And in an instant I am part of the living

Posted on: Jul 16, 2013

We’re at the edge of things now, and about to leave behind the safety of all we’ve known before. So turn the door and open a life of possibility… And enter the outside and the cobblestones and the sewn-up streets and the salty air and the possibility for further away. The outside and destinations unknown and my world blown open by chance, by this “chance” to change. And in an instant I’m part of the living, the free, the fateless, the “unmarked” and I can see me joining those seagulls and taking my pick of life, and led by airstream and breeze, my life made open by your hand in mine.

-from The New Electric Ballroom by Enda Walsh

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head down, nose clean

Posted on: Jul 13, 2013

I’m in the trenches lying low this summer working on several TV pilots and a new play. The pilots are (hopefully) funny, the play is not. Details to come…

Vin Scully on summer

Posted on: Jun 29, 2013

Here’s Vin Scully, legendary Dodger announcer and now 85 years old, sharing his “ode to summer“. During which he quotes Bart Giamatti, former commissioner of baseball, talking about the season:

It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings….You count on it, rely on it, to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive.  And then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. Today, October 2, a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf-clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped, and summer was gone.

P.S. I own this.

 

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Tragedy of Man

Posted on: Jun 21, 2013

An epic adaptation of the Hungarian verse play The Tragedy of Man by Imre Madach screened in Chicago recently. Marcell Jankovics, a renowned Hungarian animator, worked steadily from 1988-2011 (!) adapting each of the play’s 15 acts. He released them as shorts over the years while he raised more money. The NY Times profiled the work in 2012 when it was released. Here is the trailer:

His short film Sisyphus was nominated for an oscar in 1974 and was borrowed by GMC for Super Bowl commercial in 2008. It’s on Youtube here and is beautiful.

How about Peer Gynt animated. Or Artaud’s Spurt of Blood.

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spam poem 2

Posted on: Jun 13, 2013

1.

men who grow up
in cold barren homes
are much more likely to finish the war

as privates
body type is useless as a predictor
of how men will fare

in life
even social class
political affiliation
has limited effect

2.

because they are held close to you
you can nurse them hands-free

ergo
the rocket is received

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text poem #1

Posted on: May 18, 2013

Ok   are You still going to greece? Also
I remembered a true story
about love theft and a dead bird
which i witnessed
love dad

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