Wordplay (2006): the Feeling when Solving Crossword Puzzles

The clip the feeling when solving crossword puzzles from Wordplay (2006)

What's it feel like to actually be in the puzzle?
Oh, man. That's Call it a pinnacle of our career.
It was a thrill, a total thrill.
I was actually just surprised.
'Cause I always thought of us as being pretty underground...
and not really in the intellectual set.
But, um, it was exciting, flattering.
"Bikini parts" has to end in an "S," I think, so maybe "odyssey" is spelled wrong.
Maybe it's not "odyssey. "
Feels like it's "odyssey," but
I definitely started equating crossword puzzles with songwriting.
And it really helped my process, because I think what it did...
is it gave me this sense of faith that writer's block is not really real...
and that if you sit there and work on it long enough...
just like when you do a crossword, something's gonna come out, you know?
It's the same thing that Emily's talkin' about when you stare at a clue...
and all of a sudden the answer just pops up, and you're, like, "I didn't even know I knew that. "
I mean, for me, writing a song, you wanna make it general enough so that people can relate to it...
but also specific enough so that it's interesting.
So there are all those things you can play with
obscurity, clarity, generalization, specificity.
And those are things that you sort of grapple with as you're writing a song.
I'm tryin'to tell you somethin' about my life
Maybe give me insight between black and white
And the best thing you've ever done for me

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