Saturday, April 08, 2006

new geekdom

so Curtis, noticing the lack of geek articles on the Geekdom challenge has submitted a new one about Robotech... yeah... he's pretty geeky. Go check it out!
And in my defense... Curtis, i've got four paragraphs written for the next one (about the Iron Kingdoms Campaign setting) i just need to light the fire on my ass to finish it.

wish me luck.

Friday, April 07, 2006

just want every one to know... this is post 502

woo hoo.... hoo woo

Thursday, April 06, 2006

The Pillow Man

Martin Mcdonagh... i've liked this guys work since i had seen the second scene of The Lieutenant of Inishmore... i laughed so hard, i nearly passed out.
it was that funny.
i've read the play since, and i laughed at the most horrible things. if you have read it, or seen it, you've laughed at them too.
i've also read the first scene of Beauty Queen of Lenane, and the Cripple of Inishmaan, i can attest i enjoyed and admired the man's work.
last night however i read The Pillow Man.
and last night, Martin Mcdonagh soared leaps and bounds above his original status in my mind.
i cannot even express what a wonderful, gruesome, emotional, and charged play this is.
reading it, doesn't quite do it either.
this is one of those plays that is horrifying, emotionally horrifying, there were times the dialogue was so funny i was laughing out loud, and then turn the page, and i was nearly weeping.
that's the sort of play this is.
it's a play about a writer, who writes gruesome tales of death and torture, usually of children.
the gruesome tales of his stories have come to life, and he's being interrogated by the authorities of the totalitarian state he lives in.
they are his judge, his jury, and his executionar if he is found guilty.
it's still running through my head a million miles a minute.
the horrifying stories that have that "something esque feel"
sad, i knew what esque the interrogator was talking about: kafkaesque.
i'm someone who has read Kafka, most have had to at least read, or had a passing with Metamorphosis. Good novella.
stories like the Hunger Artist, or The Penal Colony though will haunt you.
the stories told by the writer Katurian in "The Pillow Man" have the same effect.
the one that sticks with me (and is the most "esque" story of them) is the man in the iron gibbett.
a riddle without an anwer.
it still bugs me.
the apple man story, and the results of it... still haunt me.
The Pillow Man isn't a play for the faint of heart.
it is a play that will make you think.