August 01, 2005
Tony Pierce says you get more hits if you post pictures of your fine ass (see also: Alecia). And I lost my camera battery charger a couple months ago and haven't remembered to get another one, so taking it-seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time drunk pictures of myself on the toilet (see also: Alecia) has been difficult.
Luckily, my boys and I have to publicize a show. So:
Donald is left, dude is center, Dominic is right. For those of you keeping score at home, Donald and I are still wearing our Del Close Marathon bracelets, and in all the other versions of the top photo you can see the big ink stain on my pants I had no idea was there. Classy!
Derrick is a Hammerkatz side project. We booked a show in Atlanta at The Push Push Theater, which was founded by Donald's old drama teacher. It's the first weekend in October and we're getting (gasp!) paid. It should be a fun/weird time visiting Donald's old high school haunts. Okay, no one actually has haunts except for characters in Teen NBC shows. I didn't go into a "juice bar" once in the duration of my high school career.
Alison will have to be coerced to make the trip from Athens to see our show.
The Biggie thing was fun. Thanks to Mike Keenan from NZ (now working in Scotland) who Paypalled a dude twenty dollars because he liked the stories so much. I will either put the money towards an Achewood hoody (black to complete the B.I.G. theme) or two Chipoltle burritos. Clearly the money will be put to good use either way.
Because I have a hard-on for saying I'll do stuff like this, I'll probably write 3-5 more Biggie-inspired stories and make them into a lil' book which I then print out and staple together. I might actually do it, too. I have a vision for a "Free Stuff Table" at all the NYU Hammerkatz shows this year, where there's a bunch of cultural products made by the cast you can just take. Donald's albums, my EP (which is legitimately in the works...one of the beats samples Sufjan Stevens! We are at Indie Defcon-5, here, people!), the Biggie book, that poetry collection I talked about and WROTE but never got around to, like, printing out and stapling, anything else anybody has. Naturally a tipjar you can drop a couple bucks into, if you so chose, so we can take that money and buy beers and stand in the corner doing bits at the party later, drinking said beers.
Speaking of free and Hammerkatz NYU, we ordered WAY too many t-shirts for this same Orientation show we've got coming up when we did it last year, and in all the wrong sizes, so we still have about 150 t-shirts chillin' in Donald's closet. We're going to give them all the fuck away at the orientation show. I'm so excited. Considering I assume my life to be indebted to anyone who gives me a free T-shirt, I imagine we will be able to recruit ourselves a nice little Secret Service out of the people we apparel up.
And to keep the "comedians talking about comedy" theme going, I cleaned up the sidebar. I added a whole big list of blogs of NY comedy-scene folks, mostly UCB people, as well as some friends-of-Hkatz groups. These are links you can trust. I suggest you use them. You could probably kill a day or two at work.
Also, I cleaned up the AZ links. A lot of broken ones work now. If I forgot you, please remind me.
As of last night, the lyric-inspired-entry gauntlet has been passed to Trevor. His challenge is to write a week's worth of entries inspired by Nas' Illmatic. And after that, he has to pass it on and challenge somebody else. You've got to make your own fun in this world.
Posted by DC at August 1, 2005 02:08 AM