GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

you can always make art that isn't suffocatingly autobiographical iirc

i feel like im losing the thread here

the thread wants to be free, max. don't try to control it.

'write abt what you know' important tip for making compelling art

fwiw i dont think tiny furniture is a memoir

i dont have a problem with young people writing memoirs

i imagine that a "State U grads who have to start working soul-sucking jobs just to survive" as perceptive and funny as dunham could probably make a film as good as tiny furniture

some dude otm twice

what abt someone who dropped out of jr college tho

what is the dartmouth frat bro movie called? is it animal house?

i googled dartmouth frat bro and apparently its a real thing, i thought milo was trying to draw some weird false equivalency there with a made-up example

http://jezebel.com/5897558/dartmouth-frat-bros-bro-memoir-will-one-day-polarize-bros-everywhere

we talked about it on another thread? Dartmouth hazing whistleblower now writing memoir etc.

yeah i dunno i dont really find the concept of a dartmouth frat bro writing a memoir galling

ha, I hadn't even seen that Jezebel thing. <3 the phrase frat bro

it's not galling but it's difficult to believe that many 22-year old who aren't war heroes or w/e have a compelling tale to tell unless you're also a frat bro

is that the guy who did the hazing piece in esquire or whatever? that made for some nauseating reading
apparently bros like to puke on each others faces and genitals until they have no more tooth enamel

easier to just watch this
http://www.thecinemasource.com/moviesdb/images/TheSkullsPoster300.jpg

there was a time when i had not heard the term "vomlette" and i want that time back

that story sounds actually too compelling

even tho its not abt war and took place before a person was 22 which is generally just meaningless bullshit not worth mentioning

what if your under 22 but also a vampire

have to be a sexy vampire imo

still need that tooth enamel

it's more specifically about a paralysis women of a certain privilege experience wrt work, in part because they haven't been acculturated to valuing their own labor, taking making money as a goal, etc.

I weep for them.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, April 6, 2012 12:28 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

look i followed that by saying i understand it can be offputting. i also think this undervaluing of labor affects not-rich women fwiw, though they obviously have less freedom to go unemployed.

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/

lol i just love good lookin rich ppl tbh will ryde 4 them 4 all time

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max)

; )

otm

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