AARON LANDSMAN

Practices of Belonging

Author: thinaar

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    IMG_5570, originally uploaded by thinaar. Outsider Art, part of the Enchanted Highway in Western North Dakota.

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    IMG_5588, originally uploaded by thinaar. Photo from my day-long driving trip through rural North Dakota, in search of ghost towns. Turns out “ghost towns” means something different in North Dakota than in, say, Arizona, where mining towns dried up a hundred years ago and you are basically seeing a graveyard of buildings. In North Dakota…

  • Patient Boy process pics, part 2

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    Chris Devlin and Sarah Lord in rehearsal for Patient Boy at 14 Wall Street. Part of a new workshop performance I am writing, developed by Mallory Catlett. A lot of drama.

  • Process pics from Patient Boy

    Process pics from Patient Boy

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    Working on a new piece-in-progress with Mallory Catlett. Performing it for an invited audience June 14. The performers are Chris Devlin and Sarah Lord.

  • Liver Lady And Anything Man, part 10

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    After collecting himself almost imperceptibly, without so much as a shiver, Anything Man turned to Liver Lady. He said, “Please sit down. Thanks for joining me.” “Why thank you,” Liver Lady said. “Thank you very much.” “What are you drinking,” he asked. “Diet Doctor Pepper,” she said. “I don’t want anyone taking advantage of me…

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    “By this time Greg was watching, notebook in hand, from the end of the bar. Kevin had come out of the kitchen and wiped his hands on his apron nervously – he only had a minute before he had to get back to whatever he was cooking. Kimberly poked her head out from behind the…

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    I went to the Greg, the Bartender, also a filmmaker, and whispered, “Anything Man is buying Liver Lady a drink!” “Fuck, man, that is perfect,” he said, and made a note in his notebook. He was making an indie film about a bartender in one of New York’s old, authentic, disappearing neighborhoods, and he was…

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    “At 9:30, throwing our evening for a loop, Anything Man came in and sat down, with his usual cheap tweed, and his usual purposefully “enigmatic” smile, along the window, in front of Liver Lady, a few tables up from Model To Be. By that time, there would be just two of us working the floor.…

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    “Liver Lady was there at her usual 9PM. When I informed her that we had run out of liver, she didn’t take it well, but she did her best to put on her game face; her game face with wrong-colored lipstick, and her hair about to explode and her quilted too-warm blue, fraying jacket. She…

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    “You can picture the city. 1996: there was no Time Out New York; there was no solo show about a restaurant that was so popular they needed a special reservation line; there was no internet, really, to speak of, and no 9-11. Giuliani was in his first term as Mussolini. Neighborhoods in Manhattan had unmarked…