Posts Tagged ‘Mad Men’

BREAKING NEWS: Magic Alex is Actually Glen!

Hey, Guys! Remember when it was last year and Liz and I wrote a blog post called Mad Men, Season 4, with Special Guest Stars…The Beatles, and we decided that “Heaven’s like this place where you get to watch Mad Men all day, only it’s being acted out right before your very eyes, although not in a “live in front of a studio audience” sort of way. It’s all TV-dreamy and beautiful and there’s no Jon Hamm or Vincent Kartheiser but there are John Lennon and Paul McCartney – because the MAD MEN ARE BEATLES!”?

I do. I consider that blog post one of the greatest accomplishments of my entire life thus far, and now find it impossible to watch an episode of Mad Men without thinking about how Pete Campbell is actually Paul McCartney, which has really helped me come around to loving Pete Campbell in a way I never thought possible. Sure, maybe he’s a weaselly douchebag, but Paul McCartney’s schmaltzy and passive-aggressive, and, in life, sometimes you just have to suck it up and accept the ones you love for who they are.

Hindsight, of course, is always 20/20, and now I think Roger Sterling is Ringo Starr and Ken Cosgrove is Neil Aspinall rather than vice versa, but I’m over it. However, I am SO NOT OVER the fact that we mega-fucked up when we:

a) Forgot to include Glen in our list! (I fucking love Glen)
b) Claimed that Magic Alex is Ho Ho (the Jai Alai dude)

In conclusion, GLEN IS THE REAL MAGIC ALEX.

Right???!!!???? I feel so much better having cleared this up. Magic Alex is not Ho Ho, okay? He’s Glen.

PS: The other big Glen opinion I recently brainiacked up is that Betty Draper is attracted to Glen because she sees Don in him, which is fucking brilliant of me, and I really hope January Jones “used that.”

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Posted in BREAKING NEWS by Laura Jane on Sunday, April 24th, 2011 | No Comments »

Snapshot: Listening, Watching, Reading, Wearing, Wanting

+ Kat

Listening: My sweetest, bestest friend in the world is sending me all these old live Unwound shows and it’s just brilliant.
Watching: I am going to see Hanna this weekend and I am excited.
Reading: Lonely Werewolf Girl by Martin Millar. I think I’ve found another author to add to my Neil Gaiman/Francesca Lia Block/Angela Carter pantheon! It’s very British, and just so great all around. It’s like a madhouse of secondary characters, too, in the best way possible. I feel like British authors are really superb with teeming casts of secondary characters, going all the way back to Dickens. Although, Americans have Faulkner, I guess…
Wearing: I have all my fancy clothes again, so I’m wearing a United Bamboo dress because I missed it so. Everyone keeps asking me why I’m so dressed up. I keep saying “This isn’t dressed up, this is a convent dress.”
Wanting: I HAVE OFFICIALLY LEFT NEW YORK CITY FOR THE TIME BEING. WHO AM I? WHAT AM I? WHERE DO I LIVE?

Everyone’s going on in the comments at this video on how this was days after Kurt Cobain committed suicide:

+ Liz

Listening: Van Halen
Watching: Last night I emailed Laura a Friends clip called Joey – Noodlesoup and then she emailed me a Friends clip called Phoebe – Vikram. They’re both really good Friends clips.
Reading: Sweet Valley Confidential of course!
Wearing: bluejeans + Van Halen t-shirt + plaid flannel, which is a good way to sartorially acknowledge that I’m going through a major Van Halen thing and give a timely nod to the crispy Seattle weather
Wanting: I think it’s neat that this year April 8 falls on Friday, as it did in 1994. I don’t want anything. I really like that video where “twin boy babies argue”:

+ Laura Jane

Listening: Solex, Low Kick and Hard Bop, “Is This What I Get For Loving You?” by Marianne Faithfull
Watching: The entire series of Mad Men all over again from the beginning to kill some time while waiting for a new season of Mad Men to start.
Reading: The Best Lines From Gwyneth Paltrow’s Cookbook: clearly, the best line from Gwyneth Paltrow’s cookbook is “I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat—don’t ask, it’s a long story.”
Wearing: This red hooded jacket with pompom and crystal embellishments and corduroy puppies on the pockets, because it’s not like I’m twenty-five years old or anything
Wanting:NOTHING IN THE WORLD BECAUSE I MOVED INTO MY NEW APARTMENT AND IT’S AWESOME

“Have You No Shame, Girl?”= April Theme Song

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Posted in Snapshot by Laura Jane on Friday, April 8th, 2011 | 9 Comments »

Snapshot: Listening, Watching, Reading, Wearing, Wanting

+ Kat

Listening: The new Strokes record; old Pixies records. I prefer the Pixies.
Watching: FOX RENEWED “FRINGE”! So I am watching that tonight.
Reading: I started Blake Nelson’s Recovery Road and I LIKE IT A LOT.
Wearing: I am still in my PJs; I’ve been up since 5:30AM.
Wanting: I want you to read my new short story! It is like a slight satire on “Sex and the City”-style chick lit, but someone so eternal that it borders on cliche wandered into it. According to Figment, it should take approximately 13 minutes to read. Below would be the cover image, if it was a book:

+ Liz

Listening: All I do is listen to “How You Like Me Now?” by the Heavy and pretend I’m walkin’ all around town with my big brother Christian Bale in the midst of a gloriously sunny Massachusetts morn.
Watching: Friends With Money; I’m on a Nicole Holofcener kick. Jennifer Aniston’s delivery of the line “I love Old Navy!” is probably my favorite moment in all of cinematic history.
Reading: rereading Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison
Wearing: black jeans + white tshirt + faux leopard fur coat + black Frye boots + BIG HAIR
Wanting: I’m going to see Dom tomorrow and I want you to come see them too!

Drag about Mad Men, huh?

+ Laura Jane

Listening: All night every night I stay up all night working and listening to Space Oddity by David Bowie over and over again. Sometimes also Village Green, and the Wu-Tang/Beatles mash-up, which truly is a gift from God
Watching: God that bitch named Alexandria from Top Model truly is a giant bitch, isn’t she?
Reading:
Wearing: Last night I realized my Midnight Marauders t-shirt is glow-in-the-dark! So next time I am sad or grumpy or having an emotional breakdown, just remind me that I own a glow-in-the-dark Midnight Marauders t-shirt, and maybe I will care. It’s hard not to typo “Marauders” as “Mauraders,” which I think is a side effect of having the name “Laura”
Wanting: Jersey Shore & daylong nap

In the future, when people ask me what’s my favourite David Bowie song, I’ll tell them “Cygnet Committee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

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Posted in Snapshot by Liz on Friday, March 25th, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Reader Giveaway: An Illustrated “Mad Men” Book!

Don’t you miss “Mad Men”? I do. Now television is just an empty morass of “Hoarders” marathons and “Jersey Shore,” full of the world’s ugliness, pain and misery. Wait, what am I talking about? “Mad Men” clearly had its share of pain and misery, but they were so stylish about it that it almost didn’t matter, ugliness be damned! To whet your appetite till the show starts back up (which may apparently be awhile — its contract with AMC is up and they are negotiating, which could take awhile), I have a copy of Mad Men: The Illustrated World by Dyna Moe to give away, done by the illustrator who does those nifty “Mad Men Me” screensavers and avatars that everyone loves at the beginning of the season. Anyway, if you want to win a copy of the book, you have to play our Fuck/Kill/Marry “Mad Men” game. Tell us who you’d fuck/kill/marry on “Mad Men” in the comments here or in Facebook and you’ll be entered in the drawing. YOU HAVE TILL SUNDAY NIGHT, OKAY?

The book is full of fun trivia about the times, daffy recipes featuring lots of iceberg lettuce, instructions on getting the latest beehive hairstyle happening, a paper doll set of Joan, how to write a folk song, and other fun miscellany. And of course, more drawings like these, including my favorite scene, where Pete and Trudy do the “Charleston” at what I call the “racist barbeque” episode (I know it’s not a barbeque per se, but it’s kind of fun to say “racist barbeque”):

Here is Betty Draper and Don in Italy. I feel like Don’s not really Don-like in these drawings (his brows need to be more furrowed and he needs to say “WHAT?” more). But still very La Dolce Vita:

Here is an obligatory book cover scan. Oh, Joan and her accordion! Instant love.

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Posted in Contests and Promotions by Kat on Tuesday, January 25th, 2011 | 21 Comments »

Snapshot: Listening, Watching, Reading, Wearing, Wanting

+ Kat

Listening: Antony and the Johnsons, Swanlights (beautiful); still Suicidal Tendencies and 80s skate rat music; I took an hour-long walk at 7AM to the first record of Have One On Me; the new Warpaint!
Watching: Man, I do not really watch movies lately, I’m just hemorrhaging words all over the place and time. But I did catch up with “Fringe.” And I’m going to see Deerhunter today! YAYNESS.
Reading: Believe or not, I had to read Taming of the Shrew this week for a script I may collabo on.
Wearing: A Uniqlo J+ black cardigan (cashmere, yum), a Metallica t-shirt, jeans, big scarf.
Wanting: Please let me just get through October and November in one piece. Also, a permanent air flight ticket to anywhere I want all the time.

Listen to the new Warpaint:

+ Liz

Listening: “My Love” by Justin Timberlake. And I saw LCD Soundsystem last weekend and they were GRAND.
Watching: the “Buh Buh Buh Buh Buh” scene from Overboard
Reading: lotsa Mad Men commentary, including “Why do the Mad Men Writers Make Betty Draper Such a Monster?” by Emily Nussbaum. Also the Chuck Klosterman essay where he talks about how .38 Special named one of their records Tour De Force and asks the question: “Do you think they were serious about this? I mean, do you think they were sitting in the studio, working on tunes like ‘If I’d Been the One,’ and they eventually just looked each other in the eyes and said, ‘This is it. This is our Tour de Force.’?” Such a good question. And funny!
Wearing: black jeans + marbley grey t-shirt that says RIVERDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE + cowboy boots
Wanting: BAT DOTS BAT DOTS BAT DOTS!!!!!

OH I LOVE THE PART FROM 1:30 – 1:33!!!!!

+ Laura Jane

Listening: “Not Guilty” by the Beatles & “Monkey Man” by the Rolling Stones
Watching: Don Draper’s dopey, schmaltzy grin gazing over at Jessica Pare’s cheekbonesy annoyingness in the Mad Men season finale. That grin is the greatest piece of acting I’ve ever seen. Way to nail exactly what dudes always look like when they’re all soppily in love with you in bed, Jon Hamm
Reading: You Never Give Me Your Money by Peter Doggett, which is SO GOOD and hella worth reading if you’re the kind of person who enjoys reading books about the Beatles. So far, my favourite part is when John Lennon writes Paul McCartney a letter saying “Shit from the inside, Baby!” All I want to do for the rest of my life is walk around #Kanyeshrugging and saying “Shit from the inside, Baby!” at the same time. That’s me!
Wearing: Drapey black sweater, grey t-shirt, slouchy rolled-up white jeans, no socks, grey old man lace-ups
Wanting: Well, I just said that all I ever want to do is walking around #Kanyeshrugging and saying “Shit from the inside, Baby!” so I guess I’ll just stick with that. Shit from the inside, Baby! #Kanyeshrug

RIP ARI UP:

PS: Her spinning around on one foot dance move from 0:26 to 0:37 is totally a more boisterous take on my SIGNATURE DANCE MOVE! Seriously, ask anyone who’s ever met me. I feel very connected to Ari Up right now because of this.

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Posted in Snapshot by Kat, Liz & Laura Jane on Friday, October 22nd, 2010 | 11 Comments »

Are Joan & Peggy Going To Start A Band?

Probably not! But it felt that way for a second, in their one scene together in the Mad Men season finale. Which is a halfway decent excuse for me to segue into this clip from a 1992 episode of House of Style, in which Cindy Crawford turns us on to the wild notion of Women In Bands. My favorite part’s Salt-n-Pepa, and when Lady Miss Kier says her number-one style inspiration is “cartoons on the back of cereal boxes,” and when Donita Sparks says she likes to go for “the hag look.” Also, I think it’s totally possible that “Vibeology” by Paula Abdul would kinda hold up today. You know?

P.S. The Joan screenshot was ganked from Bunnyshop, whose weekly Mad Men Fashion Spectaculars I will totes miss the hell out of till next season.

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