Joe Oestreich of Watershed

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Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Self-improvement, Education, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Buddhism

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🗓️ 30 April 2014

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This week on The One You Feed we have Joe Oestreich.He is the author of the memoir, Hitless Wonder: A Life in Minor League Rock and Roll, which documents the twenty-five years he toured the country in a beat up Econoline as the bass player and co-singer for Columbus Ohio’s Watershed.His writing has appeared in Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Ninth Letter, Fourth Genre, and many other magazines. He's been awarded a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, honored by The Atlantic Monthly, and shortlisted in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007, The Best American Essays 2008 and 2009, and The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses 2010 and 2014. He is now teach creative writing at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC, where he is the nonfiction editor of Waccamaw.In This Interview Joe and I Discuss...The One You Feed parable.Getting the work done.Making time for your art.Taking selfishness too far.Working hard.How working hard is sometimes you the only thing you can change.Not being attached to external success.The work has to be it's own reward.The frustration of not seeing the success you want.That there has never been a better time to get your work in front of people.The support from his father.Watershed's legendary manager Biggie.Optimism versus fear.Opening for the Insane Clown Posse.His upcoming book.Joe Oestreich LinksJoe Oestreich homepageWatershed homepageBuy Hitless WonderSome of our most popular interviews you might also enjoy:Mike Scott of the WaterboysRich RollTodd Henry- author of Die EmptyRandy Scott HydeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Whatever I decide to do, like watershed or my writing career, it's never like I'm the coolest
0:07.6	hippest must-read thing on the cover of entertainment weekly or whatever, you know.
0:12.4	What can we not burden with that?
0:22.2	Welcome to The One You Feed.
0:24.2	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:28.7	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true, and yet for many of us
0:35.7	our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend to add negativity, self-pity, jealousy,
0:42.1	or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and
0:48.0	dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious,
0:54.1	consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people
0:59.9	keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.
1:14.2	Hi, it's Elvis Jaran, on my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud with Elvis Jaran. I'll be bringing you
1:19.9	candid and maybe sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from all walks of life.
1:24.0	We'll touch on subjects that you just can't talk about on the radio, like life, love, success,
1:28.7	failure, whatever else comes to mind. But I'll jacked up because after being in this business for
1:33.2	as long as I have, I want to get to the bottom of what makes people tick. And listen to my new podcast,
1:38.3	Thinking Out Loud on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:45.1	Welcome to the show. Our guest today is Joe Astrich, author of the memoir,
1:51.0	Hittles Wonder, a life in minor league rock and roll, which documents the 25 years he toured
1:56.0	the country in a beat up a conno line van as the bass player and co-singer for Columbus, Ohio's
2:01.6	watershed. His writing has appeared in Esquire, Sports Illustrated and other magazines.
2:07.1	He's been honored by Atlantic Monthly and shortlisted in the best American essays of 2008 and 2009.
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