Laredo

Ive gotten better at budgeting, by that I mean I do all my grocery shopping at the 99 cent store. Well almost all my groceries save for beer, lunch-meat and milk. Theres something about Dollar Store milk that still puts me off. Hopefully with the money I save I can buy an iPad2. It was announced earlier this month. What really made me look twice at it that with it you can edit videos on it. I need something cheap and easy to use to edit all my comedy and sketch video I got ideas for. Id like to get it as soon as possible but I gotta be all responsible n shit. Like pay bills, that stuff is way overrated.

Laredo happened, went there with Danny Ingle. The day started off pretty easy, after not getting too much sleep I get to work to cancel class, because only one lady showed. So I went home caught up on some sleep picked up the feature and went down south. We made good time we got there in about 2 and half hours.

They treated us great. The promoter paid us before we shook hands. I could get used to this. Usually after shows, you gotta wait, its awkward like "Hey we don't do this for free". and "Can we leave now, wink, wink, nudge, nudge...". The fed us too, with a crap load of Rudy's Barbecue, that we also got to take with us after the show. I'm still nibbling on bits and pieces 3 days later. We hung and I watched and listened to the two older comics swap war stories, and road gigs they've done together. I always dig hanging out with comics hearing about other comics that I look up too. It's cool hearing the "Behind the Scenes" stuff that you don't see on their Tv specials.

The show was fun, the crowd was a little older and kinda tight. There as a intermission before I went on stage. It was kinda starting with a fresh crowd. I know it wasn't my best set ever but I had fun. I was trying to feel them out of what kinda stuff they wanted to hear. I went dirty, maybe too dirty for some of em. I pulled the reigns back and went with my regular stuff. After the show its always a bad sign when a promoter comes up to you and says "Tough Crowd". I thought they were okay, I could've been better. I always thought comics that blame the crowd were just trying to find a an excuse. But Ive come to realize sometimes (rarely) the crowd sometimes will cause you not to do your best. I'm not one to blame it on anyone but myself. I'm the performer, its my job to make them laugh. I think when I go back to listen to the set Ill realize its not as bad as I think it was. Oh well, on to the next one.

Ive come to appreciate bad sets as of late. Sometimes I get complacent and go through the motions. When I do that I don't have a good time and people can tell. Lately Ive been having more fun with smaller crowds at open mics. I don't know if I'm in a slump or...Maybe because Ive been so busy that theres no break time. Maybe I need to take a few days off and just sit down and write. Just relax and not go out 5-6 days a week. Or I could just snap out of it, not be a pussy and do what I do. I get to live my Dream! It could be worse I suppose. Well time to get inspired and do some reading.