Quotes

Any road will take you there

by Ben Whitehouse.

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

If you make a mistake, do it twice

by Ben Whitehouse.

If you make a mistake, do it twice.

Jazz Saying

This is one of those truths that finds it’s way into every art form. It’s true for Jazz and it’s true for improvisation.

Raving Paranoids

by Ben Whitehouse.

Nothing we say to each other is innocent of emotional manipulation. Everything that we do on stage, is to effect each other, in some way and if we notice, very carefully, how those swine we are working with are trying to get to us and get at us — Sometimes I suggest we perform on stage as though we are a whole bunch or raving paranoids, that these paranoids adjust nothing I hear is going to be simple. Nothing you say to me is going to be accepted at face value. Ohh? It always means something else.
–Del Close

Monopoly is a Game

by Ben Whitehouse.

Monopoly

Found this today and have to say, It’s pretty brilliant. Sorry was not the most fun game because it relied too heavily on that big plastic half dome thing. The game itself was boring as shit.

Monopoly is a game.

We use the pattern of moving pieces around the board to play that game.

That pattern in and of itself is not very interesting.

But the pattern serves the game. It moves it forward. It lets us find more fun.

The fun is in what we DO in that game. It’s WHY we’re playing it.

You can play it fast. Or slow. You can spend time in jail. Or you can work as hard as you can to buy up all the railroads.

That’s your choice.

Because monopoly is a game.

Game is what we play.

If something is funny, it has a game.

Pattern is how we play it.

We use patterns to explore and heighten the game.

Choice is up to the individual player.

At UCBT we teach people to make strong choices at the top of their intelligence and then to commit to those choices.

Strong, committed choices show off your sense of play and sense of humor. They bring your ideas to the group mind.

Then everyone gets to play and enjoy and support each others ideas.

You can make a pattern out of anything. But if it’s not a pattern serving a strong game — it’ll be boring.

Just like Sorry.

That’s a terrible game.

– Anthony King