A quick post will suffice today and it is one that makes sense. The last year or so I have been searching for my meaning on this planet. For most I know, this has already happened and careers have been started. Guess you can say I am a late bloomer because it hasn't all came together for me that easily but the moment seems to be the moment right now. When I was younger I wanted to be a basketball player, that faded out in high school. Lost and confused because I was not gifted with the capabilities of Michael Jordan, I ran a muck through my early college years by acting a fool. Today I have had some clarity on what I will do with me life, but it has come to me several times in different forms. Those forms have come in self medicated trances of mental clarity that have always pointed to one thing, comedy or the word comic. Yes I will be finishing school trained in illustration but comedy seems to find it's way to me more often than not. Some sort of comedy will be my way out, that I know but what form. I have done a bit of stand up and writing jokes seems fun, however the idea of reciting them is just not for me. I wish it was, but it is not. I put too much into the joke and can go over the top, plus it doesn't seem fluent. Maybe I sound hard on myself but I always found myself more of a situational funny opposed to a pre-funny person. I am in most aspects a lazy man when it comes to the 9-5 work community, I just don't believe in that sort of life. Not for me and that is fine. Yet it gets me wondering what do I want to do, what is going to ultimately pay my bills and then it clicked. I will just be a funny man and see where that takes me. I can act in any sort of way to anyone whenever need be without batting an eye and pull it off as sincere. Sounds horrible but that is my gift. I don't use this to enforce negativity I am a baron of the light. I have the talent to come up with stories of great depth real or not real while living a life where situations happen that to others would seem fiction. COMIC.....
Then I watched an episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with special guest Alec Baldwin and boom, it all clicked! Really it was always in front of me. I can be a funny man, not have to write my own stuff and when I do, it will be at my own terms. The way Alec Baldwin is funny, I like, the way Larry David just improvs is genius. Who needs structure and rules when the purest art is spontaneous. I'm not comparing myself to these brilliant men, no, not at all. I simply am admiring the art they have perfected and am striving to fit in a spot of that universe. Today with the internet and social media, traditional ways to get yourself out their is a thing of the past. Yes hard work does need to occur but the ability to make it happen lies in your hands more than any other time. That's all really, thought I would get that out of me as it makes me feel better. Today I will be seeing Hannibal Burress at DePaul to learn something from a very funny person and best of all he is from Chicago. I know I want to make comics or a form of that art. I know I want to do comedy. So I'm just going to continue to do both.
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