{"id":9420,"date":"2015-04-29T20:54:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T20:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=9420"},"modified":"2015-05-04T20:32:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T20:32:04","slug":"ill-m-iss-it-desperately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/29\/ill-m-iss-it-desperately\/","title":{"rendered":"i’ll miss it, desperately"},"content":{"rendered":"

a poignant interview with david letterman: “David Letterman Reflects on 33 Years in Late-Night Television”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Q. As your last show approaches, have there been times when you\u2019ve thought: I\u2019m leaving too soon?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A. <\/strong>Yeah, I\u2019m awash in melancholia. Over the weekend, I was talking to my son, and I said, \u201cHarry, we\u2019ve done like over 6,000 shows.\u201d And he said, [high-pitched child\u2019s voice] \u201cThat\u2019s creepy.\u201d And I thought, well, in a way, he\u2019s right. It is <\/em>creepy. Every big change in my life was full of trepidation. When I left Indiana and moved to California. When Regina and I decided to have a baby \u2014 enormous anxiety and trepidation. Those are the two biggest things in my life, and they worked out beyond my wildest dreams. I\u2019m pretending the same thing will happen now. I\u2019ll miss it, desperately. One of two things: There will be reasonable, adult acceptance of transition. Or I will turn to a life of crime.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

i can relate to not being good at just rolling with the highs and lows:<\/p>\n

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You\u2019ve often talked about Johnny Carson as a mentor and a creative hero. Do you feel you\u2019ve lived up to his standard?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whenever I see clips from his old show, I\u2019m reminded of what I always knew about him, which is that the highs and lows on that show are just about like that: [moves his hand in a straight line] There are funny moments, but he doesn\u2019t lose control. If things aren\u2019t going well, that\u2019s fine, too. There\u2019s a consistency about his presence that is very satisfying. I never felt that way. I always felt like [panting heavily] \u201cWe\u2019ve got to do this, and we\u2019ve got to do that.\u201d Carson, whether he knew it or not, was doing exactly what TV is supposed to be. Just let it go. Because it\u2019s 11:30, and people are just looking for a pleasant experience. And I wish I could do that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

and i love the idea of dave doing something like jane pauley:<\/p>\n

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Even though you won\u2019t be on CBS at 11:35 p.m. anymore, do you think you might come back in another form fairly quickly?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It just depends on the number of bridges I\u2019ve burned. I don\u2019t know how long this has been going on, but Jane Pauley is now on the CBS \u201cSunday Morning\u201d show. Perfect fit. So I thought, by God, good for Jane. That\u2019s a lovely thing for her to have now. So maybe one day, something of that level will happen to me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

a poignant interview with david letterman: “David Letterman Reflects on 33 Years in Late-Night Television”: Q. As your last show approaches, have there been times when you\u2019ve thought: I\u2019m leaving too soon? A. Yeah, I\u2019m awash in melancholia. Over the weekend, I was talking to my son, and I said, \u201cHarry, we\u2019ve done like over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9420"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9435,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420\/revisions\/9435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}