Actus Diurna: A Perfect Circle

The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy. A writer or any artist has the sometimes joyful duty to transform all that into symbols. These symbols could be colors, forms or sounds. For a poet, the symbols are sounds and also words, fables, stories, poetry. The work of a poet never ends. It has nothing to do with working hours.

You are continuously receiving things from the external world. These must be transformed, and eventually will be transformed. This revelation can appear anytime. A poet never rests. He’s always working, even when he dreams. 

Besides, the life of a writer, is a lonely one. You think you are alone, and as the years go by, if the stars are on your side, you may discover that you are at the center of a vast circle of invisible friends whom you will never get to know but who love you. And that is an immense reward.

Jorge Luis Borges

Actus Diurna: Caesar’s Messiah

 

“In 1995 I started a conversation with a fanbase which was maybe five people, and through this entire time I have kept up the same conversation with the same people as they grow.  I’m letting you see me win, I’m letting you see me lose.  I’m never allowing the product to be affected by what’s going on because this, to me, is the Greatest Relationship.

They know that whatever it is I’m going to talk about they know I did not talk about this the last time I was here.  They know that.

Understand that this has its roots long before social-media.  Before social-media you might have heard that this is funny.  And somebody might have told you what they said.  But it didn’t sound that funny to you, they just repeated what they said.  

But then you finally see Him in person and he’s hilarious.  

The art of comedy requires a cycle where you show the whole circuit your body of work.  Unfortunately. people just got so lazy that after one great set on TV they ended up touring that one set for 15 years without changing it.  

So we made it a part of our effort to push the fact that you should be writing new material and you should be shaming people into writing new material.

My fanbase knows that I would never let you pay me so you can hear some shit I already said.  I respect you too much for that.  What you’re going to get from me is brand new.  This is new.”

Katt Williams