Comments on Today in Stranger Suggests

I went to see this show on the fly last night without any expectations other than the stranger's review where I gleaned on the words "raw" and "intimacy". I took a friend who was up from portland who I thought might appreciate this night, too.

The show was very good. Johnson hit me right in the heart. He spoke and said things that are often not said but most deeply felt. Things that are hard to formulate into words. It was so personally about him and his experience but I felt it go right into me and my story. My dad died last year and that relationship was one of the most confusing, unsatisfying experiences ever. My dad was a complete stranger to me. And I think of how that affected the rest of what I do in this world, how i live, think, and feel.

I love how Johnson is honest. I wish I could be more honest. I think we all hide because we really can't take what's going on inside there and we don't want to bring it out into the light and place it on the table. So we let it roil inside our guts. I like people that like to show their stinking guts. But in that also realize their innate equisite beauty, the undamnable amazing mystery of their tiny little existence–the desire, to love, to feel, to be alive. an awareness to our brokenness and still a thank you, thank you fucking life for somehow letting me land here for a little while.

so thank you, allen johnson. i feel a little stronger today.