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I'm a musician and I make the podcasts Song Exploder, Home Cooking, and The West Wing Weekly. Here, I write about creativity and small delights in music, tv, film, and food.
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Head Breakers (opens the original)
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In the first episode of the French detective series Astrid*, the puzzle-loving character Astrid says she doesn’t like the French word for puzzle—casse-tête—because it’s too violent. The literal translation is “head breaker.” But I prefer the French, and its delightful Spanish counterpart, rompecabeza, because that’s really what puzzle-solving feels like. In fact, it’s what I want.
You Can Count on Me (opens the original)
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Last night, I got to present a 35mm screening of You Can Count on Me as part of the American Cinematheque’s “Friend of the Fest” series. They’d asked if there were any movies I’d like to program and introduce. You Can Count on Me being one of my all-time favorites – and one that’s criminally underseen – made it an easy choice. It came out in 2000 and was the directing debut of Oscar-winning writer Kenneth Lonergan. It features one of the greatest movie titles, though its impact is only understoo
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