Venue: Newmarket Hotel
Date: 25 October, 2010
Three things made this performance interesting
-The girls from open mic 4.5 were in the audience tonight, seeing me live
-I was the last one to go on tonight. Literally the last. Usually, they reserve that spot for someone like Mark Mead or Shayne Hunter, but tonight it was me. This doesn't mean I'm as good as them, rather the guy who was supposed to be last canceled.
-I wasn't fully in control
That last bullet point needs some explaining. Imagine being rather drunk, to the point where your mouth is saying things but your brain hasn't yet decided if it's a good idea to say those things. It felt a little like that, only minus the drunkenness. I don't know if it's me getting caught up in the moment, or something a little more insidious.
What I do know is that I dropped some new material (a lot of which was actually old material. In other words, 17-year-old me was in charge for a lot of the show.) and it went over well. I also reworked the secondhand smoker joke, to great success.
I think I need to slow things down a little. Maybe that will give me the control I'm looking for.
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