Love, with the safety off?

Mirror, reflects back only what we allow it to… The holiday season is rough. Very rough. I put on a good show, big smile, but there’s a obsidian hunk of legacy pain, immovable, solid, speaking volumes in its stubborn silence. I re-affix names and faces on its surface. Its still, at its core, the basic, primal absence of my mother. While I fight and rearrange, every time, she moves murkily and soft across its surface. She seems out... Read More

Musicals and Vaudeville – Razzel Dazzle

I have a love of musicals – Chicago, Auntie Mame, Gypsy, Victor Victoria, Cabaret…the ones with real sass and bite, a nod to the seedier side but a rise up from it all. A biting, scratchy, clawing climb and celebration of lustfully attacking life. I’d like to create a bizarre, surreal musical film with the performers I work with all the time. Something quirky, silly, an exuberant tale with some teeth. Eye and ear candy deluxe.... Read More

Knowing Better and Being Better

How do you eat an elephant? Bite by bite. Ajamu Abraham, 2004 You know when you hear something, then you keep hearing it, you agree with it theoretically or just know its common sense but its still not sunk in yet? And then, the right words, or place, or time, or person, or some combo of all of those things comes together, and you finally hear it right and KNOW it. I think that’s the moment growth spurts are noticeable. The growth might... Read More

Excellence is Lonely

I sometimes wish I wanted less from my career, my art, myself, my life. I could settle. I could make do. I could hunker down and grind out a long, adequate life. I call that mediocre. I’ve always dreamed big, even if I kept it a secret, not sure if I deserved to see the world through a lens of magnificence. Read More Share on FacebookTweet Read More