In between eating, blogging, and walking the dog, I spent yesterday watching 1) This Week With George Stephanapoulous; 2) The U.S. Open (Golf not Tennis); 3) The Lakers-Celtics Finals; 4) The Tony Awards. #1 is no surprise, I have always been a news junkie. I was probably the only drug dealer on the West Coast who subscribed to the New York Times, back when you couldn't access it online, #4 is no surprise either. One day they'll probably discover a musical comedy chromosome on the gay gene.
But who knew I liked to watch sports? I sort of backed into it, via Tennessee Tony, who is a big football fan. (I backed into Tony too, but that's another story.) He also introduced me to basketball, particularly women's, and started to tune into the Lakers back home. I got into soccer for the men, frankly, (that's Sweden's Melberg) and then stayed for the game when France got into the World
Cup. Then I watched some golf with my brother-in-law on vacation two years ago, and realized it was the ideal thing to put on while writing, as I could glance up for the action but pretty much still get things done. Right now, in fact, I'm watching the Woods-Mediate playoff, which is better than any soap opera, frankly,This is pretty unremarkable stuff for your average Joe, but for me it represents a striking evolution. I really restricted my field of vision for most of my adult life, always seeing things through a rainbow prism. I wrote a story for myself that some things interested me and some things didn't, and then stuck to the script. When I realized I was in the grip of addiction I just adjusted the script accordingly. It read like this: I was an outlaw pariah, yes, but with panache. I fancied the result an edgy low-buget indie instead of a milquetoasty mainstream feature. In my dreams.
Life is a lot more satisfying when you discover what the script is as you live it. All the world's a stage now, and I am just a one of 6 billion actors in a billion dramas and one gigantic comedy. I can let the adjectives that apply to me describe me, not define me. I can be a jock or a cheerleader, a top or a bottom, a visual artist or a wordsmith or both. I can be all of it, some of it, or none of it, and I don't have to decide what I'm going to be ahead of time.
The only script I need to write these days is an actual script. Who knew?
MCO 2008
P.S. The Hy-Art is Metsu, combined with an old Hy-Art of mine of Church, DeHooch and Manet.
You can be naughty and profound, all in the same post. That's quite a talent. I've just collected another of your lines that precipitated an aha moment for me, "Life is a lot more satisfying when you discover what the script is as you live it." I've never liked being pigeonholed and yet sometimes, I've self-precribed who I am to the extent that I have denied myself an opportunity to participate in new adventures because it's not something that I would do. As I age, I'm getting much looser about pre-setting my parameters and I like the element of surprise in my life that comes with that freedom.
Btw, I think that the best tops have had experience being a bottom.
I like a man who is versatile. ;)
i missed the tony's - i heard they were very good...