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.