girls

can we just talk about my new love?

GIRLS

I'm not a lesbian. btw.

Every once in a while a TV show comes along that forces you to pop out of bed one day a week, full of energy and excitement, because "insert title here" is on tonight!!

Like, you endure your entire week just so you can make it to Sunday nights.

Seasonal depression is a thing.  And in the fall and winter, shows like Deseperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy (the first few seasons.. not that last few obvi) would help me cope with my cloudy cold icy gray hopeless environment.

And then the sunshine and grass and birds of spring and summer would help me deal with the sudden absence of Brie and Gabby and Izzie Stevens.

After Desperate Housewives ended (and I completely agree, it needed to end) I figured I could just save a couple thousand bucks a year and cancel my Comcast account.  Television was dead to me.

And then I found this show Girls on HBO and I adore it.  I adore it for the same reasons I adore Mumford & Sons and closet-love-and-don't-think-it's-a-coincidence the fact the T. Swift releases a new album EVERy time I have a complicated break-up.  And every other good song in the world.  Because you can look up the lyrics and be like:

'wait, Marcus Mumford has tried to understand his broken heart and stared at a white blank page while his sadness turns into a growing rage too, because some person did him dirty? And he feels like a hopeless wanderer too? whaaaaa..?!

& 'Taylor Swift sits and wonders if you're wondering about her too? And wishes she could run to an old flame but doesn't because she can't risk another broken heart?'

& Ben Howard says it all perfectly in Black Flies.  Because maybe you were the ocean and I was the stone.  Just getting lost and sinking into a black abyss.

I ain't crazy if all these bad-asses feel the same as I do on occasion.

k back to GIRLS:  this show has a character to relate to everyone in the whole entire 'merican 20-something population.  and if you have the heart and mind of a A.D.D gypsy like me, every character in the show relates to you in some way.

Hannah Horvath

I love her.  Have you ever thought something was going to be your calling in life, destiny, and then you just kinda forget to take the steps in that direction?  Like, you never really start doing your destiny? Hannah never loses her optimism, which I appreciate.  And I also really appreciate the scene where Hannah was kicking her ex-boyfriend out of her apartment.  They ex-boyfriend who found out he was gay and so moved in with her as a room mate -not lover.  And then he scolded her for sitting on his chair in just her nightgown, and this line happened: "I am going to sit on this chair as much as I like, all day, vagina back and forth, forever, just my whole crotchal area spreading out over it"  And it wasn't in a sexual way, because, he's gay.  It was in a hilarious "OMG did she just say and do that??" way.

Marnie Michaels

She seems the most put-together.  But she's actually not.  She's having trouble keeping a job, has no idea what she wants to be when she grows up, lost a boyfriend that she didn't want back until he dumped her.  Doesn't everybody feel that way.  You don't want what you have, until you can't have it anymore.  And you don't even want it back because you actually want it, you want it because somebody told you you couldn't have it.  It's the damn principle.

Jessa Johansson

Jessa is beautiful and wild and raw and not held back by anything, or so it seems.  Everybody admires her free spirit and daring bravery, but she is actually always putting up a front, running from something, or from everything.  A lot of people put up fronts, I think.  And they are usually pretty ceaseless.  Your friends know who they think you are so well, but when it comes down to it, they don't really know a damn thing about you.  And it's kinda your fault.

Shoshanna Shapiro

She is brushed off by everybody as being naive and unexperienced, but she usually stands as the voice of reason, although sneakily.  I had a few friends in high school that remind me so much of Shoshanna.  She seems like a complete ditz, but she is the only one who tends to plan ahead, think things through, and make educated decisions not affected by her feelings or surroundings.

Overall, HILARIOUS.  It will make you laugh and cry a thousand times an episode.  And if you haven't seen it, go get it.  Really.  You'll feel less alone in a sea of 20 something year old girls who all seem to have it together more than you do.

because I don't really have it together quite yet, but I'm reallllllly close, probably.  I think.

love ya :) whoever you are.