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[Emily]

Check out this week's New Yorker on your newsstand (May 19th issue) for an article about Largo, a nightclub in LA that all of your favorite comedians and musicians go to.

Largo Nights
    Dana Goodyear
    A hothouse of music and comedy.

or wait for it to become available online in week or so.

[gravy boat]

I read this too and immediately thought of TBSOWFMU, because of the references to PFT and Patton Oswalt.  (this Largo place sounds awesome).  But there was something else, too. 


"After [Paul Thomas] Anderson wrote Phillip Seymour Hoffman's part in Boogie Nights -- a sad-sack, thwarted hanger-on in the porn scene -- Hoffman went to Largo and met a creepy regular, who used to approach the artists, stroke their arms and murmur, "Hiiiiii."  "Once Phil sized him up, he got a handful of things from him."  Said Anderson."

The only logical conclusions are that this creepy regular is Spike (he lives in LA, right?, the "Hiiiii" thing), and that Spike is a main inspiration for Hoffman's brilliant performance in Boogie Nights!!!!

It all comes together!

[Martin]

I'm sure it's mentioned in the article, but there's a Largo movie in the works (in editing? finished?). There's a trailer somewhere.

[dave from knoxville]

I read this too and immediately thought of TBSOWFMU, because of the references to PFT and Patton Oswalt.  (this Largo place sounds awesome).  But there was something else, too. 


"After [Paul Thomas] Anderson wrote Phillip Seymour Hoffman's part in Boogie Nights -- a sad-sack, thwarted hanger-on in the porn scene -- Hoffman went to Largo and met a creepy regular, who used to approach the artists, stroke their arms and murmur, "Hiiiiii."  "Once Phil sized him up, he got a handful of things from him."  Said Anderson."

The only logical conclusions are that this creepy regular is Spike (he lives in LA, right?, the "Hiiiii" thing), and that Spike is a main inspiration for Hoffman's brilliant performance in Boogie Nights!!!!

It all comes together!

Spike's a New Yorker.