Some guy I made up: "Martha, why is it taking so long to download Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 3?"
Martha (whom I also made up): "I don't know. By the way, who's that creepy guy sitting in our driveway?"
First Guy: "I'm not sure. Hey, be a dear, and hand me that gun."
Anyways, this past Saturday was our (Steven, Trent and myself) first improv show. We were a little nervous, I know I was at least. Doing improv with an audience is interesting, because there is NOTHING planned. At least in plays or stuff there is a script to go off of, so as long as you know your shit, you can at least blame the material if it sucks. We managed to pull our shit together right as we were getting introduced (by our new friend Ron, who was in "Zombie Attack!" and will be returning later in this story) and we took the stage.
See, the thing about the format that we were doing, the Harold, is that it is normally done with 6 to 8 performers. Well, we have 11 in our class. That makes it pretty hard to keep 11 people all on the same page. Luckily, we managed to work together and we actually pulled off a pretty good first show. We had alot of people there in the audience, so that was pretty cool. It gave me a little more confidence in myself as a performer to know that I didn't just freeze up under pressure. Not that I ever really thought that might be the case, but it's always good to know for sure.
Like I said though, it is hard to do a Harold with 11 people, so some people got a little more play than others, but everybody got to do stuff. Out of the three of us, Steven was definitely onstage the most, in a hilarious scene with Craig Zeiss (whom you will soon know as Ron from "Of Rats and Men") and Kelley Roark (due some unfortunate incident, was cut from ORAM). I gotta say (even though it fills me with udder hate) Steven was getting a lot of laughs. Homeboy was killing it. It is really hard to explain an imrov scene, it's kind of like a "You had to be there..." story, but the best part about his scenes, were him slipping in and out of a gay accent as he was trying to hide the fact that he is gay from his mom... and Craig played his boyfriend... Need I say more... OK... I will... It was AWESOME!!!
So, after our show, we definitely stuck around. If you haven't been to Relapse Theatre, for shame. That's a bunch of really funny people who know how to have a good time. After us, there was like 6 or 7 other teams playing, including the aforementioned Craig Zeiss and our current improv teacher, Jay Revis and their brand new show, "The Condition." Hysterical, that's all I can say.
After a night filled with funny shows and hanging out with Ron and some people from our class, we headed back to KREJ HQ, with Ron in tow. And proceeded to throw down. We hung out til around 4:30 drinking and talking shop, future projects and whatnot. Definitely a very fun night. Ron is an extremely hilarious dude. Check out his YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/user/drmagoo18 Dude was in an official adult swim commercial.
Now to another potentially fun thing. We're currently working on added stuff to our website. "Zombie Attack!" is gonna be going up soon (on the blog first, then to the video section of the site), we (Kaminski and I at least) are trying to make a conscious effort to blog more (hard, in my current broke ass state), we're talking new features, and there might even be some "Tim and Katie" action coming soon. Another thing we're working on is podcasts. We've been talking about a KREJ podcast for a while, and once we get a shedule down, it's coming, but the podcast that me and Trent have been working on with our friend Luke Brayden might be out sooner. We don't have a name yet, but we're working on it. Make sure to check in for that very soon.
And I mentioned "Zombie Attack!" earlier, and tomorrow is the day. At some point tomorrow, the first part of the 7 part series will go up. So, check back here every five minutes tomorrow until it goes up, then watch it 30 or 40 times, in a row, and then post links to them on your Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Blogspot, Myspace, Xanga, Gaia, and every other social networking site in existence (if you don't have some of these, create an account) and tell all of your friends and/or break into their house and write it on their calenders. And you'll have to do that every Tuesday and Wednesday for the next 3 weeks. Have fun kids.
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-Grantzy
P.S. Oh, and my cousin Josh (from Tim and Katie) was this close* to getting a tattoo of Homestar Runner on his ass. But the tattoo gun stopped working. Shitty.
*I'm holding my index finger and thumb roughly a centimeter and a half apart.
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