Less(ing?) is Alan Moore.
being interviewed by Susanna Clarke.
‘I’d recommend to anybody working on their relationship that they should try embarking on a 16-year elaborate pornography [project] together. I think they’ll find it works wonders.’
Monthly Archives: October 2007
“Culture: not helping”
It’s a great day in the universe for my friends getting blogs. Read the mind of Toby C. Siegel at Geistig: One Individual’s Reflections On Social Matters.
As usual, with Toby’s writing, the paragraphs that simply are meant to introduce more complex concepts clarify confusions I didn’t even know I was harboring. Such as:
“Prof. A.V. clarified for me this week the difference between a metaphor and a symbol. A metaphor establishes a relationship between two knowable or representable things, whereas a symbol shows you something you can see in order to point to something invisible.”
Let’s all keep pointing to as many invisible things as we can.
Before I NOTE
NOTE has two shows, Chris Kelley’s Wreck of the Unfathomable and Barry Rowell’s Before I Wake (dir. Ezra Buzzington, who co-produced MOH&H) both opening tonight.
Some of the best and most gory, October-appropriate theater in Los Angeles. Not to be missed. (B4 I Wake is a late-night, taken from Dracula.)
Golda: The Movie
There’s a movie of GOLDA’S BALCONY, with Valerie Harper, directed by Jeremy Kagan, who’s done a lot of TV, and it opened two days ago in New York. If anyone has seen it, please let me know if it’s good.
If you were me, and you were in New York:
You should probably be at the October meeting of the Director-Choreographer Network, where they’re going to discuss the LCT Directors’ Lab and the Drama League Directors’ Project Fellowship Program.
6-7:30 pm, SCDF, 1501 Broadway, Suite 1701, NYC.
Reservations required. Free. RSVP: foundation @ ssdc.org
From the rehearsal report:
” FYI, one of the (formerly) live plants on SL was
dead when we came in tonight, so Josh removed it from
the stage. There is a fake plant a little bit in
front of it, so there isn’t a noticeable hole. They
are continuing to water the plants every other day.”
One more living creature sacrificed to Dionysos.
creativefrequencies.blogspot.com
My good friend Kristel, former SLE kid, EBF roomie, fellow member of the EBF Management Team of Stars, and video artist extraordinaire, has a new blog about her experiences in moving from Estonia to Vancouver. She and MiQ will arrive on December 30th, 2007.
“A record of an Estonian video fiend and a Canadian audio contortionist moving from the eastern end of Europe to the western end of Canada, after meeting in San Francisco and getting married in the middle of the Baltic Sea.”
I think this has to do with style, too – the style in which we live these days, between and among many nations and continents. Kristel, Henrique, and other friends of mine who manage to be multinational nomads are people I admire greatly. They bring worlds together. Here’s to getting out of the States in 08.
WET vs. WET
Via The Stranger: Women’s Expressive Theater (NYC) has threatened to sue Washington Ensemble Theatre (Seattle) over its name.
(The Seattle WET is one of the companies I was thinking of trying to do a workshop at, before the month of November started leading me to the East.)
Doris Lessing wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
Via BBC:
“They can’t give a Nobel to someone who’s dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off,” she said.
The Hybrid Tomato
Aaron and I brainstormed yesterday, and I had a hard time explaining to him that I see myself just as much as a playwright as a director. It’s something that I take for granted, but I don’t articulate often.
There’s nothing to be done about it except to keep writing, and to be more up-front about the centrality of writing in my work. I hope this is something that working with Juliette and Octavio in Denver will help me unravel more.
Dara Weinberg 