Not the same event, mind you. That would be bizarre, but I'd probably go.
In case you haven't heard, Louis C.K. is doing two stand-up sets at the Bell House this Friday (9.30). I'm still not sure how much tickets are, but the Bell House is a relatively small venue for a non-comedy club, and it should be great. The sets are at 7p and 9p, and tickets for both go on sale the day of (Friday) at 10a, with a max of 2 tickets/order. These are going to go fast, so stand by your computer at the appropriate time.
The other event you're going to want to plan ahead for takes place at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria on Sunday, 10.23 at 2p. As a special event in conjunction with the Museum's Jim Henson exhibit (on through January '12), Frank Oz will be interviewed by the president of The Jim Henson Legacy. Clips from Oz's performances and films will also be screened. Tickets are $30/$25 for members/free for Silver Screen members, and go on sale Friday 9.30 at 11a.
In The New Yorker, Mindy Kaling professes her love for romantic comedies:
"I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world. For me, there is no difference between Ripley from “Alien” and any Katherine Heigl character. They are equally implausible. They’re all participating in a similar level of fakey razzle-dazzle, and I enjoy every second of it."
That's the best argument I've heard in favor of romantic comedies, although it doesn't change how painful watching How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days was. Kaling then proceeds to take down all the rom-com stock characters, from The Ethereal Weirdo (aka Manic Pixie Dream Girl) to The Woman Who Works in an Art Gallery. Read the rest of "Flick Chicks."
I am so glad Season 4 of Parks & Recreation finally started. Hitfix [via Splitsider] has an interview (spoilers, duh) with showrunner Michael Schur about the thought process around the Leslie-Ben situation [sigh].
"He gave me an eclair, Ann!"
[Somewhere someone is already writing slash fan-fic in which "giving an eclair" is an unspeakably dirty act].
As an aside, Community also premiered last night, replete with a musical opening number about how they're going to "be less weird than the first two years combined!"
Brought to my attention by my friend Marcy (blog plug) is Details magazine's "The Ultimate Oral History of Wet Hot American Summer." It's a lot of everyone calling each other "so funny" and Ken Marino having some strong opinions about his character's look. Also, they LIVED AT THE CAMP while filming. I would have loved meals in that mess hall.
KEN MARINO: The crew stayed in one bunk area for kids, and all of us [in the cast] stayed in the nurse's quarters—basically the room Janeane and Joe destroy looking for the phone.
PAUL RUDD: Janeane Garofalo's room had a bidet, which we all thought was super-weird and really funny, and we were always making bidet jokes throughout the shoot. We were watching Showalter do the old Catskills Alan Shemper character [at the talent show]. After the song "Day by Day," and he just went, "Day, Bidet," which is a funny joke in and of itself. But we'd all been joking about bidets and using "bidet" wherever we could. So that one had us all in hysterics, because it was working on many levels, one of which no one would ever get but us.
WAIT OH MY GOD THAT'S ACTUALLY WHY.
JANEANE GAROFALO: I never watch any of the other stuff I do, but I will watch that movie any time. It's like looking at photos of a wonderful time in your life. I was always assuming people would get the same kick out of it. Then I realized, "Oh, you can't expect people to understand how fun it was.
Awww.
Details also has the "Complete Oral History of Party Down," so, you know, if you're still wasting time (9 whole pages!).
Over at The Hairpin, they're drooling over food that have appeared in books and movies. Turkish delight (from The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe) is the first thing that pops into my mind, although in fairness, most of that may have to do with having watched the creepy animated movie as a child, and less from reading the book. Other mentions include the edible teacup from Willy Wonka, "the cake that Fauna makes" in Sleeping Beauty, and the medicine in Mary Poppins (the movie). And this:
Katie: “The Gray Stuff” - Beauty & the Beast
I know Lumiere says it’s “delicious” but also, it’s gray. What is it? It looks like a pile of some kind of whipped cream on top of a cracker, but GRAY. Belle sticks a finger in it (rude) and looks upward like she’s contemplating the taste, but I can’t tell if she thinks it’s great or not. It is, however, one of just three bites she takes at that entire feast (the others being a cherry and another rude finger full of some ... brown stuff) so maybe she saw it and was like “OMFG I LOVE the gray stuff.” Who knows! (I need to.)
What else? Pretty much everything in Harry Potter. Also, maybe this is weird, but I really wanted to try watercress sandwiches after reading E.B. White's Trumpet of the Swan.
