2 posts tagged “michael showalter”

There have not been many times in my single life when I curse my not having a boyfriend. I have reached a new low. My new job requires me to wear a tie (in addition to a lot of other heinous uniform type stuff that looks just terrible on me). I don't know how to tie a tie! I did it somehow this morning, but it looked awful and I expected my managers to laugh the second they saw me. They did laugh at me, but not because of the tie. They ridiculed me for my taste in shoes and the largeness of my shirt. I'm sorry that the shirt the company requires only exists in the men's fashion world- a world that is, sadly, too big for me. I'm also sorry that I like Jack Purcells. Converse says they're, "timeless," and I agree. I could not say the same for shoes that look like Crocs. I guess I'm sorry about that. But, not really. I digress. What I am most sorry about is the fact that I don't have a boyfriend who can tie my tie for me. I feel a little pathetic for saying every part of that last sentence.

Oh yeah. I have a new job. I don't want to talk about it.

Yesterday was the worst. I shouldn't have even left the house. Although, it got so much better once the little party in the office started and I drank my problems away while watching music performed by my boss (not at the tie-wearing job), Josh Bloom, and The Terrordactlys. But, excluding those couple hours, yesterday was just so bad. I will not elaborate because I don't really want to relive it.

In other, much happier news, Michael Showalter touched my shoulder. We're practically BFF now, right? I went to see him, Human Giant, Andrea Rosen, and other funny people at Union Hall last weekend with one of the Jenns from fun-work. There's three of us, in case you were wondering. Anyway, Michael Showalter walked near me and I said "hi" and I'm not sure why, but then he said hi back and asked how I was. And we talked for a few seconds and then he patted me on the shoulder or whatever and walked away. I nearly died. Andrea Rosen was wearing the cutest sparkly thingy in her hair. She is adorable.

I was watching The Baxter last night and, man, that movie is fantastic. Prior to watching it, I wasn't really in a bad mood. After it ended, however, I was a gazillion times happier. I once read an article about it and Michael Showalter explained that he liked Bill Pullman's character in Sleepless in Seattle more than Tom Hanks'. Bill Pullman, or Walter, disappears after Meg Ryan dumps him, and Michael Showalter was more interested in his story, rather than Meg Ryan and Tom Hank's love story. I think. I can't really remember the article too well, as I read it a while ago. I also liked Walter a whole bunch. That may have to do with the fact that I like Bill Pullman a whole bunch, and the name Walter is pretty great. I'm not sure if I would name my child Walter, but I like the name. Although, that may have to do with the fact that I'm probably never having kids. I can't name a nonexistant child something. Or can I? That's another story for another time.

So, The Baxter made me happy. Then I was talking to my parents about it at dinner, and telling them about one of my favorite scenes. They said it sounded funny but I think they were sick of me talking about it. Sometimes I tell really long and pointless stories and include every possible detail and forget why I even started telling the story at all. I have been that way since I was a kid. I think I'm charming in that way. Most people disagree. My parents didn't know who Michael Showalter was, which was to be expected. I definitely didn't think they would recognize David Wain either. But I thought they might recognize Michael Ian Black, because he's in those Sierra Mist commercials, and on VHI "I Love Stuff" shows all the time. My dad said the name was familiar, but he didn't know. A while later, it was time to open Channukah presents. I didn't even expect to get anything because I'm old now, and the point of the festival of lights isn't really to receive presents. I was pleasantly surprised when my mom put out a present for me. Guess what it was? If you guessed The Baxter, you'd be wrong. Rather is was Season One of Stella! I was ecstatic because even though my parents didn't know who these guys were, they managed to buy the dvd for me! That is, in large part, due to my sister telling them to buy it.

Rufus Wainwright's song, "Beautiful Child," plays during the final scene of The Baxter. I forgot about that until yesterday, and it made me want to listen to him a lot. I used to listen to "Poses" a lot senior year of high school. Now, I have been listening to "Want One." His songs can be pretty epic sometimes. Like "Oh What a World," and "14th Street." Wow.

When I started college, I was going to be a film major. I couldn't get into any film classes and I took a modern literature class instead. It changed my life. I had a huge crush on my professor, and we read some amazing things. We also read some not-so-amazing things. But the amazing things kind of stuck with me. However, I cannot give you a correct plot summary for any of those novels because I read them so quickly, and didn't really pay much attention to retaining any of the details because I had to start the next one immediately. What stuck was the idea that I could take classes where I could read a cool book like Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle or Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays and then we could spend class time talking about it. That's really cool, isn't it? So then I decided that I was going to be an "American Literature" major. However, they got rid of the "American" concentration, and instead it was "Literature of the English Language." I thought that sounded kind of awkward. I decided that if I was going to focus on Literature in any language, it should be a foreign language. However, I decided this too late. If I wanted to study another language, I would be in college much longer. Looking back, that doesn't sound so bad. But at the time, that the was the worst possible thing imaginable. I really did not like school or Santa Cruz. So I decided to go for "Modern Literary Studies." I took some really great classes and read some great things. I also took some terrible classes, but I can't always win. By the time I was getting ready to graduate, I was much more focused on the college radio station I was managing, than school. I slacked a lot on my assignments. I graduated with an ok gpa. I don't know what I'm doing with my life, though. I sort of wish I stuck with the film major.

My cousin is trying to get me to watch something he made. I'm going to download windows media player now.