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More Stories Needed!

26 Jan

After my brief hiatus due to over-saturation from all things The Love Project, I am back to working on the script and collecting more stories about love, sex, relationships, break-ups, break-downs, and all that touchy feely stuff.  So tell me your story!

Here’s How it Works:

1.  Contact me via email at theloveproject88@gmail.com

2.  We set up a time to meet, usually an hour will suffice

3.  You fill out some forms that describe the nature of the research, your involvement, how the material will be used, and so forth

4.  I turn on my digital recorder and we chat!  It’s painless and I hope enjoyable!

Things to consider:

1.  All participants names and involvement in The Love Project is 100% confidential

2.  You don’t have to tell me anything you don’t want to!  The content of your story is completely up to you.

3.  No story is boring!   The fact that it happened to you and comes from your own point of view and in your voice makes it unique.

4.  Tell a friend or family member!  Have a grandma who loves to chat?  Send her my way!

Contact theloveproject88@gmail.com for more information or to schedule an interview!

What else do you have to do?

31 Oct

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, then you’ll go grab a late dinner.

The Love Project

Wed November 2nd

@ Theatre ROW Studio Theatre

410 W 42nd st

9 p.m.

Tickets $18

Love is for believers, love is for dreamers, love is for suckers.

Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Come See The Love Project in NYC

17 Oct

1.  The theatre will be climate controlled and I’m told the seats are quite comfortable.  At the very least you can relax for an hour.

 

2.  I’m single and looking to mingle.  So if awkward out of work actors are your thing….

 

3.  I don’t get naked.

 

4.  There’s a 20% chance I will forget my lines and without a stage manager, hilarity will undoubtably ensue.

 

5.  My friend Brooke will be in the tech booth.  She is a sexy, vivacious, single woman.  I’m not trying to whore her out, I’m just saying, she might be available for a little pinch and tickle.

 

6.  You ever wondered what your parents would say about each other if given an hour, a microphone, and a sympathetic gay.

 

7.  You want to see some theatre, but don’t want to have to take out a loan to do it.

 

8.  You know me personally and can’t wait to tell all of our mutual acquaintances how much the show sucked.

 

9.  You’re casting a new sitcom and need an actor who’s just shy of good looking.

 

10.  You are a skeptic regarding love, romance, and partnership, but at the end of the day you secretly wish for all three.

Guest Blogger 2: Titular Love

22 Sep

 

Puppy Love. Baby Love. Teenage Love Affair.

First Love. Young Love. Strange Love.

I feel Love

Is this Love?

I don’t know how to Love Him.

Love Child. Love Fool.

I Want to Know What Love is.

I Think I Love you. Love me Tender.

You Can’t Hurry Love.

I’d do anything for Love (but I won’t do that).

Give me a Little Love. Dream Lover.

Hello, I Love you.

Be my lover. When I fall in love.

What about love?

Secret Love. Hot Love. Modern Love.

Slave to Love.

All I want to do is Make Love to You.

Love is the Drug.

What’s love got to do with it?

You don’t have to say I Love You.

Crown of Love. Tainted Love. Runaway Love.

Too Fast for Love.

Friday I’m in Love.

Will you still love me tomorrow?

Victim of Love. Higher Love. Addicted to Love.

Justify my Love.

That’s the way Love goes.

Crazy Little Thing Called Love.

Love Rollercoaster. Love Hangover. Love Sick.

That’s how strong my Love is.

Love me two times. Part-Time Love.

Feel like makin’ Love.

Why do fools fall in Love?

 

About the Author:

Ruth Lantz is a Portland, OR based artist exploring notions of possibility and the ambiguity of perceptual understanding.  Lantz holds an MFA in Visual Studies from the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA).  She has been featured in galleries around the Northwest and the Midwest including Disjecta and Worksound (Portland) as well as Hallway 2 and Pause (Chicago). She was a resident at Anderson Art Ranch in 2005 and a recipient of the CAAP grant for New and Emerging Artist in 2006.  She was the co-founder of Emission Studios, an artist-run gallery and studio space in Chicago, from 2005-2008.  Her work hangs in the collections of the University of Illinois at Chicago and WJT Mitchell.

Guest Blogger 1: In Love with Love

18 Sep

     I am a 31 year old serial monogamist.  I’m in love with love.  I think it’s partially that I watch way too many romantic comedies along with my true Pisces nature of living my life with my head in the clouds.  Since I was a freshman in high school I have consistently dated boys, one after another, for extended periods of time, only to have loved and lost. The soccer player, frat boy, tattoo artist, I have tried them all.  Relationships starting for the right reasons (the wrong ones at times) and ending because we were just bored, or too young, or had nothing in common.  I rationalized them all along the way.

     My most recent bout with love ended last August, four weeks before the wedding.  We were together for four years, my longest, as I usually bail after two or three.  This one was unlike the others.  From the start I knew I would have done anything in the world for him.  But after a couple years, three dogs, a little cheating (technically), and a partially broken penis (long story), the fun was officially over.  We had both changed as individuals, although I had refused to see it.  I was bound and determined to marry that man.  I think the breaking point of my friend’s support for me was when I told them that he and I were seriously considering participating in a Native American cleansing ceremony to rid all the anger and negative feelings we had for each other.  Really Jen?  Indian Rituals?  I’m Irish.

     At what moment does one realize that they have fallen out of love?  Or that they are not in love anymore, but simply care about their partner as a person?  I don’t really know.  Usually for me it entails a few arguments, me getting drunk, and making out with someone else.  Falling in love always seems to happen much quicker, falling out happens slowly, with the amazing memories overshadowing the present.  Staying in the relationship for as long as I did was more out of the fear of being alone, having to start over, then anything else.

     What I have realized through all of this is that I have to love myself first before trying to make a relationship work.  I have to be okay with just me and my giant, anxious dog Chloe, before I go and try to be partners with someone else.  The importance of putting my own happiness first.  With that being said, it’s been my first full year of being single….well, not entirely, had a few month long ones in there….but for the most part, I have been on my own and loving it (mostly) every step of the way.
About the Author:
Jennifer Cooper is a school social worker in the Chicago area.  She holds degrees from Bradley University and the University of Illinois.  

Do you have your tickets yet?

12 Sep

The Love Project in New York City is fast approaching!

Click the Telecharge link below to order your tickets online!

The Love Project

November 2nd at 9 p.m.

Theatre ROW, Studio Theatre 410 W 42nd St

Tickets $18

Tickets for The Love Project in NYC on Sale Now

24 Aug

Tickets for the upcoming production of The Love Project Off Broadway at Theatre Row in NYC are now on sale!

Date: Wed Nov 2nd

Time: 9 p.m., Doors open @ 8:30

Click below to purchase your tickets online or call (212) 239-6200

It gets better?

10 Aug

Does it?, really?  Get better?  I mean, for anyone?  Not just gays.  Does it get better when you get older?  Life, that is.

I am going to be part of a university wide “It Gets Better” video tomorrow and I am having some reservations.  There are so many aspects of my personal life that I just haven’t figured out, so I cannot say with all honesty, that for me, just for me, that it got better.  Sure, I don’t walk down hallways anymore to bros and hos yelling “fag” or “girl”, honestly sometimes I think I would take that over walking up to another table and asking “can I get you something to drink?”  But, just because I am no longer ostracized on a daily basis, doesn’t necessarily mean that my life has gotten better.  As an adult, gay, straight, whatever, life is certainly full of challenges that make junior high and high school look like a fucking cake walk.  So is this the message we really want to be spreading?  IT GETS BETTER.  Maybe, instead, we should take a more honest approach to these videos…IT GETS HARDER, CAUSE YOU HAVE TO PAY BILLS AND DEAL WITH ONLINE DATING, BUT AT LEAST NO ONE CAN STUFF YOU IN A LOCKER.

10 Aug

10 Reasons Why I Don’t Date

9 Aug

1.  It’s expensive

2.  Life story discussions

3.  Hairgel.

4.  Acting like a human on the phone

5.  Fake laughing hurts

6.  Eye contact

7.  Broadway

8.  Transitioning to physical intimacy

9.  My stomach

10.  Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

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