Big List: New Year's Edition

Sunset Cloud Near 280.

Happy New Year. The first week of 2012 was a bit up and down for me to be honest, but the year is young, no?

I  know.

It's been awhile.

If there's anything the internet abhors it's silence or absence.

Emptiness and absence are challenging to document. I'm not talking about writer's block. It's not that I have nothing to say or write about.

I've only been silent here.

Absent here.

Off the Cupertino Footbridge

 I've been reconsidering my approach to this blog. How I want to proceed. I've made a few rules for myself and it would be easy to violate them. Easy to be obsessive about posting videos and music links. And those are an important part of the DNA of this blog (because so much of what I do is informed by film, music, and random elements that come from unpredictable sources). It seems natural and inevitable that I should share them in some way. I'm exploring other ways to curate this information. Pinterest. Tumblr. Then there's the constant stream on Facebook and Twitter. Each has it's own value.

Sharing source material represents one particular slice of the pie. It feels necessary to figure out how to articulate other elements of how I work and what inspires or interests me. So this is the year for playing around with that.

In the meantime. Let me ease back into blogging by starting off with a Big List.

Period of Adjustment by Tennessee Williams @ SF Playhouse (SF). Through Jan 14.

Nameless Forest by Dean Moss @ YBCA (SF). January 19 through 21.

Get Lucky: The Culture of Chance @ SomArts (SF). Through January 26.

Future Motive Power by Mugwumpin @ The Old Mint (SF). January 26 through 29.

Kamla by Vijay Tendulkar @ Cubberly Theater (Palo Alto). February 5 through 11.

Francesca Woodman @ SF MOMA through February 20.

Titus Andronicus by Will the Thrilla Shakespeare @ Impact Theater (Berkeley). February 23 - March 31.

Far Flung:
Sontag: Reborn by The Builder's Association @ the Public (NYC/Under the Radar Festival). January 4 through 15.

Bob by Siti Company (a solo performance featuring Will Bond) @  New York Live Arts. January 19 through 29. I'd love a chance to see this again.

Gob Squad's Kitchen: You've Never Had It So Good by Gob Squad @ the Public. January 19 through February 5. 

We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South-West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915 by Jackie Sibblies Drury @ Victory Gardens Biograph Theater (Chicago). March 30 through April 29.