whoa couch...I mean coach

Who knew that selling handbags and shoes could be such a sexy job?

Or something. It's actually pretty good, and the other employees are fine people...


Got a couple of days off to rest before working a midnight to 8am shift on Friday. Rock!

Nightmares are cool! Having lots of them is really really sweet like whoa.


I have an interesting (to me) idea for performance, which involves each of the words in a sentence being sounded simultaneously, recorded to overlap, amplified in different spaces in the room. A conversation is carried on in this way as performers indicate with their bodies (perhaps not) that they are speaking. This could be understood visually in terms of stacked words like the conversation below. What I find interesting about this approach is that it treats language as a physical object in space, and the understanding of "the sentence" as a structure for communication is frustrated by the inability to hear each word separately. Instead, one's understanding of the sentence is particular to the section in which they are seated, their active role in attempting to hear more than one word (how many could be heard simultaneously is a good question), and the physicality of their hearing organs--how attuned they are to certain frequencies, etc...Linearity is a myth, and, particularly in the theatre, the falseness of speaking scripted text is lame...rarely do people know their entire sentence before it is spoken, yet this happens all the time on the stage, to an undesirable effect......let's work with this a bit and see what happens...

[the example I promised]

A.
Hi,
B,
how
are
you
today?

B.
Good,
you?

A.
Okay.

B.
Just
okay?

A.
Well...

B.
Is
something
wrong,
A?

A.
Well,
kinda...



This simple exchange illustrates the effect nicely, though it simplifies it a bit. The reality is that that words are not heard simultaneously, though they may be recorded and played as such. Minute differences in the length of time it takes for each word to travel to ones ear from remote speakers place the words on varying levels of intensity and importance and recognition for each audience member. Additionally, the pitch of each individual word situates it differently in the space of the theatre relative to the others, and influenced also by the position of the speakers.

This fun stuff, paired with non-recorded text or music makes for happiness and love. Trust me.





I'm an insane-o. This post, I'm sure, is far from coherent. But, that is, after all, part of the point. So, I have now managed to justify the craziness...ah...