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David Licata | April 24, 2012
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Another Present for You!
David Licata | April 11, 2012
Here’s me playing an Aria by Joh. Anton Logy (1650-1721), recorded at the Licata Studios (my bathroom). It’s the first piece most classical guitarists learn. Which is to say it’s very easy to play. Which is not to say that it isn’t beautiful. Of all the tunes I play, this one is often a favorite, [...]
Who Inspires Me? Johan Santana
David Licata | February 26, 2012
Michael, an amazing amazing staff person here at Playa has informed me that pitchers and catchers have already reported to spring training. This brought to my mind my hapless Mets. And that brought to my mind Johan Santana. Have you ever seen Santana strut out to the mound? Have you ever seen him circle the [...]
Dispatches from Playa: What’s the Filmmaker Reading?
David Licata | February 18, 2012
Like any residency, Playa has a library. And like most residencies, Playa’s library contains some classics (Shakespeare, Twain), some unexpected gems (a collection of Audre Lorde poems), and a whole mess of regional books. There are books about fauna (Field Guide to Western Birds), flora (The Wildflower Book from the Rockies West), Oregon’s geography (Atlas [...]
More Photos of Playa
David Licata | January 31, 2012
Here are some photos of my surroundings these days. Hope you enjoy them.
Bob Marovich’s Top Ten All Time Gospel Recordings
David Licata | December 13, 2011
Bob Marovich is a gospel music historian, radio announcer, and journalist. Since 2001, he has hosted “Gospel Memories,” a weekly radio program featuring classic gospel on WLUW Chicago. He is currently at work on a book-length history of gospel music in Chicago, to be published in 2013, and is the editor of The Black Gospel [...]
Tree Climbers, Memory and Videotape: A Clip
David Licata | December 6, 2011
Here’s about five and half minutes of raw footage from A Life’s Work. I shared this footage in an earlier post (Process: What I’m Thinking When I’m Shooting). I want to share it again for a different reason. I really enjoyed filming the climbers. They were smart, athletic, down to earth, and funny. They seemed [...]
What Makes Me Happy? Community
David Licata | December 2, 2011
November was a good month for the A Life’s Work blog; it had substantially more views than in any previous month, and November has 30 days! Why? Because of you! Yeah, you. You read it. And some of you shared it. (I’m looking at you, Los Straitjackets!) This brightens my day because you’ve brought someone [...]
On Rejection
David Licata | November 2, 2011
Recently I posted on Facebook an email rejection I received for a work of nonfiction — Thank you for sending us “[title withheld by me].” The editors had a lengthy discussion about your work. Unfortunately, we are not able to publish it in our forthcoming issue; however, we certainly encourage you to submit other work [...]
Los Straitjackets and Yasujiro Ozu
David Licata | October 30, 2011
I recently saw Los Straitjackets perform (with special guests the World Famous Pontani Sisters, a burlesque act) here in NYC. I’ve seen them several times before and they always manage to entertain. But somewhere in the middle of one of Eddie Angel’s face-melting guitar solos the brilliance of Los Straitjackets struck me. Los Straitjackets, in [...]