an onstage daydream
Want to visit my brain for a while? OK. Here goes.
The other day I was doing a show in a gym. I hated it. The people were nice and the kids were well behaved. But I personally hated it. There is no connection with an audience when I do a show with kids seated on both sides of a gym, the lights on, and the acoustics are bouncing all over the place. So I will admit that during the show I was anything but “in the moment.” My mind wanders. I think of stuff. Music, jokes, angelina jolie, bills, ya know…stuff. So in the middle of my show some kid gets up and is walking along the back wall of the gym. And I hear every footstep as she walks under the hoop, along the padded wall, and toward the door. I feel all attention go to her. My attention goes to her. And all I could think of is “I hope she doesn’t fall or trip ’cause I will definitely laugh out loud and so will the kids.” She makes it. Whew! But then the rest of the show that incident reminded me of an old youtube video clip that I saw a a while back. It was all I could think of. The one with this kid running across the gym floor and gettin nailed by a basketball. The video below was played in a loop every time I looked across the gym floor. enjoy. By the way if you find it hard to laugh at this video…just tell yourself the following “its ok to laugh at this video because…uhm… the kid was fine and he uhmm later went on to live a successful life, married a nice person, and uh…and is currently involved in trying to find a cure for cancer.
