Make up your mind
KONTRAS. Are you gonna do this, or AIN'T ya. Stop
yankin' our chain...
Well from this
point on, I don't really forsee anymore locked
entries. Unfortunately though, there will forever be a
4 entry "Journey" subplot, LOCKED like a mofo. In the
life of "The Journey" it'll NEVER be unlocked. Maybe
in some autobiography down the road it'll be eluded
to, but truly - it's just gonna have to vanquish from
your mind.
I do however have
3 pretty cool songs that go along with the entries
that I'm still unsure on what I'll do with 'em. It'll
pretty much tell you who the locked entries are
about...but who am I kidding - my life has about 6
characters in it. Like you can't figure it out anyway
with a little detective work. And as always the most
damning song is most certainly the best. Negative
passion breeds some dooozies don't they. Anyway, lemme
think about whether it's apporopriate to post. And
also realize - that NONE of this is because I
don't want outsiders knowing how I feel. It's not
that I'm embarrassed to let people know this...you
just have to realize that YOU aren't the only
ones reading it. LOL. Even if my intended audience for
this are suppporters of 4tvs - it ain't. It's
EEEEEVVVVVVVVEEERYYYbody.
Ok, so when we
last left the UNLOCKED Adam, he was about to perform
at Amagi on Sunset. Somewhere in between the Valley
and Hollywood I got stuck in a time and place warp.
I drove right to Ohio circa fall 1999. A mixture
of the fall-like weather that night, the drunks
yellin' at me as I set-up, and this overwhelming
forboding feeling was so reminiscent of my bar gigs in
Ohio I seriously looked for Marty Moose. It was
just eeeeeeeerie. But the role of Marty Moose was
played by Paddy - and we eventually did get it all
up.
This was a karaoke
bar. My favorite pastime. As well this was their
stand-up night, and I was in the MIDDLE. Not
really the best position to be in because of such a
small stage. I had to set-up and then turn things off
and move them to the side, then run-up and try to put
it back together really quick. I missed the 2nd tower
of TVs and had to pause right in the middle of Dewey
singing
HOLY SHIT MY HEADSHOT PHOTOGRAPHER WAS JUST ON
THE E! CELEBRITY PROFILE OF JOEY LAWRENCE.
LOL!
...so anyway - the
show got going. Unfortunately I had to set-up the
speakers a little bit BEHIND me - and it caused
feedback problems throughout. Which in turn made me
have to play with the board instead of saying my lines
a few times. This wasn't a big deal with the old 4tvs
show, but man - with The Trinitrons, there's just no
way to play sound man and perform at the same time
without some awkwardness. As well, although I did
get a mini-standing ovation at the end, the audience
was just befuddled. And rightfully so - the audience
was basically just the other comics. So they get up
and do 5-10 minutes - and I get up and do 30
minutes. It's just not the right setting...and
especially to put me in the middle. How out of whack
is that? But again, we did it for the Gersh Talent
Agency reps that were there - so all of this was not a
big deal. You can see the potential in this Adam dude
by watching the show.
Of course the
wonderful capper to the night is that of course there
was no agency there. What was once thought of as a
showcase FOR the agency turned out to be one of the
comics inviting the agency to see HIM. The assistant
to the agent calls Charlotte and says it's a showcase.
(sigh) Then of course he got scared that day and
called the agency and told them to come to the next
show 'cause he wasn't ready. (sigh again). Yup - this
was all completely worthless. Of course I enjoy
performing, and showing even a 15 crowd audience of
fellow comics the show is better than staying home
watching "TV Land", but the goal was to get the agency
to see me and MAYBE get representation. There wasn't
even a chance of that, thus it all seems worthless.
But all you can do is look forward to the next show
(Imrpov Olympic West), and hope to gain something from
that...
The next week was
spent trying to meet with Charlotte to discuss writing
the pilot and bible for The Trinitrons. Actually we
HAVE to come up with a band name soon, as the sitcom
cannot be The Trinitrons (no tvs)... Unfortunately,
but actually quite fortunately for Charlotte, things
kept coming up. Most exciting is a spec script she's
pitching for one of her writing clients that the
studio is loving. After the pitch they called her in
her car and asked her to come right back and pitch it
to the head of production. So it was the proverbial
"pussy blow-off" so I didn't care. I may need to
explain myself here.
The "pussy
blow-off" is anytime someone breaks plans with you
when there's absolutely no bad blood. LOL. This of
course stems from the many times a guy and I had plans
to play basketball or something...and he got a date.
We never even thought twice about breaking our
engagement...DUH. It's PUSSY. Man that's crass, but
true. Pussy takes precedence. And all you
women-libbers SHUT UP. I'm not saying that that's
how all our friends SEE WOMEN. (sigh). I can
hear the hate-mail now.
Anyway, we finally
did meet this previous Monday - and the meeting went
great. We talked for 3 straight hours about JUST the
sitcom, and it was quite productive. We're gonna try
and meet every Monday and Thursday and should get
through this pretty quick...realtively speaking. And
that's all I have to say about that. Fried shrimp,
sauteed shrimp, cajun shrimp...
That brings us to
yesterday's show. The Improv Olympic West. First off,
The Flying Farley's were on before me. The 2 brothers
of Chris. You may know Kevin from the MTV show
2-Gether. He looks eerily like Chris. As well, both of
them sound JUST like him. So watching them
onstage yelling back and forth was just...well
frightening. I could NOT stop staring in amazement.
I mean forget how much Kevin looks like him (the
other brother is really skinny), just close your eyes
and you'd SWEAR Chris was right there.
AND DO THEY EVER YELL. I was in
the balcony at the back of the theater and was amazed
at the lungs on these boys. Anyway, I saw
VERY little of the show so I can give no comment
on what it was like...but Kevin Farley
FREAKS ME OUT. I seriously feel for him as
far as being able to get work without people reacting
like me. I wish him all the luck
though.
Set-up
was quick and with the help of Paddy -
quite painless. Dude's strong. Nice crowd,
found out later we got 2 industry folks
there...giddy-up. Casting Director and an
exec's assistant at Sony. (Just waiting
for The Trinitrons lawsuit...lol). Nice
space for it, nere a bad seat in the
house. Even had a lighting guy kick much
ass for me. Even a new
little
opening!
Unfortunately - I
sucked. LOL. I was so pissed off at my performance...
I really don't know what I was thinking. I kept trying
to improv with the crowd's energy not remembering that
you CAN'T DO THAT with this show. It sucks
in that sense. But I kept missing my cues, or leaving
too much space - I just really sucked. LOL. Some good
did come out of it. Some "mugs" to the audience went
over really well, and they never would've happened had
I not been trying new things...but still.
I was unhappy. The audience reaction was pretty
good. Some things they roared at that I just
didn't think was funny. I finally got a laugh for
Dewey saying "SKATE HEAVEN!" Apparently some
gamers out there. But Spencer didn't get the laughs I
thought he would...hmmm. That's what I REALLY dig
about doing the sow is how it's always so different.
GOD I want the audience to write reports afterwards.
LOL. A focus group. It certainly would be an
interesting read.
And GOOD GOD
people, Ronald Reagan is not DEAD. Sorry to
SLAM off into a tangent here - but I have CNN on
and if one more person talks about him in the past
tense. DAMNIT. It's his 91st birthday today, and
granted he hasn't been seen since what...1994? But
until he's DEAD, it sure seems a bit lacking in taste
having these "Ronald Reagan was such a great man"
retrospectives. If he even has an OUNCE of
conciousness just WAIT. He'll be gone soon enough.
Heh.
Where was I...well
I guess I was done. We may have a nice Warner
Bros. show coming up. Casting Director has shown
interest and we're gonna try to set-up a show just for
them. More as it happens of course. Ahhh, what a
Journey.
