Classes and Improv

So, Thursday, August 21st, I started my last year (hopefully) at KU.  I’m taking Playwriting 1, Prehistoric Life: DNA – Dinosuars, and Earthquakes and Natural Disasters.  Playwriting will be my second to last creative writing course.  Of all the creative writing courses I’ve taken, this one seems like it’s going to be the most hard core.  Prehistoric Life…I needed a biological science and this one doesn’t have a lab.  Earthquakes and Natural Disasters is in the largest auditorium class…seating 900 students.  I sit way up in the nosebleed section because it’s easier than looking up and down constantly between the notes on the screen and the notes that I attempt to take that don’t even come out very well because of the speed that the teacher insist on going.  Anyway, those are the classes.

I had my first improv performance on Saturday Aug. 23rd.  It went very well.  We performed a Chicago style Harold.  This is one with an opener, 3 scenes (1,2,3) based upon something from the opener, a group game, 3 more scenes related to scenes 1, 2 and 3 respectively of the first group.  Then another group game, then a finale of the 3 scenes.  The suggestion, made by a friend of mine, was pancake.  Then, 3 of us (I was one of them) started off by giving a quick monologue.  So the 3 of us gave a monologue based around pancakes.  Then, there was the first scene and so on.  I was able to invite the most friends…I needed to invite 6 to come and I wound up with 11!  And one of them was my older 1/2 sister who I recently got in contact with but met for the first time that night.

By the way, I can’t wait until I get to do more improv.

 

Brief Catch-up

Hello everyone who happens to come across my site.  I have a few things I’d like to mention.

My main computer that I use doesn’t let me open up the catagory list.  So I’m on another computer that does let me do so.  So I’m going to try and use all the catagories in one list here to get them to be able to appear.

I got 2 albums a couple of weeks ago.  They were Warren Zevon albums: Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School, and Sentimental Hygiene.  By the way, if you haven’t been able to tell yet, I’m a huge Warren Zevon fan.

Speaking of Warren Zevon, I’ve been reading his biography, the one by his ex-wife.  I’m a slow reader…but I enjoy it.

Between late December of last year and early June of this year, I was writing a story called Matthew of the IHOP Restroom.  This guy goes to IHOP at 3:30am and goes to the restroom but in stead of going into the restroom, he enters a poratl to the 18th Demension.  The general idea was in response to having read the book STARDUST after having seen the movie about 3 or 4 times.  Anyway, I’ve started writing a spin-off called Dan of a Bank on Metcalf.  Dan was a friend of Matthew who happens to be a loveable idiot…but he’s kind of a pervert when he’s drunk.  If you are interested in reading any of these stories, you can visit my myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/classic_rockaholic

Bruce Springsteen is still coming to town and I still don’t have tickets.  But whatever.  The day before, which is this coming Saturday, I will be performing in my first live improv show.  The place is called The Roving Imp.  It’s in Bonner Springs.  I will be performing a Chicago style Harold with a group of fellow improvers.  I’ve been taking the workshops there at the Roving Imp for about a month now and having the time of my life!

I finally got the licence plate for my Chevy Aveo this last Tuesday.  Good thing to.  The 30-day experation tag was up on Wednesday.  But I got the letter in the mail this week that I have to pay car tax…on my old car that I had to get rid of because of the hail storm.  Now I have to let the state know that I now own the Chevy Aveo.  But also this week, I’ll be going back up to KU for my last full year of classes.  I will be a graduate of the Unversity of Kansas (hopefully) by May ‘09…To give you some idea, I’ve been going to college since Aug. ‘02.  I’m ready to be out.

I found out a week ago that I have an older 1/2 sister.  I mean, I knew that I had 2 older half sisters but it was one of those things that I stuck in the back of my mind.  I’m an only child and I’ve been an only child for 25 years and almost 2 months.  Now, not just do I have sisters, but I’ve also been an uncle for the past 17 years.

I saw Mummy 3 this last Monday and really enjoied it.  I want to go see Tropic Thunder.  I made a comment in my workshop that I already know that Jack Black’s charicter would be the most like me.  They suggested I should see the movie first to make sure the charicter who is most like me ISN’T a rapist.  So, hopefully, he’s not.  I just assumed because I see a lot of myself in a lot of other Jack Black charicters.  But anyway…

Yeah, so this is an update.  I’m sorry if anyone comes along and reads this and thinks I tried to type the most I’ve ever typed for the sole purpose of having more people come to my site.  That is not my intention at all.  I just wanted to make sure I could use all my catagories in one post.

 

Concert…

I’m really wanting to see Bruce Springsteen in concert.  He’s coming to the new Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri.  But the tickets range from $135-$883.  I guess this is what happens when you are a famous singer with a major record label who sings for the blue collar worker…you have tickets that only white collar workers can afford…

Anyway, I’m a creative (fiction) writer.  All I can say is, if you can get me to the concert, I’ll make you the hero (or heroine) of my novel.  Or I’ll let you go with the option of having me never base a charicter off of you for the rest of my life.  It’s up to you…

I will settle for the $135 seats…