February 2012
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Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who...
– Amy Poehler (via tulletulle)
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Shea: can you make a list of things you like/can eat for breakfast and lunch
me: sure human hands eye of newt
Shea: no, things i wouldn’t already have on a list.
She’s sitting next to me with her friend, and she’s reading a break-up letter, aloud. I assume someone has written it to her and it’s filled with juicy tid-bits about wanting to sleep with other women. She talks about forgiving each other and having better communication going forward and I am embarrassed for this woman or man who has written her, to have this incredibly personal...
January 2012
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MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY' →
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CLUE 1: “went to short dogs house, they was watching Yo MTV RAPS” Yo MTV RAPS first aired: Aug 6th 1988 CLUE 2: Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on: Feb 23 1993 CLUE 3: ”The Lakers beat the Super Sonics” Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…
Important in your life.
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December 2011
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The Year in Review
+Went to Sundance. +Wrote a movie. +Directed a movie. +Two more full-time semesters of grad school under my belt. +Promoted to Interim TV Editor. +Promoted to Movies Editor. +Bought a new-to-me car. +Been seeing someone I like for just about a year. +Got my first iPhone. +Worked and got paid on three short films and two music videos. +Got paid to write for the fifth year in a row.
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Amy Davidson, Amanda Meyncke, Lacey Chabert
This is Amy, me and Lacey at the premiere of Destruction Party.
A director with her actors!
I look like their mom.
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Langer's Deli, Nov. 30th, 2011
These are a few of my favourite things.
November 2011
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A behind-the-scenes of Destruction Party (1/3) People say nice things about me and I string together a complete sentence without the use of jump cuts.
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“Our dad left on a jet-ski when I was eleven. We are pretty sure hes still alive today but we have never searched for him. When someone leaves like that you know in your heart that they died, or just really wanted to make a point about leaving you.” - j.h.
October 2011
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It could not be worse.
You know you’re in library school when you have twenty-eight browser tabs open, and all of them are about critical database selection or Dialog command keys.
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September 2011
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In which I get mad 'cause of the spells.
Got mad at The Secret Circle this week for not being true to the books, but not in a way you might expect. Cut six or more characters? Fine. Move the location? Sure. But do not, under any circumstances, change those spells.
Let’s sidebar here for a second: every time one of them says witchcraft was “abolished” I want to write an open letter to Williamson and Miller, essentially saying, “I do...
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Secret Circle Recap
Wrote a recap of The Secret Circle I’m particularly proud of.
Please, this is supposed to be a room from 1995 and… whoa, you guys, that means that Cassie was born in 1995. She was only a one-year-old when Tupac Shakur died. (I know this is a super common way to measure age or the passage of time, and so I used it out of deference to you, the reader.) She was a two-year-old when The...
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Doing my part for the cause.
August 2011
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Final Draft is a prude.
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Lisanti Quarterly: Selected Scenes From Betty and... →
A new actor will assume the role of Don and Betty’s son, Bobby, since Jared Gilmore opted to take a series-regular role on ABC’s new Once Upon a Time instead of the seven episodes Mad Men offered. Jared’s advice for his replacement: “Be careful around January [Jones]. She’s not as…
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Double Features
Tonight, went to Cinefile, got me a membership because where else can you rent both:
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John and I were gonna watch Trash Humpers and Rubber tonight, make a double feature of weirdness out of it but then it got late and I got tired and we were sunburnt anyway so it didn’t happen. But I was home by myself, and kind of thinking of putting Rubber in, you know, just… to see what...
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Hey look, I made a movie.
The song is Teenage Spaceship by Smog.
Oh, also here’s our fancy website.
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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the...
– J.D. Salinger (via nevver)
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Some days you’re Pinky, and some days you’re Rose.
In happier news, I found the actress I want to play Laura in Kid Sister. Because everyone should cast their movies before they’re written.
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Best Coast - Our Deal
when you leave me the bed is empty and i feel crazy cos i didnt say anything i wish you would tell me how you really feel but you’ll never tell me cos that’s not our deal
that’s your deal that’s not my deal
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The title cards were one of my favourite bits about the entire filmmaking process. Cate stitched them up for me, and I designed all the trinkets that laid upon.
July 2011
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Bill Withers - Hope She’ll Be Happier
Saw this for the first time at the Prince concert I went to, it played over and over and was still wonderful.
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The Way We Were
Katie: You see, I can’t sleep, Hubbell…it would help me so much if you could… Well, if I had someone to talk to. You know, if I had a best friend or something… to talk about it with. Only you’re my best friend. Isn’t that dumb? So dumb. You’re the best friend I ever had.
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More Larry Sanders
Beverly: No, you looked really pretty. Paula: Well good, I hope someone from Pavement saw it because I’d like to date any one of those gentlemen. Beverly: What’s the pavement? Paula: (pained) It’s a band.
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Me: Tim Heidecker, hot or not Shea: Are you serious? Not. Me: Mmm I’ve said too much.
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The Larry Sanders Show
Is perfection, and I’m gonna write a big thing about it for Film.com in the next few weeks, but oh MAN.
On air, Hank says the full name of a woman who was stalking him, and the producer comes over and says “Don’t worry I bleeped out her last name so we don’t have a problem.” Hank says “Well I have a problem, the audience will think I called her Cindy...
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“Joseph would reach out to me occasionally, the same way the desert blooms a flower now and then. You get so used to the subtleties of beige and brown, and then a sunshine-yellow poppy bursts from the arm of a prickly pear. How I loved those flower moments, like when he pointed out the moon and Jupiter, but they were rare and never to be expected.”
- Aimee Bender, The...
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Over the golf course two suburbs past, the bro longs to see. He fills a cooler with Natty Light: FIRE, WORK WITH ME.
Always but not always.
I used to really love the song Always On My Mind, specifically a cover of it that Sam Beam did years ago when he and Calexico did a tour in support of In The Reins. I flew to Denver to see that show a few days after I saw it in Los Angeles, and it remains some of the most moving music I’ve ever seen performed live.
It’s really kind of a terrible thing to say to someone though, the...
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June 2011
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Destruction Party Day One
Day one of two went well.
One of our actresses, Oona Mekas took these.
I don’t have an iPhone. I do have a sunburn. Turns out making a movie is easy if you rely on the people you hired to do their jobs.