how much weed would that buy in 1969?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 May 2014 23:03 (ten years ago) link
all of it
― Dan I., Monday, 5 May 2014 23:03 (ten years ago) link
I can see why people say the show doesn't do counterculture well, but hippies were super corny back then and said dumb corny shit
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 5 May 2014 23:57 (ten years ago) link
"A dead man whose office you now inhabit" killed me
As did Don's face during the meeting with Peggy
Peggy's dress at the end, the best
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 5 May 2014 23:58 (ten years ago) link
I love Bert's precise diction.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 May 2014 23:59 (ten years ago) link
Roxy otm hippies were super corny. They are still super corny.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 00:03 (ten years ago) link
That's true! impossible to find footage of hippies not being stupid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vDqSoi9RSw
― Dan I., Tuesday, 6 May 2014 00:41 (ten years ago) link
Bezoekers is Dutch for hippies? Gonna start calling them that from now on.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 00:43 (ten years ago) link
Perhaps it's the week I've had/the week I will have, but this making me laugh like an idiot right now
http://bossnugger.tumblr.com/post/84129538308/my-reaction-basically
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 01:39 (ten years ago) link
lol
― balls, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 01:45 (ten years ago) link
these people are lost, and on drugs, and have venereal diseases
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 02:40 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah and bob benson's name dropped
just catching up on the last two weeks tonite. early impression is that don's worst failure of imagination is not conceiving of himself taking another job.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 02:55 (ten years ago) link
oh man, that sweet relief of not having a single bookmark at the top of sna after 8 days of it sitting there
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 02:57 (ten years ago) link
I do love how Don is not giving a shit about the conditions and just doing whatever he wants.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 04:44 (ten years ago) link
Also, did they make it through the baseball game? Did they even make it to the stadium?
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 04:45 (ten years ago) link
Also the big "Don saves the day" moment at the end was him telling Peggy he would have the tags done later. LOL
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 04:46 (ten years ago) link
p sure game was not attended
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 04:48 (ten years ago) link
Oh wow...was looking at some Mets stuff on youtube, and you can watch the final game of the '69 series...ALL OF IT (well, no ads)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbCWUehZKVU
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 05:01 (ten years ago) link
As a person who's only visited NYC once and has barely a grip on logistics re: commutes, what would a trip from Madison Ave to Shea be like time and hassle-wise?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 06:09 (ten years ago) link
walk to grand central and take the 7? not much of a hassle, takes about a half hour.
― nurse with attitude (get bent), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 06:20 (ten years ago) link
Even Don at his drunkest should've been able to handle that.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 06:55 (ten years ago) link
every wikipedia page about burger chef has a sad (but different) photo of a former burger chef that is now like a payday loan business or something depressing like that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_Chefhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_Chef_murders
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 12:48 (ten years ago) link
burger chef murders case should be the next season of true detective
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 12:58 (ten years ago) link
haha
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 12:59 (ten years ago) link
burger chef burgers are a flat circle
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 13:00 (ten years ago) link
When Don was drunkenly staring at the Mets pennant, upside-down it read STEW. And Don was stewing. It's all a rich tapestry.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 13:20 (ten years ago) link
been thinking about betty's field trip this morning--most literal statement yet of the fact that she is a child?
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 13:37 (ten years ago) link
Loved this episode a lot - Don reading Portnoy's Complaint and staring up at the ceiling where Lane hung himself. Freddy's "get in uniform, fix your bayonet" speech at the end...
Didn't mind the commune scenes at all. Somewhat goofy, but congruent with how the establishment perceived the counterculture to be.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 17:50 (ten years ago) link
I'm totally down with the commune concept myself, but in reality you'd have to live with people like that.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 18:01 (ten years ago) link
can't wait for don to jump off the building at the end of this season like he does in the opening credits
― am0n, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:15 (ten years ago) link
it's a metaphor. a metaphor for don being db cooper jumping out of the plane.
― balls, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
7 train to Shea was not AC'd in those days tho (and not til the '90s!), hope it wasn't summer
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/08/brief-history-air-conditioning-new-york-subway/2952/
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link
a lot of meta-stuff in this episode, seemingly poking fun at an obsessive audience, I suppose.
"it's not symbolic""no, it's quite literal"
― ryan, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link
XP I think it's still April (Don's been back three weeks, he watched Model Shop last ep which opened in early April '69).
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
Don's penchant for modern poetry/literature and foreign films has always seemed a little odd to me - like, where would a poor farm kid raised in a whorehouse pick up these more "intellectual" pursuits
― stadow shevens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:32 (ten years ago) link
not saying that it's unheard of or unrealistic or whatever, it's just not something that's ever been elucidated
― stadow shevens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:33 (ten years ago) link
i think he would go to the movies. to pick up a penchant for the movies.
― j., Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:34 (ten years ago) link
well no one got excited about the '69 Mets til May/June, and they didn't really catch fire til August.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:35 (ten years ago) link
Shakey: modern advertising, esp that period, relied on the cultural cachet of foreign films and intelligent and or "racy" best sellers.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:37 (ten years ago) link
Model Shop def has that '60s cool vibe, tho it was a huge flop i think
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:38 (ten years ago) link
(well not huge in that it's shot mostly on the LA boulevards and in homes, and Anouk Aimee and Gary Lockwood couldn't have cost that much)
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
It wasn't a success. Fun Fact: Demy wanted Harrison Ford for the Lockwood part, but got shut down by the producers.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:40 (ten years ago) link
Roth, Gore Vidal, Updike, Bellow, Mailer -- they were actually best sellers.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link
xp...and The Doors were approached about doing the score, a job that ended up with Spirit (who appear in the film).
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link
yeah the foreign film thing is pretty understandable (boobs! "intelligence"!). The earlier seasons poetry chapbook namedrops are a little more perplexing.
xp
― stadow shevens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link
Thanks youtube!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOnavvQjYV8
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:45 (ten years ago) link
portnoy's complaint was the top selling novel of 1969 iirc. one writeup of this episode i read somewhere (nymag maybe?) noted a ton of echoes and callbacks to a season one episode where don is reading leon uris' exodus lol.
― balls, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:46 (ten years ago) link
Also most of this Draper stuff is in line with him being a auto didact.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:47 (ten years ago) link
^^^ yes. He reminds me of what I've read about JFK: he could read novels and papers at an alarming speed and recite and summarize them w/out getting the sense that they'd affected him in any way.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link