Iggy, David and Dinah

I’m posting quick ones these days, as it’s all-day-every-day getting ready for the world premiere of my new play This is Water at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in a few weeks. It feels a little presumptuous to say this, but if you like the film Sinners, you may like this — we’re grappling with the same thing (whiteness) but with a very different metaphor: not vampirism, but water.

the view from the stage of a small theater with a table in the foreground covered in scripts, painter's tape, water bottle - and in the seats a young Black woman on her computer

the view from my rehearsal

It’s been super fun spending so much time in Hollywood with my fab director Kim Maxwell.

white woman in a record store smiling as she looks through the bins

in my happy place

white woman at an outdoor coffeeshop table with a computer, smiling

the amazing kim maxwell

Music

This week I want to share something truly magical with you. It’s one of the strangest and sweetest interviews I’ve ever seen — Iggy Pop and David Bowie on the Dinah Shore show.

I’ve seen a jillion David Bowie interviews, but I’ve never seen him open up like this. There is nothing hip and cool about Dinah Shore, but she inquires about their life and art in the most charming and respectful way. She refers to Iggy by his given name, '“Jim.” Enjoy.

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xo Rain

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Rain Perry published this page in Essays by Rain 2025-05-17 07:50:20 -0700