Dan Dan The Art Man

Movie Memories guest blog post by Dave Robison brought to you by www.DanDanTheArtMan.com Download the .mp3 “The Man Who Would Be King” or How John Huston Saved My Life By Dave Robison John Huston saved my life. It was 1982 and I was flailing my way through my freshman year of college at the University of Michigan, wondering what the hell I was doing. I was studying theater because I was good at it (like the Latino kids taking Spanish as their foreign language in high school back in Cheyenne), but I didn’t have a plan. I figured I didn’t need one. Someone would see just how charming and talented I was and I wouldn’t have to actually work again. That was my goal... to not do anything I didn’t want to do. To achieve that goal, I’d emotionally sabotage any project or goal that involved more work than my feeble commitment could endure or investing the bare minimum effort that would allow me to move forward. Life beyond next week was uninteresting and irrelevant so I never really loo