4. Harmonizing There’s something about how we discovered harmonies that chills me. You’re making this sound with another person the place the entire is bigger than the sum of its components. It’s the most stunning type of listening. I used to be in refrain in highschool and we sang “O Magnun Mysterium,” and we had been accepted into this choral competitors at Riverside Church in Manhattan. I keep in mind us working towards in a hallway. I used to be a New Jersey teenager, smoking in diners and kind of residing a Bruce Springsteen tune like, “I can’t wait to get outta this city.” And all of us sat on this hallway singing to one another, listening to the sound of one another’s voices and all of the social constructs — the preventing, the cliques — melted away. Only a bunch of [expletive] teenagers from Jersey on this outdated church, creating one thing that was so stunning that we couldn’t imagine that it was coming from us. We sang it on this competitors, and we had been holding one another’s fingers, tears streaming down our faces like, “We did it!” Then this present choir from Florida got here proper after us singing the very same tune. And so they annihilated us.
5. Wawa Hoagies Wawa was featured closely on “Mare of Easttown,” and I used to be like, “Properly, effectively, effectively, have a look at her go.” It was like seeing an outdated buddy hit the large time. Wawa is principally a comfort retailer, like a 7-Eleven, however they make these hoagies, which is a really Jersey factor. I’m fairly positive they’re comprised of yoga mats. The meat is presumably not meat. It’s like cheese-colored or turkey-colored materials. Sadly, I can’t eat them anymore as a result of I’m vegan now. Paradoxically, they is likely to be vegan as a result of they may all be made from napkins. I do not know. What goes into these items, it’s unintelligible.
6. Crossing over the Manhattan Bridge I’ve lived in New York for one million years, and when I’m in a taxi with the home windows down rumbling over the Manhattan Bridge — and I can see the skyline and the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty — I can’t imagine that I dwell there in spite of everything this time. I all the time cease all the pieces I’m doing and I simply stare out the window on the majesty of the place I dwell, and that the town continues to run and thrive, and it’s been by way of a lot and it holds a lot. It’s like a bit prayer.
7. Amy Morton on the finish of Act 2 of “August: Osage County” by Tracy Letts I feel I had simply dropped out of [New York University] after I noticed that play, and I had by no means seen something like that. I keep in mind when she circled — she spins over her shoulder and comes at her mom together with her arm pointed — and the best way that she bellowed, “I’m working issues now!” I nonetheless get goose bumps. My skeleton burst into doves. I melted in my seat, like my spirit rose away and was floating on the rafters.
8. Touring Solo I used to be all the time very afraid to take solo journeys. I’ve a few buddies who had accomplished it and I used to be like, “However what do you do?” After which I took one on my own. After a job, I went to the Adirondacks for per week, and it was unimaginable. You’re one on one with your individual personhood, and components of your mind and coronary heart open up when it’s simply you and your ideas, strolling by way of the woods. I feel it’s so beneficial. I’ve taken one other solo journey since then, to the Galápagos, which I used to be very nervous about as a result of it’s so far-off. However I needed to do one on my own once more, to kind of shake fingers with myself and say, “Good day.”
9. Blooper Reels It’s like a right away dose of laughter, Prozac in your mind. I like compilations of individuals falling down, farts on dwell TV, all of that. I feel the web is so harmful, however one a part of it that I actually prefer to make the most of is with the ability to go onto YouTube and watch one thing that makes me snort so onerous that it’s identical to a beautiful little reset.
10. A Location Change I like going out a lot, however I actually love a location change. I prefer to go to love a spot for dinner, after which you could have a location change and also you go to a bar, and you then perhaps have another location change for a dessert. It’s like an journey the place I’m like, “What’s going to occur?” It appears like a pleasant sport of Russian roulette, which is among the the explanation why I like residing in New York. It’s simply countless prospects, and there’s one thing about it that’s very attractive and romantic. It’s effervescent. It’s like if champagne had been an exercise.