I'm biased but I kinda love how unpretentiously pretentious he is. would be curious if MM modeled any of his performance after him.
― ryan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:21 (ten years ago) link
i think you mean "unabashedly"
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:25 (ten years ago) link
Convincing Barman Nic Pizzolatto,
― schlump, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:27 (ten years ago) link
xp: either way I am for it!
plus he's given me the word "psychosphere."
― ryan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:28 (ten years ago) link
he was a bartender in Austin and FYI they are all like that.
maybe it's a type that extends beyond Austin but there's definitely Alex Jones crossed with an eternal phd candidate type of dudes all over the place.
― ryan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:31 (ten years ago) link
Sounds like a Central Valley story, with that desolation we saw in the Zodiac hitchhiker scene.
― That's So (Eazy), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link
ooh yeah
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:39 (ten years ago) link
ha ha, radi meant that sincerely in support of your unpretentiously pretentious thesis, btw
― schlump, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:46 (ten years ago) link
hope the dude goes for it in season two and has characters swilling cheap beer and quoting hegel at each other f the haterz.
― ryan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:48 (ten years ago) link
should we all read this in preparation?
http://www.weirdwiltshire.co.uk/wordpress-3.2.1/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/EOWCoverFnl.jpg
― get up in this twerk cypher (sunny successor), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:55 (ten years ago) link
1915 San Bernadino
― get up in this twerk cypher (sunny successor), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:56 (ten years ago) link
oh damn I think I'm gonna!
― ryan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 21:07 (ten years ago) link
http://www.missingpersons-ireland.freepress-freespeech.com/didfredwestmurdertoorder.htm
let's send rust to europe imo
― the only thing worse than being tweeted about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 21:14 (ten years ago) link
I thought "the other California" was kind of a popular literary/filmic subject
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 21:23 (ten years ago) link
I mean IDK, maybe no moreso than anywhere else
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 21:24 (ten years ago) link
forget it hurting, it's
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 22:02 (ten years ago) link
Fresno
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 22:05 (ten years ago) link
that book cover is commanding my attention v well
― ogmor, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 23:37 (ten years ago) link
That book is 100% straight-up A-plus. California para-history mythology is (as they say) relevant to my interests, Advise folks to look in here: Eden Ahbez, Jack Parsons, and other LA kooks...
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 02:26 (ten years ago) link
hey you know what will be interesting about season two of this, maybe more than the cast/locale/degree of embroilment in occult happenings: how it is structured. the first's plot facilitated this really prerty sophisticated framework; different time periods, reliability of narrators, shifting focus. the newer cops were a part of this. i wonder if the guy has ideas for something equivalent
― schlump, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 03:12 (ten years ago) link
like the collision of the narration with the protagonists in varying eras of vigor & weariness gave it such weight
― schlump, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 03:18 (ten years ago) link
yeah that is one underrated strength of the one-off 8 season arc, they can blow through a longer time period like a novel where most shows have to proceed with a straightforward year-by-year chronology to match the production schedule. i wouldn't necessarily want TD to always jump back and forth between 2 eras, but the idea of a long investigation unfolding over years is good. so many cop shows have to resolve cases in unrealistically short periods of time, might as well let things play out for much longer.
― ςὖτ ιτ Οὖτ (some dude), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 03:38 (ten years ago) link
I kind of wish they would go the full Bolaño with this and set it at the San Ysidro border (but then I actually just wish HBO would commission a sprawling 2666 adaptation....)
― Walter Galt, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 07:12 (ten years ago) link
Fresno― Οὖτις, Tuesday, May 27, 2014 3:05 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, May 27, 2014 3:05 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is an excellent idea.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
Fresno is one of the cities along with Terre Haute, IN & Vancouver, WA that I have gotten instant, lets-get-the-fuck-out-of-here vibes from.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:30 (ten years ago) link
"just wish HBO would commission a sprawling 2666 adaptation."otm
― festival of labour (xelab), Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
XP if that's the criteria I can't get wait for season three in stockport
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:44 (ten years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_WessonWhat I think of when I think of Fresno
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:46 (ten years ago) link
first two google news results are promising
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:15 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Fresno_(TV_miniseries).jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:44 (ten years ago) link
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion),
Amarillo for me
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
xpost Apropos of nothing, you just completely blew my mind with that. I had a dream as a kid about Carol Burnett owning a vineyard (which I only really remember because it was maybe the most boring and interminable dream I ever had) and I thought it was completely a product of my imagination.
― A Burlap Sackful Of Ground Chuck (Old Lunch), Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
does anyone else feel like the promo spots HBO is airing for the final season of true blood and the premiere season if the leftovers look like they're for the exact same show?
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 02:35 (ten years ago) link
True Leftovers
― heavy on their trademark ballads (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 04:57 (ten years ago) link
i thought they were ads for a new show about Louisiana called Treme Bloodtective
― some dude, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 12:45 (ten years ago) link
In a discussion about his shift towards long-form television as opposed to big-screen features (both "To Live and Die in LA" and "Killer Joe" are being mooted for TV adaptations, and we've plenty on both in the upcoming interview), Friedkin name-checked a few shows that he felt had taken the place of films as the topic of water-cooler, or "coffee machine" conversation—"Homeland," "24," and "True Detective."At the mention of the last we couldn't help but let him know that we had him pegged as one of the five directors we'd like to see direct a season of the show down the line. Would he consider it, we asked, if they came knocking? He paused a moment, looking a tiny bit surprised."I am considering it." said Friedkin. "I like this writer [Nic Pizzolatto] very much. I've met him, and he's the real deal as far as I'm concerned. Now, all the new seasons are different so I'm not committed—this new season has nothing to do with the last one. Except for him and his sensibility, which I think is extraordinary."Pushing a little to get him to confirm that he's in the mix, Friedkin remained positive but circumspect."I'm… I can't say much more at this time. But I'm a fan of his writing, even though this will not be a continuation of what was done before with (Matthew) McConaughey (with whom obviously Friedkin has a relationship after 'Killer Joe') and Woody Harrelson. So what you can say is I'm a huge fan of his writing, I've met with him, I like him, I like the direction he's taking with this."
At the mention of the last we couldn't help but let him know that we had him pegged as one of the five directors we'd like to see direct a season of the show down the line. Would he consider it, we asked, if they came knocking? He paused a moment, looking a tiny bit surprised.
"I am considering it." said Friedkin. "I like this writer [Nic Pizzolatto] very much. I've met him, and he's the real deal as far as I'm concerned. Now, all the new seasons are different so I'm not committed—this new season has nothing to do with the last one. Except for him and his sensibility, which I think is extraordinary."
Pushing a little to get him to confirm that he's in the mix, Friedkin remained positive but circumspect.
"I'm… I can't say much more at this time. But I'm a fan of his writing, even though this will not be a continuation of what was done before with (Matthew) McConaughey (with whom obviously Friedkin has a relationship after 'Killer Joe') and Woody Harrelson. So what you can say is I'm a huge fan of his writing, I've met with him, I like him, I like the direction he's taking with this."
― Number None, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 18:28 (ten years ago) link
"Did you guys see Homeland last night? Wow!"
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 18:34 (ten years ago) link
"My favorite part is the relationship between Claire Danes and the terrorist guy!"
― schwantz, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
"Or that little kid who is always practicing karate, he is so awesome!"
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
unh
http://defamer.gawker.com/colin-farrell-reportedly-in-talks-to-star-in-true-detec-1603667663
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 July 2014 18:50 (ten years ago) link
I love Friedkin but I dunno if his strengths would really be best-served in a longform TV series
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 July 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
better get one great car chase out of it
― da croupier, Friday, 11 July 2014 19:37 (ten years ago) link
― Οὖτις - i get this but i kinda think this show is an exception, to live and die in l.a. stretched out into episodic form could totally be a season of true detective.
― balls, Friday, 11 July 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link
friedkin did an episode of csi
there were an unprecedented number of crowd scenes
― j., Friday, 11 July 2014 19:44 (ten years ago) link
hopefully Wang Chung will replace T Bone Burnett
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Friday, 11 July 2014 19:45 (ten years ago) link
http://tvline.com/2014/07/11/true-detective-colin-farrell-season-2-cast/
Along with Farrell, Taylor Kitsch is being floated. RIGGINS!*
(I just like to say "Riggins!" when possible. I'm not exactly endorsing him being cast.)
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 July 2014 20:13 (ten years ago) link
mateo and woody driving through a field chasing king koopa on his lawnmower
― da croupier, Friday, 11 July 2014 20:29 (ten years ago) link
i'll watch it for sure, but when i think about the problems of the td script i don't think of william friedkin as the guy who can navigate us past them
― da croupier, Friday, 11 July 2014 20:30 (ten years ago) link
i guess i should say "i would watch it for sure" as we're just working with a bit of cryptic confusion in an interview
― da croupier, Friday, 11 July 2014 20:32 (ten years ago) link