{"id":929,"date":"2010-11-27T04:14:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T09:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/929\/maybe-people-will-take-me-seriously-now-that-ive-been-in-the-paper\/"},"modified":"2010-11-27T04:14:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T09:14:43","slug":"maybe-people-will-take-me-seriously-now-that-ive-been-in-the-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/929\/maybe-people-will-take-me-seriously-now-that-ive-been-in-the-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe People Will Take Me Seriously Now That I’ve Been in The Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAren\u2019t you Jock-o?\u201d <\/em>the lady asked me in the lobby of the Thumbnail Theatre tonight, \u201cor is it Joe-ko?\u201d.
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\n\u201cWhy, yes I am Joko.\u201d I replied smugly.\u00a0 It\u2019s always a little bit of an ego boost when someone you\u2019ve never met before comes up to you and knows your name, even if she doesn\u2019t know how to pronounce it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I was there for the weekly Friday night open mic, and although I didn\u2019t recognize the woman as one of the regular attendees, if she\u2019d attended at all in the last six months, she probably knew me from that.\u00a0 Ukulele performers are still rare enough that we get remembered.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI saw your picture in the paper and brought a copy of it with me, hoping I\u2019d run into you.\u201d she continued.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Oh.\u00a0 Right!\u00a0 I remembered the photographer from the Everett Herald coming down to our first dress rehearsal for the play we just wrapped.\u00a0 She took a lot of pictures.\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty cool that a picture of me and the costume designer ended up on the front page of the \u201cLocal\u201d section.\u00a0 The online version of the article doesn\u2019t have my picture, so I just took a snapshot of the hardcopy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nNow, the topic of the article itself is kind of depressing.\u00a0 The college president wants to cut the drama department from our local community college.\u00a0 Really bad idea.\u00a0 This could be the last time a performer from an Edmonds Community College production gets seen in the paper because soon, if the bad guys get their way, there won\u2019t be any more EdCC theatre productions!\u00a0 Booo!!!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cUkulele\u2019s are like puppy dogs, aren\u2019t they?\u201d<\/em> the emcee asked the crowd while introducing me tonight. \u201cThey just make you want to smile.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Nice sentiment, but this comment upset me, however true it may be.\u00a0 See, nobody takes puppy dogs seriously.\u00a0 Same thing with the uke.\u00a0 Oh, it certainly is a \u201cjoyous\u201d instrument, but that\u2019s not all it can be.\u00a0 It can do sad songs too.\u00a0 It can do serious stuff.\u00a0 I can do serious stuff!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Last time I was at the open mic, I performed my rendition of \u201cHomegrown Tomatoes\u201d<\/em> which got the folks laughing and happy.\u00a0 Then, I tried to entirely switch gears and perform Blue October\u2019s \u201cHate Me\u201d, which as you might imagine from the title, is not a very happy song.\u00a0\u00a0 Get this:\u00a0 People were laughing at it!\u00a0 OMG!! That song is about death, loss and never being able to reconcile with someone you loved because they\u2019re gone forever.\u00a0 If anything could be played on a ukulele that would be taken seriously, it would be that song.. Yet still people laughed.<\/strong> That bugged me.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So, tonight, as I explain to the emcee after he set me up with that \u201cUkulele\u2019s are like puppy dogs\u201d line, I started with my serious song first.\u00a0 An original of mine I wrote a couple years ago, but never got around to performing live until tonight.\u00a0 Enjoy.\u00a0 But don\u2019t laugh!!<\/strong><\/span> This is serious stuff here!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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Well… I can’t seem to get the video embedding to work.\u00a0 I posted something in the forums, looking for an answer.\u00a0 In the meantime, please click here<\/a> to see the video in a new window.<\/p>\n


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