365 Stories I Want To Tell You Before We Both Die
Caveh Zahedi
An oral history of Caveh Zahedi by Caveh Zahedi. One story per day, every day, originally published Jan. 1 – Dec. 31, 2021. You can support this podcast at caveh365.com. Produced by Leon Neyfakh for Prologue Projects. Music by Evan Ziporyn. Engineering by Maxwell Di Paolo, with additional engineering by Ross Burlingame, Sam Brodsky, Maxwell Drexler, Robert Gordon, Wade Haesemeyer, Charlie O’Brien, Joseph Petrini, and Chien-Yu Wang. Artwork by August Polite. Cover design by Teddy Blanks.
Reading Biographies as a Kid
HOW TO LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST: An Announcement From 365 Stories HQ
ANNOUNCEMENT: Starting now, you can own the entire “365 Stories” catalogue by visiting caveh365.com, and choosing one of three prices: $3.65, $36,50, or $365. Meanwhile, this free feed will continue to exist, but will only display a week’s worth of episodes at once. It will change every day, with a new story posting and an old one disappearing into the void – until next year, when it will reappear again, precisely on schedule. But if you want access to all 365 episodes right now, visit caveh365.
Getting Kicked in the Face
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My Favorite Thing About This Podcast
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
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Letting My Girlfriend Scream at Me
Making a Move on My Friend's Wife
Cop Who Wanted to Check Out My Girlfriend
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My Mother Telling the Same Story Over and Over Again
You Have to Live Somewhere
Calling My Mother Once a Week
Toronto Film Festival Rejection
Trick or Treating in Beverly Hills
Mandy and I Getting Too Stoned at My Going Away Party
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The Dahlonega Film Festival
Teaching Video to Juvenile Delinquents
Girl I Made Up a Dream About
Free Apartment With Cameras Everywhere
Tales from the Gimli Hospital
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Apologizing to Michael Almereyda
Thomas's Cinematographer Friend
Jay's Wedding Travel Plans
Swimming Competition at Boarding School
The Making of "I Am a Sex Addict"
Travel Agent Dreaming of Paris
Kids, Caillebotte, and Hemingway
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A Gravestone for Joyce Hunter
Translating "The Last Man"
The Girl My Mother Wished My Sister Was
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My Ex-Girlfriend’s Husband
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Unreciprocated Film School Proposition
Doing Theater with Autistic Children
What Chuck Salman Said to Me About Sex
Stuart Rockefeller's Navajo Blanket
Sexual Harassment Accusation
You’ve Never Looked This Handsome
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Gazing Lovingly at Mandy
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Visiting Dylan Thomas' Grave
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What I Told Scarlett When She Was Born
Chris Burden and John Baldessari
Trip to Stanford With My Dad
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Do Your Duty in the Toilet
What My Therapist Said to Me About My Looks
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Institut National Audiovisuel
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Visiting Suzanne's Apartment After We Broke Up
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Once Upon a Time in America
Thad's Bookstore Reading
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My Platonic Love Affair
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Reading Heidegger Aloud in the Car
Stealing From the Bathroom at the Pacific Film Archives
Driving Cross Country with Paul
Everyone's Favorite Kid to Pick On
Boarding School Humiliation
The Guy in the Seat in Front of Me
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Memorizing French Vocabulary Words
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First Prostitute Experience
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Swimming with Dolphins
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Boarding School Unhappiness
Getting Arrested For Shoplifting
Pretending I Knew French
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Getting Kicked Off the Tennis Team
Praying for Beckett Not To Die
My Therapist's Therapist
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Meeting Wallace Stevens' Daughter
My Mother's Nervous Breakdown
The First Film I Never Made
My Therapist Insists I Tell Suzanne About the Prostitute
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What the Psychic Said About My Father
Bad Date at Magic Mountain
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Crazy Woman With Baby Carriage
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Trying to Stop Bullying in High School
Everyone Crying After the Shoot
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How Not to Overthrow the US Government
Antonin Artaud Street Theater Performance
Writing a Shitty Paper For Money
Joseph Cornell Would Turn Over In His Grave
Skinny-Dipping at Venice Beach
My Relationship with Speed
Ditching Billy Butterfield
The Girl Who Thought I Was Satan
365 Stories... Live in New York
"A Little Stiff" Premiere at the New Beverly
Doing a Not Pretty Girl a Favor
Why I Got Engaged To Suzanne
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Bob Rose Walking All Night
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Alternative School Girlfriend
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Shooting the Making of a Western in Wyoming
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Possession Ritual in Koreatown
Falling in Love with Nienke
The Prime Minister, the Shah, the Ayatollah, and I
General William Westmoreland
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What Richard Linklater Said To Me About Why I Was a Failure
Legalism vs. Essentialism