What are you lookin at?

Well it is time for me to bid adieux.....

In the last few weeks both clubs in the town that hate forgot turned me down for a booking. Hey they have the right to do what they want but I think it is sad. Sad that the town doesn't get to see a different style of comedy. Sad that they are going to have another week of the same ol same ol. For a town that brags about how open minded they are in the end they want shake and bake chicken just like the rest of the country.

Lets be honest, I have not had the best love affair with that town if you have kept up with the blogs. Even after all I went through I still love that town. Yeah so what I never had a weekend where I felt it was orgasmic...so what I never had a weekend that didn't feel like rock and roll the whole way through. That is apart of the allure of that town. It was not easy for me..it was hard. I never wanted anything handed to me on a silver plate. I always have worked hard for what I get.

What is sad, is the last weekend I did there went very well...I don't mean to toot my own horn but I have the emails to back it up. I also saw the faces of those that came up to me. One show was not good cause there was a heckler but if you read you will see I took some of the blame for that. Even from that one show people thought it was good enough to email and say they liked it was different then other shows and real.

I never got hammered for a show..I never tried to fuck waitstaff. I gave out tons of free dvds to those that wanted an edgier show but the owner did not want it..so to appease everyone I gave a little more then I should have. Funny that in the same club they have a picture of Jim Norton hanging there.

What is ironic is that in the last six months I have received many emails and my space messages from people in that town asking me when i playing there next. So now I am at a crossroads of sorts...do I put the energy into doing my own show there in a smaller theater or just cut ties and make those people travel to ottawa? It gets harder and harder to exist in the world of show biz but no one said it was going to be easy.

I haven't decided what I am going to do but if you are interested in helping with anything if I do a show there please email me. I am not going to be one of those depserate comics myspacing people all the time asking for help. If you are still here reading this then you know I am genuine and I know so are you.

If you are comic there I suggest not helping since I know how small that community is there and it is not worth cutting your chances for spots.

and now the cliche

we met in Montreal
far from the crime
moving in circles
running with so little time
sat and we talked
about rumours and lies
stayed til the sun hit the floor

you wore the dress
from the old market stall
people and places
said you were forgetting them all
I don't know if I
believed you or not
as I stared at you outside your door

those were the times
that was our life
I probably wouldn't change
one little thing if I tried
moments together mapped out
like the stars in the sky
now you're in the things that I do
still I miss talking to you

late in your bed
you said don't you be sad
think of how lucky we are
for the things that we've had
life that's around me
I'm letting it go
but you stay up here in my head

those were the times
that was our life
I probably wouldn't change
one little thing if I tried
moments together mapped out
like the stars in the sky
now you're in the things that I do
still I miss talking to you


Montreal by Blue Rodeo

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