Last 29th Street Social Club Ever!
Join Mingle, Fancy Dragon, and Suarez as, after three and a half years, we say goodbye to the 29th Street Social Club! Fancy Dragon is Elna Baker, Mauricio Bermudez, Chris Grace, Yang Miller, Sarah Nowak, Nate Starkey, Kevin Townley, and Katarina Wahlberg. Mingle is Joe Garden, Jonathan Harford, Dave Koenig, Mark Lee, and Kathryn Reynolds. Suarez! is Robert Cordell, Meg Griffiths, Chris Griggs, Pete LePage, Walter Murphy, Jennie Smith, and Brett Wean.
$FREE$ Wed 9:30 PM
The Peoples Improv Theater
154 West 29th St.
NYC, NY 10001
On Tuesday I was in an NYFA film, playing the villanous cross-dressing superintendant antagonist to a gamine heroine. That was fun.
On Wednesday I played the personal assistant to a dumb-as-dirt New York actor in an NYFA mockumentary. It is often theorized that improv-heavy mockumentaries are a genre preferred by lazy film students. Hmmm.
On Friday I was in Gingerbreed, a feature-length sci-fi horror comedy shot entirely on Greenscreen, a la Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Having greatly enjoyed the script, I have high hopes for this project. I played Dr. Hydrox, a manic scientist whose relief at being rescued is cut short when he is sliced in half.
That’s right, I got to die onscreen.
I’m back! Leah, my VSLF, has put a delightful selection of photographs on Flickr. Also, here is a terribly droll video of the first time she intentionally ate insects.
Unconnected Things I Learned In Oaxaca, Mexico:
- Very few people smoke
- Many young women wear sassy English-language t-shirts. A selection
- You Really Don’t Impress Me
- I Need More Fun
- Lovely Angels Dream Girl
- Spend All Your $$$ On Me
- Turn Me On
- I’m An Angel (not to be confused with another shirt we saw, “Soy Una Angel”)
- I ♥ Oral Sex
- I Need More Vacations
- Hardcore (with an icon of an applecore)
- ALL THAT and a bag of chips
- Blah, blah, blah. NOBODY IS LISTENING TO YOU
- I Never Give Out My Number On The First Day Of School
- I Got Out Of Bed; What More Do You Want?
- New Model Army (funny because thirteen-odd years ago it was one of Leah’s favorite bands)
- Hey Yo We’re Not Those Kids Darling
- If putting salsa on bread & butter is wrong, I don’t want to be right
- Unless specified, dishes at a restaurant will be brought to your table at a fairly staggered order (e.g. if A & B each order an appetizer and a main dish it will not be unusual for A to receive his main dish, then, five minutes later receive his appetizer, both before B receives anything)
- Jack Skellington is surprisingly popular — but as Leah pointed out, the movie’s very Dia de los Muertos