January 7th, 2001

urgghhhh.

i hate bringer shows. why can't i just skip this part of trying to do the comedy thing?

okay, okay.... well, here's the story, my little possums... i have been sick since thursday (what else is new... it's flu season... i get sore throats even when it's NOT this season... but i digress...) i have just started out doing the comedy schtick... it's been a year and 2 months. this racket that clubs have going is lovely... don't mind me if i start sounding bitter...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

anyway, as i was saying, i have the flu... and was basically on the verge of DEATH on saturday... ok, maybe not death, but i felt punky. so i peeled myself out of what i shall call the pseudo-death bed and got gussied up. trudged through the snowdrifts of jersey city and got on the PATH train. headed to 23rd street, hopped in a cab and arrived at New York Comedy Club.

so i get there and they are working out the line-up and then steve says to me "sorry, erin, no one showed for you. can't put you up. how about you do the 27th show?"

dammit. i hate this. it's happened at fricking stand-up new york and almost happened at comic strip. it stinks. really growly right now.

it's loopy. because as if i don't have enough on my mind like my set and hoping to god i don't bomb onstage, i have to worry about having friends. or acquaintances or at the very least $50 bucks to pay some homeless people to come see my show (no. haven't done that yet... i am sure i will have to someday... unless i just stick with the day-job and hang up my hat with this goofy pipe dream...)

hi. i am erin patrice bennett. today i am in a grouchy pessemistic mood. only way outta it is to yap about it. so hope you are enjoying this mini-growlfest.

then when i am talking to a friend of mine that HAS come to one show, he says "the worst part is they kick you out before the big show" ... not for nothing, but, uh... hey... aren't you there to SUPPORT me? they don't let you hang out in movie theaters to sit and wait for the next show after you just saw the one before it... right?

so, basically, the bringer thing = you do your set for FREE, you ensure they have an audience and THEY get $$$. looking like i am burning out from the damn bringer shows and am gonna just walk the earth performing at open mic nights in front of other comics and the occasional german guy that meanders in.

other than that, the tee vee hasn't had much on this weekend.. although i did wind up watching a brain surgery on some epileptic kid, and a breast augmentation (gak. no sirreebob... although i also watched a breast reconstructive surgery after a mastectomy -- holy lord... interesting, praying to god i never ever ever need to find out more about that operation than what bit i watched on the discovery channel)... oh yeah and about 4 hours of Emergency Vets... man, i am addicted to that show... usually wind up crying over a chihuahua with a splinter.

also, the movie office space was on (i can relate because i have had a few jobs in the past that the maze of cubicles was unbearable), i absolutely LOVE this flick... watched sliding doors for the umpteenth time, and then i watched a few hours of stand-up on hbo (did i mention i have 15 channels of hbo? life is good. and i didn't even tell you about the 10 channels of showtime and 10 of the movie channel. i loves me the digital cable) so i married an axe murderer & swingers just ended (yes, i watched them simultaneously... just like i do when i read 3 or 4 books at the same time... amazingly i never mix the plots up)

it's only 7:30pm, the giants won and the night is young... gonna go make some chicken dumpling soup now (oh, yes, it is the cure for cancer, recipe handed down from my nana's nana in tipperary.)

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