first paid gig & rogan

so i finally did my first paid gig on friday and i fuckin loved everything about it! don't get me wrong, the venue sucked (round tables, gigantic columns with excellent comedian blocking ability, and chairs with headrests high enough for Marge Simpson's afro). Also, the crowd was an older one. Did they even know what the hell i was talking about? But all that aside; I GOT PAID! I can't believe it. They gave me money for talking about shit that I thought up and turned into a joke. That's the coolest freakin thing in the world! I love comedy. WOW! and don't think that i don't know i sound like a teenage boy who just lost his virginity. I'm just excited. And when you're this excited you can't help but act gay.

Speaking of gay, I saw some shit that totally pissed me off. That's when comics steal shit from other comics. I was watchin a lot of that youtube stuff of Joe Rogan Vs. Carlos Mencia and everyone seems to think Mencia is a thief. Well i'm not a part of that specific incident but i think if a comic steals that the worst thing you can do in comedy.
i saw that happen at my own, home club during the open mic. some guy got up and told a bunch of jokes he saw on youtube or something. i recognized bits from geniuses like arj barker and nick dipalo (spelling?) and then he told some of his jokes. i can tell when he did his jokes because nobody laughed. there was a huge difference because the stolen shit was written perfectly (by the comic who it belongs to) and the other shit didn't sound very clever. now the guyadmitted that it wasn't his stuff and that he did it because he just wanted to get onstage without being to nervous. but isn't that something that every comedian is supossed to go through, that horrible feeling of being totally unfunny? Not only that, but this guy then put his stuff up on youtube. unless the title of the clip is "watch me perform other people's jokes" then i don't think that's cool. when i host the open mic i'm gonna make it a rule you gotta do your own shit. i mean the whole point of comedy is to come up with creative and original shit. am i wrong on that one?

showbusiness

ok ok...maybe i should make a big deal about it. but no matter how you look at it tomorrow is going to be my first paid gig doing comedy. for me this will definitely be one of those things i never forget. even if i suck. i'm still getting paid for it! i bet all these guys at the hong kong country club are well in the money and i'll be one of the few odd ones out, but i'm still gonna make those guys laugh.

car stoppers

what is up with those jay walkers who put up their hand towards oncoming cars when crossing the street? do they feel like they're having an impact over the driver decision to stop? "well i was going to just run him over, but then he put up his arm. what could i do? i had to stop." i think the driver is probably going to stop whether or not you put your arm up, stupid.

its been a while

ok, ok. i know i haven't blogged in a long time. i'm not gonna lie and say i had things to do either. i didn't. unless you count procrastinating as an errond (spelling?). anyway, I wish these blogging websites were more advanced so they could blog themselves, blogimatically, so to speak. if they did they probably say something like 00110110010101011110101101. I speak binary.

Ok enough of this, time for an update. Since my last entry 13,000 years ago I started a long, difficult summer of being broke and desperately looking for work. I finally found a job in the tuition center from hell and apperently they had no positive feeling towards me as I was fired not to long after starting. Thankfully they did provide me enough money to be able to just squeek by. Sure I'm broke, but i never have to camp in the park.

During that time i also started doing stand up comedy. something that i've wanted to do my whole life for the last 6 years. As of this point I've been performing for nearly three months and I think this is defintely the best hobbie I've ever done. It's difficult, but definitely rewarding. Writing jokes is both increadibly fun and a pain in the ass. But for some reason it doesn't feel like work, I actually enjoy doing it. And it feels great when someone comes up to you after the show and tells you you're funny. Thanks Mom!

position avaliable

i need a job now! worried about finding work for the summer. ill need money to live and i dont want to have to ask from my parents. why didn't i save more? dammit...

time off

finally its time for vacation again! kk & t met up for dinner to discuss travel plans. good time - as to be expected. unlike usual t was without his bon mots-too exhausted i think. kk requested something light and still managed to devour everything on her plate. we ended up discussing that we were too tired for travel plans and just talked about office politik instead. that topic always interests me...

but works not over yet. still have to meet students at pacific coffee tomorrow for some english activity. so i'll be up early on a saturday morning so i ask myself "why did i agree to do this?" oh yeah, because i don't know how to say "no." apperently i can write it though. next time i should leave my answer on a note...