I often use the spoken word to express myself. That is, I use words that have been spoken by someone before me to say what I want to say. Think of the ditzy girl in greek living her life like a romantic comedy or the blonde actress in 30 rock for living her life theatrically. I have friends in engineering working on a real-world interphase for everyday montages with the appropriate mood-filled song in the background.
I like to quote Casablanca and Vonnegut in the same sentence. Mention the benefits of laughing over crying (from a purely clean-up stand point) while suggesting what the minute possibility that of all of the gin joins, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine (you have to use a two-tailed probability test for that one).
Perhaps it's because inherently I feel like collectively we've reached the apex of human creativity. Newer and better ideas are often just amalgams of vintage concepts. Or maybe it's because trusting ourselves to speak intelligently 24/7, 365 is too much and we can lean on the words spoken by the greats. People assumed not to have a higher degree of insight but rather, a status elevated enough for someone to record their words.
If only we could know who would grow up to be famous so we could have historians monitoring them from an early age to get a complete picture.
So as we go on performing on this globe theatre of us I have but one question...are you playing the crowd? Are you pandering to the crowd? Are you following your queues and segues appropriately? Understanding the difference between backstage/green room/stage left? Warming up your vocal chord?
I don't know how to count.
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