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It’s been well over a month and I’ve yet to follow doctor’s orders of going to bed at a decent hour. Either I have to stay up late for work related reasons, or I end up talking online or wasting time on some game related message board until the 2 am repeat of Futurama on Adult Swim (since I always watch Daily Show at 11).
And last night I had another reason to stay up even later: The Sweet Spot. I’m amazed that Comedy Central still plays it, though I’m certainly glad they do. In fact, I can’t recall any of my Comedy Central watching friends, or those into comedy in general, even talking about the show. For those who don’t know, it follows the Murray Brothers (you all know Bill, and perhaps a few are familiar with Brian Doyle, but what about Joel or John?) as they goof around play golf. And that’s basically it.
I really can’t pin down why I enjoy the show so much; it’s almost a guilty pleasure of sorts. The show is not at all challenging or groundbreaking, but rather easy going and casual. The way it’s presented and even filmed reminds me of the comedy specials I grew up with in the late eighties and early nineties (Rich Hall’s Vanishing America instantly comes to mind) which had this infectious sense of giddiness which I really miss today. Some may feel their antics, and even the show as a whole, is pretty self indulgent, and maybe it is, but I still get off on the whole vibe, which is quite playful and spontaneous, yet still funny (at least in my book).
Hence why I find SNL so goddamn annoying these days, especially Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz. Fallon I’ve always hated (which anyone who knows me personally can already attest) but as for Sanz, I used to be a fan, but his shtick is getting old, or should I say their shtick. Every week they do a sketch together in which they break character and start laughing uncontrollably. It was maybe funny the first, the second, or even the seventh time, but they do it literally every week, even around the same time (around the 12:35 sketch). What exactly is so funny? God knows the material they’re delivering isn’t. Its not like they know some awesome punch-line which is so mindblowingly hilarious that simply delivering it is a struggle.
And what I can’t figure is how some people actually find it amusing. To me its seems like either a cheap ploy to get laughs since they know the material is crap, or simply unprofessional behavior (I mean, talk about self indulgent…). What if every actor on the show broke character when they felt like it? And if you actually think that’s a good idea, either you haven’t really thought of the question much or you haven’t seen as much live comedy as I have.
So for the past few weeks, I’ve been trying to grow my hair out.
Long hair has always been a point of fascination for me, but previous attempts have always been aborted during the “awkward phase”. I actually had long hair once, in high school. Unlike most fathers, my dad encouraged his son to grow his hair out, and with great enthusiasm. Perhaps the fact that everyone on my dad’s side is bald might have something to do with that. In fact, the day I cut my hair “unexpectedly” was met with quiet disapproval.
Ever since then, I’ve tried in vain to let it just grow. But at a certain point, right before it starts to “actually look good” I’m guessing, my hair simply goes haywire, to the point that it simply has to call it a day. Perhaps it doesn’t help that these attempts take place during the summer, when the humidity is in full effect.
But during the weekend of my trip to Connecticut, as well as the dead body incident, it was suggested by friends that I would look quite good with long hair. Since this was the opinion of four females, I believed it to be the truth, and had a real reason to give it another shot.
And now I’m at that awkward phase where the hair is soaking up the humidty, constantly getting in my face, and just becoming an all around annoyance. Then as doubt started sinking in, I began asking for opinions. Some were quite supportive actually; a few even felt that long hair was on the verge of being in vouge once more. But one person noted during a dinner party this past Friday:
“You know how no one thinks you look Asian? Well [with long hair] you’ll look like the average creepy Asian guy.”
Ouch. But he could be right. Plus he has long hair, and that already make him an expert on the subject, at least sorta. So then I asked for another point of view, this one both female and Asian. Here’s what Raina had to say:
“NO! it is SOOOOO uncool”
… which was followed by…
“don’t scare me again and please pass that advice to yr bald friends about what girls think about long hair”
So I guess that pretty much settles that.
On a side note, I also spoke with Raina about being an Asian with pitiful facial fair (which A. goes hand in hand actually, and B. makes those Fu Manchu comments by my racist boss while working at Burger King back in high school all the more insulting) and I was referred to The 2004 Asian Mustache Olympics featuring a great pic by her boyfriend:
