Kayos

     Here I am in Bend Oregon for a couple nights. I got a hotel room that shares the parking lot with the venue, very convenient. It was a very nice drive as well, passing through the mountains and watching the scenery change was very cathartic. My new car made the trip here fine with no hiccups. And buy new car I mean 1988 Honda Civic haha, follow your dreams people.
    The venue itself was the basement of a restaurant called Kayos. It could hold about a 100, maybe 120. Had dark brown walls and nice ambient lighting and a fireplace, with a tiny little stage right in the front. It's a very intimate venue, very laid back and fun to perform in. It was a great young audience of about 45 people showed up, and most of them were pretty attentive. There was a group of extremely drunk people in the back of the room, and they were just a little rowdy and wild and did not give a fuck... But that's what happens on the road. And they weren't too bad, it's not like they really disrupted the show.
    A lot of people came up to me afterwards and told me they like me, that I was the best comedian, and a couple of Cougars told me I was a cute redhead... So all in all a great night.

Tonic Lounge

    I haven't been on the tonic lounge showcase in awhile, it was good to be back on that stage. Solid lineup, all of the comics did great. And a pretty decent audience filling up the room.
    They have a new X Men pinball machine, to replace the Guns N Roses pinball machine. I'm not a fan. They need to get like 6 or 7 pinball machines in that back room. But that's just me.
     My cell it pretty well, the time flew by. I didn't even get to my closer before I had to leave the stage, I don't know what happened haha.

Fun house lounge

    Here I am at the big top, three rings, fun house lounge...good new venue. This place has a cool circus vibe to it, with crazy mirrors and paintings of clowns covering the walls. I don't come here as often as I should but now I have a car so...here I am.
    I watch my friends do their time and eventually go on. My set is pretty terrible, but I do have a good new joke about a Tom Hanks dream...Ill keep it.
    I head out and drive to Tonic Lounge for another show and watch my friends kill it. Twas a great show, Tim Hammer headlined and did nothing short of destroy it...he is awesome. Ill be on the tonic show next week so I will try to bring the heat.

Harveys....

   Ive been at Harveys this week, doing 8 shows. All of them have gone great, Saturday all three shows were sold out. I had the chance to perform in front of 800 people! And luckily my sets were on point haha. This is been a good week for me and comedy, I hope I can keep the momentum going...

Harveys....

    Wednesday show at Harveys, first show of the week and there's a decent crowd. About 60 maybe 70 people are here, and there with it. I do my job posting, tell some old jokes that I haven't told in over a year and they go surprisingly well. It's a bit of an older audience, but all of the old guys are clapping after every one of my stories, manners are important god damnit!
    After the show we doing open mic, where 15 comics show up to each 3 minutes on stage. About half the crowd stays around for the first half of the open mic but by the end theres maybe 10 people in the audience. Regardless it went surprisingly well.
    Now I'm at Brody Theater for a little no joke November action. Hopefully things will go well but if not, fuck it...the show must go on...

Capitol City Theater

    This was an interesting night, I got a ride up to Salem with a couple of my favorite comedians, Nariko and Dan. A brisk 45 minute drive and we arrived in downtown Salem. Yay Salem.
    We walked into the small theater, which is in the basement and seats about 60 people. A very dark video, which is perfect for comedy. We all sat in the green room and talk shit for an hour or so until it was time to go on. Dan was really worried about doing his religious material because he assumed there was going to be a conservative crowd but boy was the wrong. The host, Jared opened up this show with a volley of Jesus jokes and the crowd was with it so day and of course followed suit. His se Nariko set was amazing as well as you would expectriko set was amazing as well as you would expect.
     I was the headliner, and was told to do around 30 minutes... I got off the stage after 50, I just lost track of time. And I'm not saying it was amazing 50 minutes either, because it wasn't. The first 25 or so felt great, everything was landing and the crowd although small we're definitely laughing. Then I got nothing on my clothes are so kind of just kept going... For another 25 minutes haha. I didn't realize I was up there so long, I was just going through all my material and shooting the shit and it went decent. I would give the second half of my set C-.
   Definitely a fun night, and I learned quite a bit about some of my older stories. It gave me the bump I needed on my Old Navy bit. Productive.

Boiler Room

    I've had a great weekend at Helium, but now it's time to start off a new week. Being that its Monday, there's no where better to be the Boiler Room. I've been coming here pretty frequently ever since I started.                                Tonight, to mix it up a bit I ate some mushrooms about 2 hours prior to my set. Not a lot, about half an eighth of shrooms, which was enough to get me feeling pretty alright. Last time I ate rooms I did an entire 8th and freaked out a little bit, so I toned it down. The night with smoothly, I went up there with a blank slate and just made up a story about how it would be fun to be rich in turn into a super villain, only committing non jailable offenses, like tripping people and hitting kids. The story morph into how I in turn would actually be a superhero as people would be lining up around the street for me to kick their babies so that they could sue and be rich. It seemed funny at the time.

Helium...

    Last week I had the pleasure of hosting at Helium Comedy Club for my good friend Tommy Pope and headlining was Andy Kindler, who is a fantastic comedian to work with. Me and Tommy have worked together before last time he was in town, a high-octane dude, he's down for some shit. We ended up at Sassy's one night, the next night he slept on my couch after killing it at the Midnight Mass show @ Funhouse Lounge.
     Andy Kindler was one of the nicest and most down to earth professional comedians I have met. He watched all of my sets and enjoyed it, he talked to me a lot in the green room about family and his start in comedy. He really treated me like an equal, which is refreshing to see with some of the bigger names in comedy. I've never worked with anyone that was totally shitty, but Andy was by far the nicest.
    The shows went very well, the Tuesday night open mic was awesome, a lot of new faces in the last couple of months, I'm one of the old guys in comedy now. After the open mic I went to the White Owl with a couple of friends / fellow comics and we had a good time talking shit till 1 a.m. or so.
    I haven't gotten any new helium dates yet, but hopefully with the last couple shows I will be hearing back from them soon. I really feel like I'm making progress.

Midnight Mass

    Midnight Mass at the Funhouse Lounge has become my favorite show to watch. Held every last Saturday of the month at midnight, and it's free! Definitely a must watch.
    I was fortunate enough to be booked on this month, with the awesome Amy Miller hosting, this show runs smoothly and is full of laughs. Everybody has a great set, everybody's wearing Halloween costumes as well, but I brought a backpack full of Skittles so I was the only one handing out candy haha. I win.
    As usual, Curtis Cook killed it. He was dressed as a 6-foot-5 Oscar the Grouch, and was ranting about his misogynistic thoughts and such. That guy is the shit.
    I felt like myself went really well too, I wish I had recorded it. I got laughs in all the right places, and it feels good when you see your work pay off in such a fun way.