Living a Dream

Like I said, I now wake up every day and think about how I want to be famous. Like most people, I watch television, and I see people on TV and think; "I could do that." So instead of sitting around and thinking about how I should be doing something, I've recently had the gumption to go after it a little bit. My first inclination was to maybe try out for one of my Aunt Barbie's plays. She directs plays at local theaters and they are almost always very entertaining. What appeals to me even more is that she directs plays that are incredibly light-hearted and funny. Funny, again, is something of a recurring theme in my life. However, after discussing this option a little bit with my mom and even bringing it up to my grandparents, nobody seemed to have any comment as to how I would go about that, so it sort of shifted to the back-burner. Instead, I did what any person of my generation would...I turned to the internet . I hit Craigslist and various newspapers to see if the...

One of the things I mentioned in the preface was stand-up comedy. I know that I'm a pretty funny guy, but I also know that for the most part, I don't think like a comedian. I'm funny when I tell stories to my friends because they know the parties involved - sometimes they are the parties involved, but that's another story. So the seed had been planted long ago to at least give stand-up a shot of some sort. I recall freshman year in college discussing how to get started in stand-up with a guy named Josh Wade, who performed at Marietta College. He basically just said you have to go for it...find open-mic nights and just start trying. Over time I had slowly gathered a little bit of material. There wasn't really a theme to much of it, which is dangerous. I watched enough stand-up that I realized that the good acts have something tying most of the jokes together, and even if they aren't together, there's at least an absurd segue into the unrelated joke. I had e...

Those of you reading this most likely know me, and I base that on the fact that not a whole lot of people will likely read this. However, the dream includes people knowing me, so I have to entertain the notion that at some point, people will come back to this to get a peek at what the process involved. Have you ever woken up one day and thought "wow...I want to be famous?" You most likely have, and thought about it while you sat in bed in those precious moments between the alarm sounding and when you actually have to get out of bed. Those really are precious moments; the last ones before you fall asleep and the first ones after you wake up. For whatever reason, you think more clearly - I bought a laptop so it was easier for me to write down some of the things I thought about before I went to bed - and sometimes it seems like like really comes into focus during these times. Anyway, I've been fascinated by comedy and things of that nature for a long time. My mom remembers m...