Our first show.

Hi,
Kieran here! Crazy times on Sunday night. At 8pm it seemed like nobody would show up to our first show. So out of desparation, we let people drinking up stairs down in for free. Basically guilted them into it by saying, if you don't come we'll have to cancel the show. I gave them low expectations. I said you don't have to laugh and it is only 50 minutes, we just need an audience and then 11 people came down. Low expectations worked. Laura and I just had fun on stage and everything went well. We've got to do low expectations more often. Some said they will come again, bring friends and pay! The world is weird! So the moral is don't believe the hype, believe the low hype.
Peace,
K

Show starts tonight!

Not a particularly original title, I've give you that, but it's true! Yes, Unfinished Business makes its debut at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival tonight, Sunday 3rd April. Am I nervous? Why, yes, a little. I think we should be ok as long as we don't forget any lines or Kieran doesn't start ranting on in a philosphical tone about how time and life is just a construct. "We are all humans man but being human can make us inhuman and we should celebrate inhumanity as equally as we celebrate humanity." Well, I paraphrase...Anyway, please come and watch the show because the only thing that will make it work will be an audience!

Laura

Blog hog.

Hey Laura,

I not being a blog hog. I just feel that because my blogs are shorter, I can write more. I don't know what this blog is going to be about. I think it will be mostly about how tonight is our first show night for Unfinished Business. Rock n Roll! Currently I'm listening to Madonna - Into the Groove. This song is definatel getting me into the groove. I'm now listening to Eye of the Tiger. I'm definately feeling like I can take on anything in my way! I now can't blog anymore because I'm so pumped I've turned into Rocky and he is only good at boxing!

Alright...later comrades.

K to the ieran.

Body and soul...

You have to listen to your body and my body says relax. I'm not spiritual but I believe in letting go of identity attatchment, ie the judgmental voice in your head. We all deep down know our mortality so life is finite but still connected to the universe. However, because our conscious does not know why it is here, it has so many thoughts that distract it from the truth. However, this is not a truthful way of living. To live more deeply be really present in the moment....ok...I've read Eckart Tolle stuff and I just feel more at peace because of it. It makes the things that people identify as important meaningless and the grand spectrum of the universe and now I feel more connected and at peace with my place in it.

I'll end on a quote by Charles Darwin given to me by my brother: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
All humans should live by this mantra!

Peace, K.

Waiting for Kieran

Hopefully it turns out better for me than those poor unfortunates who were waiting for Godot. We are supposed to be going out tonight for a friend's birthday but Kieran hasn't come home from work yet. Something about the trains, whatever! We had a dress rehearsal for the show last night and it went fairly well. I've just been distracted by thoughts of reviews and awards and bad reviews and no awards. I have to stop being pessimistic. Let's go over what the next week holds for me...work, work and work including some mummifying experiences, rehearsal and the opening of the show, my brother coming to visit from Perth and a lot of stress and take-aways...ah, the life of a comedian!

Laura