rubinville

Today is the officially the second anniversary of the Daily Dave. That's right, a mere 2 years ago this little journal began as nothing more than the words of a hapless dreamer and his since developed into the words of a completely hapless dreamer. Actually, today I looked back on some of the archives for the first time in a long time, and it's nice to see the progression of how I write and what I write about, but I know that even the stuff I write about now is only another step in the right direction to get whever the hell it is I am going.

I've recently been told by Bob Castrone that because the Daily Dave is an internal blog to Rubinville, and not a stand alone blog page like most other are, that I will never been accepted by the general blog community. At first this worried me, because maybe I'm not getting my voice out there enough just cuz of the format of this page, but then I realized that being part of the blog community doesn't sound really good, does it? It sounds a little like being part of the leper community or the transgendered community.

Not that there is anything wrong with that.

All that being said, as of today we at the Comedy Company have launched ComedyCompanyNYC.blogspot.com. It's standard blog format and it'll be where the comics of Comedy Company come to write thoughts, ideas and general world-taking over manifesto's. The first installment is up now, and if you're a comic and want to post to it, lemme know.

Saw Bill Cosby last night at a theatre in New Jersey. He's definitely not the Cosby of the 80's anymore and his topics have changed from fatherhood to trying to age gracefully. He still is magical to watch up there, though I don't think he was at sharp as when he was in his prime. For me, it was interesting to see the guy who in many ways inspired me to get into comedy as he is clearly in a different phase of his career from the guy who I cam to admire so much. His prescence, his style and his sensibilities are all still the same and he did some intereaction with the crowd that was really great. He also ended by doing his famous dentist bit, which got just about the biggest laughs I've ever heard. The show lasted about 2 and a half hours, just Cosby and the microphone. My set on the late show was about 20 minutes, so I've still got some work to do.

The Oscars are tonight and I'm guessing they'll be pretty boring despite the fears of Chris Rock saying "fuck". We still fear "fuck" for some reason. Ironic, we fear "fuck" and wear "fukc" clothes. Hmm hmm.

Actually, I haven't even seen any of the big movies this year, but this does give me an oppurtunity to list 5 movies I highly recommend. In no particular order...

Naked Gun
The Never Ending Story
Contact
9 to 5
Minority Report

Why 5 movies? Why those 5? Good questions. Those are just the 5 that popped into my brain at the moment.

The union of stunt men want to get an Oscar category all for themselves. Does nobody enjoy anonymity anymore? Trust me guys, being tracked down by the media all the time and signing autographs gets boring pretty quickly. Enjoy the fact nobody knows nor cares about you.

Alright, that's it for this entry and here's to ushering in year 3 of the Daily Dave. May its themes continue to mature and get funnier. And, of course, may the anti-stunt men material and fart jokes be plentiful.