Welcome to silencia.net, a personal blog and professional portfolio website. I am Ang, a 26 yr old web designer and kickboxer from northern Minnesota. I have a full-time job, a car, a house, 3 cats, and a moderate phobia of taxidermy. I enjoy stand-up comedy, movies, books, technology, genetic anomalies, history, Dave Attell, Dexter, money, and pizza. What more do you need to know?!
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Love that Attell.
So Wednesday night I found out that Dave Attell was performing in Minneapolis Thursday night. ME, she who loves Dave Attell. I had no idea he was coming to Minnesota until the night before! Ridiculous. Apparently I’ve been way too busy to keep tabs on when my favorite comedian and human being in the world was going to be in my vicinity.
After spending about an hour trying to decide if I was going to drop everything and attend the show, I of course purchased my ticket. I don’t know why I even bothered debating with myself, we all know I would not pass up an opportunity to see the man.
I cut out of work an hour early on Thursday, called about rescheduling my Thursday night business planning workshop. Drove the 3 hours to Minneapolis. The show was awesome. Almost entirely new material that I hadn’t heard before. And all good stuff! He is the best comic ever.
Saw him a little bit after the show. He recognized me! Every time I see him, I think this will be the time he forgets Angela. But no, he remembers me every time. And he is very sweet. He even pulled out a little trivia that was perhaps outdated, but I was surprised he remembered a little detail about my life. I had hoped by my being so busy and everything, that I wouldn’t have as strong of a crush on him as I used to have. But alas, when he was standing before me, asking me innocent little questions like “how’s it going?”, I had a case of cat’s-got-my-tongue and could hardly form those little things you might refer to as “words”. Which is frustrating as hell.
Then I had to drive the 3 hours back home, very sleepy, go right to bed, and get up for work at 8am the next morning. That part was not cool.
But he gave me hugs, and he still remembers me. And that’s all that matters! I am very glad I dropped everything to see him.
I’M WAY PSYCHED.
So last night I was at the gym for a little event, and my head coach who I love dearly mentions that she’s going on tour soon. And I’m like, tour for what? And she says, well, I’m a stand-up comedian! Whaaat? I guess she just did it for fun, put an act together, got discovered by an agent pretty quickly, and has a 2-week tour around the midwest here already. Insanity!
So I tell her, well that is quite the coincidence, I am learning how to write a business plan to open a COMEDY CLUB IN DULUTH. Now it’s HER turn to be shocked. She tells me that that is an AWESOME idea, she is so on board, and she can hook me up with people who can help me find talent, and she even knows a grant writer who might be interested in financing something like a comedy club in Duluth.
COLOR ME SURPRISED AGAIN.
My club could actually happen, man! Making more connections, getting people on board.
I’ll be seeing her perform here on Monday night, she’s such a big personality, and to have an agent so soon, I imagine you’d have to be pretty good. LeAnn Diler, you keep your ears peeled. I’ll be making her a website soon.
MY CLUB, MAN! IT COULD HAPPEN!
I’m a little excited. I need to keep telling everyone I know.
Heaven just got a whole lot cooler.
The Mitch Hedberg tribute was completely amazing. I would not have missed that for the world. Comic after comic after comic. So much love, so much excitement. All for Mitch, yo.
I worried that I was going to cry on and off during the whole show. But I managed to keep it together until his wife Lynn cried at the end. And then I lost it. But damn, it was wild.
The show started with a slide show of pictures of Mitch. From baby pictures on up to more recent ones. He had some seriously bad hair back in the day, but then again I think most people did. It was cool and funny to see. Then all the comics did their thing. 12 comics, one right after the other. All of them were great, I laughed all the way through. A few of the comics shared some stories about Mitch and that sort of thing. Lynn read from a few of Mitch’s notebooks, some jokes that he probably would have used at some point, and some crazy inane stuff that was just hilarious to hear but wouldn’t have really made a joke. They closed with one of Mitch’s Letterman appearances, and then all the comics came up on stage, and then his parents. And that’s around when Lynn started to cry and then I did.
I had ended up going to the show alone, and then went out to the bar after alone. I didn’t meet up with any of the comics, but I enjoyed a few Long Islands and met a few cool people who worked at the bar and one of the guys who did the lighting for the show. I was sociable and putting myself forth to meet new people, ya know. Quiet types like me don’t usually extend ourselves so much, but I felt like going for it. Then I went back to my hotel suite where I enjoyed some naked time and kicked back. It was a great weekend. I hope I don’t forget too much about the show, the whole atmosphere. It’s one of those times you want to hang onto as long as you can.
Richard Pryor
First Pat Morita, and now Richard Pryor. My comedy world is hurting.
I love most comedians like they’re my own children. Every time I see a comic on stage, I feel so scared and so proud for them, like that’s my baby up there, givin’ it his/her all. When I lose one of my babies, that’s a part of me that’s gone forever.
I drink to brother Pryor tonight. One of my eldest, original babies.
Mike Birbiglia: cool mutherfucker.
The show was awesome! The only comic I really knew that performed was Mike Birbiglia, but the others were pretty good. Mike mostly did older jokes that I knew before, but it was a treat to get to see them performed live. He had some new stuff that surprised me, but it was good. I’ll keep it vague so if there are any other Birbigs fans who read this, I won’t spoil the fun.
One of the best parts of the show, which wasn’t even a part of the show, was the guy sitting in front of Lenor, Jess, and me. He had a laugh exactly like Lewis from Revenge of the Nerds. And it was his real laugh. Everytime he would laugh at a joke, we’d crack up even harder. I told Mike he should have this guy travel with him, cause it just amped up the whole experience for us.
So after the show, the performers were signing stuff and selling merchandise, and my friends (Jess and Lenor) and I got into his line. I was like, shit, I have nothing for him to sign, so I had him sign my ticket. I already have all of his merchandise, much of which he signed when he sent me. So we get to the front of the line, and he didn’t know me cause we’d never met before, so I gave him my ticket and was like “you’ve already signed everything else I have” and he goes “are you Ang?!” Word, I rock. He had us hang out til he was done, then we all went out for a cigarette (except me) and chit-chatted for awhile.
I was expecting Mike to be a little more awkward, but he wasn’t at all, so far as I could tell. He was completely cool, it was great. Mike Birbiglia: cool mutherfucker. I was more awkard than him, thanks to nerves and antsiness from driving. Haha we talked about MySpace, and I guess he’s got a development deal with Comedy Central for his Secret Public Journal stuff, which should kick some ass whenever that comes about. I got some hugs, he was surprised at how far I had to drive (about 4 hours from Duluth to Mankato) and was all jazzed about trying to find a way to perform in Duluth. Just for freakin’ Ang, how cool am I. Yeah, that’s right. I have one picture that I’ll share as soon as I get it from Jess. Click “more” for the picture, below.
All in all, it was goodtimes. I got to meet Mike and he was super cool and a sweetheart. I met Lenor for the first time, I’ve known her online for like 6 years. I got to meet Jess’s mom and cats, and I am just nerdy enough to find that exciting. I’ll have to look into places here that could bring in the Birbigs to perform, and research any good pizza places to entice him.
(A little background: I run Birbigs.net, a fan network website, and designed some of Mike’s merchandise, like the stickers and Panda Porn Star tshirt. So there’s some history, I just haven’t met him or seen him perform before. Now I’m psyched to redesign the fan network site, and work on some more merchandise designs!)