Wrestlemania
Show us a beverage you absolutely can't stand the taste of.
That would be wine. I can drink it. I can pick up on the notes. I can do all of that and appreciate it. I just don't like it. I really dislike reds.
What do you think is too serious to joke around about?
I don't think there is a single subject that fits that. George Carlin did a bit where be addressed this topic.
I believe you can joke about anything. It all depends on how you construct the joke. What the exaggeration is. Because every joke needs one exaggeration. Every joke needs one thing to be way out of proportion.
If I was to add anything to this, it would have to be timing. There has to be a little time between when an event happens and when people are OK to joke about it. Of course, this varies with individuals, but there always has to be a little time.
Here's an example- at the Hugh Hefner Friar's Club Roast in late 2001, Gilbert Gottfried started his bit off with a joke about 9/11. As he started, the crowd started to grumble and someone out in the audience yelled "too soon". So here you have a room full of the funniest people in the world and they aren't too keen on a 9/11 joke that close to when the event happened.
Fortunately, Gilbert changed directions and went into a telling of The Aristocrats that was not only cathartic to the crowd, but also is now regarded as one of the best renditions of that joke ever.
The wife scored 4 comp tix to the Blue Man Group show at Universal. She wasn't able to go, so I went with Doug, Bekki, and Colleen.
I picked the kid up after work, drove to the wife's office and traded him for the tickets. Then I headed over to Universal and made my way into their wonderfully designed and organized parking structures.
Heading into City Walk, I ran into tons and tons of people. Kinda odd for this time of year. Then I saw production trailers set up off to the side and stage scaffolding down by the water. Evidently Ellen had set up shop for the week. I looked across the lake at Hard Rock and there were tons of people over there too. I guess they were hoping to be seen in long shots or to catch a glimpse of Ellen or some other celeb.
Fortunately, there weren't tons of people inside Hard Rock at the bar and I was able to go in and grab a seat to wait for the others to show.
Doug called about 15 minutes later and they were stuck in the parking garage mess. I suggested that he take the option I did to avoid it, but he was scared of a security guard (one that I just waved at as I went on) and followed the masses.
About 15 minutes later, I went outside and called to see where he was. They were just rounding the bend and we all went back into Hard Rock for a shot.
The Blue Man theater is right next door. We walked over and went right in about 7 minutes before curtain. Another crowd of people had gathered outside waiting to get into one of the other soundstages for a live broadcast of TNA Wrestling.... which was 3 hours later.
In Sept. 06, Eileen and I saw their show at the Venetian in Vegas. I really enjoyed the show there and had high expectations for the show here. While I did enjoy the show last night, it wasn't as good as the Vegas show.
The Blue Man theater is in what used to be the Nickelodeon soundstage (GUTS and a bunch of those other Nick game shows from the 90's were filmed there). The theater was a bit smaller than the one in Vegas. I noticed that the stage was smaller as well... and I think that this was my source of dissapointment (that's not really the right word because I did like the show).
The backing band only consisted of 4 people. I think the Vegas show had 10 or more people. More people = more sound.
The smaller stage seemed to also limit the multimedia effects that they used in Vegas. There weren't as many projections on different screens or on set pieces.
It also seemed that this show contained more of the comedy bits than actual percussion performance. Drumming with paint splattering everywhere was there. Their PVC instrument was there. The drumbone was there. But overall there was less music (with a smaller band, that may be why)
I'd reccomend this show to those who aren't able to make it out to Vegas (haven't seen any of the other shows in other cities). I'd totally go see it here again, but probably would only do so if the wife scores comp tix again.
Share the song that most makes you think of "disco."
I can't narrow it down, but here is my favorite cover of a disco classic.
