Date Night: All By Myself on a Saturday Night

re: Date Night: All By Myself on a Saturday Night

dvaleriey — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:14:39 GMT

In an alternate My Dinner With Andre world, I start out as Andre, go the the bathroom, we switch seats, and I end up as Wally clutching the electric blanket.

re: Date Night: All By Myself on a Saturday Night

zeitgeisty — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:34:39 GMT

RIght on Dval.. reminds me of a scene in 'my dinner with andre' where Wallace Shawn says, 'if people could become fully aware of what was going on in the cigar stand next door, their minds would be blown'... It doesn't matter what the activity is, it's all arbitrary.. as long as there's passion there, something important is going on!

re: Date Night: All By Myself on a Saturday Night

dvaleriey — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:46:28 GMT

Just a few years ago, my day life was a necessary hindrance affording an exotic night life. I performed in clubs, felt compelled to sample every culturally stimulating event, and marveled at how "lazy" people were as I subsisted on four or five hours of sleep.

After moving to a tiny town, giving up my career, and abandoning the cocktail circuit, I find that "downtime" is equally terrifying and illuminating. Those quiet nights on the couch challenge your impression of a public persona vs. a private individual with interior depth (or "interior depth" in quotes).

On Saturday night, I was puttering in the backyard pumpkin patch I had planted. For an instance, I saw myself as this absolutely absurd figure who had completely given up on life by fretting over Cucurbita pepo, but then I thought, "Fuck it! I'm really EXCITED about these pumpkins!"

re: Date Night: All By Myself on a Saturday Night

zeitgeisty — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:52:04 GMT

This is totally hilarious, as I just spent this past weekend alone... My girlfriend went home to Philadelphia for the holidays, and I did absolutely nothing the entire weekend... I couldn't bring myself to be productive at all... I had 4 pages of comix I couldve inked, I couldv'e written.. hell I could've even just listened to some music... Yet what I mostly did was sleep, and watch TV.