Last night Zack and I went out to The Playground Theater to check out our boy Dave in Tarantino: The Improvised Show (check out an earlier post about the show here). Afterwards we went out with the cast to Town Hall Pub. To say the least, the place is a dive…most…definitely. It looks like an unfinished basement with liquor bottles lining one of the walls. And what dive bar would be complete without a jukebox packed with Steve Miller’s Greatest Hits and…a photobooth.
After a couple of beers, I mentioned that it might be a great idea for the three of us to squeeze into the photobooth. We briefly decided what the four photos should be:
1. Thumbs up
2. Serious Face
3. F*** with each other
4. Whatever
This, however, is what actually happened:
1. Thumbs Up. Confusion. Not sure if the picture was actually taken.
2. Thumbs Up…Again.
3. Zack throws his glass of water everywhere.
4. Apparently we are all at the top of a log plume ride.
Ahhhh memories. Enjoy…
This June, Batterymouth is going to be taking the show on the road to perform at the Twin Cities Improv Festival. For those of you who don’t know, TCIF is an annual improv festival that takes place in Minneapolis, MN every year (hence, “annual”). This year’s festival is taking place June 25th - 28th and it looks like there will be a nice long form Chicago improv presence there including some of our friends (The Cosby Sweaters) and some of our side projects (Tarantino: The Improvised Show). We don’t know the exact date, time and location of our performance at the festival yet, but as soon as we know, you’ll know. So, pack your bags and get ready for a Batterymouth roadtrip this June.
Hey! If you’re free tonight, stop on over to the Playground Theater to catch Tarantino: The Improvised Show. Batterymouth’s own, Dave Urlakis, will be packing heat and shouting expletives in this improvised homage to Quentin Tarantino’s canon of work. The show was recently covered in a Time Out Chicago article (Batterymouth even got a plug because my boy Dave is a straight-up smooth pimp). The show is every Saturday night at 10:00pm and runs through March 7th. Check out all of the details here.
I mean, this show is PERFECT for Dave. You see, Dave is Lithuanian and Lithuanians are, by nature, pretty angry people. In fact, Urlakis actually means “Angry Eyes”…seriously. Ask him. I can’t seem to find anything online to back that up, but Dave told me that it’s true…and I think that it’s safe to say that I will believe anything that Dave Urlakis says. I also found this video…aaaand this one. Cheers.
