Parallelogramophonograph is performing Improvised French Farce this week at the Montreal Improv Festival. We're headlining Friday night and performing on Saturday as well.
Roy and I are actually already here, meeting and watching several French Canadian performers and learning their take on the art form.
Tomorrow night we're doing a duet show.
It's funny, everyone else here is listed by the city they come from (Montreal, Ontario, Chicago, NYC, etc) but for us they're just saying "Texas" in all the promotional materials. One of the blurbs says, "Yes, they're actually from Texas." Which is...interesting.
We're excited to bring some Austin-style improv to French Canada!
Oh man, it is so French here. It is also very cold. We're definitely thrown from our element. Luckily the improv stage is warm and inviting.
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I wonder what that means...kaci_beeler wrote:One of the blurbs says, "Yes, they're actually from Texas."
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Glad you guys are there, representin'! Have a great show and a great time.
I'm curious too, but I'd guess it's that the view of Texas internationally (and definitely within parts of our own country) is that Texas is all cowboys and oil and whatnot, and therefore it's surely devoid of culture. That people associate our last president with this state so closely doesn't help either.Jeff wrote:I wonder what that means...kaci_beeler wrote:One of the blurbs says, "Yes, they're actually from Texas."
My friend and I went to Europe to film a teaser for a documentary he wanted to make. We interviewed people on the streets of Amsterdam, Paris and Barcelona about their views of the US. This was during Bush's administration.
One lady said, and this is me paraphrasing from memory, "Some people from the US are fine, but not everyone, like people from Texas."
My friend says "We're from Texas."
"Oh."
I've noticed in my limited travels to other parts of the world, people have a weird thing about Texas thinking it's somehow different (and I guess it is, to some extent).
Oh, and that's awesome that y'all are there doing your thing in Montreal. Congrats! I'm totally jealous. I hear that city's pretty awesome. Is it?
One lady said, and this is me paraphrasing from memory, "Some people from the US are fine, but not everyone, like people from Texas."
My friend says "We're from Texas."
"Oh."
I've noticed in my limited travels to other parts of the world, people have a weird thing about Texas thinking it's somehow different (and I guess it is, to some extent).
Oh, and that's awesome that y'all are there doing your thing in Montreal. Congrats! I'm totally jealous. I hear that city's pretty awesome. Is it?
Congratulations, ya'll! I love that city.
You must, MUST go here:
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You absolutely have to see "And then there was light". It changed my life. No joke. Although the way I appreciated it probably wasn't how the Catholic Church intended.
You must, MUST go here:
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You absolutely have to see "And then there was light". It changed my life. No joke. Although the way I appreciated it probably wasn't how the Catholic Church intended.
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I've had a couple people here in Chicago who, when they found out I was from Texas, asked something to the effect of, "so is it, like, a terrible place?"
Um, no...
On the other hand, my friend, who is from North Carolina and has never been to Texas, asked me if King of the Hill was in any way accurate to how Texas is...I said yes.
Um, no...
On the other hand, my friend, who is from North Carolina and has never been to Texas, asked me if King of the Hill was in any way accurate to how Texas is...I said yes.
I agree. There are more than a few nuggets of truth in that program for sure.scook wrote: On the other hand, my friend, who is from North Carolina and has never been to Texas, asked me if King of the Hill was in any way accurate to how Texas is...I said yes.
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We should start a rumor/conspiracy movement that Obama was actually born in Texas.mcnichol wrote:Glad you guys are there, representin'! Have a great show and a great time.
I'm curious too, but I'd guess it's that the view of Texas internationally (and definitely within parts of our own country) is that Texas is all cowboys and oil and whatnot, and therefore it's surely devoid of culture. That people associate our last president with this state so closely doesn't help either.Jeff wrote:I wonder what that means...kaci_beeler wrote:One of the blurbs says, "Yes, they're actually from Texas."
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Maybe it just means that "Holy shit, these people came all the way from Texas to do this festival! That's really far!"mcnichol wrote:Glad you guys are there, representin'! Have a great show and a great time.
I'm curious too, but I'd guess it's that the view of Texas internationally (and definitely within parts of our own country) is that Texas is all cowboys and oil and whatnot, and therefore it's surely devoid of culture. That people associate our last president with this state so closely doesn't help either.Jeff wrote:I wonder what that means...kaci_beeler wrote:One of the blurbs says, "Yes, they're actually from Texas."
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Bullseye. Having friends all over the country (and a few out of it) I've often had to defend/differentiate Austin from the rest of the state since I voluntarily chose to settle down here. I got the "WTF do you want to live in TX?" pretty regularly for a while.Brian Boyko wrote:To be fair, Texas is a backwater; we're just floating on Island Austin.
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if you can stand the wind chill, use the Bixi Bike Rental System. It's amazing. For $5 a day you can grab a bike at a Bixy station, and return it to another one and if you get there in under 30 minutes, it's free. otherwise, it's like an additional $2. We used it to get around the whole city on sunday and it was awesome.
It's the kind of thing that would work really well in Austin actually, especially for things like SXSW. It will prob be expanding to other cities pretty soon, I'm guessing... yep, boston and london are next.
http://montreal.bixi.com/home/home-bixi
and here's a coverage map. it's seriously sweet. http://montreal.bixi.com/the-stations
It's the kind of thing that would work really well in Austin actually, especially for things like SXSW. It will prob be expanding to other cities pretty soon, I'm guessing... yep, boston and london are next.
http://montreal.bixi.com/home/home-bixi
and here's a coverage map. it's seriously sweet. http://montreal.bixi.com/the-stations
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yay Pgraph! let them haters hate...just means you'll blow em away extra good if they think Texans can't prov. and you just tell em they're not from Texas, but Texas wants them anyway. 
personally, i'm getting tired of the whole "Austin defense." meeting people out here in L.A. or when i'm visiting some other state and they find out i'm from Texas, only to then say "oh, but you're from Austin, so that's okay." well, yes, i'm from Austin. but i'm also from Texas and damn proud of it and make no apologies for it. yeah, there's parts that aren't that grand...but that's true of any state, country, region, commonwealth, principality, protectorate or duchy. and most of the time, they state their problem as "oh, well Bush is from Texas." no, he's from Connecticut, dumbass. you know who's from Texas? Willie Nelson. so shut the fuck up.
all that said...give em le hell! and if any Franco-Canadians give you crap, just remind them that we may have given the world Bush, but they gave it Celine Dion. who's sin is greater?
personally, i'm getting tired of the whole "Austin defense." meeting people out here in L.A. or when i'm visiting some other state and they find out i'm from Texas, only to then say "oh, but you're from Austin, so that's okay." well, yes, i'm from Austin. but i'm also from Texas and damn proud of it and make no apologies for it. yeah, there's parts that aren't that grand...but that's true of any state, country, region, commonwealth, principality, protectorate or duchy. and most of the time, they state their problem as "oh, well Bush is from Texas." no, he's from Connecticut, dumbass. you know who's from Texas? Willie Nelson. so shut the fuck up.
all that said...give em le hell! and if any Franco-Canadians give you crap, just remind them that we may have given the world Bush, but they gave it Celine Dion. who's sin is greater?
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