Just finished watching 13 reasons why. Unexpectedly surprised by the series. Going into it, I had my thoughts about how it'd go. Typical high school drama with a lot of cliches and pretty looking people and typical plot lines. Not the case.

      The story was intense, the cinematography, the acting, choices in the set up of it all was excellent.

There are a few things though that few people on the planet watching would appreciate. The end of the episode where Clay's in the shower. They play Elliott Smith's version of "Thirteen", a song written by Big Star. The meaning of the song itself is meaningful, the use of anything Big Star is a sign, to me that these writers know what they're doing if they're into THAT kind of music. Using Elliott's version is similar, knowing him you know more than the average bear. 

            The end of another episode, Hannah quotes Bukowski, which I'm currently reading and for the last 6 months is one of the dwindling reasons I get through my days. He makes me feel it's ok for your life to be shit. She quotes his epitaph as the only one worth a damn. "Don't try". The only problem I have with this, which is a big one, is that it's taken out of context. To me, his "Don't Try" was for his writing. I believe I'm a bit off on this as he had a pretty relaxed life, but I think in it's essence, and with  reading correspondence with colleagues, he was referring to his writing. So the show took it way out of context to serve the story. That being said, quoting Bukowski was the second "YESSS" moment I had watching. One of the "Nobody else knows how awesome it was putting that in." 

      The third is the last episode and the use of an Angel Olson song "Windows". I discovered her last year and own her 3 records on Vinyl. The second I heard her voice I immediately recognized and flipped. Great artist and use of the song. They used quite a bit of it too. 

   Intense series. I'm glad I got through it.

Back to Bukowski.