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I'd forgotten how much fun doing podcast interviews can be when I don't spend most of the conversation terrified that it won't record: bowled over by the ease of the Mac Mini and the Scarlett, the anticlimactic "test / check" that lasted all of two seconds because it just WORKS; hopefully this relief translates into being open to doing more TSR conversations and, in so doing, continuing to grow and refresh my interview chops.

Ebbing of the terror had another effect this morning: dug out a project that had been in various stages of work and mothballs for the last decade or so and finally cracked it and, unless the next workchunk yields caution, have found a near-final version of a prelude. Nice to have see a glimmer of creative ability once more; I needed this little victory.

The day awaits.

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All GODFATHER, all day in prep for tonight's chat with Christina Rice – my first return guest! – on all things Corleone, a chat made all the more fun by continued PodRelief thanks to the ease of recording with the Mac Mini, the Scarlett 2i2, and my beloved Audacity. Hoping this trend continues and helps bring back my love of doing the show, the last eight months of conversations –while satisfying and creatively invigorating –  having been technologically nightmarish and stress-inducing: here's to a newfound ease in the recording process. The day awaits.

(re-re-re-re…)watching:

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Directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script by Coppola and Mario Puzo adapted from Puzo’s original novel. Starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, John Cazale, Richard Castellano, and Sterling Hayden. Released 24 March 1972. You can listen to ANN DVORAK: HOLLYWOOD’S FORGOTTEN REBEL and MEAN, MOODY, MAGNIFICENT: JANE RUSSELL AND THE MARKETING OF A HOLLYWOOD LEGEND author Christina Rice and I wax ecstatic about our mutual obsession with this masterpiece here.