Friday I'm getting old

I finished the first draft of a pilot today. Last night K and Adjmi and i wandered around the sculpture garden at night. Here are some visuals--none of these photos were taken by me though. Tonight there is talk of bowling. I'm reading 13 ways of looking at a novel by Jane Smiley. It's a cool book. Anyone else read this? She basically got stuck while writing a book and read 100 novels and then wrote about them and about novel writing in general. It's specific to the novel but much of what she says is relevant to all artforms.

playwrights

apply to play group

http://arsnovanyc.com/play_group/

in new york

http://www.ps122.org/performances/a_day_in_dig_nation.html

I saw it last year and it was really cool. You should check it out if you can.

attention music lovers like Travis

Minneapolis has like the best radio station I have ever heard. I generally get annoyed with all radio pretty fast, but they play a good selection of good new and old stuff. Head over here to stream it: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/ It's called the Current. Up top on the right.

Minneapolis is beautiful

in the summertime. Yesterday K and I spent the day riding around on our new bikes all over town. There are bike trails everywhere in this so-called city. And lakes. A fuckload of beautiful lakes. Like this one. Later that night we went to a party thrown by a playwright couple. There is a sort of Jerome mafia here and my social calendar is already full by hanging out with the likes of these talented cool-ass individuals. Am trying to write something new and am trying not to think that I have to get a job soon. So far we moved in, had some fine minneapolis cuisine, including some great ice cream, saw one fringe show (a fine play by Trista Baldwin) and built some shelves for the living room. In Minneapolis the living is easy. (in the summer)

Attention Playwrights--Ars Nova Play Group

http://fishunderwater.blogspot.com/2008/07/if-i-were-playwright-id-hammer-in.html

today

All my things that fit are in one of these now on the way to MN. The things that don't fit are no longer my property. Thanks Herbert, Isaac and Larry, and parents of min!!

McCain and Big Oil

https://pol.moveon.org/donate/29guesses.html?r=3987&id=13350-6686652-e1zlBqx

the thing that people don't understand is that drilling is not going
to make our gas prices go down. It will only affect the world supply
of gasoline. And it will not affect it in a significant way.

wow

this article (h/t Daisey) blew my mind. As someone who went to public high school, and then a state school and then went to Columbia and Juilliard for grad school, I have noticed some of this first hand and then not noticed other parts of it that have been insidiously working inside me unaware. I am aware working at Columbia that despite all the bluster, many of our work studys are rather dumb, and I've noticed with envy the connections and support the rich kids have. I've seen the talented not succeed and the untalented but connected succeed in ways I don't understand. Adn now, as someone with feet in both worlds, with a day job that has prevented me from being the intellectual I've wanted to be, I feel both sad for what i can't have and triumphant on what I have allowed myself to be. Anyway read this article about class and Ivy league and the vast gulf that we see today in economics and class. and ask the big questions. (whatever they are) because if you don't, who will?

WTDWYHAYF

Looking forward to this. Have you seen it yet? From Variety: "The worst thing about this silly, stellar production is that it's puttering along at a tiny theater off the beaten track in Midtown. Kunofsky has an intensely theatrical gift for comedy, and his cast and crew have risen to the challenge of his smart, heartfelt play. Why then isn't this play at a great big nonprofit Off Broadway house? Kunofsky and Krueger should see if they can at least get a grant to hand out bullhorns to the audience so they can spread the word as they leave, massaging their aching sides."