“It’s been a long time since I touched this place.”
-My dad, to his weiner
For the past year or so, I’ve been using my Tumblr blog to facilitate my day-to-day blog postings and such. The original idea behind this was to eventually replace THIS site with a Tumblr, and dress up the front page of the site. OR, change the front page to be the blog. I had been complaining about this place being a mess for awhile, and none of that complaining changed anything! C’mon, power of pissy words! Why aren’t you able to make CSS?
Anyhow, I’ve been getting way back in to stand-up lately, after barely performing over the past year and a half to two years. I’d realized how little stand-up I’d been doing when I started popping in to shows this past fall, and people acted like I was a ghost risen from the grave.
It’s not like I’ve been doing nothing. I was spending most of my time doing improv with Thank You, Robot and writing for The Late Show with David Letterman and, as of this past fall, Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update segment. So I’ve been exercising different parts of my comedy brain, but something definitely felt like it was missing without doing shows, and since hitting it hard again, I feel like I’m getting that back. First few sets were rusty, as is wont to happen when you let something go lax for that long. However, I really feel like I’m pushing forward again and making interesting discoveries in my writing and in jokes as they’re being performed.
I felt frustrated with myself for not keeping up with the pace I was going at when I first moved to New York (almost 4 years ago now…JESUS!), which was only compounded by seeing people I’d performed with a couple years ago now simply light years ahead of the game at this point; complete nightmares of laughter. It’s beautiful to watch, but at the same time, a little part of me kicks another little part of me everytime I see that, knowing that I could be just as developed. I used the excuse of not hitting open mics because I didn’t have the money to jump on (which was true for almost all of 2007), but not once did I try to start my own show. I let feeling bad about myself stop me from going to other people’s shows. And a litany of other excuses.
Here’s a link to a set I did in December of 2007, which is the most recent video I have. Gonna try to get a new one soon. SWEAR.
If you’d like to see me perform, I’ll be doing the ever-hilarious Fraser Young’s show, Moe and Fraser’s Foreign Legion, tomorrow night at Legion bar in Williamsburg:
Lessee, what else…oh. I am going to be in an article in the LA Times soon. They interviewed me and even came to the apartment for a photo shoot. I’m hoping they use my favorite shot, which also involved my young rabbit pal, Henry Madison. I will let you know when it runs.
I will be working now as a blogger for Ology.com; specifically, their Games, Gadgets, and (soon, and eventually only) their Geek departments. You know what this means: I CAN FINALLY WRITE OFF VIDEO GAMES, COMIC BOOKS, GADGETS, AND MOVIES ON MY TAXES! WHOO HOO! That’s how you know you made it, kids.
Okay, this has been a huge info dump, but I just wanted to get this active again. We’ll be back to awesome stuff soon enough.