The Roving Imp troops ONE and Omega Directive were accepted into the Chicago Improv Festival as apprentace teams. So on Thursday night, we're all (the members of the troops going and those of us going along) taking off on a Megabus to go to Chicago.
The past few days, I've been getting ready to go by getting things I'd need. This includes a toothbrush (we have a mechanical one at home), toothpaste, deoderant, shampoo and other various things. One thing I still have yet to get is a notebook. This is because I'll be taking a workshop that a few other poeple won't be taking. The 2 groups will be having their own workshop leader but on Saturday, I'll be taking one with Jeff Worth.
Anyway, as far as right now goes, this will be my last blog entry involving Chicago until I get back late Monday morning.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Where Am I?
So this last week came to a weird end that also affected the weekend. It's like nothing was quite right. I can't remember how long ago it was since I last updated but let's go back to Tuesday...
Tuesday was a good night. The day was okay. But I want to focus on Tuesnight. For Trivia, I went with the name The Excitable Boy as a reference to the Warren Zevon album. Trivia ended at about 8:05pm. Nifer won. I came in second and Chris was third. We didn't do a second round. However, we stayed around and John came up and around 10pm, we started watching The Office season 5 DVD 1. Sometime after Chris left, some guy came in (we'll assume he was stoned) and ordered a coffee. He was shocked to find he actually owed something...or so I hear.
Wednesday, I went to play MAGIC at the Roving Imp. I lost for the second time but for the first time by running out of cards in my deck. I decided I'd prefer to loose in battle. That turned out to be the last Wednesday afternoon MAGIC game. But I didn't find that out until Thursday evening. The coffee shop's schedule has changed and now it doesn't open until 5pm. Anyway, my family and I went to Quizno's and had dinner. Then my mom and I went to find a location that I would be going to on Friday night. That night after I got back, my dog turned out to start to have the runs. It wasn't considered "serious" yet. But he'll be 13 (in human years) in May. So we needed to keep an eye on that.
Thursday the whole "runs" thing continued but it wasn't severe until late that night. That evening, I went out to the Roving Imp to see Omega Directive and ONE rehearse for their charity show that was the following Saturday. Then, after rehearsals, we played the game of Gloom. This is a card game in which you're supposed to die but keep your friends alive. I got home after midnight to find my grandma was cleaning up a "run" mess that the dog left. It was getting bad. It was not bloody or vomity. But it was bad. So we took him to the Mission Med Vet (pet ER...open 24-7). They took a sampling of his stool and found that he had a tape worm. It was now about 2:50am Friday morning.
Friday, my grandma and I went to get breakfast and got back without the dog needing to "run." But he wouldn't take the meds he was given. The following 12 hours were going to be busy and I wasn't able to function. So I got a quick nap. Then, I headed out to the Roving Imp and helped to clean Carl's appartment after he had moved out and before John's brother-in-law moved in. It was a disaster area. I suggested using it to make a film that took place after a nuclear holocost. But it wasn't clean enough for that. A nuclear holocost would be cleaner. So I mostly picked up trash and coins from the floor. There was $3.46 lying around in pennies, nickles, dimes, and a quarter. There was an extra penny that was literally caked to the window sill. With help, I even had to pick up a condom that looked like it had been filled with chocolate. (Let me just say that I don't know what was in it because I took a look at it to see what it was, noticed a color, and came to a conclusion in my head). Other than that, I swept some of the carpets, sponged the bathroom sink, windexed the mirror (as well as another mirror), glass shower doors, I even windexed the toilet. This made it look good enough to clean. I even wound up with a blister that broke and actually started to get an infection. Of course, the shower itself had to be given a good scrub down all around, the sink will have to be replaced and the toilet (seat at least) also. The mess that was swept from the carpet just came back and they're going to have to get rid of the carpet or something. Around 8:15, I came home and got a shower and then headed out to Westport Flea Market Comedy City to see Stitch Tactics because I've got a friend in that group. I enjoied the show. And it's too bad it has to be mentioned in this update.
Saturday, I had my improv worksop. It went pretty well I think. Unfortunately, we did a silent scene. I don't enjoy doing non-speaking scenes. It freaks me out. It turns out I can do it, I just need to have more confidence in myself. After dinner, I was back at the Imp just waiting around to see the shows and all of a sudden, I got hit with a combination of tired and depression. I didn't want to be there. I wanted to see the shows, but I didn't care about anything else for the hour and a half before the shows started. I was trying everything to give myself energy just to watch the shows. This included having a Hot Chocolate Skynet, a garlic and cheese pizza, a bottle of water. Anything. By the time the shows began, I was able to enjoy the shows. It was hard for me to focus, but I enjoied the shows. Best part, I won Seinfeld Season 7 DVD in a raffle. But I wound up getting home Saturday night around 2am.
Sunday was okay. I wound up missing Nifer's improv class which I was pretty upset about. The reason was that my family had tickets to see Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskerville's or a Dog Gone Detective Story at Martin City Meladrama and Valdeville Co. at Metcalf South Shopping Center. The show was good and I was glad to have gotten to seen it. But I was really bummed about missing class. I was bummed about it all month because there wasn't a class on Easter and since we'll all be in Chicago next week, Nifer won't be leading a class. If I was sucessful in signing up, I will get to take a non-group class this coming Saturday.
Anyway, that's a touch of where I am. I hope you enjoied it.
Tuesday was a good night. The day was okay. But I want to focus on Tuesnight. For Trivia, I went with the name The Excitable Boy as a reference to the Warren Zevon album. Trivia ended at about 8:05pm. Nifer won. I came in second and Chris was third. We didn't do a second round. However, we stayed around and John came up and around 10pm, we started watching The Office season 5 DVD 1. Sometime after Chris left, some guy came in (we'll assume he was stoned) and ordered a coffee. He was shocked to find he actually owed something...or so I hear.
Wednesday, I went to play MAGIC at the Roving Imp. I lost for the second time but for the first time by running out of cards in my deck. I decided I'd prefer to loose in battle. That turned out to be the last Wednesday afternoon MAGIC game. But I didn't find that out until Thursday evening. The coffee shop's schedule has changed and now it doesn't open until 5pm. Anyway, my family and I went to Quizno's and had dinner. Then my mom and I went to find a location that I would be going to on Friday night. That night after I got back, my dog turned out to start to have the runs. It wasn't considered "serious" yet. But he'll be 13 (in human years) in May. So we needed to keep an eye on that.
Thursday the whole "runs" thing continued but it wasn't severe until late that night. That evening, I went out to the Roving Imp to see Omega Directive and ONE rehearse for their charity show that was the following Saturday. Then, after rehearsals, we played the game of Gloom. This is a card game in which you're supposed to die but keep your friends alive. I got home after midnight to find my grandma was cleaning up a "run" mess that the dog left. It was getting bad. It was not bloody or vomity. But it was bad. So we took him to the Mission Med Vet (pet ER...open 24-7). They took a sampling of his stool and found that he had a tape worm. It was now about 2:50am Friday morning.
Friday, my grandma and I went to get breakfast and got back without the dog needing to "run." But he wouldn't take the meds he was given. The following 12 hours were going to be busy and I wasn't able to function. So I got a quick nap. Then, I headed out to the Roving Imp and helped to clean Carl's appartment after he had moved out and before John's brother-in-law moved in. It was a disaster area. I suggested using it to make a film that took place after a nuclear holocost. But it wasn't clean enough for that. A nuclear holocost would be cleaner. So I mostly picked up trash and coins from the floor. There was $3.46 lying around in pennies, nickles, dimes, and a quarter. There was an extra penny that was literally caked to the window sill. With help, I even had to pick up a condom that looked like it had been filled with chocolate. (Let me just say that I don't know what was in it because I took a look at it to see what it was, noticed a color, and came to a conclusion in my head). Other than that, I swept some of the carpets, sponged the bathroom sink, windexed the mirror (as well as another mirror), glass shower doors, I even windexed the toilet. This made it look good enough to clean. I even wound up with a blister that broke and actually started to get an infection. Of course, the shower itself had to be given a good scrub down all around, the sink will have to be replaced and the toilet (seat at least) also. The mess that was swept from the carpet just came back and they're going to have to get rid of the carpet or something. Around 8:15, I came home and got a shower and then headed out to Westport Flea Market Comedy City to see Stitch Tactics because I've got a friend in that group. I enjoied the show. And it's too bad it has to be mentioned in this update.
Saturday, I had my improv worksop. It went pretty well I think. Unfortunately, we did a silent scene. I don't enjoy doing non-speaking scenes. It freaks me out. It turns out I can do it, I just need to have more confidence in myself. After dinner, I was back at the Imp just waiting around to see the shows and all of a sudden, I got hit with a combination of tired and depression. I didn't want to be there. I wanted to see the shows, but I didn't care about anything else for the hour and a half before the shows started. I was trying everything to give myself energy just to watch the shows. This included having a Hot Chocolate Skynet, a garlic and cheese pizza, a bottle of water. Anything. By the time the shows began, I was able to enjoy the shows. It was hard for me to focus, but I enjoied the shows. Best part, I won Seinfeld Season 7 DVD in a raffle. But I wound up getting home Saturday night around 2am.
Sunday was okay. I wound up missing Nifer's improv class which I was pretty upset about. The reason was that my family had tickets to see Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskerville's or a Dog Gone Detective Story at Martin City Meladrama and Valdeville Co. at Metcalf South Shopping Center. The show was good and I was glad to have gotten to seen it. But I was really bummed about missing class. I was bummed about it all month because there wasn't a class on Easter and since we'll all be in Chicago next week, Nifer won't be leading a class. If I was sucessful in signing up, I will get to take a non-group class this coming Saturday.
Anyway, that's a touch of where I am. I hope you enjoied it.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Music
This is kind of random...especially for not having really given a propper blog update in about 2 weeks. I just haven't felt like typing any blog updates or anything. I've been out late at night...usually in Bonner Springs...and by the time I get home, I'm too tired to type anything. But right now, I want to talk about music...or rather, why music is note worthy to bring up right now.
First off, let me just say that I like music. I like it a lot. I especially like Classic Rock. As Bob Seger sang, "I like that old time Rock and Roll." I also like a small handful of Country (Garth Brooks, Johnny Cash), and some punk (Bowling For Soup, Green Day) and a dwindeling amount of hair metal (Guns&Roses, Poison). I even performed "Talk Dirty To Me" in a Kareokee Bar the first time I was in one.
Anyway, about 3 1/2 weeks ago (by the way, this is where the music start comes in), John at the Roving Imp said he was wanting to clean out the play list on the computer in the theater and start over with a whole new play list. I offered to loan him any number of my CDs (I've got between 150 and 300). But it was actually Nifer who first stated she would be interested in borrowing some of my CDs. So I went through about 95% of my CDs (not so much the hair metal music) and took them to the Imp for her to puruse, burn, and then pass on to John for him to puruse.
I don't know what all albums John used or that Nifer kept for her iPod, but I do know that John put some songs onto a shuffled playlist to be played during the Red Rubber Ball show Saturday night. One of them was the song "Jesus Mentioned" by Warren Zevon off of the album THE ENVOY. It was based off of the Seinfeld episode (the show, not the song, the song is about Elvis) The Puffy Shirt. John decided to pick music that was hard to understand. All of the Warren Zevon songs were from The Envoy. Perhaps I've listened to that album so much that I don't have a problem understanding the songs.
Anyway, since I've gotten all of the CD's back, I've been interested in listening to them. I'm trying to go through some of my old CD's I've had for years but haven't listened to in a while. Some of them, it's been a few years. Some hasn't been since I went to JCCC...or high school.
Unfortunately, I don't have a whole lot of time to listen so I listen in my car. But I'm not going far enough to listen to a greatest hits album. Oh well. I'm still having fun going through my old CDs.
First off, let me just say that I like music. I like it a lot. I especially like Classic Rock. As Bob Seger sang, "I like that old time Rock and Roll." I also like a small handful of Country (Garth Brooks, Johnny Cash), and some punk (Bowling For Soup, Green Day) and a dwindeling amount of hair metal (Guns&Roses, Poison). I even performed "Talk Dirty To Me" in a Kareokee Bar the first time I was in one.
Anyway, about 3 1/2 weeks ago (by the way, this is where the music start comes in), John at the Roving Imp said he was wanting to clean out the play list on the computer in the theater and start over with a whole new play list. I offered to loan him any number of my CDs (I've got between 150 and 300). But it was actually Nifer who first stated she would be interested in borrowing some of my CDs. So I went through about 95% of my CDs (not so much the hair metal music) and took them to the Imp for her to puruse, burn, and then pass on to John for him to puruse.
I don't know what all albums John used or that Nifer kept for her iPod, but I do know that John put some songs onto a shuffled playlist to be played during the Red Rubber Ball show Saturday night. One of them was the song "Jesus Mentioned" by Warren Zevon off of the album THE ENVOY. It was based off of the Seinfeld episode (the show, not the song, the song is about Elvis) The Puffy Shirt. John decided to pick music that was hard to understand. All of the Warren Zevon songs were from The Envoy. Perhaps I've listened to that album so much that I don't have a problem understanding the songs.
Anyway, since I've gotten all of the CD's back, I've been interested in listening to them. I'm trying to go through some of my old CD's I've had for years but haven't listened to in a while. Some of them, it's been a few years. Some hasn't been since I went to JCCC...or high school.
Unfortunately, I don't have a whole lot of time to listen so I listen in my car. But I'm not going far enough to listen to a greatest hits album. Oh well. I'm still having fun going through my old CDs.
Friday, April 9, 2010
The Mini-Imp Fest has cometh and Stayeth for a while-eth
Okay, so the Roving Imp started it's 3 year Anniversary special tonight. This had Game Show, TrivProv and Dimensional Rift. Here is a cast photo from Dimensional Rift.
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I like this photo because of how much it looks like a group photo...like it was planned or something. In reality, I took pictures for the shows tonight but I'm in Dimensional Rift. So my mom took the pictures for that show.
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I like this photo because of how much it looks like a group photo...like it was planned or something. In reality, I took pictures for the shows tonight but I'm in Dimensional Rift. So my mom took the pictures for that show.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
April Fool's Joke
Okay, so I got 1 April Fool's Joke this year. Usually, April Fool's is a prank and not something you want. The one I got was one that I wish was true. Thursday nights at the Roving Imp, we usually play games after rehearsals. This week, the game was Lunch Money. But the website said we were going to be playing "Strip Lunch Money." This was obviously a joke for April Fools Day. But deep down, I wanted this to be true. I wanted it to be true because I don't usually play that well in Lunch Money and I saw it as a tactical advantage to me if it were Strip Lunch Money because no one would want to see me naked. Of course, if it were Strip Lunch Money, then it would be awkward also because it would be like, "well, look who ________ is attacking." So obviously, not having a Strip version of Lunch Money (in which we are all playing the part of 8-year old girls on the playground by the way) is probably better.
By the way, someday, I might give an update just over the game of Lunch Money.
By the way, someday, I might give an update just over the game of Lunch Money.
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