{"id":8041,"date":"2014-07-15T04:55:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T08:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=8041"},"modified":"2014-07-15T07:20:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T11:20:18","slug":"podcast-fail-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-fail-better","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Fail Better"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virtual Memories: David Baerwald\u00a0– Fail Better<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Artistically, LA’s a disaster. It’s full of amazing stories. But as a city, it’s not a city. Nobody but bus-drivers see the whole place.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Singer-songwriter, musician, inventor, dad, reader, and writer David Baerwald<\/a> joins the show to talk about the ups and downs of his career in the music biz, his crazy family history, the perils of grafting personalities onto up-and-coming musicians, and why he doesn’t trust happiness. We also talk about the\u00a0Watchmen-<\/em>like trail of destruction that followed Sheryl Crow’s breakthrough album, why the drug business is notoriously filled with short-tempered people, how being a script analyst for a movie studio taught him how to write a song, and why he’s a firm believer in the notion that to tell a big story, you have to tell a small one.\"coverblock\"<\/a>
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“You just want to do something decent when you make a record, but then it becomes a whole thing. It becomes an industry, and you’re always on display and people are tearing you apart psychologically, and you just feel like a buffoon.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We also get into the difference between writing poems and writing songs, the writers who inspired his work on the David + David\u00a0album, Boomtown<\/a>\"\", and why he\u00a0thinks Thomas Pynchon understood things about the world that people are only now coming to grips with. (BONUS: I clean up some loose ends from last week’s podcast with Merrill Markoe)<\/em><\/p>\n

Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out\u00a0the archives<\/a>\u00a0for more great episodes! Related conversations:<\/p>\n