“Oh, believe me you are not dreaming. In fact, you are close to the most actual and rousing moment of your existence.”<\/p>\n
Reading G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday<\/em> was kind of like that for me… the most actual and rousing moment of my experience reading fiction.\u00a0 On one hand a detective mystery, on the other, a metaphysical thriller with a heartbeat of philosophy.\u00a0 This is a line from the character Lucien Gregory before he introduces Gabriel Syme into the underworld of anarchy.<\/p>\n It’s London, turn of the century.\u00a0 Bombs go off in the street, destroying coffee shops and the innocent lives that happened to be there.\u00a0 Who is behind these random acts of violence, this deep pain handed out indiscriminately?\u00a0 Is it people, embodied by the anarchist movement?\u00a0 Or is it something bigger than ourselves– perhaps the universe itself.\u00a0 These are big questions to be grappled with, and vital even today.<\/p>\n I’m a filmmaker based in Southern California, and I’ve made it my goal to bring this story to life.\u00a0 Someday there may be a full-fledged feature film, but I can’t accomplish that right now.\u00a0 What I can do is produce a radio play featuring the best acting talent and dress it up with music and sound effects to put the listener inside the story.<\/p>\n I held out for awhile, but eventually we became a two iPod family, and haven’t looked back.\u00a0 In Los Angeles we spend a lot of time in our cars, and the wonderful podcasts and audiobooks we’ve found keep transportation interesting.\u00a0 There’s a built-in distribution network, and a high demand for quality work.\u00a0 This project will be released as a four part podcast, for free, online.<\/p>\n There isn’t any money to do this, and it’ll take the majority of 2010, but slowly and surely we’ll get this done.\u00a0 This is the website home for it, and this is the first post, so welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to “The Man Who Was Thursday” the audio play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}