Re: RAT Re: Tickets

[Audie McCall <audiemccall@yahoo.com>]

--- Nick <nick@whirl-i-gig.com> wrote:
> Box Office is real the way the Lemonade Stand is
> real. 
> 
> The Lemonade Stand is the most important arbitrator
> in the neighborhood.  Here the parents teach their
> children well.  We sometimes forget that the first
> definition of commerce is something that may have
> little or no relationship to money: 
> 
>  commerce 1. social intercourse: interchange of
> ideas, opinions, and sentiments.
> 
> The big bully of the neighborhood has always been
> KeepingUpWithTheJoneses.   But if Box Office remains
> as deliberately ineffective as Lemonade Stand, it
> becomes the only real contender for that first
> definition of commerce.  Otherwise all that Theater
> is selling is one more product, one more ticket.
> That OneWayTicketToPalookaville.
> 
> The Xmas Tree is the perverted Box Office.  Santa
> has sat his fat ass down on Baby Jesus.  The gifts
> are X'd out by bar codes. 
> 
> Theater is a gift first, not a product.  "presents"
> sounds like "presence"; the actor gives his
> unmediated presents to the audience.
> 
> The Sistine Chapel is the exact dimensions of the
> Temple of Solomon as given in the Old Testament.  I
> imagine the Lemonade Stand as scale model where the
> parent has commissioned the child to paint the
> ceiling.  So the gaze is not pedestrian, but upward.
>  Michelangelo instructs the Holy Father and vice
> versa. The angry christ is a tot throwing a tantrum
> when He chases the buyers and sellers from the
> Temple; he is able to do that only because his
> Father is the landlord.
> 
> The Lemonade Stand and Theater create fictive
> realities that become the wise and ethical guardians
> of our social intercourse.  Patron/Artist
> Parent/Child conflate.  Box Office is at best a
> funny-house mirror for viewing our "patronage."  
> Free Market Capitol is our true parent, affording us
> the leisure that allows us to create art. 
> Especially in this country the artist, even with a
> day job, is merely one more Landlord of Leisure. 
> 
> As landlords then we should be conscious of how we
> exploit the resources of the world both overtly and
> covertly in the creation of our art.   I thought
> another wise thing that Erik said at NYC Conference
> that relates tangentially to No More Box Office was
> that one ought to weigh the value of producing a
> script written about finding a serum to a disease
> against actually producing that serum.  
> 
> As landlords we can differentiate between being a
> proprietor and a host.
> 
> Host, from the Latin 'hostia' Eucharist, fr.Latin,
> sacrifice.  
> 
> Proprietor, from the fr.Latin 'proprietas', 
> property. 
> 
> This is a matter of mindset and intent of both
> performer and audience alike.  Blanche DuBois always
> relied on the kindness of strangers.  But No More
> Box Office relies on the strength of friends and
> community.  The words sacrifice and donation are
> related.  The presents, say presence, of performer
> and audience are equal equal.  
> 
> The Sun Dance offers more than a mere ceremony or
> ritual then.  But for both the dancer and the
> audience (community) alike, the Sun Dance
> sympathizes fully with nature and provides a serum.
> 
> --nick



"Indian, indian, what did you die for?


Indian says: 
                  'Nothing'."

                    --Jim Morrison
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