Which country is the largest english speaking nation?

Answer: China.

As at May 2009 - 2 Billion people are learning english as a second language.

As Mathematics is to science and music is to emotion, English is become the language to engage people and communicate.

420, a little meme

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)

Playrights to lookout for

Playrights to seek out:

Edward Albee
eg Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Goat or Who is Sylvia? and Three Tall Women
Harold Pinter
eg The Dumb Waiter, The French Lieutenant's Woman
Samuel Beckett
eg Endgame and Waiting for Godot
Tom Stoppard
eg Indian Ink, The Real Thing
Michael Frayn.
eg Noises off

The worlds we build for ourselves

Went to see Synecdoche, New York last night.

This is complex and confusing

I think it is about the world we build for ourselves and our endless search for meaning. It perhaps warns us against to much self examination. Something that seems to be increasingly popular at the moment. The world gets more and more complex with real people living in the created worlds.

The idea of hiring an actor to play you in a play and then another actor to play the actor in the same play is just crazy. The relationships between the interconnecting worlds cause one to challenge the self imposed rules that I placed on the characters and that kaufman knew that I would.

I think I am become a huge Kaufman fan. I think I need to get some of the DVD's and watch them again:

1. Synecdoche, New York (2008)
   
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
3. Adaptation. (2002)
4. Human Nature (2001) ... aka Human Nature
   
5. Being John Malkovich (1999)
   

The house that burns all the way through is just very puzzling. What does this represent?