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jamijett:

danielleh:

Against my better judgment, I am listening to the most recent WTF podcast with guest Diablo Cody. Marc and Diablo are talking about how out-of-touch they are with “real people” because they live in Los Angeles and this entire conversation is making me want to stick my head in a…

She’s so right.  Although (and I didn’t listen to this, I’m going by what Danielle’s saying) I did think Young Adult had some brilliance, but I did spend a good deal of it thinking that Diablo Cody had no idea what the popular girl in highschool would be like now.  Like the Charlise character was a believable character in a way, but not at all believable as the character she was supposed to be. But this is not drawing on remembering the sweet taste of Taco Bell, if you were ever a normal person and you make your living by developing interesting characters you should still have a grasp on that.

I haven’t listened to this episode yet and I haven’t seen Young Adult, but I still agree with Danielle’s commentary. The WTF podcast has some great guests but Marc Maron can be hard to listen to. He’s a massively depressed guy and the first half of the show is generally filled with a lot of his neuroticisms that I have to skip. I don’t think he’s unique in the world of comedy, being neurotic or depressed, but that doesn’t make for a fun show or interview. A lot of stand up comedians who have a level of success can’t see the forest for the trees — they have success because people support them and they are able to act out their anxieties for all of us, but they kind of “forget” that this career affords them an alternative to the work-a-day job that the rest of us sludge through… and yet they’re still bitter. Being a comedian isn’t glamorous or necessarily fruitful (see Netflix instant for a movie called I Am Comic for excellent insight) but it does spare the comic from having to be an accounts payable clerk or whatever.

I have always liked Diablo Cody on a personal level. I “knew” her online for many years before she hit it big; we were even going to collaborate on her first book before the publisher went another direction on artwork. She’s a smart lady and has good insight into what people of “our generation” think/feel and has a great way of expressing it. HAVING SAID THAT I don’t worship her and don’t fawn over all of her commercial successes. And if she’s kind of “lost touch” with the common folks, I am not at all surprised. It’s inevitable — anyone who works regularly in Showbusiness is changed. It’s not their fault, necessarily, but it’s a bit of a challenge for some of us to relate to people in that position. Brad Pitt can’t walk into Taco Bell? Oh, how sad. So when some of the people who are technically “in Showbusiness” but on the lower rungs (like Marc Maron) complain about it, I understand their frustration but it’s hard to drum up a lot of sympathy about it. And listening to an hour of a podcast dedicated to “I’m working in my chosen field and there’s the potential to be filthy rich but I’m only marginally well set” is hard to get into.