Be Dumb With Friends // PORTLAND, OREGON on 12/20!
Happy MID-DECEMBER!
And thank you for saying hi if I saw you at PAX Unplugged this month! What a blast.
Now. I know it’s annoying to talk about the Industry AGAIN, but just stay with me for a MOMENT because I use it to eventually talk about something else. I swear.
Dry spells are weird for so many reasons. Maybe there’s nothing coming in. Maybe there’s a lot of prospects all overlapping at once that each require your full attention. Maybe two seconds later, there’s a lot of rejections all overlapping that require your immediate full detachment.
During these times I get rigid about doing things that are “good for me” – eating well, moving my body… But the one thing that always slips through the cracks is seeing friends. I get bogged down in work and minutiae, make no plans, and then further do not have time to make plans because of the inevitable extra work and minutiae my work and minutiae have created. But then, one day, I will have a plan with a friend, and it feels like I came up for air.
So this is my plea to both of us: go do dumb shit with your friends.
The number one thing I miss about my twenties is how doing dumb shit with friends was a given. I lived with my friends so every night, inevitably, as one of us was doing the dishes, we would watch something, film something, bake something, and talk about NOTHING. We used to have waffle parties and make a new type of waffle and invite friends over to eat the waffles. Do you know how inefficient a waffle party is? You can only make one of those at a time. But we did it. And I miss that.
It felt like a very Sex and the City time (with waffles), where my friends were my world. I don’t know how to conjure that feeling again – now, people have nested, have had their needs change… and I have too. It really does take a hit to your hang-out time when you require actual meals instead of cereal and dollar pizza.
But it’s obviously so good for you. And good for your creativity, if you are sick like me and always think of being productive.
So go to a cheap concert you’d normally never go to, go watch a dumb reality TV show, go take a walk by a lake and talk about all your dumbest thoughts and Biggest Feelings. And if your friends are all busy text the friends that are like two more swipes down your text message app. You know who I’m talking about.
What’s YOUR favorite dumb thing to do with your crew? With your permission, I’m going to share answers on IG to GET A CONVO GOING! Now: stop reading this! Go do something with friends!
Rekha
Want more places to see me live? Catch me at:
12/20/24: Holy Shit Improv in Portland, Oregon @ 7p, Kickstand Comedy
01/08/25: Art Begets Show (hosted by ME and Sandeep Parikh) @ UCB Franklin (for those not in LA, livestream tickets ARE available!!!!!!!)