hadn’t even seen wizard of oz
only knew the song from glee (although i knew idina menzel was somehow involved)
0-100 is my favourite thing actually
Category: Personal updates
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– calendar candle (from danish christmas market)
– the turkey from that parade (as seen on friends, where underdog gets away and they lock themselves out of the apartment to look at the giant baloon, and apparently the parade is not just on friends its actually been happening for 98 years. on the street next to where i live)
– ann (an amazing person who anybody would be lucky to know, including me, at any point in their life, at any place in the world)
– hyped up friends (after having watched wicked 4D, wauw, as a person who had not even (at that point) watched the wizard of oz i am amazed to this introduction to the lore)
– an octopus and a whale (from the dimly lit display at the museum of natural history, amazed and entertained and impressed)
– from “burnout paradise” (the phenomenal cast of ponycam collective minus ava who’s counting the show’s score in the back before deciding whether or not the audience are entitled to ticket refund. i didn’t know this iconic music video before seeing this show but here we ok go. also didnt know burnout could be this entertaining. have seen this show 3 times and would always recommend <3)
– danielle (an incredible person who, for 3 blissful weeks 9 years ago, was like a sister to me. she was so old, 24, and now a decade went by and everything is the same. nostalgia is my favourite feeling. people are my favourite thing. i’m not over this. i can’t describe this. i just love it so much. i love her so much)
– leftover police equipment from the parade (and i think we should call it now, central park west, take a break for a while, it’s been marathon and thanksgiving parade and go take a nap)
– cutting the turkey (cutest and best chelsea at cutest and best thanksgiving. there’s too much to give thanks for to write here, but yes, that’s it, thankful for the rest of my life for these 19 weeks)
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holding space for this apartment
holding space for the motherfucking skylight
holding space for the girl who visited today, newly highlighted hair and her well articulated wits,
holding space for ann,
holding space for dan and his bracelets,
lots of space in his and her apartment
lots of food in caitlyn’s kitchen
feeding people I hold space for
holding space for all these people
Nathan josh colleen asil
silly me for ever leaving
leave their mark on me they will
holding space for half assed rhyming
holding space for whole assed timing
holding space for 4D screenings
holding space for future meetings
holding space to come back another time
leaving the calendar open
holding space for future projects
holding space for something completely different that I don’t know yet
holding space for cuddly couches
holding space for hugs in subways
holding space for rooftop coffees
holding space for slutty costumes
holding space for body bag cocktails
holding space for k-town karaoke
holding space for the steps in front of bossa
holding space for the C train if it chooses to show
I’ll hold
I’ll stay on the call
I’ll wait for something to show
I’ll make space and keep it, hold it tight, hold the space so life stays open,
hold them in my heart in the meantime
if they’ll hold a space on a couch in bed-stuy
if they’ll hold my index finger when i say goodbye
(and probably cry)
a C train will show up one night
and I’ll be back to hold them tight
until then,
hold space for me please
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the city prepping
me prepping
enjoying
bonus
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films in cinema:
it ends with us
speak no evil
my old ass
the substance
joker 2
we live in time
the apprentice
anora
conclave
new york-related cultural products:
american psycho (movie)
99% invisible “lost subways”, “penn station sucks”, “squatters of the lower east side”, “it’s chinatown” (podcast)
sex and the city (only had 1 season left) (tv series)
brooklyn 99 (only pilot) (tv series)
how i met your mother (began at episode “the best burger in new york”) (tv series)
studio 54 (documentary)
frances ha (movie)
mr robot (tv series)
just kids (book)
the new yorker (magazine)
girls (tv series)
post show recap: mr robot (podcast)
sentimental in the city (podcast)
theatre/performance (full productions):
family (hoi polloi)
the marriage (la mama)
deep history (the public theatre)
the cursed child (lyric theatre)
women of will (west end theatre)
safety not guaranteed (bam harvey theatre)
the beastiary (ars nova)
another shot (pershing square signature center)
walden (Second stage theatre)
the post poetic machine (theaterlab)
fahrenheit 451 (st. michael’s church)
burnout paradise (2 soon to be 3 times) (st. ann’s warehouse)
frontera (bam howard gilman opera house)
sleep no more (the mckittrick hotel)
in the amazon warehouse parking lot (playwrights horizons)
we are your robots (theatre for a new audience)
oud player on the tel (here arts center)
theatre/performance (readings & other):
ogallala (runthrough of second act) (under st. marks theatre)
paper kraine (lots of different acts; reading, dance, music etc) (under st. marks theatre)
catch 77 (lots of different acts) (the invisible dog art center)
rage (reading) (playhouse 46)
helen in her homeland (reading) (center for performance research/elif collective)
la casa del cuco (reading) (intar)
protect the protectors (staged reading) (the tank)
the moth: rejection (storyslam) (the cutting room)
approx. 15 sets of 10-20 minute stand up (stand-up comedy) (the tiny cupboard)
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josh looking for incense / theatre that made me think of Frankenstein Genskabt, Novacene, Gaia Hypothesis, intersectional feminism and my theatre friend made a good point: veganism / flowers after end of masterclass <3 / view of long island city apprently / play about Palestine and Israel / cute lil christmas elfs / reading of Protect the Protectors
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sleep no more / view from st. ann’s at night / more sleep no more / south ferry terminal / american actress / lithuanian kanklés player / american jazz musician / statue of liberty / subway therapy / peacock performance / friend
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About ALIEN:
The text explores the emotional struggles and humorous liberties of feeling alienated.
The work is inspired partly by temporarily living abroad in New York; a massively densely populated city wherein everybody seems to exist in parallel universes. It also draws on recent experience of being separated from friends and family – both through space and time. -
Can’t believe this is what im doing right now
Im sitting in a café
In tribeca
In new york
And they’re playing flowers
And a year and a half ago I lived through flowers, fell down and picked myself up, inviting people to join me, danced with myself and celebrated all of our failures,
Will it be the greatest thing I’ve ever done?
No
Cause im in new york now
Booking a fucking hostel in Sydney two months from now
And don’t stress about finding an apartment katinka
Don’t stress about your relationship katinka
All in its time
You’ve lived for 28 years and the gigantic scope of things you’ve experienced?? I could cry
Im so proud of youYou’ve built your life on being a go-getter
Now give yourself a break
Receive for a bit, take it chill, find comfort in being a bit homeless for a while,
Leave the slate clean for other people to fill it out,
Just try it out,
See how that feels too
Youre really good at seeing how things feel, trying one thing and then trying another
Yes its tempting to apply for a job right now
To email all the cafes back home
Or the front of houses
And you could
And maybe it would be a good idea
But today youre in tribeca,
And the sun is out and you’ve got your gorgeous shoes on to compliment your gorgeous lady body
And your coffee is cold because you’ve been too absorbed into writing and researching and all the things youre doing when your computer is openAnd your coffee is cold and that’s fine
But maybe try to see this upcoming spring as a coffee, try to drink it while it’s hot, theres nothing wrong with cold coffee honestly that’ll just be iced coffee on a very hot summer day where the ice melts too quickly,
But lets do January and February and March as a steaming hot coffee, lets drink it and see what happens in the meantime, you don’t have to control everything that happens, maybe something will happen TO you
Maybe people will ask you to do things
Theyre already starting to
Carol just hired you yesterday for 4 days of intense work in February
She asked YOUAnd your boyfriend is sweet and kind and struggling a bit and maybe now is just the time to be there for him, not to worry about your own things because theyre going splendidly, just be there for him and enjoy that you’re in tribeca and that the sun is out and that the air is crisp and you’ve got two episodes of Sentimental In The City left,
Your visa got you in
Bikubenfonden let you in and gave you an apartment
Sidse let you in and you’ve learned so much about directing naturalistically,
Kristin let you in and you’re going to fucking assist in making an OPERA ABOUT RESPONSIBLE ACTIVISMAnd your family is healthy and safe and they love you
And at the moment, I think, no one is mad or annoyed with you,
And you might catch a movie with Dan later today and I could cryHow did you get so lucky? You’ve been drinking cold coffee and you’ve enjoyed it, and im so fucking proud of you, my only advise is to never forget to say thank you, keep thanking your uncle for his money and keep thanking your parents for their support and keep sending videos to your nieces and keep asking your sister about how she’s doing and not just how her children are doing, maybe actually call your sister right now, drink your shitty delicious cold coffee and call your sister to tell her you love her
