it's aggie

"australian" "writer" "and" "comedian"

[glamourradiation]

rewatched Flight of the Conchords for the first time in easily a decade. slow by contemporary standards but also perfect teevee. I didn't remember much of the show at all besides the musical sequences so it was nice to experience it all basically fresh. (although somehow I remembered the Albi the Racist Dragon sequence word for word after all this time, despite having forgotten it existed.)

Demetri Martin as Bret's new bandmate at the end of season 1... arf arf

there's still stuff that holds it back from being a greatest of all time show, mostly that for a sitcom about two guys neither of them have particularly distinct personalities. Bret is shy and Jemaine isn't, Jemaine is hornier but Bret is more successful with women. it still works on a broad scale because most episodes pit them against bigger+weirder one-off characters, but in terms of driving organic narrative comedy between them it's a bit weak. the only time their dynamic really works in that sense is the Bowie episode where Bret gets body-image issues and Jemaine's attempts to help him all backfire. in contrast just in season 1 alone they do the 'woman is creeped out that Bret/Jemaine came along to the other one's date' bit at least four times. but the songs and the silly DIY costumes etc make up for that narrative weakness.

[glamourradiation]

back on my bullshit 😌

[horatiosroom]

Nirvanna ye Bard performing Nicholas Nicholas Nine Doors

7x7in // watercolor, acrylic, and ink on 9x12in watercolor paper

wouldst thou wish to trade coin ($350) for this original illumination, kindly dm me

[kyssimmee]

my @tmbgareok drawing

[eyeseechan]

matt violates the restraining order for the nth time

[glamourradiation]

this movie shot me with the 'spend hours on niche jokes in photoshop' gun

[ballsmmm]

[kingofallgirls]

for matt it IS heaven and for jay it IS hell

[play-the-rivoli]

whatever. go my newspapers

[moonrot-edits]

this was funnier in my head

[ntbsideblog]

matt & jay on the intersection between their characters and their real selves (transcript below)

INT: You've been doing this for 20 years. Presumably the two of you personally have grown and evolved and had events in your lives in those intervening years; have you diverged from the characters, or do you still feel that they're pretty close to the real Matt and Jay?

JAY: I can always access the Jay that is the Jay in Nirvanna the Band. It's basically just tapping into your deepest, darkest instincts and allowing yourself to just be impulsive and vulnerable, and it's fun to do that. And I think right away when we started this, even when we were kids, we knew how to kind of be vulnerable like that, and we found it very funny, that when it felt very sincere and real, it was contributing to what we liked about shooting the show. Because we liked the sincerity of it.

And I guess, yeah, we've grown up, we've gotten better at making music and films, but we keep each other honest when we shoot it still, even at this age, to sort of make sure that we're still being quite naked with each other. [laughs]

INT: Matt, do you still feel that connection to the Matt character there?

MATT: My answer's slightly different, I feel like the older I get the more I become like that. I think the archetype, it acts on me in the same way that l act on it, because it is very much a shadow of myself. In the same way that Peter Pan chases his own shadow, like that's a pivotal part of that myth, I witness this happening to me. And it's a gift, because it means the older I get, the more connected I am to this adolescent moron, in a way. And I use that term with all due respect, because the ignorance allows this character to be so foolishly optimistic about his own future, the chances of success, gives him the confidence to pitch wild-eyed ideas that really have no basis in reality, yet, again, just might work.

INT: Do you ever feel like the characters hold you back from real-life growth? That as you enter maybe relationships, or financial things, do you feel the Nirvanna Matt and Jay on your shoulder telling you, “That's too...”

MATT: No, it's the exact opposite. Because, I mean, again, it's The Picture of Dorian Gray! It's like the movie versions of us get to die and make these mistakes and do these insane decisions so that we don't need to do them. Right? It's the same as lying in bed and imagining a bad decision and running it out like a video game, and then going, “Yeah, maybe I shouldn't do that.” We get to exorcise our demons!

JAY: It seems like the more we explore and get to shoot and be vulnerable with these sort of like pseudo-real versions of ourselves, that you're faced with it, and you have a self-awareness of it, so that when you leave that character on the floor of the scene or whatever, you can actually learn to grow away from it, and you learn about yourself and you go, “Oh wow, I'm glad I'm not actually out of control of this part of myself, but I have it in control.”

[glamourradiation]

015 Battle of the Best Friends with Nirvanna the Band the Show | Just Chips Dot Com

Matt Johnson (Operation Avalanche) and Jay McCarrol, creators of Viceland's Nirvanna the Band the Show, join us in studio for finger foods a

whoever said the Matt and Jay ep on the chip podcast really is that good, you were right

[glamourradiation]

we had falafel wraps for dinner and my dad said "nothing like a good falafel" and I almost fucking lost it

[glamourradiation]

Linnell posting a pic of the NGV foyer from the 2024 tour is both lovely and a bit sad bc he was there in the exhibition changeover period. Too late for the Egyptian stuff too early for Kusama. I hope he still had a good time 🙏

[glamourradiation]

so embarrassing to have a (celebrity) crush bc like I see a picture and go oh yes there he is, the hottest man to ever live. and then this is the pic

[fuckyeahlanoandwoodley]

[leghorned]

send in the clowns / ntb