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Tina Fey! Mindy Kaling! Me?

2/28/2012

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Once upon a time (and by that I mean last year), I started working with this super awesome amazing wonderful fantastic <insert superlative here> theatre/sketch comedy group called Our Bar because ya know what?  I’m damn funny.  Not to toot my own horn, but, Oh eff that.  I’m tooting away.  In fact, I’ll say it again.  I’m damn funny.  Not only can and do I appreciate comedy, but I understand it.  I get what is funny, and more than that, I get WHY it’s funny.  I’ve got great timing too!  When it comes to being funny in real life, I’m alright.  I’ll never be that hilarious center-of-attention class-clown type funny, but I’ve got some wit to me.  Mostly, though, I’m pretty damn weird and don’t mind sharing my weirdness, which is usually pretty good for a laugh or two.   

The way Our Bar works is there is a theme every month and anyone can contribute a scene.  After the first month I participated, I thought, dude.  I can TOTALLY write a 3 minute scene.  C’mon!  I’m damn funny!  Let’s do this!  So I sat down in front of my computer…..and stared at Microsoft Word.  Not a single word was typed.  Then I watched a ton of Community.  Because, hey, if I couldn’t be funny, I could at least watch people that were (P.S. How awesome is it that the show is coming back March 15??? EEEEE!  Happiness!!). 

So that was the beginning and end of my NYC writing career.  UNTIL!  A friend I worked with asked me to join in a different sketch comedy show that he and his friends were putting on through his production company.  I had a freaking blast and I ended up making friends with a few of the guys involved.  I thought they were hilarious.  They thought I was...not horrible.  They asked me to join in writing a web series with them.  And since I’d had quite a few adult beverages that evening, I said yes. 

I read Mindy Kaling’s
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?  I read Tina Fey’s Bossypants.  Yes, I said, YES!  I am just like them!  I am a funny chick making my own work!  I just took a class with Jessica Daniels, the assistant casting director on 30 Rock!  I’m gonna rule the comedy world!  I AM WOMAN HEAR ME (MAKE OTHERS) ROAR (WITH LAUGHTER)!!!!!

So back I came to the computer.  And I opened up Microsoft Word.  And I said, that’s it!  Today is the day I write a webisode!  And it will be funny!  And both Tina Fey and Mindy Kaling will see it and fight over whether they’ll put me in 30 Rock or The Office (and Tina would win since 30 Rock films in NY, but don’t worry Mindy, I’d totally fly out to LA to be on The Office.  Plus, I think Mindy and I would be awesome friends.  Call me!)!  And then….I totally watched Revenge on Hulu because it’s the best guilty pleasure ever.  And then some Downton Abbey because Matthew Crawley is the dreamiest dreamboat whoever dared exist.  And now I have to mop the drool off my keyboard.  Awkward.  (Remember that part in the beginning of the post when I said I was weird and wasn’t afraid of my weirdness showing?)

Ok, so.  That attempt at writing didn’t go as well as I’d hoped.  But you know what?  I showed up to the writers meetings.  And while mostly I sat there and laughed hysterically at the other incredibly hilarious writers, I contributed a thing or two.  Surprisingly, they all still respect me and my opinion (man, have I got them fooled!).    Later this week, I’m meeting with one of the guys to write a webisode together and I think I’ll fare better.  I’ve got some great ideas (and by “great ideas” I simply mean “ideas”) and at the very least, with someone else there I won’t fall into a Sherlock/Benedict Cumberbatch-induced Netflix K-hole.

Hopefully it’ll be funny, but hey, if not?  We’ll just take it to the writers meeting where the others can punch it up with some really good jokes of their own.  I’m not above taking the credit for other people’s hilarity.  Who knows?  With that behind me, perhaps I’ll then grow the balls the write a scene for Our Bar.  Or…maybe I’ll just watch some more episodes of The Vampire Diaries.  The last one ended with such a cliffhanger! 

SHAMELESS PLUG: Come see me in Our Bar the first Wednesday of every month (MARCH 7th!!!) at Failte Irish Whiskey Bar on 2nd Ave between 20th and 30th! Two shows- 7pm and 9pm. 

$10 at the door AND you get a free bud light!! Who doesn’t like bud light (besides people who have actual good taste in beer.  AKA- not me! Bring on the budlight!!)????  Also, don’t worry.  I spent entirely too much time watching TV online this month to attempt to write a
scene so I promise it will be hilarious. 
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Rebecca Recommends!

2/12/2012

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I had a tough time coming up with a blog post this week.  I've had so much going on in life lately, but yet nothing that I really wanted to sit down and write about.  So instead of telling a tale or two, I figured I'd share with you all some things I'm very much a fan of!  Perhaps I'll make this an ongoing thing.  Mostly because I love the alliteration of Rebecca Recommends ...and the fact that recommends has 2 m's in it.  I just love that for some reason.  Anyway, onto the recommendations! 

First of all, I seem to have a lot of fellow Aquarius friends as I have been celebrating a lot of birthdays lately.  And with birthdays, comes delicious food, particularly dessert.  One place in particular I went to for the lovely birthday of miss Katie Bland was ChikaLicious Dessert Bar. For $16, you can get a pre fixe beginning with an amuse, a dessert of your choice, and an assortment of petits fours.  For an additional $8, they have a wine pairing.  It's described as American Desserts, French Presentation, and Japanese tasting portions.  The menu changes daily, but I highly recommend the warm chocolate tart with pink peppercorn ice cream and red wine sauce, not to mention the delicious Churchill Graham Reserve Port that goes with it.   I hear the Fromage Blanc Island "Cheese cake" is also quite delicious.  In fact, our waiter described it as "spooning into a cloud".    Yes, please.

Honorable mention in the dessert world goes to Ayza Wine and Chocolate Bar.  Great place for a lovely romantic date, or a great girls night out!  My personal favorites were the roasted French Brie Crouton and the warm chocolate molten cake.  Then again, I've never been one able to resist any kind of warm chocolate cake topped with ice cream. 

I've also been listening to a lot of new tunes lately, particularly the latest album by Ingrid Michaelson, Human Again.  I've never been a huge Ingrid Michaelson fan.  She's fine, pleasant enough to listen to.  It's nice background music.  But for some reason, this new album has gotten under my skin and I can't seem to stop listening to it!  I'm no music critic and I couldn't tell you what exactly it is about this particular album that has grabbed me, but I do highly recommend checking it out, especially if you dig singer/songwriters. 

Finally, my favorite recommendation of all.  If you've spent any time at all with me in person this week, you've probably heard me raving about the book I was reading, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.  I saw Julie Plec, the fantastically talented writer producer of The Vampire Diaries (which I also love and is another recommendation for another day) tweeting about it and so I had to check it out. You guys.  This book.  Wow.  From the moment I started the book, I wanted to do absolutely nothing except read it.  But at the same time, I didn't want to read it too quickly because then it would be over.  It's been a long time since a book has made me fall in love with it as hard as this book has.  The description on Amazon does not do it justice. This book made me laugh out loud with it's dark and twisted humor (my favorite kind!) one moment, then left me sobbing the next.  The book goes from being incredibly cerebral, completely up in your head and then BOOM.  The author will write one line that's pure heart that just smacks you in the gut because you're not expecting it at all.  The language is absolutely breathtaking at times and while it's listed as a Young Adult novel, adults can find just as much (if not more) pleasure in it.  I can not recommend this book enough.  In fact, I may have to go and reread it now. 

So there you have it!  A few of my current favorites.  What about you?  What favorites do you all have at the moment? 


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