Focus on Publication and Paper

I was going to send in an idea for a Play for a 2017 celebration I know about.  It's an annual thing, and I've done 3 plays in the neighborhood already. Enough to make me feel like I'm the Resident Playwright, and also enough to make me feel like I don't want to be my own producer anymore.

The IDEA I had (About Hinduism and Henry David Thoreau and Hippies who aren't interested in India) seems underpublished (when looking for research).  It also seems to be fitting into a NEW series of short stories I'm writing.

I'd like to focus on getting them published together, as a THING, a BOOK.  There's not too much going on in terms of dialogue (although there can always be sections which are like plays)
And conversations.

I had missed the deadline and was hesitant about sending an email, asking if I should apply anyway. Scared that they would say yes.

I'd rather be in NYC. Publishing.  Getting it down on paper.  Producing things by myself is just too hard (I hate to say it, but it's true, especially under these unfriendly conditions!  Too hot, all by myself, the crazy video guy, no support, lugging food, etc, begging my friends to come, they came the first time and enjoyed themselves, but not enough to come again)

I'd rather have a book, a bit of money is not too much to commit (you don't even have to read it after!).  A calling card for an idea.  And it's just words. Not coordinating words and coordinating people.

"Go where you are appreciated!!"

It's still one of the best quotes I've ever heard.

I was stuck, earlier this week, feeling crushed by all the efforts I'm working at which aren't getting any results. The people (who are exactly who they are) and the tasks, which are subject to a minor degree of control from me.

I'd be fine if I felt appreciated. And I didn't.

Ready to move on. Put my effort into other things.

Publishing a Short Story & Performing

Big month!! 

Published a short story in the Morris- Jumel Mansion Anthology ("The Making of A Modern Woman")

And doing a monologue from my series of short stories currently called "Imaginary Friends and Other Enemies" (info below)

GOLDEN FLEECE LTD.
THE COMPOSERS CHAMBER THEATRE
Lou Rodgers, Producing Artistic Director

presents

THE ARGONAUT SERIES

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2016 AT 8:00 PM
ARGONAUT SERIES #74 (PLAYWRIGHTS IN PROGRESS)

Presenting Playwrights:

Sal Anzalone
Stuart R. Brown
Julia Genoveva
Lou Rodgers
Tammy Rose

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Studios 353
353 West 48th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues), 2nd Floor, New York, NY

FOR RESERVATIONS AND INFORMATION, CALL (212) 691-6105.

Art Critique at Java

We saw a series of people presenting their work.

Mostly they wanted to point to a larger cultural history. But this intention was in tension with their longing to keep minimalist.

It was fascinating to see a thread of erosion and climate change and immigration through them all.

Wildcat! The Musical

Let me use this opportunity to remind everyone that Lucille Ball was in a Broadway musical in 1961.

And what song became famous after she introduced it to the world??

"Hey, Look Me Over!"  with Paula Stewart.

It closed after a few months, but she was fabulous!

Go Where You Are Appreciated

That one piece of advice, which also involved a bit of a rescue keeps coming into my mind.

Because there are no awards for martyrdom.

And the money I am earning at V is just representative of me showing up to an office everyday.

And the few days of me stealing writing moments.

There was that one day, where I saved our group-"Will you take the lead on this?" I was asked in a sigh.  The other worker was overworked, and eager to hand off the ideas and execution.  I ran 3/4s of the presentation and even took pictures of a Girl as she explained something which had little connection to the matters at hand (which she often does-eager to say what she wants to say, but doesn't provide a handhold or foothold for the information.  I do it too)

I do not feel appreciated.  (There was the Bday surprise party, and in general, it is painless)

I am in Brooklyn now, on the dime of A, who is feeling ashamed for the cheapness of V.  Nothing is fully authorized yet I can do whatever.  As long as I show up 40 hours a week, spread out over 5 days.  Like jail.

I am also not allowed to join the Women's Group.  Sorry I was so happy to participate.

It's just a matter of time.(as always)

Opening of Arts Stroll

June 2nd, we had an opening reception and I gave one of the monologues I've been working on for the project.

We stood around in a circle, and introduced ourselves and described our work.  We heard poetry and saw dance, and then I did my monologue. It was great!

Any art gathering in the woods is my kind of art party!!

Ghosts of Fairyland Pond

My project for 2016.

A series of scenes in Hapgood Wright Forest in Concord, MA by the shores of Fairyland Pond.

Mousetraps may be involved, and/or available!

Purple Rain: New Outside Sculpture at Java

Yesterday, with feathers:

And what it looked like as "Blue Icicles"

I Saw Poetry Recently

Robert Pinsky reading Shakespeare alongside other actors/emoters.

The words were wonderful, but a man on the subway came up to me, livid at the fact that they were unemotional performers.  He was deep into the method.

What matters most? A clean reading of words or empathy?? I always wonder.

New Projects

How fun to create a submission proposal about putting up Mousetraps in a forest.

(2016 Arts Ramble by the Emerson Umbrella)

It terrifies me and excites me at the same time.  Excited if it happens and terrified if it happens!!

AGGGGHHH!!!!

Sending Loving Thoughts to the Other Side of the World

The sponsors of the Wildcat Fellowship are currently traveling in Palestine & Israel, on a trip with a peaceful and inclusive group made up of many religions.

They are also sick in bed.  Nothing worse than to be sick while traveling.  Or to be missing out on the experience of a lifetime because of illness.

War is an illness.  Our human bodies are frail enough, may we all heal quickly and peacefully.