@ 🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit
2025-02-24 00:25:20
I finally watched Joshy about a week ago. I also binge-watched Parks and Recreation seasons 2 through 4 this month, but I was sick for a lot of that, so I wasn't taking notes like I usually do.
By the time I could collect my thoughts enough to make this post, Aubrey Plaza also made her first public appearances since the loss of her husband.
I saw an article saying her outfit on her SNL appearance was a reference to her and Jeff Baena getting married in tie-dye outfits. Very interesting choice, almost scarily devoted to Jeff Baena, which I really appreciate as a scarily devoted person. On the other hand, she was also spotted walking her dog without her wedding ring on, but I've never worn one so I'm not gonna read into that paparazzi moment.
Again, this was on Saturday Night Live, and as far as I can tell it was a brief appearance to just introduce Brittany Howard and Miley Cyrus (who I love a lot) performing a song called "nothing compares 2 u"
It took me so long to make this post because the notes I wrote, watching the show and movie, contained probably around 50 pages of shit about my own issues, that I had to delete bit by bit. These posts keep getting sidetracked by my thoughts being mostly about my personal issues, but it's worse than usual this time.
It's only today, the same day I'm posting this, that I've been able to collect my thoughts enough to remember the point of posting all this: just in case Digit ever wants to read it all, which I guess she won't, but I wish I could read all her thoughts, and watching all this stuff to speculate on what she would think is basically a way to express how aimless life feels without hearing her thoughts. So it doesn't really matter what I post here as long as I still wish Digit would post more.
Anyway,
Joshy:
Aubrey Plaza played a slight villain really well here, but it wasn't her best character or her best collaboration with Jeff Baena from the small portion I've seen so far. She also didn't have a ton of screen time.
Jeff Baena's movies always have good soundtracks.
These two's movies keep involving cocaine. At least weed is also represented fairly enough.
Jeff Baena as a writer is unfathomably good at making dialogue feel real. Everyone in Joshy seems so authentic.
It takes a deep level of real-world understanding to write like this. That's key for writers in general, but Jeff Baena's work stands out. He had to know a lot about humans, and he had to be smart enough to sort truth from lies every day to know so much about humans. It's really cool to see such a person's writing, but also scary in context. Suicide often seems to strike with people the world would be so better off keeping alive.
It seems hard for Joshy to say Rachel's name after the loss. Maybe that's why I don't know the name of Digit's boyfriend she lost. I always thought it was just because she didn't want to share info that could narrow down her identity. Maybe that was still correct. I don't know.
The guy talking about time travel and aliens is me.
I recognize the voice and mannerisms of the Jodie character and I wish I knew where from. It made the "I know you" line hit hard. But that's more like how I feel about Digit, while Digit insists I don't know her, which is very mysterious and spooky. She's good at making me want to listen to her talk forever. I wish she would talk to me. She shouldn't though, I suck. Sorry, let me get back on topic.
I obviously wasn't going to be able to properly enjoy this movie based on the subject matter. I was really happy to have evidence Digit is alive while watching it, which it reinforced. It reminded me to be happy about everyone I love not being gone, and sorry for Digit and Aubrey Plaza over their losses. I don't have much more to say about it. I'm glad the Rachel character didn't remind me of my first girlfriend beyond the name similarity and the topic of suicidal behavior.
I'll probably enjoy the next movie in Jeff Baena's filmography more.
Parks and Recreation seasons 2/3/4:
April being the only one that cares enough to notice Ron's hernia reminds me of Digit.
Andy living in the hole is literally me, except he's relatively hygienic and attractive.
Ron is a good man. He was the one that told Tom not to eat the pepper even though Tom shot him in the head.
When I only caught occasional episodes of this show at a younger age, before meeting Digit and watching it chronologically, April's character being so cool used to make me envious of Andy getting to date her and Ron getting to be her friend. The episode where Andy and April have fun stealing money from a bar really reminded me of those old feelings, it must be one of the episodes I saw back then.
I remember when I was younger, any time this show was on, I wanted to see myself in Ron Swanson, but couldn't, because he was friends with April and I couldn't see anyone like her ever treating me like that. Digit being my friend and being the coolest person ever, and using reaction gifs of April so she'd remind me of her, and recommending Parks and Recreation as a thing to watch, all lead to me being able to enjoy the really great character development that happens after season 1 of this show, without it constantly reminding me to hate myself.
It's still kinda painful to watch because I miss Digit, but I don't care if a fictional character would be friends with me anymore, since Digit was once in real life.
April's favorite band is a band I'm pretty sure Digit also likes at least one song from, Neutral Milk Hotel. I have to double-check my list. Digit always has some musical taste in common with everyone though. Digit's music library is really excellent.
April is so impressed with Andy's willingness to do everything she hates doing for a month.
The election arc in season 4 is probably the best live-action TV writing I've ever seen, up there with my favorite animated stuff like Archer Vice and Trigun. There was this unimaginable blend of realism and absurdity that's only hinted at in other political satire. I also found it fascinating how omitting the existence of political parties did nothing to change the realistic feeling.
Leslie Knope is awesome. Oddly, I was trying to pay attention in re-watching to see when she stops being a female Michael Scott, and I'm still not sure exactly where. The change starts in season 1, but I don't know where it finished. Maybe too gradual, or maybe I just couldn't pay enough attention while I was sick.
She's so old-fashioned. It's kinda like her childhood schools and neighborhood and family were in a timelooped 1950s part of Pawnee. I'm old-fashioned in many ways, but she's not even showing the psychological effects of living in the information age, being bombarded with knowledge of manmade horrors beyond her comprehension, the way recent generations are.
Knope is such a wonderful character. She's also extremely hot. Amy Poehler is really talented. It means a lot to me that she used one episode to post a nude (painting, but still). This is one of those personal side tangents I had to delete paragraphs about.
Chris becomes a possible favorite character in the trial of Leslie Knope because he once again intimidates someone everyone else is intimidated by, and then he tells Knope to read a page of a transcript from Ben's meeting to learn more about how much Ben loves her. I feel like everyone around Digit in the wallstreetbets chat when she was there tried to stop her from reading anything about how much I loved her, instead.
You can see what I mean about how it's hard to collect my thoughts and try to stick halfway to the topic. I would have been totally unable to continue with this post if it weren't for the recent evidence of Digit's safety. Hopefully my next post in this thread will not be so delayed.