Well, thanks to the incredible David Meckel, I got an appointment with an architectural model firm tomorrow. We’re going to talk budget and schedule. And we may yet have an architectural model for this show.

In other news, I just got back from Chicago where I met with Stel. He and I discussed the projection and audio system for the theater. I checked out the system he has installed in his house. We’re borrowing that projector. It is beautiful. Though we discovered that I had completely misunderstood him when he described its capacity to me earlier. So, a few weeks back the theater went from 16′ wide by 20′ deep to 16′ wide by 10′ deep (I mistakenly thought that was the maximum throw of the projector). However in meeting with Stel I discovered the throw is indeed fine at 20′, and so the theater magically grew back to 20′. I think this news may have given Carol, Keturah and Carson a heart attack.

As well, it looks like Stel may invest some money in the project, which is huge news.

I also met with Phil and Libby in Chicago. We went over the soundtrack and recording studio, which was assuring.

Last night I met with my sister and her partner. I meet with them again tomorrow evening to discuss their contributions to the show. I think Ali is going to make crew hoodies. I am so excited to be able to give something like that to all the amazing people who are making this art work.

Her partner Terry is a fabulous artist, working in wood and metal. I think he may make the concession price lists that are installed on the wall behind the counter folk in the lobby.

Finally, my friend Tiffiny took a few investor pamphlets to hand out to her clients. She is a high-end Chi Nei Tsang healer. She works with a lot of people who are supporters of the arts, and might be interested in this project.

ambiguously
mid-life crisis
in its absence
erotomanic grandiose persecutory
dysfunctional penis
a postcard
on the tip of the ice-cube



The Player (Robert Altman, 1992)

in competition:

changeling by clint eastwood
che by steven soderbergh
the palermo shooting by wim wenders
synecdoche, new york by charlie kaufman (FIRST FILM!)
adoration by atom egoyan (the sweet hereafter, exotica)
the three monkeys by nuri bilge ceylan (climates, distant)
the silence of lorna by jean-pierre and luc dardenne (l’enfant, the son, rosetta)
a christmas tale by arnaud desplechin (kings and queen)
the frontier of dawn by philippe garrel (regular lovers)
line of passage by walter salles and daniela thomas (central station, the motorcycle diaries)
woman without a head by lucrecia martel (the holy girl, la cienaga)
24 city by jia zhangke (the world, still life, unknown pleasure, platform)
waltz with bashir by ari folman (made in israel, clara hakedosha)
gomorra by matteo garrone (first love, the taxidermist)
my magic by eric khoo (be with me)(SINGAPORE)
serbis by brillante mendoza (tirador, manoro)(PHILIPPINES)
delta by kornel mundruczo (HUNGARY, BORN 1975!)
il divo by paolo sorrentino (the family friend, the consequences of love) (BORN 1970!)
leonera by pablo trapero (ARGENTINA, BORN 1971!)
*one more french title is yet to be announced

In another relapsing whiteness
He may have also left a door open
And that room, immersed perfectly
Under fragments of the shattered past.
A walk is meandered so carefully that
Each and every night our pockets leak the mercury dream.
Why don’t we press the button on all the possible beginnings
When we are lost in turquoise borderlands
They add, minus, divide and multiply



Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003)