A play is a poem standing up. -Lorca The first assignment for my Short Plays class was to write 3 one-minute plays. I’ve tried to do this before, but I don’t think it clicked for me until the quote above from Lorca resonated with me. The point of a one-minute is to create a story…
Category: Say what?
These entries are the words that i’ve overheard on my daily travails!
Jumping
It’s not the fear of falling that gets to me. It’s the fear of jumping.
Girl
Overheard at Coffee Garden in Sacramento. === A car? Why do I need a car? I have people drive me around. Girl. I looked like an F-O-B. Girl, I asked my mom why she let me walk out of the house like that. Girl, she said that I dress my self. Girl.
Oh Ratto
And before you get your delicates into an uncomfortable formation… – Ray Ratto, CSN Bay Area
Band of Frustration
“I don’t understand it. I’ve called everyone and they said they be here. This is the second straight dead weekend.” Overheard with a duo singing at a small cafe today. Honestly, they weren’t that good and all they played were folk stuff from the 70’s and 80’s. But the frustration is human. – Posted using…
Tightly wrapped
I like how it’s tightly wrapped. – Uncle Sonny re: lumpia at asia resto for Angela’s graduation – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
Selling and redeeming of souls
Just heard a quick story on NPR about a blues player named Robert Johnson who Sold his soul to the Devil. Questions? Why would someone do that? Is the return really worth that much? What is it about a person’s history in which would cause him to do that? Can it be bought back? Devil/Redeemer…
With all due respect
I can’t believe that I got “with all due respected.” – d’mali
First Person: The Art of Eavesdropping | Essay | Chicago Reader
By the end of my first day, I’d learned a few rules of serious eavesdropping. First, the people who talk the loudest almost always have the least to say and can be ignored. Second, everyone has his or her own unconscious perimeter, and if you trespass within it, the person will either stop talking or…
Eavesdropping Journal
This is where I’ll be posting posts on what i’ve heard, that i’d like to possibly use. The posts here will have the following criteria: • Listen to how other people talk • Flight of lyricsm between two people talking • Terrific BS detector • You’ll hear in your dialogue what sounds real and what…