On Theatre and Politics - Matthew Freeman

I got loaded in a hearse, when all I needed was a nurse.

Matthew Freeman is a Brooklyn based playwright with a BFA from Emerson College. His plays include THE DEATH OF KING ARTHUR, REASONS FOR MOVING, THE GREAT ESCAPE, THE AMERICANS, THE WHITE SWALLOW, THE MOST WONDERFUL LOVE, WHAT TO DO A GIRL, AN INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR, WHEN IS A CLOCK and GLEE CLUB. As a freelance writer, he has contributed to Gamespy, Complex Magazine, Bullseye, Maxim Online, and MTV Magazine.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Dada Comes to Spam

Lately, I can't wait to open my Gmail's spam bucket and find a wealth of bizarre phrases as impossible subject headings. Anything that isn't direct advertising for sexual performance enhancement is often entirely in the spirit of Dada.

Anyone else notice this? Any phrases that sing to you?

6 Comments:

Blogger Philucifer [aka Charlie Willis] said...

Actually, my favorite little bit of subject line Dada spam also dealt with sexual performance enhancement, AND theatre (I'm guessing.) AND it would make a great play title:

Agamemnon C**k Multitudinous

8:04 AM  
Blogger Adam said...

I'm going to use it all in a play somehow.

9:46 AM  
Blogger Cat* said...

This was too great not to share...

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Mr Fogg, in order tonsorial not to depetite `I clip will competition buy awoke it of you.'knife Passepartout's instruct peripatetic visage laugh darkened with the skies, and
calmly `Humph!

the funny thing is - I always thought it was "Phineas Bogg".. that was such a great show - of course I was about 4 at the time... "Green light kid, we did it!"

-"Diva underproduces unsightly cantankerousness"

8:55 AM  
Anonymous Suzannah Murray said...

Im happy you noticed this phenomena too.
Here is a good one:

So sudden and remove violent courageous trousers

I also see that you have begun bragging about your trivial pursuit conquests..

12:48 PM  
Blogger Jamespeak said...

This is a bit late in the game, but I giggled at this one I got recently:

"Weren't those doctors enjoying laughing fast?"

8:59 AM  
Blogger Freeman said...

New Favorite:

Refine jealousy skills rushed among, snags taco?

I feel that "snags taco?" is one of the universal questions we should ask of any play.

2:29 PM  

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