Anyone here for music should skip down a few lines...
No, I'm not taking an (intentional) ego trip down memory lane, its bad enough that Sonic Youth wrote Eric's Trip about me: "I can't see anything at all, all I see is me".
I was flicking through "My Pictures" and came across Exhibit A above, and thought I should just reflect on it. So far its been far too easy for me to blog away in my little electronic corner of the interweb, adding glib little critiques onto the end of other people's music. I hadn't really thought about the experience until this week, when I was asked "when are you most like you?", amongst other things, as part of a leadership etc. course.
Why I do things like Othello is because I think the stage is where you can be alone in the best way possible. It's interesting in that respect, that you need others to be alone, the audience, the other actors. But the audience are there to see you, they don't care about the way you feel. While I'd hate to dismiss the importance of other actors in a play, the most egocentric option available, I think of them in the same way as the audience. They're there for you - just as you are there for them - so that escaping reality for two fragile hours is made all the easier by your relationships with believable characters. For me the theatre is escapism but in the most bittersweet of ways. At all times, no matter how emotionally involved you are, the character whose form you take refuge in can only survive until the curtain-call. SomethingI only considered the other day, often the character is a reflection or magnification of certain aspects of your own personality; equally grounding and exhilarating. That said, it seems unhealthy (or at the least unnatural) to want to become someone else just to understand yourself.
On that bombshell, here's one of my favourite Radiohead songs from one of my equal favourite Radiohead albums.
there's always a siren / singing in the shipwreck
zen state, etc.
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