“Happy Birthday Baby!” Talk about Russian Doll on Netflix

Just wait a little under two months.

The best thing about nyc was how 30-40-80 somethings would still go out on school nights.

Having them end up in the same timeline at the end would've robbed them of the opportunity to save each other's lives, which was, in part, the whole genesis of the glitch.

Mainlined this entire thing last night, thoughts and impressions still percolating but one thing I keep coming back to is that, for reasons I can't quite pin down, this felt like a Jaime Hernandez story to me (which is super high praise). Possibly because I haven't seen anyone on screen better capture the essence of Hopey Glass than Natasha Lyonne (who should probably win all the awards).

Interesting comparison. I've always wondered who would be good actresses to play Maggie and Hopey.

Probably end up with Emma Stone and ScarJo.

Probably end up with Emma Stone and ScarJo.

at one point there was something caught in nadia's hair -- what was it, i didn't catch it

Champagne cork wire

later turned into a bistro chair, which people do.

Enjoying this. I like how it feels like a fantasy melange of early 00s and contemporary LES/East Village as parties like this were familiar to me - minus the recurring stuff - back in the early 2000s. Different NYC.

About to go back and re-read thread now that I finished the series yesterday but I just wanted to co-sign this ^ hard. NL's style and the party (smoking indoors incessantly lol) and the version of the LES (Odessa??!) portrayed are basically point-for-point out of the late 90s/early 00s that I remember. Pre-electroclash rockers everywhere, like no colors existed other than black, white, and red, somewhere in between mod revival and 70s glam. The vintagey blouses, the sharp-toed boots--and going clubbing on Sunday nights in defiance of Monday mornings. (Shout was on Sundays!)

It made me really happy and nostalgic tbrr.

From something someone said on fb I think the name "Horse" was a shout-out to an actual person from pre-gentrification LES days.

Oh I didn't realize both Veselka and Odessa still existed. For some reason I thought at least one of them had closed.

I just watched Ocean's 8 on the plane and they oddly eat at Veselka.

YES I watched that yesterday too! lol

Odessa bar closed, diner is still there. I djd Karen O’s 21st birthday party in her apt above Odessa but she and her friends including one ex-ilxor were more interested in hanging out on the roof with some Shout dudes.

Also saw a FB friend talking about Tompkins park gutter punk named Horse and assuming it was a tribute but I like the book theory above. Could be all if the above. Happy to accept this show as working on several different levels and angles.

He will always be Warren to me.

Warren G Horsey

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/arts/television/natasha-lyonne-netflix-russian-doll.html?fbclid=IwAR0DSYQQp2Pbm6ohGqXalDnUxRQ4Bs3npUHSufycDniNU0N1u9arfLGNpTw

the gutter punk who’s not based on a real character from my life that I know from Tompkins

https://www.facebook.com/whorse.krapp?__tn__=%2CdK-R-R&eid=ARCMKF0zUSWuvYcKUWww_baZWCTX0lASiHclMBp3VLc_wlzdcPIdjW-ajhLhlzV2Lg6jQcq4L1soGOLL&fref=mentions

lol, he posts his phone number there

I've read every single link posted here about the show. Love it all.

heh I'll never forget the time in early 2000 when I went to a party near the New York University campus near Greenpoint, Brooklyn (sort of by the Pies and Thighs restraunt) and I accidentally walked into a bedroom where Karen O from The Yeah Yeah Yeahs was having sexual intercourse with Julian Casabalancas from The Strokes. OMG! parties back then were really wild and crazy, with many sex and drugs! fun times

is it "Happy Birthday Baby" or "Sweet Birthday Baby!" which one does the Asian woman say

i think she says both? confirm/deny?

the latter

imago, did you know that VegemiteGrrl's thread is incorrectly titled "Happy Birthday Baby!" and not "Sweet Birthday Baby!," which is the correct reference to the show? you might want to correct her so that you can be correct and feel good about it

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heh I'll never forget the time in early 2000 when I went to a party near the New York University campus near Greenpoint, Brooklyn (sort of by the Pies and Thighs restraunt) and I accidentally walked into a bedroom where Karen O from The Yeah Yeah Yeahs was having sexual intercourse with Julian Casabalancas from The Strokes. OMG! parties back then were really wild and crazy, with many sex and drugs! fun times

― del griffith, Monday, February 11, 2019 12:47 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

She was giving HIM the strokes and he was singing HER some yeah yeah yeahs in return?

they were porking

Y'all are savvy so I'm probably not telling you anything you didn't already know, but I only realized because I saw his name in the credits that Horse was portrayed by

http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/12800000/Welcome-To-The-Dollhouse-brendan-sexton-12875721-570-359.jpg

And that is...?

It's you.

Warren (as mentioned above).

I don't like that julian casablancas fanfic.

Now re-reading it, I can't tell if it's supposed to be a parody or not.

a parody of my post? I couldn't tell either. I thought maybe it was true. But was pies and thighs ever near greenpoint? And did Karen and the Strokes ever hang out in Williamsburg? I dunno.

i don't think it was ever near greenpoint and the NYU campus part???

New York University is located near the house where comedian Ray Ramano grew up, in the Bronx.

Pies & Thighs started out in the kitchen of Rockstar Bar fwiw--does that count as near Gpt? :\ In any case: ew.

oh, i see, it is made up, which is also ew.

entertainment weekly?

actually, I think Yerac meant ew as in guh-ross! guh-rody! barf-eroo!

Why sure:

"I would love to see a [#RussianDoll] episode devoted completely to Oatmeal, in which you see everything through his lens. A Christmas special or something" https://t.co/q1a5M3evwo

— Vulture (@vulture) February 11, 2019

Quote aside, that's a very good interview with Charlie Barnett.

An Oatmeal episode would be amazing.

Karen O definitely hung around in Wsburg, as did the rest of the YYY's. Talking 2005 or thereabouts.

Finished watching and really loved this. Fantasy NYC made by people who actually lived/live there and not by some committee of "creatives" in LA or somewhere. Kudos.

The ending reminded me a lot of the ending to Bruno Dumont's "Coincoin et les Z'inhumaines", too. Sort of a creepy jubilation.

Warren (as mentioned above).

ah, Warren, the most famous mononymic pop culture figure ever

I know nick and Brian did, but Karen was really an east village type. Especially earlier in on the timeframe mentioned, when she lived on A and people would go to Shout. Don’t want to get to serious bout a stupid post but I stand by the belief that Karen and the strokes weren’t hanging out in greenpoint in the early 2000s!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_Me_in_the_Bathroom

Yeah that’s the book where Karen drops my name.