Love - Art - Disease - Pain - Life-Humanness - "Otherness"
In our desensitised society,
the artists,
the bohemians, poor, discarded,
"others", recovering addicts -
all are more in touch
with their human-ness
than the so called
mainstream.
Despite everything -
HUMANNESS, LOVE, LIFE, ART survives.
-Jonathan Larson
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This is where you stick random tidbits of information about yourself.
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Thursday, December 25, 2003
Have Yourself A Merry...
It's been an interesting month in Johnland. I've been promoted within BellSouth, and spent a good portion of December in Atlanta. Which is where I am now...by coincedence of course (My moms side of the family lives here). Speaking of BellSouth, Adam has been promoted to an art coach and has moved on to Charlotte. I cried when he left, but he'll never know that...
Patrick gave me (among other things) FRIDA on dvd for Christmas. Frida Kahlo is among one of my ultimate hero's, and it's sparked a little bit of an obsession with me. I'm now going to be on a venture to find some of her artwork to display in my house. And on the subject of Mexican art, I would love to have the Botero-inspired oil that I saw in Columbia before Christmas. Hmmm...
Jai is currently in the off-broadway production of ZANNA, DON'T!, and the soundtrack is absolutely amazing:
"Zanna, Don't! takes place in a topsy-turvy world in which homosexuality is the norm and the minority heterosexuals must battle anti-straight prejudice. Set in a high school, the plot revolves around a teen fairy matchmaker (Zanna) and the hell that breaks loose when a boy and a girl dare fall in love with each other. Thankfully forgoing preachiness, creator Tim Acito manages to deliver a message of tolerance through a whole bunch of poppy, catchy songs, hearty dollops of humor (there's cheering--for a chess match), and, of course, a dab of magic (shades of the 1980 Olivia Newton-John vehicle Xanadu). While the show can be a little too nice at times, it's hard not to be won over by its impish exuberance. Fittingly, in the fall of 2003, Jai Rodriguez, who played the title role, transferred from the show's Off-Broadway run to TV, gaining fame as the "culture vulture" on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. --Elisabeth Vincentelli "
-amazon.com
I also give AMAZING THUMBS UP to the soundtrack to WICKED. It's amazing and I'm hoping to see it within the next week in NYC!
Well, that's all for my end right now...I'm being booted off my cousin's computer to be social for a while.
Merry Christmas to all...and to all a food fight!
-John
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