David Rakoff's 'The Invisible Made Visible': VIDEO
in "The Invisible Made Visible", a This American Life stage show segment that was broadcast to movie theaters live in May of this year, David Rakoff, who died last week after a battle with cancer, recalls the effects of a surgery which cut a nerve that had been causing him constant pain but which left his arm rather useless.
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...
(via dan savage)
I heard this initially in my car on NPR. I was hoping to see this online. I had tears in my eyes as I drove, listening. Now I have seen this beautiful man dance.
Posted by: john patrick | Aug 13, 2012 8:56:17 PM
I'm sure it's very good, but I do not need to watch something depressing today.
Posted by: Byron St. James | Aug 13, 2012 10:42:37 PM
so instead you opened the link and then went to the trouble of typing a comment?? What a waste of our and your time... For the record, its not depressing.
Posted by: Nick | Aug 14, 2012 12:29:26 AM
@ Nick: You said exactly what I was thinking!
This is a terrific video; Rakoff is [was] a brilliant speaker - expressive, intelligent, honest, relatable, witty and utterly devoid of false sentiment.
There is nothing depressing or difficult in this video, but you'd have to watch it to know that.
Thanks for posting, Andy :)
Posted by: Jack | Aug 14, 2012 12:56:16 AM
He was an old soul - sharing his most important vision - to miss this piece is to miss something soul-changing - do not waste three more seconds - watch, listen, cry, and love.
this was important.
IS important.
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I am the empty, battered suitcase at 82, that Mr. Rakoff speaks about. I am the one "that nobody wants," but Mr. Rakoff makes me see more clearly that I am alive (and still kickin'--if a little bit weakly and with an arthritic leg. But it moves.
What a man! What a loss to all of us that he is gone.
Posted by: Mikey | Aug 14, 2012 3:17:21 PM
Thank you so much for posting this, Andy.
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