The Ho and I just got back from seeing a show in Los Feliz with some of her cast mates that was a lot of fun. Jason Kravitz, I believe is his name – he was a guest star on their show and he was genuinely hilarious. He did an improv cabaret which was very impressive. We were rolling our eyes at some of the suggestions the audience had written down…seriously, like, SO HARD…and he still killed it. And a couple of Liz’s cast mates are improv veterans and they were impressed.
It’s really the musicality of that kind of improv that really impresses me. It’s definitely not something that I can do, or at least that I have any sort of natural inclination towards…which, actually, isn’t ENTIRELY true since the Ho and I actually play that kind of game all the time, making songs up on the fly…usually about Cooper and Coco…so, I guess what I mean is that it’s massively impressive to me because I recognize how incredibly hard it is to do, and how much time, training, anc practice one has to put in to make improvisational singing actually work and make sense, and be as impressive at it was to watch Jason do.
Today was not a super productive day, but that’s okay. I’m approaching my burnout threshold right now, and I know its because I’m alllmmmooosssttttt done with this fucking novel rewrite. Like, seriously…probably 10-20 hours of work away from the end, and that’s simultaneously an exciting and energizing place to be and a fucking exhausting place to be. It’s taken so much work to get to this point, you know, any road bump or anything that takes a bit of extra time to get done just feel like Mount fucking Kilamanjaro. But, here we are. Almost done, nonetheless.
Narrations needed to be done this weekend, and they weren’t. I did work on some Netflix stuff, but I am woefully behind in that regard. That will be fixed tomorrow. Two projects to finish in that regard tomorrow, wish me luck. Gonna be a long day tomorrow, I can feel it already.
Anywho…I’ll leave with this: I’m grateful to be close to finishing. Genuinely. As much as I complain…I’ve worked consistently on what’s actually important to me now for a couple weeks straight, and I feel like a different person ever since making the decision I made to commit to writing. So, that’s amazing. It’s hard work, yes, and I’m feeling a bit tired and burned out, yes…but I’m also very, very happy. And very determined. So, that’s good. It’s great, actually.
I’ll catch you kids on the flip. Here’s Jason, and to all the incredibly talented performers out there who work so hard to entertain us. I love you!