PROLOGUE | The Best Valentine's Day I Ever Had
The Heart
Kaitlin Prest
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this update-isode, we follow KP's whereabouts and goings-on since the Processing Palestine episode and the events that led to the genesis of our upcoming series: GREAT LOVE: The Gaza Monologues Revisited.
Responding to Ashtar Theatre’s global call to share testimonies from young Gazans first performed in 2010, the series features a chain of personal connections from New York to Toronto to Jordan to Athens to Beirut to Nazareth to Jenin and most importantly: to Gaza. Connections that were forged in a moment of grief and at the same time share some dark-as-hell comedy, appreciation for the sublime, a little too much wine and the most important kind of love: the kind that makes you care about people far away that you haven't met yet.
PLZ PLZ PLZ DONATE TO THE MERMAID JABER SCHOLARSHIP FUND PLZ PLZ PLZ [this is kp and she is on her knees begging you with tears in her eyes mkay] AKA the GO FUND ME we made: https://gofund.me/159b10af
Music Credits:
Simya - Muqata’a [Kamil Manqus]
Mayss Invites Xlmxhkfi (in The Ruins Of A Tender Hearts)
Mayssa Jallad - Markaz Azraq (December 6)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Before we get going, I want to tell you about another radiotopia |
| 0:03.9 | podcast you should be listening to, Song Exploder. Song Exploder is an |
| 0:08.8 | award-winning show about the creative process behind the music. |
| 0:13.0 | Artists break down one of their songs, |
| 0:14.8 | letting you hear all the different layers in the recording, |
| 0:17.3 | from instruments to beats to vocals. |
| 0:19.7 | And most importantly, they talk about why they made |
| 0:22.4 | the creative choices they did. |
| 0:24.2 | But Song Exploder is not just for music nerds. |
| 0:27.1 | It's for anyone who cares about creativity or who wants to feel inspired to create something |
| 0:31.6 | themselves. It's hosted by Rishi K Sheerway, who you might know from the |
| 0:35.7 | podcast Home Cooking or the West Wing Weekly. The episodes are short, about 20 minutes each, and my recommendation |
| 0:41.3 | is to start with an episode featuring an artist you love and |
| 0:44.2 | then listen to one with an artist you don't know at all. |
| 0:48.0 | There are 250 to choose from with guests like Fleetwood Mac, Madonna, Phoebe Bridgers, |
| 0:53.6 | FK Twigs, Duolipa, and more. |
| 0:55.8 | Each episode really is a miniature portrait of an artist |
| 0:58.9 | and how their creative mind works with the song as the lens we see them through. It's also a great way to |
| 1:04.4 | discover new music. Find your favorite episode of Song Exploder and |
| 1:08.2 | subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts or at song Exploder.net. |
| 1:15.0 | From Mermaid Palace and Radiotopia, |
| 1:22.0 | Welcome to the heart. |
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