Does it involve Don Cheadle's butt? I don't mean to demean your life, but clearly if there's no Cheadle ass, it's worthless.

And if the answer is yes, I think we just found our next F2F location...

I'm not feeling the butt follow-through...

However, good lord, this Matt Damon episode is the Mottsiest stuff I've watched in EVER. I mean, I know it's make believe, but sheeit.

In case you didn't catch the trailer on the Jimmy Kimmel show here is the GoT season 3 trailer.

Love it.

GoT season 3 episode titles (so far):

Ep. 301 – Valar Dohaeris
Ep. 302 – Dark Wings, Dark Words
Ep. 303 – Walk of Punishment
Ep. 304 – And Now His Watch is Ended
Ep. 305 – Kissed by Fire
Ep. 306 –
Ep. 307 – The Bear and the Maiden Fair
Ep. 308 –
Ep. 309 – The Rains of Castamere
Ep. 310 – Mhysa

Episode 309, for sure.

Yep.

Btw, there is an extended season 3 trailer out. I would link but Im on my phone and not sure how. I know that zap2it has it and also youtube.

I've been watching this interesting show on HBO called Enlightened. There's a bit of media flurry going that I luckily just stumbled upon. Lucky because now I have more insight into the show, there are some good links for folks to check out, and who knows, maybe the show will be renewed.

I'd read when it started that Laura Dern and Mike White were the co-creators, they're both listed as Exec Producers, and I'd noticed that MW is the writer for most of the shows. It turns out he writes ALL of them. There are many things I love about this interview; these are my favorite: [link]

"There are so many people in this world who are in their own way little heroes, people who are cleaning up the messes created by the guys with the guns or the overgrown kids fucking everything up. There is a little part of me that feels like I have a little bit of creative capital, and I’d rather use it to put a different face forward as the center of the world."

"...I definitely feel, especially as you get older, the world is very anxiety-inducing, and the idea of trying to swim a different way, trying to be kind or trying to be compassionate or trying to get over yourself, that’s a worthy thing to work on. And it does require work. Part of me wanted Enlightened to reflect those values. My impulse is to create an aesthetic that’s about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters."

"I like the idea of the show being a celebration of that kind of person but also acknowledging with those kind of people there can also be delusions of grandeur or a Joan of Arc complex. There is this bloviating side to Amy, too. But people who can read a room and are completely gracious, they aren’t always the ones who agitate for real change. It’s often the person who keeps putting her hand up, like, Okay, okay, okay."

He also talks about feeling like there's been a lack of interest because the main character is a woman, and men won't watch a show with a female main character unless it's aggression-based.

yeah, I am all over this show. It makes me squirm with discomfort for the characters, but I really dig it.

Here's the Salon article (the above is from Vulture) [link]

AV Club: [link]

Fresh Air with Terry Gross: [link]

It's not cynical, not ironic. Shares that with Portlandia, and is a quality that I associate also with some favorite actors, like Jason Segal, Steve Carrell, John Krasinski - aren't usually nasty-mean-funny.

Last night, I watched the episode where Tyler (the character played by Mike White) is narrating what it's like to be like a ghost, to float through life never being noticed, then he connects with a character played by Molly Shannon (also being non-ironic, non-cynical, and non-satirical). It was just amazing, so sweet, heartbreaking.