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Here is a thing that happened.

Thanks to Danny for taping it off the TV for us.


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A Halloween Treat

Well it happened, folks.  Right when you weren’t looking, Myles went and reinvented the musical.

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“This Halloween, sink into the world of a New Orleans-style ghost story musical, a tall tale full of highballs and oddballs, hobgoblins and hemoglobin. Our protagonist, the eponymous Beau Fib, embarks on a quest to find out why he wore his good shoes, something he’d never do without a special occasion. On his journey, he joins forces with an unlikely coterie comprising a heartbroken soldier, a derelict priest, and an acid-tongued strumpet. As they reel from danger and stagger into peril, their quest story unfolds through musical influences that range from Tom Lehrer to Tom Waits, Kurt Weill to barbershop quartet, with lots of surprises, monsters, and smutty talk along the way (did we mention the demonic singing clown?). The humor is dark, the characters are twisted, the whole thing stinks of booze — it’s like no musical you’ve ever been to before. Full of wordplay and weltshmertz, Beau Fib is a lively, hauntingly original new play that will always tell you the truth and will make you live forever.”

Get your tickets here.  And soon!


Weekend Reading

If you’re like many of us and don’t have a stable job, then the weekend ain’t nothin’ but another pair of days.  So why not spend them perusing our two favorite blogs on the subject!

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Single and Unemployed, curated by Weak Nights’ own Helen Harlan.   It’s sort of a repository for everything that is wrong or right with life, specifically Helen’s.

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And you’re probably already reading Stuff Unemployed People Like, but maybe you should check in and make sure you’re up-to-date.  Just because you’re unemployed doesn’t mean you should slack!


What Is Your Least Favorite Racial Stereotype?

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Fourth in a series of posts intended to let you better know the actors and writers of Weak Nights, this week’s question is: What is your least favorite racial stereotype?

Ryan SandovalRyan Sandoval

When they say that Mexicans are lazy. That’s such bullshit. If you grew up where I did, you’d see these dudes working like 3 jobs and slaving away in the strawberry fields doing this crap labor just to get shit all over. Such shit.

Price PetersonPrice Peterson

I think it’s wrong and hurtful whenever people talk about how all Asians play either piano or violin and wear only neutral colors and consider cheese to be their kryptonite and don’t hug their parents.

Eliot BenjaminEliot Benjamin

The one about Indian people owning hotels. It’s boring. I just don’t have too much to work with when my white hate rears its beautiful head.

Lily SparksLily Sparks

I don’t like it when people talk racism against [edited by Weak Nights legal team], because they aren’t human. If you said you hated ants, that wouldn’t be racist. That would be ridiculous! Same difference.

jon cannonJonathan Cannon

I don’t like racial stereotypes because they limit one’s autonomy and because they are 100% true at least 100% of the time, and I’m unsettled by that kind of certainty. That said, don’t ever tell me white people can’t dance, 1, 2, 3, 4! (spin-move, flawless robot transition into pop-lock disco dance, somehow ends with a yo-yo in a cat’s cradle). Case rested, friend.

Kelsey McConnellKelsey McConnell

Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. Buying two for one Guinness while wearing green doesn’t buy you a legacy of Catholic guilt and persecution by the British. Real Irishmen drink alone.

[Since originally submitting this response, extensive genetic testing has revealed that I am far less Irish than I am Viking and Inuit. So I'm now letting Irish comments slide, but talk shit on Inuits and I will cut your head off and nail it to the prow of my Dragon Ship.]

Helen HarlanHelen Harlan

Someone once told me that any attractive young woman driving a BMW or Mercedes in LA is probably a high-class prossy. This is my least favorite racial stereotype because it’s probably true and, unlike me, those bitches got an income.

Tim HeiderichTim Heiderich

I don’t know if it’s a racial stereotype, but the idea that racists are all inbred, backwoods hicks is very unfair. We are doctors, lawyers, college students, wives, girlfriends, and grandparents. People need to be more open-minded about what stereotypes a “racist”.

Hunter HustonHunter Huston

Sony.

Darren HerczegDarren Herczeg

Pussy.

Dagmar Weaver MadsenDagmar Weaver-Madsen

I love Japan.

Knox HarringtonKnox Harrington

That all gay people have AIDS. This is offensive since no lesbians really have AIDS.

Myles NyeMyles Nye

5.1/2 bottom racial stereotypes:

1. Arabs give away the endings of movies, especially if they’re from the United Arab Emirates

2. Pacific Islanders say “What is it?” while they’re already unwrapping a present

3. Panamaniacs bog down conference calls with rambling rhetorical questions

4. Black people give unnecessarily complicated directions

5. Cree Indians tell lies about their heritage

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Rat Tail Roast

The phrase ‘all good things must end,’ has rarely been truer than when applied to Darren’s rat tail. Please enjoy Weak Nights’ friendly farewell roast of this beloved baby ponytail.


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Dear TV: A Love Letter

Known Los Angeles personality and star of ArtHaus, Kat Shuchter created this incredible video compilation of some of the greatest moments ever aired on television. Enjoy!


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YouTube is Amazing

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Attention Teens…


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My Life as Faerie King

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In the summer of 1997 I was thrilled to have landed my first role of Zara, Faerie King. I couldn’t believe that I booked a part where I shared the same name! I signed the SAG contract immediately needless to say. Bleaching my hair and getting extensions was probably the toughest part of the four month shoot. But I couldn’t believe that I was working with such talented actors like Hunter Parish, Helen Hunt, Lily Allen, Josh Cooke, Heather Langenkamp, and of course famed director Werner Herzog!!! I will say working with Keith Carradine and Kat DeLuna was a real bummer though.

This film led me to roles on such TV shows as Power Rangers: Tokyo Go! Team! Magic!, Power Rangers: Time Backwards! and Tru Calling starring sexy Eliza Dushku. Movies included 54 and Power Rangers: Super Lightening!: The Movie.

Of course my cocaine addiction brought me back down to earth and then rehab. My days are now spent stuffing toy bears at a certain bear stuffing store on Hollywood and Highland. Yes, the Winter of 1999 is a one day time I will never forget. Thank you Werner, thank you.

Love,

Taylor Michaels

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