I have been lucky enough to spend a couple of days with a couple of old friends recently, and it is just as if we stepped back in time, in a way.
Commander Plaza was up in town for a few days, and I am teaching him some stuff about Flash, what little I know, that is. We have also spent some time with TK who is in town for the next few months. It’s weird. Almost like I have friends again.
We think that it would be a good thing if we could get together for a few days with some of our other friends for a meeting of minds sort of thing. I used to think that this sort of hope was a little sad, like trying to relive the good old days, but now I think about it a little differently. There is a real advantage to the way we all think when we get together. Sure we are all childlike, but I think there is the potential for something great to come out of it. We tend to generate a specific dynamic, playing off each other and enhancing all possible ideas. Still, it is only a dream. The chance of getting everyone together just to come up with ideas, write, create and such is really unlikely. People have too much to do to gather together for something so abstract. In addition we would have to get them to come without their significant others, and this makes the whole proposition even more unlikely. We all like the others, but it would be distracting to the purpose of the gathering. Imagine the upside though, if we could get it together.
There might be a chance we will attempt to organize this for early next summer or something, so get your denials and excuses, or alternately your ideas for discussion, ready now.
Early plans for the forced partnership include a pop-up book. Send in your ideas and schematics.
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Sounds like everyone should bring their video and or tape recording gear and just let them roll. Then spend the next 3 months editing the material put some hip music to it and call it a documentary for long time friends. It will sink in and then ideas will come out of the viewing. That is my half vast view of the situation.
I have to work.
I was just thinking that we should organize a yearly weekend event that includes Bay To Breakers…ala the good old days. But I was in Cabo with this boy from San Francisco when I mentioned it to my parents as a possible plan i was toying with. And I said, it would be so great, see everyone and I could always stay with Leanne…(here is when i realized that the boy from SF was directly across from me, on a romantic trip to cabo and i was suggesting that I go to SF and stay with a lesbian friend of mine and not him….very awkward. It was just like i sort of forgot he existed) So I said, “Or…Joey!” I think I saved it. They all just looked at me. But what do you think? We could do bay to breakers and then spend Sunday in sactown!!!
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