absolutely cuckoo

"an average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which [is] one good reason, but not the only one, to hold some one's hand"

-nicole krauss, the history of love

the bride

Today we had production photos for Blood Wedding. I snapped a few shots of my own before and after.. also, the poster is done!


The black wedding dress has 1.9 football fields worth of ruffles. Seriously, all the costumes are amazing. These pictures do not do the dress justice. you must come and see it.

Also, i cannot stop listening to the bride by the dirty projectors.

Come and see this play. pleaseandthankyous.

one hundred dollars

i love every single thing about this short moving picture, starting with Salinger and ending with Pasty Cline.. and every.everylittlething in between...

Piece of Meat from Tracy ANTONOPOULOS on Vimeo.

it's real, love

so. my sister and i had a conversation today about great love stories (we feel a bond as some of the few living persons in direct opposition of the twilight movement)and it reminded me of something incredibly disturbing that i saw in a bookstore over Christmas break..

Really? REALLY? Must we make classic novels and/or plays look like Twilight in order to trick people into reading them??

(please tell me it's not true)

she wears a black dress

Gabriel Garcia Lorca wrote a play called Blood Wedding.

and it is actually my current project.
i'm playing the bride.. (sdlkfjadsl!!)

its sort of all consuming.beautiful.challenging.wonderful.scary.poetic.tearful.
and has made me mildly obsessed with several things:

namely:

*Lorca Poetry

*Andalusia, Spain: *Flamenco Dance
(this is actually Carlos Saura's Flamenco version of the play)


*And Black Wedding Gowns
(in rural Spain, brides wear black.
a symbol of fidelity until death)

the play opens March 3rd. I'm sure you will hear more from me about it.

like it's 1999

today i went to an actual cd store..

and i purchased a cd, that was released today..

then i opened the plastic wrap, put the cd on in my car and kept driving until i had finished the whole album..

it was really, really great. and newly nostalgic.

(the magnetic fields never disappoint-
i like realism much more than distortion)

books are the new boyfriends

so, i have been pretty much reading non-stop lately. and i must say, i love it. my brain is ingesting and ingesting all kinds of new things. and i am happy to say i have found some new favorite foods for thought:

"truth is an eternal conversation about things that matter, conducted with passion and discipline." -parker j. palmer

i agree with this. it bears a striking resemblance to Alma 32, in my mind..

Also: (somehow these are related in my mind)

"Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things." -Mary Oliver