TONY KUSHNERRRRR
today at the Jewish Community Center, Tony Kushner comes out to play. i already have tickets and i'm sooooooo excited! angels in america baybuh! anyone in chicago and carly are jealous of me.
Tony Kushner is an award-winning American playwright (Angels in America) who is also the Marcus Sieff Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Southampton in the UK. Remembering Refugees: Then and Now explores the paradox of why nations pride themselves on their past treatment of refugees yet are suspicious and hostile towards current-day asylum seekers. In But the Giraffe, A Curtain Raising and Brundibar a Libretto, Kushner cooperates with Maurice Sendak to tell the history behind and the revival of the Czech opera/children’s story extolling the virtues of courage and collective action against tyranny - staged 55 times at Terezin death camp. Seven Guitars is Kushner’s collaboration with playwright August Wilson and recounts the tale of an aspiring blues musician returning home to seek his fortune and reclaim his woman. At the 2007 Jewish Film Festival, you saw Kushner’s life story Wrestling with Angels; now hear him in person at the Jewish Book Fair!
Signing Follows
last night i attended my first dance class in... hmm lets see A YEAR basically. i haven't taken a challenging class in years. it was my psychiatrists' idea. the best part about the whole thing was the fact that i almost didn't make it. i left too late and its really hard to find and after driving past it 8 times i finally saw it, across an uncrossable gorge with no bridge in sight. it was at that point when i had to make a choice. give up, or start running. and i ran. i ran so far away. i was ten minutes late for class, and they still let me take it. and i was the best one in the class. granted it was beginning/intermediate jazz. but like, I GOT THERE I DID IT I ROCKED. i've never been this good, and it's only because i love it and i'm doing it for fun when i want to, not all the time everyday to the point of exhaustion. i'm not designed for exhaustion. when i'm exhausted i do stupid things. i'm going to a tap class tonight, too. then high temperature yoga on thursday.
it's SO WEIRD how my life SUDDENLY TURNED COMPLETELY AROUND. maybe i am bipolar. because it seems like it's always THE WORST or THE BEST. but now its the best. i have a new best friend. bryceson is this mixture of all my other gay best friends, so it's perfection.
i'm going with bryceson to santa barbara this weekend omg omg omg omg omg omg I CAN'T WAIT and chicago is SO SOON. i know chicago is going to be really hard for me to do, but man i need closure. you cant just pluck and remove jackee bianchi from her home and life without her return for clarity. i just don't know exactly where i stand with so many people. and i'm positive there are still ones there who hate me. with a firey passion. there's too much hate in this world, lets work it out homies.
if i don't stop this now i'm gonna miss class, but i really hope that those of you out there who are harboring old ill-feelings towards me, i want to apologize when i'm in chicago to you most of all. i need to fix my relationships or i'm never going to be able to let it go. i'm always going to look back to roosevelt UNfondly and i'd rather think of it as a place where i met the greatest people and my closest friends. i know you're there, and i know we USEDDDDD to be friendsies. back in the day. before i went mental. i was crazy. i didn't know what to do with myself. the only thing i wanted i couldn't have, and that was that. now i want so many other things more than alex kyger its not even funny. i just don't want people who i cherish and respect to think of me as a threatening killer.
Tony Kushner is an award-winning American playwright (Angels in America) who is also the Marcus Sieff Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Southampton in the UK. Remembering Refugees: Then and Now explores the paradox of why nations pride themselves on their past treatment of refugees yet are suspicious and hostile towards current-day asylum seekers. In But the Giraffe, A Curtain Raising and Brundibar a Libretto, Kushner cooperates with Maurice Sendak to tell the history behind and the revival of the Czech opera/children’s story extolling the virtues of courage and collective action against tyranny - staged 55 times at Terezin death camp. Seven Guitars is Kushner’s collaboration with playwright August Wilson and recounts the tale of an aspiring blues musician returning home to seek his fortune and reclaim his woman. At the 2007 Jewish Film Festival, you saw Kushner’s life story Wrestling with Angels; now hear him in person at the Jewish Book Fair!
Signing Follows
last night i attended my first dance class in... hmm lets see A YEAR basically. i haven't taken a challenging class in years. it was my psychiatrists' idea. the best part about the whole thing was the fact that i almost didn't make it. i left too late and its really hard to find and after driving past it 8 times i finally saw it, across an uncrossable gorge with no bridge in sight. it was at that point when i had to make a choice. give up, or start running. and i ran. i ran so far away. i was ten minutes late for class, and they still let me take it. and i was the best one in the class. granted it was beginning/intermediate jazz. but like, I GOT THERE I DID IT I ROCKED. i've never been this good, and it's only because i love it and i'm doing it for fun when i want to, not all the time everyday to the point of exhaustion. i'm not designed for exhaustion. when i'm exhausted i do stupid things. i'm going to a tap class tonight, too. then high temperature yoga on thursday.
it's SO WEIRD how my life SUDDENLY TURNED COMPLETELY AROUND. maybe i am bipolar. because it seems like it's always THE WORST or THE BEST. but now its the best. i have a new best friend. bryceson is this mixture of all my other gay best friends, so it's perfection.
i'm going with bryceson to santa barbara this weekend omg omg omg omg omg omg I CAN'T WAIT and chicago is SO SOON. i know chicago is going to be really hard for me to do, but man i need closure. you cant just pluck and remove jackee bianchi from her home and life without her return for clarity. i just don't know exactly where i stand with so many people. and i'm positive there are still ones there who hate me. with a firey passion. there's too much hate in this world, lets work it out homies.
if i don't stop this now i'm gonna miss class, but i really hope that those of you out there who are harboring old ill-feelings towards me, i want to apologize when i'm in chicago to you most of all. i need to fix my relationships or i'm never going to be able to let it go. i'm always going to look back to roosevelt UNfondly and i'd rather think of it as a place where i met the greatest people and my closest friends. i know you're there, and i know we USEDDDDD to be friendsies. back in the day. before i went mental. i was crazy. i didn't know what to do with myself. the only thing i wanted i couldn't have, and that was that. now i want so many other things more than alex kyger its not even funny. i just don't want people who i cherish and respect to think of me as a threatening killer.