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\\I am Stephen Falk, a Los Angeles-based writer for television and movies. Even though I throw my hands in the air and wave them like I just don't care. I do care. Very, very much.\\

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Posted 3 days ago on August 17 2008


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Did you know the U.S. government had a secret program in place to scare us into submission with a creepy talking baby video? It’s true.
Emily is even more terrifying.

Did you know the U.S. government had a secret program in place to scare us into submission with a creepy talking baby video? It’s true.

Emily is even more terrifying.



Posted 5 days ago on August 15 2008


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aja:

Top ten songs picked by both candidates.
BARACK OBAMA1. Ready or Not Fugees2. What’s Going On Marvin Gaye3. I’m On Fire Bruce Spingsteen4. Gimme Shelter Rolling Stones5. Sinnerman Nina Simone6. Touch the Sky Kanye West7. You’d Be So Easy to Love Frank Sinatra8. Think Aretha Franklin9. City of Blinding Lights U210. Yes We Can  will.i.am
JOHN McCAIN1. Dancing Queen ABBA2. Blue Bayou Roy Orbison3. Take a Chance On Me ABBA4. If We MakeIt Through December Merle Haggard5. As Time Goes By Dooley Wilson6. Good Vibrations The Beach Boys7. What A Wonderful World Louis Armstrong8. I’ve Got You Under My Skin Frank Sinatra9. Sweet Caroline Neil Diamond10. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes The Platters


Let’s compare:
McCain sees skies of blue, and clouds of white. The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night And he thinks to himself, what a wonderful world…
While…
Obama can do what you do, easy, BELIEVE ME  Frontin’ niggas give him hee-bee-gee-bees  So while you’re imitating Al Capone  He’ll be Nina Simone  And defecating on your microphone.
The next eight years are going to be awesome.

aja:

Top ten songs picked by both candidates.

BARACK OBAMA
1. Ready or Not Fugees
2. What’s Going On Marvin Gaye
3. I’m On Fire Bruce Spingsteen
4. Gimme Shelter Rolling Stones
5. Sinnerman Nina Simone
6. Touch the Sky Kanye West
7. You’d Be So Easy to Love Frank Sinatra
8. Think Aretha Franklin
9. City of Blinding Lights U2
10. Yes We Can  will.i.am

JOHN McCAIN
1. Dancing Queen ABBA
2. Blue Bayou Roy Orbison
3. Take a Chance On Me ABBA
4. If We MakeIt Through December Merle Haggard
5. As Time Goes By Dooley Wilson
6. Good Vibrations The Beach Boys
7. What A Wonderful World Louis Armstrong
8. I’ve Got You Under My Skin Frank Sinatra
9. Sweet Caroline Neil Diamond
10. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes The Platters

Let’s compare:

McCain sees skies of blue, and clouds of white.
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And he thinks to himself, what a wonderful world…

While…

Obama can do what you do, easy, BELIEVE ME
Frontin’ niggas give him hee-bee-gee-bees
So while you’re imitating Al Capone
He’ll be Nina Simone
And defecating on your microphone.

The next eight years are going to be awesome.



Posted 6 days ago on August 14 2008


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Or, you know, maybe not??

Or, you know, maybe not??


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6 days ago on August 14 2008

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Posted 1 week ago on August 13 2008


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I can’t decide which was my favorite highlight from SportsCenter this morning: when Michael Phelps won the 200 freestyle, when Michael Phelps beats the Royals 6-1, when Michael Phelps reported to Jets minicamp, or the Michael Phelps Web Gems™ .

I can’t decide which was my favorite highlight from SportsCenter this morning: when Michael Phelps won the 200 freestyle, when Michael Phelps beats the Royals 6-1, when Michael Phelps reported to Jets minicamp, or the Michael Phelps Web Gems™ .


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1 week ago on August 13 2008

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Yeah, in this case address is very approximate.

Yeah, in this case address is very approximate.


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1 week ago on August 13 2008

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Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG… thank you. Thank you for my life.

Joe Versus the Volcano (via oldauntamy)

The fact that someone quoted this movie, which I love, which no one else in the world — including John Patrick Shanley (writer/director), Warner Brothers, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Robert Stack, Abe Vigoda, Amanda Plummer, Ossie Davis, Lloyd Bridges, the suitcase salesman, the fake shark — loves, makes me very happy, and also a little, you know, step-off.


Posted 1 week ago on August 12 2008


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1 week ago on August 12 2008

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Okay

So I just started watching the first season of The West Wing on DVD, and I’m loving it. But after inhaling a show with such a consistent writing voice as Sorkin’s (yes, all characters speak in the same cadence and are all insanely smart) you start to notice some things. Mostly, it makes me realize just how fucking aggravating Studio 60 must have been to West Wing viewers when they realized they’re watching the exact same show… but this time its about sketch comedy. One of the great things about Sorkin is that his characters imbue their jobs with life or death importance, but only now can I imagine the aggravation of having to watch these characters — these same actors, in some cases — treat the outcome of a stupid sketch exactly as if it were an impending war between Pakistan and India.

God, I throw (another) pillow at the TV in hindsight for that fucking show.

But anyway. Something I’ve noticed is that Sorkin writes the best amused/dismissive/incredulous “okay” in the business, and uses it like the space bar. It’s everywhere. And with people like Bradley Whitford delivering it, it works. It’s actually often perfect. But I feel like sometimes Sorkin just gets lazy, (or runs out of ‘shrooms), doesn’t know how to end a scene, and just writes…

CHARACTER: (beat) Okay.

Case in point. In episode 1-10, the Sorkinly unsubtly-titled “In Excelsis Deo,” the President’s secretary, Dolores Landingham (the great Kathryn Joosten), finally gets a big speech. She reveals to Charlie that she misses her sons. He asks where they are. And she goes on to tell him, in Sorkiny detail, that they were twin medics killed in Vietnam together. She reveals how they were pinned down by enemy fire on Christmas and it must have been so loud and they must have been so scared and they must have wished they had their mother. And the violins swell and the performance is so subtle and simple and rip-your-heart-out sad and then she’s done. And Charlie’s response: “Okay.”

Dick!


Posted 1 week ago on August 11 2008


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Ahahahahahahahaha.
I recently transfered all my current work to Google Documents so I could be productive no matter what ended up happening with my sick computer. So after a day of sending off my computer to Apple General Hospital and hooking up the old iBook and getting ready to work, I open up Google docs and get this message.

Ahahahahahahahaha.

I recently transfered all my current work to Google Documents so I could be productive no matter what ended up happening with my sick computer. So after a day of sending off my computer to Apple General Hospital and hooking up the old iBook and getting ready to work, I open up Google docs and get this message.


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