I followed Erin to DC to watch her speak on a panel for Campus Progress, and while we were there we went ahead and made a segment out of it. We don’t get the chance to work together often, but it’s always super fun. I’m proud of her.
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August 2, 2010
July 30, 2010
Just a few words on this version of the soda buying scene from this week’s 7th Floor West on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Amy Ozols’ original script allowed for a long scene that involved Quest putting nickels into the soda machine. As scripted the scene was already longer than it needed to be, but that is how she writes these episodes, knowing that we will pare down the footage and choose what works best from the shoot. When Quest, Jimmy and Tariq began performing this scene, adding their own flourishes as they went, it grew to be as long, then longer than our allotted time for the entire episode. There is one take of this scene that ran for 15 minutes, and having been there I can tell you it was brilliant. All of this is my way of saying that at over 5 minutes, this was not my attempt to cut together an “extended” version of the scene, but rather still an abridged version.
July 19, 2010
This is a short behind the scenes piece I shot last Wednesday. It shows a little bit of the process a comedy bit goes through, and some of the staff involved in the mechanics of getting it ready for air.
July 16, 2010
Follow Up Post On “Super Freak” As A Negative Sexual Paradigm
I’ve been thinking about the female character depicted in Rick James’ “Super Freak” these past few days, and I have to admit I feel a deep empathy for her. The opening lines of the song lay out some basic conditions for how to have a relationship with the Super Freak. “She will never let your spirits down, once you get her off the streets.” Essentially then Super Freak is a homeless woman, and if you take her in then she will repay you with intercourse. The intercourse is implied of course, but a valid reading nonetheless based on innuendo within the song, as well as the cultural history of R&B in general (see photo).
Having sex with the Super Freak could hardly be labeled an act of love if her physical well being depends upon her performance in bed, or rather how she insures that your “spirits” are never “down”. This is not to say that every act of sexual congress must come from love, as love is not a prerequisite to lust. The implied contract of housing for sex in Rick James’ “Super Freak”, however, can either be viewed as prostitution or as sexual slavery.
It must also be addressed that while there are healthy variations in sexual behavior, the Super Freak epitomizes the behavioral paradigm of the highly sexualized woman, and therefore encompasses negative, or self-destructive variations of sexual behavior as well. It is documented that women who are sexualized at a young age have a difficult time achieving emotional intimacy without attaching a sexual quotient, and so there is a fair chance that the Super Freak was a victim of abuse at some point in her past.
July 16, 2010
Hopefully you caught the folk group Tungsten & Morg Financial Adivsers and Estate Planning on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon this week.
July 10, 2010
Copy The Lyrics to “Super Freak” by Rick James Into A Word Doc, Then Find/Replace Every Instance Of “Girl” With “Chair” And This Is What You Get
She’s a very kinky chair
The kind you don’t take home to mother
She will never let your spirits down
Once you get her off the street, ow chair
She likes the boys in the band
She says that I’m her all-time favorite
When I make my move to her room it’s the right time
She’s never hard to please
{Refrain}
That chair is pretty wild now
The chair’s a super freak
The kind of chair you read about
In new-wave magazine
That chair is pretty kinky
The chair’s a super freak
I really love to taste her
Every time we meet
She’s all right, she’s all right
That chair’s all right with me, yeah
She’s a super freak, super freak
She’s super-freaky, yow
Super freak, super freak
She’s a very special chair
The kind of chair you want to know
From her head down to her toenails
Down to her feet, yeah
And she’ll wait for me at backstage with her chairfriends
In a limousine
Going back in Chinatown
Three’s not a crowd to her, she says
“Room 714, I’ll be waiting”
When I get there she’s got incense, wine and candles
It’s such a freaky scene
{Refrain}
{Bridge}
Ohhhhh
Super freak, super freak
That chair’s a super freak
Ohhhhh
She’s a very kinky chair
The kind you don’t take home to mother
She will never let your spirits down
Once you get her off the street, ow chair
Blow, Danny!
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