Sasha Weiss
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220 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 3 May
Sasha Weiss’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I love it.
She wasn't down with that. She thought it was funny when they were like, give us a hit.
And the concert felt like a culmination of that or like some bracket to that, right? Like she was like, I'm playing what I want to play. And you're going to listen really carefully. You know, it's also worth saying like her persona on stage is, I think it's very different than it was, I mean, in the, you know, like, YouTubes I've seen of her youthful performance.
She was a little more, I mean, she always was like a cool cat, but, you know, a little more soft. I mean, she's got a droll, unbothered persona, which is really interesting next to these adoring musicians. I mean, it's not like she undercuts them because I think she's really receiving, which is also something we should talk about, the receiving of the love and the adulation.
But there is just a kind of knowingness, unbotheredness and drollery that I found extremely charming and funny and interesting. You know, she's not ingratiating. She just isn't.
It may be worth saying that this is the second time in her life where she... came back from a severe illness. When she was a young girl, she had polio. And she was stricken for months and couldn't walk. And apparently, really... sort of dreamed herself back into walking. She was lying in a bed and she was determined to walk.
And there's some real force of will there, obviously, you know, some capacity for self-creation that she had even as a young girl. And I don't know, to me, there's something really amazing and, I mean, very upsetting about the fact that she had another experience of...
That's what we've been talking about the whole time.
She was even younger when she wrote that song.
I love you right out loud It was an incredible thing to witness. I mean, there's a beautiful line in that song. Something's lost and something's gained. And the way she phrased it in the performance I saw, she really elongated the word gained.
But something's gained In my living every day
I felt like she was taking in the riches of experience right there on the stage in front of all of us. And it was incredibly transcendently moving.
Yes.
No, I'm just, like, re-inhabiting it. Yeah, I mean, it just felt like the profundity of life right there in the Hollywood Bowl, you know?
I can't believe we're lucky enough to experience living on Earth with Joni Mitchell. Who is still able to interpret her own music 60 years later. Yeah. In a time of doubt and turbulence in the world. That got absorbed into that night, too. The personal and the kind of national and political meaning in all of that, in that song.
Like, I just feel like she's a distiller and processor of our collective experience in a way that... kind of like none other and it's all there in the timbre of the voice it's all there i just couldn't believe my good fortune we'll be right back Can we talk about the laughter? She laughed through that whole show. She laughed after every applause.
She has a great laugh, and she laughs sometimes on her recorded songs. She has this kind of musical, slightly antic laugh. To me, it evokes—this is very Jewish—it evokes the biblical laughter of Sarah. Whoa. Who, when she was told in her 90s that she was going to be a mother— Isaac laughs. And Isaac is the name for laughter in Hebrew.
And it's this deep story of renaissance, of creation, of surprise, of fertility in old age. And I felt like the laughter was an ancient laughter of generativeness that came from someplace really deep. I heard that in the laughter. I think that's it.
Me too. Thank you, Wesley.
The story of O.J. always was a story about the city of Los Angeles and about the Black community here and the Los Angeles Police Department. And so for me, the interest in doing a film about O.J. was connected to those interests.
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