Ok, so we are going to hit two birds with one stone in this one. (Considering our aim... we will probably hit some random pedestrian...)
Gage and I were in a play called 'The Pirates Of Penzance'. It was lots of fun Ha, Speak for yourself, we got to sing, wear cool costumes and dance around with swords. Some of them real! (Remember that... It's important for later...)
I personally liked to add fun little quirks to my character to make them more interesting. Fat Chance In this particular play I would always have and apple with me, Can you say weird? even in the fighting scenes, and we would always use them to add some comedy (i.e. in one scene I tied Quinn to the mast and put the apple on his head, Then the Pirate king came and swung his sword around and accidentally cut it in half (the trick was that we had previously cut it in half and balanced it on Quinn's head)
Anyway, whenever we did curtain call at the end of the show I would roll my apple onto the stage, Poorly then I would run out and dive for it, Like an olympic swimmer!! then get up and give my bow. Just for kicks Cause no one was clapping!!.
However one the second to last night, the night we were filming the production, I rolled my apple a little too hard. Sounds like you were tripping? (Badumching!!)... I watched as my apple rocketed really? you act as if you were a pitcher for the yankees? toward the audience faster than anticipated... For some reason I decided that I was going to get it or die( Fingers Crossed ) trying. So I raced out from the curtain as fast as I could and dived Pretty sure you 'dove' for the apple. (Picture this in slow motion) I have to admit it is funnier to picture it in slow motion. I flew through the air, my arms outstretched, my eye on the apple, and my body slammed down hard on the wooden stage floor. I slid maybe 12 feet Exageration... it was more like 2 or 3... just sayin.., groping for the apple that was only just barely out of my reach. finally my hand closed around the darn thing just as it cleared the lip of the stage This is turning into a novel..., then, as one, the apple and I continued off the stage, flipping in the air, barroling Not sure thats true... pretty sure you did one of those cartoon being supsended in mid air until you realized you weren't on the ground any more things. towards the audience.
Luckily I didn't hit anybody but I did land on the extention cord that gave power to the lights the pianists were using to see the music.
So everything halted. It got darker. Silence fell... all eyes trained to the spot where the skinny or not so skinny.. kid had ended his show stealing stunt.
After a few quiet seconds I leaped to my feet with my arms in the air as if i had just landed some sort of gymnastic stunt, apple still in hand. Applause! (It was more of a pity applause..)
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Rocky Start
Now this is a great story! (Great meaning kinda long,
but necessary) When Quinn and I First met you would
have never guessed, that we would have been friends! (You
might say we were kinda different. Gage thought he was the coolest thing since Sparklers. I was kinda(kinda?)
awkward and a little(little?) too friendly. But hey, cut me some slack, this was Jr.
High!) I had just moved to Vernal, Utah, and
just started 8th grade. When I got to school, of course I had no friends as it
was my first day in a new city. So I joined Band and started school.
Me being the nice kid I was, I reached out to Gage to befriend him... I realize now that inviting him home to play Pokémon WASN'T exactly the 'coolest' thing to do (It was actually kinda weird...) So his initial impression of me wasn't the most positive one... Anyway, Gage and I were in percussion together with this other kid, Tyrell, and well...
Tyrell, who was much cooler than Quinn I might add, was a lot better at communicating than Quinn. He was friendly (He was a Jerk) and kept me company during class, and also, unlike Quinn, did not have a reputation of being one of the weirdest kids in the school (no offense (Offence taken. Granted I was weird... I was NOT one of the weirdest)). Of course as a new student you do not want to be associated with the weird kid, so I became friends with Tyrell.
Tyrell decided he wanted to spread rumors about me and tell everyone I was gay (Lets Face it... Not a far stretch). So for the first 6 or 7 months of school Gage and Tyrell made fun of me soo bad that I quit the band just to get away from them! I hated Gage! (No one could ever hate me, You are actually quite easy to hate, Fact)
So since I quit the band I had no extra curricular activities I decided to join the drama club... Ok so the real reason i joined the drama club was because of a cute girl (Name Omitted, The Cuteness should be omitted too.. Dude, she was hot and you know it! Meh), but that is another story... Anyway, Gage and I got the leads in the play... and we were cast as best friends and were forced to not only be around each other all the time, but pretend we liked each other. Probably one of the toughest things I have ever had to do... I mean imagine standing alone in the dark with someone like Quinn... Ya, not the most fun thing. Anyways, the play went on and didn't get any better, but we still had to be "friends", so act we did and better it did not get ;) What are you, Yoda?
Anyways, after months of this Hell, we both started liking these two girls (My girl was prettier)... and as chance would have it they were best friends. SO, as we spent more and more time with these girls, we spent more and more time with each other... So Naturally following the course of events, we began to hate each other more and more!! nah, i'm just kidding, we eventually became friends and soon couldn't be separated. We began to form our own secret codes (We will save that for another time...) and later after our missions we were close enough that even though we were speaking different languages (Hilagaynon, and Greek) We could still understand each other!
So that's how our story begins. And the funny thing about our friendship is that, even though we became inseparable, we still fight and bully like we hate one another. When we see each other we don't say "hi, what's up?", we comment negatively on each others physical appearance (Gage is getting kinda fat, Quinn is getting dumber).
It's not a healthy relationship, (its more of a morbidly obese, anorexic, balemic, chronic eating, psychotic, schizophrenic, suicidal, over confident, self serving, humble, good looking relationship)... but somehow it has withheld the test of time.
And that's what makes us Awe "wait-for-it" some.
Me being the nice kid I was, I reached out to Gage to befriend him... I realize now that inviting him home to play Pokémon WASN'T exactly the 'coolest' thing to do (It was actually kinda weird...) So his initial impression of me wasn't the most positive one... Anyway, Gage and I were in percussion together with this other kid, Tyrell, and well...
Tyrell, who was much cooler than Quinn I might add, was a lot better at communicating than Quinn. He was friendly (He was a Jerk) and kept me company during class, and also, unlike Quinn, did not have a reputation of being one of the weirdest kids in the school (no offense (Offence taken. Granted I was weird... I was NOT one of the weirdest)). Of course as a new student you do not want to be associated with the weird kid, so I became friends with Tyrell.
Tyrell decided he wanted to spread rumors about me and tell everyone I was gay (Lets Face it... Not a far stretch). So for the first 6 or 7 months of school Gage and Tyrell made fun of me soo bad that I quit the band just to get away from them! I hated Gage! (No one could ever hate me, You are actually quite easy to hate, Fact)
So since I quit the band I had no extra curricular activities I decided to join the drama club... Ok so the real reason i joined the drama club was because of a cute girl (Name Omitted, The Cuteness should be omitted too.. Dude, she was hot and you know it! Meh), but that is another story... Anyway, Gage and I got the leads in the play... and we were cast as best friends and were forced to not only be around each other all the time, but pretend we liked each other. Probably one of the toughest things I have ever had to do... I mean imagine standing alone in the dark with someone like Quinn... Ya, not the most fun thing. Anyways, the play went on and didn't get any better, but we still had to be "friends", so act we did and better it did not get ;) What are you, Yoda?
Anyways, after months of this Hell, we both started liking these two girls (My girl was prettier)... and as chance would have it they were best friends. SO, as we spent more and more time with these girls, we spent more and more time with each other... So Naturally following the course of events, we began to hate each other more and more!! nah, i'm just kidding, we eventually became friends and soon couldn't be separated. We began to form our own secret codes (We will save that for another time...) and later after our missions we were close enough that even though we were speaking different languages (Hilagaynon, and Greek) We could still understand each other!
So that's how our story begins. And the funny thing about our friendship is that, even though we became inseparable, we still fight and bully like we hate one another. When we see each other we don't say "hi, what's up?", we comment negatively on each others physical appearance (Gage is getting kinda fat, Quinn is getting dumber).
It's not a healthy relationship, (its more of a morbidly obese, anorexic, balemic, chronic eating, psychotic, schizophrenic, suicidal, over confident, self serving, humble, good looking relationship)... but somehow it has withheld the test of time.
And that's what makes us Awe "wait-for-it" some.
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