Since the initial flood of entries in the "caption Matt DeCoster's headshot" contest has abated to a pathetic trickle, it seems that you are as sick of this so-called "contest" as I am!
Well, the end is in sight (and none too soon)!
This Saturday, Monkeydick performs at the UCB theater, and I will announce the least unfunny caption for each headshot and present the "winners" (assuming they own up to their own dubious efforts) with a Monkeydick t-shirt.
If Rocco doesn't come through with the shirts (and you can mentally change that "if" to a "when," folks), an alternative prize of a $2 bill will be substituted.
See Monkeydick perform and watch three half-wits selected from an unimpressive slew of quarter-wits and no-wits!
P.S. - FUUUUUUUCK YOOOOOOOU!
I feel pressured to write something 'cause Will told me to. not that i don't want to write something, but i don't have anything pressing to say right now. i, like rob, am wondering what my avatar looks like. why are they called avatars anyway? what's the deal? aren't avatars like gods incarnated on earth in human form or some shit like that? wouldn't it be more accurate to call them "gayatars?" anyway, how do i change my avatar?
love,
john
Last night, I did a show at theater called Filet o' Film.
It shows funny film shorts and live re-enactments of famous movies. In the past I have played John Candy from Planes, Trains and automoblies. Francis (the rotten kid) from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. John Goodman (Gail) from Rasing Arizona, Alley Sheedy (Allison) From the Breakfast club.
I get casted as the fat guy alot and sad sacks, I'm cool with it. I own it! In improv I play low status or really stupid people often. So, tonight, I'm going to try play out of my type. For shits and giggles. COME SEE IT!
I'm tweaking little things on the site that I meant to fix earlier.
Redid 'Side Projects' to be a more useful links thing.
I tried to make a photo rollover for our bio section but it seems a little buggy. I want to redo all the bios next. Will wrote them all, and godbless 'im for it, but I'd like to redo all of them, and have alternate photos/headshot for all of them.
I also have all the team photos that Will Becton took that I'm going to scan and put up. Some of them are really funny. We don't have really a lot of pictures of the team together, so we oughta put up the ones we have.
The gallery will also soon enjoy the striking photo essay 'Curtis tells a story.'
At the bar the other night the topic on conversation turned to whether pretty people can be funny. Will told us (or me, since I was one of the few who didn't know) that Rob Lathan had jaw surgery some years ago to correct his underbite. John Gemberling warned him "You're not going to be funny anymore!" He's still pretty funny, but maybe less since getting his face fixed?
John Gemberling again expressed the worry that if he lost much more weight he would also cease to be funny.
Is ugly necessary for funny? People always point to the cast of Friends (both with hatred and admiration) as being soooo funny and soooo good looking, but I never thought Friends was funny.
What do YOU think.
Dudes, I don't really have it in me to write a good entry. Sleepy.
We have a show tomorrow, yeah? We're the only team that ain't been messed with or have new people added to it or anything.
I rented Hoosiers on DVD... I wonder if there's any bonus stuff on it, or maybe we should just project it on stage tomorrow instead of doing a Harold.
Just a thought.
I never have any food at home. But my brother and his girlfriend stayed here this weekend so I wanted to have something on hand for them. So right now in my fridge are the following items which usually never are:
--a gallon of milk.
--3 apples, 2 bananas and an orange
--orange juice
--2 jars of pasta sauce
--bottle of Coke, bottle of Dr. Pepper
And in the cabinets: 3 boxes of spaghetti, 2 bags of doritos
They killed the doritos and Coke. We ate out otherwise.
I wore my Monkeydick T-shirt a lot this weekend! And we have a show in 2 days!
Will Hines's middle name is Bradford.
William Bradford Hines, it just sounds rather gentlemenly.
and he is...the perfect gentlemen. I can picutre Will on a old timey bike with the big wheel, huge mustache, and derby. I guess that's what perfect gentlemen looks like to me.
So, we have a show in two hours, right, and I found the best entrance music ever! Holy crap! It's terrific.
I also thing we should do a show covered in blood. Never mention it. Never explain it. Just be splattered in blood spray.
I also want to take a new team picture from the perspective of a shallow grave and we all have shovels. Maybe blood spray in this one too. I might draw it if we can't get it together to take another picture.
Blood spray says comedy to me.
We have a show tonight. Tuesday, that is. 9:30pm.
I am merely stating this.
So, we kicked off our FULL MONTH of MONKEYDICK 10 PM Harold yesterday and also premiered both the nigh-unreadable felt banner (made by me) and Monkeydick t-shirts (made by Rocco).
The Banner is going to be retooled for next week, and Rocco only made like 10 shirts, but the effort was there.
Rocco has weird earlobes. Will Hines continues to have soft ears.
Improv Gadabout JACK MCBRAYER commented on how cartoonish the personalities of the members of Monkeydick are and decried his inability to do impressions. We are impression-worthy. He suggested we do a show were every member of the group draws another member's name and then we have to do the show AS that person.
All impressions of Rocco sound like, according to him, a combination of a chicken and a trumpet.
Some people are harder to impersonate than others.
The next time Trouble--with a Capital T--backs you up
in a corner, try the magic formula of Willis H. Carrier:
Ask yourself, "What is the worst that can possibly happen if I can't
solve my problem?
Prepare yourself mentally to accept the worst--if necessary.
Then calmly try to improve upon the worst--which you have already
mentally agreed to accept.
http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/stop-worry.html
Lots of Monkeydick stuff coming up:
Monkeydick makes with the perilous, thrilling HAROLDS 9:30pm each Tuesday this month, starting TOMORROW (jan. 6th) at UCB!
http://www.ucbt.net/schedule/showdetails.php?showid=5
Curtis, John and maybe Brett make with the awesome, tsunami-like improv in 3 Fast, 3 Furious this SATURDAY at UCB!
http://www.ucbt.net/schedule/showdetails.php?showid=468
Rob, Will host dangerous, wrong-side-of-the-tracks showcase of comedy at The Osgood-Schaltter Show, also SATURDAY at St. Mark's Theater:
http://www.osgoodschlattershow.com/
Dyna Moe's nationally notorious PORTRAIT PROJECT has completed, but is now leading a INCENDIARY DISCUSSION! Make your comment!
http://www.nobodyssweetheart.com/december
Brett, as Rapzilla, rocks out with his hip-hop outfit CRACKD OUT this SATURDAY at midnight at UCB:
http://www.ucbt.net/schedule/showdetails.php?showid=455
I mean, shit is going DOWN.
Happy New Year, Monkeydick.
You're all a bunch of Jews and Protestants, but you still can have my warm wishes.
Oh, and we have a show on the 31st.
