Well, it's 1 o clock, about an hour after I should be asleep, resting after this long ass weekend, in preparation for my 9 am wake up tomorrow. But instead, here I am, right on schedule, blogging while listening to horrible old whiskey music supplied to me by my buds R. and J. Not Romeo and Juliet, mind you. I love them, but the music they play sounds like shit. But I'm listening anyway, because every now and then they'll play an ancient song that I actually know and like. Not often. Actually only once so far tonight.
Anyjay, much like Mitchell and Cameron at the end of last week's episode of Modern Family, I have escaped the rut. I actually escaped it two Wednesdays ago but was far too busy being happy and loving and loved by the world to blog. But I must blog tonight, because I've done some cool things recently and I have some thoughts to muse. I warn you now. There will be typos aplenty. I guarantee you this. I misspelled my girlfriend/old acting teacher's last name tonight, so no word is safe. Just think about how many times I've written my old teacher's last name. Or about how many times I've scribbled my first name with my girlfriend's last name on my binder in gel pen. No word is safe. So please, baer with mem.
I:
-have very sore legs due to lots of dancing/working/chasing
-found $100 bill on the ground outside a metro station in DC (well, the girlfriend found it, but I picked it up, so I get allllllllll the credit), which I then used to buy all 10 of us some motherfuckin Platos late night food. It was a good time. Hopefully now they all think of me as philanthropic and the best person ever. Because...I pretty much am. No entirely unselfish act, eh?
-That same night, chased my dumb motherfuckin friend down route 1. Like...3 times. All out of stubborn rage. It was exhausting and definitely led to my legs dying even further. But he was being such an asshat! Trust me. Hey, Wengel, if you're reading, just know, fuck you for running out of my car. I'm still grudge holding.
-Had sex in a rehearsal room in my old theatre dept. Yup. Have fun trying to figure out which one! Still waiting for someone to bring it up in Never Have I Ever so I can see their faces when I dramatically lower my finger.
-went to the Renaissance Festival on their last weekend. Probably for the last time in a while, what with the move and all. I just learned that Maryland is one of the few states that holds a Ren Fest and that BLEW MY MIND. It isn't a common thing? Typical silly maryland-raised kid. Always thinking Renaissance Festivals are everywhere and that all museums have free admission.
This last one, upon much tumbling in my mind, and strangely enough, after listening to the Dropkick Murphy's Shipping Off to Boston on my ipod on the way home, led me to some very strange thoughts.
I'd like to travel. I'd like to go to lots of places with a friend or two and just drink, have fun, and interact with the locals. I want to go to Tokyo. Dublin. All the fun places and just...sight see and be somewhere else around different-y people. Although with a few like-minded friends so I don't get lonely. Shipping Off to Boston got me thinking of this because it's a very heavily inspired Irish song (or some shit whatever I don't know) and it got me thinking about how I made a pact with one of my good friends that we would go to Ireland together and do nothing but dick around, drink at the pubs, be festive with locals, maybe pick up a freckled red-head or two. Generally soak up the Ireland-yness of it all. And now, at this crucial juncture in my young adult life, it seems like I'm never really going to get to do this. Or any of my travel plans for that matter. Not for a good while. Because right now I have to move to LA and work and act until I become a celebrity and make tons of money. This is my top priority. Should it be? Yes. I'm young, I must take advantage of my youth while I have it. But even if I do manage to achieve this ridiculous pipe dream, god-willing, any of my plans I then do in my ample celebrity-fueled free time will be skewed with celebrity juices. Unless I'm not big internationally. Or whatever I don't know this all sounds so arrogant to type out, but I want to be able to buy a ticket somewhere and soak up a foreign culture for a few weeks and then roll out to a new place. Must be my middle-childyness that makes me want to keep on moving and experiencing new things and people. Lord I was born a ramblin' maaaaaan.
In conclusion, the ultimate would be to become famous by getting my own travel show where the Travel Channel or Comedy Central or really any channel with money pays me that money to go places with other comedians and crack jokes/have fun for the viewer so they don't have to. That would be...just the best. Or maybe it's my hedonistic/always hungry for new experiences in life side that wants to travel and see new things. I don't know. But I am quite afraid that if I never get to do these cool travel ideas I have in my head, I will be a quite disappointed old man. Life should be lived, right? So maybe the best way to live it would be to spend 10,20, however many years it takes, on the road, backpacking around the world and rambling around until I feel satisfied, then go for stardom. By then I will definitely be a somewhat old man, and the stardom will be...well, not wasted...but certainly not enjoyed to its fullest.
My friend K. was right. I should just be a hobo with her and travel around performing random odd jobs here and there, learning silly things and doing silly shows.
I could never live that life.
Right? Yeah. But sometimes I wonder.
Fuck you, Dropkick Murphys.