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My senior year of college I had a radio show called The All-Skate Direction. It ran on Wednesday nights from midnight until I felt like shutting down the station. I played this song a lot.

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Just remembered how good a song this is.

The gypsy sellers who pass through college campuses in October 2008 still offer giant Reservoir Dogs posters. And, I discovered first-hand today, college freshmen are still playing "Free Bird" on acoustic guitars.

Had callbacks this morning for a short play I'm directing in November. Tiny theater, the perfect kind of room for an intense, conversational play. Good actors. Seeing the other directors at work was a good reminder that actors can read a scene cold, without much context or guidance before they begin ( Read more... )

I like how the compression from the camera mic gives this 1990 song the remoteness of a much older record. Downside is that the lyrics get lost.

One of the most underrated songwriters out there.

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Last fall my friends John and Jenn stopped by with their three-year-old daughter, Ada. We were visiting and they wanted to keep Ada entertained, so they set her down and played the Free to Be...You and Me soundtrack, and I burned it into my iTunes, though I already had the songs burned into my memory. I watched this movie once a year in ( Read more... )

Highbrow:
Pulitzer Prize predictions:
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts - Drama
Time and Materials by Robert Hass - Poetry
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson - Fiction
The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross or Imperial Life in Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran - Non-Fiction

Lowbrow:
Laura Brannigan: "Self Control".