The points hit fairly close to home. I like her writing style. I also listened to almost all of Steve Martin’s book, Born Standing Up. I have read literally hundreds of books about comedy and comedy writing, and this is one of the most non-pretentious and truthful that I have found.

I wasn’t aware that he had such a close writing partnership with Bob Einstein aka Super Dave Osborne aka brother of Albert Brooks, aka son of Parkyakarkus (legendary comedian who literally died on stage at a Friar’s club roast — look it up) Anyway, Martin has an amazing perspective on his career and ideas of what comedy is. It’s a dishonor that his name and Dane Cook have been used in the same sentence (mentioning fastest selling comedy albums) and yes I understand the irony that I just used both of their names in the same sentence.

Anyway, I have lots running through my mind idea-wise.
And tons of projects to take on…

Bye for now.

So for Cobain, as for most rock stars and fans today, real rock’n'roll must be shackled to the kind of primitivism that accompanied Leadbelly’s career, an idealization of “savage” simplicity. If Cobain had broadcast the facts of his own painful life in the wordy, sophisticated tradition of Loudon Wainwright III rather than the barebones tradition of Leadbelly, he would have been a role model for next to nobody.

From Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music

I’m reading this book after hearing an interview with one of the author’s on The Sound of Young America. The authors makes some interesting points about the “theatre” and what is real and fake in modern music. On a related note, I’m watching School of Rock.

I’ve been thinking a lot about how the concept of authenticity applies to fans. Nick Hornby’s Songbook makes me wonder if I even understand the music I love, or if I even love the music I love… Have you ever doubted the authenticity of your fandom?

I’m pretty much over my sickness now, but my day is still broken up in weird chunks thanks to a terrible mattress, sunset at 5:30 pm and no real structure to my life. There is this Mike Birbiglia bit about his sleep-addicted friend Sleepy Carl that continually entices him to stay in bed, while his girlfriend jumps out of bed yelling, “put me in coach.” Well that’s pretty much how its been going here. Johanna passes out on the couch watching a movie, and I stay up coding until 4am, then she yells at me when I am too groggy to want to kiss her when she wakes up (before her alarm!) at 8am. If that’s the biggest problem in our relationship, I’ll take it.

Anyway, finished reading The Razor’s Edge, which is a pretty incredible success story about someone looking for their own happiness, which brings me to, what am I doing after this vacation in Brasil?

Well… I’m looking for jobs at the moment, but strongly considering several options. I like the idea of trying to put assemble some sort of co-working setup in Columbus. I’ve enjoyed freelance work in the past, but I keep recalling that I *need* people to work with and keep me inspired. Plus I’m not sure that I want to go entirely freelance when I get so bummed out with the stupid projects and pay that are floating around on the internet. More about this topic later…

We’ll be moving into this *AMAZING* condo that we (well technically, I) bought! [for you stalkers, Google Map it]
in the heart of the Short North district of Columbus. Hopefully Jewish will suffice for gay and artsy in Columbus, and I don’t see why it wouldn’t, as they are synonymous everywhere else. I’m excited to help Columbus become the new San Francisco.