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now boarding flight 1776 to philly… August 28th, 2008

view from flight 1776 to philly
taken this morning…

philadelphia is one of my favorites cities to visit. i’ll be here off and on over the labor day weekend. i’m looking forward to a trek to the museum of art and visiting a wine bar one of my best college pals and i like to hang at when i’m here. hello brotherly love.

saturday i’ll be conducting a writing workshop for youth in a program sponsored by the national museum of women in the arts. i’m excited about this.

a grace-jones-esque jessye norman sings la marseillaise - july 14, 1989 August 27th, 2008


i remember this like it was yesterday. i was in europe for the first time in my (then) young life. this performance had the country waiting with baited breath for the voice of jessye norman. i bought the recording of this performance on a cassette single from the virgin records store on the champs-élysées. i’ve no idea where that tape is and i’ve been looking for a recording ever since. but youtube has saved the day! i can relive the moment of the purchase. norman singing “habanera” from the prelude to carmen was on the other side of the cassette. jessye norman’s face draped in that blue looks oh-so-grace-jones-esque. like this was the beginning of some underground indie film starring miss jones herself.here is a better quality video with the dramatic ending in full site, norman being carried with her long train of french flag behind her.
http://www.fiatifta.org/cont/video_ina_03.aspx

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a picture is worth… August 26th, 2008

and how did you feel about gas prices this summer?

weekly photo August 25th, 2008

the iced coffee drink with 50 words
iced goodness and 3G

that's more like it
that’s more like it! fill’er up!
yesterday, slaughter lane, austin, tx
(taken with my crappy cameraphone)

aw yeah… August 23rd, 2008

olympics08wbball.jpg

the u.s. women take the gold again…

Stamp Lab Rocks the Hizzaaaay! August 20th, 2008

Stamp Lab, the theatre collective I’m a part of, won this year’s Artspark Festival!!!

http://stamplab.org

http://www.hbmgfoundation.org/

We are so proud to announce the we won the theatre competition in this year’s Artspark Festival. Thank you to the HBMG Foundation and its staff for being so generous to us throughout this entire process. And also a huge thanks to our friends and families for supporting us this summer. And we loved seeing your beautiful faces in the audiences for our performances and welcomed your constructive criticism/feedback. Cheers!!! Here is a slideshow from tonight’s awards dinner and a few other pics:

on my books August 15th, 2008

when i don’t have all of my books around me, i miss them dearly. nevertheless, there are some books that i always try to have with me even when i’m in temporary, in-between digs (like now).  i’m in the middle of a few deadlines plus i have a show tomorrow but for some reason i just had the urge to make a (non-exhaustive) list of these books:

  • The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
  • Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
  • Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
  • The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
  • Meridian - Alice Walker
  • The Venus Hottentot (poetry) - Elizabeth Alexander
  • The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
  • Oranges are not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
  • Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
  • Giovanni’s Room - James Baldwin
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
  • Women are not Roses (poetry) - Ana Castillo
  • The Norton Anthology of Poetry - a beat up copy that my mother had in college circa 1976
  • The Black Poets - Dudley Randall, editor
  • The three books in John LeCarre’s Quest for Karla trilogy (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
    The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley’s People)
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weekly photo August 12th, 2008

push the button and show me the way
push the button/show me the way
corner of w. 5th st. & n. lamar blvd., austin, tx

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daily –> weekly
new photos will now appear weekly. given all of the other projects going on in my life, i don’t think i’ll have the time/energy to upload a pic per day in the near future. a daily photo may return…or it may turn into a monthly photo. who knows? last week i took a break from posting photos as 1)  i was the midst of post-show delirium/exhaustion and travel 2)  i had no time to speak of and 3)  i  was contemplating if i would even keep taking photos to post on a regular schedule, blah, blah, blah–weekly photo. come see our revamped HUSH this saturday at the offcenter. cheers!

 np: are you ready - lenny fontana feat. zhana on  http://deepinside.co.uk

daily photo August 4th, 2008

city lights
city on lights in late july

daily photo July 31st, 2008

the measure of a life
the measure of a life (by t.s. eliot)
clementine coffee bar, austin, tx

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HUSH premieres this Saturday! July 30th, 2008

Stamp Lab: A Theatre Group
(Florinda Bryant, Cheryl Coward, Ana-Maurine Lara and k. terumi shorb
in association with Ashleigh Stone)
present
HUSH
as part of the
2008 ArtSpark Festival

Stamp Lab members seamlessly cross genres,disciplines and create space for new theatre to be explored. HUSH is a performance ensemble piece. Influenced by the silences of urban spaces, HUSH invites audiences into the breath between memory and possibility. HUSH explores the ways in which matriarchal lineage survives in the face of isolation, distortion and confinement.

Saturday August 2, 8PM
Saturday, August 16, 8PM

The Off Center
2211 Hidalgo St.
Austin, TX 78702
(512) 476-7833

BUY TICKETS!

More details: stamplab.org

the lovers and friends show July 30th, 2008

wrote an article about it. wanna read it. here it go:

daily photo July 30th, 2008

temporary
temporary downtown austin

daily photo July 29th, 2008

call anywhere
manor rd., austin, tx

daily photo July 28th, 2008

****-*-***ger
****-*-***ger
cameron rd., austin, tx

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