5 shows and some fun

Well I had Thursday- Sunday off from the Depot. Thursday I had a meeting with a guy downtown about starting up a Thursday night show. I checked out the place and it is pretty huge. It is right across from the baseball stadium, and could filter some crowd members with the right people behind the promoting. It is basically a warehouse that they are converting into a concert spot. It is huge and could hold a lot of people. There are 3 seperate areas, and I deceided to take the smaller spot as it would work best for comedy. I booked it to have an open mic in a few weeks and will try a promoted show 2 weeks after that. I'm not real sure why I'm trying to take on another show, as I can barely fill Winston's or get people to come to my other shows. But I do think Thursday night would be a good addition to the San Diego comedy scene. Will see..

Thurday I met with the people I'll be doing the poker show with this week. I said a few whacky things and the older black woman on the show kind of rolled her eyes and looked at me like I was nuts. Some people doin't get sarcasm. The meeting went pretty good overall, and I look forward to the show. The girl who had the idea foor the show has all these lofty plans, none of which have panned out quite yet. I have to pay $50 a month now to do the show. Not exactly ideal, but I guess I don't spendmoney on anything so it'll be in the hobby fund. I won't do it forever but if the show could get off the ground it could make us some money. Who knows.

After that meeting I was on at the Comedy Store. I got on because I put a few people on Winston's this week and they returned the favor. It's very rare I get hooked up because of Winston's stage time. People take it for granted I guess. The show was hosted by a huge black dude, and most of the comics on the show were gansta. Then it was nerdy white guy me. I do pretty good with this as I can play the role, and know a lot about rap music etc. After I got off the host was like, "He's pretty funny, for a white guy..." Also when I got off stage some dude named "tiny pearl" I believe took name my name and said he'd call me to do my "skit" sometime. He hasn't called yet but who knows.

Friday I went and played poker during the day. I played one hand bad, gambled a bit much, but overall played pretty good. I've been pretty unlucky lately, as always, but I've just been really card dead lately. Haven't had many big spots and seem to lose all the big races/ pots. I ended up a little bit nothing crazy.

I then went over to Winston's. I've spoke about it before but the show at the Comedy Store I was bummbed about not being asked to be on was Wednesday. They ended up selling the show out and seemed they got on another show downtown out front on 600 plus people on Saturday. I'm so torn whether to be happy, bummed, or unfazed by it all. The dude is a really nice guy, so it's tough to be mad. But it's human nature to feel cheated. It's not going to affect me in the future but I am more aware of my surroundings and things I do.

The Winston's show started off pretty decent as an open mic er brought a good amount of people for her first performance. She pretty much just talked and thought her life stories were the funniest thing ever. For the most part stories that make your friends laugh rarely transition to stage. After she went on the crowd dwindled down. The people that were promoters on the show brought few people. My set was somewhat interesting. I was getting "heckled" by this 50 yr old drunk dude. It was happy heckling nothing mean or what not. I got off stage and he even came up and high fived me. I love how hecklers think they actually are helping. I don't mind it, but to think they are doing good is silly. It went so well, someone asked me if it was planned.

After that we hung out downtown and went over to my buddies house. HE gave me a bottle with some moonshine in it. Ugh that was a nightmare. I got drunk to the point I haven't been in awhile which isn't cool. I just left, got some pizza, and slept in my car. I woke up with a half eaten piece of pizza on my chest, finsihed the pizza, headed over to pick up my friend, and drove up to the casino. Played more poker all day. Still another slow day, got lucky in one spot where I made a call completely gambling and got lucky. I later got unlucky for a huge pot, so obviously my luck can't last more than one time.

I then had a show at a small pizza restaurant. It was somewhat interesting. There was a decent crowd but they were quite proper. Anytime I spoke about anything somewhat edgy they would freeze. I should have spoke with the crowd more instead of doing jokes. But I was able to do some jokes I haven't tried in awhile and they were hit or miss basically. I did get a new joke, and I think it worked well. I hung out for a little while but headed over to my friends house for a birthday party. It was fun, played beer pong for the first time in awhile. AFter most everyone left a couple of us walked around and got some food. We then headed back and slept there.

Next morning we wake up at 9, walk around awhile and settle at a breakfast buffet. I didn't get the buffet, just drank a couple bloody mary's, and snacked on some sushi. We then walked back, watched some football, drank some beer, and played some online poker. Ended up a little bit then took a nap.

Next up was the Comedy Store open mic. I was slightly buzzed so just played around with the crowd and tried a couple new jokes. It was fun. We ended the night and the long weekend at the Blarney Stone. It was a smaller than usual crowd. Normally there's at least one or two tables with people. There was none just some people playing darts in the back. Some lady was yelling "What's the point?" Some other guy yelling about the Chargers. Not to mention the host being overly mean for some reason. There was more tention and anger in the room than I'm used to. I just messed around for a bit than tried a gimmick I did with my friend that worked really well on Saturday. It was not a good idea to try it there as no one was paying attention, plus they were too dumb to even know what was going on.