http://babble.com/content/articles/columns/the-babble-list/sesame-street/
h/t Meegan
May 1, 2008
Apr 30, 2008
today
Instead of fleshing out my pilot ideas, what have I been doing?
Reading Jonathan Lethem's As She Climbed Across The Table.
Making a list of funny/quirky/angst-ridden slogans that would look good on t-shirts and then trying and failing to make them into jpegs that could actualy go on T shirts.
doing work at the day job.
eating lots of cookies.
heading to Ars Nova Play Group tonight.
Apr 29, 2008
short fiction for tuesday
There is a couch in a room somewhere. And no one is sitting there.
There is a sun on a beach somewhere no one is sitting under.
There are words in a safe somewhere no one will ever read.
There is a signal high up in the air no one will ever see.
When the children go out, they fill up their packs--sandwiches and juice boxes, lucky rocks, extra socks. They need to bring everything in case they go somewhere where there is nothing, or not enough.
they need to be everything
to know everything
to see everything
They need to breathe everything
be everything
When the children go to sleep, their dreams are watercolored versions of stories they've heard.
When the children grow up, they dig a big hole in the sand, throw their packs in and bury them. Then they go for a walk and never come back. "Never come back!" they chant. "Never come back."
Apr 28, 2008
Apr 25, 2008
RRT this weekend--from isaac
This week is our final show of new work this season (our best of will be on Friday, May 16th) so we decided to go out in style with the Rapid Response Team's Guestapalooza!!
Guests include: Critically acclaimed devising companies Collaboration Town and The Team, both of whom will be creating a new short radio piece based on the week's news, progressive blogger / youtube bandit extraordinaire Max Blumenthal who is just back in town from finishing his new book on the American Right, and the Food Network's latest star The Amateur Gourmet!! Neato.
And you still get new short plays and sketches based on the week's news and a brand new story from resident storyteller Clay McLeod Chapman, hot off the victory lap that is Hostage Song!!!
Stories we're working on include: ***Renting kids to perpetrate child support fraud***Branding children with crucifixes**PETA's Lab Created Meat***The Cult of Oprah***Staring on Subways***Candidates on WWE**And More!
Here's the info:
Rapid Response Team's Guestapalooza
This Sunday, April 27th at 8PM
The Bowery Poetry Club on 1st and Bowery
Tickets are $10 at the door.
See you then!
travel to see them all
two more performances of Deflowering Waldo in Racine, WI
http://kiosk.racinepost.com/2008/03/oohps-presents-deflowering-waldo-at.html
two more performances for Food For FIsh at Dickinson State in ND
http://www.dickinsonstate.com/digest.asp?ArticleID=2312
then you have to wait till June for another full length of mine--Nerve on Long Island
Apr 24, 2008
Apr 23, 2008
from boing boing
Against Ben Stein's wishes, lizards rapidly evolve after introduction to Island
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/23/against-ben-steins-w.html
Liz Flahive's play
25 bucks if you're a student
http://www.mtc-nyc.org/current-season/From-Up-Here-site/tickets.htm
30 bucks if you're under 30
coming up
The Imagination Compact--I wrote something for the first night
http://fluxtheatreensemble.blogspot.com/2008/04/imagination-compact.html
Also check out their Midsummer
Apr 22, 2008
What I'm impressed with
Theresa Rebeck's new book: Three Girls and Their Brother
Fanfuckingtastic. A novel about celebrity culture. highly readable. fascinating characters. And it's really well constructed, such that you get to the end and you see how all sort of innocuous seeming details added up to something more.
I highly recommend it.
Apr 18, 2008
Last Night
Last night I read for 15 min or so from the novel that I am trying to write in fits and starts with long stops where I am interrupted by plays, a tv spec, a film script, etc. I do plan to finish one of these days. Except writing one novel is like writing 3 or 4 plays. It's hard to find the time.
All of this is just to say that I really enjoyed reading my fiction in front of a crowd and that I thought it went well. I know I can write plays but the jury was still out on fiction. Last night was encouragement to go forward. Not sure when, but eventually.
I also forgot how much I liked to perform. I used to act, yes but it made me anxious and it stopped being fun and so I went to writing instead. So I've been hiding behind actors. But when it comes down to it, acting is fun. Being up in front of people, feeling them facing you, responding in front of you, instead of around you. It's kind of a high. I forgot about that. Also, I'm good at reading my own stuff. I know how it's supposed to sound and I can often get near what I want it to be.
I don't want to go back to acting or anything, but I hope I do get this book written and published just so that I can read in front of people. It was fucking fun.
nice post from melon
"Is it such a strange thing to believe that artists be paid for their job? It speaks to the entire question of the necessity of art. Try as people might to debate that question, it is fairly irrelevant, being that art does exist and has since the beginning of man, hence confirming that there is some innate need for it. Why we need it, is what makes it so damn interesting.
Conversely, there is also an artist's need to do it. Doing great art is like doing crack. An addictive, supreme high. So you go searching for more."
http://middleofthemelon.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-also-juggle.html
Apr 17, 2008
NYTW codes The Sound and the Fury
this is Elevator Repair Service who did Gatz as you will recall
Tickets for all performances April 15 – May 18 are just $40 each (reg. $55).
Use code SDFBLG7 when ordering.
To purchase tickets, call (212) 947-8844 or visit http://www.broadwayoffers.com/
New York Theatre Workshop also offers both Student Tickets and CheapTix Sundays.
CheapTix Sundays: All tickets for all Sunday evening performances at 7pm are just $20 each! Tickets are available in advance but must be purchased at the NYTW box office on a cash-only basis.
Student Tickets: Full-time students with a valid student ID may purchase $20 tickets for all performances (subject to availability). Limit one ticket per ID. Tickets must be purchased in person and require an ID at the box office.
The NYTW box office is located at 79 East 4th Street (between Second Avenue and Bowery) and is open Tuesday - Saturday from 1pm - 6pm.
Download a free ticket for the Women's Project's new play
For the preview period (April 11 through 19) of Women's Project's new show, Catherine Trieschmann's comedy crooked directed by Liz Diamond, 1000 free tickets will be downloaded from the Women's Project web site, www.WomensProject.org.
Apr 16, 2008
LA
So I'm back from my LA trip, spending the day recovering and trying to not be jetlagged. I had 20 meetings with TV folks while I was there. No, really. It was a culture shock but it was a lot of fun. I met some cool people. What else? Jeffrey Emerson took me to a rave or something like that. I saw a Circle X reading of Scarcity--I had missed the show in NYC and was glad to see it. It's a pretty terrific play. I'm pretty sure I saw a reading of it at MCC like 5 years ago. I also got to hang at SCR a bit. Saw the Kate Robin show which I really enjoyed. It was a lot about what it is to be an artist and brought up a lot of stuff I'm thinking about a lot right now. Met Kate, another playwright Sharr, hung out with Megan and my friend David from Columbia.
Had some drinks with Mandi and Terry from Note. Spent a lot of time with Jen K and David V who I'm crazy about. They let me crash at their pad in echo park and David introduced me to some new comic books. What else? I don't like to drive, but I can do it. Flying is also not so much fun. There was a heat wave over the weekend. 90 or hotter in April. I wanted some of that moderate weather they are famous for. Ah well. next time I guess.
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