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Friday, January 15, 2010

what i watched

ugggghhh i forced myself to take a day off work, improv, and comedy shows for one day b/c i was THESICKEST yesterday. this was not easy for me. but my mommy came by and took care of me and luckily, i had the world tivo-ed and a sick night of live tv, so here is what i watched yesterday:

-2 episodes of the IT crowd (new obsession)
-2 episodes of How I Met Your Mother
-The Lives of Others (SO GOOD! i like how i break up a day of exclusively comedy with the most depressing German independent movie that's not about nazis in the history of movies)
-half of Bachelor Party 2 (this happened when i fell asleep with Comedy Central on and woke up hazily throughout the day to catch this terrible terrible movie)
-an episode of The Soup
-Big Bang Theory from Monday
-Is it still called Must See TV? Regardless, I watched the full lineup at its actual time which never happens. Community, Parks & Rec, and dos 30 Rocks (60 Rock?). Comedy fangirl nerdgasm w/ guest stars aplenty... Jack Black, Will Arnett, Justin Theroux, James Franco, Dominic Dierkes, DC Pierson, Ben Schwartz... Justin Theroux is one of these people like Paul Feig who is tangentially involved in every cool project on TV and film and yet still not super famous. And James Franco falls into the Jon Hamm/Bradley Cooper/pretty much anyone who's done Between Two Ferns mold of people who are too good-looking/suave to be just comedians but really want to be part of the comedy scene anyway... ugh, unfair. And there were SO MANY ucb people on nbc last night, it was outrageous. I've become such an Andy-April 'shipper. Love them. (This entire paragraph is a pretty good indication of exactly the type of nerd I am. #imtheworst)
-Project Runway (so over it already)
-Daily Show
-Conan (TEAM CONAN FTW)

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

"Admit it, if you're out with a friend and they get up to go to the bathroom, the first thing you do is reach instinctively for your PDA/phone, when you used to just sit idly and people-watch. Because even when it's quiet, it never stops whispering at you from your pocket or your purse: "cheeeeck meeeee. I could be that person who blew you off, finally coming to my senses. I could be that work email you've been waiting for. I could be that invitation to something better than where you are now." It whispers, it calls to us, it is both our social wellspring and the black hole devouring The Now."
-Stinson Carter, The Subtext of Texting, the Huffington Post