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I've updated my reading list, thanks.

Hmm, beautiful people outside of books. Sometimes I think the only way I can relate to people is through their writing, though I'm always trying otherwise. This conference, was it for your own, or for work/school? I've never known any writers. In fact, I don't think I've ever met one. Hell, I don't think I've ever spoken to one.

Holy crap! I thought I was the only one who knows Anne Sexton's Love Poems.

I wrote a term paper on "Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator" in second year. That's when I developed a crush on Sexton that lingers to this day.

Hope you had a fantastic weekend.
Happy Monday!

Hope you had a fab weekend.

i often find that being out doors with someone i love makes me obscenely happy too.

I'd love to see some of yours.

Thank-you. Actually I don't really have any writing collected in the formal sense. I write allot of e-mail, so most of it's in there. Since 1994 I've sent or received > 54,000 emails. I really think that is most responsible for developing my writing skills. Now I've also got this journal which has been really good for me, I think.

I sort of have a "complex" with writing. I used to write lots as a kid, particularly character development stuff for the science fiction and fantasy role playing games I was involved in. Through my father (always thinking of a profit motive), some game and comic companies became very interested in all these characters, and at that point it became a job, and not an outlet, when things like deadlines and money were involved, so I ceased to enjoy it, and the well dried up. Haven't written anything since then really except a couple of poems. It's all psychological. This is starting to change though; the ice is starting to melt. In the meantime, I've continued to read, so I don't think anything was lost. I just have to learn how to free the vivid imagination that I know is in there, hiding under so many layers of worldly concerns. Someday perhaps. Incidentally, I think all this is why I chose a polar opposite career path (engineering/computer science research). I'm hiding.

Ok, I know now what you mean by black box. I've seen a few of those. I tend to really enjoy the up close and personal type of theatre.

Congrats on your happiness. There's nothing in the world like the feeling of new love. Joyce doesn't really mix well with this anyway.

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Wow, thank-you, I truly appreciate the compliment, especially coming from somone who is well read. Sometimes I feel the less thinking I do, the better the result. For example when I just wake up, rub my eyes, and let what I'm feeling right then just flow with no restrictions. When I'm really lucid, I can write crisp, sterile, technical type stuff really well, but I don't think it carries with it the same emotion. The rigid logical part of my brain imposes too many strictures I think. I tend to overanalyze.

Do you study theatre or drama? The only blackbox I'm aware of is an X11 window manager with a small memory footprint.

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Happy Monday!

Share food?

thank you so much for your suggestions. i have included a bunch of block's works, but not the one you mentioned. i'll have to read it. it's for an encyclopedia entry. i'll email it into my journal on monday if you want to check it out.

Keanu Reeves sets the standard for actors reading things badly.

If people are supposed to be in another language but just... aren't... then they should forget the accents and just speak the lines well.

Ha--you're so right. Onegin was magical, had beautiful cinematography and art direction, but it was just lacking.

HA! I've been told that I need to see Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter before. It sounds fairly amusing. Oh my.

Theatre that I do?? That's tough. I think the theatre I really WANT to do is based on ideas of revolution and questioning the status quo. I think that the nature of the art that is live and in real time is a bit more urgent and creates a reaction that seeing something on a screen does not. For example, if you've ever seen a live performance of "Suburbia" by Eric Bogosian and then seen the movie, the difference is amazing. When it's live, it's in your face and raw and gritty, but on the big screen, it just seems like some whiny kids.

ANYWAY, the theatre that I usually end up doing has something to do with the nature of reality. I'm always drawn to those. Kind of like exploring the difference between what we want and what we actually do. The nature of dreams, and this sort of thing. Playing with time, spacial relations and things of this sort. The only play I've ever written had to do with two couples in a laudramat and the physical manifestations of their wants and desires doing a movement based play-by-play of what they were truly thinking and feeling. So that's that.

Oh- and I see you've been talking to Johnny. He has my dream job.

How's 'bout you? What are you drawn to? I know physical theatre, but anything more specific??

That was Ginsberg right? A couple of winters ago I spent lots of time playing old jazz records and reading Kerouac and Ginsberg in front of the fire. Ginsberg has some pretty shocking stuff though, like ``Please Master''.

When I read your last journal, I looked up Sedaris, and he was in Santa Fe that same night (so I missed it). Otherwise I would have checked it out.

Oh, lord. I would pay good money to see a method actor being stabbed in the chest repeatedly.

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Happy humpday!

Happy Bugaloo Friday!

I miss work, being laid off sucks. Hope things go well for you.

I agree I dunno what your feeling is about him but I think Jonny depp and oldman are one of the finest actors out there. There doesnt seem to be a part they cant play and do it well at that.
Hope you had a great weekend.
Happy Monday