December 2008
tv in the background makeup to counteract aging too tired to change the channel and there’s nothing else on maybe i’ll look twelve if i use this upside down hanging off the bed blood rushing to my head sat upright instead opened a book and i read … one day i’ll be dead or maybe i’ll eat bread my rhymes fill you with dread yeah, that’s what i said enough. ...
Dec 30th
A New List...
…of dream shows I want to direct. (By no means comprehensive.) ASSASSINS (Sondheim/Weidman) BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY (Goodman) CABARET (again) (Kander/Ebb/Masteroff) CAROLINE, OR CHANGE (Kushner/Tesori) CAROUSEL (soon to be crossed off) (Rodgers/Hammerstein) ELEGIES: A SONG CYCLE (Finn) FALSETTOS (Finn/Lapine) FOLLIES (Sondheim/Weidman) GREY GARDENS (Frankel/Korie/Wright) HELLO...
Dec 30th
3 tags
“LIGHT AND DARKNESS Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two...”
– Milan Kundera, from The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Dec 29th
2 tags
“You’re very sexy with your face cleaned.”
– Mark Rutland (Sean Connery) in Marnie (1964)
Dec 20th
3 tags
“If you ever get hungry, our garden back home is full of snails. We tried...”
– Hank (Christopher Olsen) to Louis Bernard (Daniel Gélin) in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
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