There’s something really compelling about being a fly on the wall watching creators - particularly ones that know each other to varying degrees- talk shop over a couple of drinks.

Pre-rolls?!? Don’t get me wrong, there are some great quality pre-rolls out there, but that is such a lazy gift. There’s no personality or sentimentality to it!

Let’s be real here, it wasn’t a good bong. If Xan really held Billy to his heart he would’ve bought something more upscale, of better quality. A person who loves you doesn't give you presents like that one.

Haha. Futurama too had an Oz episode, where they tell Leela (who’s Dorothy here), “Now click your big, honking boots together three times and wish to go home to Kansas, to live in poverty with your dirt-farming, teetotalling aunt and uncle.”

It’s like, when she’s making her famous speech about not looking further than her own backyard and you’re all “girl, that back yard is bare dirt with a few sticks of trees and full of dead pet bones that whisper to Toto in the night. What is so fabulous here that you ditched Oz, again?”

Holy Hell, I hadn’t heard about that so I looked it up, he beat up some waiter who talked smack? And the guy didn’t want to pursue the matter?

Seriously. Their artistry is their singing ability and their talent for phrasing. Song writing is a whole different area of expertise, some can do both, some can’t, it doesn’t make the signers that don’t write any less talented at the part they do.  

You’re right, I shouldn’t have used one example, and could have either come up with more (like gk2829 does below) or simply been clearer about my point: she isn’t unique in writing characters such as this, and to speak as though she is does a disservice to writers who have attempted to do this and also shows a lack of…

“I thought about Sienna Torres and her shoving her hand into my wide-open c— about as wide as a mouth saying m—-f—-,’ ” she recites. “That’s not something people would be comfortable hearing,”

I think I spent too long thinking that if more movies featuring POC did well, then Hollywood would make more of those movies. I don’t think that’s true anymore. The racism is pernicious out there. I always thought it was a money game, but I’m not sure it is. I know a lot of Hollywood is incredibly liberal, but clearly …

“they are ignoring all the female romance novelists out there" Of course they are,even among some of my wokest friends there is still a stigma around romance novels, especially written by women. All of Nicholas Sparks' books get made into movies, but not every Danielle Steele novel does.

Agreed. I thought she was good in Winter’s Bone, but I haven’t seen her in a single film since where her performance stood out to the point where I thought, “I can’t imagine any other actress in this role.” I find her performances very generic.

Exactly. It’s basically this: *female artist* “Women are not allowed to express themselves, but I don’t care! I’m fearless!”

I realize many find Jennifer Lawrence compelling, but she's never the most interesting person onscreen in anything I've seen her in. 

I completely agree. Interviews like this one makes me realize if she had gone to college (not necessary of course) or at least read widely and studied more she would understand this....... You are absolutely right about independent theater in this regard. But I would even go further - any women artists in addition to…

I’m happy for her that working on such a project makes her feel fulfilled and like she’s making a positive change for representations of women’s sexuality. However, she’s absolutely not the first person to write material of this sort - it’s just that she has the money to be able to write, produce, and maybe even…

God, I love and can relate to this show so much, and I sometimes worry what that means for me as a person. (I relate most to Diane.)

Yes, I remember she instantly blamed her band and then her publicist or dad came up with the “reflux” excuse a bit later after she saw the response to her first excuse.

I remember so clearly watching this movie as a kid, and marveling at the slippers. I’d wonder how many rubies it took to make them, how big each one was, how they were attached, how much they were worth, and so on.

What bugged me about Ashlee then is that the story changed so much. First it was backing vocals and then it was that she had reflux and they even heavily edited her show when it aired to prove that she had reflux. She never once just owned the mistake. There were always excuses and it wasn’t her fault. I blame her dad…