Blarg

I'm moving to Toronto.

I hope it is the right thing to do.

It's time to grow up I guess. Live on my own, pay rent, work hard.

Also probably stop dating/being interested in comedians.

What about a lawyer?

Or a doctor?

Or a dentist?

Maybe they do stand up on the side...

NO! DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT! - my brain

Okay fine. But maybe the dentist could give me some laughing gas to help me along...

Alright. - my brain, agreeing with me.

Dating Debbie

I have to start dating again which is kind of unfortunate.

I'm not good at dating. I get really nervous, self conscious and stressed out about it. In fact, in the case of my first boyfriend, I was so nervous to go on our first date that I almost threw up and almost cancelled the date all together. Of course I was happy that I did go on the date, but the feeling before hand was God awful.

I don't like going to bars to meet people either. It's loud and we're probably both intoxicated. "WAIT, YOUR NAME IS BRIAN RIGHT?" "NO, RYAN." "BRIAN?" "NO B!" "OOOOOOOOH!" Continue dancing and smiling.

I think the only thing I have working in my favour (also sometimes against me) is my quick wit. But when you're in a bar, quick wit is nothing. I usually have to repeat myself three times over loud music just to get a fake laugh in exchange. Though I'll admit, I've pulled that move MANY a time. *NOTE* remember to brush up on fake laugh.

It's supposed to be a fun thing. I haven't been on a date in over 2 years so maybe I've matured now? I'll let you know when I go on my first date... Guys still pay right? (joooooking.) I actually like to go halfsies. Otherwise I feel like I owe them.

OK. Mind is empty now.
BYE.

I stopped writing blog numbers.

That little problem I have... should have been fixed already.

I'm such a doy brain.

SO. Embarassing. Why am I posting this? This will come back to haunt me.

This is going to be my most embarassing post to date.

I have an obsession with Vampires. No, not just Twilight like every teen girl on planet earth. I also LOVE True Blood, The Vampire Diaries, Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel. It's kind of a sick obsession I try to keep to myself.

I grew up hanging out with my dad and my brother every second weekend. When we would go to my dad's house we would rent or go to action packed movies. (I picked a movie one weekend. It was The Spice Girl's movie "Spice World," thus never allowing me to pick the movie ever again.)

Buffy had the perfect amount of romance & kicking butt. I had the best of both worlds right in one television show. So every Friday night I would watch Buffy on YTV. I wasn't embarassed either, because my brother would sit and watch it with me.

My addiction to Buffy never really ended. Then Twilight happened. Sigh. This is my #1 most embarassing passion. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would support a vampire flick where the vampires didn't burst into flames when they stepped into the sunlight. When I watched the first movie with my friends I was laughing for most of the movie. I found the awkward intensity hilarious.

After reading and watching the Harry Potter series, I knew that in order to really appreciate the movies you have to read the books (which are much better obviously.) So I decided to read the Twilight series. The books were well written, and I fell in love with them. When I watched the movies again, it began to make sense. (Why, oh why, did I have to go and read the stupid books??) I mean the movies aren't even that good!! Sparkly vampires, awkward voice overs & sub-par acting... All the makings of a disaster. And yet, I have seen each movie 4 or 5 times. YIKES. I JUST ADMITTED THAT.

I love True Blood. HBO is fantastic - duh.
I am currently watching season 2 of Angel.
I can't wait for The Vampire Diaries to start back up.

Diary, please keep this secret (except from the 2 people who actually read this thing?) I know I'm not alone in this obsession, but good God. I'm a COMEDIAN. I am supposed to be MAKING FUN of this crap.

Oy vey.

xoxo

Girls < Boys

I'm not good at making girl friends.

Or maybe I'm not good at keeping girl friends.

It came so easy to me when I was in school. Find a hobby, find a buddy, and then have sleepovers and girly times with new found buddy.

I act much older than I am. I feel like I am a 30 year old trapped inside a 22 year olds body. I don't like to drink really, I am very career focused, and my idea of having a good time is watching comedy or staying in.

To be honest, I find a lot of other girls mean, gossipy and bitchy. Also annoying. That's probably a reason I can't seem to find a good girlfriends. I have such a negative view on girls, and have been stabbed in the back a lot. Which is sad. Especially when The Sex and the City movies came out. When the first one came out I went to it alone. It was really depressing sitting by myself with a medium buttered popcorn while all the other females in the room sat in lumps of 3 or 4. I'm sure they had already defined who was the Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte of the group.

I have a few girl friends. But its not like we get together on weekends, or call each other up "just to talk." I've secretly always wanted to have a fun stay-in girls night complete with wine, snacks and chick flicks.

I had a best friend a few years ago, "J."
We had the most fun imaginable. I remember so many times laughing so hard my stomach hurt. Then she moved away to university, and I was really sad. She kept in touch for a while, but the long distance friendship was hard to keep up. She was meeting new people at university, and I was starting out in the comedy world. Our other mutual friend blamed her for the demise of our relationship, and I did too. But I knew it was just people drifting apart. That's just how life is.

I guess I'm having a hard time trusting girls. Not all of them are malicious. I just need to keep telling myself that...

Blog#9: Welcome Back!

I am so sorry I've been gone for so long. I never meant to disappoint my 3 followers.

I'm leaving for Los Angeles in less than 2 months. I can't believe it's been almost a year since I was there! (Actually I can because I don't LOVE my job, and time freezes when you're not doing what you love to do.)

I think I need to come up with a game plan of some sort for L.A. this summer. More stand up for sure... hopefully I can get on at The Improv & make some (love) connections at UCB. (JK about the love thing.) Perhaps 12 shiny nickels & The Punk House if they will have me. I'm not really stoked about going back to The Comedy Store... it was pretty depressing. I'm sure it still has good shows, I just didn't see them.

I'm getting really excited for classes. Everyone was super nice and there were tons of talented people we got to hang out with. It sucks that we probably won't be in any classes with any of them. GEEZ just another set back for us being Canadian. Why is it so easy for Americans to come to Canada and work but not the other way around?

I should probably cut my hair like the Biebs and be a Justin Bieber impersonator on Hollywood Blvd. It is the ONLY way I will ever make it.

I went for a bike ride last night and now my ass feels like it was punched by a midget. Why would you do that to me Bike Tyson. WHY!

It's supposed to be really nice this weekend though... so my plans are: Bike rides (bum bruise permitting) and farmers market! SAY WHAAAAAAT bitches.

I'm going to eat a gigantic banana now.

xo
Amanda B Perrin.

Blog #8 : I Miss It.

This one time I went to L.A. for 2 months and it was really fun.

I haven’t seen everyone yet so I thought I would write about my trip since all of you can barely wait (right?)

Chris and I almost died on the way down! We were driving up a terrifying hill at night trying to find a house. When you looked off the hill you couldn’t see the ground. We pulled up to a house that looked like something out of a horror movie. It was a huge mansion with Gates and a long drive way IN TO THE MOUNTAIN. We tried to back up and Chris almost destroyed Rihanna Magnolia (my car) by backing it up into a ditch. At least it wasn’t the other side of the cliff. Otherwise we would have been DUNZO.

The ride down was beautiful. The Red Woods were amazing and I definitely suggest going there if you ever drive down the coast to Cali. We drove through Eureka, CA on July 4th and it was FREEZING cold. There was a lot of smoke from all the fireworks and campfires.

We actually arrived in L.A. the same day the Michael Jackson memorial was being held. We watched it on TV in our hotel in a nearby town and waited for the traffic to subside.

We rented our rental from a middle aged Jewish woman. She seemed nice but gave off the vibe that she liked to gossip. The first day we were there she told us that the resident gay was in a fight with the girl we were living next to... All I cared about was the fact that there was a gay living in our hood. VIVA LA GAYS!!

L.A. was a lot calmer than I expected. I felt safe walking around Sunset at night with Andrew and Chris. I’m sure that might be a bit different if I were alone... but at no point did I feel like I was going to be randomly shot at. People were happy.

That being said, it was calmer, but there was always something to do. We went to TONS of shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Comedy Death Ray was a highlight for me. If you don’t know, Comedy Death Ray is a weekly stand-up show the theatre hosts. The best of the best perform there. Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifianakis, Sarah Silverman, Louis CK, Kevin Nealon, B.J. Novak were just some of the names that made an appearance on the stage. It was awesome.

The Comedy Store was depressing on Amateur night. The back rows were filled in by comics, who didn’t talk to you unless you were part of their cliques. If you seemed nervous, no one would laugh. First timers were not acknowledged. Unfunny, popular girls got a lot more attention than they should have been given.

As for the classes, they were all a lot of fun. The Groundlings class was the scariest for me. Kristen Wiig is one of my favourite comedic actresses ever... and she took classes there. There we sat in a room full of about 12 other students. I was so nervous. These people were from L.A., they knew secrets of the entertainment business that I couldn’t possibly know! THEY WERE SO L.A.! But then when we were introducing ourselves, and it was revealed that basically everyone in the class was from another part of the country. I was relieved.

I took 3 classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade. Two of them were improv intensive classes, which were two weeks long, and a sketch class that ran once every week for 8 weeks. I found sketch the most challenging. I’ve always been more of a performer than a writer, and I really wanted to push myself to see what I could come up with. It was really intimidating reading sketches in front of the other people in class. Especially when you weren’t too confident in the sketch you had written to begin with. I had an inside joke going with Chris every time someone would read their sketch and the teacher would say “Okay, _______, tell me what you like about this sketch.” It always meant he hated your sketch, or that he didn’t understand your sketch at all. I don’t think he ended up saying it to me ever, but my sketches were far from perfect. Rob “The Golden Child” Gertzschman however had an awesome sketch every class. So annoying... ha-ha but in actuality he was one of my favourite people I met this summer.

The people were probably the best thing about the summer. Everyone was so funny and so unique in their own ways. I liked that we had 4 completely different teachers. Different styles, different senses of humour, and different critique styles. I learned a lot from all of them.

This is getting long and tedious so it’s going to point form puta’s:

-Loved Chateau Marmont and Mr. Chow’s with Chris and Andrew
-Groundlings BBQ was a highlight
-UCB class performances were fun
-CDR = Amaze Face
-New Friends = CUTE FUN
-Shopping – so-so
-Beach time was beautiful
-Pizza parties with Andrew/ Simon & Vanessa = good times
-Heath Milo visit = hooray! (Also too short?)
-Meeting Fred Armisen and Garret Morris was super amaze balls, and I will never forget it.
-Must go back ASAP.
-Future = To Be Continued......