rm | artistic families

I just auditioned for this play abotu Frank O'hHra thanks to the good graces of a friend who hooked me up with the opportunity. Lord knows if anything will come of it, but it has me all excited and frenetic, because oh my god, you _can_ write about this shit. I tend to have this (rather studied and ineffectual) aversion to making art about art and towards articulating why I want to, but this pleasant little audition in this unbelieveable apartment just sort of shook me out of it.

Which leads me to a quasi-related question:

Talk to me about the artistic families you know about/admire/find interesting/hate/are afraid of. And talk to me about what artistic family means to you -- genetic or constructed? love or friendship? Clear-cut or murky? What are the plausible geometric permutations? Enabling the product or part of it? Is it stuff like the emergence of Sofia Coppola? Bohemian cliques like the Frank O'Hara mess? Francis Bacon and his troubled relationships with his muses? Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh? Baz Luhrmann's Iona, etc.? Talk to me about how other people do it and why you care. And talk to me about how you do it if this pertains to you (and I can think of at least two instances on my friendslist that I think qualify).

My brain is al buzzy. Please feed me.