Mary Jane's Next Dance
The second season of Weeds premieres on Showtime 8/14, and while that theme song was cute the first three times, I don't know if I can stand to hear Melvina Reynolds yodel "Little Boxes" one more time. Thankfully, the showrunners got stoned, borrowed my iPod, and convinced these artists to cover it.
Englebert Humperdinck too, but he's not on my iPod. Each artist's version will open a different episode.- Elvis Costello
- Death Cab For Cutie
- Regina Spektor
- McGarrigle Sisters
- Ozomatli
- Jenny Lewis
- Tim DeLaughter (Polyphonic Spree)
- Tom Maxwell and Ken Mosher (Squirrel Nut Zippers)
I'm really curious to see if the series maintains its high quality (ha!!!) in season two. Especially after reading this interview with creator Jenji Kohan and star Mary-Louise Parker. Apparently the girls gone weed hate each other.
One ongoing sore point has been Parker's criticism of Nancy's parenting, which is "upsetting" to Kohan. "If she's caught, her children will be orphaned. She's acting as a bad parent. It's more obvious to say that she's a good parent who's just trying to get by, but I don't go for the obvious. It's not interesting to me."
As Kohan remembers it, their difference of opinion became so intense last year that, at a table read, Parker "threw a script at me and said that her mother couldn't watch the show."Sounds like a fun place to work. Speaking of which, make this your wallpaper. Your boss will love it.What most concerned [Parker] —- and still does -— were tonal shifts, particularly from the black dramedy of the pilot to what she perceives as more straight-up comedy in subsequent episodes. "I feel like it's been really erratic, partly because there are so many writers," she explains. "I like to be in control. I like to know a trajectory, and you can't really have that in television."
"There's no big feud," insists Kohan. "I'm not sure we completely get each other, but we've learned to stay out of each other's way." Meaning, they communicate through third parties? "Often, yeah," says Kohan. "Look, there's no show without her and there's no show without me."
Posted at 9:08 PM in Show Tunes
Tags: Death Cab For Cutie | Jenny Lewis | Weeds
Oh thank god, i hate that song. I was so happy that you could skip it on the dvd.
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Hmmm, do I smell a 'Hempilation 3' in the works?
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I'd be interested to hear Tim DeLaughter's take on it. Nothing like hippie indie covers to get you going.
http://www.musictimes.com.au
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Regina Spektor should fit quite nicely with that song.
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Engelbert Humperdinck is the greatest artist of all time. Why ISN'T he on your iPod?
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I'm afraid I'm with Parker. The show is pretty stupid. Like, if Kevin Nealon was such a shit-hot accountant and great friend to the late Mr. Weeds, why didn't he sell him any life insurance?
And that business of Mary-Louise screwing her gangsta drug dealer competitor was just pathetic.
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Accountant/insurance guy, whatever he is. My point is they make him out to be this great financial guy.
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i love weeds that is my fvorite show of all time but umm were can i get that wallpeper ya know for my walls
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