In this week's Onion, the A.V. Club asks actor Jason Schwartzman to set his iPod to shuffle and comment on what comes up. When he hits Randy Newman's "Living Without You," Schwartzman says: "This might be one of the most beautiful songs ever written."
In this week's Onion, the A.V. Club asks actor Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore, The Darjeeling Limited) to set his iPod to shuffle and comment on what comes up. When he hits Randy Newman's "Living Without You," Schwartzman says: "This might be one of the most beautiful songs ever written."
The actor reports that after hearing the song for the first time, he immersed himself in Newman's work and developed a great appreciation for it: "What I like about Randy Newman is that, while a lot of people sing their own point of view about something, he sings like a writer, like 'We're reeeed-necks.' And he's a great composer. He's really smart."
For more from Schwartzman, visit avclub.com.
To hear Randy sing his songs of beauty and of rednecks on his Songbook, Vol. 1, click here.
