
The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room

As soon as the clown character was real, open, vulnerable, breathing, and feeling in the moment, they were hysterical and a joy to watch.
Rainn Wilson • The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room
Los Angeles lay before us like a sparkly tortilla baked in the cinnamon farts of starlets.
Rainn Wilson • The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room
Chapter 13 WELCOME TO LOS ANGELES
Rainn Wilson • The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room
Even though she was not a druggie, she joined a cult-like treatment center for heroin addicts in Mendocino called the Family. They would do an exercise of emotional “attack therapy” called the Game, where the participants would berate each other to break down the addict inside them. She left after a year, when it was discovered that the leaders
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Anyone at any time can participate in making Earth and humanity better by giving of themselves and their time.
Rainn Wilson • The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room
Our camera operators Randall Einhorn and Matt Sohn were brought over from Survivor to work on our show. Greg wanted experienced documentary/reality camera guys who could find details and shared moments and make the action of scenes feel organically captured as in a documentary. These two great talents would end up directing many of our episodes and
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FULL FRONTAL Getting cut out of a movie is one of the worst things that can happen to an actor. Getting cut out of a movie when the director is Steven Soderbergh and you’re at the premiere and don’t know you’ve been cut out is the absolute worst.
Rainn Wilson • The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room
members of the Baha’i Faith. The Baha’i Faith is a lovely, peaceful religion that believes all religions are actually one faith and all people are worshipping the same God. This all-loving God sends down special teachers every thousand years or so to impart the next chapter in humanity’s ongoing, inevitable spiritual education.
Rainn Wilson • The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room
Chapter 12 I BOMBED ON BROADWAY