looks like i’ll be participating in next semester’s improv shows as a member of the audience.
see you tomorrow, probably.
Author: briancollapsing
gulp.
back from the callback. doesn’t feel like i was as good as i needed to be. dammit.
this is where i fall back on my addiction to root beer to get me through the tough times. i know they keep telling me i should kick the habit, but i can’t imagine getting through nights like this without it. if you need be i’ll be knocking back a cold one.
(sad).
nervous nervous nervous nervous.
but i have to do some homework. nothing like some good old assignments to calm a guy down….huh?
i don’t think i get nervous about almost anything anymore, and i’m guessing because there really aren’t that many things i care enough about to want to do really well at, which would cause me to be nervous about my own performance. i get semi-nervous going to interviews but i can’t say i really care much about those generally.
this is a good feeling though in a way, because at least i know i still care about something. i worry sometimes that i’m getting too apathetic and cynical over time and nothing really gets to me any more. but then something like this comes along and i get all queasy and anxious, and reassured that it’s possible for things to penetrate the tough exterior (not muscular tough, don’t get me wrong) every once in a while.
i just need something fresh to give me that sort of jolt, you know?
so i got a callback tonight, and go to round two of tryouts tomorrow (sunday) at 4. wish me luck.
and we went to norm’s, a diner type place on la cienega, for dinner tonight to get out of the apartment, and if you’re thinking of going there, well, just be careful. you’ll leave feeling awfully weighed down. the soup was pretty good though and our waitress was really friendly, but on the way home we were all sort of groaning. some might say that’s what diner’s are all about though. plus, the slogan on the front of the menu was “exceeding expectations since 1949”, which we all agreed wasn’t a very positive thing to see on a menu. does this mean norm’s is fully aware of how little we expected out of them and are proud they can at least do better than that? it just seemed sorta sad. and more so because, upon leaving, i at least have to say they didn’t exceed my expectations as they did meet them exactly. i suspected the place would be a diner with average-quality food, and it was.
i think i exceeded my stomach’s expectations of the amount of greasy food it should be given though, so i’m going to go lie down.
since i know everyone is on the edge of their seat wondering, the tryout last night went definitely pretty okay. that’s about as specific as i can get. i felt good about it, but maybe that’s just because it was fun, not because it was what they were looking for necessarily. compared to the competition, i think i have at least a decent chance of getting a callback. i’ll find out tonight.
last night after the tryout, i went out to dinner with my girlfriend at downtown disney. we were going to see the musketeer, but earlier yesterday i first heard from a friend that it was disappointing, then read some reviews that said it was flat out terrible, so we decided to save the eight bucks. instead we went to a restaurant called “naples” where i had an okay but not great calzone. i wasn’t that impressed with downtown disney or that restaurant, but i had a really good time anyway because i was with my pal.
nothing but maybe homework on tap for today, except a fat bowl of cereal right now cause i’m a hungry bear.
crazy blogger. i posted last night and it doesn’t show up until right now. sorry for the delay.
went to classes, ran some errands, sent some mail, now i’m in the weekend zone. i’m nervous about the improv tryouts this afternoon though. i just want to do well so strongly, because it’d be so much fun to be a part of the group. so i’m all jumpy right now and don’t have much of anything to do with that energy. maybe i should go run some laps. maybe i should stand in front of a mirror and practice being someone else. and being funny. could always use more practice at that.
i think the best i’ll end up doing is reading a book though until then. all the same, wish me luck!
i made a new mixtape tonight. tonight being thursday night. it’s a lot of fun and because of that, i’m oddly looking forward to the ten-minute skateboard-commute to school tomorrow morning, so i can road-test it. for some reason music on cassettes only sounds good to me through headphones or car stereos, but not nearly as good through the tape deck in my room. the very one i made the mix tape with, that is. it’s a mysterious pheomenon.
listening to goddamnit, a cd i haven’t put in for at least a few weeks i think, which is odd considering it’s probably one of my favorites. the plea for peace tour is coming through LA in the next couple weeks and part of me wants to see the matt skiba acoustic set that’s part of the line up (and another part of me wants to see hot water music go insane on stage like they did last time i saw them), but the other part of me would rather use the 20 or so bucks it would cost to get tickets through the Man to just buy a couple new cd’s or something. it seems like more value.
i am going to see burning airlines next friday though, which excites me. mmm mmm that’s some good rock and roll right there. my mouth is watering just thinking about it.
so now i’ll probably get my pillow all wet. oh well. good night!
wow, sorry i didn’t post at all yet today. workday readers must have missed me.
but i just haven’t been at my computer today. spent the morning sleeping late, then i wrote a letter (on real paper, not email) to a friend of mine. had to gobble some taquitos then go to four hours of class. now i’m back though and posting away.
oh, i also found out that i’m getting a prime time college radio time slot this semester. monday nights from 7 to 9 pm pacific time, you can’t stop the rock. that’ll be me broadcast via AM radio and live on the internet. the semester’s programming doesn’t start for a few more weeks, so there’s no real reason to link the page this early on, but i will just for celebratory reasons. being a dj at KSCR radio is fun. start thinking up requests now because picking all the songs myself isn’t very exciting.
what else . . . tryouts for the school improv company are this weekend. freshman year i tried out and that was it. last year i tried out, got a callback, and that was it. so since i made it to the final dozen but not actually onto the team last year, this year i’m going all the way. well, not necessarily but i’m sure gonna try. come on, i’m a funny guy.
(not to be judged by the content of this weblog).
from the family guy i just finished watching:
“does the idea of a geocentric universe give you a hard-on!?”
“sir, yes sir!”
“do you want to make 16th century mathematician johannes keplar your bitch!?”
“sir, yes sir!”
oh my god why can’t more television make me laugh so much. and include references to the age of enlightenment. (or late rennaissance maybe? see, it’s even ever so slightly over MY head, which is something i almost never have to worry about with tv, believe it or not.)
i love that show.
in other news, i found out — over a week after interviewing and repeated “i’ll get back to you by the end of the day tomorrow” emails — that i didn’t get job #1, but that just means i get to take the easier job with no dress code instead. good enough for me. my only problem was that the man who interviewed me, in the most recent email, said “if you don’t hear from me by midday tomorrow, go ahead and take the other offer” instead of saying “we went with another candidate, sorry” or something straighforward. the only reason i found out for sure is that i bumped into him on the way to one of my business classes today. i can’t say i’m upset at not getting it, but i’m just disappointed in the lack of courtesy in being so roundabout in saying “we aren’t hiring you”. people are so weird sometimes.
speaking of which, i’m going to read about a psycho killer now.
good morning!
keep this under wraps, but a very respectably sized box of goodies is leaving los angeles for australia before 5pm today. i won’t tell you who it’s for, but see if you can guess.
but look at me, off to class i go to learn about jainism! better get going so i’m not late, and try not to step on any bugs on the way…