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100 THINGS THAT MADE MY YEAR

12/31/2014

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In no particular order...
  1. The inspiration for this post: Austin Kleon's 100 things that made his year
  2. Playing 22 characters in 9 plays at the American Shakespeare Center
  3. Skyping with my family and Samson the golden retriever for Thanksgiving and Christmas
  4. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
  5. Excellent TV: True Detective, The Good Wife, The Americans, Frasier, Black Mirror, Orphan Black, Broadchurch
  6. Watching Tracy Letts, Michael C. Hall, Toni Collette, and Marisa Tomei in bizarre, mundane-meets-cosmic awkwardness in The Realistic Joneses on Broadway
  7. Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer concert in Harvard
  8. Buying Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel at a charming indie bookstore in Schenectady, NY (and reading it, of course)
  9. Discovering good, affordable bourbon
  10. Matt Thomas's Submitted For Your Perusal blog
  11. The comedy of John Mulaney
  12. Lynda Barry's classroom tumblr
  13. Watching most of the cast of Cabaret watch themselves on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon at an Irish pub in Manhattan
  14. #PeterPanLive
  15. Getting rid of my Netflix account
  16. Writing music for in-show songs in As You Like It
  17. Patio beers and a burger with friends at Sweeney's in St. Paul
  18. Watching Big Trouble in Little China for the first time
  19. Running by myself or with friends
  20. Haunted bar for Halloween
  21. Attending opening night for a saucy and exuberant production of The Importance of Being Earnest at American Players Theatre
  22. My brother Aaron got engaged
  23. Ryan Byrd's "Two in Review" music feature on his blog (free playlist downloads!)
  24. Star Wars VII teaser
  25. The Maxamoo podcast
  26. Too Many Cooks
  27. Playing Thin Lizzy guitar solos on the trumpet
  28. Gin, tonic, mango, and pepper at the Fancy Christmas Eve party
  29. This poem: "A Brief for the Defense" by Jack Gilbert
  30. Singing "Royals" during the As You Like It interlude
  31. When my troupe collectively devoured Gone Girl
  32. The High Line
  33. Stumbling upon this The Alchemist poster from the RSC on tour
  34. The National Aquarium in Baltimore
  35. Hanging out with this dog 
  36. This interview with Linda Emond (and meeting her)
  37. Bread pudding pancakes in Chicago
  38. I was in a band...we even had a couple gigs
  39. Buying my domain
  40. Running in the woods in Canton, NY
  41. Abandoning books that I didn't like
  42. NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage
  43. Skyping with my brother Dan, who lives in Guyana
  44. The Scourge of "Relatability"
  45. The awesome book reading/writing community on Twitter
  46. Attending Cabaret on Broadway (and seeing a good friend in it)
  47. The Bier Garden in Portsmouth, VA
  48. Puddles the Clown singing "Royals"
  49. Seeing 18-month-old Wilbur dance to Donald O'Connor and Gene Kelly in the morning
  50. Drinking this ridiculously expensive PBR at Busch Stadium
  51. The organ in the Interstellar soundtrack
  52. Encountering some Rodin in Baltimore
  53. Brunch in Brooklyn
  54. Throwing away most of my college files
  55. Discovering the band Glass Animals
  56. Listening to RadioLab podcasts on the tour
  57. The tornado that was Jim Ridge in American Buffalo at the American Players Theatre
  58. Playing Mario Kart 64
  59. The Thai food place in Oneonta, NY (specifically, the drunken noodles)
  60. Actors preparing backstage for a show
  61. The trumpet stylings of Takuya Kuroda (on vinyl)
  62. When my fellow tourmates randomly yell "troll!" in honor of the glory that is Trollhunter
  63. Queen City Brewing
  64. Receiving invitations to audition for projects from my director friends
  65. This essay on Puddles the Clown
  66. Guardians of the Galaxy
  67. The dogs of my co-workers (Harper, Tucker, Rugby, Rocky, Ajax)
  68. Lobster Mac 'n Cheese in Boston
  69. Joyous tears during Once on Broadway
  70. The sculptures in downtown Sioux Falls
  71. Moving into a giant house, built in the late 1800s
  72. Coming up with a Harry Potter joke in Doctor Faustus
  73. Mark Strand on poetry in the Paris Review
  74. Long chats with grad school friends on the phone
  75. The Gone Girl soundtrack
  76. Blogging about the 2014 Actors' Renaissance Season
  77. The Hobbit/Office spoof on Saturday Night Live
  78. Homeland season 4's glorious comeback
  79. Writing by hand makes you smarter
  80. Seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark and Good Will Hunting on the big screen
  81. Sam Mendes's 25 Rules for Directors
  82. My friend Aaron hiked the Appalachian Trail in five months this year (2000+ miles)
  83. My Warby Parker glasses
  84. John Lithgow's King Lear blog
  85. Learning the accordion part to "Shipping out to Boston"
  86. Making playlists for tour treks across the country
  87. Having drinks with a writing professor after my brother's graduation
  88. Learning the game solitaire frenzy
  89. Reading three GIANT books: The Luminaries, The Goldfinch, and A Storm of Swords (I read others, of course)
  90. Having work secured at least until June 2016
  91. Making my parents' Christmas present
  92. Exploring the towns and cities we stay in on tour
  93. The Skinny Pancake in Burlington, VA
  94. These paintings by Seth Adelsberger
  95. Revisiting my first professional artistic home: The Commonweal Theatre and attending Ibsen's Brand (a new adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher)
  96. End-of-the-year lists
  97. Discovering Ben Lerner's novel 10:04 in the last days of the year
  98. Trader Joe's trips on tour
  99. Spotify
  100. Cooking for friends and family



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QUOTES: 12/30/2014

12/30/2014

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MIKE BARTLETT: "How I Wrote King Charles III"

"There are few stage directions in Shakespeare because the verse serves that purpose. The dramatic action of the lines is related to the physical action required. And the audience is co-opted, part of the drama: it can become a crowd, a mob, the entire English population, or, during a soliloquy, the brain of the character. So I understood that Shakespeare's verse was never concerned with any pure authorial voice, but was instead a vast multiplicity of viewpoints, a rough and tumble performance text."





RUTH GOODMAN: "How to Be a Victorian"


[Goodman] is, she says, interested not in the kings and princes and politicians, “who honestly bore me a little,” but in the ordinary Victorian — “you and me.” This book is over 400 pages of you and me. If you want to understand how Victorians thought, you read Walter E. Houghton’s classic “The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870.” But if you want to know how they looked, sounded, felt and smelled, there is no better guide than this one. Goodman likes to get down in the muck — and there’s plenty of it in 19th-century Britain.
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QUOTE: 12/24/14

12/24/2014

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BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH in FAST COMPANY:

Q: I IMAGINE THE HARDEST PART IS DECIDING WHICH THINGS YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW.

A: You just have to go for what's really necessary first, and then, God willing, there's time to get lost in stuff that's just a diversion but as illuminating as the stuff you need to know. I'm not a math PhD, I'm not a programmer or cryptographer of any sort. The science that I try to understand is often about sense memory. Even if it's something as simple as copying what the art department has done. I'm an okay drawer and craftsman, and their work is always so ridiculously involved. With Turing, I just asked how they copied his schematics and they showed me, and then I copied their copy, so it was two removes from him. But even doing that, before takes, in between takes, and then obviously during takes, made me have some entitlement to pretending to be this intellect, because I was at least creating something that he'd done. That's really satisfying.

(emphasis mine)


ANNE BOGART'S BLOG "THE BUSINESS OF BUSYNESS"

(lots of great quotes from this one, read it all in the link above)

  • When I stopped saying “I’m busy,” I stopped feeling busy. And when I stopped feeling busy I stopped feeling tired. Perhaps busyness is a state of mind that is self-programmed, put into automatic drive and that profoundly affects the moment-to-moment experience of living. 
  • Perhaps there is such thing as temporal intelligence. Perhaps the theater is an activity that can stimulate and cultivate temporal intelligence. Or perhaps temporal intelligence is simply another way of expressing the idea of patience. But because the theater specializes in issues of time and space, it is the perfect medium to address the time-illness that currently plagues our culture. If temporal intelligence can be fostered and developed in the theater, then it starts with the theater artists. We need to become hyper sensitive to issues of time.
  • The theater is in a unique position to offer alternatives to the fast pace and panic of our times. One of the most powerful aspects of the theater is the artists’ ability to alter the audience’s sensation of time by consciously changing the time signature. We can change the experience of time by first paying attention how time passes.

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QUOTES: 12/16/14

12/16/2014

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DIAN PAULUS on MIKE NICHOLS in American Theatre

"Mike also quoted poets, philosophers, novelists, film directors. Bergman was a favorite; also the French author Andre Gide. I will never forget when he quoted Gide saying, “Please do not understand me too quickly,” and encouraged us to consider this in the context of not making assumptions about a character you are playing."



MICHAH STOCK in Backstage:

"You have to be as kind as you are bold and as bold as you are kind. I think a lot of young actors get caught up in how far away they are from what they want, as opposed to looking at what’s right in front of them. If I connect the dots between a tiny play I did Off-Off-Broadway and this, there are these really palpable connections. I did a play a year and a half ago, and an actor who I worked with gave me a good recommendation when they were going to give me the job in Terrence’s first play. And then I did that play Off-Broadway with Terrence and it went really well. And Jack O’Brien and Nathan Lane saw that play when not many people saw that play. So you have to look at the thing that’s in front of you and do it well and hope that people are going to see you. If you get too caught up with where you’re not, you’re never going to go anywhere. And make friends with writers. Find great writers and make them think you’re great even if you’re not, and they’ll take you along with them.”



Poet DEAN YOUNG in an open letter to his nephew:

"...you can't sustain inspiration, you can only court it, and here's the thing: it happens WHILE you work. It's not something to wait around for. You have to sweep the temple steps a lot in hopes that the god appears."

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My Favorite Albums in 2014

12/4/2014

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The following are my favorite albums I discovered in 2014. (They may not be new to 2014, but they were to me.)

In no particular order:

Temples - Sun Structures
St. Paul and the Broken Bones - Half the City
Lake Street Dive - Bad Self Portraits
Takuya Kuroda - Rising Son
Nick Waterhouse - Holly
Phantogram - Voices
Hozier - Hozier 
Glass Animals - ZABA
Spoon - They Want my Soul
Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy

(click on the album art to visit their respective websites)
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