The only real reason

The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It’s fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters might be up to. And it’s fun for readers to spot a familiar face, or pick up on a made-up book title or something from an earlier story. I don’t know that it … Read more

From folk to tribal

From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the ’80s or whatever – that is kinda gone, and that’s just terrifying to me. Cat Power

Well it’s always been

Well it’s always been an interesting area for me. In referencing something I just reread from Dogen it says, Enlightenment doesn’t break the person anymore than the reflection breaks the water and Suzuki in his commentary is saying you don’t lose your personality once you acquire some sort of Buddhist understanding. Brad Warner

I think going back

I think going back to the early days of the show [Suits], even back to the pilot, we’ve always used movie references. It’s always just been intertwined in the life of the show, and that is born out of my – everything to me reminds me of a movie that I’ve seen, so I’m constantly in my life referencing those things.
Aaron Korsh