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Almost Famous

It’s All Happening

Ethan Warren·
Issue 99: Desert Island Movies
Almost Famous is not just a story about falling in love with life’s possibilities, nor is it just a story about falling in love with music; at its heart, Almost Famous is a film about falling in love with writing about music. It’s the story of how a boy became a critic.
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Where Does This Real World Begin?

Rosie Long Decter·
Issue 85: The Great Unknown
Almost Famous (2000) | Dreamworks
Almost Famous is both a criticism of and a love letter to an industry where people are pretending to be something they’re not, trying to escape reality and searching for something real, running away from some small version of themselves.
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Lay Me Down in Sheets of Linen

Arielle Greenberg·
Issue 22: Music, pt. 2: Musicians & Fans
On a chunk of gold confetti that you push with pointed toe, you glide around the lit-up, emptied stadium, the songs you know only shapes your mouth is making: leftovers, as you are, too. Cashed for a sixer, cast-off, broken, what’s the band to do with you when the wives...
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