Speaking of improv, I want more improv during the week…even if I’m not involved and just an audience member.  It’s all on the weekend for me and by the time Monday and Tuesday roll around, I get all depressed/angry/irritable/fill in the blank.

Other news, I went to the doctor today for my wrist which has been hurting like (choose your own euphemism here) and as it turns out, I’ve got a slight tendinitis.  So the doctor decided to give me some Celebrex.  He was about to prescribe me something but I asked if it would cause my ulcer to flare up (I’ve had 3 bleeding ulcers between Oct. 30th 2004 and Easter Day 2006 and would like to avoid that risk…which includes leaving out foods that have a hint of spice, pepper, acid, and drinks that contain caffeine or alcohol).  He decided to go with the Celebrex to be on the safe side saying it wouldn’t do that…but the label on there says it has that potential…but apparently if taken too long.  Hopefully, my wrist heals up quickly.

Anyway, I’ll see in time how things work out.

That night, I went to see the continuation of the Roving Imp 2 year anniversary called Kingdom of the Crystal Imp.  But since there were about 10 people in the audience and about 4 performers, it wound up being an Improv Jam.  Then, for the long form, it was decided for everyone who was present who was involved with the show last weekend would be on stage for the long form of Prequel.  The show was followed by Dictionary Soup.  I got to see a time machine made out of a toilet!

Saturday was improv workshop and then that night was Red Rubber Ball and Biblioclast.  Red Rubber Ball is a group that starts out with one of my favorite formats I’ve seen which is living room.  The group gets 1 word from the audience and takes off on a conversation that starts with the suggestion and goes who knows where before the end of the show.  (Not in the show, but the idea would be the audience gives the word “chair” and they take off and by the end of the living room stuff, they’re talking about the difference between swallows).  In the middle of this “living room discussion”, they do scenes based upon what was just said.  The second half of the show was Plu-Run (pronunciation, but I don’t know about spelling).  This is a 2 person scene per actor.  There are combinations that involve each one have stage time with the other improvers…They are usually all the same characters.  At 9 it was Biblioclast.  The piece of work they used for their main story line, which was chosen by me, was Man of La Mancha.  Next month, they will be using Jurassic Park, also chosen by me. (For the record, I wasn’t the only one to give suggestions this time and only 4 of mine have been chosen).

Today is Easter.  Just for the record, I didn’t dress up for church.  I wore a hoodie.  It was too cold to dress up…I actually don’t dress up a whole lot anyway…I’ve only just recently started wearing ties for shows that I’ve been in at the Roving Imp…the ones that I’ve known about.  I really don’t like dressing up.

This coming weekend, I will be working box-office at the Roving Imp on both Friday and Saturday nights.  But they’re not doing improv because a good few of them will be in Chicago.  So instead on both Friday and Saturday night, I’m working box-office for a show called FAT.  It’s a one woman show writen by and starring Martha Maggio.

Look for more coming up soon…

Anyway, I’ve been doing my Improv at The Roving Imp in Bonner Springs, Kansas.  I missed the show in December I was supposed to be in because I was sick.  But January I was able to be in it.  Also in January, John who owns the Roving Imp came up with a new group of shows called Improv Survivor.  After seeing the show in January, I got cased in the Improv Survivor for February and March.  Also in February and March, I had the class show and both days, it snowed the day OF the show both months.  Of course, in February, the snow ended by about 12:15pm.  This last Saturday, it began to snow around that time.
(wait a minute, it’s Spring now!  What the heck!)
Good news, the show went on.  We only had 3 audiance members but it worked.  It continued on with Omega Directive.  This is a group that has a show from 9-10:30/45 aprox.  The first one involves someone iPod/mp3 Player.  The second part involves the plots of 2 original series Star Trek episode thrown into story line.

Anyway, this coming Saturday is the 2 year anniversary.  This year, the show is based off of the Indiana Jones movies.  The show this Saturday is called Raiders of the Lost Imp.  The following Friday is Kingdom of the Crystal Imp.  I’m in the one on this coming Saturday.  We have some new short form games called The God of Kali Ma (or just Kali Ma, I don’t remember).  This is based off of Temple of Doom with the cult somehow involving Hindu.  The game is, if you’re given a liquid (suggested by the audience) you become evil.  If you’re given something that causes pain (also from the audience) you become good.  The other game is Last Crusade.  In the game, you’re trying to find an ancient object and you’re looking for clues on how to find the object.  Finally, we’re doing a long form game called “Prequel”.  The idea of Prequel is that we start a story at chapter 10.  We continue on to Chapter 20 or so.  Then, we go back to chapter 1 and lead up to chapter 10.
Don’t quite understand what I’m talking about?  You’ll have to come to the Roving Imp at 115 Oak St. in Bonner Springs, Kansas this Saturday April 4th at 7pm.

Beyond that, I had my Spring Break 2 weeks ago in which I got the doors on my car electric locks.  Now I can unlock it with a remote keyless entry device.  Also, the Sunday at the beginning of Spring Break, my family and I went to the New Theatre Restaurant and saw a show that was a piece of crap called HATS that was supposed to be special because it had a woman from Three’s Company.  HATS, I thought, could suck it because the main charicter in the story, her conflict was that she was going to be 50 in a little over an hour…oh poor her.  Her mother and mother’s friends try to get her to join the Red Hat Society and telling about stuff that they’ve put up with in their life…and they only talked about it…they couldn’t show it, they just talked about it.  I very desperately wanted to shout out “SHOW ME THAT!  Anyway, the show sucked a lot.  The following Sunday, we went to Metcalf South (wish it were a) Mall to see the Martin City Meladrama and Valdville Company @ Metcalf South Mall show.  It was called Valdville Vixins and was way better.

Okay, and that said, I have a month and a half left before graduation from KU and I’m hoping to not get sick anymore and not miss anymore because I’ve already reached my limit in most of my classes.

I will be updating this more often than I have been.

Okay, well, I know I’m going to try my best to come on here more often and actually leave something that has potential to be meaningful to some.

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.

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.

The movie starts with the Joker (played by the now late Heath Ledger) robbing a bank and killing off his hinch men 1by1 as the job gets finished.  When Batman first shows up, he’s got to stop the Scarecrow from doing something scarey (because Scarecrow had escaped from the Assylum or something and can think of nothing better to do than to scare people).  Rachel who was played by Katie Holmes in the first movie was now played by Maggie Gyllenhaal (which is a plus in my opinion…if I had a list of actresses who were total hotties, she’d be towards the top…plus she was never in Dawson’s Creek…or converted to scientology… enough said).  But in this movie, she’s dating politician Harvey Dent played by Aaron Eckhart…you can guess what that will lead to before the movie is even half over (it was very long…)  Anyway, Bruce is jellious…obviuosly.  But he’s Batman so he’s busy trying to stop the Joker from making a joke out of killing people.
This is the movie in a nutshell.  I seem to ironically decided to give more of a joke review but seriously, that is the plot line of the movie.  But besides the fact that the movie is long (and a few other issues that I won’t go into) I really liked this movie…a whole lot better than Batman Begins.  I don’t know if it’s the best movie I’ve seen all summer, but it’s pretty close.  The only thing I wish is that Heath Ledger hadn’t gotten so much into his charicter that it wound up bringing him down to the point where he needed theropy.  He was dedicated to his role to a fault and if it turns out he won’t even get nominated for an oscar for the role, I’ll be pissed at the Acadamy…but I usually don’t agree with the acadamy anyway…we’ll see how that turns out.

My Chevy Malibu got “totaled” in a hail storm we had back on July 2nd. We got some golf ball sized hail (my grandma will try and call it tennis ball sized. I didn’t actually see this size but I don’t doubt it completely). It was totaled because the cost to repair is greater than 75% of the value of the car. So I was given the option to either keep my car, get about $2K for it and loose most of my insurance…or I could sell my car to the insurance company, get $4K for it and keep my insurance.

I sold my car but with the understanding that I had a week or so to get a new car (I was given a week back on the 11th.) So here’s the car that I got… A summit-white 2005 Chevy Aveo LS. It’s like a box with an engine and I love this. It’s small. Also, I get 34mpg on the highway. I’m trying to upload pics but my computer won’t seem to let me…

Anyway, I’ve also become a hypothetical member of an improv group called Hypothetical 7. I’m a member but I have to take some coaching before I can actually perform with them. I’m taking workshops on Saturday to get up to speed with where I should be in order to perform with them.

Oh, and I just bought my first mp3 player today.

“It’s a big book with lots of great stuff in it.”

This is my favorite review of the book and also the one I hate the most. I just can’t get over the fact that if I had written those words, not just would it have never gotten published but it would look like, after attempting to read it, they never finished but they just wanted to say something nice about it because they were on deadline. That’s all I have to say about that…

I have more I want to say but I’ll get to that later…