Del Close was cool as usual. Not the kid-on-Christmas feeling of years past, necessarily. But I worked a bunch and made some money. I didn't see that many shows but what I did see I enjoyed. Most years I'm completely burned out on improv for a week or so afterward but I think not OD'ing on shows prevented that and I'm actually pretty geeked about longform, the community, and life in general right now. Economic downturns are a bummer in just about every way but they've always been kind to New York art scenes. I'm gonna invest in leather jackets and European girlfriends with hard-to-pronounce names.
Also I haven't DJ-ed a UCB dance party in a minute and that was something else I was fairly burned out on that I completely fell in love with again last night. There was wrestling that broke up the nascent dance-floor so I took the opportunity to circulate and drink and when I came back the fights were tailing off and the upshot of everybody being on the stage already meant that people didn't have to make the decision to cross from the dark to the dancefloor, they were already there, so it was way easier to get them to stick around and move their nerd-bodies. Appel and Purnell were in the booth for a while, my UCB DJ godfathers, and that was fun. I played some new stuff and some soul and it all went over really well and it's always cool to have the whole North American longform improv scene in one place shaking they asses.
Also I get why people play house music now: the songs fade real easy into one another. Not to be reductive or anything.
Also also: Ne-Yo's "Closer" is fierce! Who knew he would end up being straight awesome?
Posted by DC at August 12, 2008 12:55 AM