Dancing Barefoot — Live on stage!
In an effort to be more like my hero David Sedaris, I’m doing a live performance of Dancing Barefoot, which will be recorded and turned into an audiobook!
Details:
WHAT: Dancing Barefoot, live on stage!
WHERE: Acme Comedy Theatre (where else? 😉
135 N. La Brea
Hollywood, CA 90036
(323) 525-0202
WHEN: Wednesday, April 20th and Wednesday, April 27th at 8 pm.
TICKETS: $12
I will have a very limited number of Dancing Barefoot books for sale, and if you already own a copy that you’d like to get signed, please bring it out. I’m happy to do that.
I just love Dancing Barefoot. When I read from it, I get to revisit the great memories I wrote about, but I also get to remember how fun and exciting it was to write, publish, and release it. In contrast to the frustration and disappointment I experienced with Just A Geek, I have nothing but fond memories of the Monolith Press run of Dancing Barefoot.
This is going to rock! \m/
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I’m so there.
I’m so not, and that makes me very sad. *sniffles* Damn you, North America! Why must you be so big?!
Aaaaaaarrrrgh! I gotta move to LA, that’s all there is to it. Do they have tech jobs in CA?
I get to be the third one grr-aarghing the left coast; but I won’t move to LA.
Are reservations required, or can we just show up and get a ticket at the door?
if i lived closer than minnsota, i would so be there, but i guess i’ll hafta wait for the audiobook to accent the Dancing Barefoot i already have
Cool – I love audiobooks, I can just lie back and listen.
I know im going to sound ignorant here but who is David Sedaris?
Awesome! (But maybe I should wait in line at Grauman’s Chinese for this, instead of at the ACME?!)
Wil, this is the first time since you wrote “Barefoot” that you’ve had one of these events on my days off. I am planning on being there with books to sign!
Wil – I know I’m an idiot but have you read about how to submit to This American Life?
http://thisamericanlife.com/pages/faq_extras/faqsubmissions.html
I’ve reserved seats and everything. The people in the ACME box office are so nice!
That’s because Teh Monolith Press was Teh Futar!!!11one
Good times, good times…
Any truth to the rumors that the ol’ shoppe may be phoenixed and new materials may come into shape?
Shame I wont be able to make it but good luck and I hope anyone who does go from here has a good time.
Love Donna Marie
I shall go.
and it will be GRAND.
I’m waiting for the “Live at…” dvd. With extras.
Woohoo very cool news about the audiobook.
Are you going to sell this audiobook on you’re website/other means?
I loved you’re presentation on Gnomedex (downloaded the mp3’s).
It’s to bad to I can’t visit you on stage, i’m living in Belgium so it’s a little to far away.
Just a Geek & Dancing Barefoot are also available in Europe (I’ve ordered them yesterday)
Best quote from David Sedaris:
“He nice, the Jesus.”
ajpresto, I’m pretty sure Wil mentioned trying to get on TAL at some point in the past. I’m not sure if he ever went for it and submitted.
noel burke, David Sedaris is a humorist/memoirist popular with the NPR set. He’s probably most famous for his Santaland Diaries. NPR plays them at some point every holiday season. If you’ve never heard them, they’re hysterical.
I’m more curious about the “disappointment and frustration with JAG”. I don’t think I’ve seen Wil refer to it like that before. Is that disappointment and frustration post publishing? A problem with O’Reilly? Or was it with the writing/editing process? Perhaps simply referring to the stories contained therein or the time in which they were written?
Enquiring minds want to know. (Or did I completely miss something and someone else can smack me with a clue-by-four).
Wil, I think it’s great that you are recording a live performance of Dancing Barefoot for your audio book. Although live recordings can always have their share of quirks, they tend to give the listener a feeling of more immediacy than a sterile studio recording. At least IMO.
I wish I could be there in the audience for the recordings. I am going to try to get out there for a performance of the new ACME show, if at all possible.
ttrentham, Wil has mentioned in a couple of previous entries that JAG didn’t have the success, nor did it get as much promotional support from O’Reilly, as he had hoped for. It’s a shame, too, because the book is so good and would probably appeal to a fairly wide audience that hasn’t heard about it. We who have read it just have to keep spreading the word.
“In contrast to the frustration and disappointment I experienced with Just A Geek…”
You probably don’t want to (or can’t) badmouth O’Reilly, but it would be very enlightening to hear your experiences. I for one loved the Monolith idea; my Monolith copy of Barefoot is a treasure and I’d jump at the chance to get more.