I get more 13 CHORUS feedback – technically versatile, but lacking in some heart -I have to figure out what this subject matter means to me, personally. With this in mind, I visit an old friend, an artist and architect, who has relocated to MacArthur Park. We debate choruses and we talk about the thing that are our artistic obsessions – and why they matter to us, why they should matter to others.

In between Guatemalan food and beer in Silver Lake, griping about funding as usual, and dreaming of conceptual projects, we decide we need to start serious blueprints for an extremely well-funded US State Theater, with ten theaters, total government and corporate funding, a resident acting company, etc.

I’m going to be the artistic director, and he’s going to be the architect for the entire multi-theater complex.

What will we call it? What else: “The National Theater of the United States.”

Where? In Vegas. Because we’re both westward-inclined, and we think a project of such grandeur (requiring such enormous amounts of land) would never happen except in a place of extreme wealth. I suggest calling it the Classical Theater of Vegas, but he’s afraid that that might be too real – someone might have already done it.

We’re going to create a website for it, and treat it as if it actually exists – announcing the season every year, and so on. I’m going to start “hiring” people immediately.