Now if you don't know what this bad boy is suppose to do then let me help you get your knowledge on. It will be a phone/wide screen video ipod/Internet device all wrapped up in Apple's version of cool. I will admit this is a sexy ass little gadget! The tech world and the business world have all been abuzz about this device and for one main reason: It does things in a cool way. If you are looking at a photo on the thing turn it on it's side and the motion sensors in the thing will orient the picture the right way. Want to zoom in on that picture, then just use you fingers to spread the picture out. It has one button on the face of the device to scream at you, Hey, I'm so cool I only need one button. It will have a QWERTY keyboard but it is software based instead of a hard physical keypad like on my beloved Treo 650. The first thing you say when you see this device in action (after saying sweet) is, How much does it cost and when can I get my hands on it? And there lies some of it's biggest problems. It will be arriving around the month of June and will retail for 500 bucks with a 2-year agreement with Cingular. Yep, it will only be on Cingular (at least for now) and will retail for half a grand. Usually when you buy a phone with a new company they will slice the cost of the phone off the price and make their money back through screwing you with the monthly payments. It looks like they want to screw you before you ever even talk a minute on the damn thing. But it is a cool device and people will come in droves to get one so why not.
The Brickwall Comedy Club, the same ones responsible for the Spokane Amauteur Comedy Competition are having a competition called 2ND funniest person in Spokane. It will take place during the last week in January and is open to all people (you have to audition though). The reason why it is named that is because the winner of the San Fransisco Comedy Competition lives in Spokane (Jay Wendle Walker) and it is only fitting to call him the funniest man in the country. If you do not know me or if you have never read this blog before I was in the Spokane Comedy Competition a couple of years ago and lost in the semi final round. I have, ever since that day, tried to figure out what exactly caused me to lose that thing. Was it the material? Was it the fact that I was scared out of my mind? I don't know. But all I do know is that I felt, deep in my heart, I could have won the thing. The 1st and 2ND place takers were a duo comedy team and an Asian. I felt both of their material was marginal and not original but they won (that is what happens when you let drunks do the voting). I was devastated to say the least! All I could do was walk to my car in utter silence and go over my material again and again in my head. The thing that I came up with was that the reason I felt I did not make it to the finals was because I tried to be everything to everybody. during that whole 10 minutes I didn't do one thing that I felt suited me. I like technology monkeys and Asian porn but I did nothing on those topics.
So that leads me to this upcoming competition and I am older and wiser in this thing called comedy, but the past still lingers and taps me on my shoulder just to let me know of what I did last time and I wonder why I even put myself through this. Every time I think about this damn thing I get all nervous and I start to sweat. I have been making people laugh with great effect for the past two years, but you never know about these competitions. You could get all nervous and forget a joke or you could just be in a show and have to perform 1st (when you perform first people tend to forget about you) or be at a show and it is filled to the brim with another comics' friends and family. When I was auditioning last night all I could think of was just doing my best and it will work out in the end. Because when you are a comic the main thing you have to be sure of before you get on stage is that your jokes are funny and you know how to tell them to make them funny. If you don't know if it is a funny joke you may not say it with the confidence needed to get people to laugh. I just have to remember some things that I have been using the past couple of years to make people laugh and show my confidence on stage. First, I need to show the crowd that I own the stage. If they know that you are not messing around here they will focus on you and your jokes and that will make the jokes work better. Second, I need to use my best jokes from the get go. Last time I tried to use my middle jokes to get to the finals, that doesn't work. It is a competition so I have to make sure I use my best 15 minutes and then if I make it to the finals use my finisher to polish off my act. And last I need to just remember to have fun and not worry about the money. Last time I had my mind on the money the whole time and that made me even more nervous then I needed to be. When you are having fun the crowd has fun and they will then laugh harder because you always laugh really hard at your friend then when a total stranger tells you a joke. But if I am on stage and I get them thinking of me not as a comic but as their friend telling jokes in the living room then I think I have just as good a chance as anyone else in bringing home the cash.
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