| Dear Aiden,Here is a ramble I put in my blog. It was a relief to talk with you last time.
Love always, Stephen Famous Friends at Home |
| The friends who will travel the world with me and make documentaries on how people celebrate things in the third world. A home base from which I can easily travel from country to country. A large, buttery if you will, spread. An estate. With a Rolls Royce and a helicopter. Several graceful rooms thoroughly insulated from all but a sense of the aesthetically daring, good dreams of science, the plenary nutritious. A stage in my home where actors rehearse new material. At the foot of the stage, to one side, sits a concert grand where I can fill the high ceilings with audible intricacies, daring rhythms, salubrious coloratura. Myriad considerations, motifs, rigorous moods. Today we host Nobel laureates in our living room, serving tea and freshly baked morsels with handy reference to life-giving volumes of mathematics. Imagine this – chatting amicably with the creme d’elite, fine-tuning social graces and reveling in the glories of mind. It was like my first latin dance class ever last week. I got out and my toes were made of butter and everything was a dance. Here we are priming this mental engine to find that we are manifesting much more intelligence than ever, and we sense a vast store of latent mental power. My God! I was just using the tip of the melting fecund iceberg – now it’s truly obvious! Tea steam idling upward like the refinements of our glad mood.Some people I fancy hanging out with: Aiden, of course, Philip Glass, George Carlin, Louis CK, Daniel Day-Lewis, Quentin Tarantino, Dan Fante, Meryl Streep, Atom Egoyan, Todd Solondz, Haruki Murakami, John Densmore, David Gilmore, Jim Carrey, Ray Manzarek, J.D. Salinger (if he wanted)… Aiden, would you continue this list and mention living people you would like to meet? Am thinking of making some standup comedy monologues. I like Carlin’s lists. Lists can be easier to remember than a story monologue. How to make something funny out of lists that include dune buggies and art-collecting friends all over the world? Something funny to the common folk about private access to the archives at the Frick Collection? Comedy that trains my mind to being ever more satisfactorily with you, Aiden. As a child buying my first musical keyboard, I was so impressed with the volumes of tricks and sounds the salesman at the music shop was showing me on a certain model that I laughed with unstoppable glee. How might the audience laugh like this – at the sheer number of empowering opportunities? The laugh of satisfaction. Laughing out the divine, like a panting dog with that dog smile lilting on either side of its tongue, glad to see you are home. |
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