Driving into Burlington downtown after Colton’s season premiere hockey game (lost to Burlington, 5-0, fuck!) I considered how few cities there are where pedestrians are so ubiquitous and convenient multilane vehicular streets so few. “Walking district” easily describes the majority of downtown. Getting people out of their cars is a fundamental ingredient in the recipe for a good community. It also doesn’t hurt that the town is so tiny that you can scarcely spend half and hour around the pedestrian epicenter of Church Street without bumping into someone you know. In this case, I spotted Alicia before I even parked the car, and thus we palled around for another weekend day.
Alicia and I think we’re really fucking funny, especially together. I riff off every bizarre joke and out-of-bounds idea that flies out of her head, which they do at an alarming rate, and the results are as absurd as when a dancing cow unexpectedly runs by in the background of a suddenly erupting party scene during Sesame Street. You’ve seen that happen, right? Even though I have the goofy grin and I generate more jokes per minute, I’m the Straight Man to Alicia’s Zany Guy, since my job is to make sense of her nearly inhumanly random sense of humor, turning abrupt corners multiple times per sentence. Today we decided to have a cable access show in which we tape ourselves catching up every other week and condense it down in editing to its most amusing segments. We assume that on some level it should either be funny or gruelingly fascinating to watch. Alicia, the bubbling idea font, immediately came up with variation theme shows in which we interview people at random on Church Street, set up blind dates between people, try to get people to date each other, practice sports we’ve never tried before, and so on.
We practiced our interviewing techniques on Amie at the 3 Needs. I think it went pretty well, but we should have recorded it for review and evaluation. If we do someday, I’ll post the results.
The tv show ideas weren't actually random or off the top of my head. I've thought a lot about local tv shows like that. It's been a dream of mine for a while (albeit on the back burner.) I had another idea for our tv show. We could have a STYLE episode where we walk around church st looking for people with good fashion and interview them. We might need to compile a couple of weeks on that one to get enough footage.
However, I definitely think the best idea for the show came from you. When I said we should ask random people on the street-Would you go on a date with him? With her? (Meaning Randy or Alicia) You said that we should be wearing a gorilla mask.
Posted by: Alicia | Oct 29, 2004 at 05:22 AM
you mean like the shaved pubes gorilla mask?!
that is radical adult entertainment my friends!
Posted by: theron. | Oct 29, 2004 at 05:31 AM
alarming randomness? i'll take it....it's been said before...that's why i need to always have a nice haircut and wear makeup...then all the weird things about me will just make people more comfortable around me-like she's smokin' hot but she's a weirdo so she's cool...or she's a weirdo but someone it works for her cause she's smokin hot
Posted by: | Feb 21, 2009 at 10:18 AM