Nov 18, 2008
Page 56
This from Kip--on facebook. Do it on your blog or on your facebook wall.
Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence along with these instructions in a note to your wall.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.
mine is:
"In fact, Keith was displeased."
Nov 17, 2008
revelations and waiting
I think I've discovered that the way to write a pilot for me is to try and write the scenes like I would write a play first. Otherwise, the spark is gone somehow. I'm going to try this next. I think it will work.
What else? Kristen and I went walking out in the cold yesterday to the big Central Library on Nicollet. PostSecret has an exhibit there. (Yes, Kristen has finally returned from her teaching/playwright gig in Kansas.) Earlier in the week I saw the Workhaus production of Trista Baldwin's new play. That was pretty great.
I also passed in my commission this past week. I read it over this play called Hearts Like Fists and I have to say I kind of love it. I hope other people feel similarly.
So now I need some work--a temp gig or a real gig. Writing things I love doesn't pay the bills . . . yet.
Nov 13, 2008
an open apology
to everyone whose script I lost. I asked you for your script and then it sat on my computer desktop for weeks, months, possibly years. I was going to read it. Now though, my computer crashed and it's gone. I'm sorry. Sorry. Sorry.
Nov 12, 2008
another Nerve review from Miami
This one is a bit bizarre. It doesn't seem like a negative review but I disagree with a lot of it. (though I haven't seen the production.) I'm also not sure why the writer keeps comparing it to Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. A couple of quotes:
"Nerve's protagonists are not only more profoundly unbalanced than those in Danny, but also arguably the most fucked-up people ever to swap spit on a stage." Really? That can't be true. I mean perhaps flattering if true, but that statement just makes me think the writer hasn't seen too many plays.
another one:
"In Nerve, Elliot and Susan will not save each other; they will poison each other. This is not reciprocal healing, but the promise of infinite and eternal sickness. They will never call each other out or tend to hurts. Without the hurts, they might not need each other at all."
and
"Everybody who leaves the theater feels a little more naked, a little more vulnerable, and at least a little frightened. And anyone who denies that is either single, stupid, or hopelessly deluded." Wow, that seems just a little crazy. All the individuals in the audience have to respond the same way? With fear? I mean if that's true it's kind of cool, but I do think my play is a little more hopeful than that. Like these people will be okay someday despite everything. But that's just my opinion.
Nov 11, 2008
ok, I'm at it again
My question for you is what are the necessary pirate films to see. I got about 12 on netflix in various times and tones. but what am I missing? Suggestions?
Nov 9, 2008
7 strange
Isaac, who generously let me crash while I was in nyc, tagged me with a meme. Thanks, Isaac!
Seven strange things about myself:
Haven't I done this before? Like twice? I'm trying to think of things I haven't already said.
1. I have a Salicylate Sensitivity. If I eat too many of certain vegetables and fruits or processed foods or drink too much tea or wine I get hives. I first noticed it last November. I now take a Zyrtec every day.
2. I am very allergic to chicken and turkey. Like, have trouble breathing allergic. (I know I've said this already but it might be the most unusual thing about me.)
3. When I was a little kid I used to sleep with a stuffed Ernie and a red plastic hammer. I remember thinking that Bert was a woman for some reason. I guess that was before I understood about homosexuality. I mean if they lived together, one of them must be a woman, right? And Ernie was the one I identified with so he must be the guy.
4. I was an Eagle scout.
5. All my notebooks are covered with collages. I also have a couple of canvases with layers and layers of paint and things. From time to time I add to them. I hope to make huge sculptures some day in a barn or a back yard or desert.
6. I once had blue and green hair. I've been thinking recently about tattoos or a piercing. But that may have to wait until my mid life crisis.
7. When I was 11 or so, I caught a sand shark with a fishing pole in a saltwater marsh in South Carolina.
Per usual, the tagging ends here. Anyone who would like to, please blog your 7 strange things.
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