a new Covers Collection

It's been a while since I've had a music post. I've been listening to a lot of older stuff lately. Mainly, stuff I used to listen to in junior high and high school. Instead of making a compilation of that music (which not many people will enjoy) - I thought I'd compile a new COVERS Collection. I've always been a fan of covers, so here's my early 2010 Covers Compilation:
2010 Covers
01)One Line Drawing - savory (jawbox)
02)Primus - making plans for nigel (xtc)
03)Robbers on High Street - cool it now (new edition)
04)J Church - last of the famous international playboys (morrissey)
05)Vampire Weekend - everywhere (fleetwood mac)
06)Elliott Smith - trouble (cat stevens)
07)Local Natives - warning sign (talking heads)
08)Mates of State - starman (david bowie)
09)the Faint - mote (sonic youth)
10)Parenthetical Girls - handsome devil (the smiths)
11)the Cardigans - iron man (black sabbath)
12)Matt Pond PA - holiday road (lindsey buckingham)
13)Grizzly Bear - he hit me (and it felt like a kiss) (the Crystals)
14)Antony & the Johnsons - crazy in love (Beyonce)
15)Lou Barlow - cold as ice (foreigner)
16)the Futureheads - hounds of love (kate bush)
17)Spoon - peace like a river (paul simon)
18)Of Montreal - friends of mine (the zombies)
19)Jawbox - cornflake girl (tori amos)
20)the Go Team! - bull in the heather (sonic youth)
21)the Last Shadow Puppets - in the heat of the morning (david bowie)
22)Lackthereof - what a fool believes (michael mcdonald)
23)Man Man - I'd rather go blind (etta james)
24)Koufax - steppin' out (joe jackson)
25)TV on the Radio - mr. grieves (pixies)

Weak End

It's finally gotten back to "winter" here in Portland. Rain and grey skies for a few days. Still, we're not buried under a few feet of snow like everyone on the East coast, so that's good. Stacey and I did our first show outside the theater last night. Since we opened our place it's rare that we ever have a night off from it, but last night we went to the Woods and performed a few pieces of our sketch show. It was nice of the folks at Backfence PDX to ask us to play. The Woods is a cool place in SoutEast. So cool, in fact that Isaac Brock was there hanging out. He stopped us near the bar and told us what we did was neat. It's pretty hilarious to get a compliment from a half-drunken Isaac Brock. The night was a lot of fun and we made a lot of great connections. It's nice to be getting recognized for what we love doing.

Another Sunny Afternoon

somebody is happy outside. It's a beautiful February here in Portland Oregon. We're going to see the Magnetic Fields tonight! It's wonderful!!!

gorgeous

Oh my. It's been a lovely few days here in Portland. 60 degrees and sunny. I took the little guy out for a walk and had to take a picture of his cute, smiling face.
Stacey has been working in New York all week, so I've been running the theater all by myself (totally not true, we have a great crew of folks that put in a lot of awesome work - so thank you Laura, Greg, KT, Gabe and everyone else) But I'll tell you, it's exhausting. Now I have to get ready to do a show tonight, and the premiere of Jonah Weston's show 'The Devil and Billy Markham'. Get ready weekend... we're going to take you down.

Valentimes

What a fun Saturday night the Curious Comedy Theater had last night.
I have some video of it, but haven't uploaded or looked at it... perhaps I will in the future. Probably not, but let's say I will.
Anywho - it was the first time we offered a special 'Dinner & a Show' at the theater for Valentines Day. Our awesome executive director Laura and a student of ours, Sean worked together to prepare one heck of a meal for the 14 folks who bought the special.
We also sold about 40 more tickets at the door. It was a pretty incredible night.
Nate & Nathan played with us, Stacey and I put on an improvised Jean Louis show and we did a great monologue based group show in the middle. It was super fun and enjoyed by all.
10 pm saw the Garden of Curious, our kids show for adults which featured one of our new, favorite games: Celebrity Vagimathics (remember, the Garden of Curious is a Kids Show for Adults... rated R)

Celebrity Vagimathics! from Curious Comedy on Vimeo.

I could tell we offended a few audience members last night, but we warned 'em before we started!
Stacey and I finally got home around 1 am, only to return to the theater at 9:30 this morning to put on the KIDS VERSION of the kids show (which didn't include the video above)... And now we're trying to relax and celebrate Valentines Day.
Sheesh.

bumper stickers

Classy! right? Ah well. I got some Curious Comedy bumper stickers made. We have finally made it! Valentines Day Weekend. We got some comedy for the lovers!

The Boats Go

They do.

February

Hey everybody,
It's February. Things are a'happening. We've had a lot of great shows and audiences at the theater. We got a valentine's day special with dinner and a show. It's going to be ridiculous. That's this Saturday. You should be there! Blammo!