2 posts tagged “i.o (formerly imporov olympic)”

The thing I've always heard about Marilyn Monroe was that men wanted to fuck her and women wanted to be her.  I've always wanted to be like that.  It would be so cool to be that person who generates conversation, good or bad with everyhing they say, do or wear. I have always wanted to be popular.  Who hasn't ?

For example, last night, I went to this  beach party at io, ( formerly Improv Olympic), the place where I recently started taking improv classes.  Before the party, I saw TJ and Dave, a show they have there. My plan was to come to the show alone.  I wanted to be that cool chick sitting at the back of the room sipping her cocktail and comtemplating the night events with an air of sophistication never seen before in a level one improv student. That bastard usher sat me alone in the front row.  My evil plan was foiled.  Now, I fear everyone in the improv scene knows I am not that cool chick.  After the show I talked to a guy named Sam who served my drinks at a show the other night.  I wasn't trying to get with him,  I just wanted to be social, but felt I was failing misaberably.  When I got home, and replayed the night in my head, I caught myself practically humping this poor man's leg and begging for scraps of friendship and approval. I was awakend in the night was flashbacks of me projecting, " Please like me.  Please let me be your friend." to this Sam person.  Instead of Marilyn Monroe I came across more like Screech from " Saved By the Bell."   The positive thing about this is that I am not popular.  Nobody really knows me in that improv scene and what played out in my head as a disaster most likely didn't hit the radar of anyone who'd otherwise be recruiting me to perform on SNL right now. Anonymity does have it's perks. 

The TJ and Dave show was the most brilliant live improvisation show I have ever seen.  The character work and scene deatails were so precise, one would think the show had been rehearsed and perfected for months, not created on the spot with an audence suggestion.  This makes me look at improv in a whole new way.  I was amazed. Now I know why this show sells out all of the time. 

I'd write more, but it is a gorgeous day and I do not want to waste all of it in front of this computer.

The thing I've always heard about Marilyn Monroe was that men wanted to fuck her and women wanted to be her.  I've always wanted to be like that.  It would be so cool to be that person who generates conversation, good or bad with everyhing they say, do or wear. I have always wanted to be popular.  Who hasn't ?

For example, last night, I went to this  beach party at io, ( formerly Improv Olympic), the place where I recently started taking improv classes.  Before the party, I saw TJ and Dave, a show they have there. My plan was to come to the show alone.  I wanted to be that cool chick sitting at the back of the room sipping her cocktail and comtemplating the nights events with an air of sophistication never seen before in a level one improv student. That bastard usher sat me alone in the front row.  My evil plan was foiled.  Now, I fear everyone in the improv scene knows I am not that cool chick.  After the show I talked to a guy named Sam who served my drinks at a show the other night.  I wasn't trying to get with him,  I just wanted to be social, but felt I was failing misaberably.  When I got home, and replayed the night in my head, I caught myself practically humping this poor man's leg and begging for scraps of friendship and approval. I was awakend in the night was flashbacks of me projecting, " Please like me.  Please let me be your friend." to this Sam person.  Instead of Marilyn Monroe I came across more like Screech from " Saved By the Bell."   The positive thing about this is that I am not popular.  Nobody really knows me in that improv scene and what played out in my head as a disaster most likely didn't hit the radar of anyone who'd otherwise be recruiting me to perform on SNL right now. Anonymity does have it's perks. 

The TJ and Dave show was the most brilliant live improvisation show I have ever seen.  The character work and scene deatails were so precise, one would think the show had been rehearsed and perfected for months, not created on the spot with an audence suggestion.  This makes me look at improv in a whole new way.  I was amazed. Now I know why this show sells out all of the time. 

I'd write more, but it is a gorgeous day and I do not want to waste all of it in front of this computer.