Chicago

Reflections on Second City

July 14, 2009

This is me, inside my head, on Second City. Not a reflection on anyone there, or the training, or any of that, but more just the nonsense that is going through my head and my self talk or something. This was brought on actually by the friend requests I’ve sent plus ones that I have [...]

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Messing with a Friend

July 3, 2009

We went to the theater on the lake – just north of my old apartment on Division street. Nice space, sorta warehouse like, but it is right on the shore of Lake Michigan. Saw improvised Shakespeare there. I was leary of going – didn’t know how it would be, but it turned out to be [...]

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Comedy Sportz Chicago

July 2, 2009

So like I said we went to see Comedy Sportz in Chicago and the shows were pretty good. How can you really complain when it’s free? Although free shit would still be shit. But this wasn’t shit, although we saw someone mime-ing throwing shit. not too funny. The first act we saw was “District 9″ [...]

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Comedy Sports

July 1, 2009

Heading out to a show at Comedy Sports Chicago tonight. Should be some interesting acts. Wednesdays are FREE! so if you are in the greater Chicagoland area, join me. 403 Belmont Ave. 8pm I’ll update this probably tomorrow and give a ‘review’ of sorts..

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The Annoyance

July 1, 2009

We went out to see a show last night at “The Annoyance” the two acts were Fish Nuts and Chicagoland. Chicagoland was interesting in that they were mostly women. We just got done hearing in class how male dominated comedy is, and it is, but here we were listening to this female ominated group. They [...]

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Early Morning – Chicago Hostel Observations

July 1, 2009

it was a crazy scene at breakfast this morning. Lots of activity busy busy busy. I got down to the cafeteria area on the second floor and a marching band from Ireland had just arrived and semi-took over the place. They just looked like a typical high school band but with slight variation. There was [...]

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Freeform writing

June 30, 2009

Writing class yesterday was interesting built up a scene by drilling down a location. Starting the class with freeform writing, so I thought I’d transcribe that here. some of it I already talked about on earlier posts. Basically we had to write non-stop for 15 minutes. ~~~~~~~~~~~ On the way to chicago we stopped for [...]

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In Chicago, Second City Awaits

June 28, 2009

We arrived in Chicago after a long road trip, twelve hours total driving time, plus a bit for stops, eats, etc. I got maybe an hours sleep but not really solid sleep. Sitting up, neck bent at an angle, looking like the trap under my kitchen sink, I can feel that kink now in the [...]

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Slumdog Millionaire & Return of the Amish Oracle

June 1, 2009

Last night we finally watched Slumdog Millionaire and I have to say I was not really impressed. Why was this film the darling of the Oscars? I’m not saying I didn’t like it, but it was just OK. On the bright side, I didn’t pay for the rental. Steph and Zack had friends spend the [...]

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Events in Comedy Improv History

March 30, 2009

Such an auspicious title. Hard to live up to that, now, init? So I won’t even try. We had a great decompression session last sunday (the 22nd) sat and talked for hours about what went right and wrong with the show on saturday night and we came away feeling pretty good. Not necessarily about the [...]

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