Paul Valéry is quoted as saying, “You mustn’t hesitate to do what will lose you half of your fans and triple the affections of those who remain.”
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amen!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Category: talking about art/life (Page 1 of 5)
Franke,
Glad to hear that physical therapy and the talking book are helping you nap.
Sven the physical therapist (Swede farm boy with a fetish for farm animals)…
Please let him know I’m glad he is helping you.
Also, if the bottom drops out of the PT gig there are farms in the Midwest he might want consider for employment. This is after all America’s dairyland….Beautiful cows!!
xo Paul
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MOO!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
(Frank wrote:)
yes, but who has time to nap ?
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Frank Moore
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Frankie,
I realize you are The Only Sex God and the Busiest Shaman in Showbiz…..
May I suggest (If you’re not in the middle of a split-week a Caesar’s Palace) a 40 minute snooze daily.
The health benefits are amazing..It feels good and costs nothing.
Since I’ve been taking one almost everyday my health has improved immensely.
Just my 2¢.
Paul
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hey, baby, i usually nap when I am getting physical therapy nightly with Sven [a Swede farm boy with a fetish for farm animals] as the talking book lulls me!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
the other night I had my first bath in the tub since I went into the hospital in May!
Last week I had my first session in my studio out back since the hospital! I haven’t even been in the studio for over six months! I met with Maggie from the last performance for over three hours and I was still going afterwards! She is coming back tomorrow.
In other words, I’M BACK!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
T’as raison,
But we’re the 31th and I’m going to “jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam” tonight 😛
Happy new years Frank 🙂
Rafael
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love those hot jams!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
“I think our bodies are bacon cheese burgers. Our bodies are meant to be loved and play with, to have fun with. They are instruments of love”
Now, why don’t I get any girl “Frankly” telling me that ?
Guess I don’t know the right girls 😀
You lucky beast, Frank 🙂
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well, i never have believed in the concept of THE RIGHT GIRL… Or in RIGHT…. Or in GIRL… or in GETTING…
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Philip Huang commented on your note “last performance of the year”.
Philip wrote: “This is a very thorough account of the show. I keep thinking about what that man said, that our bodies are just meat, and what frightens me is my own reluctance to confront my own vanity and shame. He’s right, we’re just meat. And Frank’s right–comfort is the ultimate means of control.”
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Philip, I think our bodies are bacon cheese burgers. Our bodies are meant to be loved and play with, to have fun with. They are instruments of love. They are the tip of the iceberg of who we are. But they are definitely a part of who we are.
glad that the performance made you confront whatever. Art should do that. I don’t know what shame is. And I am too cute to be vane!
We shouldn’t confuse real comfort with “zones of comfort,” which really are prisons of fragility making people easier to control and to limit. Real comfort is extremely flexible and supple and absorbent and inclusive, warm juicy! It Sticks to your ribs when you journey outside of the margins.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
(Frank wrote:)
We have an extra copy of the Billy Bob Thornton movie, “Badder Santa”. Would you like to have it?
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HI Frank,
We don’t need it but thanks for the offer! I enjoyed that movie more than I thought I would.
I hope you had a good Christmas. I survived mine, not my favorite holiday by any stretch. I still get bitter that being a Jew I have to do anything on Christmas but we can get into that rant later.
First my thoughts on the show, and I am still thinking about it. One of the things I thought about the most and afterward was the notion of uncomfortable. I found it interesting that nudity is one of the main things you use to get people uncomfortable, why do you think that is? While other people’s nudity does not make me uncomfortable I know that I would not have been willing to get naked so obviously I have some major level of uncomfortableness with it. I would also love to see a show where people get just as uncomfortable without taking off their clothes. I would have liked to hear more from all the people there, it was very interesting to me why they came and how they were feeling. I loved the reading of the poem, to me that was the perfect example of someone feeling uncomfortable with what was happening around her but participating and getting really into it. Her reading was awesome. What made me most uncomfortable of all was that I would be asked to do something I didn’t want to do, and that it wouldn’t be ok if I didn’t want to do it. I have generally avoided group participation activities for that reason, and in a larger sense have always felt like an outsider in this country for that reason. I don’t stand for the national anthem because this is not the land of the free, and it should be my right not to, but that somehow makes me unpatriotic. But I realized at that show that I trust you, and even more that I am ok with myself so I did feel that uncomfortableness go away and I had a lot of fun. The reason I came was to see you perform. I would say that 90% of the people I work with don’t get better, and in fact most get worse. It is really emotionally taxing to spend that much time with a group of people who know that they can no longer do the things they love and who are so sad. The opportunity to see someone who I met when he was recovering from some major medical catastrophes and came to care about back up on stage doing something he loves was the most fun for me. I also think that in a lot of ways doing therapy with you was a zone of uncomfortable fun. I struggle with the profession of swallowing for many many reasons. Here was this guy who if I listened to the textbooks, and to other colleagues, and to lawsuit happy America I would have believed shouldn’t be eating. But I have always believed in quality of life and not giving into fear, and as I got to know you and be more comfortable with all of you it became really fun to challenge the naysayers and watch you eating. It was also fun to let go of my worries. You were also my first home trach, I have always worked with a team of nurses and respiratory therapists who are helping me monitor things. But I tell you, Linda and Mikee were the best team I could have asked for.
Please add me the e-salon email list! And I am glad I have become family. I hope things are going well, I will discuss movies in the next email.
Love Miriam
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welcome to the e-salon, Miriam!
Hey, Bad Santa is a Jew, or at least his girlfriend is.
the nudity and eroticism are quick Tools [at least in this uptight country] to get under /beyond the casual, social, the normal, and other margins which keep people away from freedom so that we will start exploring, playing together tribally. And it works. People come to the “audience participation experiential performance ” with that context clearly displayed. So they came for that, even if they don’t know exactly what that means or includes. Not knowing exactly is the spice of life. Trust is the key to unlocking the “zones of comfort” [which really are prisons of fragility]. Really the trust I am speaking of doesn’t have a subject. You trust me because you trust yourself because you trust life. That trust is a rugged comfort.
I am getting together with Maggie [who read my poem] Wednesday!
Well, if I didn’t have you and Kerbavaz who are willing to go against the prevailing expectations, it would have been much harder for me to beat the curse of their expectations, judgments, projections. This curse is most certainly why I ended up in the ICU in the first place! [they couldn’t ask me if I was breathing ok!] Of course I would be dead without my tribal body of Linda, Mikee, Corey, Alexi and Erika. And there are the hundreds of people who kicked my ass not to die and gave us what we needed to survive. Of course all of that came from a lifetime of living outside of the prevailing expectations, building tribal relationships, exploring erotically!
Hey, if they were so wrong about me, wonder how many of your other patients they are wrong about!
NO CAN NOTS
By
FRANK MOORE
Sunday, April 28, 2002
Talking to future healers
& teachers
& maybe future
muckrakers & troublemakers
Well,
Not really future
Because hopefully
You are doing IT
RIGHT NOW!
Hopefully
I’m not talking to the future guards
Of the corporate normalcy
Armed with can nots,
Limiting futures from birth,
Enforcing coloring only within the lines,
Enforcing doing everything
THE RIGHT WAY
THE NORMAL WAY
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
🙂
Invisible connection Uncle Frank ; my creative mind is like that big baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall of fire right now ;
amazing how a single word can have so many sens, and taken out of a clear context, can create original thinking from people
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at least, we try, don’t we?!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Frank, Linda, Mikey, Erika, Alexi, Corey
Just got your holiday card- what a delightful, simple message of love – compare to all the schmaltzy, garish gibberish on all the other cards that clog up our mailbox.
Thank you for being you – and for being there for us.
Love you too
Suzy
Susan M. Block, Ph.D.
The Dr. Susan Block Show
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shucks, Suzy! Ain’t that why we are here … To be here for one another?!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore