Recently, I have taken to calling the feeling of being constantly perceived “a live studio audience.” Abstract non-entity…. They only laugh at me when the tiny PA of my subconscious holds up a cue card telling them to.
My whole life has been spent in and around theaters. They are my church. These days it seems like we take performers a bit for granted. But for every stream online there is a person who had the guts to get up onstage and perform in some theater somewhere. My two favorite places in Los Angeles for live performances are Largo at the Coronet and The Elysian Theater. Go to either place any night and you will very likely find something wonderful and surprising. Don’t you want that?
It’s soooo weird like I’ve spent a third of my life in this setting and yet I still manage to feel out of place it’s so so funny. And yet and yet and yet