The Voices in My Head

So, I'm sitting here on this gorgeous Saturday afternoon doing nothing. I tanned, I went to PetSmart and looked at the gerbils and hamsters and I ate leftover pasta from last night's dinner.... I *should* be doing homework or studying what with finals coming up in a week, buuuut that's the least amount of fun someone can have on a Saturday night. Instead, I'm trying to figure out how to incorporate my faces and voices into my act. I can't figure out a way to mesh them in there and figure out stories for characters and things. Character/voice comics are pretty rare - the only ones I can think of doing standup today are Maria Bamford and a kid named Cy who goes up at ACME. Voices and faces and different characters are my forte, I think. I've been doing them since I was a kid - the kids in jr high used to call me the female Jim Carrey - shazzam! Granted, there's a fine line between clever and stupid to quote Spinal Tap - character comics can either be geniuses or total losers. I don't know what divides the two yet.

I've also been thinking about how me dating another comic is influencing my act and how other comics see me. One sage old comic (he's not that old, maybe 50) told me that being with another comic might be a hinderance to my "career." I don't think I can really call it a career right now - not until I'm getting paid enough to not have a second job - that'll be a while. Either way, I don't know what to think of being a comic's girlfriend as well as a comic. It gets in the way sometimes - we argue a lot. I mean a lot a lot. Rather than be supportive of my comedy he sometimes either gets jealous or mad or confused as to why I'm doing it too. It doesn't help that I started after we started dating. Like I said in a previous entry, I've been wanting to do this since 7th grade - finally, my dream of doing standup is coming to fruition and it's being bogged down by some other comic. How sad. I can't let that happen if I really want to continue with comedy. I think I might have to decide in the very near future between comedy or the comic.


so yeah, more to come - this blog has taken approximately 5 hours to write. I'm currently a little blasted and way too distracted to finish this properly... lataz!