night 3
Final night in Tucson, AZ. One of up has their priorities straight. Who can sit still with all the ADD going around these days?
exciting backstage world of showbiz
Victor and me 15 mins before curtain. Good luck, Macbeth!
Hello Tucson
I used to live here the first half of third grade. Then my mom packed us up in her VW bug and we moved to beautiful Oklahoma City.
We’re doing spamscam here for three nights. There’s a nice, full page article in the local l.a. weakly type paper, which is excellent and the nice interviewer used some of my better “quips” like the one about how if I had been sitting around bored on the Mister Sterling set in the 70’s I would’ve been out of my mind on blow instead of screwing with a Nigerian 419 scammer via email.
We’re downtown, so it’s sorta remeniscent of the dreaded Minneapolis experience. If we happen to tank here, the outlook is not good.
We rented a PLANET KILLING SUV BECAUSE WE’RE EVIL to drive here. I started nodding off almost immediately so I got Victor to take over and he drove the entire way. Very cool beans.
Going to play the new audio clips at the end of the show. They’re not really integrated, but it will be a cool experiment. I think I have a fairly good template for Spamscam II. Not sure. Hope so.
If I don’t get all lazy over the next few weeks, I can have it at fighting weight for the New Jersey show.
Speaking of shows….
Coreyoke is killing. Our audience doubled this past week. We took bribes to bring people up. It was insane. We’re going to have to sign peeps up before we start and lock the list. Great problems to have. Really, really very cool.
There have been some excellent folks who have been showing up from day one who helped it along as we limped along. Steve, Ginger, Allie, Jeff, Corey (coincidentally) have all been instrumental in “keeping the coreyoke dream alive”… *sniff* *tears*… butt seriassly, I hope the past two weeks haven’t been anomalous. Then I will kill people.
Now all I have to do is learn the songs!
You know, there’s nothing like travel and a hotel room to make one really miss their wife.
Whine, whine, whine… I’m excited about the shows.
Oh. one more whine… slowest internet connection in the history of internet. i’m replicating my 2400bps modem with this wireless connection. fascinating. truly.
the growth
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dean cameron
http://www.deancameron.com
hot chicks with douchebags & my past
Many many many summers ago here in beautiful los angeles, the band U2 were here recording or editing that piece of shit movie or something. No one got laid that summer because every girl at every club was holding on to the dream that U2 would show up and choose them to go home with and end up being what Mister Hewson was ultimately looking for.
I dubbed it “Horrible U2 Summer” and this site is able to replicate the same feelings of disillusion and despair.
The bride and I have been going to the saturday night screenings at the hollywood forever cemetary. It’s something I look forward to every year. A couple of weeks ago, they showed Harold y Maude and so many people showed up that there was “line anarchy” and it bummed us out and we left. It used to be BACK IN THE OLD DAYS, SONNY!!!! that the lines would form organically and everyone would cooperate and it was loverly. Now ALL THESE RIFF RAFF HOOLIGANS SHOW UP, SONNY!!!!! and it eats ass in the bad way.
Butt. this past week, we got there right around 5:30 (show begins at sundown… 8:30-9?) and had no problems. They screened roman holiday and I’d never seen it and it ruled. We take a shitload of candy, a ginormous bag of pistachios, bags of carrots, a couple of frescas, a couple of diet cokes, some water, blankets, very short beach chairs, cards to play games in line, ubiquitous video ipod (more later), and sit and hold hands and watch the movies. It sure is nice. Man.
Next week they’re showing Fast Times. I’m hopeful that we can go. Haven’t seen it in years. So odd to hear the guys running the screening as “Amy Heckerling’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High”. Dig that possessive credit, peeps!
It got me to thinking… Remember back when t.v. sucked and they used to ruin movies by making t.v. shows out of them? Now movies suck because they’re ruining t.v. shows by making movies out of them.
“I hope I get a callback for the part of Jerry in the Seinfeld movie…”
Did spamscam at the Lakeshore Theater in Chicago aka Gateway to the West and had such a tremendous time. Since we’re performing the show for money now, we’re able to take Aaron along as the tech and pay him and he lugs the suitcase full of gear around, makes all the arrangements with the theater, sets up the gear, the lights, everything and we get to roll in like rockstars and do a quick check and enjoy ourselves.
In the past I would always be scrambling for shit and trying to locate cables and whatnot and the shows were always much more stressful than they needed to be (hi, scotland!). So this will be really terrific.
US Airways began our journey by canceling our flight the day of the flight and not letting me know, so that scared me a bit, but once that was handled, all was well. I’d write more about US Airways, but the U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.OT act that you were so happy about 6 years ago prohibits me from making the statements I feel should be made.
1st Amendment indeed!
Speaking of the Bill of Rights…
Speaking of my embarrassing past:
Went to see the worst thing I’ve ever seen tonight. Fortunately, the grandparents-in-law were tired and we got to leave at half-time.
What a poop.
If you’re part of a production and you see someone leaving at half-time, do not ask why someone is leaving unless you are prepared to hear the truth, people.
The corollary is, i suppose, do not tell the truth to someone involved with a production when leaving at half-time unless you are prepared to get flipped off.
Nigerian Spam Scam Scam
I’m doing spamscam this Saturday at 10pm in L.A. at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater
http://www.ucbtheatre.com/schedule/showdetails.php?showid=1286
It’s a really cool theater.
Come down and laff yer balls off.