Alex Burger

Play Reading in Iowa: “my grandpa’s dead body”

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This morning my aunt Susan, uncle Steve, aunt Julie (my Skype), my mom, and my friend Jim all read through my play “my grandpa’s dead body.”  The play borrows elements and characters from our own family, although mixes them with a darkness and a skewed vision of Iowa different from the one I live. It was a brave and moving experience, art and life co-mingling.

 

12 April, 2014

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Quote of the week:
2Pac: All Eyez on Me Chris Abani: The Virgin of Flames “If you don’t answer my calls I’m going to massage a crocodile at the zoo (a dead one).” 
— A Zimbabwean friend telling me he’s angry because I didn’t pick up his call.


Selma, my Selma

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Drove through Selma this am. Shocked at the state of downtown – this was always a magical place to me and now it’s a ghost town. What has happened to one of the birth places of the civil rights movement?

5 April, 2014

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Quote of the week:
Digable Planets: Blowout Comb Tracy Letts: August, Osage County “You told me again you preferred handsome men but for me you would make an exception . . . We’re ugly but we have the music.”
— Chelsea Hotel by Leonard Cohen sung by Meshell Ndegeocello. 


29 March, 2014

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Quote of the week:
Maria Callas: Legend Sandra Saayman: Breyten Breytenbach, A Monologue in Two Voices “ Malala pipes”
— A derogatory expression in South Africa to say someone is useless, referring to homeless boys and girls who live in big concrete pipes.


15 March, 2014

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Quote of the week:
Fred Hammond: Purpose By Design Omar El-Khairy: The Keepers of Infinite Space “You can’t be fucked, without a penis going in.”
— A Croatian expression that means you can’t just pretend or imagine things. If you want something, you have to really do it!

1 March, 2014

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Quote of the week:
Fela Kuti: Original Suffer Head Cush Jumbo: Josephine and I “You see what you look for, and you look for what you know”
— A radiologist friend Jessica Panko explaining the challenges or reading ex-rays