#Jenny Slate: Stage Fright

[iwanttogoeverywhereplease]

Jenny Slate is Magical and and Connections are All that Matter: A Long Post

I am in tears and I also think I’m in love.

I’ve been thinking a lot about Jenny Slate recently, because I watched I Want You Back and became obsessed and also I read Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (haven’t watched the movie yet but by GOSH do I want to) and learned that she wrote a memoir and read a few excerpts from it and I am obsessed with her mind and her heart and her soul (and her hair) and I am so fascinated by the fact that the person that played Mona Lisa Saperstein is so deep and real and that shouldn’t surprise me but I forget to look beyond the surface sometimes.

Anyway, I just finished watching her Netflix special and dude, I cried like five times. It’s set up so that it’s a filmed standup performance but it’s ALSO a documentary of her life. It cuts back and forth between her standup set and interviews with her parents, sisters, and grandmothers. Connections are made between her standup and important moments in her life, and I don’t know how to express what made me feel so deeply but I’m going to try to do it here, because WHY NOT.

It’s something about Jenny trying to make jokes about her divorce and her dad watching, not laughing, and he doesn’t say anything but it’s so obvious that Jenny is hurting and it’s so obvious that it hurts her dad to know that she’s hurting.

It’s Jenny twirling in the bathroom in a flowy, hot pink dress, her Nana Connie looking on and saying “that’s yours now, you look beautiful,” the reflection of the generations and the echo of girlhood.

It’s Jenny’s mother saying “we are a special family because things that some people would call antiques are things that we use every day, we’re in a time warp and we romanticize things, of course you want to be loved.”

It’s Jenny’s sisters saying “yes, we feel lucky in love,” and the FOMO on Jenny’s face even as she rejoices for their happiness. Being a sister is so difficult and there’s only little glimpses of it here because most of what we see is the unique “remember that? yeah” moments that only siblings can have.

And it’s the fact that Jenny Slate is vulgar and says ridiculous things and she’s loud and she’s energetic and she is so uniquely herself even when it’s hard, even when she has a ton of selves bouncing around in her psyche, and she is so loved by her family. There’s such a softness in the way they look at her and the way she looks at them, there is delight and joy in one another’s presence, and I am so in love with it.

And in one of the interview segments, Jenny says that she’s learned “the difference between solitude and abandonment.” She says that it’s hard to be divorced and that her ex-husband is a beautiful, wonderful person. She says that her house was haunted and she wonders what it would have been like to be a kid that didn’t have ghosts in her house. She is so honest about feeling like her life is done, like she’s a failure, like she’s never going to be enough or special or whatever, and she also says that she made love to the Moon and that her life is only just beginning. She is a bundle of seemingly contradictory pieces and she brings each piece to the table and I love her I love her I love her. I tend to latch on to famous and brilliant women every so often, and I’m only just realizing that it’s because I see them being messy and thoughtful and real and letting their lives fall apart so that they can piece them back together again, more beautiful the second shattered time.

anyway yeah I think Jenny Slate is cool

#jenny slate #little weirds #still haven't read it #the SECOND I finish my final paper I intend to devour that book #stage fright #marcel the shell with shoes on #women #? #idk #I am just really into thoughts and ideas and beautiful ways of putting them

[poorlittlevampire]

also this is going to make me sound obnoxious but i think i just don’t like comedy

#like i’m watchinng a video essay rn and its fine but every single time she makes a joke or does a bit its like #...okay anyways can we get back to the video pls #like its just. who cares tbis isnt funny enough to warrent it happening at al #all* #idk #like even with theatre i hate seeing pure comedies #same with standup actually. the only comedians i like tend to do rather serious specials tied in with comedy #ie hannah gadsby’s nanette #or jenny slate’s stage fright #bo burnham too altho i hate talking abt him now LMAO #like just pure comedy is so boring for me

[zukkacore]

My perhaps overwrought LeoSaya as different reflections of the same One thesis: a.k.a. Chapter One Is Good and Thematically Rich, Actually

Punisher, Phoebe Bridgers // The Beginners Guide, Davey Wreden // Stage Fright, Jenny Slate // 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki // DanganRonpa S: Summer Camp // Post by Picasshole, art by Klimt, quote by John Berger // The Crane Wife by cj hauser // Danganronpa: The Manga; Act 2: the Case of the Super High School Level Baseball Star, Leon Kuwata, story by Spike // excerpt from 'Etcetera' by E.E. Cummings // Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc; Chapter 1, Free Time Event, and Prologue

#leosaya #leon kuwata #sayaka maizono #danganronpa #web weaving #jan.mine #my followers endure so much but like. i will not grow i will not change that is a promise #danganronpa: trigger happy havoc #dr1 #drthh #dr thh

[eerna]

All I could think of while watching Mizu was that thing with Jenny Slate where she says she has to make up for the fact that she’s her. Her Stage Fright stand up maybe?

“To make up for it. To make up for the fact that it’s me.”

Yeah T.T I really really loved how at first you're presented with a standard revenge story. Mizu is on a journey to murder the four possible men who have abused and impregnated her mother and then killed her. Ok. But the further the story goes, the more you realize that what she is actually trying to set right is the fact that she exists at all. The reveal that SHE was the one who just let her mother die without any reaction absolutely knocked me on my ass. She is not fighting FOR herself, she is fighting AGAINST herself. She thinks her father's death would solve her identity issues and kill the evil part of her. Sitting on the floor crying rn

#eernask #eernanon #eernask talk bes #it's like mamma mia but evil #i am so interested in the truth of her birth. obviously fowler knew of a female mixed kid with a bounty but had no idea who fathered her #to the point where he even said it could have been him. so why is she so important then!!! is her mother someone important??? #what happened with violet!!!! what did he tell her/not tell her!!!! uuuuughghghghgh #if it was just random s2 teaser lines i am gonna go on a long trip to london #.... which doesnt mean what i want it to mean bc i am going to london in a few months. but still you get it

[greyeyedmonster-18]

ten books (to get to know me)

tagged by bestie andie #@femme--de--lettres and i couldn't be more excited.

Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult- i read this as a teenager, and i quickly became obsessed with the way this story imparticular was told out of order. and not necessarily with flashback and flashforwards, but told straight up out of order that it acted as a sort of mystery. and the young love in this story was so exquisitely painful.

Almost like Being in Love by Steve Kluger- this was my first queer romance and its still one of my favorites. i have read and re-read this so many times my book is falling apart. this one really got me into atypical means of communication in my own writing and alternative ways to tell a story (the use of sticky notes, Memos, E-mails in this turned into the use of recipes and postcards in my own writing).

Little Weirds by Jenny Slate- i am obsessed with this woman (and will also say that Stage Fright is one of my favorite netflix comedy specials ever) and the vulnerability displayed in this book is exceptional

The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway- if we're going classic literature? Idk why this one isn't talked about more. something something about perseverance and putting the star in starting over and over again. we love a not quite happy ending here.

Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare- literally there is not a single romance that compares to this. this is the blueprint. Beatrice and Benedick are it.

A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks- so first of all, if you've never read anything by Oliver Sacks, you should. I read him in my undergrad as like a baby baby and he basically picked my career for me, I was so inspired. Hes wrote a lot (RIP) but this one is one of his more anecdotal ones from HIS experience about being a "patient" instead of being a doctor for once in his life and it is so great.

Beloved by Toni Morrisson- RIP the Queen. This book leaves me speechless every time. No notes. Not one.

Mans Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl- I had the quote "opportunity lies in the way man bears his burdens" in my room for the longest time, and its still something that deeply resonates with me. as much as we cannot control our shit hand, or our circumstances, we still have choices. and i think a lot about choosing joy as an act of resistance.

Me Before You by JoJo Moyes- i hate the way the movie absolutely obliterated the message of this book. because, yes, it is a romance, but its more a story about self-love and compassion? and getting unstuck. like its not "me before you" as in YOU CHANGED MY LIFE, WHAT WILL I DO WITHOUT YOU I AM NOT THE SAME. but "me before you" as in THANK GOD YOU CAME ALONG BECAUSE I DONT WANT TO BE THAT PERSON I WAS BEFORE I MET YOU and I will survive this life without you, that's fine because i am no longer who i was before you. i do not know her.

Disability Visibility by Alice Wong (or rather edited by her)- first person narratives of disabled folk in a modern context? yep. yep. yep. i need not say more.

(no pressure but i am going to tag @steelycunt because...yah.)

#ten books tag game

[vandroid-helsing]

Best of 2022

as always, this is stuff I loved in 2022, not necessarily stuff that came out in 2022 (in fact, it's mostly not!). and there'll be a more detailed post on Patreon.

BOOKS & COMICS

Squire, Sara Alfageeh & Nadia Shammas

The Argonautika, Apollonius of Rhodes trans. Peter Green

Scout Is Not A Band Kid, Jade Armstrong

Bestiary Dark, Marianne Boruch

Antigonick, Anne Carson/Sophocles

Flint and Mirror, John Crowley

Devil House, John Darnielle

Universal Harvester, John Darnielle

Vita Nostra, Marina Dyachenko

The Hatch, Joe Fletcher

Averno, Louise Glück

Job: A New Verse Translation, Edward L. Greenstein

The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett

Heretics of Dune, Frank Herbert 

Iliad, Homer trans. Caroline Alexander 

Skin Folk, Nalo Hopkinson

Uzumaki, Junji Ito

Moon Witch, Spider King, Marlon James 

Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance, Fady Joudah

Ulysses, James Joyce

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John le Carré

A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine

Salt Fat Acid Heat, Samin Nosrat

The Bull from the Sea, Mary Renault

The Persian Boy, Mary Renault 

Normal People, Sally Rooney

Grief Sequence, Prageeta Sharma

A Frog in the Fall, Linnea Sterte 

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

A Secret Vice, JRR Tolkien ed. Dimitra Fimi

MOVIES

Loser, Urzila Carlson

Everything Everywhere All At Once, Daniels 

Saint Maud, Rose Glass

Promare, Hiroyuki Imaishi

My Neighbor Totoro, Hayao Miyazaki

Withnail & I, Bruce Robinson

Jenny Slate: Stage Fright, Gillian Robinson

Demon Slayer, Haruo Sotozaki

Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky

Sk8 the Infinity, Hiroko Utumi

Barbarella, Roger Vadim

MUSIC

The Dream, alt-J

Renaissance, Beyoncé 

Hounds of Love, Kate Bush

“Lakes of Canada,” The Innocence Mission

The Loneliest Time, Carly Rae Jepsen

Dance Fever, Florence + the Machine

Mashrou' Leila, just like, in general

“Children of Light II”, Meg Myers

Leak 04-13, Jai Paul

Scheherazade, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Rostam & Sohrab, Loris Tjeknavorian

MISCELLANEOUS

Getting an agent

Homemade baba ghanoush 

Seeing Drawfee live

Attending Tristan und Isolde

The work of Salman Toor

Guesting on The Spouter-inn

#best of

[arch-dieangelo]

AND I LOVE YOU SO MUCH , I’M GOING TO LET YOU KILL ME

¹  the battle of the labyrinth     ²  les misérables, victor hugo     ³  the last olympian     ⁴  when rome falls; bloodsport, yves olade     ⁵  the last olympian     ⁶  history of love, nicole krauss     ⁷  the house of hades     ⁸  starpeace     ⁹  the house of hades     ¹⁰  beautiful ghosts, taylor swift     ¹¹  the blood of olympus     ¹²  stage fright, jenny slate     ¹³  the blood of olympus     ¹⁴  moderation, florence + the machine     ¹⁵  the blood of olympus     ¹⁶  fire for you, cannons

#DNI IF YOU ARE NOT A MUTUAL #mind you ive been working on this for 2 months and this is half the length that i had planned #'love is no game! it is no flowery softness! it is hard work—a quest that never ends. it demands everything from you. only then does it yiel #-d rewards.' #IM SO SANE #love is conditional! #it's an exchange ! #it's a quest ! he needs to give 150% of himself . his body his soul his mind his pain . in order to feel okay in receiving even 5% ! #that siken quote! you wanted to die for love! you always have ! #everything he does is just about love ! is it done in a very terrible and toxic way? absolutely. still #SELF. #META. #cheers

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― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

excerpt from ‘memory for forgetfulness: august, beirut, 1982’ by mahmoud darwish

excerpt from ‘homosexuality’ by frank o’hara

excerpt from ‘when rome falls; bloodsport’ by yves olade

excerpt from ‘history of love’ by nicole krauss

starpeace

Deathless - Catherynne M. Valente

i’m not calling you a liar / florence and the machine

Richard Siken, Planet of Love

Charles Bukowski

beautiful ghosts, taylor swift

stage fright, jenny slate

moderation, florence + the machine

fire for you, cannons

Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

[deadlinecom]

[badooney7]

Media I Consumed in 2023

TV

Everything currently available of:

The Book of Boba Fett

Yellowjackets

Seasons:

The Mandalorian, season 3

Rick and Morty, seasons 1-4

Family Guy, seasons 1-3

Futurama, seasons 1-3

What We Do In the Shadows, seasons 1-3

Miscellaneous episodes:

Betty Boop

Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2023

Movies

Marcel the Shell With Shoes On

The Exterminating Angel

Noh Masks: The Spirit of Noh Theatre

History of the World: Part 1

Spaceballs

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Barbie

Theatre

Hadestown

A Great Many Things & The Melting Mind

Funny Girl

Moulin Rouge

Finite Podcasts

Archive 81, season 1

Books

The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe (short story)

The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen (short story)

about half of It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han

Audiobooks

The Willows by Algernon Blackwood

The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe

The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen

Concerts

Cake

The Eagles with Steely Dan

Prerecorded/Streamed Performances

Cabaret

Candlenights 2023

Standup Specials

John Mulaney: Baby J

Jenny Slate: Stage Fright

Music Videos That Were Enough of a Production to Be Worth Mentioning

Broken Peach - The Night of the Halloween Specials

Thriller

Smooth Criminal

#media lists #2023

[upthebrackets]

I miss her (Jenny Slate Stage Fright Little Weirds era)

#ultimate wife…

[supermusicallee]

4am, watching jenny slate's stage fright for the fourth time

#im not doing greeeeaaattt #not greeaaaat #*nr

[uraynoro]

Read PDF Little Weirds EBOOK BY Jenny Slate

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 DESCRIPTION : Step into Jenny Slate's wild imagination in this "magical" (Mindy Kaling), "delicious" (Amy Sedaris), and "poignant" (John Mulaney) New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive -- "this book is something new and wonderful" (George Saunders). You may "know" Jenny Slate from her Netflix special, Stage Fright, as the creator of Marcel the Shell, or as the star of "Obvious Child." But you don't really know Jenny Slate until you get bonked on the head by her absolutely singular writing style. To see the world through Jenny's eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility. As she will remind you, we live on an ancient ball that rotates around a bigger ball made up of lights and gasses that are science gasses, not farts (don't be immature). Heartbreak, confusion, and misogyny stalk this blue-green sphere, yes, but it is also a place of wild delight and unconstrained vitality, a place where we can start living as soon as we

[sheisraging]

Jenny Slate: Stage Fight

#jenny slate #jennyslateedit #jenny slate: stage fright #timothée chalamet #my gifs #my edits #my graphics #i lolled so much

[alionundermyskin]

Jenny Slate: Stage Fright 

Dir. Gillian Robespierre

#jenny slate #jenny slate: stage fright #gillian robespierre #ashley connor #film #film stills #cinema #cinematography

[vandroid-helsing]

Would you kindly answer 38, 47, 48, and 53

38. favorite comedian(s)

Maria Bamford, hands down. Also Jenny Slate but specifically her special on Netflix, Stage Fright, rather than pretty much anything else she's done.

47. turn ons

really good hands. care and concern for others.

48. turn offs

really bad hands. being a republican.

53. five things that make me happy

cooking

drawing

trawling thrift stores for old-lady jewelry

you know that thing where you discover a new thing—a band, a food, a walk, a pair of shoes, whatever—and you're like this is it, this is my personality for the next month, and even if you absolutely hate that thing after that time, you still had that thing? like it briefly illuminated your life in a small way? I love that

peanut butter pretzels

#asks