Kevin McDonald, Goodwill, and an Igloo Abattoir

I did not hustle enough to make it to Yoga. neither today, nor yesterday. aiming to try to get to the 8:30am class was helpful in making me not late for other things, however. So, not a total loss.

Managed to squeeze in a quick "Buck a Pound" "Bins" at "the Goodwill" round with Sherri Bell, looking for stuff for our act in Asheville Vaudeville, February 21st. Got an awesome new prop/travel bag, punk/statue of liberty head thing, and still made it to The Toy Boat by 12:45 or so, in time to guard some trash from blowing away, .. so Kevin McDonald wasn't greeted by a pile of garbage.

 This is my third workshop with Kevin McDonald. The first two were taking improv and turning it into sketch comedy. This one is writing sketch comedy "writer's room" style. I brought in my sketch "Techy Techy Tech Tech". I need to rewrite it,.. right now,...

Tomfoolery & The Shenanigans' second time doing a monthly slot at The Carolina was pretty much right after the first day of the Kevin McDonald workshop. So, Ryan Hand and I were pretty warmed up, comedically, by showtime. The show felt rockier, rougher than or first show. Maybe I am being too self critical. But, man,.. improv seems hard. I think practicing once a week or even twice a week and performing once a month, isn't nearly enough. I wanna practice once a week and perform five times a week.

I really do need to work on my re-write for the workshop. The sketch is about status change. And, I need to figure out how to hone in on that transformation emphasis.

I wanna practice ten times a week, & perform twenty times a week

I haven't explained The Igloo Abattoir, yet. When Tomfoolery and The Shenanigans came up with the setlist for the second show, we started practicing the show, in show order. Ryan, Mike, and I have been doing "All The Fun In Half The Time". In practice, we find that the quicker we take action in a scene, the better it becomes. Only, we've made a habit of equating action with violence. The scenes work pretty consistently, since we realized how important action is in this game.
What started as a simple igloo quickly turned into an Icy Abattoir with razor blades on spring loaded doors.

I wanna perform three shows a night five nights a week 

and five shows on Saturday, black on Sunday

If my lovely scene partner reads this,.. I <3 you. 1stLineLastLine Friends Forever. However, tonight taught me an important lesson. Which I am going to dub, "Rigel's 7th rule of Improv Etiquitte":

DONT ROOFIE YOURSELF

or in any other way render yourself useless

Maybe I only want to perform five to seven times a week...

But for real, though. I have to work on my rewrite.

Come see the show tomorrow,

Saturday 1/31/15

@ The Toy Boat

8pm