god love hbo. i've really been looking forward to angels in america. it's weird when you totally anticipate something and have vague expectations but really nothing to base them on. that's how i was with angels. i never even heard of it until a year ago, during auditions for the laramie project. can i just chalk that up to being a country mouse?
i wish i would have seen it on stage. i love having that feeling of just seeing something spectacular and important.
according to salon, the tv show doesn't exactly stack up against the staged version. i'll believe them. and yet, i was really engrossed with mike nichols version. and the acting was really supurb. and i loved how my feelings for the characters changed as they got courage (specifically Joe). watching something like this really makes you want to be an actor. it is poetry really. and when someone can tap into something so tragic, so real, so human right when it's happening... tony kushner must have had his own angel whispering in his ear as he wrote.
ponderings:
is cowardice the most lowly of human weakness? do you think that cowardice/courage is what breaks/makes our lives?
the truth really does set you free. what are you so afraid of that you can't admit the truth? i know you've got something. and it is exactly this coupled with courage/cowardice that allows you to live your fullest life.
i don't get society's hang up with homosexuality. i mean. yeah. okay. i get it. but it's not even a ten commandment. it didn't even make top ten. but lying did. and we all lie. all of us. why aren't people walking around with righteous indignation about all of the liars in the world. and if they aren't, then they better get busy. cuz the way i see it, you can't get all huffy about homosexuality if you can't even get a little blustered about lying.
and while you are thinking of this, please start with yourself.
and i will too.
damn. i sound all preachy and shit.
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