I apparently can’t make it to a casting workshop without getting trapped on the freeway. Literally.
I’ve been playing the guitar. Well, recording myself playing the guitar. Not practicing, just recording. Hopefully someday I’ll listen to these recordings and be well past them. For now I dream of the day I can play a couple punk songs REALLY LOUD. I think the name of my band will be The Dank Lasses. All the other names are taken…
I did a little stand-up comedy this week. I bombed. Tanked. Bite the big one. S-U-C-K-E-D. And I think I managed to, against my own code of right and wrong, put my doo-doo in someone else’s can…
CLICHÉ OF THE DAY: Sometimes you are so busy trying to get somewhere, you don’t realize you’ve been there for years. Corny, but true.
I made the microphone graphic in a rush and just realized why it looks…wrong. Damn. The spot light is pointing in the wrong directions. Or, the mic is pointing in the wrong direction. Either way it’s wrong. I wonder what Freud would say about that…
Hey Dan remember when you said you wanted to lay some book pages on us. Look what is free on Kindle Books:
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Thought of you when I saw it!
Really felt for you Dan. I still recall my first attempt at public speaking over 20 years ago and it was so bad it put me off for the next 15. But the thing that got me better at it was to write and get comfortable with my own material and also to talk about things I knew I understood. A few biogs of various stand ups all seem to say the same – write down and hone that material and that routine down to an inch of its life, so that you are totally comfortable and can get the right flow.
A couple of UK comedians at opposite ends of the taste scale but fantastically successful both said this in their biogs.
http://youtu.be/nlEP14vctTw
Roy “Chubby” Brown CAUTION, THIS WILL OFFEND
http://youtu.be/V4344iDQQTc
Peter Kay
I KNOW you can do this Dan, so please don’t give up.
Wayne
Keep rolling man. I remember seeing Zach Galifianakis at the Improv a few years back. He was trying out some new material and he was bombing bad. He finally left after everyone started booing. Saw him again the next night, new crowd, and the same stuff killed.
Dan – I know you always downplay the podcast. If it means anything, I enjoy it a lot. Cleaning, schlepping kids around, taking care of my parents, laundry, cleaning again, more laundry, grocery shopping, waiting in car line so I can let my son “practice” driving (that is another story. Oh it’s great. Like having your own personal chauffeur that makes you fear for your life every minute.) – you keep me company and keep me from going insane. You see when things go bad I have to laugh and you make me laugh. I never have enough episodes. Oh – and you keep the “dirty talk” to a minimum. Much appreciated.