"dramatis erroneous"
( quotable Saturday: surprise! "Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have -- by disrupting that order -- a way of surprising." - Vaclav Havel)
Not sure of our response to drama Presidente Havel's remark above, we asked Dr. Elmwood for his opinion. Charles Elmwood is not really a doctor of anything. He just likes dishing out words of wisdom as he dispenses a variety of pharmaceuticals from his '67 GTO.
"The Greeks and Romans, whom we usually call 'quirky dudes in sheets,' created pantheons of metaphor for human life that played out in three acts -- which was, essentially, a dramatic device that allowed for two intermissions per performance and, thereby, doubled concession revenues.
"In a world in three acts, everything from dealing with your mother's underwear, to the human need to fly too near the sun in business class, to that never-ending dump you had the morning after 'three bean burritos for a dollar' night at The Hungry Mexican, had a beginning, a middle, and an clean-wiped end. Which might have worked 2K years ago when, we're guessing, a clean-wiped end was a cutting-edge idea.
"Today, however, with our head lives tuned to music that seems to play out on its own, a finite world defined by templed god-speak -- just seems a little dated. And we're left with individual-social interaction dramas played out on a stage or screen, as they are in the cluttered indie-social mess of unstaged life, in a three-step story dance to idea music that has, unlike the storyline, expanded to fill the space it is actually living in: namely, a universe of possibility that is shaped by new ideas of space and time, like infinity and continuum, that weren't invited to the toga party."
He looks up and hands us a baggy full of small blue herons. "Which is like trying to gain the indie step-back room to see the you-today in time and space, while doing the bow-and-turn of an ancient, social temple line dance. It's just too vanity-empty fucked for words."
20120603 12:24 Sun (314 words)
Not sure of our response to drama Presidente Havel's remark above, we asked Dr. Elmwood for his opinion. Charles Elmwood is not really a doctor of anything. He just likes dishing out words of wisdom as he dispenses a variety of pharmaceuticals from his '67 GTO.
"The Greeks and Romans, whom we usually call 'quirky dudes in sheets,' created pantheons of metaphor for human life that played out in three acts -- which was, essentially, a dramatic device that allowed for two intermissions per performance and, thereby, doubled concession revenues.
"In a world in three acts, everything from dealing with your mother's underwear, to the human need to fly too near the sun in business class, to that never-ending dump you had the morning after 'three bean burritos for a dollar' night at The Hungry Mexican, had a beginning, a middle, and an clean-wiped end. Which might have worked 2K years ago when, we're guessing, a clean-wiped end was a cutting-edge idea.
"Today, however, with our head lives tuned to music that seems to play out on its own, a finite world defined by templed god-speak -- just seems a little dated. And we're left with individual-social interaction dramas played out on a stage or screen, as they are in the cluttered indie-social mess of unstaged life, in a three-step story dance to idea music that has, unlike the storyline, expanded to fill the space it is actually living in: namely, a universe of possibility that is shaped by new ideas of space and time, like infinity and continuum, that weren't invited to the toga party."
He looks up and hands us a baggy full of small blue herons. "Which is like trying to gain the indie step-back room to see the you-today in time and space, while doing the bow-and-turn of an ancient, social temple line dance. It's just too vanity-empty fucked for words."
20120603 12:24 Sun (314 words)