19.08.04
If I could toot my own horn I'd never leave the house!
Not that anybody who reads this lives in Rochester, but if it just so happens that you'll be in the area:
boom boom presents…
THE BLACKWATER ENSEMBLE’S
Rebuilding the Future Like There’s No Tomorrow:
Smarty-Pants Sketch Comedy for a New Day
PERFORMANCES BEGIN FRIDAY, AUGUST 27TH, 2004 AT 8:00PM
Sketch comedy group The Blackwater Ensemble is proud to present Rebuilding the Future Like There’s No Tomorrow for two weekends starting August 27th in the black box theater at 34 Elton Street. Tickets cost $5 and are available at the door. The show starts at 8 PM.
Rebuilding the Future Like There’s No Tomorrow is a sketch comedy show with music (provided by blues-harpist extraordinaire Rob Cullivan) in the tradition of The Kids in the Hall or Saturday Night Live, but with a stronger emphasis on being good rather than getting easy laughs. With a roots in literature and theater, rather than stand-up, the show feels more like a series of short comic plays. That’s why it’s called smarty-pants sketch comedy. This show includes brand new pieces as well as some old favorites that fans of the group will remember like The Rocco Bamdesi School of Acting Technique and the French existentialist vaudevillian routine called “Nobody.” Rumor has it that Mickey the Wonder Pimp may drop by for a rare public appearance.
Originally formed in 1988, The Blackwater Ensemble has performed in many places in Rochester, including a standing run at the much-missed Jazzberry’s, and as far-flung as The Rivoli in Toronto, SUNY Geneseo, and an out-of-the-way bar beyond the last exit in Brooklyn, NY. They twice-performed with the Vacant Lot, a Canadian sketch comedy troupe who had television shows on the CBC and Comedy Central, appeared on the Brother Wease Morning Circus, WOKR13’s afternoon news and WXXI 1370 AM. It’s all true. They have the press clippings to show for it.
The Blackwater Ensemble is made up of Liz Cameron, Tom Clifford, Brent Cox, and Steve Engel. In the intervening years between performances, Cameron has become a medical transcriptionist, Clifford works in a library, Cox is a paralegal and Engel an English and theater teacher at Brighton High School. Never straying far from live performance, they are excited to return to the Rochester stage and hope that they can “make at least as much money as the Eagles.”
PERFORMANCE DATES: August 27th, August 28th, September 3rd and 4h. All shows are at 8 PM.
Tickets are $5.00 General Admission.
18.08.04
sure she's lost some wieght, but can she pass through the eye of a needle?
OPRAH Winfrey, the US's best-paid female entertainer, gave up her $US86,538-an-hour ($120,700) job as a television host yesterday and instead sat attentively in court, earning just $US17.20 a day.
Oh my God- she's a fucking saint! Serving jury duty just like a regular person! Now see, that's why I love her and will read anything she tells me to- who else would give up $86,538 per hour for $17.20 a day? Who else could? I mean, it's no big deal when some schlemiel who makes $200 a week serves jury duty- they're not making much more than 17 dollars a day anyway! What's that you say? It might make the difference between being able to pay the rent and having your ass kicked out on the street? Oh come on, don't be so dramatic! This is Oprah we're talking about! Oprah! I love to say her name, it makes me feel closer to her wonderfulness! Oprah! She' serving jury duty! Oprah! Just like a regular person! Oprah! She reads Tolstoy! She even said "Oh happy day" when she learned she was selected! What's that you say? She was being sarcastic? Wow, just like a regular person!
06.08.04
03.08.04
Dave's not here!
I won't be posting much for awhile- busy bisy bizzy. All I have to hold you over is this thought:
Shouldn't Ben Folds make a record called Ben Folds Spindles and Mutilates?
Sorry.
Oh- I just 'membered. Overheard at the bar last night, just after that "'Cause I Wanna" song by the Hives came on the juxebox:
"Oh! It's the Hives! Early Hives!"
Early?