A cool piece about a love that just won't work. I empathized and I think most people would find some morsel of truth in this piece. I really appreciate the speaker's distance and perspective from the certainly painful subject matter. The feeling of resolution makes this piece enjoyable to listen to rather than nerve-racking and painful, as it must have been to experience. The resulting radio piece is clear and concise description of only the important details, well-narrated by Michael Nutt. The soundtrack gave the piece a lightness that helped move the piece along, not lingering on any one memory of fouled love, but jumping along to the next one as quickly and nimbly as one advances a CD. Do not be put off by the length of this piece. It's about 5:25, with a well-suited extro of Dean Martin's "Memories are Made of This." This would work well as an insert on ME or ATC, but I believe it would be best suited for a Valentine's Day themed program about love and its incarnations. Unlike the previous reviewer of this piece, I did not miss the absence of all the gory details. I rather enjoyed the sparsity of detail, which allowed for the listener with similar experiences to actively connect to the story rather than be a passive listener with experiences made dissimilar to those recounted in the piece because of incongruities in exact details.
Review of The Ones That Got Away
Will Cervarich
Posted on February 06, 2005 at 10:09 AM
A cool piece about a love that just won't work. I empathized and I think most people would find some morsel of truth in this piece. I really appreciate the speaker's distance and perspective from the certainly painful subject matter. The feeling of resolution makes this piece enjoyable to listen to rather than nerve-racking and painful, as it must have been to experience. The resulting radio piece is clear and concise description of only the important details, well-narrated by Michael Nutt. The soundtrack gave the piece a lightness that helped move the piece along, not lingering on any one memory of fouled love, but jumping along to the next one as quickly and nimbly as one advances a CD. Do not be put off by the length of this piece. It's about 5:25, with a well-suited extro of Dean Martin's "Memories are Made of This." This would work well as an insert on ME or ATC, but I believe it would be best suited for a Valentine's Day themed program about love and its incarnations. Unlike the previous reviewer of this piece, I did not miss the absence of all the gory details. I rather enjoyed the sparsity of detail, which allowed for the listener with similar experiences to actively connect to the story rather than be a passive listener with experiences made dissimilar to those recounted in the piece because of incongruities in exact details.