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The Photo Above Has a Hundred Things I Love

A road with a yellow line. A walking path. A stranger doing her thing, getting her steps, thinking her thoughts. Dry western grass. Cottonwoods, elms. An illusion of a giant croweagle to the left of the road under a cottonwood. The edges of a community garden in the foreground on the right, of a ballfield slightly back, a notice posted on the fence about something happening at the high school, something that is surely a big deal to someone. Somebody's little house. Traffic lights and a huge apartment building (some architect's masterpiece?) in the distance. Lit clouds over dark mountains. Electrical towers that look like Victorian dresses holding power lines that look like record grooves. An eagle with a thousand foot wingspan whose beak casts shade into shadow. Things that looks like other things.

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About jeff takacs

I wrote and performed in many confections for New York's Company XIV, including the long-running Nutcracker Rouge, which Playbill called "a sparkling reimagining of the beloved Nutcracker tale told with erotic, sensual and opulent flair," and of which the New York Times wrote, "...if the plain old “Nutcracker” causes you to zone out, this one will surely wake you up."

The New Yorker's Joan Acocella called my adaptation of Snow White "witty and bizarre," and the Los Angeles Times called my play Kaintuck "prescient...[the] themes hit home like an awakening slap."

I have performed in many plays, movies, and television shows, including Inside Llewyn Davis by the Coen Brothers, The Prince by Robert Cohen, Hunter by Xia Magnus, and Girl’s Guide to Depravity on Cinemax.

I wrote text for the dance-performance piece She-Wolves by Laura Careless, and contributed to and was featured in the dance documentary Flex Is Kings. Other plays and screenplays include The Dogs Will Run, Sell Dear, and Other Plans (with Crista Flanagan).

Other writing includes The Switching Yard (a novel) and many stories and poems. Essays and criticism have appeared on Two Dollar Radio and Fearful Symmetry.

As Lon Rivers, I have released one album, Firecrackers at Night.