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Post by shortylongpants on Dec 10, 2007 13:45:31 GMT -5
I am sooo excited because I get to see Maria as my first show experience at the Punchline. Gives me something nice to look forward to in February since my grandpa passed away two years ago around that date. I hope tickets go on sale soon. I am going to the Feb. 13th show and calling it a late birthday present to myself.
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Post by Steve on Dec 12, 2007 2:40:51 GMT -5
They're not selling february tix yet?
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Post by gigglechick on Dec 13, 2007 20:09:33 GMT -5
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Post by Lane on Dec 16, 2007 22:38:25 GMT -5
I am sooo excited because I get to see Maria as my first show experience at the Punchline. Gives me something nice to look forward to in February since my grandpa passed away two years ago around that date. I hope tickets go on sale soon. I am going to the Feb. 13th show and calling it a late birthday present to myself. Awesome, glad you are going to make it. The Punchline is a fairly small venue, so the show will be a little more intimate than the Throckmorton. Let's meet up at the show and see if we can talk to Maria again! If you are with me, I will seem less like a stalker. You can be my wingman. I saw Maria at her last Punchline show. This was before I was a huge Bammer fan. I'd seen a couple of Maria clips on YouTube and so I thought I would check out her show. I remember that she closed with "The Anxiety Song" - it was so bizarre and funny, I laughed all the way home. So then I bought the "Burning Bridges" album. I've been listening to comedy albums since I was a kid, and it was one of the funniest records I had ever heard. I thought, Is it just me? Am I crazy? Is this album every bit as good as George Carlin's Class Clown or Bill Cosby's Why is There Air or any other classic comedy recording... and she's selling it out of her freaking apartment?? How is this woman not world-famous? I felt like I'd found an old Rembrandt at a garage sale. And that was the beginning of my Maria obsession. Anyways, can't wait until the Punchline show. I'm trying to decide what to bring as a gift this time. Hopefully I'll find something good.
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Post by shortylongpants on Dec 18, 2007 3:19:59 GMT -5
We're probably going to jet after the show. Why would Maria want to meet me twice? I am probably annoying as a fan anyway.
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Post by Lane on Dec 19, 2007 8:09:51 GMT -5
We're probably going to jet after the show. Why would Maria want to meet me twice? I am probably annoying as a fan anyway. What?!?You need to work on those self-esteem issues, SLP. Has anyone here on the board met Maria twice? The first time you met her, did she say "So great to meet you! Thanks for coming to the show!" -- but then the second time she said "Pfffft! You again? I don't want to see you twice! This is so annoying?
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Post by shortylongpants on Dec 19, 2007 13:10:50 GMT -5
I have no idea. Can't wait for that show though. Hope she gets about an hour of comedy again.
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Post by Steve on Dec 19, 2007 19:25:26 GMT -5
Get Lane up on stage with her.They'll be playing all night! ;D ;D ;D
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Post by shortylongpants on Feb 15, 2008 4:05:59 GMT -5
The show was fricken' sweet. Maria was a doll and took a pic with Lane and I. I borrowed the camera from my friend, used my memory card, that worked fine. Then I got home and plugged that card into my card reader and it didn't work! None of the pictures I took with me and Amy Sedaris or me and Maria came out. WTF??? I will some how figure out the problem and get the latest Maria fan pic up here.
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Post by Lane on Feb 15, 2008 6:43:18 GMT -5
I got home and plugged that card into my card reader and it didn't work! None of the pictures I took with me and Amy Sedaris or me and Maria came out. WTF??? I will some how figure out the problem and get the latest Maria fan pic up here. Oh, man, you gotta be kidding me. That was a sweet picture, too. Oh, well, there's always the next gig. Maria said she recognized me this time, and she remembered SLP from the Throckmorton. We chatted with the Bammer for about 10 minutes or so. She was gracious and charming as ever. She was speaking Spanish to the group that met her before us. I didn't know she was bi-lingual. I gave her this book for a present -- tinyurl.com/2bgkawI thought she would like it because she's a self help junky and its about depression and artistic creativity and such. But then I thought, that's an awfully sad gift for the day b4 Valentines day. So I got her some chocolate too. Anyways, she did like the gift. She said that the non-fiction book she's writing is a book about depression that's hopefully funny instead of being depressing. I would love to read that book, I hope she can find a publisher. I love Maria's voices and everything, but the thing that really blows me away is her writing. Maria's material is so well-written, she's one of the best writers in stand-up. Maria thanked SLP and me for driving such a long distance to see the show. Hell. I'd drive 2 hours just to hear Maria do the Baby Jesus again. No problem.
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Post by Lane on Feb 15, 2008 6:45:50 GMT -5
Get Lane up on stage with her.They'll be playing all night! ;D ;D ;D She actually did say we were at her shows so often that we should just go on the road and open for her. She was either being overly kind or sarcastic, I think. I do have a friend that opened for her at the Punchline a couple of years ago. But my friend is a veteran comedian and I, alas, am not. Maybe someday the Comedians of Comedy will let me on the bus.
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Post by shortylongpants on Feb 15, 2008 12:14:16 GMT -5
How do we share stage costs with Maria? I can kick in 50 cents towards a 6 pack of diet coke. Will have to go back through my journal things and polish up some jokes soon. I have been to quite a few shows now and my confidence has gone way up after seeing the show openers they allow up there.
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Post by shortylongpants on Feb 16, 2008 0:53:22 GMT -5
Lane, Maria, and me!
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Post by Lane on Feb 16, 2008 1:21:06 GMT -5
Now that's a good picture. Thanks, SLP!
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Post by Miss Alice on Feb 20, 2008 21:31:57 GMT -5
Is Lane her boyfriend?
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