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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And yeah, I find it really like bitterly ironic what Jill Jones is saying that like maybe in some way, one of Prince's deepest fears was that he would be seen and people would run away scared. And that's what's happened. So this leaves Ezra in a kind of existential limbo. And I know he's thinking a lot about his future as a filmmaker.
A question in people's minds may be like, where is the film? Like, where does it exist? Like, is the film itself in a vault? Like, it's in a hard drive somewhere?
Ezra, thank you so much.
You too.
My parents introduced me to Joni Mitchell, and it was at a pretty young age. I mean, I can't really remember a time when her voice wasn't in my head.
Hmm.
I woke to Joanie. I slept to Joanie, you know, I think from the ages of like seven. I mean, very young. Wow. And they'd play it a lot on car rides. So I think Joanie... That seems apt. It's so apt, of course. That seems apt for a person who's... She's a traveler.
She's a restless wanderer. And I think that also implanted something in me that, you know, I grew up in, I would say in some ways, in a kind of... cozy, somewhat cloistered environment. I mean, I grew up in New York City, but, you know, in a kind of strong Jewish community. I mean, there was a sense of, like, shtetl-likeness in my upbringing, I would say.
And I think Joni did implant a seed of wandering and wandering. Because so many of her songs are about, I mean, on Blue Alone, she's in California and she's in Spain and she's in France.
I mean, I loved to sing. I still love to sing. And I really studied her singing and learned to sing from Blue. And I think just the leaping in the range, you know, the way that Joni can adventurously, boldly, almost insolently, like she can go from really low to just leaping up.
I feel like there's a desire there. There's a hunger. There's a command. I wanted that vocally. And I think I wanted it, like, interpersonally or something.
I don't know. I think the ability to explore, the ability to, like, take command, the ability to be daring. I mean, I don't know if I've achieved these things, but I think this was, like, my fantasy. Especially Blue. But Court and Spark, too, shaped my ideas about... What love was, I always felt like love was a complex, laden thing, not a simple thing, because of Joni.
What it was to be a writer, I think. You know, her songs are so writerly. So many of them are short stories in miniature, and you get a whole life in those songs. So I think that her words, I listen to them frequently. thousands of times. I mean, blue is just stamped on my consciousness. So I think I wanted to see what kind of woman I'd become by encountering Joanie.
So Night Ride Home.
Which I don't know as well. So I love.
I've been waiting. It's been hard. I mean, I watched the Newport performance.
And I was so moved hearing her sing again. I think in those performances, her voice was still in the process of returning. There were moments when her voice broke, moments when the songs felt like they were being explored again. Yeah. So I felt both... What was different? Yeah. that she was the band leader. And it's so interesting because she was seated the whole time, right? She sits.
Oh, my God, the chair.
And we got to talk about the furniture, which is incredible. But her presence just has this gravitas and physicality, even though, you know, she's not standing, but she really draws attention The 17,000 seat, beautiful outdoor amphitheater into her. There's something energetically incredibly potent.
And maybe that was true at Newport too, but I just felt that she kind of returned to some kind of energetic center. I could feel it the minute I saw her come on the stage.
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