Archive for September 1st, 2005

MOMA is now offering audio broadcasts online. You can either download them onto an MP3 player and take them with you to the museum, or listen to them online with a slideshow of the pieces they are discussing.

Last night about 8pm I swung by Rififi to check out Bobby Tisdale and Eugene Mirman’s show Invite Them Up. For the next hour the stage looked like this:

Seriously, they started an hour late, which really sucked cause it was really crowded and there was no where to sit. Bobby Tisdale started the show off by spitting fire, which I have to admit was pretty damn cool, especially cause he was so excited about it.

He was able to do it twice, although during a failed attempted, the front row got doused in sambuca. First they brought up Tracie Jayne who did not get a ton of laughs, but was actually pretty funny; she was just performing to the wrong crowd. Next month she goes on the USO tour where I think she’ll be a big hit with her bit about being a beer girl in a thong. Patrick Borelli came up and showed us a slideshow of his trip home this summer. Apparently he has 20 sisters and all they do is hit on him all day long. After the break Eugene Mirman came up and answered questions about his trip to Edinburgh, where he’s been for the past month. Mirman is one of my favorite comedians. Anyone who has not seen him need to go check out his website and you’ll be hooked. Another one of my favorite comedians, Dmetri Martin, came up next.

He was also in Scotland for a couple weeks and talked about how cool Mirman was, and then did a funny pantomime of someone going through a revolving door marked pull. He even posed for this picture. At the end of the night a six piece country western band got up and played a couple of songs that totally made me want to get up and dance. I would love to go see them in a real concert venue. The Invite Them Up website says that they are The Defibrillaters, but when you go to that link it takes you to a website for a six piece baby boomer blues band. I don’t know if that’s a joke or not. Below is a picture of who I saw. If you know who they are, please tell me.

I didn’t stick around after the show but I think Mirman was DJing. For $5 this was one of the best nights of comedy I’ve been to in awhile. Invite Them Up is $5, and happens every Wednesday at Rififi, on 11th between 1st and 2nd, at 8pm (ish).

*UPDATE* They are called The Defibulators. Can’t find a website for them though.

Last night I stopped back by Niagara to check out The Antagonist Movement’s Emancipation of the Grotesque show again. I really like the following two pieces, but they weren’t tagged. If anybody knows who the two artists are, please let me know.