hot pants college II

"And FX’s web division could perhaps pair it with “Wynn Duffy Reacts to Surprising Things,” because Jere Burns’ quizzical expression will never not be entertaining."

"AVC: Cuomo once said that to write this song, he took one Ritalin, three shots of tequila, sat in a chair in his backyard, and closed his eyes until he imagined the song.
BF: Yeah, he should not do that ever again."

"If MacFarlane had sung “Shipoopi” all night, I’d be writing a really different story right now. Instead, there were jokes about how Rex Reed would probably call Adele fat — because that’s what’s important about her — and how someday Quvenzhané Wallis will be old enough to date George Clooney — because that’s what’s important about her — and how sometimes, gasp, a woman might have body hair — because that’s what’s important about them. Women are nags, and Jews run Hollywood! Thank you, Seth MacFarlane, for this cutting-edge humor. Like Mark Wahlberg said, the party’s at Jack Nicholson’s house. You remember, that place where Roman Polanski drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl. Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha."

"Anne Hathaway’s speech ran longer than either of the winners who got “Jaws”ed earlier in the evening, which isn’t a knock on her but on the obnoxiousness of the system. When I mentioned this on Twitter, several people suggested that an actor would never get played off the stage, when it’s happened frequently — including in this very category a year ago, when Octavia Spencer didn’t get to finish her speech, either. Maybe if you cut the monologue a bit and keep it down to a single “Chicago” tribute, the “Jaws” music becomes less essential, eh?"

"Lynch was stylishly rumpled. His frame was lean and his hair was pomaded loosely into a mature faux-hawk. He wore faded khaki pants that bloused over a worn leather belt. In the breast pocket of his white dress shirt, a pack of American Spirit cigarettes was at the ready. Lynch is a notorious creature of habit: he spent seven years drinking the same chocolate milkshake at the same time every day from Bob’s Big Boy in L.A., because he thought it affected his creative process; and part of his persona is his uniform approach to dress. That day, a yellow watch gave a flash of color."

"But, also, who cares if this is self-indulgent? Because, honestly, it absolutely is. The whole show is self-indulgence. The very idea that we would find any of this interesting absolutely reeks of self-indulgence, but so does the idea any artist has when they present a story or sonata or sculpture to us. The act of making art is the act of saying, “Hey, I made something, and you should pay attention to it.” That’s enormously self-indulgent. And, yeah, I hear you saying that Dunham doesn’t just write and direct, but also stars, and that’s somehow even worse, but you know what? So does Louis C.K., and so does Larry David. Self-indulgence is part and parcel of the Girls experience, and so long as the show doesn’t turn into Hannah moving in with strange 40-year-olds on a weekly basis, then I’m fine with it"

"I don’t know about you guys, but the photos don’t look “unflattering” to me—they look like an epic badass doing the fuck out of her job. But you know. Bygones."

"4—Ok so yes, I’m basically just saying: hold the reading in a bar."

"There follows a program of renewed inquiry, often involuntary, into the nature and effects of mortality, entropy, heartbreak, violence, failure, cowardice, duplicity, cruelty, and grief; the researcher learns their histories, and their bitter lessons, by heart. Along the way, he or she discovers that the world has been broken for as long as anyone can remember, and struggles to reconcile this fact with the ache of cosmic nostalgia that arises, from time to time, in the researcher’s heart: an intimation of vanished glory, of lost wholeness, a memory of the world unbroken. We call the moment at which this ache first arises “adolescence.” The feeling haunts people all their lives."

"The ability to safely handle and use a gun in a lawful manner is a perishable skill,” he says. “If you don’t practice on a regular basis, psychologically, physiologically, you will likely not respond properly."