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I can actually see why actors get way into weight management for roles. I think anyone who has been an intense diet knows how immersed and focused that can get you. And then anybody whose put on a few pounds can say how that takes you out of your normal mannerisms and makes you uncomfortable.
yes yes yes! this is coming from someone who very much enjoys american beauty– towelhead is just perfect for the hunt!
Sorry, realized how self-righteous that came off. Teeth, bugeyes– meanspirited but fair game. But equating a confederate flag with racism just seems like a lazy attack on character to me. In the south you really do become desensitized to it as a symbol of “racism,” it is more of a “southern pride” thing. She didn’t do anything to suggest that she’s racist. She’s already weird enough, do we have to pin that kind of thing on her too?
Honestly, I’m more offended by the casual stereotyping of the monsters (bad teeth! omg she talks so weird! flag means she must be racist!) than the confederate flag.
Hey Steve, I really didn’t like it at all either. And I kept hearing it got better around the tenth episode and thought, “10 episodes for it to get good?!? NO thanks.” But I did keep watching for some reason and it really grew on me.
But yeah, it really bothered me at first when everybody seemed so enamored with it, because it just seemed to be missing something. (sung in beautiful Michael Jackson voice) You are not alonnnnne.
I don’t find this that inflammatory, but maybe I’m just jaded. I like that he said they are “having conversations”: trying to find ways to open themselves to other cultures instead of stubbornly hitching themselves to the increasingly radical marginalizing American Christian mindset. It’s tolerance and discourse by way of capitalism, but I’ll take it.
This preoccupation with getting a reality show is disheartening, but it is also an extreme symptom of a wacked out cultural mindset that is, like, everywhere.
Commodification– Why do it if it can’t be transmitted into some kind of currency? Be it money or social currency. Don’t keep that amusing thought to yourself, make sure you post it on Twitter so you get your cleverness points. Why write for yourself when you can write for everybody? Why hone your art, whatever it is, into something you really believe in instead of spending half your time self-promoting as so many young musicians, artists, filmmakers seem to do.
I don’t know. Henry Darger wrote and illustrated a 15,000 page epic that was only discovered years after he died, and as far as we know he never showed it to anybody. He was also insane, so there’s that. Back in the day, people like Bob Dylan and Patti Smith had to show us that it was OK to put ourselves out there and share what we love, break from social mores and all that, but these days I feel like somebody needs to remind us that we are worth more.
If this is the “awkward Gabe sighting” thread, I’ll add that I thought I saw him on the Staten Island Ferry. I never got around to asking if it was him because it kinda felt like encountering somebody in a porno shop. Nobody is proud of their business in Staten Island.
In all honesty, paintball is fun! I guess Gabe has an issue with the simulated violence, but then he goes on to reference Grand Theft Auto.
But seriously, it’s like tag but with projectiles! And so many bruises! Who doesn’t love a nice bruise?
Um… yes this is actually my bank. I honest-to-blog have one of these.
I know what you mean Spencer. I hated this movie for all the laziness from people I usually admire but …
a) the outdoor church meeting on a windy night
b) growing up in the old person home
c) a cold winter in Russia with Tilda Swinton
all lovely. Just lovely.
Anyone surprised that Jason Schwartzman’s band doesn’t suck? I mean, I’m not going to Napster.com it for my Zune, but it was pleasant.
Sadly, I did not catch this episode because my eyes have to fast at least 72 hours before a season premiere of Lost
Fake
I’m the Burger King of the world!!!
I actually saw HJO the other day on the street. He’s looking… he’s looking rough. He’s looking rough.
The three stages of my relationship with Cody Devereux
1) I’m gonna love him forever
2) WHAT?! imdb says he is in the 41 Year Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad about it?!
3) Heartbroken I run out the studio doors and burn
You get pulled/porked
I think he’s in on the joke
OK, I see where you all are coming from, but can we assume the “black people love fried chicken” stereotype is American? I mean, its so weird too, for starters. Just as a side note. Because most people love fried chicken, no matter their race.
So then the racist part is supposed to be that the white guy is so uncomfortable surrounded by black people, but I don’t think that’s the point. It seems to me that he is a non-native fan of a particular cricket team, and so he feels left out culturally, and needs an icebreaker. Understandable. I don’t think that’s so bad.
And the black people are nice and having a good time. It’s not like they are rioting and he appeases them with fried chicken. “Too easy,” at the end is a little weird but it’s not that racist.
Would have been better if he had hosted as a giant wolf
“jump in the trash can, you’ve ruined your body”
that’s just such a terrible, close-minded thing to say. I don’t even like tattoos that much myself, but this guy is beautiful. he made his body a work of art. you know that whole “you only live once thing.” i feel like this guy gets it. oh, what’s that, he can’t have an office job? i feel like he will always be able to find people that “get it” that will employ him. Ugh, the response to this has frustrated me so much.