Videogum: Can I tell you what is weird to me about your friendship with Taylor Swift?
Emma Stone: …
Videogum: It’s just how, like, you have sort of built this career on being this smart, cool, funny girl. You know?
Emma Stone: …
Videogum: But then Taylor Swift is this super-earnest, very chaste, boring pop sensation. Based on your public image you should be friends with Santigold or something, and instead you’re friends with Taylor Swift. Which means that somewhere in there is a lie.
Emma Stone: …
Videogum: I just think it’s weird.
Emma Stone: …
Videogum: You’re not talking to me anymore?
Emma Stone: …
Videogum: This interview is over.
Emma Stone: You don’t say that to me, I say that to you.
Videogum: So say it then.
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Next week’s CHOW Tip: How to Make Your Own Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics from Household Chemicals.
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Though we are grateful for the affection 30 Rock has received from critics and hipsters, we were actually trying to make a hit show. We weren’t trying to make a low-rated critical darling that snarled in the face of conventionality. We were trying to make Home Improvement and we did it wrong.
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No matter how many times we tried to course-correct the show to make it more accessible - slow the dialogue down, tell fewer stories per episode, stop putting people in blackface - the show would end up careening off the rails again. In my limited experience, shows are like children. You can teach them manners and dress them in little sailor suits, but in the end, they’re going to be who they’re going to be.
” — Tina Fey, Bossypants (via everythingtv)(Source: everythingtv)
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“But it’s a hot load of bullshit that [Nick] didn’t get a nomination, and you can quote me on that. But I suspect and hope that will change. And certaintly that field, there’s a lot of talented men vying for that position. If you asked Nick, he’d say the show is represented. But I would say his work on the show is the best stuff on TV, and he deserves every award. A lot of people don’t know that Nick designed all of the costumes in “Game of Thrones.” —
Amy Poehler to Hitfix re: Nick Offerman’s Emmy Snub (via popculturebrain)
Amy Poehlr is The Best.
(Source: ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com, via popculturebrain)
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There was tone of condescension about this entire project from the start — all the talk of defying audience expectations, of how the writers would sort of “figure out” the killer’s identity as they went along. All of this reeked of poorly thought out elitism, like a college freshman clutching a half-read copy of Siddartha and explaining to everyone how they just “don’t get it, man.”
The surprise cliffhangers of the season finale of The Killing just feel like lazy film student garbage. “What if we DIDN’T find out who killed her?” is the kind of breakthrough concept I would expect from a college sophomore smoking Djarums in the dormitory courtyard after not even drinking half of the tiny juice glasses he filled up with all the different milks and sodas in the cafeteria.
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First Drafts: The Mountain Goats’ ‘Dance Music’
The songwriter, guitarist, lead singer, and sometimes sole member of indie-rock outfit The Mountain Goats, John Darnielle is famous for the literary quality of his lyrics and the fervor of his followers. Sasha Frere-Jones of the New Yorker called him “America’s best non-hip-hop lyricist.” In March, Darnielle and The Mountain Goats released their latest album, All Eternals Deck. Here he shares an early draft of “Dance Music,” a track written for a recording session at John Peel’s BBC studio, and inspired by the death of his stepfather.
Read more at The Atlantic
Very cool. One of my favorite Mountain Goats songs.