Photo Phriday

Before we get to the photo, I have something subconscious to work out.
I think I am crossing my Katie’s at the moment.

Last night in my dream I was with the Ateh Crew seeing out dear friend Katie Thompson sing her guts out at a concert. Expecting to hear my favorite, “What Turns You On?” only to get Katy Perry’s, “I kissed a girl,” was truly shocking then the plot thickens I wake up turn on the Today Show and there is Katy Perry singing said song. WTF!! I mean I have always had a touch of ESP but how have the channels in my mind and the stations on TV synced up?

Clearly I need to put down the remote and go outside. I guess somewhere in my neurons things got crossed, Katie Thompson is in LA mounting R.R.R.E.D the Musical Manifesto and you can’t escape the song of the summer, it’s been playing on repeat in my mind for months. I mean I can’t complain, being surrounded by hot, funny, talented woman is a gift that just keeps on giving.

So as we head into the last weekend of summer and face fall full frontal I am ready for anything cuz it can’t get much worse.

That being said wish me luck, I’m headed to Atlantic City for the first time to celebrate my co-blogger and partner in crime, Vinnie Costa’s 40th Birthday!! We’ve been friends since I was a budding young comic and were brought together by a slice of room temperature pizza. Best investment I ever made…so blow on my bones mama needs a new pair of shoes!!

Watching...

Watching your friends succeed gives me more joy than I can stand. Last night I watched my friend, Erin Foley rock the Hudson Theatre in New York City as she taped her Comedy Central Presents special. It was truly an amazing experience and I am so glad that Julia, Jake & Madeleine got to share it with me.

Kicking off the night with “Fallin off the Porches” at Virgil’s BBQ set the tone which was in a word was “banging”. Per the usual there was a warm up host who did a great job in getting us ready to laugh. Once we got our instructions, i.e. “don’t look in the cameras, if you are sitting with someone that isn’t your spouse move, & above all have a good time” they introduced Erin and the roof officially blew off the joint. We made so much noise that I’m sure NJ heard us. Erin did 30mins of her funniest stuff that I have heard over the years and new material that must have blossomed after she moved to LA two years ago. With grace and ease she kept the laughter right on point hitting every punchline outta the park.

Julia, Jake & Mads were losing it and I loved every minute. By the time she left the stage I didn’t think things could get much “higher” then they said they had another comic and we all looked at each other like, “what?” I’m exhausted there is no way I am going to be able to laugh anymore. However, Chris Porter delivered and we busted a gut to his crazy insights to life, love and pot. What else is there really? Hahaha.

We left the theatre fully spent, and headed to the after party. It was a great night. One that I will not soon forget, keeping it close in my heart and mind to make sure I stay on the path to a night of my own.

Always behind the 8 ball

So I randomly asked the magic eight ball, “is love around the corner or near by?” My incased plastic response…“Don’t count on it.”

Lovely…not only am I desperate for attention I am now asking a clearly delusional child’s toy for answers. Mattel you can suck it….and that is decidedly so!

Photo Phriday!! The Remix

Per Vinnie Costa’s suggestion (in order to increase reader traffic) I am changing the spelling of my Photo Friday to Photo Phriday. Apparently the blogging world has their own dictionary which I am sure will send Webster and my Mother spinning in their graves.

However, I Brandy Rowell being a “joiner” will follow my friend’s advice and sub come to “blog conformist pressure” so my blog will not be like that tree in the woods; or as Vinnie likes to put it, “and that is why we write, right, for others to read? I, of course, do it for the attention...” A true poet after my own attention starved heart.

I am considering taking on yet another creative project. After being exposed to an artist named “Banksy” I feel inspired to become a graffiti artist a “burner or tagger” if you will. But not in a vulgar sense of random filth or rage but as a means to invoke thought. Banksy has been a mystery on the walls and streets of England for more than 3 decades. He is political, thoughtful, humorous, morose and provoking. After seeing some of his work and how powerful the images are, it seems to me that arts natural evolution is to break free of the museum establishment and go back out into the world where everyman can see it. I invite you to “google” the mystery burner and see for yourself….here are a few of my favorites:

RITZRAT


GUANTANEMO


KISSING COPPERS


THERE'S ALWAYS HOPE

One More Time from the Top!

Below you will find a brief interlude with my current and steady Sunday night date, Mad Men. Shameless self promotion is one thing, but schilling for a show you aren’t even remotely connected to is true love.

At least in the television listing in my mind….enjoy! If you get hooked let me know there's always room for one more at my house on Sunday nights.

Dinner will be served.