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Category Archives: Personal
What I Learned From My Six-Month Performance Class
Last night was the last class in a six month program to create a solo show. LIST THE FEARS AND DOUBTS THAT KEEP ARISING: * I have a hard time getting as excited about describing the good things I’m doing … Continue reading
Stuck!
* My moral bank account is stuck in a Cypriot Holding Company and I can’t make the withdrawals I need. * My deepest fear is that I am not competent at life, that I am not up to its routine … Continue reading
I Struggle To Connect
My Only Experiences With Racism Run In One Direction
I graduated from eighth grade at Pacific Union College Elementary School in June of 1980 and flew to Washington D.C. where my father was preparing a defense of his controversial views on the church’s Heavenly Sanctuary Doctrine. We had an … Continue reading
My One-Man Play ‘Eroticized Rage’
Here is my April 10 rehearsal with notes and revisions: Here is my debut performance Feb. 3 at Whitefire Theater in Sherman Oaks (13500 Ventura Blvd) as part of Solofest: Here is my March 2013 interview with artist David Choe. … Continue reading
My Dad’s Favorite Expressions
Here’s what I remember from childhood: * He’s a fine Christian gentleman but he doesn’t read enough. * Be sure your sins will find you out. * You might only learn through pain. * I don’t give a cracker for … Continue reading
‘We Can’t Take This’
The other day, I ran into a woman I went out with once. We were friends for years. It’s been about a decade since I saw her last. And as I walked away, I was thinking, I hope I had … Continue reading
Talking Eroticized Rage With Yoshi Obyashi
Luke Ford goes on Yoshi Obyashi’s show 3/6/13 to talk to Joey Kurtzman and Lilit Arvahi about his one man play “Eroticized Rage” about sex and love addiction, eroticized rage, and the intimacy disorder that underlies such symptoms, the fundamental … Continue reading
I Wanted To Be Holier Than Dennis Prager
Listening to Dennis Prager on KABC radio beginning in August of 1988 turned me on to Judaism. I read Prager’s book The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism and by December of 1989, I had decided to convert. With a … Continue reading
Karma Is Coming!
What’s the dramatic conflict for my play? Will I realize that emotional addictions are ruining my life? What’s the problem the narrator is dealing with at the beginning of the story? Helpless rage and disconnection from others. What does he … Continue reading