July 2012
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“Blur are a triumph of feeling. They spent the first half of their career...”
– Blur: Blur 21 | Album Reviews | Pitchfork
I hope you all just watched that Blur livecast, because “For Tomorrow” going into “The Universal” was straight up visceral, breathtakingly beautiful.
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Outtake: Simon Amstell on Grandma's House, family,...
Does the show help you embrace yourself and your personality more?
I found out who I was writing that show, especially in relation to my family. I discovered why I feel exactly the way I feel about my mother and various other members of my family. I realized why certain things in my life had happened, why I ended up in certain relationships based on my relationship with my family. Now that's all happened, I don't feel any need to write a third series. Sorry, but I think I've written all the pain out of me, all the confusion has lifted. It's been the most wonderful thing, writing that series.
Is that also why you opened up more about your family in Numb?
Oh, I talk about my father. In the first series, the father character pops in for one episode, and that was such an explosive episode we couldn't really bring him back into the house after what happened in the first series. And so I don't talk about anyone other than my father in the stand-up show, because that felt like the only thing left I had to resolve.
So that was a huge part of the growing process?
I went on a course years and years ago, and they said, "You have to complete with your past so that your actions in the present are coming from possibility rather than a response to what happened in the past." You have to understand all of those things that happened in your childhood. Otherwise, you end up marrying your father or mother or the opposite of them, neither of which is a choice, really. Both of which are sort of direct responses to past trauma.
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“You can waste a lot of time beating yourself up for what you want, but the body...”
– Simon Amstell, the man who says things like this, gave me some dating advice. Outtake from here.
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“What’s interesting, I think, is how palpable advertising is. You realize...”
– Outtake from my Simon Amstell interview
“Maybe the internet has made all of us think our little lives, all listless and...”
– Richard Lawson, The Shrinking Boundaries of Being a (Certain Kind of) Twentysomething (via theatlantic)
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“I used to think that anger was quite a silly emotion to get involved with,...”
– Simon Amstell Brings Neurotic British Comedy to St. Marks Place - Art - BlackBook
I interviewed Simon Amstell for BlackBook! Going to be throwing some bonus material on this blog, so get ready for that.
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“It is a very versatile word,” Ms. Bass said, adding that she and her husband had...”
– Emma Koenig’s So-Called Redacted Life - NYTimes.com
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Buy Tickets →
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hello, new york people. this is a reminder that there is no thursday show this week, but there is one on friday. also, we’ve added more dates to the schedule, which is located here: http://bit.ly/S_Amstell thank you. View more on WhoSay »
“You can’t have profanity if there are no prudes left to be shocked by it.”
– Geoff Nunberg, “Swearing: A Long And #$%#$% History” (via nprfreshair)
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“If you’re really self-satisfied all the time, you’re probably a lousy writer.”
– David Remnick (via brittneymckenna)
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“I was talking to Bradford [Cox] about the insane people who write about us, and...”
– Update: Dan Deacon | Features | Pitchfork
“I’d rather read the iTunes User Agreement.”
– one of the Amazon reviewers on Fifty Shades of Grey (via quicksummary)
