Californication

112 - Hard Out Here for a Pimp

Metz: In mid-March I was, umm, inoperative.  Waking up late, I wasted away my mornings on hold with the California Unemployment Office.  Most of my afternoons involved visiting the Santa Monica beaches like a Japanese tourist.  I sat alone on my Pokemon towel.  Staring off into the distance, wondering what to do with my life.  What to do, what to do, I pondered as I snatched a bottle of Banana Boat out of my fanny pack. 

It had been over a month since my beloved previous gig at The O.C. and I was starting to grow lonesome.  Day after day, I sought that one true daily companion. As much as I fancied the company of a Bay Cities Deli roasted turkey and havarti sandwich, I desperately sought a fellow gossipmonger. 

Then a lovely thing in the form of an electronic message sent via electronic mail arrived in my Gmail Inbox.  It came from a foreign fellow by the name of Thomas Kapinos.  This Thomas Kapinos wanted to know if I was interested in interviewing to be his assistant on a new Showtime show called Californication.  Hardly cognizant about the show, I said heck yeah.  I knew one thing: the program starred that dude from that show about extraterrestrials on Fox I watched a few times in middle school.  That night a buddy of mine at one of the agencies carrier pigeoned me the pilot script.  I read the pages very quickly and burst out of my room, shouting to my reluctant roommate: “Dude! This script is fucking amazing. Like, it's got balls. True live testicles.  If I don’t get this job I’m gonna shoot myself. And then shoot you for not making me get the job.  And then shoot your parents for not making you make me get the job.  And then your …”

112 - Question, Anyone (Scene Omission)

I liked your scene. Hank’s “… look at the time” line cracked me up. What was the scene about they cut? You should tell them to include them in the DVDs.

- folie

Metz: I really am only answering this question so I could re-post the “I liked your scene” from folie’s comment. Those types of remarks enable thespians like yours truly to sleep soundly Ambien-free. Thank you very much.

I don’t really want to compare my deleted scene to the neglected original ending of The Godfather, but I will anyway. The Duchov and I were just so in the zone. Witisisms flying back and forth like gunfire in the Corleone backyard. So much mad respect for each other’s work it might as well have been a Don and Michael hug-a-thon.

112 - The Writers' Room

The Finale

Patterson:  My most distinct memory of 112, other than my immaculate STD contraction and the demonic f---tard who delayed production by holding his dog hostage, was Becca's first kiss.  S--- was intense.  I remember overhearing Zima coaching a nervous Martin on what to expect.  How Hollywood and sad, I judgmentally mused, to have one of your first kisses be on screen.  And then I remembered my first kiss.  I was seventeen.  She was a rough-handed Serbian woman whose community college essays I slaved over.  That wasn't that bad.  Or it was.  But I digress...As the young actors began to rehearse, an eager throng assembled at video village.  The village had never been more populated.  All to sneak a peak at two twelve year olds making out.  Gotta love that fine line between sweet vicariousness and quasi-pervdom.  Solid line, no?  As I, too, sweetly and pervily stared into those monitors, I took a deep breath of the night air.  It was filled with the palpable catharsis of an entire crew nearing the completion of its run.  And it was then that the whole season flashed before my eyes.  It was like a near-death experience.  Except replace near-death with watching twelve year olds hook up.  Anyway, here's what I saw...

112 - Casting Director Felicia Fasano Guest Blogs

The Casting Couch

Fasano:  So I am browsing the web, reading my daily bibles, (“Cali imdb message board/Showtime Cali message board/Perez Hilton…) when I see that Mike and Matt have started a Cali blog...well call me impressed, except something was missing! There are guest blogs from the creator (well that makes sense), the writers (I can see why), even the line producer (okay, I’ll give you that one too), but WHAT ABOUT ME??? I immediately contacted the boys through their agent at CAA, and it took about a month to get a call back (I hear they got a blind deal from this blog and have projects set up all over town so I know they are busy and all, plus I don’t want to piss em off so they will consider hiring me on the first “Mike and Matt” project). We all agreed it was time for the truth to come out, the real burning question that is on everyone’s mind about the show…”HOW DO YOU GET ALL THOSE HOT CHICKS?"  I guess you could call me “The Pimp of Californication”...yes that’s right I, Felicia Fasano, am the producer of all that fine talent, large and small...it is my job to find that perfect girl who can kick Hank's ass and shoot liquids in Charlie’s face. So look no further…if you must read 1 blog, let it be this one!

111 - Question, Anyone?

Fire Sale

I have a question. I see in your profile pic that you guys are wearing a "californication" t-shirt. Is anybody going to selling them? - N

Patterson:  The Californication t-shirts were wrap gifts that our executive producers, Tom, DD, and the inimitable Scott Winant purchased for the cast and crew.  Metz, charged with selecting the fabric for the shirts, picked an incredibly spandexy, absorbent material which f---ed me over during a mud bowl game of flag football a few weeks ago against Scott Caan and his motley cru of friends.  The guy I was lining up against was slow, overweight, and chain-smoking Camel Regulars the entire time, but my soaked shirt weighed me down so much that he burned me from the line every play. 

 

111 - Question, Anyone ? (wine)

Given Karen's and Bill's green narrative (architecturally sustainable architecture; Karen drives a Toyota Prius hybrid car) I would not be surprised if they drank biodynamic or organically produced wine?

 

What's the wine featured in episode 9 by the fireplace?

Same wine drank in episode 8 with Hank in a different time and place.

See for photos

http://www.winestar.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?p=174679

- Vernissage

Metz: Vernissage, you are correct Bill and Karen seem to treat Mother Earth like kin. Knowing them, their favorite part of the Back to the Future movies is Mr. Fusion. Probably gives Bill a hard-on.

 

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