After his boss [in Lords of Dogtown<\/i>] orders him to finish a surfboard for some kid, the past lord dutifully, but bitterly, complies. Glumly sitting down, Skip [Ledger] slowly perks up to the lovely opening of Rod Stewart’s “Maggie May.” Pounding to that infectious double drum beat preceding Stewart’s passionate “Wake up, Maggie, I think I got something to say to you,” Skip, in a flash of understated joy and release, turns up the radio and sings along. Ledger is so in the moment and so naturally bittersweet that in mere seconds, he makes one remember just how much those little things in life can affect you — those times or sensations that either make you crash hard or for one wonderful, ephemeral moment, lift you higher.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I’m having a hard time wrapping my mind around this one, I really am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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