this is the moment it starts feeling like the Afghan wars
I need a hat
that's what one takes to the Afghan wars, one takes a hat

Let’s make this quick: I’ve got to go put on my tuxedo shirt and pajama pants, I’m due to a gathering of angels.

august seventeenth
two years ago

This is my summer of events.

I'll get you a tank if you want, cheap, off the Army.

I'll translate you a play about me, cheap, just fuck me this second time.

I'll go to your abandoned places if they glorify me.

february twentieth
two years agoI have an ambivalent relation with the serpentines of my writing and with my endless splitting of hairs. It never splits to zero and I have to stop it in mid-split, which is not even a mid-split, because there is no end-split to oppose the beginning-split. And whenever I leave things unfinished I am guilty and my ( Read more... )

the sadness on the edge of my cheekbones highlighted by a cue somebody else is focusing and all, I'm sure, to a point.

Je veux être à part de mon propre histoire

Am I going to say that I am discontent? I have a blood stain on my right hand, unrelated to my discontent. I might be failing myself. Let me keep the option for now of "might," the option that I might not.

Simon McBurney: 'I'm going to die'

What goes through an actor's mind when performing in one of Beckett's strangest plays? The star of Endgame gives a rare insight

'Mr Rylance, Mr McBurney, Ms Margolyes, Mr Hickey - to the stage, please." There are four flights of stairs from the dressing room to the stage at the Duchess, one of the few ( Read more... )

i'm going to stop all exterior activity ( Read more... )

there are real people I wish I'd written,

"Yes, but there’s a regret afterwards. I always think of that Damien Hirst title, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of the Living. The impossibility of post-chocolate in the mind of the pre-chocolate. I am not going to run then eat a Twix-all that stupid running just for one Twix. As I am ( Read more... )

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