// ' * , ` ' . __________ almost PARADISE

Friday, August 30, 2013

nice to see the giants play like champs again. pablo!

http://litreactor.com/essays/36-writing-essays-by-chuck-palahniuk http://sdsu-dspace.calstate.edu/bitstream/handle/10211.10/1059/Cretton_Destin.pdf?sequence=1 andrew lanham http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captured/review-brie-larson-and-john-gallagher-jr-shine-in-emotionally-powerful-short-term-12 http://badassdigest.com/2013/03/16/sxsw-review-why-short-term-12-is-a-masterpiece/ http://www.hd-trailers.net/movie/short-term-12/

http://www.majesticathletic.com/Brandon-Belt-San-Francisco-Giants-Womens-MLB-Replica-Jersey-_2061805782_PD.html http://www.majesticathletic.com/Brandon-Belt-San-Francisco-Giants-Majestic-Road-Alternate-Grey-Replica-Jersey-_-667077565_PD.html

Monday, August 26, 2013

bob's burgers / archer, here i come

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/07/tv-fact-checkers-breaking-bad/ http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/07/the-uncannily-accurate-depiction-of-the-meth-trade-in-breaking-bad.html https://www.google.com/search?q=speakeasy+paul+f+tompkins+ty+burrell&oq=speakeasy+paul+f+tompkins+ty+burrell&aqs=chrome.0.69i57j69i62l3.4876j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=daniel+dennet+ted+talk&oq=daniel+dennet+ted+talk&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l3j69i64.3717j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

how can i be eating more and pooing less? two days. :( longer than probably the last two years update: a day and a half AWW YEAH

Saturday, August 24, 2013

http://gravityfalls.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Transcripts http://phineasandferb.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Transcripts http://video.disney.com/watch/disneychannel-little-dipper-4cb9b657812a2022021fd486

Friday, August 23, 2013

orange is the new black 101

Hi. Is it okay if I sit here? Sure, newbie. I'm Jones. Chapman. You doin' okay, Chapman? You know, I don't really know how to answer that question. Everything's pretty surreal right now. Do you know what a mandala is? Um... those are those round Buddhist art things. The Tibetan monks make them out of dyed sand laid out into big, beautiful designs. And when they're done, after days or weeks of work, they wipe it all away. Wow. That's-- That's a lot. Try to look at your experience here as a mandala, Chapman. Work hard to make something as meaningful and beautiful as you can. And when you're done, pack it in and know it was all temporary. You have to remember that. It's all temporary. It's all temporary. I'm telling you, surviving here is all about perspective.

Thursday, August 22, 2013

nwp - mad men season 5

Marie (53:00): "Well, there's a lot of things that we look for. A good sample is really important, I don't want to discount that. But a sample, in our opinion, isn't really a good sample in everyone's opinion. To us, it has to be a well-written script that has to say something unusual that we haven't read before. We look for a certain level of feeling and emotion in the storytelling that's deeper than just, 'Well, I set up this problem here, and it's something everyone can relate to and we're going to solve it this way at the end.' We definitely look for people that have an interesting background. You know, when you're putting together a room you want different voices and you want people to bring their personal stories. At least on this show - actually all of the shows we've worked on, including "Star Trek" - you want people who-- you know, the story comes out of the writer's individual experience. It's 'write what you know.' So we always look for someone who's got a background that's different than the other writers on the show, someone who might have a different point of view, you know, someone who's not afraid to talk about the dirty secrets in their closet, or what hurts them, or what keeps them up at night." Andre: "Someone who's broken." "Yeah. (laughs) Andre always says that writers are the most damaged people, (54:07) and, you know, there's a fine line because you don't want someone who is so damaged that they can't function in a group. Because a big part of it is playing well with others. But we always look for people that, you know--" Matt: "And writing is more important than being broken. The intersection of those two things, you know - all the samples come from broken people, but only some of them can write." Marie: Right. Exactly. Andre: And only some of them can actually be in a room, and be adults in that room, and that's a very important quality. (54:40) ----- Matt (56:03): What I always resent is this sort of ivory tower proclamation-- depiction of us. All of the stuff that I stand up for - all the battles I have fought with the network and the studio, and won, were all about making the show more popular and more financially successful. And I've been right on a lot of them. And I didn't invent them. I was literally, like-- I remember saying to AMC "I've been in TV longer than you have, and this is the way HBO did it - I'm positive. This is what David Chase did. And keeping it a secret - not telling people that Don was married when we were promoting the pilot was going to mean that anybody who saw the pilot would go and tell people "Oh my God, I saw this amazing story." So, those are totally counterintuitive things, but I was on the Sopranos - I saw, like-- it takes a long time, but people really, really start to have a cult-like interest in it. And use yourself - don't try to second-guess the world. But rather than even talking about that... I think it's - Creative people, whether they like it or not, use their lives in their work. There's nowhere else to go. One of the great things about having 13 interesting people in there is that we've got 13 interesting lives. And we believe in the specific. So - the specific nature of, like, can I turn my experience with creating a TV show - can I turn my experience of being a staff writer into something that happens in the ad agency? Yeah. I mean, that's why I picked it. I've never worked in advertising, my father is a neuroscientist, I'm from Hancock Park, I'm Jewish - I mean, there's nothing that intersects with this show. And so what is great - and probably mysterious and intimidating to people on the outside - is that this is all made up. And the great thing about is that you're looking at our finished work, and it's a very arduous process that involves getting rid of a lot of crappy stuff. And you're hopefully seeing the best of what we have." (58:27)

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/07/29/130729fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all

To create new norms, you have to understand people’s existing norms and barriers to change. You have to understand what’s getting in their way.

my cousin's place has a gorgeous rooftop view and a whole lot of security. i just realized this is because he thinks we're gonna be attacked from above and below

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

bcraw35 is great too

http://brandon.mlblogs.com/2013/08/21/back-to-school-part-2/

chicken and rice! chicken and rice!

http://brandon.mlblogs.com/2013/08/20/the-back-to-school-edition/

I was really nervous about going into college and into the real world. I had it in my mind that there would be so much work and so much stuff I might not be able to do. That scared me to death. I wish I knew that what seems scary now is going to be your normal later on. You’re going to learn how to do what you need to do and it will just become second nature. If I had known that, I probably would have gone to a four-year university right out of high school instead of going to junior college first. I found out the main thing about college is going to class. If you go to class and just do the work, you’re going to be fine. It’s the uncertainty that scares people.​

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

"make it count"

http://bronlea.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/one-little-word-that-radically-changed-my-prayers/

Monday, August 19, 2013

first paid gig!

Thursday, August 15, 2013

community 412

you were out there somewhere and you weren't looking for me ??

today i kinda had the chance to watch my own contribution live

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

hyperventilate

casey wilson favorited my tweet

Saturday, August 10, 2013

here i go again on my own

Friday, August 09, 2013

darn i missed the time

but i was born at 11:05

Thursday, August 08, 2013

IM BUSTER POSEY

also, db

Wednesday, August 07, 2013

conan!

Sunday, August 04, 2013

hamlet the mini pig goes down the stairs. :(

Friday, August 02, 2013

oh boy mad men 609

"she doesn't know that loving you is the worst way to get to you." ughh http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/review-mad-men-the-better-half-climb-every-mountain