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A cue from SLAYING GOLIATH (2008) directed by Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster, a grueling NYC youth basketball documentary. Aftermath vibes. Bittersweet. Now streaming on The Criterion Channel:

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I have discovered how much I belong to you, in the city, in the train, on the highway, with strange grandparents, in the woods, on hillsides, wherever I walk or sit. Franz Kafka, 1913.

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Speaking of the Oscars here’s the climax cue from Academy Award nominated ONE DAY CROSSING (2001) directed by Joan Stein. String orchestra + percussion:

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Take care of yourself, do you hear me, take care of yourself! Franz Kafka, 1912.

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Opening title music for Sophia Takal’s wonderful thriller ALWAYS SHINE (2016). With the film set in Big Sur Sophia had the idea of using new age instruments in dark and unusual ways. Such a pleasure to work on this film.

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But nothing is a danger to me now that I have you, and for you too, dearest, there should be no dangers. Franz Kafka, 1914.

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Big Data (Has No Heart) (2017) Both a musical portrait of the sinister infiltration of tech and an elegy for the end of humanity as we know it.

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I am devoured with restlessness and fever. I cannot be quiet. I am wildly dreaming of escape, voyages, love, wildly craving love.

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Just for fun. From Onur Tukel’s hallucinatory classic THAT COLD DEAD LOOK IN YOUR EYES.

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Once and ten times and a thousand times and forever I want to be with you Franz Kafka, 1920.

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“Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.”

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It’s the late 70s. We’re in my friend’s muscle car speeding through the countryside, high as kites and laughing uncontrollably as we put miles between us and the town cop chasing us.

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A murderous rage memory that will never be appeased. Sisyphean grief.

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January 20, 2025. Sadness.

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I made this little piano piece for Julia Bacha’s lovely documentary BUDRUS. Wistful. Memory. Handmade. 🍉

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How happy I am, how happy you make me! Franz Kafka, 1920.

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Dreamy. Ambient. Flying home.

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Traveling across the globe today.

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When the person you care for is far far away and yet sitting right next to you.

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When you find out that they weren’t who you thought they were. My idea of a breakup song.

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This kid Jesse Welles has got it. Hail to the new protest song artists:

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My long-dead grandfather made a mysterious kind of moonshine that he called Bedildock.

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