“Fortunately, I did still say yes to some terrific opportunities, such as the chance to play the title role in a summer stock tour of Auntie Mame. To be on the safe side, at my cardiology checkup, I asked Dr. Erica Jones if she thought I had the endurance to undertake the physically demanding role of Mame. Not in the least showbiz savvy, she leaned in with a concerned look. ‘Will you be lifting anything heavy?’ To which I replied, ‘Well, I’ll be carrying the plot.’”
Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit
An ongoing digital archive of 1,212 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.
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Leading Lady: A Memoir of a Most Unusual Boy
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Unlicensed : Bootlegging as Creative Practice
“That’s something I really enjoy, to kind of stick your brain into somebody else’s brain and figure out how he or she did something. There is a real learning process that is happening there, and it’s how I learned about so much. There is a sort of embodied element to it, you have to actually go through the process, and I think when you do that there is a lot to be gained.”
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Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style
“So how did the Japanese save American style? The Americans discarded style as it became unfashionable and moved on to new things. The Japanese collected, analysed and improved it, and sold it back.”
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The Practice of Not Thinking: A Guide to Mindful Living
“Satisfy your mind by responding to your senses. We need to be actively conscious of them and not going about aimlessly in our daily lives.”
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Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays
“It’s very fluid, this space between philosophy and literature, and that’s something that resonates for me.”
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Tokyo: The Monocle Travel Guide
“In the West, frozen water is simply used to chill and dilute a drink; in Japan it is an active participant.”
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Curator Conversations
“…the writer and critic David Levi Strauss has observed: ‘One could say that the split within curating – between the management and control of public works (law) and the cure of souls (faith) – was there from the beginning. Curators have always been a curious mixture of bureaucrat and priest.’”
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The Wild Party
“The rest were simply repetitions
Of the more notorious. Slim editions: Less practised; less hardened:
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Dianaworld: An Obsession
Diana once snuck out in male drag to go to the Royal Vauxhall, a famous London gay bar, with Freddie Mercury.
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Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
“Isn’t that it, to be yourself and somehow, to belong?”
