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Who Said It: John Cusack, Diablo Cody Or Bob Ross?
Posted by Seth at 8:55 AM on May 6, 2008
Like an Iconoclasts that thanks you for the add, MySpaceTV's Artist on Artist pits star vs. star in a Battle Royale of Big Ideas and Mutual Tucheslecking. The only loser? You! See if you can pin the following quotes from Diablo Cody and John Cusack's recent Artist on Artist pairing to the appropriate speaker. To heighten the difficulty level a bit, we've also thrown in a few quotes from beloved TV landscape artist, Bob Ross:
Like an Iconoclasts that thanks you for the add,
1. "We met at the cast party for How I Met Your Mother, right? We were both pretty drunk... It was kind of a blackout haze."
2. "It was really cool though. It was you, me, and Alyson Hannigan just kind of hanging. Then we kind of broke off and got to talking about stuff that interested us as people. You know, as human beings."
3. "Then we texted for a while and then we hung out."
4. "I think people's reaction to art is often more about themselves than it is about the art. People really project, and they find parts of themselves in the things that they consume. And so it's always interesting to me sometimes the new ideas that people have about things that I didn't even intend to put in there. And that's what's kind of cool."
5. "And that makes it look like birch trees, isn't that sneaky? Heh. Ha. It's gorgeous."
6. "If you go to like a sports bar, or a place, like, where there's a bunch of aggressive males, and you mix that with alcohol, then it becomes that too. Like an almost psychotic extreme."
7. "As my son Steve says, just smoosh it in there."
8. "I'm used to being a little out of step."
9. "I wrote a horror movie? That's shooting right now? In Vancouver? It's called Jennifer's Body?"
10. "People look at me like I'm a little strange, when I go around talking to squirrels and rabbits and stuff. That's ok. Thaaaat's just ok."
11. "It was pretty interesting because the film shifts from surreality to soap opera to black comedy to sincerity, and we sort of wanted to see what would happen if we did all those shifts but didn't telegraph that they were coming? And not explain them?"
12. "It's such an adventurous pastiche!"
13. "Water's like me. It's laaazy... Boy, it allways looks for the easiest way to do things."
ANSWERS: 1. JC 2. DC 3. JC 4. DC 5. BR 6. JC 7. BR 8. JC 9. DC 10. BR 11. JC 12. DC 13. BR
- Artist on Artist: John Cusack and Diablo Cody [MySpace TV]
- Bob Ross [Wikiquote]
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Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
karen
Posted May 23, 2008 1:23 AM
I just wanted to say that alchohol is a depressant. It may make you feel good for a moment in time but ultimately it is causing you to become depressed that is why I worry about you.
Also, I think that John Cusack is on such a higher level of class than Diablo Cody that she is incapable of understanding what a tremendously amazing, beyond the thought process, of what a great person she has sitting next to her.
HandsomeBwonderful
Posted 10:44 AM 6/5/08
Wow. Who knew sports bars were filled with aggressive males? I thought they were places to watch the f-ing game, without the wife/GF hounding you to take out the trash. Thank God these two are interesting on the screen, because an evening sipping lattes with these two would be ponderous. But that's me. Paraphrasing the words of a much wiser man than I, "I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my cultural elite... silent." Such a mind-numbing pastiche of gibberish!
HandsomeBwonderful
GingerVitis
Posted 10:33 AM 6/5/08
Isn't he, uh, in recovery? Way to piss off a publicist, Diablo ...
GingerVitis
MissFiFi
Posted 10:22 AM 6/5/08
oh brother, I had heard Cusack was quite the lush, this confirms it. Dammit!
MissFiFi
Sweet Panda Love
Posted 11:18 AM 6/5/08
Seth, I love you like Bob Ross loved happy little trees and Pea Pod the squirrel.
Sweet Panda Love
Calraigh
Posted 11:42 AM 6/5/08
Christ almighty.I used to want to fuck him.Now I want to rip his entrails out through the back of his head.
I might want to fuck him again in about 2 hours though, after I watch Grosse Pointe Blank to erase the memory of the reality that is John Cusack.
Calraigh
hughman
Posted 11:39 AM 6/5/08
i <3 seth too. i look for his byline whenever i can.
hughman
Baronzemo
Posted 12:42 PM 6/5/08
Nice job Seth, you made Bob Ross the breakout star of the next Sundance.
All your quotes from Cusack threw me because there's no references to any films about a laconic-yet-edgy-loner lusted after by a quirky cougar who pretends to understand him
I've read "Jennifer's Body", I also saw "Fake Diablo Cody" & Joss Whedon on the strikeline. I knew she was Fake Diablo Cody because the real Diablo Cody wouldn't have the stones to face Mr. Whedon after writing "Jennifer's Body"
Baronzemo
Benny
Posted 2:30 AM 7/5/08
Three things about that video caught my attention.
1. This comment: "I think people's reaction to art is often more about themselves than it is about the art. People really project, and they find parts of themselves in the things that they consume. And so it's always interesting to me sometimes the new ideas that people have about things that I didn't even intend to put in there. And that's what's kind of cool."
I wonder if this has something to do with Juno backlash. If it does, then she's right in a way, but I think she misses the point. When people see things in your work you didn't intend for the to see, it doesn't mean they're projecting. It means they have got you pegged. They're not seeing themselves. They're seeing you as you are but maybe don't realise you are.
2. When she talks about Jennifers Body she goes into 'pitch voice'. ...A salesman.
3. John Cusacks patented brand of irony has become your drunk uncle's brand of irony, which is to say, slightly less self aware than it at one time was.
Benny
Leviticus_71
Posted 4:47 AM 7/5/08
She needs a Hello Kitty purse.
Leviticus_71
Passwordforgetter
Posted 5:34 AM 11/5/08
I love how when She's pitching the horror film He says "Oh, you mean of the era where horror films had drama and style?" and She goes "No, the era of crap". Of course he Lies and says "Oh, that's Nice". The best thing about Diablo Cody is that giant abortion on her shoulder. Classy.
Passwordforgetter