#Janeane Garafalo

[jasper-dixon]

This is an unreleased comedy pilot for an HBO show written by Bob Odenkirk and Janeane Garafalo before Mr. Show. Kinda like an anti–Friends.

[dynamoe]

Conject-Tech Sketchbook Dump (aka "sometimes my laptop runs out of battery so I have to go analog")

I thought it would be nice for Billy to have had a friend at some point. Not a "love interest" *eyeroll* just a friend his age (or like, who thinks he's her age because no one believes Billy's as old as he is*.)

"Eh. What am I, chopped liver, fella?" "You're not 'a friend.' I don't know what you are." "Your 'guardian angel!'" "More like 'cautionary example.'"

I can't have a '90s setting without a wannabe riot grrrl. The equivalent of a 'manic pixie dream girl' then was an acerbic monotone-speaking nerd-bitch with a tongue-stud and her own xeroxed rant zine in a lunchbox purse... [Gen X] and WE LIKED IT. GODDAMN IT. [/GenX]

Ben Stiller Show-era Janeane Garafalo was the template. Perfected in Dan Clowes' Enid Coleslaw. Trickled down/mainstreamed into MTV's Daria.

(I know. Unfair, probably. I just really hated Daria.)

hi Mom.

[schlock-luster-video]

Happy birthday Janeane Garafalo!

Here's some fan art inspired by Wet Hot American Summer and Mystery Men to mark the occasion!

[little-murmaider]

If there’s one thing Janeane Garafalo is going to do, it’s voice strong-willed successful women thriving in male-dominated fields whomst I would like to kiss.

[mrgig00]

My problem with Gen X Philosophy.

Reality Bites came out in 1994, my junior year in high school.  It starred Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Ben Stiller, Steve Zahn, and Janeane Garafalo.  It was terrible & grungy and talked about Gen X and the disenchantment we faced from having Boomers as parents.  It portrayed people only slightly older than me and convinced me to reconsider some notions about reality in a more critical light.  Did life really boil down to a duality of luck or suffering, and why?

My first year in college, I leaned heavily into my Philosophy and Creative Writing classes.  I soon hit all the usual pop-culture sources Gen X philosophy – Joseph Campbell's books and interviews, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, D&D and Mage the Ascension, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Quentin Tarantino films, Protestantism....  And I don't think that my experience is an unusual one.  These experiences shaped a personal philosophy inside me.

The modern interpretations for Campbell's 4 pillars of what all religions have in common have been answered for me as best I can for now.  The universe was conceived in a Big Bang (probably,) we have moral codes and cartoons and established channels laid down to inform our choices of how to treat one another, I have a belief in at least a recycling of the body & remembering of the self after death, and a wild proliferation of media in daily life to capture the awe of things greater than ourselves, be it the hand of God and/or simple gravity. 

My personal conception of God is transcendent - not a duality, but a third state, when there’s no electricity in the transistor so it’s neither on or off, it simply is.  The framework upon which the universe is hung, and the channels of least resistance we choose from to flow down this life.  But it's left me wanting.  In the wake of the pandemic especially, everyone is so isolated.  Solipsism has taken over.

Thanks to the modern internet age, I feel like it's easy to lean heavily into solipsism.  After all, what can't pass the Turing test anymore?  And what could I actually know or care about beyond this existence?  I don't think anyone's expecting streets of gold and mansions in some afterlife anymore. I've come to understand that heaven and hell are just particular decades of this life – being kind and generous to others really does open doors and grant you boons your would not have otherwise. Being wicked, even when it’s fun, will hurt you somehow.  And so much of life is about translating other's experiences so that you can digest reality.  A lot of other people's lives is just allegory and reflection.

I worry that leads to pride, thinking that the universe begins and ends with you, so I take solace in science articles that point to panpsychism - the belief that every thing is conscious, and possibly we’re all cells in one consciousness.  In that way, the universe is like my subconscious and autonomous processes of the brain, constantly running in the background to keep me alive, and thus I have a duty to do right by the world.  Being progressive and environmentally conscious is akin to good mental health.  “Other” entities and the world's circumstances are just me and God, poking each other, asking questions about ourselves.  (However the cynic in me asks if that's intuition of truth or just articles that are popular on google with people of my age bracket and education level.)  

Which led me to a further conclusion: Everything is about actively asking yourself to grow.  From eating to sex to learning from others to trade to love...  You can not grow without reaching outward and into something else which is also kinda you. Ouraboros.   

So I have to ask: What is the new philosophy?  Where do we go from here? There are always details to work out, experiences and rituals to share, questions to ask one another.  But is that all there is now, is just details?  

[evelynmcdonnell]

Women Who Rockening

Theo Kogan and Murray Hill at Persisticon’s The Rockening

Women get shit done, they are funny AF, they are fed up with patriarchs, and, of course, they rock. Those were four of my takeaways from the Rockening Sunday night, the comedy, music, and activism event presented by Persisticonat the Bell House in Brooklyn. Timed to take place just a couple weeks before the midterm elections, The Rockening…

[oots-digitalmedia]

Queer Webseries: F to 7th

Title: F to 7th

    Status: Two Complete Seasons

    Cast: Annette O'Toole, Lynn Laurence, Ashlie Atkinson, Aparna Nancherla, Ry Russo-Young, Stewart Thorndike, Justin Smith, Bruce Altman, Kristen Connoly, Brian Berrebbi, Michael Kostroff, John Early, Sadie Chorao, Rory Clarke, Olympia Dukakis, Roberta Colindrez, Janeane Garafalo, Michael Showalter, Isaiah Stokes, Hye Mee Na, Ann Carr, Amy Sedaris, Kathleen Wise, Gaby Hoffmann, Brandi Ryans, Michael Hall, R.J. Foster, Casey Legler, Dr. Elizabeth Gifford, Mark Sullivan

    Queer Creators: Yes

    Accessibility: No content warnings, captions available on YouTube here.

        General content warning for Internalized Homophobia.

Summary: F TO 7TH is comedy about Ingrid and her descent into pre-middle age. Judgmental as ever, Ingrid struggles to find herself in a world where sexuality and gender have left her old-fashioned lesbianism behind.

Tags: queer main character, queer woman, lesbian

Check out other queer podcasts here.

Please feel free to offer suggestions and updates!

[reportwire]

3 Historical Comedy Wormholes to Stardom

3 Historical Comedy Wormholes to Stardom

Continue Reading Below Over the years, the show launched new faces like Judd Apatow, Dennis Miller, Roseanne, Rita Rudner, Bob Saget, Adam Sandler, Dave Attell, Louis C.K., Dave Chapelle, Janeane Garafalo, Rob Schneider, and David Spade. HBO 12-year-old David Spade doing stand-up on a school night. “Getting onto that show was a huge deal for me, and a huge deal in general,” says Spade. “A slot…

[hereisyourlove]

seinfeld and janeane garafalo dated (on the show) I NEVER KNEW THIS

[captainshelleywrites]

Friday Fare: 3/24/17

Friday Fare is where I post links to the random articles that have resonated with me during the week. I tripped into a bit of an Internet wormhole this week and found a couple of older articles about the comedy stylings of two people I greatly admire.  First off – Janeane Garafalo; I still want to be her when I grow up.  And Michael Nesmith.  My love of The Monkees is well chronicled.  This piece…

[3garcons]

O positive Saturday Night with 

Janeane Garafalo and friends LEX,  Sun Voyager, Pete International Airport, Evan Dando, Willy Mason, Shadow Witch 

[schlock-luster-video]

Today in satirical film / screwball comedy movie history: on August 25, 2004 Wet Hot American Summer debuted on DVD in Sweden.

Here's a portrait of Janeane Garafalo as Beth!

[rustytortillapan]

Thanks to @kingfallsam now I have to curate a Fucky List.

1 Lonette “Cool World”

2 Dolores “Who Framed Rodger Rabbit” 

3 Misato Katsuragi “ Neon Genesis Evangelion”

4 Irma Langenstein “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” . Art Credit to @genzoman

5 Ville Valo lead singer of HIM

6 Janeane Garafalo Actress

7 Laura Prepon Actress

8 Irene Bedard Actress

9 Sheila Tousey Actress

10 Morrissey  Lead Singer of the Smiths and solo act

[fivedollarradio]

"I never fitted in with the girls at school. I didn’t like make-up, or dresses and I never wanted to shave my legs or armpits like everyone else.”

I didn’t fit in with other girls. I didn’t like make up and dresses. I didn’t shave my legs. At thirteen I looked a lot like Julia Sweeney’s “Pat” character.

I’ve seen this quote from a longer Mirror article pasted all over my Twitter feed... and I get it. It’s frustrating to see what is exceedingly common reframed as pathology, but I think a more charitable interpretation is that the language is effectual when it comes to describing something like dysphoria that there isn’t much choice but to revert to stereotypes.

I do think there’s a generational component going on here. It’s not that women weren’t overly sexualized in the 80s and 90s, they were, but it was easy to find alternatives: Patti Smith, Joan Jett, Grace Jones, Kim Deal, Kim Gordon, Meshell Ndegeocello, Daria and Jane, Janeane Garafalo, Darlene Connor, Lindsay Weir, to name a few. Granted, none of those women are exactly gender non-conforming (and most of them are white, which was also a big problem), but it got me through my adolescence and early twenties. The 90s “cool girl” trope isn’t above deconstruction and criticism, but I’ll take it over Instagram, airbrushed perfection.

[yolandashoshana]

Got free tix.. so a little Broadway for the day: Marvin's Room staring: Janeane Garafalo, Lili Taylor, and Celia Watson. A slice of life play. 😏 #theatre #theater #Broadway #NYC #creativity #arts #lilitaylor #freetix #getwicked #travel #seetheworld #foodforthought #entertainment #matinee (at American Airlines Theatre)