Jeremy Bent

Author: Jeremy

  • Three Years

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    That’s how long I’ve been in New York. I rolled in here on a Dominican shuttle bus three years ago today and had to take a cab 70 blocks to my friend Bob’s apartment because they didn’t go below 125th St. Blame my dad. The more I think about my move to New York, the…

  • 8 bits are all you need

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    I’ve been teaching myself the ways of the surprisingly robust Little Sound DJ, a composition tool and music tracker for the Nintendo Game Boy. Coming off the musical high of working with the Apple Sisters, I wanted to keep pushing my brain towards musical endeavors. I got seriously inspired watching the chiptune documentary, Reformat the…

  • More Excerpts

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    From Hero With A Thousand Faces: Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or sky. Furthermore, it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history, mythology is absurd. When a civilization begins to reinterpret…

  • I can do this.

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    I’ve been thinking “I can do this” more than I ever have previously in my life. I mean it in the sense of, “If I devote enough time and energy to this, I can accomplish this and accomplish it well.” Cases in point: -Roller derby: possibly the jumping off point for all this positivity. I…

  • Late to the Party

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    I saw a couple of minutes of Dr. Horrible a few months ago, but I finally got around to watching the whole thing on Monday. Surprise! It’s great (as everyone besides me has known for months). It’s great in its execution, polish, and general sense of fun. I watched it on Hulu, which should be…

  • J. Campbell Wisdom

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    Instead of clearing his own heart, the zealot tries to clear the world. Awesome. The Hero with a Thousand Faces continues to be revelatory and brilliant.

  • Shakes-prov

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    Chris Scott saw the Improvised Shakespeare Co. on Monday at the Del Close Marathon. He urged me to see it on Tuesday after they had done an amazing show off of his suggestion of The Three Laws of Asimov. By Wednesday, during the Walsh workshop, I resolved to wait in the stand-by line for their…

  • My Bones Have A Bone To Pick

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    According the generally accepted formula of weight divded by height squared, my Body Mass Index is a 29.2. A BMI of 30.0 or above is considered obese. You might have been able to at least make a case for me being obese 10 years ago, when I was kind of a fat guy. But I’m…

  • Workin’ With Walsh

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    I took a four-hour improv workshop with UCB founder Matt Walsh last night. I didn’t really know what to expect, because you hear a lot of stories about the old-schoolers and what they’re like, but who knows whether the stories are true, or whether they’re still true about them now. I’m happy to say I…

  • The Myths Just Keep On Coming

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    More great stuff from The Power of Myth: Campbell: There are some teachers who decide they won’t teach at all because of what society will do with what they’ve found. Moyers: What if the hero returns from his ordeal, and the world doesn’t want what he brings back? Campbell: That, of course, is a normal…