12/10/2023 0 Comments Japanese gag toy![]() We could here them arguing from across the house. The friends house we were at had some crazy parents though. One day Sean and I were hanging out at my one friends house playing video games like we usually did. His older sibling would stay home and watch him and make sure he didn't get into too much trouble. Shawn is the youngest of 5 children in his family. My good friend Shawn's parents were always out of town on business. I was part of a friend group with lots of people. This story takes place when I was in middle school. ![]() ![]() When I say wealthy, I mean everyone has a bug, expensive house, a nice car, and lots of toys to go along with it. My name is Michael and I live in my own apartment in New York, but at the time of this story I lived in a wealthy suburb of Chicago. On Instagram, the band posted, "We are aware of the rumors and are awaiting guidance from legal but as a rule we are pro Greta.Let me start of the story by explaining my self. In an email to GQ, he explained that Gerwig’s constant Pavement call-outs might be honoring her California heritage: "Maybe Greta is paying respect to her San Joaquin Valley roots (I know she grew up in Sacto) ….The Pavement band started in Stockton a mere 40 minute drive from the hospital she was born in, (assuming it wasn’t a home birth, which is probably similar distance anyway).” (For what it’s worth, she said in a recent interview with UPROXX that "everything that we have, or that we reference, in the movie is only ever stuff that we love.") But she also has clearly known too many dudes who wear their knowledge of the band like a point of pride in the same way they might brandish their copy of Howard Zinn or get really into one pair of headphones. It’s unclear how Gerwig herself actually feels about Pavement. "Ken explaining Stephen Malkmus then playing acoustic guitar AT Barbie for 4 hours is every house party I went to in my 20s," one Twitter user wrote. She seemingly approves of the song and takes the headphones off, but he insists on putting them back on her, saying: "Aren't these headphones tits?" Obsessive about a just-purchased technological toy? Obvious Ken behavior.īarbie exists in a universe that's far more heightened than either Lady Bird or Frances Ha, but the Malkmus joke roots the Kens' turn toward chauvinism in actual behavior that will generate more laughs for those in the know than any Godfather callout. Later, after she moves in with these goofballs, she asks Zegen's Benji if he has any tunes for her to listen to. Kyle is a great example of this kind of dude, but so are the roommates played by Adam Driver and Michael Zegen in Baumbach's Frances Ha, which she co-wrote.ĭriver's character Lev wears a porkpie hat and makes Frances (Gerwig) look at photos on his phone of him in the locker room of the Knicks, a vintage Triumph he wants to buy, and him with Jay Leno, despite her clear indifference. Gerwig has a knack for illuminating very specific slightly annoying male behaviors. Like, ‘I’m going to train you to like Pavement.’” In 2017, Gerwig described the inspiration for Kyle, Timothée Chalamet’s skinny Howard Zinn-reading jerk of a boyfriend in Lady Bird, as one of those “guys who are just completely stuck on their ideas, whether music or progressive philosophy or whatever it is. ![]() Well, apparently Gerwig has been thinking about this for a while and has a bone to pick with obsessive Pavement guys. Most of the Barbies have been brainwashed by the Kens, reduced to subservient roles offering them "brewski beers." The Barbie Dreamhouses has been replaced with "Mojo Dojo Casa Houses" wherein the decor is saloon-slash-beer commercial. ![]() Barbie (Margot Robbie) has returned to the pink feminist utopia of Barbieland after a sojourn in the Real World to find it has been taken over by Kens, thanks to a crash course in patriarchy by Lead Ken (Gosling). The Malkmus moment comes fairly late into the runtime (so spoilers ahoy). What on earth is a Gen X indie rock hero doing being name dropped in Barbie? And why is it so damn funny? There’s everything from some of Mattel’s most famous failures-see: Earring Magic Ken and a Skipper that grows boobs-to jokes about Proust to a musical sequence in which a group of Kens led by Ryan Gosling serenade the Barbies with Matchbox 20's late-’90s hit "Push."īut maybe the most unexpected name to appear in the screenplay for the biggest hit of the summer is Stephen Malkmus of the band Pavement. One of the many pleasures of Greta Gerwig's Barbie is the unexpected references Gerwig managed to fit into a movie about a plastic toy. ![]()
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