Don Draper gets wet

I've posted this ad before, but I just found out there's a behind the scenes video of the execution for the Season 3 Poster, that Don...I mean Jon mentioned in a funny and refreshing interview he did with The AV Club, where he doesn't reveal squat about the new season but gives props to Breaking Bad.

Is it August 16th yet?

"Meditations In An Emergency"

And yes this is the poem that inspired the title of Season 2 finale of Mad Men that was also referenced at the start of the season.

Am I to become profligate as if I were a blonde? Or religious
as if I were French?

Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous
(and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable
list!), but one of these days there'll be nothing left with
which to venture forth.

Why should I share you? Why don't you get rid of someone else
for a change?

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under them, too,
don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves.

However, I have never clogged myself with the praises of
pastoral life, nor with nostalgia for an innocent past of
perverted acts in pastures. No. One need never leave the
confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes—I can't
even enjoy a blade of grass unless i know there's a subway
handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not
totally _regret_ life. It is more important to affirm the
least sincere; the clouds get enough attention as it is and
even they continue to pass. Do they know what they're missing?
Uh huh.

My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time;
they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and
disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away.
Or again at something after it has given me up. It makes me
restless and that makes me unhappy, but I cannot keep them
still. If only i had grey, green, black, brown, yellow eyes; I
would stay at home and do something. It's not that I'm
curious. On the contrary, I am bored but it's my duty to be
attentive, I am needed by things as the sky must be above the
earth. And lately, so great has _their_ anxiety become, I can
spare myself little sleep.

Now there is only one man I like to kiss when he is unshaven.
Heterosexuality! you are inexorably approaching. (How best
discourage her?)

St. Serapion, I wrap myself in the robes of your whiteness
which is like midnight in Dostoevsky. How I am to become a
legend, my dear? I've tried love, but that holds you in the
bosom of another and I'm always springing forth from it like
the lotus—the ecstasy of always bursting forth! (but one must
not be distracted by it!) or like a hyacinth, "to keep the
filth of life away," yes, even in the heart, where the filth is
pumped in and slanders and pollutes and determines. I will my
will, though I may become famous for a mysterious vacancy in
that department, that greenhouse.

Destroy yourself, if you don't know!

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I
admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a
final chapter no one reads because the plot is over.

"Fanny Brown is run away—scampered off with a Cornet of Horse;
I do love that little Minx, & hope She may be happy, tho' She
has vexed me by this exploit a little too.—Poor silly
Cecchina! or F:B: as we used to call her.—I wish She had a
good Whipping and 10,000 pounds."—Mrs. Thrale

I've got to get out of here. I choose a piece of shawl and my
dirtiest suntans. I'll be back, I'll re-emerge, defeated, from
the valley; you don't want me to go where you go, so I go where
you don't want me to. It's only afternoon, there's a lot
ahead. There won't be any mail downstairs. Turning, I spit in
the lock and the knob turns.

Praise the Lord 'Mad Men' to return in August - Entertainment News, TV News, Media - Variety

Click the link for the full story if you're interested, 'Mad Men' to return in August - Entertainment News, TV News, Media - Variety. But I'm soooooooooooo excited considering I postitively love this show and can't wait to find out what's going to happen next with Don and Betty's baby, but mainly with Peggy and Pete, & I'm hoping Ken Cosgrove, finally gets some respect and a little more air time.

Matthew Weiner I praise you

For those of you who don't know who Matthew Weiner is, he's the creator and head writer of "Mad Men." I drafted this original post right after the season finale of the show about 4 weeks ago and just never had a chance to finish it. Now that I find myself trying emulating Betty's style (and maybe even sometimes her nuttiness...ok not really) I thought I should finally finish it.

I'm glad other people are as obsessed with this incredible show too, because the word needs to shared. The New York Times had a great article about the finale and a 10 page feature from when the season started this summer, that's worth checkign out to get in the know.

Matthew Weiner is a genius and with the help of an incredible cast and crew he has created one of the best shows i have ever seen in my life. After reading this exclusive interview with Jon Hamm on playing Don Draper and an interview with Vincent Kartheiser on playing Pete Campbell, their characters have been even more illuminated and resonate even more, now that the show has come to a close and I've had a chance to let the "Mad-ness" of season 2 sink in.

SPOILER ALERT OF SEASON 2 FINALE BELOW!

The title of the 2nd season finale was "Meditations in an Emergency," which I thought was the perfect title (and obviously and ongoing theme/book title throughout the show,) since the epsiode unfolded during the Bay of Pigs crisis. Though the central focus of the finale were the 2 not completely convention couples of the show, Peggy & Pete the least likely/most exciting, and of course Don & Betty, the most attractive/most dysfunctional. Pete was all mooney eyed and not because he was drunk. He was in love and sincere for the first time ever, and she ruined him by setting herself free and revealing the truth about the repercussions of their actions from sesaon 1. "I wish I picked you then. I love you and I want to be with you." What don't you know that?" Pete finally confessed to her, and she responded with:" I could have had you in my life...I could have shamed you into being with me, " which was true and utterly shocking.

Don also confessed his love to Betty and the necessity of having her in his life after she kicked him out for having and affair. But she finally let him come home, after finding out she was knocked up and had a horizontal mambo session with a complete stranger in the back office of a bar- which we learn when Joan tells him "Your wife called and asked you to come home." At that moment Don realized the importance of family, to his identity and existene and needed nothing by them and left his briefcase at work. Betty and don have everything and nothing, they're young, beautiful, and a family of means, who screw around on each other and are unfulfilled with their lives. I loved that Don finally showed some emotion and made the grand gesture at home and in the office, respecting others and the "products" he sells not advertising, which in turn screwed Duck over because he legitimately hates Don and is jealous of him. In the end Betty and Don are back together, but because they realize they'd rather be together and miserable than alone and miserable. Pete has no one and Peggy has peace.

I'd give up a kidney to have access to/wear whatever I wanted from this closet

I'd give up the other kidney to get on Don Draper (yes Don not Jon, because we're already involved.)





oh and did I mention Don Draper is a stone fox

Don Draper's Guide to Picking up Women

it's been less than 12 hours since the Mad Men Finale and i already desperately miss the show. in order to keep the spirit of the show in my life til it comes back, i'm going to take these tips Don Draper has come up with...and use them inversely to pick up men if necessary.

even i wonder how my mind works - herbal cigarettes

so i just found a fantastically hilarious clip from what i can only assume is some totally brilliant British comedy series from 2o years ago, called "Alfresco," that happened to feature one of my favorite actors, Hugh Laurie, who plays Dr. Gregory House on "House."

i literally stumbled upon this clip after i found myself day dreaming about "Mad Men's" Don Draper, and started to wonder about all the cigarettes they smoke on show. it reminded me of an interview Jon Hamm did on Kimmel not too long ago where he mentioned that the characters are actually smoking herbal cigarettes, which then lead to me googling herbal cigarettes and this video came up. so basically my thought process was:

Don Draper's smoking hotness -> Don smoking -> herbal cigarettes -> Google + "herbal cigarrettes" (i spelled it wrong because i don't smoke) -> hilarious brilliant video featuring another amazing actor from one of my other favorite shows-> blog about it

I just found it humourous and coincidental that I came across this while originally thinkgin about Jon Hamm considering Hugh Laurie has repeatedly been Jon Hamm's competetion for Best Actor in a Drama Series at almost every awards show. i also have to add that my favorite line from this video is, "You're a credulous git Mr. Pepperdine!" And with that said please enjoy the clip!