the tour sold around 8,000 tickets, which are selling for $38 at most locations. Tickets include a $28 signed hardcover of “Not That Kind of Girl,” which Random House is releasing on Tuesday.

Not really defending this, but keep in mind it's only about 10 bucks a ticket

she's obv modeling herself on the person she'll be enthusiastically stumping for in 16 months, Hillary WalMart Clinton.

The "free of charge" phrase is a little confusing too. Doesn't that usually refer to a case where a good or service is provided for free to a customer/audience?

They're already making a big markup on the book though -- $16.80 on amazon vs. $28 for the signed version. Not to mention it's a promotional tour to help them sell even more books. I agree the tour itself is not some giant profit center -- there are expenses to pay out of that revenue -- but why not throw the opening act a couple hundred bucks a night? Can they not earmark a few thousand dollars for an opening act?

And if not, how about don't fucking have one?

"A sand artist, a ukulele player, a cappella singers, gymnasts, performance artists and stand-up comics" as opening acts on a book tour is pretty ludicrous.

I kind of want to get the job and then do some kind of wild hendrix-style noisy guitar and stage antics set to upstage her

That would not upset her

To give her slight benefit of the doubt, she may not be the one personally deciding whether the opening act on her book tour gets paid -- it's not like she booked/arranged the tour herself.

she's obv modeling herself on the person she'll be enthusiastically stumping for in 16 months, Hillary WalMart Clinton.

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, September 29, 2014 10:39 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how'd you all just let this gem pass you by this is groundbreaking work morbs