The Sheila Variations

Last night we covered:

-- my play

-- his play

-- CIA field operatives

-- the environment

-- the 9/11 commission

-- Edmund Burke

-- Josh Beckett, Millar, Mueller, Clemens, Renteria ...

-- the bullshit of the "I'm okay, you're okay" psychological philosophy - especially when it comes to making art.

-- cognitive therapy, the books of Martin Seligman

-- separation of church and state (at one point, I pretty much started shouting about Thomas Jefferson - but the music was so loud - nobody seemed to care)

-- Eugene O'Neill - would those plays be accepted and embraced if they were written today? Realizing, of course, that many of them were not accepted and embraced until after his death

-- Robert Kaplan

-- revolutions - American, French, Russian, Central American countries, China, Africa - the qualities of revolutions that work, revolutions that don't work - what IS a revolution ... how do they operate historically?

-- John Irving

-- big government vs. small

-- Nirvana - Kurt Cobain killing himself - along with that, we discussed: The Replacements. The Dead Kennedys, Husker Du ...

-- intelligent design

-- the people all around us - we people-watched, discussed behavior, wondered why certain people were doing certain things

-- how much we despise the TONE of political debate in this country. Especially from the politicians themselves.

-- Peter Bogdonavich

-- Roe v. Wade

-- Bob Dylan

-- the difference between actors who seem like they are acting, and actors who just seem like they are alive - as real people - on stage

-- welfare - which led into:

-- Actors Equity bullshit

-- God. What is God to me? What is God to him? Where are we both at with the whole God thing?

-- fundamentalism

-- blogs

-- the EU - laughing about the Eddie Izzard quote: "We've got the EU now, which is the cutting edge of politics in an extraordinarily boring way."

-- my play

-- his play

I'm tellin' ya. We were our very own think tank, drinking many many beers, shouting above the music and mayhem.

Posted by sheila