“Be careful, don’t diss Lady Bird in front of Maia,” one of my classmates joked the other day as we sat around talking about the Oscar nominations. People at CalArts know I’m obsessed with Lady Bird because I grew up in Sacramento, the city the film is based on, and went to the same high school as its director, Greta Gerwig. I don’t blame people for assuming my personal connection to this film would skew my ability to look accurately at this year’s Oscar nominations and have genuine, unbiased discussion. But it’s really just not the case. I don’t believe…
Author: Maia Paras Evrigenis
Maia Paras Evrigenis
Maia Paras Evrigenis is an MFA candidate at CalArts and graduate of New York University. She is originally from Sacramento, CA.
The hardest thing to adjust to since my move from New York to Los Angeles has been all the driving, which I know is a basic and “new to LA” complaint that people are sick of hearing about. But recently I started obsessing over Daniel Caesar’s album Freudian—just in time for its Grammy nomination—and everything about my 45-minute drive to anything cool has changed. I put the key in the ignition and play it from the start with Get You. It just takes a second, and my mom’s old Subaru Outback seems to transform into a red hot Tesla convertible.…