"Sorry for speaking bluntly sir, but those faggots make me want to puke my guts out"
- American Beauty
To commemorate the end of Six Feet Under I had a mini-Alan Ball-a-thon which involved watching that episode, American Beauty and read the scripts of his I had (including "Bachelor Holiday" in which I acted, basically playing a proto-David Fischer (a.k.a. totally Alan Ball)). I liked the last episode. The whole "oh , actually you know how you thought the main character was this guy? No , its actually his sister you dumbasses" thing was awesome and makes you want to watch all the episodes again and care more about Claire. Also I liked the fact that Olivier and the Chenowyths got good endings. Most people did really. Anyway, the point of all of this is I felt after such a marathon one should expound the wisdom one has learned. So thus, here is everything a few straight hours of Alan Ball taught me:
- Long haired girls with big breasts are cool and worth further exploration, even if they are a bit messed up (see previous entry)
- Buddhism can come off as a bit badass if you twist it to your means.
- "Late" is the best thing to say when leaving a situation.
- Straight people should take gay people more seriously but gay people should take themselves 1,000 times less seriously.
- Big actions often come at little consequence but, at the same time, little actions can have HUGE consequences.
- Douchebags are interesting
- Dont worry about understanding everyone all the time
- representing imagination as reality = totally awesome
- selfishness is super cool up to a point.
- Peter Gallagher always rocks
- there are really two types of people: pot-smoking, introspective worried guys and uptight gay guys. Everyone else kind of falls in between.
- Feel bad for ladies. They have it bad doing whatever they are doing.
- Eventually you usually sleep with everyone you know or at least everyone who wants to sleep with you
and the two most important facts
- There's no way to escape being pretentious as an artist. Its just intrinsic in art and you should accept it and have fun. It might suck a little but people expect it, so embrace it and go with the flow. Its fun to be pretentious anyway as long as you know you're doing it.
- Always smoke weed, drink and do drugs. Its the answer to everything. Honestly. everything. And there are no consequences.
For further reading see: http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2005/08/20/alan_ball/index_np.html
(dont worry there's a free pass if you watch an ad)
But now what will fill my viewing void? HBO-wise there's only Deadwood, which is badass sure but just not the same. Weeds is cute with the deaf blowjob girl and the nearly-racist portrayl of African Americans but a bit too sitcom and only a half hour. That leaves Huff and Rescue Me. Who do I like dealing with the intricate human mind better, Denis Leary or Hank Azaria?
Hmmm
Oh well, at least this got me to update my sidebar.
And to fill the void... girls going as wild as YOU want.
CAM
- American Beauty
To commemorate the end of Six Feet Under I had a mini-Alan Ball-a-thon which involved watching that episode, American Beauty and read the scripts of his I had (including "Bachelor Holiday" in which I acted, basically playing a proto-David Fischer (a.k.a. totally Alan Ball)). I liked the last episode. The whole "oh , actually you know how you thought the main character was this guy? No , its actually his sister you dumbasses" thing was awesome and makes you want to watch all the episodes again and care more about Claire. Also I liked the fact that Olivier and the Chenowyths got good endings. Most people did really. Anyway, the point of all of this is I felt after such a marathon one should expound the wisdom one has learned. So thus, here is everything a few straight hours of Alan Ball taught me:
- Long haired girls with big breasts are cool and worth further exploration, even if they are a bit messed up (see previous entry)
- Buddhism can come off as a bit badass if you twist it to your means.
- "Late" is the best thing to say when leaving a situation.
- Straight people should take gay people more seriously but gay people should take themselves 1,000 times less seriously.
- Big actions often come at little consequence but, at the same time, little actions can have HUGE consequences.
- Douchebags are interesting
- Dont worry about understanding everyone all the time
- representing imagination as reality = totally awesome
- selfishness is super cool up to a point.
- Peter Gallagher always rocks
- there are really two types of people: pot-smoking, introspective worried guys and uptight gay guys. Everyone else kind of falls in between.
- Feel bad for ladies. They have it bad doing whatever they are doing.
- Eventually you usually sleep with everyone you know or at least everyone who wants to sleep with you
and the two most important facts
- There's no way to escape being pretentious as an artist. Its just intrinsic in art and you should accept it and have fun. It might suck a little but people expect it, so embrace it and go with the flow. Its fun to be pretentious anyway as long as you know you're doing it.
- Always smoke weed, drink and do drugs. Its the answer to everything. Honestly. everything. And there are no consequences.
For further reading see: http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2005/08/20/alan_ball/index_np.html
(dont worry there's a free pass if you watch an ad)
But now what will fill my viewing void? HBO-wise there's only Deadwood, which is badass sure but just not the same. Weeds is cute with the deaf blowjob girl and the nearly-racist portrayl of African Americans but a bit too sitcom and only a half hour. That leaves Huff and Rescue Me. Who do I like dealing with the intricate human mind better, Denis Leary or Hank Azaria?
Hmmm
Oh well, at least this got me to update my sidebar.
And to fill the void... girls going as wild as YOU want.
CAM
posted by Cam at 6:04 PM
2 Comments:
I would also suggest Entourage which I have been enjoying as of late.
I really enjoyed the finale as well. I've read that Salon article, and I really enjoyed it, but again it's all about Nate!
When you get back we can have an all Six Feet Under marathon until we get through all 5 seasons, or die...depending on how well the rest of training goes.
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