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[danschank]

hi. i decided to post something. where to begin?

i've made two paintings since last we spoke, dear cyberfriends...

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[foxinthesnow]

let me know if the show you're in sells work online. i'm on an art buying kick again and would love one of your pieces! they're amazing.

these are th best paintings of stacks of laundry ever made

[lostcosmonaut]

first thought after reading Part 1 of Waters' piece

!--mza.

you are the king of all media

[danschank]

a tweeter! i'm shocked...

i've been digging your tumblr though. and your encouraging "likes" on goodreads, heh heh. thanks for the good cheer.

hallucinogens are way crazier to me than some other "hard" drugs. it's kinda terrifying that kids take them when they're like 15.

[vectorsplatter]

Third season of Breaking Bad has been my favorite season of the show yet. I think it's definitely become one of my favorite shows so far--which makes me wonder if dramas about crime are just better than other shows in general!

Also, we watched the first season of Men of a Certain Age and really liked it, although the cheesy music ruins some of the moments (i.e. Ray Romano talks to son and crazy after school special music comes on). I feel like the show has a lot of potential though. I really appreciate the re-imagining of Ray Romano's life as sort of a well-meaning, but super flawed, lost divorcee (can you use that word referring to a man?).

[danschank]

yeah, MOACA (men of a certain age acronym there) has some edges to round out for sure. i think the premise makes them a bit more sure of how non-cheesy they can be and still be a successful show, maybe? like if they stripped away the cheesy music, would baby boomers still tune in, etc.

still, i think the dynamic between joe/ray and his son is one of my favorite parts of the show. the episode where he's waiting for the girl to call and you can tell that playing the Wii with his kid genuinely makes him feel better is maybe my favorite single moment (though the "date" episode was pretty great from start to finish). i like how seriously that show takes being boring and middle aged, without making it unrealistically awesome. it's like the anti revoltionary road.

Hey good to see you

[ghost_dinosaur]

I'm glad Shirin let me know you finally updated

yeah the cousins were definitely the low point of season three

[danschank]

i think i preferred season two simply because i kept expecting the show to pull back and it never did. i thought it was pretty brave how far they took walt's character. by the third season, i was more familiar with how good it could be, which made its goodness less surprising? does that make sense.

but yeah, i love how thoroughly they've fleshed everyone out, save marie - who i predict will figure out walt before hank does. i also like that certain characters even got to redeem themselves a bit (hank, jesse). the acting is really impressive lately too. the dude who plays jesse is REALLY believable now, noticeably more than in the first season even.

[olamina]

finally! your links have led me to great things. glad to have some fresh ones.

i am staying away from Breaking Bad for fear that it will disgust and alienate me the way that Weeds eventually did in its season 3. for slightly similar reasons, i am afraid to watch "the wire" (please, no need to join the chorus telling me to watch it. i won't.). i'll have to check out party down and the other one though.

god, i have really fallen behind on my john waters fandom. the original hairspray is my favorite movie and i own waters' first books (shock value, crackpot) but the last few i have not gotten my hands on. thanks for reminding me about role models again. putting it on my to do list. a good friend and former professor of mine, dr. ruthie wilson gilmore, was also friends with one of the manson girls by way of the work she does in california prisons. she was also very amazed at how tame and civilized that gang was these days. they are very tidy, grandmotherly, and charitable souls. i think she, too, may have been slightly dismayed.

i'm fairly sure you'll dig "party down"

[danschank]

it'd be interesting to hear what you think of men of a certain age. i find it really warm and sincere, but it's also got a quasi-cinformist streak that i could see being a deal breaker for some people?

breaking bad is definitely more willfully upsetting than other shows like it (save, say, the money-shot excess violence of the sopranos). it's definitely a show that will leave you feeling awful. i have a high tolerance for that, but i totally understand people that don't. it earns its awfulness, at least

Re: i'm fairly sure you'll dig "party down"

[olamina]

i watched the party down pilot on saturday as i was de-podding peas. i am concerned and intrigued by the sight of some of the usual Apatow subjects. this could be really bad or really good. will have to see.. also a little annoyed that the mopey sarcastic reasonably attractive white dude seems to be destined to end up with the mopey decent looking white girl as in all recent comedies of this ilk (The Office, Community Better Off Ted, etc.). i'll keep watching though.

will also check out that Romano joint. he was funny for those few seconds in Funny People when Eminem was threatening him. then again I just love that movie.

Re: i'm fairly sure you'll dig "party down"

[danschank]

yeah, it's a bunch of the apatow people... but the show's deepest connections are to veronica mars and all that stuff the cast of the state puts together like red hot american summer and (my favorite movie of the apatow-verse) role models. the cute mopey couple is predictable, but they're both super charming and witty. for my money it works. it gets better 2 or 3 episodes in, as does most worthwhile tv i guess.

that scene in funny people is probably the best part. i felt like that movie was scrambling to right some of the wrongs of knocked up, which made it not work for me. it felt sorta panicky or something.