July 14, 2008
Michel Gondry Moves to East Williamsburg
Word is that Michel Gondry has made the move to Brooklyn (his previous apartment was in the East Village). The director reportedly purchased a house on Orient Avenue in East Williamsburg, and while Curbed notes that a house from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was also on Orient Avenue, this isn't the one the director purchased -- that house was sort of a fixer-upper! Gondry has some celluloid ties to the borough aside from the Eternal Sunshine house -- last week he was directing a Microsoft commercial there, and back in 2004 he filmed Dave Chappelle's Block Party. Maybe the quirky director will put some energy into creative lawn decorations!
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I thought I saw him on a bike on Graham Ave last weekend. Wasn't quite as skinny as expected, so I wrote him off. But maybe it was...
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those houses are all super nice. also, some of you native new yorkers may know better, but i always thought that East Williamsburg was kind of a bull-shit name for a neighborhood. No?
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Yeah its called Bushwick
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I like to think of East Williamsburg as West Bushwick.
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I call it Billyburg.
Just kidding--only douchebags and Time Out New York call it that.
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Gondry is a genius. I'd say that his collection of music videos is absolute required viewing. Then you'll be willing to cut him some slack for The Science of Sleep and Be Kind, Rewind.
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Watch out for those machete wielding hipsters.
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someone leave a cardboard box at his doorstep, might keep him occupied, so i don't have to see his frenchie ass puttering around my fair brooklyn
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/michel_gondry_entertained_for_days
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handsomedevil, there is no excuse and no slack for Be Kind, Rewind.
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Jeez, people, East Williamsburg is an actual neighborhood, contrary to whatever rumors you are hearing. Everything north of Flushing Ave and east of Humboldt St is East Williamsburg. Yes, that's right, Bushwick doesn't begin until the Jefferson stop. Just embrace it, McKibben.
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Ha #10 has got it exactly right. Kind of annoying how often East Williamsburg people (studiously avoiding the h-word here) lamely try to distance themselves from "played-out" Williamsburg by claiming to be in Bushwick (hello, Asterisk, Bushwick Country Club, etc.). Bushwick is SOUTH of Flushing. Learn it already, stop frontin'!
Of course, next, uber-hip Bushwick dwellers will be claiming to be from Ridgewood, 'cause they feel Bushwick is over. I've actually already seen this.
Pretty funny.
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... so that's where he ends up after he's KICKED OUT of his EV digs because he can't stop his delinquent teenage son from scrawling graffiti on the building and throwing bottles out of the window at passersby.... I know it's all so cute and French and everything but I'd be careful when walking under his windows... bon appetit!
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It's Bushwick. The term "East Williamsburg" has been causing snickers for years, many many years before Asterisk and co arrived. The real truth is that you'll sound like a damn fool if you say "East Williamsburg."
Um on second thought...yeah....it's East Williamsburg. Go ahead and call it that....
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theres a sign on the BQE that says EAST WILLIAMSBURG NEXT RIGHT.
i always assumed it was there.
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Another talent that leaves manhattan behind for a more complex stimulating environment. The intellectual stagnation the manhattan (read money for the sake of money)is so evident for 99% of creatives, that people just migrate to the fringes.
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He probably just moved there for the palindromic zip code : 11211