13 episodes
High Anxiety Adam and Grandma
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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In 2014, my grandma (established 1919) and I started recording conversations about life, love, death, lunch. We called it "High Anxiety" because she was 95 and I was 25 and we both knew what it was to worry — and because we were recording in California, and the recording studio (her bedroom) had one mic and two pipes. (No one said you had to be sober to be on Spotify.)
But: anxieties about doing it "right" got in the way of doing it at all. So, ten years late: a few snippets from children's book author Felice Holman and her daughter's son. Should there be more?
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episode 8 (raw): death (and songs)
If these have started uploading, it means none of us are around anymore to edit anything. But still wanted to put them out there because... ohhh you get it.
There's a a bunch of long sessions from our first round of doing these in 2014. Then some more over the next few years. Then there are our phone calls as both of our brains take turns south. Will schedule all of it just in case anyone can squeeze any good juice out of it. I love you, you're great.
Just taking the title from whatever title was on the file. Can't imagine we really stuck to a topic — I'm sorry I couldn't get it together to make something more fun.
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episode 7ish: downer interlude (born too late?)
If this one posts, I've headed off to see if I can find grandma. About half way through, Grandma starts saying some very smart things about (the relativity of) age and being born and growing up.
There aren't any great words to put here but I imagine we might have played one of these downer interludes we "wrote" at some point. I just hope it's not a downer for too long — this has been a long time coming, and I love you all, and I couldn't shake a lot of things that've clung forever.
There's prob some more shit posted on my website / some audio and words, none important. Just know I love you always have and that there is so little lost. Just imagine someone making a truly off color joke at your moments of great seriousness and that's pretty much full me.
Grandma will continue to appear here, production quality notwithstanding (I'm sorry!) but c'mon ain't she great?
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episode 6: heartbreak and grandma's poem from 1935
A Jewish girl in seminary, teenage heartbreak, and what rhymes with sneezes?
Also included: sexy names of the 1930s (acc. to Grandma).
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(snippet: attractive world)
hard to hear, but here's grandma talking about (lack of) will to live, and then: a shift! i was always amazed by her strength, especially as someone not always so willful. sorry the audio is so shit. (sorry for a lot of things lol.)
love,
a
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episode 5: do you feel that you have to absolutely shine?
In the last installment of the age/regret/choices sitdown from 2014, we talk about "best possible". (I talk too much.)
Competition and opportunity and validation and the Catskills. A clear grandma head on creating (professional) needs. Muddled grandson. (Bonus points for spotting unhealthy thought patterns!)
These descriptions are hard to write. The book Grandma mentions wanting from me did come out in 2017, quoting a dream of hers on page 64. She'd typed up a few words from a dream she'd had and pasted them over the computer where she used to write: "Do something. Do something! DO SOMETHING!"
It's a feeling we both knew well, handled differently or not at all. Could use some more grandma now, that's for sure.
Love you all. Thanks for giving the spark of Grams more place to spark.
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(snippet: "navy (which is a kind of blue)" on grandma FM)
Grandma sings the blues.
Neither one of us were real born smokers but we did our best to learn. Happy 4/20 everyone, from me and grandma and the ash in the cracks of the Casio keyboard.
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Customer Reviews
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Adam and his Bubby are the dream representation of the ideal conversation between grandmother and grandson.
Wisdom and humor from Bubby. Tolerable rambling from Adam.