Blown Away

May 22nd, 2008Blog0 comments

So Thumping Claw‘s preview night is tonight. I’m really excited — I’ve seen what this show can do and it’s looking pretty amazing.

My friend Lloyd is a really, really good writer. He has a piece in there about a hundred year old white man — it’s his birthday, and his family has gradually transformed through inter-marriage into a Korean family.

Anyway, that premise by itself is great. But the execution, and what the piece is really “about” is what gets me. Watching it during a rehearsal, I was blown away.

This doesn’t happen that often with me, though it can happen during any number of things: I might read something that’s so good it blows me away. Or I might eat something that’s so tasty it blows me away.

I’ve sort of narrowed down what it is so I can recognize it: It’s when I completely lose track of myself. The fact that I have to do laundry, that I need to drive to X and pick up Y — I completely forget about mundane things. I get totally absorbed by whatever I’m seeing or doing. I’m so touched, moved, or my brain is so activated that I forget about myself.

I hope I’m not hyperbolizing, but I feel that way about this piece. It just sorta floors me, and that’s a feeling that I really love feeling.

Anyway, we’ll see how tonight goes!