Thanks to the fine fine folks at Playwrights' Commons, I'll be Retreating from 7/30 - 8/5 with some amazing folks. Offline till I get back, at which point I think I'm likely to have some pretty great things to share.
Be well, JJK
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A list of movies, TV, music that I absorbed repeatedly (in some cases till the tape wore out or the pages fell apart) in my first decade and a half, which I think have influenced me as a man and artist. Star Wars (the initial trilogy) Last of the Mohicans (this is one of my favorite sections in cinema. Three Amigos Tchaikovsky, esp. 1812 Overture SpaceBalls Wizard of Oz Bram Stoker’s Dracula Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saens White Men Can’t Jump The Soundtrack to La Bamba Indiana Jones William Tell Overture (Finale) Harold and the Purple Crayon Picasso Twin Peaks Isaac Asimov Agatha Christie, especially AND THEN THERE WERE NONE and ORIENT EXPRESS Hardy Boys Peer Gynt incidental music by Grieg, esp. In the Hall of the Mountain King Monty Python and the Holy Grail Rocky Back to the Future pts 1 and 2 Young Guns Bond, James Bond (Connery installations) Deathtrap In addition to my big To Do list that became my-life-as-a-job, I made another list recently. A list of things I’m scared of.
It’s a huge range of things, from physical fears (still scared of roller coasters) to emotional or psychological fears (I’m still afraid to have the wrong answer, to not be right, to not know something). And one by one, I’m going through and facing them. I’m gonna ride a roller coaster. One of my favorite stories is from when I was about 6 or 7. I was terrified of the dark. And one week my brother Dave was visiting. And I forget how this happened but long story longer he found out I was scared and he decided to do something. So he locked me in a closet and turned off the light. And he sat on the other side of the door and he talked to me. Eventually I stopped flipping out, and just talked with him. We sat there on either side of the door for about 30 minutes, me in the dark, just talking. And after that I was never afraid of the dark again. If you can name your fears, and face them head on, I think you can overcome pretty much anything. |