Albuquerque, El Paso April 28-30

Sitting at the Greyhound station in El Paso about to head back home. I hate people who always have to talk, its like they get freaked out if its quiet for two seconds. Shut the fuck up lady. And there's a poster it says, "When the Globetrotters travel, they go Greyhound." Its probably because they all work there. And that explains why they only play one game a week, takes a few days just to get to the next city. I think they call it Greyhound because their time is like dog time.

Thursday night was my last time performing at Howies in Albuquerque. Its been a great venue the last couple years and I never had a bad show there. Thursday we had a great lineup-Roger Peterson, Brett Hiker, Joe Quesada, Sarah Kennedy, me and Matt Peterson. Show was great! Everyone of the comics rocked, Brett and Joe have really come a long way since we used to do shows at The Tavern. Only flaw of the night was the heckling. I've been doing comedy almost ten years and I've dealt with hundreds of hecklers, they don't bother me, unless the hecklers are other comics. There was also a guy who is looking to start up a weekly comedy show in town at a venue I'm not going to promote here, but I am gonna guess he's not going to get any of the good local comics on the lineup, good luck buddy. He was on his phone for the first part of the show, and heckled a little bit during as well. Like I said the heckling doesn't bother me, but if you're looking to do a local comedy show, don't piss off the comics. They finally left during Matt's set and he did some pretty funny rants about the trio of douches. Matt should rant more often, it was hilarious! And by the end of his set his hair looked like Bill Murrays at the end of "Kingpin."

Friday I headlined the Federal Courthouse Bar in El Paso. Had a solid lineup of comics, Tim Schultz from Nashville featured, he was great! Him and I rode down together with Dave Graham, a very funny comic from El Paso who happened to be in Albuquerque the night before. It was my first time following a guitar act, it was fun. Sam and Alex(I forgot his last name, its on the flyer though) both did great. I worked with Alex last year, he's improved a lot. Patrick Candelaria stopped in to check out the show, too, it was great to see him. I did a midwest run with him last year.

Last night the show was at House of Rock, a music venue. Good size venue, it would be cool to catch a concert there. Sam was the host again, but I missed his set. The opener was a magician, he was pretty entertaining, not a big fan of magic, but it was good for the show, had a lot of different styles of comedy. Aleks with a K featured, he's always funny. I had a fun set, didn't get to do a full headline set, they had a band booked after our show, so I had to get off stage at 10. I always like coming to El Paso, crowds are always great. They don't buy merchandise though, maybe I need to record a cd in Spanish.

This week I am back at Wits End featuring! Working with my good buddy Dante and his lady, Rebekah Kochan. Looking forward to it!

December 2010

So I haven't blogged much about my shows, but I have a new phone which allows me to do so more often now. You're welcome both followers.

December was my final month in Denver, decided to move back to Albuquerque to be closer to family. I enjoyed my time in Denver, met a lot of great comics and made a lot of new friends.

1-Did open mic at El Charrito, I think it was their second show. I took a cardboard cutout of the most interesting man in the world on stage with me and stood behind it while I told my jokes. I felt bad ass and interesting. It was a fun room.

7-New talent night at Comedy Works was a lot of fun. I always enjoyed the shows there and this one might have been my best one yet. I tried scoring some guest sets there, but Wende never wrote me back so it never happened. Thanks to all the comics who put in a good word though, especially Lori Callahan.

9-I emailed Don at Wits End to see if he needed an mc for the 16-19 because I wanted to squeeze in some more gigs before I left, plus I wanted to work with Ron Ferguson and Russ Rivas. Don said I could do the week, plus gave me this night as well with Talon Saucerman and Todd Johnson. I ran into Todd at Comedy Works the night before he was opening for Joe Larson and Kermet Apio. Kermet is awesome. The night at Wits was fun, kind of a small crowd, but they were fun.

13-My last time at the Lions Lair was a lot of fun. Jill Tasei and I heckled Peter Cohen a bit which was nice. I did some new material that worked pretty well. Caitlin went on stage that night as well and got her best response, she was excited. I'm gonna miss the Lions Lair.

16-19 I got to mc at Wits this week like I mentioned earlier, the shows were great and I got to meet the new owner of Wits, John. He seems like a really cool guy. I'll miss Don, he was always super cool to me. I'll probably never see him again.

28-Filmed a 3 minute set for a tv show "The After After Party" which is a late night talk show hosted by Steven Michael Quezada who plays Gomez on "Breaking Bad." I used to do shows with Steven back in like 04 and 05. It was a fun show to film, there were about 150 people at the Wool Warehouse so it was a good sized crowd. As soon as I filmed my set I ran over to Maloneys to catch the end of the Iowa-Missouri game with my buddy Nate Tramontina. It was cool catching part of an Iowa game with him finally, he was born in Sioux City. He told me he quit Anesthesia he was the lead guitarist. I was pretty bummed about that. They signed a record deal with Sub Noize records. They're bad ass. I'm hoping to hang out with Nate more now that I live in town. I've written a few goofy songs that I want to record with him so I might get that done!

29-Matt Peterson needed rent money so he put together a last minute show at Howies, it was my first show since moving back and it was awesome. I've never had a bad show at Howies. The lineup was great, AJ Martinez and Joe Quesada both went up and rocked, those guys get better every time I see them. I remember seeing them when they first started back when we did shows at the Tavern. Sarah Kennedy was next and tore it up as usual, she's becoming one of my favorite comics to watch. Matt went on before me and tore it up, too. Its cool to see how much he's progressed over the years. We used to work together at Poppis Pizza.

30-I drove all the way to Dallas the next day, left at 430 am. It was quite a drive, but got to the club at about 6. I met Randy Butler the owner of Hyenas for the first time, he was a really nice guy, showed me around a little bit and let me do some time at the show that night. I was only scheduled for Friday and Saturday. The opener was a guy named Larry Campbell who had some great stuff and got the crowd into it. I went after him and had a pretty decent set, could've done way better, but travel days don't give you a lot of time to prepare. Nick Guerra did 30 after me and destroyed. I'm so glad I didn't have to follow him, I would have ate shit pretty bad. His jokes and his improve rocked. I kind of felt bad for the headliner who had to follow, but he tore it up, too. Headliner was Dustin Ybarra, Gary Hood told me about him before so it was cool to see him perform. I think Nick and Dustin will both make it big, it was a fun show.

31-Big New Years Eve show at Hyenas! I was excited to be working with Carl LaBove, one of the Outlaws of Comedy and Sam Kinisons best friend. I just read a story online that said Carl's kid was actually fathered by Sam. Kinda fucked up Carl's life with getting his license and passport taken away, not good for a road comic. Anyway the shows went great, Carl tore it up both shows and did different material. Plus he was super cool. A lot of times you'll work with a headliner and they think they're way better than everyone else and have a shitty attitude and treat the openers like shit, well Carl was the opposite. I didn't get to meet him before the show but right after my set he came up and introduced himself to me and we chatted for a bit after the show. Hope I get to work with him again sometime.