Every year, shortly after the Oscars, the Los Angeles Stand Up Comedy Community gathers together to put on an award show to honor and poke fun of itself. The jokes are pitched on the inside. Comics don formal wear, and we hand out awards fashioned from foam and coffee cups (representing the many coffee houses we all perform in out here).
We call the awards the SCOOMIE awards, which stands for Southern California Organization Of Open MIc Entertainers. (Yeah, the I is kind of awkward.)
I'm performing stand up comedy tonight at Bricks in Santa Barbara at 10 p.m. with fellow comedian and artist, Brett Gilbert . A big thank you to Stu Barron and Donna Grayson, who subscribed to my YouTube channel.
Next Tuesday is the SCOOMIE awards. I'll tell you more about it soon.
I'm living the LA artist life officially now. I'm camped out on a couch at my sister's place and completely loving it. I've got a show this Saturday at The Fake Gallery, it's with my friend, Nosmo King, and its called Nosmo King's Mix Tape: 4319 Melrose Ave.(cross street Hyperion), in LA. Cover is $5.
I realized after I finished this video that I forgot to thank my friend Massimiliano for subscribing so I'll have to say thank you in the next video, but to make up for being late, I put it in the headline. :)
My flight leaves Monday. It's two days of travel, but with the dateline I'll arrive on Tuesday. My vlog video blog things details the excitement and elaborate prep plans. Plus very special thank yous.
Our comedian on a comeback adventure continues with more people joining the Comeback Camp. I had my second to the last physical therapy session today. My last is Tuesday. I have about a week and a couple of days before going back to Los Angeles. I'm excited and scared. I'm worried about having to stand in long lines. I may actually let them push me around in the wheelchair. Traveling is so stressful as it is. I have to take a plane from Dumaguete to Cebu, Cebu to Manilla, Manilla to Taipei, (my Mom travels with me until Taipei) and then I go to Los Angeles. The flight from Taipei to Los Angeles is about 13 hours by itself. The entire trip will take over two days. I try not to think of my fragile spine and airline seats.
So this entry is more literally about the coming back part of my Los Angeles/Hollywood, stand-up comedy, comeback. Excitement mounts. Thrills ensue. Procrastination of packing has already begun.
But a good point:
I am a passenger who needs special assistance so I get to board the plane early. Whoop! Whoop! Ghetto first class y'all. Whoop! Whoop!
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This is a poem of gratitude, I wrote for my first two YouTube subscribers. It's a haiku in the loosest definition of the term:
Obscureness minus
two new subscribers equals
a grateful comic.
I get the hype factor thing that I'm supposed to pretend like I'm wildly popular and blah, blah, blah. But I'm just a regular person who loves writing and
performing stand-up comedy, and I am actually grateful to any audience. There was a time when I wasn't. I let the bitterness that can be pervasive in the stand-up world suck away my joy. But I would like to believe those days are behind me. Many of my so-called worst gigs have graced me with my fondest memories, and even some of the smallest gigs have had the best crowds. Don't get me wrong. I would still love to play for packed houses. But, I've performed comedy shows in comedy clubs, coffee house and even laundromats and many of my favorite shows ever were for an audience of fewer than twelve and my fellow comedians. I leave for Los Angeles in a little under two weeks. There is a million things to do, and I'm slightly nervous and incredibly excited and grateful to be able to do the "stand" part in stand-up again. Life does not give everybody second chances. I am very grateful to have one.
Would you, and by you I mean mythical readers in the future, like a poem of gratitude dedicated to you? Well all you have to do is subscribe to my blog via the feedburner link in the upper left hand corner and drop me a comment saying you did. Then wait for your personal shout out and gratitude poem to appear in my video blog vlog thingy. Then you can consider that your official welcome aboard on my rocket ship to celebrity or even better the ability to have a career successful enough so I can afford health insurance. :)
OMG, I just realized the syllables are way off in what I read in the video. That's like not even a haiku. So I re-wrote it. It really is the thought that counts.
Comedian Dane Cook has sold out Madison Square Garden and reached over one million MySpace friends. If that excites you, angers you, or flat out makes you depressed then you need to watch this.
Also, I give shout out to the people in my family who love me. You may notice that absence of my Dad. He loved me, but he died around ten years ago. Okay, I know that's a bummer.
One vital of the car accident tips, I forgot to put in the video blog vlog thing. Have your car just slightly nick a third car. The car who hit you will be found responsible BUT the third-party will double as your witness. My witnesses were AWESOME. Thanks guys if you're out there. Okay so here are some of the more awesome and fun details from my car accident. Feel free to use them if you like.
A few clarifying points:
• Not being able to feel my face is one of the symptoms of my anxiety attacks.
• When I say I want to be just famous enough to get health insurance, what I mean is being known well enough as a comedian to warrant performing in enough of the better comedy rooms, colleges and corporate gigs to afford health insurance.
• For some reason conditioner is not readily available on this island in the Philippines and since I've been spending too much time alone for ten months, well--there's no real excuse for the hair.
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