To Do List for the week of 1/30/12 to 2/5/12
For Comedy Studies:
- Finish sketch for Andy’s class on Wednesday
- Have Laughter on the 23rd Floor monologue completely mapped out (location of all the beats, figuring out movement, crosses, and environment work) and fully memorized by Wednesday
- Watch everything on the Burlesque and Silent film lists for History & Analysis of Comedy by Thursday
- Write essay on Paradigm Lost for Andy’s class on Wednesday
- come up with at least 25 sketch ideas based around the 2012 elections, the 99% vs the 1%, Occupy & Anonymous, and anything else that deals with the current climate of politics and social justice.
- Buy a movement-appropriate pair of pants today.
For life outside of Second City
- Finish the Best Day Ever (absolutely tenative title) mixtape, 60 to 90 minutes
- Put together my Valentine’s Day mix
- put together my Buddy Holly’s Maltshop Punx mixtape
- write my essay on teeth & the comfort of physical/emoitional/mental imperfection for Bear Book
- write my essay on Inflated/Deflated and how the deflated balloon of snark represents the conflict between our nostalgia for symbols of our childhood (that which represents the person all of us promised at an early age we wouldn’t let down as we grew up) and the actuality of what happens to those symbols (and how their relation to ourselves is altered as we get hurt, become cynical, et cetera) over time, and pondering if Inflated/Deflated is an expression of finding a happy medium between the two via creating art from that very conflict.
- Write my On Love and Death essay that I started (and by started, mean, wrote that title down on a sheet of paper)
- do more brainstorming and outline making for my pseudo-memoir
- Write my short essay for Chelsea’s thing at Columbia on how Tina Fey is a ‘radical/revolutionary’ when it comes to the (never true and horribly outdated) ‘argument’ that women aren’t funny/have no place in comedy (fuck anyone that actually believes that for a second in both ears at once)
- At least figure out what I want to actually attempt to say about creating a pro-equality culture through altering the ways the we, as a generation, speak to and about each other. Maybe start writing it?
- Convince someone at the columbia library to wipe my $100+ worth of late fines so I can start reading theory for my capstone again
- Write to Angela
- Email Emily to see if she’d like to meet about my capstone, and where it’s headed thanks to the Second City program, and to make sure that she’ll stick around as one of my outside readers for next semester
- Clean my room and do my laundry.
- Get at least one night of solid sleep
