I hear this line quite often from people.
“You shouldn’t be thinking about things like that”
Well….Too late….And I am not putting them back.
I like getting ideas out there. And then playing around with them to see what I may come with. Unfortunately, I am finding it harder and harder to find people willing to play along with me on this. It is better to just plug in the ear buds and laugh out loud to myself. And that really freaks people out.
It is what has drawn me into listening to comedians.
Bill Burr’s Monday Morning Podcast
Jim Florentine’s Comedy Metal Midgets
I want to mention two new specials that are right now streaming through Netflix.
Comedians many times make observations of what is going on in the world around them. However, when a comedian takes that same observation skill and turns it on himself the results can be painfully awkward. Mike Birbiglia has that ability in his last special he dealt with his own sleepwalking habit. This time with My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend he is trying to explain the dynamics of his love live. One that seems to have more “valleys” then “peaks” to it. How can he seek something he does not fully believe in for himself?
I think we secretly relate more to awkward pain with others. However, when someone else points it out it lets people release some form “cathartic laughter”.
Next is Doug Stanhope. A comedian who if you do not have some form of a “internal mental spine” then you best avoid listening to him. A “narrow mind” will cave in with his material. He goes to “the edge” and from there goes “cannonballing straight in the Abyss”. In real life, he lives in Bisbee, Arizona . It is a small town near the border with Mexico. It may reflect a person who is on the edge with the humor might as well live close to edge of the United States then.
His latest special is Beer Hall Putsch. Yes, he named his special after the Hitler’s failed 1923 uprising. He goes with usual “acidic wit” in this special. Example to watch for: Comparing Scientology to the Occupy Movement as in which one actually works. And his mother’s dying of cancer bit is surely not for the “sensitive”.
Let go.
Take walk on the edge.
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