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Last summer, I caught some major tennis fever after listening to the How Long Gone interview with Caitlin Thompson, publisher of Racquet Magazine. My girlfriend Zoe and I always gift each other books during the holidays and she really *aced* her gift last year with Open. It’s a wild read that is written with the vulnerability that only a tennis prodigy with an extremely demanding father from Iran (no shots at Dadvali) could possess.
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🤓It's an insane autobiography of the Tennis players life with some of the strangest passages I've seen in a memoir. Truly fascinating even if you don't care about tennis.
Nov 13, 2024
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Realest sports book and maybe fully best memoir I’ve ever read. Coming of age, the immigrant story, fame, sport, psychology, addiction, relationships- something for everyone. You will think about it daily.
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📖It's important to do your homework when entering a new line of work so I've been reading books like Monster by John Gregory Dunne, about the years-long process of writing Up Close & Personal with Joan Didion and a slew of producers, and You'll Never Make Love In This Town Again—the title a send-up of the bestselling You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again (next on my list)—which I purchased on audiocassette and chronicles three high-class hookers blabbing on their celebrity clientele. The Kid Stays In The Picture is read by a very gravelly Bob Evans on audiobook: a must. Michael Ovitz's memoir was involuntarily funny because he's such a liar. I even read Disney War, a book about Michael Eisner's reign of terror at the Walt Disney Company. Now I'm on Tinderbox, which is a newly released oral history of HBO. I think it's good to be familiar with everything that can and has gone wrong in the movie and TV business so you can adjust your expectations and remain cautiously optimistic.
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🎨Dia commissioned Detroit techno legend Carl Craig to put together a sound installation in the basement at Dia:Beacon. As you walk down the stairs to the basement, all you hear and feel is the thumping bass coming from the installation and you are instantly filled with that feeling of anticipation/excitement of entering a party that you’ve been looking forward to all week. When you open the door to see where the music is coming from you enter a massive, empty basement that is illuminated sparsely with just a few vertically oriented neon lights. The installation hits a bit differently from when it first opened and now as a result of covid and it is hard to describe the feeling when you are inside. The best I can do is say that the experience is equal parts zen and melancholy in the most beautiful way possible.
Apr 13, 2021
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🎶My buddy Zack just put me on this album because ur boi loves him some 1990s ambient/dream pop type beats and this certainly scratched the itch. Fave tracks: Skin Divers, Distractions, Darling Effect. I love the artwork as well - it is by The Senate who did a lot of artwork for Everything But The Girl (who is always in heavy rotation at Intramural HQ) in the early 90s.
Apr 13, 2021
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📀I have been listening to this album a good amount recently when I want to get in the zone and get some work done. Makes me feel like I am Cereal from the movie Hackers typing away on my MacBook Air. Not only is it full of slow-build-slappers (eg Plasticine), there is also a cool legend around the album - Sam from Ghostly actually told me about it. The original layout for the album artwork was perforated to look like a sheet of LSD tabs and it was so realistic looking that, and I cannot confirm or deny this, supposedly a man in Texas was arrested during a traffic stop because he had a copy of Sheet One on the passenger seat.
Apr 13, 2021