gasamtkunstwerk :: playdirection :: making plays up with other people :: observing moments of human truth :: rehearsal :: collaboration :: making amazing music look good too :: learning :: trying it again :: falling down :: laughing :: crying :: brooding :: bouncing :: driving for long periods of time :: stop/start driving when i'm not running late (also known as 'driving') ::being mysterious :: being completely readable :: thinking broad :: imagining big :: tour fun :: wine :: martinis :: coffee :: tea :: my love, jenna :: opening nights :: closing nights :: traveling across the globe :: taking pictures :: the internet :: anna nicole smith :: britney spears :: making lists :: watching movies in order :: celeb watching :: smoking cigarettes :: vodka :: falling asleep in movie theatres :: popcorn + good & plentys :: boys ::
A Shortlist of Plays I Would Like to Direct
Not I by Samuel Beckett
Wozzeck by Alben Berg
The Seven Deadly Sins of the Petty Bourgeoisie by Bertolt Brecht
A Mouthful of Birds by Caryl Churchill
Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey
Clara S. by Elfriede Jelinek
Cleansed by Sarah Kane
Once Five Years Pass by Federico Garcia Lorca
Love! Valour! Compassion! by Terrance McNally
The Imaginary Cuckold by Moliere
Venus by Suzan-Lori Parks
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
Mother Clap's Molly House by Mark Ravenhill
Clean by Edwin Sanchez
No Exit by Sartre
States of Shock by Sam Shepard
A Dream Play by August Strindberg
A Giant Arc in the Skyspace of Directions by Mike Vukadinovich
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
Movies:
The last movie I saw...
in theatres: King of California
Roller Boogie, Boogie Nights, Benny's Video, The Seventh Continent, 3:10 to Yuma, The Brothers Solomon, Rocky, The Karate Kid, Death at a Funeral, Mr. Bean's Holiday, The Holy Mountain, El Topo, Right at Your Door, Rosaura at Ten O'Clock, Susana, The Invasion, Stardust, Kurt Cobain: About a Son, Protagonist, Larry Flynt: The Right to be Left Alone, Hear & Now, El Cantante, Goya's Ghosts, The Simpsons Movie, Hairspray, I now pronounce you chuck and larry, Rescue Dawn, Broken English, Lucas, 1408, Sicko, You Kill Me, La Vie en Rose, Eagle vs. Shark, Hostel 2, Mr. Brooks, Once, Bug, Wild Tigers I Have Known, First Snow, Ten Til Noon, Breach, The Namesake, Zodiac, Reign Over Me, Shooter, Black Snake Moan, The Lives Of Others, Premonition, Factory Girl, Catch & Release, Alpha Dog, Little Children, Notes on a Scandal, The Pursuit of Happyness, Volver, The Fountain, Happy Feet, Stranger Than Fiction, Babel, Marie Antoinette, Idiocracy, Jesus Camp, The Last Kiss, Law of Desire, The Last King of Scotland,The US Versus John Lennon, The Science of Sleep, Live Flesh, The Flower of My Secret, Jackass Number Two
at home: Fight Club
Half Nelson, Un Chien Andalou, The Puffy Chair, Revenge of the Nerds, London, Live Freaky Die Freaky, Bubble, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, Tristan & Isolde, See this Movie, Art School Confidential, The Graduate
favorites
movies: Time Code, Leaving Las Vegas, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Cache, The Tin Drum, The Crying Game, Tilsammans, The Virgin Suicides, El Topo, Full Metal Jacket, The Saddest Music in the World, Adventures in Babysitting, Amores Perros, Dirty Dancing, Miss Julie, Beaches
directors-film: Mike Figgis, Luis Bunuel, Pedro Almodovar, Ingmar Bergman, Neil Jordan, Volker Schlondorff, David Lynch, Richard Linklater, Stanley Kubrick, Sofia Coppola, Tim Burton, Lukas Moodysson, Darren Aranofsky, Tom Tykwer, Danny Boyle
directors-stage: Matthew Bourne, Robert Wilson, Peter Brook, Anne Bogart, Joanne Akalaitis, Stephen Daldry, Julie Taymor, Max Stafford-Clark, Sam Mendes, Ian SpinkRich Martinez, Patrick Kennely
actors: Gael Garcia Bernal, Vincent D'Onofrio, John Malkovich, Nicolas Cage, Stephen Rea, Stellan Skarsgard, Kevin Spacey, Tommy Lee Jones, Ice Cube, Hugh Grant, Ben Kingsley
actresses: Elisabeth Shue, Saffron Burrows, Parker Posey, Julianne Moore, Catherine Keener, Ellen Burstyn, Nicole Kidman, Miranda Richardson, Reese Witherspoon, Kiki Dunst
Top 5 of 2007
1. Rescue Dawn
2. Once
3. Rocket Science
4. Eagle vs Shark
5. Black Snake Moan
Top 10 of 2006
1. La Moustache
2. The Science of Sleep
3. Volver
4. Deliver Us From Evil
5. Little Miss Sunshine
6. Babel
7. Last King of Scotland
8. Marie Antoinette
9. Jesus Camp
10. Jackass Number Two
hon mention: District B13
Top 5 of 2005
1. Brokeback Mountain
2. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
3. The Squid and the Whale
4. Mysterious Skin
5. The Producers
hon mention: House of Wax
