What the F??
Current mood: amused
Category: Blogging
Yes, I curse dang-nabbit!!
First off, new colors here. It's blue for summer ocean.
Secondly, my MySpace profile blog display haywire act (as opposed to high-wire) is driving me nuts! On top the infamous unauthorized You Tube account deletion, I'm in cyber disarray.
-forget about www.brodystevens.com --> who knows when that's coming back? Have been taking a break on that thing. Archives snapped, did some exporting and importing of blog posts and styles. Now it's clunky out of the gate, like Big Brown at The Belmont.
You see, I can be funny when I want. Just don't have the time or spirit for it right here.
Brody the Performer is on the disabled list. Maybe in a week or so I'll be able to start my rehab assignment. Open mics, afternoon shows, Yahoo chat rooms and the like.
Seriously, i control my own path, and that's a good thing. No one to blame except that punk kid who rear ending me and my own bad decisions by saying yes to jobs I'm very good at.
Oh, saw Jon Voight yesdterday at my local bookstore... which followed up the encounter I had with Michael Chiklish from The Commish and The Shield at a Starbucks down the street from said bookstore.
Catch my drift? Hang with me on a simple walk and things COULD happen. All my relationships are strickly professional... except of course for Judah, Zach and Chelsea ---> inside circle, outside success.
Don't you dare question this entry! I'm still enjoying the effects of my first minor concussion.
*this Tuesday night @ UCB Theatre in Hollywood for Comedy Death Ray --> Fred Armisen and Janeane Garofalo will join me and others --> SOLD OUT and FUN, mostly and usually
*this Thursday eve @ Hollywood Improv for 8pm show ---> NOT sold out YET, but a short set for me anyway
*at Chelsea Lately all week but Wednesday
Want me to rip and do comedy here? How I yell at teens to pull their pants up? Yeah, that stuff matters. Look at the gas prices, insurance and internet rates, dmv, etc...
This moral break down of values in our country has consequences. I'm staring at graffiti, dealing with my friendmate's car getting busted into, paying too much attention to loud and violent teens --> this is why my comedy has suffered.
I'm gonna take my Judeo-Christian vibes, positve energy and third sphere vision to the hills above Sedona in Arizona.
Mommy I'm coming home, please prepare my full sized magnetic mattress pad, also some Wheat Grass and a frozen Snickers.
Neck and upper spine hurt, sting and stiff
Category: Life
Think I had a concussion too, slight nausea, definite groggy.
Thursday at 4:30pm I was slammed into on Olympic in West Los Angeles, minding my own business, heading east towards Staples Center and the Laker Game.
Mild traffic, cruise to a stop behind a Lexus...
Then BOOM, I get hammered, crush test dummied around courtesy of a under-21 driver who claims he was hit from behind.
So here's the deal... bumper to bumper, his plate is embedded on my bumper, my antenna now makes a sound when going up and down, some front hood damage as well, allignment and frame off, etc...
Me, I'm messed up.
My neck, spine and back. Feeling burning sensations up and down upper spine, hands are week, can't rotate neck, tender, sharp pains, etc...
No lie, not a scammer, just wanna get back to pre-accident levels.
Really sucks, why? Because I'm a good person who minds his own business, displaying and accomplishing non-aggressive defensive lifestyle choices.
Can't play drums Can't pitch Can't swing bat Can't go to gym Can't perform normal comedy routine Look like I want attention due to the pain --> vibe at Starbucks this afternoon Don't wanna have a lifetime of neck and back problems I am beyond flexible, known for it, not anymore Depressed and sad, not lonely!
Honestly, I think I broke some bones and tweaked or ruptured something.
Doctor on Monday. Spoke to attorney. Everyone is insured, I'm covered. But I'm down in the dumps, stiff like a non-athlete looking type...
Life will go on, just not gonna be the same Brody for a while.
And you'll say who cares? And I'm saying, you really should care, slow down and put yourself in my Nike Air Max 360's (two pair at Finish Line, wearing only one group at time of impact). This unfortunate nightmare effects a lot of people.
These are just some the individuals and phenomenons I've been associated with for the last 20 years. (New challenges will certainly abound in my post fusion, nerve, lumbar world!)
Currently I assist at Chelsea Lately on E, warm-up and appear monthly, sometimes
I'm the American audience warm-up as of taping 1 for Little Britain on HBO
collaboration with DJ Dougg Pound (also Dragon Boy Suede), right hand man for the highly popular Tim and Eric seriesof shows and live events, dvds and the like
offered parts in most every Zach Galifiankais production fairly close with Demetri Martin before he blew up, open mics in NYC friend and college teammate with Baseball Tonight's Fernando Vina heavily around New York Yankees from 1996-2007 created Fox Sports position from scratch, over 1,000 shows, hip and cool at it's apex Man Show, season 4 with Joe Rogan and Doug Stanhope --> respect in Sarah Silverman's Jesus is Magic Flight of the Concords enjoy and endorse my work interned with ESPN News Steve Bunin in Seattle college classmate of ESPN News Will Selva at Arizona State University
high school teammate and friend Joey Arnold is the head baseball coach at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, CA --> off season Major League mecca, prestigious junior college program, I have full run when needed ---> not anymore, my my neck is jacked!
talk almost daily with 30 Rock's Judah Friedlander
early Family Guy/Simpson writer/producer influences, trust me
Now do you see?
My energy and honest spirit, tied in with a blue collar Jewish work ethic produces results on the stage, off the field, on the mound, behind the drums at Guitar Center, in line at Dave and Buster's or dealing with awkward silence on a television sound stage.
Or we can get weird, delving into late 60's/early 70's family crossings with Manson up near Chatsworth.
amused
betrayed
calm
