Muser of Politics, Film, and Music

Long posts from a culture junkie

"Here's how my brain works: it's stupidity, followed by self-hatred, and then further analysis."---Louis C.K.

@fauxbeatpoet on twitter

I’m one of those people who lives in constant fear of being found out as not any good. Whenever I’m writing anything I’m just thinking “This is fucking shit, any minute now someone’s gonna come and slap this computer out of my hands.” And every week without fail, if I write a column, every week without fail I finish it and I go and I’ll turn around to my wife and she’ll go “How was that?” and I go “Just fucking shit, I’ve just written the worst piece of fucking shit anyone’s ever written, I’m such a cunt.” And then it’ll come out and people seem to think it’s okay, and so then I just think people are fucking idiots.

—

Charlie Brooker. This must be the most relatable thing I’ve ever heard about writing. (via jakec)

Sounds familiar. 

(via markrichardson)

Marc Maron

I’m getting to that age where there’s no way to look at any picture of yourself from more than 20 years ago without a tinge of melancholy, without a tinge of sadness. Like, “Look at that guy! He was so lost, and so wanting to be found; smoking a cigarette acting like he’s somebody else. Look at that poor kid. How can I help him?” Is there any way I can reach back into this picture and tell him, “Dude, quit being so hard on yourself. You’re not going to figure anything out for another 25 fucking years, you dumb little shit. So quit trying so hard.”

God, if I could only reach into pictures.

—-Marc Maron, WTF With Marc Maron

Dan Harmon Poops: HEY, DID I MISS ANYTHING?

danharmon:

Kids:

A few hours ago, I landed in Los Angeles, turned on my phone, and confirmed what you already know. Sony Pictures Television is replacing me as showrunner on Community, with two seasoned fellows that I’m sure are quite nice - actually, I have it on good authority they’re quite nice, because…

Quite honestly, if this isn’t the darkest motherfucking timeline, I don’t know what is. I honestly don’t.

“Then we could be dancing

No more missing you while I’m gone

There we could be dancing

And you’d smile and say, ‘I like this song’

And when our eyes will meet there

We will recognize nothing’s wrong

And I wouldn’t feel so selfish

I won’t be this way very long.”

(Source: Spotify)

“We’re gonna get more calm and normal

We’re gonna fix our state of mind

We’re gonna be more happy

We’re gonna finally be fine.

….

We’re gonna have more fun and be less weird than the first two years combined.

And we’re gonna live forever…”

(via katnyss)

Okay, so it isn’t the music or all the rhymes that translate beyond the scene of the crime. What, then? Probably just that the Beasties didn’t give a fuck— AND AMERICA DESPERATELY NEEDED TO BE SHOWN HOW NOT TO GIVE A FUCK. And it sort of still does. [They] demonstrated that you could be “groundbreaking” and “important,” and still have no goals beyond getting drunk before 6th period. Think about that. It meant that you could live life as one giant inside joke, speaking in tongues and making hilarious references to Chef Boyardee with no one outside your circle of jerks the wiser. Sorry ma, forgot to take out the trash, but that’s okay because I drink Brass Monkey and I rock well. “What?” “Nothing.”—-Dominique Leon

Okay, so it isn’t the music or all the rhymes that translate beyond the scene of the crime. What, then? Probably just that the Beasties didn’t give a fuck— AND AMERICA DESPERATELY NEEDED TO BE SHOWN HOW NOT TO GIVE A FUCK. And it sort of still does. [They] demonstrated that you could be “groundbreaking” and “important,” and still have no goals beyond getting drunk before 6th period. Think about that. It meant that you could live life as one giant inside joke, speaking in tongues and making hilarious references to Chef Boyardee with no one outside your circle of jerks the wiser. Sorry ma, forgot to take out the trash, but that’s okay because I drink Brass Monkey and I rock well. “What?” “Nothing.”—-Dominique Leon

(Source: coredog)

“The people you work with are people you were just throw together with. You know, you don’t know them, it wasn’t your choice, and yet you spend more time with them then you do your friends or your family. But probably all you’ve got in common is the fact that you walk around on the same bit of carpet for 8 hours a day. And so, obviously, when someone comes in who you… you have a connection with… yeah. And Dawn was a ray of sunshine in my life and it meant a lot. But, if I’m really being honest I never really thought it would have a happy ending. I don’t know what a happy ending is. Life isn’t about endings, is it? It’s a series of moments. And umm… it’s not if, you know, if you turn the camera off it’s not an ending, is it. I’m still here, my life’s not over. Come back, come back here in 10 years, see how I’m doing then. Cause I could be married with kids, you don’t know. Life just goes on.”—-Tim Canterbury, The Office, “Christmas Special”  There is only one The Office

“The people you work with are people you were just throw together with. You know, you don’t know them, it wasn’t your choice, and yet you spend more time with them then you do your friends or your family. But probably all you’ve got in common is the fact that you walk around on the same bit of carpet for 8 hours a day. And so, obviously, when someone comes in who you… you have a connection with… yeah. And Dawn was a ray of sunshine in my life and it meant a lot. But, if I’m really being honest I never really thought it would have a happy ending. I don’t know what a happy ending is. Life isn’t about endings, is it? It’s a series of moments. And umm… it’s not if, you know, if you turn the camera off it’s not an ending, is it. I’m still here, my life’s not over. Come back, come back here in 10 years, see how I’m doing then. Cause I could be married with kids, you don’t know. Life just goes on.”—-Tim Canterbury, The Office, “Christmas Special” 

There is only one The Office

(Source: nenachina)

“In life you have to do a lot of things you don’t fucking want to do. Many times, that’s what the fuck life is… one vile fucking task after another. Don’t get aggravated. Then the enemy has you by the short hairs. … There’s nothin’ to be afraid of. Everything changes. Don’t be afraid.” – Al Swearengen

“In life you have to do a lot of things you don’t fucking want to do. Many times, that’s what the fuck life is… one vile fucking task after another. Don’t get aggravated. Then the enemy has you by the short hairs. … There’s nothin’ to be afraid of. Everything changes. Don’t be afraid.” – Al Swearengen

(via mericanmade)

There’s nothing wrong with being happy. There’s nothing wrong with enjoying something so much that it strips away all that irony and cynicism. And there’s nothing wrong with loving anything so much that it feels like it could pull your heart out of your chest and toss it on the floor. We build ourselves up to not do that, and then we build up the armor so thickly that we have trouble finding what’s underneath. We use that as an excuse to lash out at people who do feel stuff, who do like things (and I am, of course, mostly saying this about myself). It’s hard sometimes to remember that the world isn’t a place to glide through, so nothing can touch you. It’s a place to be experienced.

—

—-Todd VanDerWerff, “Regional Holiday Music”Review

Words to live by

(Source: lucy-vanpelt, via crisisalert)