July 2012
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Real Actual Conversation
Andre: also I'm watching all sorts of fucking random movies and I don't know what the hell this one's called but it's about some girl who doesn't want to sleep with more than 20 people so now she's trying to go back and see if any of her old exes got better with age.
Frances: what's your number?
Andre: my phone number? or sleeping with number?
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How to Live in New York City →
Move here when you’re 18 or 22, maybe even 24. Come from somewhere else-the north, south, west, Xanadu- and come to realize that everyone living in New York is a transplant. Even the ones who grew up on the Upper East Side end up moving into a place downtown, which, as you’ll soon discover, is like moving to a different city.
Discover the cruel and bizarre world of New York City real estate. End...
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“Follow like nobody’s watching. Live each loop as if it were your last.”
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anchorage
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the desire to hold on to time as it passes, like trying to keep your grip on a rock in the middle of a river, feeling the weight of the current against your chest while your elders float on downstream, calling over the roar of the rapids, “Just let go—it’s okay—let go.”
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Anonymous asked: Sometimes I search my name and your name together with other strange words so it leads to your tumblr and makes you uncomfortable when you check your analytics.
Gotta get down on fie-day.
Anonymous asked: I saw your show at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival and wanted to congratulate you and your actors on a great job! My mom and I thought it was hilarious! I hope you do more shows in the future. In a few posts it sounded like you were unsure if you would, so I hope the random thoughts of a stranger may encourage you otherwise!
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“Playwriting is like composing. We write the notes, but we need the great...”
– Terrence McNally, from the article “Hearing Voices Is the Good Part in Writing a Play,” New York Times, June 23, 1991 (via tswsots)
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“I do my thing and you do your thing.
I am not in this world to live up to your...”
– Fritz Perls, founder of Gestalt Psychology (via eskimo-vagrant)
Anonymous asked: Why do you need to be a better person? You're a very pleasant and kind person. It's good to not forget yourself and strive to be a good person but taken to the extreme, it only hurts.
I'm looking for that one person to say the exact...
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uptownisdeadnow:
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet—a school hallway in the evening, an unlit office on a weekend, vacant fairgrounds—an emotional afterimage that makes it seem not just empty but hyper-empty, with a total population in the negative, who are so conspicuously absent they glow...
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Four stars for "Matt & Ben" @ Winnipeg Fringe! →
We just got our first review and it’s a good one! Congratulations to Kristen,Tori,and most importantly myself! 6 shows left, come see us, we are awesome and, according to this reviewer, we are all “gonna make it”, which is something I always knew but it’s nice to have the validation of a complete stranger to really hammer the fact that we’re awesome home.
Meet Matt...
Anonymous asked: I think you're a sweet, lovely, brave person, but I sense you're sometimes too hard on yourself. Please try not to be.
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“Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love...”
– Sri Chinmoy
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Some people need to be the center of attention. Some people need recognition. These people are only nice to people whom they can use as a means to end or people who are impressed by them, whom they can use as a source of validation.
Don’t be either kind of these people. It’s just not worth it. Surround yourself with people who are good for you, who are honest with you, who make...
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We had sat down with the same newspaper, at the same time, at the same Starbucks every day for the past 7 months. True, it meant waking up an hour earlier than necessary and taking the N train 50 blocks out of my way, but I didn’t mind at all. I was glad to do it. It was worth the time and effort just to see him smile. And I was certain that, one day, we would sit at the same table and I...
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“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via organized-clutter)
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“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via cosmofilius)
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Ben Whishaw on his new role as Richard II →
But there’s a third reason why I’m staring at his hair. This is because there is nothing – or next to nothing – coming out of his mouth. While it’s not unusual to meet monosyllabic actors, Whishaw barely makes it into the mono league. It’s not as if he’s stroppy or unobliging; it’s just that he’s not the sort of person who tells anecdotes or indulges in introspection. He also seems disturbingly...
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“They all know each other…They’re only dangerous when they’re alone, or only two...”
– The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway (via thousandandonebooks)
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“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and...”
– Anais Nin (via perspectiveandstripes)
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What Drives Jealousy? →
Sharing this article specifically for a few people, myself including, who have been struggling with feelings of jealousy and envy lately. It’s hard to be far away from the places or people you love, but think about the underlying emotions that contribute to the feeling of jealousy instead and it might be easier to resolve. I’m willing to give it a shot, and I hope people will help me...
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"Is it fair to allow a writer or artist to...
Is it fair? No. Is there anything anyone can do about it? Absolutely not.
Nobody should know what it’s like to feel as elated and wonderful as you do when you’re manic. Mania is insidious. It’s a drug. It’s speed, it’s coke, it’s heroin, it’s everything good you’ve ever felt being produced by your own mind so you think it’s safe, and...
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I miss people. A lot of people.
Frances: Say hi to everyone for me! I miss everyone so much. And by everyone I do not literally mean everyone. That would be weird. "Frances says hi, random security guard!"
Andre: "I miss you too, random grandma who's coming for the first time at her granddaughter's insistence!"
Frances: TELL EVERYONE IN LINE I MISS THEM.
Some sunshine on a rainy day
My friend captainblackstache has an audition soon for The Book of Mormon. This awesome news perked up an otherwise lonely little day, and I’m so proud and happy for him! Congratulations, Rob!
takeoversinspats asked: This is a message of un-anonymous non-insult. Yes.
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“Even if the one you love most doesn’t love you back, know that by loving them in...”
– My friends say I’m always loving the wrong people, or people who don’t deserve it, or people who are never going to love me back. So what?
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“If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a...”
– Happy 195th birthday, Henry David Thoreau – the iconic transcendentalist on defining your own success. (via explore-blog)
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“Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put...”
– Audre Lorde (via prometheusprophecy)
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Likers Remorse
She was looking at his facebook again. A quick scroll through his profile revealed nothing new but, moving her attention towards his limited profile an instagrammed picture caught her eye. She clicked on the photo and, without thinking and overcome by the sight of his face, liked it.
There was a moment of satisfied calm. Then, almost instantly, likers remorse set in.
“Now everyone will...
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“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love...”
– Letters to a young poet - Rainer Maria Rilke (via sebamar)
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Someone asked me to create a piano track for...
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Brooklyn College "Bring a Weasel..." Festival! →
Come check out 4 original plays from my classmates in the Brooklyn College MFA Playwriting program:
The King of Poland by Paul Ketchum
II Gradoni di Chiaia by Megan Murtha
Among the Bugs and Crows by LaShea Delaney
Febo, Spaghetti and Spam by Mark Sitko
I realize you all probably just want to see my brilliant amazing plays, and that you are sad that I am not participating in this, but maybe...
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“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to...”
– Alan Cohen (via creatingaquietmind)
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“Happiness is your nature.
It is not wrong to desire it.
What is wrong is...”
– Sri Ramana Maharshi (via lazyyogi) 