We had our 2nd anniversary party on Friday. It was great … and Ryan took a bunch of wonderful pictures — check them out.
George I think wins for look of the night — so that means Deanna wins since she bought his shirt — here’s a triptych of delight:
A big box of what-have-you: music we love, music we made, and anything else musically notable. ]]>
Photos from Jorin’s Treo 600. ]]>
Rob airs his grievances. ]]>
As the action figure generation hits the age where everyone has a decent job, and maybe not a real direction for spending income, the collectible and specialized toy market blossoms. And winds up producing some pretty weird stuff. ]]>
There’s so much neat odd stuff in this big crazy world!
When I first started taking classes at iO, my level one instructor (Charna Halpern) asked us all what we were reading. Those of us that happened to be carrying a book shared it with the class. Sadly, I was carrying around this. Even more sadly, it wasn’t even a very interesting book after the cover and the general concept.
But the inherent idea to the question I think is a really important one to improvisors — we should know things, or want to learn about things. And it really can be anything, it’s just good to have an appetite for learning stuff, I think. It lets us, particularly in Harold show openings and games, create interesting metaphors, and paint more unique pictures, and generally have ways to get from interesting item A to interesting item B.
And so, with Ride the Wild Wave, I’m going to talk about some things I think are sort of fascinating. If there’s an improv application, great, I’d be thrilled if something made it into somebody’s opening because it was an interesting read here.
But mostly I just want to offer some ideas up that I’ve run into that make me go: wow, that’s pretty neat or weird or magnetic … hopefully if you’re reading, you’ll agree …
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This is what we think!
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Optimash Prime Mr. Potato Head ]]>
Ryan took some pictures of the trip, so that’s great. George brought his camera, and took no pictures. ]]>
This is the first one I’ve finished up, it’s just based on the pseudonym we use when we play at the Cornservatory, and I started wondering what the story might be behind such a character. I will not include the accompanying two minute faux greek mythology spoken word piece.
[you may have to crank it — I don’t have home mastering … mastered … so it has a decent mix-down, but may not be, by default, loud enough to satisfy your rock needs]
… oh, and, yes,
Shake What the Fire Baked
is on the way sometime. I’ve got the lyrics written + the melody sketched out. It’s about a 1930s asylum that burns down while all the patients just dance. I’m trying to channel George as much as possible.
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