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Jerry Saltz Michael Reid Rubenstein: What I am about to write IS NOT A PUTDOWN of your art. You write, that "everything you see is priced under $950..." I am NOT sayiong you are a bad artist but I looked at some of those brush painting things: They are overpriced at that figure. There is no originality in the work; no spirit; no idea; no touch; risk; or whatever. I am sure many many people would not pay a dime for MY WORK! I would not pay fopr yours. Again, no disrespect intended; YOU posted it and made the offer; I thought maybe I'd buy something so I looked, is all ... ♥ Js Tuesday 12:30 PM
2 figures on stage in totally make believe situation
JERRY PEPPERZ hello Michael i noticed you withdrew your offer
MICHAEL REID RUBENSTEIN why are you acknowledging me if you think i have no originality no spirit no ideas no touch risk whatever?
JERRY PEPPERZ oh come on Michael hasn’t your skin grown tough enough by now to withstand a little criticism you want to run with the big guys you got to learn to play hardball (smiles smugly)
MICHAEL REID RUBENSTEIN a little criticism huh Jerry you’re a published big time nyc art critic nominated for prestigious awards advisor to celebrated exhibitions visiting critic at many esteemed universities friends with renown celebrities photographed with powerful dignitaries who the hell am i to utter a whisper in your direction (smells looks away)
JERRY PEPPERZ now come on Michael i was just doing my job no need to take it so personally like i wrote What i am about to write IS NOT A PUTDOWN of your art (picks hair from shoulder flicks it)
MICHAEL REID RUBENSTEIN Jerry you got a way with words (pause) i’m just a stupid-ass painter who doesn’t stand a chance against a shrewd critic like you i think i’ll just keep zipped up and quiet (makes eye contact)
JERRY PEPPERZ but i asked you when i re-friended you on FB to be more vociferous and participatory i guess i didn’t realize how valueless your artwork is please forgive me (sniffs finger)
MICHAEL REID RUBENSTEIN didn’t do your homework huh Jerry? i keep asking myself why you didn’t send me a private message why you needed to take an earnest exchange of ideas and openly deprecate me heck you’ve never even seen my work in person your casual remarks dispute my entire life’s work credibility authenticity what you think you were being clever or cute Jerry you know how to be vicious i realize you don’t become a famous critic by being nice to people critics gain popularity because they’re bastards with razor-sharp slandering tongues you want to hear what i think i’ll tell you you’re a balding insecure little man who enjoys beating up on small time artists (is it all right with you if i call myself an artist) like me you know how to take a person’s complete career and trash it with a few choice words you can be rather mean Jerry (grinds teeth)
JERRY PEPPERZ i apologized now let’s not turn this into a regrettable incident (rubs hands together)
MICHAEL REID RUBENSTEIN at least i’m doing something Jerry instead of sitting on my butt condemning others i wonder if my work were hanging in Larry Gagosian’s Gallery and collected by Charles Saatchi how fast you’d change your tune you’re nothing more than a puppet of the rich and if you try to sue me for these remarks you’ll get nothing since you made darn sure my paintings are undeserving with your haughty dismissal
JERRY PEPPERZ would you excuse me i’m late for a lunch date with Alec Baldwin this little repartee will have to end bye Michael (turns looks down checks cell phone)
MICHAEL REID RUBENSTEIN Jerry can anything good or positive come out of this or does your mind not work that way i mean you’re a revered critic i need you in my corner
JERRY PEPPERZ you really think i’m an asshole don’t you (looks down rechecks cell phone)
MICHAEL REID RUBENSTEIN like i mentioned Jerry i’m just a stupid-ass painter not a judge or brilliant critic what i think is irrelevant what you did was cruel sadistic abusive
JERRY PEPPERZ get over it let it go just drop it Michael i really need to run Alec doesn’t like to be kept waiting he’s buying (grabs coat walks like he needs to go to bathroom fast stage right then suddenly reappears) don’t let me find out i underestimated you who do you think you are i’ll thoroughly destroy you (exits immediately)
MICHAEL REID RUBENSTEIN (shakes head) sheesh
Jerry Saltz
Jerry Saltz September 8, 2010 at 9:22am
Subject: I am sorry.
Michael,
I read your comment.
I am sorry. I did not mean to cause you any pain.
I went back and deleted by commnet to you. I will now delete the comment i made to you about it.
You can do whatever you want with your comment to me; it is up to you.
Thank you,
Jerry "clever," "cute," "vicious," "bastards," "slandering," "balding,"
"insecure," "little," "beats up on small time artists," "take a person’s complete career and trash it with a few choice words," Saltz
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
commentary and 2 conversations
we take the justice we can get
every one is expendable i’m opening a new chic bistro prior guests will be listed on the menu we slice dice prepare any way you like sushi deep fried mesquite oven grilled baked accessories make the dish ginger pickles lime asparagus mustard and a drizzle of wine deer urine cider mole sauces i haven’t decided yet on restaurant décor possibly post-modern austere but please write in suggestions everything must be totally freshly tossed killed tableside i want the kitchen immaculate industrial sized everything yet we roast minuscule tidbits frivolous details infused with essences reduction bio-molecular cuisine an entire 20 course meal in a tear drop obviously presentation is everything Channel Comme des Garcons Lamborghini will design plate arrangement after you’ve enjoyed a lavish sumptuous meal you become edible i mean eligible to provide for more recent patrons please hold still while the knife carves and oh how about those miners in Chile real theater i just read NASA’s Kepler satellite is selecting candidates for earth’s substitute the article repeatedly used the word candidates let’s just totally waste this place the faster we trash the world the sooner we get a new planet best weekly performance British Petroleum gulf oil debacle second best Hillandale Farms incredible salmonella egg
comedy tragedy dialogue
COMEDY come sit closer let’s share a laugh want to hear a joke
TRAGEDY i hate jokes
COMEDY you’re funny
TRAGEDY shut up you freaking clown
COMEDY there’s more to me than clowning
TRAGEDY oh yeah (pause) what? you pandering fool (pause) in my eyes every winking snicker is compromise collusion there’s nothing about you i like
COMEDY hater (pause) man you’re mean
TRAGEDY mean and unreasonable
COMEDY scary mean unreasonable (pause) yet funny
TRAGEDY screw you (pause) mortality is tragic the world is wicked what’s funny about stoning people to death or raping disfiguring women children or cheating enslaving the poor underprivileged this earth is a horrible place what the hell is so funny
COMEDY you you’re a joke a sad dismal joke the good news is i interpret humor in everything life is funny
TRAGEDY you’re a pitiful simpleton who perceives all existence from one lame brain viewpoint you can’t distinguish happy from sad good from evil you’re a mindless empty screen of canned laughter maybe some things aren’t meant to be laughed at or humor drawn from maybe you’re a rude mocking idiot what is so goddamned funny
COMEDY what is so goddamned funny (pause) i’m not laughing (pause) try stepping back getting a different perspective change your psychology consider the futility of existence fate of humankind
TRAGEDY we all do what we have to (pause) mind if i smoke (lights a cigarette)
COMEDY that’ll kill you (smirks laughter)
TRAGEDY we’re all fated to die
COMEDY you really need to see the absurdity in your gloom
TRAGEDY please go
COMEDY why do you have to be such a hard-ass why can’t we just get along we could create some wonderful art i really think we’d be good together
TRAGEDY i warning you
COMEDY i get the feeling we’re not going to be friends
TRAGEDY fast thinking (pause) go play with your happy snickering friends and leave me alone
COMEDY must we be enemies
TRAGEDY deal with it
COMEDY you’re going to miss me
TRAGEDY maybe maybe not (pause) these are dark troubled times
COMEDY why must everything be so serious with you
TRAGEDY if you persist i will be forced to turn this banter into regrettable disaster
COMEDY funny how things don’t work out
TRAGEDY yeah funny (pause) i guess the joke is on me
fate free will dialogue
FATE we each journey a path
FREE WILL i choose my own trail imaging myself triumphant inventing as i go
FATE what if you discovered your choices were influenced by forces outside you
FREE WILL i alone am responsible for my choices
FATE i’m not speaking about responsibilities
FREE WILL what are you speaking of
FATE there are aspects you may not realize
FREE WILL that’s bullshit a person creates his or her own destiny
FATE do you believe Jesus Christ created his own destiny or John F. Kennedy Martin Luther King John Lennon
FREE WILL what are you saying
FATE there were circumstances cycles aspects forces possibly predetermined powers events ghosts
FREE WILL horseshit we are presented with existential choices our actions determine our destiny
FATE our actions determine our destiny huh what influences determine our actions
FREE WILL a person’s character courage discipline strength
FATE what forms a person’s character
FREE WILL parents circumstances cycles aspects forces the era
FATE hmmm near to what i was suggesting yet who can know why or how a few chosen make it while many others go bust or when where lightning strikes
FREE WILL so what do you believe? (pause) i’m speculating most people obey conform deaf to their own calling falling short of their dreams enduring lives of hushed disquiet
FATE hmmm we each journey a path
FREE WILL i choose my own trail inventing as i go alert to my calling
FATE uhhh i’m not as certain as you i admire your confidence conviction independence
FREE WILL hey i’m straight
FATE whatever
every one is expendable i’m opening a new chic bistro prior guests will be listed on the menu we slice dice prepare any way you like sushi deep fried mesquite oven grilled baked accessories make the dish ginger pickles lime asparagus mustard and a drizzle of wine deer urine cider mole sauces i haven’t decided yet on restaurant décor possibly post-modern austere but please write in suggestions everything must be totally freshly tossed killed tableside i want the kitchen immaculate industrial sized everything yet we roast minuscule tidbits frivolous details infused with essences reduction bio-molecular cuisine an entire 20 course meal in a tear drop obviously presentation is everything Channel Comme des Garcons Lamborghini will design plate arrangement after you’ve enjoyed a lavish sumptuous meal you become edible i mean eligible to provide for more recent patrons please hold still while the knife carves and oh how about those miners in Chile real theater i just read NASA’s Kepler satellite is selecting candidates for earth’s substitute the article repeatedly used the word candidates let’s just totally waste this place the faster we trash the world the sooner we get a new planet best weekly performance British Petroleum gulf oil debacle second best Hillandale Farms incredible salmonella egg
comedy tragedy dialogue
COMEDY come sit closer let’s share a laugh want to hear a joke
TRAGEDY i hate jokes
COMEDY you’re funny
TRAGEDY shut up you freaking clown
COMEDY there’s more to me than clowning
TRAGEDY oh yeah (pause) what? you pandering fool (pause) in my eyes every winking snicker is compromise collusion there’s nothing about you i like
COMEDY hater (pause) man you’re mean
TRAGEDY mean and unreasonable
COMEDY scary mean unreasonable (pause) yet funny
TRAGEDY screw you (pause) mortality is tragic the world is wicked what’s funny about stoning people to death or raping disfiguring women children or cheating enslaving the poor underprivileged this earth is a horrible place what the hell is so funny
COMEDY you you’re a joke a sad dismal joke the good news is i interpret humor in everything life is funny
TRAGEDY you’re a pitiful simpleton who perceives all existence from one lame brain viewpoint you can’t distinguish happy from sad good from evil you’re a mindless empty screen of canned laughter maybe some things aren’t meant to be laughed at or humor drawn from maybe you’re a rude mocking idiot what is so goddamned funny
COMEDY what is so goddamned funny (pause) i’m not laughing (pause) try stepping back getting a different perspective change your psychology consider the futility of existence fate of humankind
TRAGEDY we all do what we have to (pause) mind if i smoke (lights a cigarette)
COMEDY that’ll kill you (smirks laughter)
TRAGEDY we’re all fated to die
COMEDY you really need to see the absurdity in your gloom
TRAGEDY please go
COMEDY why do you have to be such a hard-ass why can’t we just get along we could create some wonderful art i really think we’d be good together
TRAGEDY i warning you
COMEDY i get the feeling we’re not going to be friends
TRAGEDY fast thinking (pause) go play with your happy snickering friends and leave me alone
COMEDY must we be enemies
TRAGEDY deal with it
COMEDY you’re going to miss me
TRAGEDY maybe maybe not (pause) these are dark troubled times
COMEDY why must everything be so serious with you
TRAGEDY if you persist i will be forced to turn this banter into regrettable disaster
COMEDY funny how things don’t work out
TRAGEDY yeah funny (pause) i guess the joke is on me
fate free will dialogue
FATE we each journey a path
FREE WILL i choose my own trail imaging myself triumphant inventing as i go
FATE what if you discovered your choices were influenced by forces outside you
FREE WILL i alone am responsible for my choices
FATE i’m not speaking about responsibilities
FREE WILL what are you speaking of
FATE there are aspects you may not realize
FREE WILL that’s bullshit a person creates his or her own destiny
FATE do you believe Jesus Christ created his own destiny or John F. Kennedy Martin Luther King John Lennon
FREE WILL what are you saying
FATE there were circumstances cycles aspects forces possibly predetermined powers events ghosts
FREE WILL horseshit we are presented with existential choices our actions determine our destiny
FATE our actions determine our destiny huh what influences determine our actions
FREE WILL a person’s character courage discipline strength
FATE what forms a person’s character
FREE WILL parents circumstances cycles aspects forces the era
FATE hmmm near to what i was suggesting yet who can know why or how a few chosen make it while many others go bust or when where lightning strikes
FREE WILL so what do you believe? (pause) i’m speculating most people obey conform deaf to their own calling falling short of their dreams enduring lives of hushed disquiet
FATE hmmm we each journey a path
FREE WILL i choose my own trail inventing as i go alert to my calling
FATE uhhh i’m not as certain as you i admire your confidence conviction independence
FREE WILL hey i’m straight
FATE whatever
commentary and 2 conversations
we take the justice we can get
every one is expendable i’m opening a new chic bistro prior guests will be listed on the menu we slice dice prepare any way you like sushi deep fried mesquite oven grilled baked accessories make the dish ginger pickles lime asparagus mustard and a drizzle of wine deer urine cider mole sauces i haven’t decided yet on restaurant décor possibly post-modern austere but please write in suggestions everything must be totally freshly tossed killed tableside i want the kitchen immaculate industrial sized everything yet we roast minuscule tidbits frivolous details infused with essences reduction bio-molecular cuisine an entire 20 course meal in a tear drop obviously presentation is everything Channel Comme des Garcons Lamborghini will design plate arrangement after you’ve enjoyed a lavish sumptuous meal you become edible i mean eligible to provide for more recent patrons please hold still while the knife carves and oh how about those miners in Chile real theater i just read NASA’s Kepler satellite is selecting candidates for earth’s substitute the article repeatedly used the word candidates let’s just totally waste this place the faster we trash the world the sooner we get a new planet best performance British Petroleum gulf oil debacle second best Hillandale Farms incredible salmonella egg
comedy tragedy dialogue
COMEDY come sit closer let’s share a laugh want to hear a joke
TRAGEDY i hate jokes
COMEDY you’re funny
TRAGEDY shut up you freaking clown
COMEDY there’s more to me than clowning
TRAGEDY oh yeah (pause) what? you pandering fool (pause) in my eyes every winking snicker is compromise collusion there’s nothing about you i like
COMEDY hater (pause) man you’re mean
TRAGEDY mean and unreasonable
COMEDY scary mean unreasonable (pause) yet funny
TRAGEDY screw you (pause) mortality is tragic the world is wicked what’s funny about stoning people to death or raping disfiguring women children or cheating enslaving the poor underprivileged this earth is a horrible place what the hell is so funny
COMEDY you you’re a joke a sad dismal joke the good news is i interpret humor in everything life is funny
TRAGEDY you’re a pitiful simpleton who perceives all existence from one lame brain viewpoint you can’t distinguish happy from sad good from evil you’re a mindless empty screen of canned laughter maybe some things aren’t meant to be laughed at or humor drawn from maybe you’re a rude mocking idiot what is so goddamned funny
COMEDY what is so goddamned funny (pause) i’m not laughing (pause) try stepping back getting a different perspective change your psychology consider the futility of existence fate of humankind
TRAGEDY we all do what we have to (pause) mind if i smoke (lights a cigarette)
COMEDY that’ll kill you (smirks laughter)
TRAGEDY we’re all fated to die
COMEDY you really need to see the absurdity in your gloom
TRAGEDY please go
COMEDY why do you have to be such a hard-ass why can’t we just get along we could create some wonderful art i really think we’d be good together
TRAGEDY i warning you
COMEDY i get the feeling we’re not going to be friends
TRAGEDY fast thinking (pause) go play with your happy snickering friends and leave me alone
COMEDY must we be enemies
TRAGEDY deal with it
COMEDY you’re going to miss me
TRAGEDY maybe maybe not (pause) these are dark troubled times
COMEDY why must everything be so serious with you
TRAGEDY if you persist i will be forced to turn this banter into regrettable disaster
COMEDY funny how things don’t work out
TRAGEDY yeah funny (pause) i guess the joke is on me
fate free will dialogue
FATE we each journey a path
FREE WILL i choose my own trail imaging myself triumphant inventing as i go
FATE what if you discovered your choices were influenced by forces outside you
FREE WILL i alone am responsible for my choices
FATE i’m not speaking about responsibilities
FREE WILL what are you speaking of
FATE there are aspects you may not realize
FREE WILL that’s bullshit a person creates his or her own destiny
FATE do you believe Jesus Christ created his own destiny or John F. Kennedy Martin Luther King John Lennon
FREE WILL what are you saying
FATE there were circumstances cycles aspects forces possibly predetermined powers events ghosts
FREE WILL horseshit we are presented with existential choices our actions determine our destiny
FATE our actions determine our destiny huh what influences determine our actions
FREE WILL a person’s character courage discipline strength
FATE what forms a person’s character
FREE WILL parents circumstances cycles aspects forces the era
FATE hmmm near to what i was suggesting yet who can know why or how a few chosen make it while many others go bust or when where lightning strikes
FREE WILL so what do you believe? (pause) i’m speculating most people obey conform deaf to their own calling falling short of their dreams enduring lives of hushed disquiet
FATE hmmm we each journey a path
FREE WILL i choose my own trail inventing as i go alert to my calling
FATE uhhh i’m not as certain as you i admire your confidence conviction independence
FREE WILL hey i’m straight
FATE whatever
every one is expendable i’m opening a new chic bistro prior guests will be listed on the menu we slice dice prepare any way you like sushi deep fried mesquite oven grilled baked accessories make the dish ginger pickles lime asparagus mustard and a drizzle of wine deer urine cider mole sauces i haven’t decided yet on restaurant décor possibly post-modern austere but please write in suggestions everything must be totally freshly tossed killed tableside i want the kitchen immaculate industrial sized everything yet we roast minuscule tidbits frivolous details infused with essences reduction bio-molecular cuisine an entire 20 course meal in a tear drop obviously presentation is everything Channel Comme des Garcons Lamborghini will design plate arrangement after you’ve enjoyed a lavish sumptuous meal you become edible i mean eligible to provide for more recent patrons please hold still while the knife carves and oh how about those miners in Chile real theater i just read NASA’s Kepler satellite is selecting candidates for earth’s substitute the article repeatedly used the word candidates let’s just totally waste this place the faster we trash the world the sooner we get a new planet best performance British Petroleum gulf oil debacle second best Hillandale Farms incredible salmonella egg
comedy tragedy dialogue
COMEDY come sit closer let’s share a laugh want to hear a joke
TRAGEDY i hate jokes
COMEDY you’re funny
TRAGEDY shut up you freaking clown
COMEDY there’s more to me than clowning
TRAGEDY oh yeah (pause) what? you pandering fool (pause) in my eyes every winking snicker is compromise collusion there’s nothing about you i like
COMEDY hater (pause) man you’re mean
TRAGEDY mean and unreasonable
COMEDY scary mean unreasonable (pause) yet funny
TRAGEDY screw you (pause) mortality is tragic the world is wicked what’s funny about stoning people to death or raping disfiguring women children or cheating enslaving the poor underprivileged this earth is a horrible place what the hell is so funny
COMEDY you you’re a joke a sad dismal joke the good news is i interpret humor in everything life is funny
TRAGEDY you’re a pitiful simpleton who perceives all existence from one lame brain viewpoint you can’t distinguish happy from sad good from evil you’re a mindless empty screen of canned laughter maybe some things aren’t meant to be laughed at or humor drawn from maybe you’re a rude mocking idiot what is so goddamned funny
COMEDY what is so goddamned funny (pause) i’m not laughing (pause) try stepping back getting a different perspective change your psychology consider the futility of existence fate of humankind
TRAGEDY we all do what we have to (pause) mind if i smoke (lights a cigarette)
COMEDY that’ll kill you (smirks laughter)
TRAGEDY we’re all fated to die
COMEDY you really need to see the absurdity in your gloom
TRAGEDY please go
COMEDY why do you have to be such a hard-ass why can’t we just get along we could create some wonderful art i really think we’d be good together
TRAGEDY i warning you
COMEDY i get the feeling we’re not going to be friends
TRAGEDY fast thinking (pause) go play with your happy snickering friends and leave me alone
COMEDY must we be enemies
TRAGEDY deal with it
COMEDY you’re going to miss me
TRAGEDY maybe maybe not (pause) these are dark troubled times
COMEDY why must everything be so serious with you
TRAGEDY if you persist i will be forced to turn this banter into regrettable disaster
COMEDY funny how things don’t work out
TRAGEDY yeah funny (pause) i guess the joke is on me
fate free will dialogue
FATE we each journey a path
FREE WILL i choose my own trail imaging myself triumphant inventing as i go
FATE what if you discovered your choices were influenced by forces outside you
FREE WILL i alone am responsible for my choices
FATE i’m not speaking about responsibilities
FREE WILL what are you speaking of
FATE there are aspects you may not realize
FREE WILL that’s bullshit a person creates his or her own destiny
FATE do you believe Jesus Christ created his own destiny or John F. Kennedy Martin Luther King John Lennon
FREE WILL what are you saying
FATE there were circumstances cycles aspects forces possibly predetermined powers events ghosts
FREE WILL horseshit we are presented with existential choices our actions determine our destiny
FATE our actions determine our destiny huh what influences determine our actions
FREE WILL a person’s character courage discipline strength
FATE what forms a person’s character
FREE WILL parents circumstances cycles aspects forces the era
FATE hmmm near to what i was suggesting yet who can know why or how a few chosen make it while many others go bust or when where lightning strikes
FREE WILL so what do you believe? (pause) i’m speculating most people obey conform deaf to their own calling falling short of their dreams enduring lives of hushed disquiet
FATE hmmm we each journey a path
FREE WILL i choose my own trail inventing as i go alert to my calling
FATE uhhh i’m not as certain as you i admire your confidence conviction independence
FREE WILL hey i’m straight
FATE whatever
Saturday, July 3, 2010
indie eternity
JIMMY large nose natural hipster totally informed clever funny sincere yet aloof
JOEY tall tan lanky physique long thick brown hair in braid striking good looks yet self-unaware
SHANNON athletic build attractive brunette accomplished poet so good she doesn’t need to prove it emotional sensitive tough
ANNE Joni Mitchell good looks bohemian self-effacing impulsive submissive kinky
ACT 1 scene 1
a deserted chic indie reception area somewhere present 8:30 PM
JIMMY (singling out Anne) you’re so beautiful i want you so bad
ANNE oh yeah you’re sweet to say that
JIMMY i mean it you symbolize hope inspiration in me
ANNE hope? oh god
Anne looks away runs fingers through her hair
JIMMY hear that song over the speakers?
ANNE yeah
JIMMY it’s “Home” Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes very cool check out rough trade east version on youtube
ANNE yeah right
Anne blows air out her nose looks away in Shannon’s direction
SHANNON (singling out Joey) do you read?
JOEY yeah some
SHANNON what are you currently reading?
JOEY uh a text about economic international relations
SHANNON hmmm interesting do you ever read literature or poetry?
JOEY nah not much
SHANNON like movies?
JOEY yeah sure some
SHANNON what’s you’re favorite movies?
JOEY “The Devil Wore Prada” “Eddie” “I’m Not There” i don’t know there are tons of movies i enjoy
SHANNON interesting
JOEY i need to ask Jimmy something excuse me
Joey walks across area to Jimmy
JOEY that western shirt looks so cool on you
JIMMY thanks yeah it’s a hip shirt what up dude?
JOEY oh god Shannon is hitting on me she’s way too full of herself way too available
JIMMY hmmm nice toned body bet she’s a tiger in the hay
JOEY not interested
JIMMY me neither but i could be persuaded honestly i’m blown away with Anne
Anne approaches Shannon
ANNE Jimmy is a conceited jerk he thinks he’s so cool Shannon you look so beautiful this evening your hair complexion
SHANNON funny I felt so blah all day what did Jimmy say to you? he’s not my type but not so bad if only he had Joey’s looks Joey’s shy sweetness look at Joey over there his eyes lips he’s so sexy I think I’m falling in love and yet i recognize falling in love requires a huge territory of untried tolerance
Anne’s fingers stealthily pocket Shannon’s tortoise-shell comb while Shannon observes Joey fawning over Jimmie across room
ACT 2
refer to ACT 1 scene 1
JOEY tall tan lanky physique long thick brown hair in braid striking good looks yet self-unaware
SHANNON athletic build attractive brunette accomplished poet so good she doesn’t need to prove it emotional sensitive tough
ANNE Joni Mitchell good looks bohemian self-effacing impulsive submissive kinky
ACT 1 scene 1
a deserted chic indie reception area somewhere present 8:30 PM
JIMMY (singling out Anne) you’re so beautiful i want you so bad
ANNE oh yeah you’re sweet to say that
JIMMY i mean it you symbolize hope inspiration in me
ANNE hope? oh god
Anne looks away runs fingers through her hair
JIMMY hear that song over the speakers?
ANNE yeah
JIMMY it’s “Home” Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes very cool check out rough trade east version on youtube
ANNE yeah right
Anne blows air out her nose looks away in Shannon’s direction
SHANNON (singling out Joey) do you read?
JOEY yeah some
SHANNON what are you currently reading?
JOEY uh a text about economic international relations
SHANNON hmmm interesting do you ever read literature or poetry?
JOEY nah not much
SHANNON like movies?
JOEY yeah sure some
SHANNON what’s you’re favorite movies?
JOEY “The Devil Wore Prada” “Eddie” “I’m Not There” i don’t know there are tons of movies i enjoy
SHANNON interesting
JOEY i need to ask Jimmy something excuse me
Joey walks across area to Jimmy
JOEY that western shirt looks so cool on you
JIMMY thanks yeah it’s a hip shirt what up dude?
JOEY oh god Shannon is hitting on me she’s way too full of herself way too available
JIMMY hmmm nice toned body bet she’s a tiger in the hay
JOEY not interested
JIMMY me neither but i could be persuaded honestly i’m blown away with Anne
Anne approaches Shannon
ANNE Jimmy is a conceited jerk he thinks he’s so cool Shannon you look so beautiful this evening your hair complexion
SHANNON funny I felt so blah all day what did Jimmy say to you? he’s not my type but not so bad if only he had Joey’s looks Joey’s shy sweetness look at Joey over there his eyes lips he’s so sexy I think I’m falling in love and yet i recognize falling in love requires a huge territory of untried tolerance
Anne’s fingers stealthily pocket Shannon’s tortoise-shell comb while Shannon observes Joey fawning over Jimmie across room
ACT 2
refer to ACT 1 scene 1
Saturday, June 19, 2010
art school 3
1975 Art Institute is tactic for Odysseus to put off dealing with real world also investigate range of visual techniques gay instructor fruitlessly endeavors to seduce him he enjoys several affairs with beautiful girls yet Bayli haunts him main building of school is connected behind Art Institute of Chicago Odysseus spends lots of time looking at paintings Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks” Gustave Caillebotte’s “Paris Street Rainy Day” Ivan Albright’s “Portrait of Dorian Gray” Jackson Pollock’s “Greyed Rainbow” Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Black Cross New Mexico” Francis Bacon’s “Figure with Meat” Pablo Picasso’s “The Old Guitarist” Balthus’s “Solitaire” Claude Monet’s “Stacks of Wheat” Paul Cezanne’s “The Bathers” Vincent Van Gogh’s “Self-Portrait” Edouard Manet’s “The Mocking of Christ” Henri Toulouse-Lautrec’s “At the Moulin Rouge” Robert Rauschenberg’s “Photograph” Mary Cassatt’s “The Child’s Bath” Peter Blume’s “The Rock” Ed Paschke’s “Mid America” Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” Jasper John’s “Near the Lagoon” and John Singer Sargent James McNeill Whistler Diego Rivera Marsden Hartley Thomas Eakins Winslow Homer his 2nd year at Art Institute involves student teaching during day then at night working as waiter at Ivanhoe Restaurant and Theater gay managers teach him to make Caesar salad tableside and other flamboyant tasks wait staff are all gay men once more Odysseus experiences bias from homosexual regime he is assigned restaurant’s slowest sections it bothers him the way some gay men venomously condescend women and their bodies Odysseus loves women especially their bodies he thinks about how much easier his life would be if he was gay in 1976 the art world is managed by gay curators gay art dealers he wonders if he could be gay yet not realize it can a person be gay but not attracted to one’s own sex? Ivanhoe hires variety of night club acts one night he watches Tom Waits perform on piano in lounge Odysseus feels inspired in 1977 he graduates with teacher’s certification he considers all the sacrifices teachers make and humiliating salaries they put up with he does not want to teach candidly he feels he has nothing yet to teach teaching degree was Mom’s idea Odysseus wants to learn grow paint after Art Institute he flip-flops between styles his artwork suffers from too much schooling and scholastic practice it takes years to find his own voice he has tendency to be self-effacing put himself down often he will declare what do i know? i’m just a stupid painter one topic artists do not like talking about is their failures how much money they cost creation requires resource paint and canvas can be expensive how much money is spent on harebrained ideas that never pan out? most artists resort to cheap or used materials few can afford their dreams he gets job selling encyclopedias that job lasts about 5 weeks then he finds job selling posters at framing store on Broadway between Barry and Wellington Salvador Dali Escher Claude Monet prints are the rage his manager accuse him of lacking initiative being spacey after several months he gets laid off he finds job waiting tables during lunch shift at busy downtown restaurant other waiters are mostly old men from Europe they play cards with each other in between shifts teach Odysseus how to carry 6 hot plates on one arm and 2 in his other hand the job is hectic but money is good experience educates differently than books and college a university degree cannot teach what working in the real world confronts people learn most when they are nobodies he reads Sartre’s “Being And Nothingness” he wants to discover who he is by finding out who he is not often he rides bicycle along lakefront taking different routes sometimes following behind an anonymous bicyclist possibly to come across new way he does not know or to marvel at another person’s interest
truth is this life is too difficult for me the violence hatred turf wars tribalism laws judgments practices rules permits history i’m not prepared emotionally to withstand the realities of this world not equipped psychologically to deal with the stresses of this world not prepared emotionally to withstand the realities of this world not equipped psychologically to deal with the stresses of this world i’m sorry am i repeating myself i apologize i’m not prepared emotionally to withstand the realities of this world not equipped psychologically to deal with the stresses of this world god please protect teach me strength courage fairness compassion wisdom love i’m not prepared emotionally to withstand the realities of this world not equipped psychologically to deal with the stresses of this world
buy divinity purchase devotion earn reward points own 4 bedroom loft with roof garden deck porch pool parking in paradise’s gated community pay for exclusive membership into sainthood become part of inner circle influence determine fate destiny of everything step up to the plate sign on the line immortalize yourself feel the privileges of eternal holiness i’m living inside a nightmare inside a nightmare inside a nightmare hello? i am dizzy in my own self-deceptions lost in my own self-deceptions alone in my own self-deceptions there was a time once but that time is gone there was a place once but that place has vanished there was a life once but that life is spent remember when things were different truth is i’m weak skittish anxious alienated paranoid scared to death pagan idiot stop
breath deeply push stale air out imagine kinder more respectful loving world please god do your stuff angels throw your weight around clean up this mess planets align stars shine ancient spirits raise your voices magic work there are words when spoken can change everything words rooted to spiritual nerves if voiced in particular order secret passwords capable of setting off persuasions in the mind threads to the heart if a person can figure out which words what order tone of voice rate of pronunciation time of day then that person can summon powers of the supernatural Isis goddess of celestial sway of words whisper secret earth water fire air reveal your alchemy winter spring summer autumn teach about passages patterns sublime eastern western sun fickle moody moon unveil your heavenly equation north south east west beat the drums blow winds show the path to healing path of the heart blood dirt hair sex bare the mystery of your trance dance the ghost dance sacred woman with ovaries cycles flow smell beautiful girl eyes sweetness strange awkward skinny scruffy boy great bear spirit bird jumping fish wise turtle where are you why is there no one to back me? jean paul sartre what was your last thought before you died? was it nausea? nothingness? or a wish?
truth is this life is too difficult for me the violence hatred turf wars tribalism laws judgments practices rules permits history i’m not prepared emotionally to withstand the realities of this world not equipped psychologically to deal with the stresses of this world not prepared emotionally to withstand the realities of this world not equipped psychologically to deal with the stresses of this world i’m sorry am i repeating myself i apologize i’m not prepared emotionally to withstand the realities of this world not equipped psychologically to deal with the stresses of this world god please protect teach me strength courage fairness compassion wisdom love i’m not prepared emotionally to withstand the realities of this world not equipped psychologically to deal with the stresses of this world
buy divinity purchase devotion earn reward points own 4 bedroom loft with roof garden deck porch pool parking in paradise’s gated community pay for exclusive membership into sainthood become part of inner circle influence determine fate destiny of everything step up to the plate sign on the line immortalize yourself feel the privileges of eternal holiness i’m living inside a nightmare inside a nightmare inside a nightmare hello? i am dizzy in my own self-deceptions lost in my own self-deceptions alone in my own self-deceptions there was a time once but that time is gone there was a place once but that place has vanished there was a life once but that life is spent remember when things were different truth is i’m weak skittish anxious alienated paranoid scared to death pagan idiot stop
breath deeply push stale air out imagine kinder more respectful loving world please god do your stuff angels throw your weight around clean up this mess planets align stars shine ancient spirits raise your voices magic work there are words when spoken can change everything words rooted to spiritual nerves if voiced in particular order secret passwords capable of setting off persuasions in the mind threads to the heart if a person can figure out which words what order tone of voice rate of pronunciation time of day then that person can summon powers of the supernatural Isis goddess of celestial sway of words whisper secret earth water fire air reveal your alchemy winter spring summer autumn teach about passages patterns sublime eastern western sun fickle moody moon unveil your heavenly equation north south east west beat the drums blow winds show the path to healing path of the heart blood dirt hair sex bare the mystery of your trance dance the ghost dance sacred woman with ovaries cycles flow smell beautiful girl eyes sweetness strange awkward skinny scruffy boy great bear spirit bird jumping fish wise turtle where are you why is there no one to back me? jean paul sartre what was your last thought before you died? was it nausea? nothingness? or a wish?
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