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Johnny Myers

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About Me

This short play of mine was filmed during performance on June 8, 2006 at Boston Playwright's Theatre, produced by Playwrights' Platform. It was directed by SIU MFA directing student Jenny Mac, who needs to get things going and come direct the Boston premiere of LITTLE RED HEN:) Special thanks go out to the theatre students at Boston College.
What does your birth month reveal about you?

February
Abstract thoughts. Loves reality and abstract. Intelligent andclever. Changing personality. Attractive. Sexy. Temperamental. Quiet, shy and humble. Honest and loyal. Determined to reach goals. Loves freedom. Rebellious when restricted. Loves aggressiveness. Too sensitive and easily hurt. Gets angry really easily but does not show it. Dislike unnecessary things. Loves making friends but rarely shows it. Daring and stubborn. Ambitious. Realizing dreams and hopes. Sharp. Loves entertainment and leisure. Romantic on the inside not outside. Superstitious and ludicrous. Spendthrift. Tries to learn to show emotions.
This next is a film that I worked on with Ryan Davis while I was at Southern Illinois University.
"Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes."
--Theodore Dreiser
"In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

ballet dancers

visual artists

Music:

Beethoven, Eminem, Mozart, Modest Mouse, Death Cab for Cutie, Coldplay, Strauss, Wagner, Ben Folds Five, Tom Waits' Blood Money, and Radiohead

Movies:

Recently: Transformers, The Simpsons

Television:

No thanks. Please pass the soma instead.

However, Stephen Colbert is a riot, so I catch his clips on UTube.

Books:

Theodore Dreiser. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Tom Robbins, Kerouac, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Peter Handke's "The afternoon of a writer"... The Dramatists: Buchner, Strindberg, Albee, Beckett, Jarry, Odetts, Shepard, Goethe, Durrenmatt... The philosophers: Kierkegaard, Husserl, Sartre, Nietszche, Hegel, deCartes (kind-of), Kant, Heiddegar, Socrates/Plato, Aristotle, and Hume...

Heroes:

Eugene V. Debs

My Blog

Lullaby Poem

LULLABYby Taylor Jillian AltmanDon't pray at the arbor, don't wish on a star:when night descends, don't be afraid--you have a Creator, of course you were made,and I, my darling, will never be far....
Posted by Johnny Myers on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:22:00 PST

The Current Status of My Revisionist Autobiography

    Sometime in May of 1975, in all probability inspired by one or another disco song but certainly not by any Elton John tunes, two married people procreated in these undignified Nixon...
Posted by Johnny Myers on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:47:00 PST

"Time is moving really really really slow."

I just thought this was the funniest thing.  Saw it in a bulletin posted by a friend.  Thank you, Marie.Just wait until you hear the 9-1-1 call footage.The Pot Brownie Add to My ...
Posted by Johnny Myers on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:00:00 PST

Tears for a Noble Man

I really don't understand this world.  Sometimes I feel like I do.  I get a sense of what's going on, a paradigm arises in my lens that satisfies my hunger for knowing what it's all about......
Posted by Johnny Myers on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:53:00 PST

The Strength of Greatness and Passion

            FAUST (to WAGNER)What you don't feel, you will not grasp by art,Unless it wells out of your soulAnd with sheer pleasure takes control,Compellin...
Posted by Johnny Myers on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:17:00 PST

Back in school again -- couldn't stay away...

Okay, so I'm entering the Boston University grad playwriting program hosted at Boston Playwright's Theatre.  I'm excited about this, but I've been so busy that  it didn't really click about ...
Posted by Johnny Myers on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 08:30:00 PST

How I met Howard Zinn

I work on campus at Boston University, along the Charles River, and my apt. is a few blocks away in the BU rental housing.  About an hour ago, I went home for lunch, and while walking home along ...
Posted by Johnny Myers on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:11:00 PST

"Existence Precedes Essence," and other timely classics

"Thinking reed, rational animal" -- Sartre, explaining the nature of man in his essay Existentialism is a Humanism"Hell is other people" -- Sartre in his play NO EXIT, which was recently f*@!ed up by...
Posted by Johnny Myers on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:38:00 PST

I want to marry a flapper

I wish I were a member of the Lost Generation.   THE FLAPPERby Dorothy Parker The Playful flapper here we see,The fairest of the fair.She's not what Grandma used to be, --You might say, au contr...
Posted by Johnny Myers on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 04:17:00 PST

Politics-can't escape 'em-they're just everywhere--I was radical when it was unpopular

You are a Social Liberal (75ermissive)and an... Economic Liberal (15ermissive)You are best described as a: Socialist Link: The Politics Test on Ok CupidAlso: The OkCupid Dating Pe...
Posted by Johnny Myers on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 04:50:00 PST