non tsunami post

for all the thought i've had about this stupid wave this week it was nice to slip away a bit and experience a blank mind unoccupied by tragedy.

i just got home from a contact improv jam with the cupholders and some other people. it was really good. we never really talked all that much, just improvised a bunch of stupid dancing and some serious touchy rubby stuff. a lot of the principles of what i hold dear in i guess "regular" improv also hold true for the contact improv. if you take turns leading and following and go with what others are building you get taken to places you never would have expected or thought to go yourself. and when you discovered somethin good togehter with another person, it was nice to exploit the joy in it. until something else more intriguing would come along. and you'd go with that. it was two hours of sweaty, smelly muscle tensing and grunting.
i think i'm going to have a fanily reunion in chicago over the summer and make all my family members do a contact improv jam. i'll make a reality TV show out of it. it would be one of the funniest things i've ever seen without a doubt, watching grandma try to lift up my step dad and carry him around listening to cuban music. ah, yes. the imagination is a beautiful thing.

aviator is a good movie. the more i mull it over. the more i like it. and this leonardo kid has really come into his own, or is it his zone? anyway, he's good now. despite having a ninja turtle name.

tomorrow is new year's eve and i'm reminded of the new years party well hung jury threw a few years ago as a fund raiser that lost a lot of money and was a generally lame time for everyone. improv troupes should be careful when doing something other than improv. which reminds me, we're putting a sketch DVD and a rap album in february. everyone should buy one, unless you're in it or on it, in which case you get one free. which i think is everyone who reads this.......

going to sleep early tonight. tomorrow will be a fun time.

b
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