Bay Area Clowning Jam

So, I want to start a social training party thing....for us clowns!

The idea is to make a regular social get together, in the spirit of clowning. To practice, play, do drills, put together acts, clown around, and just hang out, and have a good time.

So i am turning to you, the clowning community, for some input.

1. How often do you think it should be? monthly? semi-monthly? weekly?

2. Where should it be held? I can probably find space for it in the Vulcan, but i wonder if that is the best venue for it, it might be nice to have it where people can venture out and interact with an impromptu "audience" aka, people on the street.

3. When should we have the first one?



Lemme know!

Ramblings....

sometimes i write whole blogs, with deep insites, or funny anecdotes. sometimes long, sometimes short.

almost daily i write poems in my blog....

and then for whatever reason, i decide not to post them, and i click the home button.

i dont know why.

only that.

When life gives you lemons

accidently squeeze them in your eye!


Here are some more clowning videos that i have enjoyed.

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and this last one just because the girl has an amazing clown voice.

www.youtube.com/watch

A video that every performer should watch

www.youtube.com/watch

That video made me LAUGH! it also made me cry a little!

<3

Hope you enjoy

Have you ever...

killed a house fly with a hand grenade?

me neither.

-Tankboy

Sometimes

I think about if i had a nuke at my disposal.
What would i do? What would i do?

for a long time i would have never used it, ever. i would have thought that the devistation would be morally wrong, that there would be suffering....

now i think i would nuke somewhere, anywhere, maybe right here. This world is far too over populated, and growth always comes with pain. Maybe the earth would heal from all the suffering.

Good thing i dont have a nuke.

-Tankboy

Buying food for your village.

So, when you go to the man at the store, and ask him for a big bag of rice. You give him money, he gives you a huge bag. After carting it home, you open the bag only to find that it is full of rocks.

So you cart the bag back to the store, and tell the clerk what happened. He says "You're crazy! You said you wanted a bag of rocks, you wanted rice, thats fine, here you go." And hands you another bag.

You cart it home, a little bit confused. Pull out your handy dandy switchblade, and slit it open, to see little grey pebbles spill out onto the table. God damn it.

So you haul your ass back to the store. You are a bit pissed at this point, and not in the sloshed kind of way. You tell the clerk to stop jerking you around. He responds, seemingly offended "I gave you rice the first time, you came back and said you wanted pebbles, now you want rice again? Here, have some rice, but if you come back asking for pebbles, Im not going to exchange them.

At home, boiled pebbles crack your teeth.

And so this continues for a year and a half, or two years.

At what point do you call the man the wanker he is, restore your faith in your perception, and realize that hes lying, hes always been lying, and hes never gonna give you a god damn bag of rice.

Time ticks by

and still I try
to wash these stains
from my soul.

Conditioning of the heart
is always most difficult
when spoken through
uncrossed fingers

and finger crossing
can seem an innocent gesture
and uncrossing
a bladeless shank

for truth lies in what we see
not what we wish we saw
and lies truely lie
in empty hollows of mind
where they echo for some time

and in fields of daisys.


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It is easy to exist as self
when self is isolated
in abyss.

but self is incomplete
when existing in
isolation.

ones self is no greater
or no less than
ones location, place, purpose

in the physical, in the mental, and in the spiritual.



Much Love.
Walk in peace.

Clowns live forever!

So, I auditioned for the clown conservatory today. Its the general circus and clowning training program that i have been wanting to get into for some time now.

So, I went into my audition, talked with Jeff Raz, the Director and founder of the program, did my little routine for him, he had me try to make him fall in love with a chair, but only by saying the letters of the alphabet.

So after all of that and some more chit chat, he told me i was accepted! :-D

So starting in september, i have 18 hours of class a week plus 20 hours of homework, thats 38 hours of circus training a week!!!!! Oh boy! Im excited to say the least.


See you guys under the big top.

Pretty Pictures!

I know most of you have already seen it, but here is a video, filmed at our new place, incase you havent

ca.youtube.com/watch

Enjoy!