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[jondambacher]

First Look! The last few months I’ve been working diligently on designing & directing an upcoming production of Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days” — Opening March 17th at Chicago’s City Lit Theater. The set, the mound that’s slowly consuming the protagonist, was made exclusively of recycled materials. Her world consists of collapsed materials, musique concrete, isolation & electricity.

#theatre #Theater #director #sculpture #jon dambacher #Samuel Beckett #Happy Days #Kayla Boye #Chicago #Chicago theatre #artist #announcement #St. Patrick’s Day #musique concrete

[justthishumanheart]

               It’s not the ruby grapefruit bikini top that grab’d me nor the roll’d jean shorts with pockets exposed beneath clipping those flamingo stilt legs past me on sidewalk.                It was when our eyes met connecting for just an instant sliding slowly into our next steps both of us inhaling a tiny weightless breath.                Our mutual feet settled her smirk materialized motivating me to initiate—               “Hi”

—Jon Dambacher @jondambacher, from Caramel freckles on her olive cinnamon skin

#jon dambacher #caramel freckles on her olive cinnamon skin #poetry #literature #quote

[inparenth]

A LOOK BACK -- Contributor List: In Parentheses Magazine (Volume 3, Issue 2) Fall 2014

A LOOK BACK — Contributor List: In Parentheses Magazine (Volume 3, Issue 2) Fall 2014

IP Volume 3: In Parentheses Literary Magazine (Fall 2014) / Artwork by Eugenia Loli IP Volume 3: In Parentheses Literary Magazine (Fall 2014) / Artwork by Eugenia Loli Front Cover The cover image by EUGENIA LOLI is inspired by the Dionysian Mysteries. Eugenia is heavily influenced by the ancient Greek mythology and stories. EUGENIA LOLI is a filmmaker and a modern vintage collage artist.…

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#adam dalva #aj huffman #Ben Giles #cassie duncanson #charles rich jr #cliff weber #erin dillon #eugenia loli #fabio sassi #hadley a hutchens #Jon Dambacher #kiwana semambya #mhairi clare fitzpatrick #michael reginald pitter #natalie hernandez #phillipe martin chatelain #sarah edwards #trinity tibe #victor milford

[wnq-writers]

Stuck between trying to get them to be yours while being unabashedly your own.

Jon Dambacher 

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[batlabels]

Serious Squareness: an exclusive interview with Lorenzo Semple, Jr. on the creation of TV’s Batman

Holy unexpected delights! I opened my Tumblr inbox the other day to find a message from @jondambacher, and, well, let me just turn it over to him:

Screenwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr. celebrates a birthday today (March 23rd). The following is an excerpt from a number of long interviews I was blessed, honored & ecstatic to conduct in 2008, for Lorenzo's biography I was writing.

To the King of Serious Squareness, I celebrate you, I thank you, I wish you a Happy Happy Birthday.

Jon Dambacher: I have a quote from Dozier referring to you as "the most bizarre thinker I knew."

Lorenzo Semple: Good.

JD: Have you ever read that?

LS: I think I have, now that you mention it.

JD: What do you think he means here?

LS: I don't know what he means. He obviously meant it as a compliment but it's... I don't know what he meant. I just could think of off-the-wall things. When he showed me, as I've told you, when I was living in Spain writing plays with a family, he sent me a cable to come up and meet him at The Ritz in Madrid there in the garden of The Ritz, he had a very strange face, as he pulled out of his pocket a "Batman" comic book. Said, "Would you believe it, this is what ABC has given us to do, because they'd owed us one, can you believe it? He was... Was so disdainful of it. I, uh, in all honesty, I took one look at it and thought of it and said, "I know exactly what to do." I'll go home and I'll write it." That was the only discussion about "Batman." The only discussion. As I say I wrote it, Bill loved it, he gave it to ABC, they thought it was excellent, but they were dumbfounded by it because there was nothing like it. All those things like, "Pop!" and "Bam!" were all written into the script.

JD: That's awesome! Did you guys just share some crazy sense of humor together--is that how you were able to create this amazing...

LS: Yeah! It's not really that crazy once you get the note of it, you know what I mean?

JD: Okay.

LS: It's all out of that same... That dead serious nonsense, you know what I mean? Adam was actually perfect for it and Burt in his way, too. You know, they'd be chasing somebody and Robin would say, "Park here, they just went into that building..."

JD: And there's "No Parking" signs...

LS: "No Parking" sign, right! That kind of thing. All these come out of the same level of dead serious, squareness, if you want to call it that. Dead seriously square. That was... Which isn't that bizarre compared to modern movies, you know, like Charlie Kaufman and things.

JD: Right.

LS: It wasn't too bizarre. Bill probably thought it was bizarre but we've both recognized he was a sophisticated guy. He recognized it as being funny. He didn't mind me thinking up all these things like Bat-Shark-Repellent or whatever it was when the shark had him by the leg...

JD: Right, the Shark-Repellent-Bat Spray.

LS: I guess you could call that bizarre thinking. To me it's all a part of one type of thinking; do you know what I mean? Bizarre isn't quite the word, I'd say imaginative.

JD: Okay. We were talking about favorite lines from that film specifically, one that's stuck with me over the years--I've always wanted to meet the man who wrote the line, "Ah, a thought strikes me--so dreadful I scarcely dare give it utterance!"

(Lorenzo breaks out laughing.)

LS: That's very funny, I agree! I agree! That's the kind of thing we've been--you know, that pompous squareness actually. Very good hearted. Adam was a very sweet guy. A very nice guy himself and Batman, you know, nobody was killed in it and there's nothing--except the name--in common with the Batman franchise, the Warner Brothers ones. The people who say, "What do you feel about those movies" always expect me to say something, I say, "Actually I don't like violent movies particularly and I stay away from them." The Batman I wrote has nothing to do with these movies--really has nothing to do with each other... My Batman is more in the spirit of the comic and the very fact that millionaire Bruce Wayne, that's all you have to say... The fact that you refer to him as Millionaire Bruce Wayne, I mean...

JD: The Millionaire Philanthropist.

LS: The Millionaire--thank you! The Millionaire Philanthropist. I had forgotten that. Just the fact that you'd refer to anybody like that--if you're sophisticated it shows immediately--it's ironic at best.

JD: That squareness.

LS: You're right. That's what I mean. The squareness, exactly.

#batman 66 #batman66 #batman #lorenzo semple jr #interview #writing #screenwriting

[thebroadkillreview]

excerpts from Jon Dambacher’s Green, from the archives, National Poetry Month

The following poems are from Jon Dambacher’s upcoming book of “green” poems: "Jon Dambacher (green)" A Jabber Publication, 2013. A poetry collage of two families that include an American WWII soldier, a French socialite, their liar & cheat of a son, a shy East LA girl, her angry cabdriving brother, & a murder.    Bio: Jon Dambacher is a writer living in Los Angeles, Ca.  His previous works of fiction are "Gyratory Jabber," "Sour Candies," "A Strange, Sickly Beauty" and "Anchored Disorder" a small book of poems with fellow LA writer Cliff Weber.

    “Want me to call you one?”

the prostitute asked

sitting on the busbench behind him.

    Several taxis had already past

when they’d slow, aiming for his arm,

they’d see her and dash off.

    “Guaranteed

they’d stop for me,” she says

“All men stop for me.”

    He walked a block east

to get away from her

one stopped rightaway.

    She cried out to him

from her busbench,

“Can I get in there wit’ch’you?”

    He called to her gently, 

“Not tonight, baby”

“That’s too bad,” was her response.

    Home in the bedroom bathroom

Zest bar suds bubbling, his wife asks,

“Why do you always wash your hands twice?”

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[quotesviral-blog]

Life Quote – “Who is that person you dream of, standing beside you at night, in dim lit kitchen, making tea before…” Quote and Saying about life “Who is that person you dream of, standing beside you at night, in dim lit kitchen, making tea before bed?” - Jon Dambacher 

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[infamoussayings]

“I like me. 
I like what I am
. I am very loving & forgiving. 
Though often around peopled, 
I have inadvertently been alone 
most of my life.”

Jon Dambacher - @jondamb

#quote #jon dambacher #submissions #submission

[oddballmagazine]

Three Poems by Jon Dambacher

Three Poems by Jon Dambacher

                 Walnut Creek cactus outside Motel Night Window sign when illuminated thinwhitewalltires flat in old unmaintain’d sportscar park’d in the space before Dr. Pepper vending machine.

               I reverse back out into the street I’ll find another place to stay or just keep driving.

                 Walking a quiet street of singlestory homes most with white picket fences greeting…

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#Allison Goldin #Jon Dambacher #photography #Poem #poet #poetry

[jondambacher]

I’m excited to announce — Hundo4u Productions presents the Chicago premiere:

“Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead” by Eric Bogosian

Starring Donterrio Johnson

Directed by Jon Dambacher

Sound Design by Carl Wahlstrom

A Limited Engagement, Oct. 16th & 30th at the Pride Arts Center

For tickets: https://bit.ly/2L6Ku42

#eric bogosian #pounding nails in the floor with my forehead #chicago #chicago theatre #one man show #donterrio johnson #jon dambacher #television

[justthishumanheart]

               A man slit his throat tonight.                It came thru the walls sounding like a sharp guttural                                           —yipe.

               There was something firm in the sound split tomato about it.

–Jon Dambacher @jondambacher, from A man slit his throat tonight

#jon dambacher #a man slit his throat tonight #literature #poetry #quote

[justthishumanheart]

              I smile far from shore paddling gently into late night water cloudless medium cool breeze stars up here in the mountains close  crisp  & clear remind myself               It’s not about who isn’t here               it’s about who is.

—Jon Dambacher @jondambacher, from Late California summer

#jon dambacher #late california summer #literature #poetry #quote

[justthishumanheart]

               I walk all Michigan Ave under hat & glasses to coffee shop for warm beverage & bite continue on to Art Institute where depression is cured around polished stone floors of exhibits or in bookstore

—Jon Dambacher, from On days of grey & cold

#jon dambacher #on days of grey & cold #poetry #literature #quote

[justthishumanheart]

               I’ll say this for the cat: he’s a persistent sailor walking from the corner of the bed with his eyes  claws  &   shoulders he wages the waves of the blanket as I get back into bed my knees sway & ruffle below giving him a challenging voyage determined to reach his desired destination.                The cat comes straight toward me not because he’s in danger or worried the obstacle of the blanket ocean is just fun but every night my chest is his chosen spot.                He jumps up over crotch & somehow knows where not to step this guy creeps to my ribs gets his face right up in my face his pale green eyes with gigantic pupils looking me down looking like he’s making a theatrical entrance prepared to give a lecture.                What’s funny is  most of the time he sits there in Egyptian postcard fashion holding court while unabashedly staring me down.                As if it’s understood that I am to be lying here waiting to listen to him give the day’s report.                But he’s also completely aware we can’t speak to one another.                He’s unaccustomed to being something other than center of attention he makes himself more clear & he leans down & headbutts me in the chest dropping his hammer & saw after a long day’s work                I get him to lie down he knows every night this is my time to type.                Still he squeezes his little head out beneath the horizontal iPhone Notes peeks up at me like                Hey Dipshit                You wanna pay attention?

               Give him a rub on the head let him know I’m not ignoring him                I whisper                Dude                I’m working                He shoves in closer telling me                Unt’uh!                Not No More You’re Not!

—Jon Dambacher @jondambacher, I’ll say this for the cat

#jon dambacher #i'll say this for the cat #literature #poetry #quote

[justthishumanheart]

             She lazily turns pages of a book on Rembrandt & I walk around the bookcase so when she looks up she might face me she might look in my eyes & be consumed with passion.

—Jon Dambacher @jondambacher, from On days of grey & cold

#Jon dambacher #on days of grey & cold #literature #quote #poetry

[justthishumanheart]

              Flowers purchased last night kept in water now stick straight up from my lap in a canteen of water held between my legs.               Man in sportsteam t’shirt unattractive frumpy baseball hat round silver metal frame eyeglasses sat at same light in the next lane peers thru window & shouts               Oh my God               Are those for me?

—Jon Dambacher @jondambacher, from Brisk Valentine’s Day 6:30am

#jon dambacher #brisk valentine's day 6:30am #poetry #literature #quote