Weekend Update

Hey friends! Hope you are having a nice weekend. The weather in Chicago has been a sky crying fest all week but it's nice out today. Good thing cause the Kearney 5 is in town this weekend. Rosco was sadly left home with the cousins. He was in my dream last night. We went on a walk.
Here's an article about the new Second City Main stage show. My professors say it's the best show in years and it's the first time two African Americans shared the stage together. Read it if you're interested. Second City Article Holla

Mhh what else is happening. Oh, this week we all had to do stand up and most of my friends did it for the first time. They were absolutely amazing. People here are talented as beep. We also had a final show for context class yesterday. Everybody was given a different top and then had to do a performance or video to express what we've learned. I had Animation and other examples: Mime, Musical Theater, Performance Art, Comic Strip, Music, Advertisement, yada yada yada yada.
I decided to make a stop animation video because I was already familiar with it annnddd I enjoy making them. The premise was the bizarre thoughts and feelings in my mind in the morning.

GOOD MORNING THOUGHTS

Sneak Peek!

This is a clip of our 15 minute video sketch show due in two weeks. HAHA enjoy

The Worm

This is our class warming up for movement class. 

Loft on Lincoln

On Wednesdays a few friends and I do open mic at the Loft on Lincoln. Shot from the stage. 

Hump Day

I read some funny tweets today. I'm going to share a few with you...

ConanOBrien 

Great, Applebee’s starts serving toddlers alcohol and my kids gave up booze for Lent.

 

Jscherbs

my anthropology class is discussing the differences between an old bad ass cowboy and a gay shirtless cowboy #whatthehell

 

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These guys just came into my apartment. Lol. Um what? Well, to fix my air conditioning. But I got out of the shower and they were just there

 

@Sn00ki

Yea my shoes don't fit, I have smurf feet, who gives a f*ck? Its just for a picture. Maybe if shoe designers thought about us Meatballs ...

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Awe just saw a baby squirrel and its momma climbin a tree together

 

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I'm wearing heels today. Because I can.

 

azizansari 

Left a long "F*** You" voicemail to dude that stole my iPhone. And just sadly realized, only I will end up listening to that voicemail.

 

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Ke$ha's tour is called Get $leazy...with a dollar sign

 

LordStewie 

the awkward moment when you run over your own banana peel in Mario cart....

Random Facts

Hey friends! Thank you Dayton friends for helping me have yet another fantastic weekend. Sadly, I will not be returning to visit again until the Fall. BUTTTT Daytona anyone???


Enough about Dayton. I'm in the windy city and things are sure getting busy. We have our sketch show this Friday so my group "Molly's Hot Pants" (no idea why we agreed on this) are actually very well prepared and are finishing the final re-writes of our scenes for the show. Woohoo so interesting I know.

I started listening to Marc Maron's podcast called WTF tonight while I was shoveling my room clean. For those of you who don't know wtf WTF it's basically Maron interviewing famous comedians and comedy writers like Conan, Sarah Silverman, yada yada yada and they talk about mostly serious stuff and funny stuff too. It's interesting seeing the serious side of their funny brains and most of them are messed up.

I am embarrassed to admit I'm lovin' Twitter. I guess I'm getting really sick of the fbook routine and people write some funny stuff. Kid Cudi is always depressing and angry, the Kardashians just keep tweeting they're excited about something, Judd Apatow loves retweeting his obsessive fans, Perez Hilton just sucks up to Lady Gaga, OH and because it's midnight, celebrities and commoners alike will begin tweeting they are exhausted YET cannot sleep, AND this just in Daniel Tosh just asked his Twitter followers if anyone has ever died of diarrhea.

Good talk. Tomorrow I'll do a video or something?

Happy Tuesday!

Good Mornin'

Hey everybody! I'm in improv class this morning and decided to take a couple shots from my laptop. Here are the lookers themselves.

 Really friendly and enthusiastic about a day of making fun of each other. Always a good time.

We hope you have a good day! Make fun of yourselves...or we will for you.

My friend said it was supposed to be 74 degrees out today. She lied. It's gross out. Here's a summer picture to keep you happy.

Work Time Work Time

It is Sunday.

I am actually stress free today because we have no immediate work due this week. HOWEVER, we DO have some crazy projects due in the next couple weeks. You probably don't care but I'm going to describe them for myself in order to achieve excellence. pah!

WRITING

Instead of bringing in the regular 5 page sketch ideas every Monday, we were split into groups of 7 and 8 are have two weeks to create a 15 minute sketch show. With this same group we also have to create a 15 video show. Sounds awesome and we're excited but the work starts tonight! My group is meeting at Second City in a few hours and we will be reading/rewriting/blocking the three rough draft sketches for tomorrow.

CONTEXT

This class we have a 5 minute final presentation due in two weeks. We each were assigned a creative topic and mine was Animation. I was happy to hear this because I was able to put my drawing/photo skills to use (although they are dusty). Before spring break we had to do a presentation explaining the process. Others had sound editing, puppetry, miming, speech, fashion, music, comic strips etc etc etc.
For the final pres. we have to use the skills instead of describe them.
SO I am making a photo montage with real people and then I'm going to incorporate paint yada yada yada. Enough talk, I'll just ahve to show you the finish product when the day comes.

HISTORY

History, history, history. Good times. This past week we've been watching Show of Shows, I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners. We have been learning how the Round Tables work and what happens when people work together to write a sketch. Our assignment due this Tuesday is to pitch an episode idea for either I Love Lucy of The Honeymooners. Uh oh, I have some work to do. 

ACTING III

Ohhh acting. How I love and hate everything about you. This is the professor who challenged me to memorize every word, breath and laugh a stand-up routine. We decided on Lewis Black. I've been working on that for a week now sooo we'll see how it goes. As for our real homework...We've been reading a ton ton ton of Neil Simon plays because we all are assigned a scene from his collection. I was paired up with my friend Matt and we do a bickering lovey dovey scene from Star Spangled Girl. I prefer to call it Pretty Girl Swag. Anywayyy, we work on this for the next week or two then we will perform them in the De Maat Theater for our professors and classmates. Oh, did I mention I get to do a southern girl charm voice? Bahaha, so excited. 

IMPROV

In the class of class we are focusing on our final showcase coming up in May. Our professor for improv is also the director of the final. We have been editing sketches and songs we have written in the past two months. We also just do exercises to keep us on our toes. No need to get too serious about this funny stuff.

MIND BODY SOUL CLASS

This class is awesome and I can't really desrcibe what we have been doing.... we do yoga, we turn into clowns, we dance, we stretch, we stand on each other, we cry for no reason, we create characters, we beat box, we play four sqaure, we argue and physically fight, we focus, we stare, we often laugh, we take our shoes off, we have no windows, we meditate, we have smelly ass feet. It's pretty fun I guess...

That's the bundle o' love. We're excited. Have a good day!

Had a dream I was with these wonderful people in this room. Weird I have a picture.

April Fools

Good afternoon everybody! I'm trying to keep you informed as I promised a few posts ago. Last night we had a grade school party in Old Town. If you know me at all I'm always down for a weird outfit for a night out on the town BUT things are little different here than back in Dayton. Soooo riding the CTA and the larger city jazz makes costume parties a little more risky. Yet satisfying. Anyway, I whore whoops i mean I wore an outfit similar to a past Halloween costume of mine. Coming from a little catholic school in irish catholic Cleveland, my rememberance of middle school is a little different from my Second City friends. haha here is my proof. 

First, I will show you one of my costumes from 2 years ago and my level of maturity. 

GRADE SCHOOL-BE YOURSELF DANCE 4/1/11

7:22 PM

Me and good friend Xan who shows me how to use my new walkman and how to be the "it" factor at the dance. Don't stare at her eyes or she'll curse you.

 Below, is my "friend" (she would beat me up for saying that) Amy. She is from California and is cool. She threatens me with her cholo voice. She is known for dealing gum/candy/chuckie cheese tokens/etc to kids on the playground. She wears wife beaters even when it's snowing.

 Below, it is obvious here that it has to be almost 9:00PM and my mom is picking me up shortly. There is an anxious look in my eyes because King and Queen are being announced momentarily.

 

Hopefully people will upload more pictures soon OR perhaps I was never able to find out the winner because my mom was outside waiting for me. 

THE ROOF IS NOT ON FIRE

Jasper, Andy and I ( i guess Sky... kinda did) found a ladder a couple months ago on our back porch. We decided to climb it the other day and found an amazing view of Lincoln Park! When I took my first step onto the roof I literally felt like I have landed on the moon. When you look up all you see is the blue sky and tops of trees and buildings. Pretty cool (Miley Cyrus voice). We ate Subway on the roof and took some time to relax (from a hard day at funny school). I thought it would be a cool idea to take a timed picture of the three of us. Bad idea yo. It took many tries because I had to hurdle over a heater thing ( no, it was NOT close to the edge thanks for the concern). Basically I had to press the button and turn into Indiana Jones/Scarlet Takes a Tumble. FINALLY THE LORD ANSWERS. I made it in time! and threw up a victory sign with a face of accomplishment. Here it is! hahahah and some others...