Important thoughts

[scottotto]

Marcus and I saw A Dream Play at PLU last night, and The Bad Plus tonight at Jazz Alley. Rich... just full of beauty and subtlety. Thank you to the cast of the show last night, and thank you to the ingeniously outrageous trio tonight + guest singer. I had a conversation with the bassist afterward. Stephanie could only stare and melt. :) I'm so glad

Comments

[djmalessence]

There are things in life that we react to instantly.

There are things in life that hit us a few days later.

And there are things in life that never effect us at all.

All manner of things fall into one of these categories. I suspect the friends that didn't like whatever it was you saw are not "closed off to abstract thinking" as you put it but are in fact just needing time to process what they've seen and integrate it into the program. They may not even know that it happened.

A good example of this for me was the movie, "The Cell". I sat through it in the cinema and was completely dumbfounded by what appeared to be nothing but a visually appealing work of trash.

Four days later, while sitting on the bus headed to work, the lightbulb came on full force and I literally exclaimed, "OH I get it!"

[scottotto]

I get what you're saying. But some of these people will never get it, don't want to get it, and think that people who do get it are "weird."

[proustianrush]

When I first heard that Brian was going to direct Dream Play I was like OMFG freaking amazing that's incredible wish I could be there to see it. And then I thought to myself "oh jeez, that's totally gonna go over well." I'm glad you liked it.

[theatrophrenia]

Brian did such a great job. And becuase he did such a great job to create a work of theatrical art, of course it's going to result in dramatic reactions, one being "hate". And I hope that some people were uncomfortable with the play, becuase that would mean it was stirring some sort of thought or reaction from people who perhaps have never been exposed to that way of thinking or communicating. What would make me really sad is if people saw it and felt nothing. When we reach that point in our society when poetry and art stirs nothing within us, then that world is surely doomed.

Max, you would have loved it. But I kept you in my heart while I was watching so in a way you were there. ;)

[wandrngminstrel]

You saw the show! I'm so glad! What's more, I'm thrilled that you loved it and got something out of it.