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Here's a clip where he's pretty mobile lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfu4XJ4qqKY

oh man, didn't know there was a Caroliner connection

Tim name dropped this guy in that interview; apparently the work of two guys. New to me at least!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzWw910b2zM

yeah those guys seem promising

can irl Gregg move his neck or is that particular physical tic specific to the character himself? The way he has to move his whole upper body to turn his head towards somebody seems like such a wierd affectation.

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been wondering this myself

Until yesterday I did not know that Gregg was Neil Hamburger. Despite doing an (awful) internship at (interning here is) Drag City in 2006, I’ve never heard or seen any of his Hamburger material

wow

i mean he's not very neil hamburgery out of costume so i only knew who he was due to knowing the name. "gregg" is a very different character and performance

yeah I don't think I would've ever put that together either. there's like one brief scene in one of the Oscar Specials (maybe the first one, after Tim pukes on the tapes) where he lapses into the voice.

hah, I just posted that on the things I learned thread

I mean, I had read about Neil Hamburger, including his real name, a bunch of times. But it wasn't until now that I saw it mentioned and thought "wait... that Gregg... is this Gregg"

I’m glad you all didn’t know, either. Felt like some big obvious thing that was I was already supposed to know

I've readily associated him with Neil Hamburger at least since McSweeney's put out Tim & Gregg's 'Bicycle Built for Two' screenplay in 2011, but I think I knew his real name before I even knew what a Neil Hamburger was (pretty sure they mentioned it in the Zip Code Rapists entry in the '90s Trouser Press Guide).

(Mentioned that Turkington was Hamburger, I mean.)

I'd like to hear more about your awful internship at Drag City Karl

there's not much to say. i was hoping to learn something about how record labels work but instead they stuck me in another room away from everyone else working there, cutting cardboard squares to be packaged along with record shipments all day. i think after ever 8 or 16 hours i was given a free record of my choosing as my payment. no one talked to me, and i wasn't enough of a networker to saunter into the main office and try to convince them that i was worth talking to. on my last day, literally as i was walking out the door toward the train, one of the label people realized that i was old school good friends with a key musician that they were looking to work with and suddenly they became very interested in talking to me for the first time. but i so cool that i just let them know that i'd tell him drag city said hi next time i talked to him

the reverse side of this is that i looked like i was 13 even though i was 23, i looked like a drug addict because i'm really skinny, i was socially awkward, and actually i'm not sure if i ever talked to that cool musician i thought i was good friends with ever again, because he was busy playing one trillion shows and being cool and i was busy piling up life experiences that will good for my memoir which i plan on writing and publishing in a nursing home someday

Sad lol? Sounds like a fairly universal intern experience. If it makes you feel any better there's a possibility one of your cardboard squares protected a record I love.

but i so cool that i just let them know that i'd tell him drag city said hi next time i talked to him

Roasted

five bags of popcorn and a *vapes furiously*

colin filth

I was not prepared for Al Jardine's appearance in Decker 4. Although I probably should have been since my only time spotting Gregg in the wild in LA was outside a Brian Wilson show (w/ Al in the band) at the Greek a few years back. He was wearing a bowling shirt and holding court with a bunch of Gregg-heads. As always a true class act.

fuck, the edm remix of "empty bottle"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxDsA82_-e4

xxpost Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuude, I just watched that ep of Decker tonight! I was all like 'man, that sure looks like Al Jardine but it can't possibly be Al Jardine'. Thanks for saving me a trip to IMDB!

Holy shit, it'd probably be cinch to get Love on if you showed him a few episodes out of context.

Jardine/Beach Boys talk has me digging out this trivia:

Did you know.... that Gregg has unironically sung a shockingly-faithful cover of "Good Vibrations" (the "sMiLe" sessions version, not the more famous single version):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I56Hmf7wKUY

That's Gregg doing Carl's lead and Trey Spruance doing the Mike Love parts.

This podcast talks about Jardine's involvement if you're interested in interviewing Tim & Gregg out-of-character (though slightly drunk?):

https://talkradio.co.uk/funny/late-night-alternative-iain-lee-bonus-podcast-tim-heidecker-and-gregg-turkington-17090518193

I love the little motor boat sound he makes when decker shoots him in the forehead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJpI377Akg8

if we've gotten to posting Caroliner clips we should definitely be posting Faxed Head

THERE'S A BIG DROUGHT WHERE WE COME FROM. YOU DEPEND ON OUR CROPS, YOU GUYS. DON'T LAUGH.

On the Japanese wikipedia page for Taco Bell, there is a mention that heavy metal band Faxed Head recorded at least one of their albums in the Coalinga Taco Bell mens room.

tim coughs all over the VR camera and then returns it to best buy

Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi were never real brothers, they were "blues brothers." So you can have other "blues brothers" in life. John Goodman, I think, is a legitimate "blues brother," from Dan Aykroyd. And some of these other guys — you've got James Brown, B.B. King, the Blues Brothers Band, Paul Shaffer — these are all blues people, and this is a blues movie, and I love it and it will cure the blues.

ok, reading these quotes at work are bad unless I want to die trying to choke back laughter

Re: the Gyllenhaaal sci-fi/horror film Life

Tim: So...that's Life. (sings) 'Thaat's liife', one of those old sayings from Sinatra, and it is almost an homage to Sinatra.

Gregg: When i walked out of the theater after seeing Life this year, I turned to the ticket taker at the door and he said, 'how was the movie,' and I said, 'it's a wonderful Life,' and he got a kick out of that. That was a reference to It's a Wonderful Life from 1946, Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart. But this is a very different movie than It's a Wonderful Life. If you liked It's a Wonderful Life, I wouldn't say don't watch this because, if you liked that you're probably a movie buff and this is definitely a movie buff's type of film.

Gregg's anguish when Tim blows up his VHS collection at the end of Decker: Port of Call Hawaii looks all too real. It kind of hurt to watch.

This show rules. Part of the joke is the bewilderment at discovering how much content they've already produced and kept going without much promotion, quietly adjacent to the Decker universe. This is what Andy Kaufman would have been up to today.

I don't typically catch up with this show on its own, but it's fun to watch within a personalized hour block with videos from other YouTube channels.

Now I'm going to read this entire thread.

Also I really hated "The Comedy" and "Entertainment."

I wouldn't say 'hated' but The Comedy is pretty safely my least favorite Heidecker thing.

i've heard mixed reactions on the comedy (mostly bad), but at least this section sounds pretty good:

Swanson's friend Van (Eric Wareheim) shows the group a slide show of photos from his childhood interspersed with pornographic images as a gag. Despite some initial laughs, the group falls silent and everyone appears saddened, including Van, who solemnly continues the slide show.

I guess neither movie is the worst thing I've ever seen but they're both really sad and made me feel like shit.

It's worth watching to see ironic and detached self-amusement taken to its logically nihilistic conclusion, but, yeah, it's just kind of a bummer ultimately.

The Comedy is great!

oh god i'm absolutely losing it during the our cinema oscar special

the twitter fight leading up to that one is good

OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON OSCAR SPECIAL V@greggturkington #OnCinema pic.twitter.com/PvTU98zR1x

— Tim Heidecker (@timheidecker) February 7, 2017

xps yeah both of these movies are bummers and I thought both were really good

Quick aside, but his new one w Goldblum look intersting too

finally at season 9, rip victorville film archive

currently the thing that's making me lose my shit every episode is the sound of tim reclining his chair

Watched last year's Oscar special this weekend, RIP(?) [redacted for spoilers]

It just occurred to me the other day as worthy of note that the installments of this epic have either a runtime of 10-15 minutes or like three hours, period.