yesterday we did shots on Skype w @Cudlitz & @ben_mckenzie while sitting by the pool by the ocean. like this. (Taken with instagram)
1. Your mistakes as a young reporter will haunt you forever in the form of mischievous former editors.
2. That said, your mistakes as a young reporter won’t haunt your forever on your ascent upward, assuming the most anyone can do with them is troll you in comment sections to hysterical effect.
“If I were to create a ratings system, I wouldn’t even put murder right at the top of the chief offenses. I would put rape right at the top of the chief offenses, and the assault against women. Because it’s so insanely overused and insulting how much it’s overused in movies as a plot device: a woman in peril. That, to me, is offensive. Yet that shit skates.”
—Kevin Smith, This Film is Not Yet Rated
i barely remember this contest even existing, let alone doing whatever was required to be entered/win (and almost win one other week?). and i’ll be in mexico and hadn’t been planning to even have my phone turned on!?
but this is obviously the most amazing birthday present and an awesome affirmation of how generous a fannish economy should and can be - even one that is run as part of a marketing initiative through a network. southland is a show i would write and talk and spazz about equally as much no matter what the “reward” - it’s just that fucking good.
and at any point really in the last 4 seasons i could have gotten off my ass and pitched or gotten assigned an interview with the cast or creators - especially when i was working in the same building where they shoot and kept running into them - but i was also perfectly content just to sit back and watch this tremendous show play out.
SPW blogging this just made me remember when Justin & I sat on a couch at HOB and realized we’d been to all the same lesbian concerts in Chicago in 1996.
(Source: natalia-white)
