finding richard, carnivale and the tar heels and easter

those tar heels! makes me proud to have gone to Carolina -- the way those girls and boys play basketball!!!! whooheee!

finding richard is an amazing film that really explains both richard iii and why american actors struggle with shakespeare as a dramatist. i think i will teach richard iii in world lit -- it would be a total challenge and something very new and it totally is connected to those dastardly people we have in office. oh yeah and the Iliad, and all the lit i can muster to tell the truth to tell it like it is in this dark time we live in. speaking of which -- carnivale -- what the heck is going on with sophie? i'm mystified. hope the show gets to continue -- it's great fun.

easter. my parents. dyeing easter eggs, going to church, my hat rolling down the street in the insane march wind as my father ran yelling after it -- HOLD THAT FUCKING THING ON YOUR HEAD NEXT TIME (so much for Christian modesty and purity of speech), and walking down 5th avenue afterwards like fred astaire and judy garland. chocolates, the harsh winds of new york spring, kazanzakis' Jesus, a Jew who was a visionary. Leonard Cohen writing about Jesus, "'let all men be sailors then, until the sea shall free them', but he himself was broken, long before the sky was opened. forsaken almost human, he sank beneath your wisdom like a stone.'

but later in the same song there's this:

there are heroes in the seaweed, there are children in the morning
they are leaning out for love and they will lean that way forever
while suzanne holds the mirror

another jew who got that jesus was a rad rabbi who understood that jewishness -- as fab as it is -- isn't enough.

I am also leaning out for love and I will lean that way forever.