Voila l'interview....
https://youtu.be/qktc4-9mXXc?si=dtOSLIfqGyeXun9Y
Musique, maestro...
https://youtu.be/F_HoMkkRHv8?si=WJFpPDUZootsxYJ5
Wassup? So today was unusual in the annals of Benjiness. After watching aforementioned interview last night and early this morning, took off with the eldest and youngest (middle child and mom MIA today), to commandeer Red Herring. Only like fifteen minutes from the crib at Bobbin Head near Empire Marina. Some random French lady I'd met like two years earlier while out with the Mrs and our three dopey offsprings, agrees to ride Red Herring with moi last night so off we go around 10am with her youngest, of three, sons. Xilion or something like that. The eldest two stayed on shore fishing and my kids were, uh, bored/aboard with me (avec moi).
We just cruised along the canyon, it's somewhere you can sail to from California, a mile or so to another bay where we'd met two years earlier with her French speaking buddy Sabrine. Picked up a mooring, made two minute noodles on the boat cooker for my kids, and chatted. Then I noticed another French mom I know from the nearby area had messaged saying her daughter's soccer game had cancelled so she was interested to come boating ce matin. Then it turns out the lady, Audrey, that was about disembarking depuis quelques moments, knew Roxanne and they are good friends. It appears the lady Sabrine had had a falling out with their entire clique, 'selon' (according to) Roxanne. I told Roxanne my son's sailing buddy at the sailing club was like ten years old and asked me if I'm gay (trying to relate to the Sabrine/Roxanne/Audrey situation. So Roxanne says what a casual church buddy Rita says: why would she say that? In fact, as a parent of three and someone not especially interested in male on male sex, I do not care to discuss this topic with a ten year old.
Later that day after awards ceremony at sailing club....
However I caught up with that girl a little before sunset as her and her father hadn't turned up for the award ceremony at zee sailing club so I took it upon myself to deliver her award. I think she's a splendid girl (possibly the reincarnation of my mother in law's mother also) and I admire her father (minor British royalty) probably her mother too (elite sailing Olympian family) and her younger sister, whilst perhaps the least impressive/overwhelmingly impressive of the family, is perhaps the most kind of normal seeming. They all seem so impressive. The award ceremony was fine, a chance to catch up with the folks at the sailing club. They're all kind of Australian Anglo versions of Malibu chic. They seem fairly likeable and impressive to me. I don't know, it's a happy place during sailing season. There's a lot of time on the water etc. I guess with such socially connected people I might feel a little alienated by being somewhat of an outsider or pariah. Even amongst people like Piers Morgan and Kevin Spacey I might feel similarly as I do not have a very extensive social life.
After doing two and a half years phone counselling with the folks in Colorado, I concluded I was exposed to too much violence and dysfunction and spitefulness and the like, from tender ages, so it made it sometimes unlikely for me to build strong social connections so I just prefer to be vaguely attached but with freedom to dis-attach. Other times I like to get involved in groups and participate. It's probably worth saying there's a good amount of acting everyone does in everyday life (dissimulation).
Unlike Spacey, I did not find relief in theatre and thespians in the way he did. I do believe all the world's a stage and everyone merely players, so I often just changed school or relocation, seeking to find some outlet like that. I mean there are different theatres, theatre of war, theatre of surgery, theatre of Shakespeare, etc. I remember in the theatre of surgery being present for my three kid's births, two caesarian and a natural birth. Those are extremely dramatic moments. I remember participating in school dances like Texas square dancing. I don't know, I travelled a lot, never went to war apart from 9/11. Occasionally hung out with military folks like at the US air base in Gunsan or wherever. The bottom line is that if you're unattached you can bring your mind to baby state, the state of unadulterated observation, consider Lao Tzu's words to these effects...**
Of course I went to film school and acting lessons but just the bare minimum like 2%, say what a country like Spain, contributes to NATO. Just fighting with the Nazis in Russia against the Russians in WW2 or whatever and helping uncle Sam out. You know how it is.
More recently I've attended some stand up comedy theatre in Newcastle and Newtown and just shmoozed with the performers there.
At the sailing club there were polite claps during trophy/award presentation today. They had a couple of Shakespeare plays there the last couple of years. I emailed the director but seemed to have alienated him. Same as the comedy club coach in Newtown. It's definitely pivotal for performing artists that work in groups to find a troupe they like.
Had to leave Red Herring on her anchor as the public buoy was taken. Hope she doesn't get damaged as I haven't mastered anchoring at all. It's all about having more steel chain.
** Other people are excited,
as though they were at a parade.
I alone don't care,
I alone am expressionless,
like an infant before it can smile.
Other people have what they need;
I alone possess nothing.
I alone drift about,
like someone without a home.
I am like an idiot, my mind is so empty.
Other people are bright;
I alone am dark.
Other people are sharp;
I alone am dull.
Other people have purpose;
I alone don't know.
I drift like a wave on the ocean,
I blow as aimless as the wind.