AF1 - April Fools Day

Good evening. All day today jokes went far and wide around the world. And you were probably laughing at something that was deemed totally frickin' hillarious. "Freakin' Hillarious." That phrase just isn't gramatically correct in the English language. We really don't care though because it's a holiday. We will be united in the bonds of laughter. Perhaps it's fate that today is the First of April, and you will once again be fighting for our laughter... Not from knock-knock jokes, fart jokes, or bad puns... but for your health. We are laughing for our high cholestoral and fat content. To belly laugh. And should we laugh beyond today, April Fools will no longer be known as a jerk-off's holday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "My gosh, that was really funny!" My belly will shake like a bowl full of Jelly! We're going to laugh on! We're going to L-O-L! Today we celebrate our April Fools Day!

Here it is! This is a preview of the upcomming Roving Imp Showcase for the 4th anniversary of the theater. This year, it features The Beatles.

Trouble at the Ministry of Magic

And by that, I mean I'm using a Harry Potter reference here to resemble real trouble I'm having.
Man, first I have issues with logging onto facebook on my laptop. Now, it seems that the fan on my laptop doesn't work right and the motor on the laptop over heats. For the record, I've had it since May 2005 for graduating from JCCC. It's fine for about 20-40 minutes and then it just shuts off...as though the chord came unplugged. Now, there is another computer in the house. But I can't use power point with it which means I'll be limited to what I can do for the powerpoint for the Imp this weekend.
Anyway, I'm hoping to get another computer soon. I've been kind of saving up for it.
In other news, earlier this month (about 2 weeks ago now) I went to a clinic, stepped on a scale and I, for the first time in my life, weighed more than 300lbs. so now I'm trying to loose that. I'm doing it gradually.

Maddox Family Wrestling Syndicate Episode 3

Okay, it's been a week and a couple of days and I've had a few other issues...time issues and computer issues and personal... But I wanted to update this about the 3rd episode of Serial Cereal's Maddox Family Wrestling Syndicate from the 19th.
The third episode had to do with using the bathroom...well, that was the suggestion anyway. As Harry Wallace, I gave Marvin some advice that finally made him able to come around with his daughter's desire to wrestle. Also, Harry's disturbed past involving why his wife and 10 year-old daughter isn't in the picture. Turns out that his wife and unborn daughter were shot down 10 years prior and left him "in the spiritual sense." As much as he wanted to, Harry wasn't able to take down the shooter. Telling the story to Mad Ox, he calls Harry a coward and tries to get him to rematch from the episode before. Somehow, Harry winds up pinning Mad Ox...and neither of them knew how that happened.
Also, Gretchen finds that Harry's "wise sayings" just don't make sense to her so it's a good thing he doesn't usually try to use his proverbs with her.
Candy thinks that Harry has hired prostitutes to lay prostrate on the ground to make designs or something. (This may be off due to the fact that it's been 1 whole week since.)

Monsters - Parody of the Killer's "Human"

This is a parody I wrote about a month ago to the Killer's "Human" It's MONSTERS. I placed my lyrics over the music and original lyrics so it can be seen just where the new lyrics are supposed to go.

Maddox Family Wrestling Syndicate Episode 2.

Last Saturday, was the second episode of Maddox Family Wrestling Syndicate...also known (but very little anymore) as Serial Cereal. I would give another update on what I have discovered about my Harry Wallace charicter, but I don't think I'm ready for that because I'm not 100% sure and John says whatever issues my charicter has I should go ahead and say it on stage.
Anyway, here is the Maddox Family Wrestling Syndicate promo that was shown at the theater for the first time Saturday night.

Maddox Family Promo from Roving Imp Theater on Vimeo.

Film major

For a very brief time while I was at KU, I was a film major. This was during the Spring of 2006 and was set up at accident. Between Fall '05 and Spring '06, I was kicked out of the school of Journalism. This was fine for me because I had discovered that I had no business being in Journalism and, with the exception of the fact that I was undecided once again, was more than happy to no longer be in Journalism. But I HAD to say something in order to stay at KU. So I said English (to go into Creative Writing) but due to an interest that I had in it, I also said to be put down for film. Of course, the following semester, I was only in 2 classes. Fiction Writing I and Intermediate Spanish I. So by the end of the Spring semester, I was full time English major...I felt I had found my calling with Fiction Writing. But as it turned out, I was labeled as ONLY a film major. So there was more involved than just saying I wasn't a film major anymore. I had to go through, dorp one and add the other. I can't remember the exact details anymore (being 5 years now) but I do remember it was awkward.
Looking back, I wish that I had at least minored in film. I always enjoied making films. In fact, when I was in my journalism and broadcasting courses, it was always my film work that I got my highest marks on. Even though I got kicked out of the the school of Journalism, the 2-person group project that I did in class with my partner wound up being the one that got showed to the entire class that represented our lab (we had one miniture auditoriam class and about 7 or 8 mini group labs).
So, looking back, I kind of wish I had at least minored in film. I probably would have if I had some idea how the whole minors thing worked. I could have probably even survived film homework along with English homework because film work always came that naturally to me...except for one thing. I've never really been exceptional with a camera. It's always been in editing that I've always been any good. For the most part, I absolutely love editing...the only thing I don't enjoy about editing is when movie maker freezes up on me as it would do whenever I'd make thos Warren Zevon videos or the ad I made for the Tiny Group Fest. But I would have probably been able to use a different editing equipment.
Anyway, when it comes down to it, I wanted to briefly talk about the fact that I was a film major for about 4.5 months or so (out of 4 years at KU and 7 total years in college). And looking back, I think it would not have hurt to (and in fact, I wish that I had) at least minored in film.