That Freud and Jung were very funny.
At least they are in THE COUCH starring my friend Courtney Walsh.
It was heartening to the new play I’m writing, when tonight as the Artistic Director made her short curtain speech about turning cell phones off and said that the play was very funny and the woman behind me said aloud, “Oh Good!” –– which was just what I was thinking.
It was just so simple and primitive a response –– Yes, a Comedy! –– but the perfect thing for me to hear as I’m dutifully working on the play in bits and spurts (but quite consistently day by day).
And in other news, as I have gone through 275 pages of the novel’s 375 pages, approving countless deleting of one space after every period rather than two, I also realized that I hadn’t added a short bio to the book.
I was struggling with it because I wanted it to have that standard book jacket terseness, but when a Face Place friend posted the resurrected link for gizgoogle I new I had my answer.
[It basically allows you to google anything and translates the language in gangsta speak.]
I gizgoogled myself and came up all the usual things, my favorite being a re-iteration of an interview I did a few years ago for Dana Rock’s site –– and you can read the original HERE –– but perhaps can excerpt this for my bio (plus here’s a little of the interview, too).
Who knew my life was so colorful and vivid!
Edward Vilga be a writer, director n’ visual artist.
Dude has had five books published,written n’ pimped up two feature films, n’ pimped hyped theater.
His first gallery solo sheezy is ghon be dis September.
Vilga be a Yale graduate.
Dude lives up in Chinatown, NYC wit his chocolate lab Belle.
In his wild lil’ fifth floor loft, nestled up in tha ass of New York City’s China Hood, Edward Vilga has established a cold-ass lil creatizzle sanctuary where tha integritizzle of his thugged-out artistic vision reigns, n’ where his dope chocolate Labrador, Belle, reigns supreme biaatch!
DR: Tell me bout yo’ thuglife n’ yo’ work.
EV: I grew up in Connecticut n’ went ta school there at Yale Universitizzle n’ then I moved ta New York. I’ve basically been back n’ forth between Connecticut n’ California on various projects n’ work eva since. I now live up in Chinatown wit mah chocolate lab, Belle.
I be a gangsta yo, but y’all knew dat n’ mah work is horny-ass cuz I define mah dirty ass as a artist n’ then playas wanna know what tha fuck kind of art. I always say I be a writer, director n’ a visual artist. I be bustin work up in nuff muthafuckin different mediums.
DR: What would you say is tha dopest part of yo’ thuglife right now, biatch?
EV: I gots a shitload of creatizzle freedom n’ dat freedom is yieldin work dat is bein recognized dat I can share. I be able ta do tha work dat I want, whether it is tha visual work or freestylin or directin n’ dat it is bein well-received It aint nuthin but straight-up dope ta have tha luxury of bein bout ta create work dat other playas is buyin n’ appreciatin.
Da dopest thang up in mah thuglife is dat I git ta do what tha fuck I wanna do. I git ta spend tha bulk of mah dizzle bustin thangs dat is excitin n’ rewardin ta mah dirty ass.
Indeed.
