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	<title>Matt Casarino</title>
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	<description>A playwright and musician who avoids writing plays and music by keeping a blog.</description>
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		<title>SOME USEFUL MOVIE QUOTES (Part One)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Granted, my life is weirder than many. But I&#8217;ve found all of these useful in real life (whatever THAT is). “What a pisser.” – Airplane “Well, let’s not start sucking each others’ dicks quite yet.” – Pulp Fiction “Haven’t you ever heard of suspension of disbelief?” – Ed Wood “They found a peanut, all right, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mattcasarino.com/?p=236</link>
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		<title>Anton Chekhov vs. Vince McMahon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or, Forever seeking the &#8220;oh shit&#8221; moment It’s a rare but transcendent sight in professional wrestling: the slow epiphany. Here’s how it works (or did when I watched wrestling, anyway – a period of my life that ended roughly 25 years ago): Two wrestlers have teamed up to be on the “bad” side. Often, one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mattcasarino.com/?p=222</link>
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		<title>HOW TO BE A THEATRE DIVA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little while ago, I worked on a fantastic community theatre show and had a wonderful time. Seriously, it was one of those perfect storms where great talent met great attitudes, and even the problems were kinda fun (in retrospect, anyway – I’m deeply grateful to those who saved the day more than once). And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mattcasarino.com/?p=213</link>
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		<title>DON&#8217;T STOP, THIEF!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or, Songs I have been trying to rewrite for years Every writer, every musician, every artist is basically a thief. We don’t mean to be, but we can’t help it. We create because we love, so naturally what we create resembles what we love. Now, there are people who intentionally swipe someone’s words, music, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mattcasarino.com/?p=202</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Worry, It&#8217;ll Get Done</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or, An ongoing list of overheard theater fallacies I’m incredibly fortunate – I actually make money in the arts. As the administrator for a community theater and a published playwright, my paychecks are directly related to all things theater. It’s a wonderful thing. It also lends me a particular perspective. I hear from all types, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mattcasarino.com/?p=196</link>
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		<title>Geeze</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or, Why it&#8217;s Good to be Old. Unless the Mayans were right (but their calculations were just a bit off), I will turn 40 this year. There was a time when ‘40’ = ‘OLD,’ and not just because I was a child…because 40-year-olds were grownups. They had careers, families, responsibilities, they talked about their cars [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mattcasarino.com/?p=183</link>
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		<title>A Lovely Surprise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or, Now THAT&#8217;S how you end a year. God bless Google Alert. Usually it notifies me of an intertubes post from, say, 2006, but today I got a good &#8216;un: IndyWeek&#8217;s Picks for Best Live Theater of 2009 My comments: I am equally honored and humbled. Honored, because North Carolina&#8217;s Indyweek is an excellent publication [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mattcasarino.com/?p=171</link>
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		<title>The Scarer and the Scarecrow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or, How to write a musical for fun and profit Check THIS shit out. I&#8217;ll wait. It could be fantastic. Seriously, it could. One of the great things about playwriting is that, in theory, anyone can do it. We&#8217;ve all seen plays, we&#8217;ve all had conversations, and to quote Captain Stillman, the only way to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mattcasarino.com/?p=147</link>
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		<title>Matt goes POP!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or, How to avoid playwriting by spewing a few meaningless opinions Has it always been this way, and I’m just now figuring it out? Or is this a 2009 thing? When did pop/rock become dominated by women? Why is it men are stuck with heavy but banal dirges on finding second chances and being all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mattcasarino.com/?p=116</link>
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		<title>Silencing the Voice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or, Episode 4: A New Hope. It&#8217;s been, oh, a good 30 years or so since my last post. I&#8217;m hoping to remedy that as our millennium reaches 10&#8230;it turns out I have a lot to say, and when I don&#8217;t say it, I do things like buy Scotch and lose hair. Playwriting has been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mattcasarino.com/?p=60</link>
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