citiboy is tired...

after one day at Friends and a session after that. Nothing afterwards, just home to rest. Today might be interesting. At some point this afternoon, I will visit my friend Liz/ studio at the Brooklyn Navy Yard (really tough to get to, but plenty of time to improvise) then afterwards, I will try to find a place to watch the second Yankee-Astro game---then afterwards---well it looks like a movie would be appropriate. I would enjoy seeing The Meyerowitz Stories, the new movie that is directed and conceived by Noah Baumbach. Will it be hard to get in? It is only playing at two movie theaters---one, IFC, is pretty popular, the other Lincoln Plaza, is not my favorite place to go--something about the energy there annoys me. But I should give it a try, unless something else comes along. Tomorrow, I hope to have an "easy" day, beginning at Cobra, for some football action, and then possibly ending up at South fourth. Could be a little different, depending on a few things, but that is the way it looks now.
   Thursday evening---I did go to see Eliza's one woman workshop of a new work at Ohio Space. Eliza the actress-performer is very engaging; she is always fun to watch. The work, which is a monologue, running about 80 minutes tells of a seventh grade project she put on video, and morphs, somewhat surprisingly into a meditation on race and sound. It is a strange mixture---I think it could use some tightening---what I find interesting is that "downtown theater makers", that is a group of mostly twenty or thirty somethings, who, in most of their work have avoided issues of class and race, seem to finally willing to (on some level) come to grips with it. Kind of interesting, as that group makes an attempt to become more and more involved. Not exactly sure where it is going, I would like to see more discussions, because there are a lot of issues to discuss.While I was at the space, I had a chance to talk to Ike, a performer who is running a few sessions with Eliza about artists joining community boards. I went to the first one, in Fort Greene (at Jack) and felt that though informative, there was a decent amount of avoidance of the real issues at stake in the city in the next four years. Right before Eliza's play began, I quickly enumerated some of those issues to Ike---he was very kind, and seemed very receptive to my ideas and input. The next meeting of this group is Tuesday in Bushwick, at the Bushwick Starr---I will not be able to attend it, but I made it clear that he and Eliza as Master and Mistress of Ceremonies should present themselves as being a little more informed. I think he bought that, and hopefully the presentation will be a little more serious and focused then the last one. Their final one is scheduled for Harlem and I think they have to take that one very seriously.
     So that is it.  Work at Friends Monday and Tuesday---on Monday I hope to not be too tired so that I have to miss the BAN meeting in the evening. Will report on all this soon.