The JDO Show is 1 year old today! Thanks so much to everyone who's listening.
Jordan Harper has written for The Mentalist, Gotham and now he's doing LA Confidential for CBS. He's also the author of the (very good novel) She Rides Shotgun.
Here's all the stuff we talk about in the episode:
the internet is a mistake
netflix algorithms
small action vs. going big
getting involved in local politics
becoming unsexy and boring
Ryan Holiday’s new book
writing slow and allowing creativity to come to you
the failure of grinding
Fresh
not putting the work in if it’s not fun
Twin Peaks as permission to do whatever you want
duos with one weird, crazy genius and one hitmaker
The Complete Beatles Songs: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Beatles-Songs-Stories-Written/dp/0062447343
the making of The Snake Handler
Rob Hart’s Ash McKenna series
Michael Mann’s “cool coordinator” invented Miami as we know it
Good Time’s soundtrack vs. it’s grit
90’s crime films were fun
Grittiness
David Simon’s cringey dialogue
enjoying monologues
Ronin
political climate determining the entertainment
people wanting to see themselves in entertainment
how intellectual property is EVERYTHING
his adaptation of LA Confidential for CBS
TV insider shit
too many books
new authors caring very little about authorial credit
copypasta
not wanting the best book, wanting the most fun book
HHhH
A Long Nerd-Out on James Ellroy
The amount of violence he’s getting away with on this show
Do our interests line up with what books are doing now?
writing in the age of Trump
novelist is an old man’s game
reconciling effective regressive tropes with social justice
Message from the King
crash course on anarchy
Jared from Subway
The Butterfly Effect
don’t give shit away for free
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