Friday, September 26, 2014
Monday, September 22, 2014
Saturday, September 20, 2014
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/404078#5054240
Like Will Wright's Macaroons
1 (7 ounce) tube almond paste
3/4 cup sugar
2 egg whites, lightly beaten
1 tablespoon flour
Combine almond paste and sugar. Add lightly beaton egg whites until
mixture is smooth and not runny. Mix in flour until well mixed.
Drop batter by teaspoons (or less for smaller cookies) onto greased
and floured foil lined baking sheet. Bake at 325 degrees 15 minutes
(10 to 12 minutes for smaller cookies). Cool slightly before
removing. Makes 2 dozen cookies.
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
about time!
why NOT write a romantic comedy about fathers and sons? wow.
at the very least, it's a plug for having kids
Monday, September 15, 2014
everywhere
http://elitedaily.com/news/world/cardboard-star-meet-millennial-homeless-man-survives-picking-women-every-night-week-video/754950/
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/the-forsaken-a-rising-number-of-homeless-gay-teens-are-being-cast-out-by-religious-families-20140903
http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/zilla-van-den-born-faked-asia-trip-on-facebook-while-still-in-her-amsterdam-flat/story-fnjwnhzf-1227056360228
In the show you guys say you first met in 2007 and have been inseparable best friends ever since. When you first met did you instantly know you would also be comedy partners? Mamrie: Tell em Stevie! Steve: I’m not sure we still know if we'll be comedy partners! We met in a writing class, and I remember it was the first day and another student had just presented their sketch and the class was giving notes on it. As I was about to say something, Mamrie chirped in with her opinion and it was the same exact thing I was going to say. In that moment I thought, "Do I like her or do I hate her?" And then after class she was the first one to agree to get drinks so it was kind of fated.http://www.theapiary.org/the-apiary/2011/3/31/inside-with-steve-soroka-mamrie-hart-of-bf.html
–]HRS87 2 points 1 year ago You mentioned that you liked being limited, is this part or being creative with what you have or does having too many options just make things complicated? permalink [–]davidreespencil[S] 3 points 1 year ago I get overwhelmed if I have too many options. When I make stuff, I like to work with pretty severe limitations, or within a certain set of rules I've established, like: "Make a parody of a women's cartoon using geometric shapes with no jokes that still makes you laugh." THAT'S A GOOD RULE RIGHT THEREhttp://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/13q4qw/i_am_david_rees_founder_of_artisanal_pencil/
That seems to be one of the most consistently funny, recurring character duets. It doesn't get boring and always seems different. Yeah, we try to keep it...that's us, that's our doing. We think about it for a while, you know? We take great joy in trying to come up with a scenario and also the title card at the beginning. "You look like a rabbit" that was a line she threw in that I was not that in to. I thought, "What does that even mean?" and then, she went to go type up the scene and stuck it back in there. And Lutz, who helps us with those every now and then, he liked it. I was like "You know, let's keep it in" at that point, I was like - that's my initial thing, it's one of those nice things coming from a sports background, a team background, where I truly believe that other people can, whether you want to or not, allow you to bring things out of yourself you didn't know were there. It's one of the nice things about a Kristen Wiig, a Sally Shipley or a Lorne Michaels, or a Mick Napier. They see things in you that you don't see in yourself. Sometimes they go different ways to get it out of you, but when it comes out, you're usually, for the most part, thankful. So, Kristen going back and adding that particular line into the scene reminded you of how great it is to work with a team, despite your not understanding it initially? Yeah, she's the real deal. Those characters, I think it's a 50/50 split by all means.http://www.theapiary.org/the-apiary/2007/12/7/jason-sudeikis-the-ultimate-interview-part-5-what-lies-behin.html
When you write something within that building, does it automatically become the property of NBC? I think so. You've gotta get rid of it. I mean, The Beatles, they wrote so many good songs, and I'm not saying we're The Beatles, but you gotta be able to kill your babies, edit things. The lesson I needed to learn that, believe it or not, I didn't learn during my improv background, was create it and destroy it. Let it exist. You can't try to aim, you just can't. If you try to aim, like I said earlier, it just comes off like you're aiming. You just want to make it. Make what you think is funny and if people respond to it, they respond to it. There's no trick to it. I'd seen David Mamet give a talk at the Goodman Theater in 1998. Me and my buddy Ed Goodman, no relation, went to the theater to watch him speak. People were asking all of these questions, all of these DePaul and Northwestern kids, asking about the plays and whatnot. Then, he sort of hit his breaking point, not in an aggressive way, but in just a sort of matter-of-fact way, Simon Cowell-style. Straight shooting. A student asked, "I wanna be a playwright, do you have any advice?" and he's just like "Look, write your play, get your friends to be in it, find some place to do it. That's all I can tell you. That's all I did."
http://everydayfeminism.com/2014/09/thats-not-who-i-am/
reading this helped me realize i'm partially resistant to watching old movies because they make me flinch: i never know when an attack on someone that looks like me will come.
also: http://hyphenmagazine.com/blog/archive/2014/08/artists-play-creating-space-aapi-performers-and-playwrights
Sunday, September 14, 2014
http://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/rachael-vs-guy-kids-cook-off/rachael-vs-guy-kids-cook-off-video-gallery.37f3ad65-aac4-45cb-9f91-b47521ae41d8.0211544.html
The moment, easily the movie’s funniest, perfectly captures the seesaw nature of sibling relationships—the way an invitation to play can instantly resolve a quarrel. It also mirrors how this seriocomic festival favorite deflects criticism, its leads working hard to win folks over. Like Maggie, audiences may be powerless to resist.http://www.avclub.com/review/kristen-wiig-and-bill-hader-elevate-indie-cliches--208830
Friday, September 12, 2014
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
Sunday, September 07, 2014
today in america!, i found thesweethome - a website i now live by: buying practical things out of my price range (ie a fan they use in like air force cockpits) because a website i did not know existed until early this morning said so.
Friday, September 05, 2014
Tuesday, September 02, 2014
Monday, September 01, 2014
in a movie there's one key scene. it may be three minutes. everything builds up to that and everything leads off of that scene. // bing russell kept a diverse group of people around him because he never knew who would have that magic idea
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he kept people on the team who had no business being there.
what he did was he personalized the team where if you couldn't find one person you identified with, you had no business being there.