Yesterday, I left work early. All of my coworkers were going to play Demolition Ball as some sort of reward/team building exercise. Because 1) I am not officially part of the department, 2) I am quitting, and 3) my boss was gone yesterday (and is gone today), I was not invited to go play so I took the afternoon off. I eventually got an invitation to go play, but I had plans to meet Janine and Gabe and head over to Bloomington, IL to test out the new stage at the Castle, where the FunnyBone now resides.
The trip was pretty fun, and I'm not just saying that because Janine and Gabe read my blog. The ride up was fun, though I almost killed us once, and we talked shop, worked on a couple of jokes and generally just shot the bull. When we arrived in Bloomington, we ate at a place called the PotBelly, where they served very good sub sandwiches and pretzels and mr. pibb. At the Funnybone, teh opening order was me, Janine, Gabe then Rick Gutierrez. My set was good (so said Janine and Gabe) but I wanted to work on some re-written porn material and I should have done my Halloween stuff. Janine had a good set, as did Gabe, though when he was finished the emcee was nowhere around, so after a bit of empty-stage time, Gabe brought Ricki up.
The sound system was weird, very loud. I could really hear myself on stage, and it kind of threw me; I'm still not entirely used to hearing myself speak through a sound system (and not even close to hearing myself on audio or video). After the show, Don said would like Janine, Gabe and I to come up more often and open in the Springfield and Bloomington clubs, which would be really cool. I really want to start getting 10 to 15 minute sets more often so that featuring won't seem like such a scary ordeal.
Anyway I didn't get in until about 1:00am, so I'm running on even less sleep than normal and don't have much else to write about.
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