June 2010
11 posts
“Art is not real life, not is it even it’s reflection. Art is in itself a...”
– Coquelin (School of Representation)
“How is it that one person can be both a mind without a voice and a voice without...”
6/20
My chest feels vulnerable to stabbing. Last night I went to a movie. In the darkness, sitting upon a laddered row, I rubbed the bald man’s head in front of me like a good luck accident. I leaned slightly towards the man sitting next to me. I listened as he talked to his girlfriend and in my head responded better than she. Today I drank a mimosa at our Fatherless day brunch. It left me with a...
“I get excited about people when i think of every person as an artist of...”
“I want to go to sleep and not wake up until I’m happy”
– Depression
“Please, please I want to be a prostitute. Mayme, in “Intimate...”
– hopeful me
Does it make you want to vomit?
Yes?
Then it’s good art.
Beth Wilmurt said she was sick to her stomach the first two weeks of starring in “God’s Ear” at the Shotgun Theater in Berkeley, Ca. She plays a mother grieving the death of her six year old son. He drowned outside while she was in the house. She talks in cliche phrases and echos. She is unreachable until the very end of the play.
After I saw her scream...
She People
The grass is so in need of trimming it has forgotten which way to grow. Smell the stems of rosemary and the trace of mint growing in it’s afternoon shadow. She wades through the teased strands of green to the opposite side of the yard; to the roses. The rose heads fan their petals as she inspects them carefully. She choses and open face and swiftly snaps it’s long neck from the bush. “Sorry” slips...
“Our love will sail in this ark, the world could end outside our window, lets...”
– Janelle Monet
May 2010
8 posts
(this is old) and its about love grown old
I guess I am the only one who still believed we would end up back together If we were just in each other’s presence again. If we revisited our old playground, it would happen on it’s own, overwhelming us into a speechless embrace. All we have now are my memories, yours have faded. You have matured past sentimentality. You have made the memories neutral as if they had just been a dream. We...
WatchThe iconic movie “Breathless” is briefly re-examined by The New York Times. I was lucky to be exposed this movie in a Video class. I see this movie referenced literally everywhere like in the play i recently saw called “Red Light Winter”, an art piece at the Getty, the movie Youth in Revolt, and countless other places. But it’s popularity as a cool counter cultural...
Song I made called “Piano for a Lady”
“If we are free to move our hands and arms from our center and not from our...”
– Michael Chekhov on Developing The Actor’s Nature through training
“I felt a kind of Vertigo,
as if i were merely plunging,
...”
– IF ON A WINTER’S NIGHT A TRAVELER
MariSoul. Ribbon in the sky
I was practicing this monologue for a big audition. The piece is from “Marisol” by Jose Rivera. I’ve never seen it acted, just read it from a well worn copy from the Berkeley Public Library. Marisol is to me MariSoul because her Soul is alive like a child’s, and beautiful, and wavy; as i imagine her dark puerto rican hair to be. She lives in an apocolyptic world that is...