GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

lena dunham's worst sin in making 'girls' is getting that icona pop song stuck in my head

― 乒乓, Tuesday, January 29, 2013 2:59 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

loved this scene

http://whopays.tumblr.com/post/41798589691/girls-girls-girls

yeah that set off flares in my mind like TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR UNSOLICITED WRITING FOR YOUR WEBSITE is more unrealistic than most things in this world of white people

also i know it's the joke that dude's art sucks but 1) it doesn't like like hirst, despite what girl says and 2) wow it's so so so bad, can't they do better than this

Can you think

er, think of any TV shows with plausible fake art?

And yeah the TV box was more reminiscent of terrible knockoff Nam June Paik than anything.

http://www.bravotv.com/work-of-art

I went to the Outsider Art Fair thursday night and was looking at something and Jerry Saltz turned to face me and my girlfriend and started talking to us as if we'd been listening to his entire conversation. It was really weird.

i saw him do that to a few people at an opening at the whitney but assumed he just knew everyone in the room

It felt like he thought we were encroaching on his space because he's famous, or he thought we were somebody he knew. In fact I was just going around looking at the art and didn't notice he was there until he turned to face me, looked me in the eye, and started talking about some people I'd never heard of.

only THEN did we do the gawking when I was like "wait, wasn't that that guy?"

he's lena dunham's godfather

are her mustards not receiving enough accolades

lol this show is ridiculous

Watched with a friend last night and then climbed in the bath with her and cried because I was sad. It's just what we do. What most girls do. NBD.

http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2013/news/130211/lena-dunham-300.jpg

The new season is about raccoons.

they did a great job with jessa this ep

Every publicity shot of Lena Dunham looks absolutely nothing like Lena Dunham.

loved this episode

So there is a new one i gather . I am an old fogey who downloads episodes onyou send it every Sunday

"Your apartment looks like the setting for gay Entourage"

Belated epiphany in Slate weekly post-mortem:

While I take pleasure in the show, and find it brilliantly funny at times, I am increasingly realizing a problem I have with it: I find very few relatable characters and moments.

You think, Slate writer?

Anyone who can't relate to horrible cruel fuckups needs to get real w themselves.

Anyone who can't relate to horrible cruel fuckups needs to get real w themselves.

― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Sunday, February 3, 2013

i like the notion of GIRLS as the bleaker, more nihilistic antidote to GAME OF THRONES but nah.

that said, if you needed to describe HBO Original Programming in three words, "horrible cruel fuckups" would do it admirably

(obv if you needed to do it in four words it would be "horrible cruel fuckups, boobs"

Horrible, cruel boobs

I don't know how you can "take pleasure" in something and find it "brilliantly funny" while being unable to relate to the characters or situation.

Well I suppose it's possible with something like dumb or dumber but not with a show like this. I don't see how you could laugh without relating.

Gratuitous boobage

Not that I'm complaining. The end of ep 1 was basically Lena saying "fuck me"

Hannah, excuse me

(word alert)

Hahaha <3 word alerts

Yeah, I'm like does she really have to be naked in every episode, but then the perv in me doesn't mind.

*bites tongue*

I like to think that every time an HBO exec asks for more boobs LD writes another boobs scene for herself, like she's straight up daring someone to tell her they are really after Allison Williams' boobs.

that would make it so much more acceptable.

I don't think Alison will ever show. But then again I thought the same about Jemima and was wrong there

i think it's clear from the way her sex scenes so far were filmed that it's not gonna happen

okay that was a great episode

loooool fat babies

enbb otm re the bathtub

all my golden girls moments with my friends have been in bathtubs. it's TOTALLY a thing we do.

Ok, I agree with you guys that it was gratuitous, but I have had female friendships where there was that kind of nbd intimacy. I liked it just in that it was a moment of two girls being totally comfortable around each other & also it showed Hannah actually being kind for a change.

Uh why are you sitting in this TV thing? Your character seems to have sense wtf are you doing with this idiot? You are being fired right now.

…?

oh right tv thing

At first i took that Damien Hirst line as evidence she knew what she was talking about but apparently it's just something she knows to say in order to flirt with artists.

Sorry, i skipped 3 and 4 and am just catching up w them. Don't how much more I'll be watching this show. I'm sure there are plenty of shows of transgressive 20-something girls doing coke and dancing at a club. Cool that these characters are finding themselves and going thru trials and tribulations and stuff but maybe i am just too old for this show. It definitely sums up LIVING THROUGH YOUR 20s in that it's full of seemingly momentous exploratory stuff that really doesn't mean anything and that realization very very very slowly dawning on you.

xpost emilys: oh the moment itself, emotionally, was totally otm. it was just funny to me that it was in a bathtub.

Marnie seemed to enjoy texting her friend that she just had sex much more than the actual sex.

Eh, the next episode. This show is like watching people punch themselves.