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RTE Bonus: The Last Five Years

This isn't about a concert. But, let's be honest, most of this is really just me talking about how music makes me feel. I'd like to talk about some music that made me feel things last year, music disguised as a movie: 'The Last Five Years'. 'The Last Five Years' is a movie I've recommended to everyone I've talked movies with in the last year. Based on an off-Broadway stage production, it's the story of Jamie and Cathy and their five year relationship. Jamie tells the story from the beginning to the end; Cathy tells the story from the end to the beginning, with one key intersecting point in the middle. It's a sparsely cast film, relying on Anna Kendrick (who I often say I would just... watch eat a salad or something) as Cathy and Jeremy Jordan (who, as I've noted before , I adore) as Jamie. Both performances are stunning. One review (and I wish I could remember where it was but google is failing me) noted that many actors can si

Repeat Songs of the Week

What?  Actual music?  That's crazy talk! Spotify Discover Weekly has been killing it lately!  To see what they've served up that I like, you can follow my 'Liked from Discover Weekly', a playlist where I toss the week's highlights to not lose the song/ remind myself to check out the band.  It's here: Here's a couple of my recent repeat songs: Zerbin / World's On Fire When I was preparing my senior all-state solo, Glazunov's Saxophone Concerto, there was a passage that my lessons instructor told me, "No!  This is drunk French people reveling in the street!  Play happier!"  The passage from this song, "So we danced in a fount of Parisian merlot with our head in the clouds..." reminds me of that passage. BONUS (A bonus within a bonus?  What is this?  Crazytown?: Joseph Lulloff / Glazunov's Saxophone Concerto And, man, if I ever wanted to make myself feel badly about squandered talents: I used to be able to