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Friday, January 27, 2012

adam brody on the set of lovelace



even with that creepy '70s moustache, you still make my top 5.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Breaking Bad Audition Tape - Anna Gunn

slight spoiler alert if you haven't watched breaking bad



love this but hate her as a character so much. like I can almost hear the director being like "Can you be a little more like the most heinous concept of a wife ever created? you know how women are, always like smoking while pregnant, fucking their bosses and generally giving dudes a hard time for being dudes."

go to I Heart Chaos for more Breaking Bad audition tapes.

Monday, January 16, 2012



i usually use hiiiiii more than heyyyyy but i am always guilty of including way more letters in salutations than are needed.

via Failblog

another person i am



via Julia Segal

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Things I just figured out about me and the Internet while at work at 8:30pm

-Apparently, I still have an OK Cupid profile. It says I live in Boston. So I guess I made it when I was in college. I can't figure out how to log into it to delete it though.
-My livejournal's still online. There's only like 5 posts in it. Short-lived blog.
-I still write pretty much the same way I always have... besides the short time where I used to say weird azn slang. I still act, think, feel the same way I did when I was 19, 15, 12. I still have the same problems, neuroses, bullshit. WHEN DOES IT END?!?

the office is empty and i'm starving. but i still would feel weird about playing minesweeper here in case the cleaning crew walks by and judges me.

i can feel myself turning into this person



via Cat Vs. Human


via No Hetero

Love these *ding ding ding*


Check Out Some Breaking Bad–Themed Valentine’s Day Cards

this isn't happiness™

  “Idiot. You wouldn’t have this problem if you had killed yourself after the prom like I told you to.
- Andy Richter, talking to himself on Andy Richter Rules The Universe

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Re-watching the 30 Rock pilot

It's weird when you watch a show from the beginning and then it suddenly goes into syndication and you get to re-see Chandler's original floppy haircut and how young and pudgy Michael Cera used to be. After a while, when a show's been in syndication for a while, you become accustomed to every possible version of the show. But at the beginning it's kind of jarring. How young the youngest kid in a sitcom family used to be, how '90s they used to dress. It's also weird working in TV now and knowing how much work goes into just the pilot, so much more analysis and worry and rounds of notes than any episode after that. So re-seeing a pilot is a different experience for me now.

Some thoughts on how 30 Rock has changed since this first ep:
-It's way more realistic, way less out there. It actually seems like a semi-serious critique of the TV business. Which makes it all the more surprising that it managed to stand out past Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, which at the time looked like it was going to crush 30 Rock and be the next big show.
-The voice of the show seems completely different. There's none of those flash-tos, which seem like they came out of improv's revolving doors (down to the way those scenes are edited). It feels more like a mainstream sitcom.
- Jack doesn't have any quippy jabs that perfectly convey his point of view. He's just kind of an anonymous boss.
-Tracy is way more likable. Crazy but not the level of crazy he is now. He doesn't say weird babylike things.
-The set and concept of the show seem more like SNL.
-Tina Fey wears less makeup. Also Tracy seems way thinner.

Personally, I like 30 Rock a lot, and I guess the show has found its voice in its creation of an absurdist world where anything could and does happen and Margaret Cho plays Kim Jong Il. But I also miss some of the realness of that first season. The characters seemed more real and worth rooting for. There must be a way to have both.

Friday, January 6, 2012

Things in the cultural zeitgeist I formed an opinion on in 2011:
The Help
The Hunger Games
Words with Friends
American Horror Story
Dylan McDermott's butt
2 Broke Girls
Spottify
Netflix Instant
Homeland
Drake
Community getting shelved
Rachel Maddow
New Year's Eve
Michelle Bachman
Grizzly Bear

Things I still don't have an opinion on:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Tim Tebow
Lana Del Rey
Oprah leaving
Regis leaving
The Wire
Turntable
Friday Night Lights
Selena Gomez
"Countdown" by Beyonce
grizzly bears

2011: The Year I Became a Cat Lady

What I remember about the beginning of 2011:
My apartment was cold. Really fucking cold. We didn't realize that we had heat because Barry was away on tour and had stored all his stuff in his closet and we weren't going to go through his closet and apparently that's where the controls to the heat were. So we suffered through the winter, wrapped in blankets, watching Jeopardy and eating Plump Dumpling. I spent three days working on a shoot for free and it was freezing. There was one day very early in January where I found out that I had gotten a job I really wanted and also worked on 50 First Jokes 2011 and I remember thinking that was the happiest day of my life. I got fired from that job like a month later, but that's another story.

The point is I'm pretty sure when I look back on my life I will think of this year as a year of great change. January-March, I will always remember as being miserable, freezing, really really hard months of my life where the shit hit the fan a few too many times and I was sure I was just an unlucky person. Then we got our apartment, I got my current job, we got our cats all in the span of the next two or three months. Between the job I got fired from and my current job, I met with some really amazing people who do really cool stuff in comedy and I'm so grateful to them that they took the time to meet with me, let me shadow them on shoots, gave me work to do, kept in touch via e-mail, etc. I did taxes by myself. Jake assembled a TV stand from Ikea and I set up Netflix Instant. I signed myself up for health insurance from my new job. At the end of the year, I sent out Xmas cards with a photo of my cats. That's who I am now, I guess. And even though I still don't feel like an adult yet and I still don't know what I want to do with my life, I feel 175 times closer to where I want to be than I did at the beginning of 2011. At the end of 50 First Jokes 2012, I thought about going home to my warm apartment with my warm cats. The vet said their normal body temperature is closer to 101 degrees and that's why they feel so warm to us.



I never, ever thought I would be here. I used to think of my resting state, and the happiest I could be, as drunk at a bar surrounded by comedians until 3 in the morning and now I think of it as home with my cats and my boyfriend watching Parks & Rec. I don't even like writing that because I am still getting used to the idea that this is how people grow up and change and ugggghhh I don't want to be a grownup and there are still nights when I am so happy being at a bar watching comedy. But I am happy to be warmer now. What a fucking year. Here's to 2012!