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The world looks pretty uniform from 36,000 feet at midnight: inky black, and punctuated by distant points of light. Not that I could really tell. I woke from my Xanax and Full Suspension Pale Ale slumber, wedged between two other fellas my size (practically spooning with the fella in 21A) somewhere over eastern Wyoming. I…

I’ve met a hero or two, but never an icon. Today I interviewed two of each. Our call time was 11:50 at The Spur, an old saloon at 350 Main Street. Joah and I showed up at 11:15. The saloon was locked up and empty. I was wound like a top. I felt like I…

My head is heavy. My body aches. My eyes are sore. But I know that I am alive. Just a few weeks ago, I felt lost. I was bone tired. I felt like I had fallen from the face of the earth. I felt like “Heartland” had failed. If not the music, then the message.…

“For me, it’s really about clearing my head of anything that’s of a trivial day to day nature and looking into something that’s timeliness, something that in some way I’m not even conscious that I know,” he tells me. “But sometimes quiet is the worst thing. I think it was Bukowski who said, ‘Nothing worth…

Until yesterday, I thought interviewing Neil Young was going to be my most challenging Sundance assignment. We have these daily production meetings here in our little condo/office where we run through who’s gonna interview who, and who’s gonna cover what. But I missed yesterday morning’s on account of my “Leonard Cohen” screening. Now, you gotta…

Saturday night at the Sundance Film Festival, and the MTV News team is in the hotel room watching “Austin Powers.” Well, not exactly. Smita and I are working. I’m writing a piece on the hip hop doc “Beyond Beats & Rhymes.” Smita’s cutting a piece on music documentaries. Vanessa and Pat are taking a break…