BOXED IN A CORNER WITH SMALL PROJECTS

VS BIG PROJECTS BIG LOVERS BIG CITIES

I have projects.

British theater company asked me to write a play.

There are many levels.

Broadway

Off Broadway

Off off Broadway

East Village is where you can put plays up for less money

But maybe NYT comes or not come..........

Others have big projects

Big, big projects

Taking place in Paris, London, Australia, Canada...

Its really good , the food in Paris..........

"I have an older brother in Paris"

"What about you?"

"My entire family lives in Paris"

"Its not true, the value system in my case"

"I have no values. Values stand in your way of success."

'The most honest you are,

the bigger a failure you are."

"You have to know how to get through the loopholes.

"Loopholes are all legal. You have to be clever enough to go through the loop holes."

"Values block the loopholes,"

"Loopholes are created for the corrupt people so they can get through

and still be considered legal so they won't get caught."

"But you have to be very, very careful. "YOu have to be very, very dishonest

in a smart, clever kind of way."

Values are a road blocks like in an occupied Country."

'Roadblocks to your own success are your values,sense of decency, sense of integrity."

'You know what I mean?" "YOu have to be clear enough to be legal and honest

without being honest."

"HOw did you make connections when you came here?"

"Some one gave me the key. I got the place to stay. Then I went to Vanguard.

Vanguard is the place to go.............."

"The owner told me,"YOU don't have to worry about anything, you can play."

"Then I stayed as a tourist. Than all my requirements as a tourist were fulfilled. "

"I can come and go, come and go, come and go."

"Many things can happen."

"Thats what you want."

"Come and go, come and go, come and go,"

"For some reasons I was more like.................more like..........more like......."

"There are so many musicians here, I had a show last year, a project in France."

"Here it would be more absurd, "My visa" I said"

"Its Ok, I can find my spot, whoever I want to work with."

"Very smart,very smart."

"Now I feel more like when I go back to France, I am very very happy. Its really odd."

"Few personal objects. My place here is not like my place. I was waiting for the click

to happen. Now the click has happened. Now I need to know."

"Smart, smart, very, very smart."

"You need to know your roads better, than you go on those roads."

'Not going to go away, those new roads."

"Well said, well said, very well said."

"Its here they gave me everything. I study piano. All the things I couldn't do, all the things I couldn't have, I have now. My life is structured more now.I finish my recording in Paris, big orchestra. I will be in a studio in NY. I was in transition. In a year or so I should record something."

"I also think when you are stressed, people pick it up."

"I was really relaxed. I had money, people were coming to me, i wasn't asking for anything

people said, "You belong here." because I didn't pressure on any one. I didn't plan it.

I am like that. People ask me in Paris,"Who did you play with?" I said, "Hey man, relax, I am

just living in NY. Its a very competitive place. I can be relaxed in a low place, or depressed place, i can still enjoy, beside music, beside playing. Its much better. Much better a way to do it, what about you? When you moved from Rome, you already had a job?"

"Moved with a lover, found another lover, did very well, had a show produced, West End of London, production did very well, travelled, did very well, had another lover, had money, did very well"

"Great"

"Its very dangerous changing lovers so fast."

"But thats the fun of it, the danger."

'I saw a good opportunity, I took it. Had a lot of work produced through those lovers,

discard one get new work produced, discard another one, get another work produced. You are nothing without connections and lovers are the big connections. They can be mad later and can

murder you but you get your work produced."