"And Everything is Going to be Fine"

"Poetic journalism, hearing a relatively true story, but after you've digested it, and filtered it through your imagination, add it with flavor, with innuendo, with hyperbolae, it starts as a true story but it is filtered through my imagination, and ends up as poetry." Spalding Grey

Spalding Gray, was on the fringe, his monologues vivid stories of himself and his interactions with the world, or more often the worlds interaction with him. Often sitting at a desk, with a glass a water and a microphone, Spalding did not need anything else as he began his pieces as if painting his world for all of us in the air between stage and audience. If you've never seen any of his work check out "Swimming to Cambodia"

I saw Steven Soderbergh's documentary on Spalding Gray this evening, and find myself so impressed at how well Spalding was captured, and letting us past the monologues, a beautiful portrait of a brilliant man.

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