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Far Off Sounds Ep 13 - The Space Lady
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The Space Lady, aka Susan Dietrich Schneider, became a staple of the Bay Area outsider music scene through years of busking the streets out of necessity. Her ethereal, echo-laden arrangements have won her a new generation of starry-eyed admirers via her recent “greatest hits” compilation. Far Off Sounds hangs out in LA with Susan for a few days, filming performances on the street, onstage, and in the mountains, as we find out what circumstances brought Susan to live such a unique life.
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Hurwitz-Goodman, Jacob (filmmaker)
George, Nick (filmmaker)
Schneider, Susan Dietrich (on-screen participant)
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Oh, I
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guess it would
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be like
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Jimmy.
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Raised, raised
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and exclude
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speakers like
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we were
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born to be.
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You are.
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How?
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So my name is Susan Dietrich
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Schneider, otherwise known as the
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space lady,
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and I\'m here in Angeles
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National Forest
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with
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Jacob and Nick.
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And far off sounds, and I\'m
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just pleased and honored to be here
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with
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you and with your.
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Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh,
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ooh, ooh, ooh.
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John was a force of nature.
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That\'s the only way I can describe
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him. He was magnanimous,
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a big guy with a big heart
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and a huge intellect,
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a pin.
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He had tried
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to apply for conscientious
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objector status during
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the Vietnam War in the draft,
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and he was denied.
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So he
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had, as he saw no alternative
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but to either go to Canada
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or just live really low key
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underground, so to speak.
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In the U.S., he was very,
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very frightening.
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You couldn\'t countenance
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the idea of going to a
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small country on the other side of
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the Earth and shoot people,
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peasants. If you had nothing
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against him, nothing but loved
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people. We ended up living like
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refugees in our own country.
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SpaceX Lady evolved
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out after a
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long stint of hand
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to mouth
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subsistence living in Boston.
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I kept looking up at seagulls and
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seeing how effortlessly they flew.
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I realized I can\'t
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continue this.
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I can\'t continue this way of life
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and be responsible for my daughter.
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And so the gears started turning and
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I started watching seagulls
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up in the sky.
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How do they do it?
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They just so effortlessly
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sustain their light, lively
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their their existence,
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and so they became kind of a
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focal point for me.
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I just had the understanding that if
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you are in tune with nature, nature
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will take care of you.
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Mother Earth does care about us,
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and she cared about those seagulls,
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and I just had that as a constant
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image, like my totem
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was the seagull.
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You guys are awesome.
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We\'re so excited.
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We\'re so excited that this peace
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lady is here.
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Yeah,
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good.
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How do you feel?
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We would like to bring out
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Eric Sander, the space
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manager
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here.
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Say one thing
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you do to.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
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having just recently completed her
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first world tour
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and embarking on her Second World
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tour, starting here,
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it\'s in a family.
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Please welcome the
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extraordinary, unique
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space, lady.
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Hey.
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Governor.
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And you see.
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Your eyes are sound stunned.
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Your line is.
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See you shine.
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Read more.
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Warning on
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how to
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control drivers in your country.
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And we are so
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sorry
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to synthesize
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all your
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hypnotize me or,
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you
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know, I don\'t know Chinese-Made,
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how long synthesize
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me or
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hypnotize my
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or now your
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eyes.
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Or, you know
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or know,
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so after
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30 years of marriage to Joel
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and 20 years of street
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music.
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I decided
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it was time to move on.
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And I packed up the
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space. Lady retired her.
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I left California and left at all.
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When we were first getting to know
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each other, she probably mentioned
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that she had been a street musician.
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I knew she could sing, and she
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played a few instruments flute,
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accordion.
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I\'m not even sure I knew she played
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the keyboard, but I knew she played
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piano.
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So a couple of years into our
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marriage, I started noticing
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she keeps getting these emails from
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all over the world.
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Whatever happened to the space lady,
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where can we hear you?
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Are you still playing?
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She told me a little bit about it,
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about her history on the street and.
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So she played at
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my mouth, dropped open, literally.
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I said this is insane.
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That\'s amazing.
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You have to come out of retirement.
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She said I\'m really afraid and
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really scared.
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He said, I got it.
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I\'ll be your manager.
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That\'s when I told her, sit down in
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front of your computer how many fans
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you have in your Hotmail address.
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But she said about a thousand.
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I said good, seen them all in
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e-mail. The space ladies that
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I know
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that the good.
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Well, I
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am very.
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Now.
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I have.
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The percentage
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is too high priced
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to to you\'re leaving me all
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your money on
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and
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just born on your own
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from the wrong
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on your dreams, you are
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hunted down or just red.
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She\'s not just trying to show off
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her talent or show people
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how lavish she is.
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She\'s really trying to communicate,
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saying
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You can never say for sure what
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makes somebody successful, but I
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think those
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things are big deals
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for the audience, and they love
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her.
Distributor: Means TV
Length: 8 minutes
Date: 2018
Genre: Expository
Language: English
Grade: 10-12, College, Adults
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