Monday, January 26, 2009

Things that I have done while bored/Mike Birbiglia

Last week, pretty much all of my friends went back to school. I know what you are saying, "Dude, that's awesome. You have another 2 weeks off from college before you go back!"

No, it is not awesome, random guy who uses exclamation points in his speech. Everyone is gone, leaving me with nothing to do all week. I just wait for my high school friends to do stuff on weekends, making me feel like I am in high school once more. 

"What have you done with your time?"

Why don't you have some patience, guy, and I will fricken tell you. So in order to shut that guy up, I will now present a list of things that I have done over break so pass the time:

1. I tried to develop telekinesis - I was bored and I found a website claiming that anyone could use telekinesis. Then it gave step-by-step instructions on how to develop your ability. I did not just read the site, I tried... multiple times, to bend a spoon as per the instructions. I am kind of glad I didn't though, because when my mom asked what happened to the spoon I would have to utter the phrase, "I bent it with my mind" which would surely result in me spending the rest of my break in a padded cell.

2. Pushups - What? I did pushups. You asked for a list, deal with the fact that not everything will be funny. 

3. Work - I am working at ShopRite again, which is a treat and a half. If I was being paid the same amount of money to stick hair pins in my legs, I would opt for that job instead. 

4. Finding obscure messages in otherwise normal songs -  This is a fun game to play when you're bored. Pick a theme, any theme you would like to find in your music. Then hit shuffle on iTunes and, regardless of the song choice, connect that song to the theme. Did you know that Oops I did it Again is actually about Anne Frank? I didn't...Until I played this game.

5. Went to ridiculous places - The beach in winter (Nicole, it was a terrible idea. It wasn't fun because it was the beach, it was fun because our friends are retarded and made it funny) and the city twice in one weekend.

Which brings me to my next point. Go see Sleepwalk with Me, Mike Birbiglia's one man show. It's amazing. Really well done, hilarious but serious, funny and touching. I don't mean touching in the way the catholic church the uses it, but rather in the emotionally touching way. (Insert Our Father here, sorry about that one...)

I am also mentioning MIKE BIRBIGLIA because he alerted his audience that he gets google alerts whenever he is mentioned on a blog. Imagine him bored, waking up and finding this email like it is christmas morning and he just got the gift of recognition in my blog. This is reserved for a select few individuals and I am sure he will be honored. 

Hey Mike. Great show. I'm the guy that took a picture with you after the show and said "It was great" about 20 times because I couldn't think of much else to say at that moment (plus, I doubt you wanted a paragraph review in person). 

4 comments:

Phil said...

"Killer Tofu" by the Beats is actually about venereal disease.

Anonymous said...

^lol

Ben said...

Did you know that the movie Scent of a Woman was actually a critique on 1920s fishermen?

JMarino27 said...

As a matter of fact, Ben, I did know that. And Phil, for some strange reason, I could buy that