PAUL SCHRADER

🎸Country Alt, 🎶 Late night iTunes carooming, 📚 Collecting Modern Firsts, and more.

Paul Schrader is a New York-based screenwriter/director and one of the most significant figures in contemporary filmmaking. From his decades-long career, he’s behind iconic screenplays like Raging Bull and Taxi Driver, and he’s both written/directed some of my all-time favorites, from Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters to First Reformed. Earlier this year, his newest film Oh, Canada premiered at Cannes Festival, and it’s currently showing in theaters. He’s also known for his unbridled personality— from shooting from the hip on Facebook (and making some of the best posts of all time) to an appearance on the Adam Friedland show, you never know exactly what Paul will say. Lucky for us, he’s here to tell us what he’s been into.

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Collecting Modern Firsts.

I've always had collections--cigar bands, stamps, lead pennies--what kid doesn't? I collected basketball cards when that was my son's interest. I collected photography and art but quickly ran out of wall space. Then I realized I could collect something I really treasured and which occupied only bookshelf space: Modern Firsts, which are defined as first edition books starting with the desk jacket era (aprox 1920). The jackets, because of their fragility, are in fact more valuable than the books themselves. So I sit in my nook surrounded by treasured old friends. These are not reading copies--God forbid--these are objects d'art.

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Dec 12, 2024

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Late night iTunes carooming.

I call it "carooming" because one ball hits another which leads to another... . It starts simply: "If you like x, perhaps you'll like y." So off you go deep into the night bouncing from one song recommendation to the next. Hours pass and and, if you're lucky, you own three or four news songs you would not have otherwise found.

@paul-schrader

Dec 12, 2024

🎸

Country Alt.

"Country Alt" is what I call songs I like. It ranges from Phosphorescent to Americana to Bob Manning and Kimberly Murray. I tend to my Country Alt playlist like a bitch does for a pup. Songs are added...songs are removed.

@paul-schrader

Dec 12, 2024

🤔

Wondering

I spend an inappropriate amount of time wondering why NYC scaffolding goes up but never comes down

@paul-schrader

Dec 12, 2024

🖥️

Using FaceBook to explore cinema

I use FB to explore cinema. Several hundred of my Facebook friends are cinemaphiles. If someone mentions an obscure film my ears perk up. If two mention that film I track it down.

@paul-schrader

Dec 12, 2024

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