February 2012
5 posts
Last Week
Sunday- Watched Sundance Doc “The Movement” on NBC and then attended “Shitty Jobs” improv show at UCB
Monday- TV History Class, edit Playlist
Tuesday- Watch and review ‘Love Etc,’ go to work in crit studies office
Wednesday- Revolutionary/Reactionary Hollywood class (“Pretty Poison”), pick up ZipCar, drive to Santa Barbara, visit my grandma,...
Ok I also feel the Kristen Bell sloth way about... →
It’s 21 straight minutes of drag queens throwing shade. I might barf from happiness.
January 2012
16 posts
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“I will give you ONE guess to tell me the plot of “Man on a...”
– I don’t usually link to In Theaters because I write it every Friday, but I amused myself with this one.
Oh hey, I'm really obsessed with RuPaul's Drag... →
Why don’t you read about it?
More like Awkward Nobbs, am I right
Saw Albert Nobbs tonight. Great movie. GREAT movie. But, I didn’t particularly enjoy the character of Albert Nobbs, what with all the lurking around corners and constantly looking like a creepy ghost. Did they give Glenn the nom because she’s spent like 15 years trying to make this movie? And cause she dress like a MAN? I do not think her portrayal of a possible autism spectrum...
Merry Oscar Nominations Mornings To You! Or... NOT
I celebrate Oscar nominations morning like a holiday. At Lionsgate, being on the East Coast, we would get Dunkin Donuts and coffee and come into the office at 8 am to watch the noms in the conference room and then send out the email to the LA-ers. I always get happy and giddy the night before. I even bought fixings for banana pancakes to celebrate in case I couldn’t go back to sleep. This...
Saturday Night 11:12 PM
In pajamas, drinking white wine, knitting and watching TV online.
Today I hung out with my roommate from undergrad, his boyfriend, aunt, aunt’s girlfriend, and grandparents. We ate delicious pasta a fagioli cooked by his grandfather, drank white wine and watched a screener of “Carnage.” They dropped me off at home, I walked the dog, went to Ralph’s, cooked a nice dinner...
Girls in White Dresses With Blue Satin Sashes
Today, I got to see a 35mm print of “The Sound of Music” in one of my classes, and it’s been so long since I’ve seen the film, I forgot how influential it has been for me. I almost burst into tears from happiness during “My Favorite Things.”
It’s funny, watching that scene again, it reminded me of my #smallvictories way of life, and how that’s been...
The Problem With Taking 2 TV Studies Classes This...
“I’m not doing the reading, BUT I am watching ‘Vampire Diaries’ on Netflix, so that counts as ‘research,’ right?”
- Me, always
The Playlist's 2012 Golden Globes Liveblog →
If you haven’t already seen this, here is the link to my Golden Globes liveblog!
It's kind of sad...
New York feels like an ex that I don’t like to talk about or think about too much because I still have feelings but it’s a relationship that just can’t work. Three years broken up and I’m not over it. LA’s my hot new piece, but New York still gives me a pang.
December 2011
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November 2011
5 posts
H8 Naps
Just took a very uncharacteristic nap and I had a vivid dream I got drunk after leading a session of movie trivia on a stage, got into a fight with my sister, stole my friend Megan’s car, and almost crashed it. Now I feel like my head is entirely submerged in a bowl of chocolate pudding, AFTER my shower with all the TJ’s tea tree tingle products in the world. No, nope, nah. Just say no...
“She possesses that white trash quality, straight out of Van Nuys, that scrambles...”
– One day I want to be as smart and awesome as Natasha Vargas-Cooper. Until then, I’m going to relish the fuck out of her sentences.
This article could not be timelier.
“Relieved, Gosling tapped my shoulder, “Thanks, buddy,” and disappeared into the...”
– You should really read this post about Fun Fun Fun Fest and Ryan Gosling touching my friend Feliks. Danzig, boo! Slayer, yay! Also, there is a pic of one of the Black Lips puking onstage. ROCK N FUCKIN ROLL.
October 2011
13 posts
Just got my health insurance card
I want to plate it in gold and frame it. Goddamn, I am never leaving the University system, EVER, so I can have access to decent health care. PhD HERE I COME!
And THAT’S what’s fucked up about America today.
“I think she should be elected poet laureate for the universe,” says TV writer...”
– I am quoted in Maria Elena Hernandez’s cripplingly important article on Courtney Stodden. (via julieklausner)
This article helps to explain some of my many questions about the creature that is Courtney Stodden, EXCEPT HOW MANY LEAD PAINT CHIPS HER MOM INGESTED BACK IN ‘93 WHEN SHE WAS PREGGO...
“The film is what I receive, and it is also what I release, since it does not...”
– Christian Metz, “The Imaginary Signifier”
I reviewed "Miss Representation" for The Playlist →
This movie is completely terrifying, illuminating and a total must see. Here is the trailer. It’s a documentary by Jennifer Siebel Newsom about how objectifying women in the media leads to dis-empowerment of women in the political and cultural process. And a whole bunch of other horrible things. And how we can make a change!
Watch it on OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) on Thursday, 10/20 at...
Some idiot on XOJane spreads (promotes?)... →
katieheaney:
“2) Birth control pills. NO. They will make me fat; they will make me “spot” (another thing I squeamishly just DON’T LIKE TALKING ABOUT; don’t worry, though, everyone else who works here does); they will give me acne; and quite frankly, they will NOT prevent me from getting pregnant! I know this because IT HAPPENED TO ME™. No, I didn’t take my pills right; I forget things like...
Long Live X-Factor UK! On The Hairpin →
The Hairpin let me write a manifesto about how much I like X-Factor UK. Long live The Hairpin!
September 2011
19 posts
Tonight's YouTube K-Hole: X Factor
Anyone know how I ended up watching every damn audition from X-Factor and crying my eyes out!? HUH?
Started with the USA treat and then landed on the UK crack. UK pop culture is my straight up heroin. Accents and bad teeth and cheekiness oh my. Fucking UK X-Factor man. I can’t even handle it without a list.
1- FIRST OF ALL. Kelly Rowland for waterproof mascara. Done and done.
2- This...
“‘Two Towers’ is the best movie ever and ‘Return of the...”
– Things that my friends tell me I said while drunk.
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Delinquent Chic
I was using the express checkout lane at the CVS when I realized that I probably looked like a total teenage delinquent gutter punk/hobo. Except you know, clean, with normal hair.
Exhibit A: Lugging around a tote AND a backpack.
Exhibit B: Wearing a sweet early 90s esque denim jacket that I bought minutes before for 10 bucks at the Goodwill, ON TOP of a satin baseball jacket, red bandana, two...