Abel Brainz Digest, Vol. 23 - October 10, 2023

Hello from vacation!

Short but sweet. Let's go!

Stuff that lives rent free in my head

Raising Arizona! This sequence culminating in the knickle scratch has influenced so much of my comedy. The whole movie is a classic and is a testament to comedy only being  possible with honesty. 

This is volume 23, so I'm going to revisit volume 8 with this quote about Michael Jordan from The Last Dance :

"Most people struggle to be present... trying to get here now... Most people live in fear because we project the past into the future. Michael's a mystic, He was never anywhere else... His gift was that: He was completely present. And that was the separator." 

- Rare Air author Mark Vancil. 

Definitely a goal in all acting and improvisation. Even life... 

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Here's to staying present!

Much love, 

Abel