Pick up a copy of TV Guide Magazine now (Sept 1-7 with The Hills on the cover) and you'll see a shout out and photo from my Gossip Girl Spoof! Thanks TV Guide!!!
left to right: Doug Mand, Heather Fink, Adam Good, Sara Benincasa
I want to give my all to work right now, and to my friends, and to my personal situations, and to adjusting back in the city.
There is so much I want to share with you about my trip so just gimmie a moment and it'll all come out.
Here I am with my 3 friends from home who joined me, Neil, Stephen and Evan. I was so lucky to have them with me, and I really genuinely loved the new friends I made on the trip too. I went because it was a free trip provided by Birthright Mayanot, my daddy is Jewish, my mommy is a Dutch woman who decorates Christmas trees sometimes.
Once again I fell in love with Israel and the Jews and am so happy to have had this experience.
---- Quick update - my show in Hoboken tomorrow is cancelled and will be rescheduled for Sept or Oct.
Here's some songs I'm into right now:
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I feel lucky, and the only way I can justify receiving so much goodness in life is by realizing I have an obligation to work as hard as I can to give as much as I can to deserve it all. That's the only way I can be comfortable with how great life has been to me lately. It sounds weird, right? To be able to openly say - holy shit I am loving this! I'm not sure what to make of that, the only thing I know is that I know how to be grateful, and I know that I can try my best to give back, so that seems to make sense.
In the meantime, I'd like you to tell me - what did I miss!? What songs came out? What stupid gossip about famous people?! Did you get new jobs or touch interesting and different private parts? Tell me tell me!!!
trying to not hear tune out the sounds of the people friends that are with me love them but enjoy leaving them hear only one thing the soft air dark night open warm air open space i can breathe and when i breathe i escape
moonlight there's a full moon tonight thank you for being so pretty
i love you moment
there's a bonfire with all the things you can love of fire destroy some sticks hear the crackle melting marshmallow the sound of beautiful voice singing and playing music by the fire i'm nearly naked in a cotton wrap after a shower so i feel that air and that fire
and at any moment it's ok to just run off and disappear
and this is israel did you see the nuclear testing facility off in the distance? now it's time to sleep in the bedouin tents i've clearly never been here before
smoke the hookah go to sleep
Sunday, August 24, 2008
oh hey i'm back israel was amazingawesome time to take a nap ttyl
Be back August 24th. By 2pm today I will be cutting off telephone and internet for 2 weeks. Not bringing laptop and not renting cellphone. Yay!!!
When I get back I'm doing a couple shows, including one in Hoboken. Check out the dates if you like.
This weekend I quite enjoyed the Del Close Marathon and 88 Boadrums. I actually prefer the partying at Del Close to the shows. I have a very hard time watching and paying attention in big crowds with all the distraction. But I still recommend people go see it. There's a lot of frenzied excitement and very special guests. Like Brooke Shields. Why not? Perhaps you want to have a nice viewing of my photos to see some of the sights.
Changes in the Meat: My show Street Meat has changed a bit. The next show is Monday Sept 8. There is a new co-host, Rob Lathan. I met Rob when I did my very first standup shows at the Variety Underground show back in 2005. He always did different characters and he still does delightful character work. I'm really excited to bring him on Street Meat! Adam Newman is still a part of the show. He has a permanent standup spot, so he's not gone away!
Friend and talented person Christos and his band Wine is Thicker Than Blood have a song in the latest Gossip Girl promo video! It's called "Sleep Parade." Listen to them.
buckcherry is one of those things i cant help but be firmly judgmental about if you like it i will think about you differently like maybe you can't be trusted or maybe you really aren't such a good person i'm sorry it's not ok never ever will it be
I have enjoyed milkshakes in my life I used to like the way my dad made them but I don't think I quite understand why we would ever drink ice cream
Ok, now I go. Please watch this over and over and over again:
I remember when I bought you, I was so surprised to see you on the sale rack for only 5 dollars Saturday was the last time we were together and Saturday was when I lost you long sleeved black and white plaid shirt that was the first day I ever noticed your small lavender stripes life is funny like that sometimes RIP shirt you were so versatile
"Ben" by Michael Jackson is probably the creepiest song ever. At first you hear Michael's young voice and hear the lyrics and think, man, this is one gay song. But it's not about some weird gay childhood friendship thing. It's actually about a boy's love for a rat. It's from the 1972 movie "Ben" about a little boy who loves a rat. It also sounds really cool.
Ok computer, you just downloaded the 4 volumes of Air's Deck Safari. Time to listen and get to work.
I loved it on many levels and I am a stuck up bitch who thinks she's too fancy for chinese takeout.
1- It gave me hope and happiness to think about how director Chris Nolan came to make this movie after making indies like Memento. Which means here is a man with distinct vision and talent who made the movies he wanted to make, and who was eventually trusted with massive movie budgets to just let it all out and make exactly the movie he wanted.
2- Heath Ledger as the joker - excellent. Because it's really difficult to make something like that work. I thought maybe Johnny Depp could play that too, but he's too pretty. Ledger looks like the degenerate he needed to be.
3- Christian Bale. He is a sexy and talented man. But he shined more in Batman Begins because it gave him more to work with considering it was mostly about him dealing with his personal demons.
4- Maggie - UGH the girl part in the past two batman movies has been lame and forgettable. The women of Burton Batmans were much more interesting and enjoyable.
5- Chaos and anarchy are poisonous. Joker managed to create constant states of Chaos when he messed with people - anything you thought had meaning was stripped away. Order and meaning are needed to some extent for people to be happy. Society ought be meaningful.
6- Aaron Eckhart was great too. Loved his storyline - but I thought he went bad all too easily.
I say this: It takes a lot of strength in life to do the right thing. Sometimes it's remarkable what life asks of you. And if you don't question what the the right thing is, you are probably weak.
Don't ask me how but on Monday night I managed to tell an Italian waiter to "go back to Italy" and I swear to god that wasn't what I meant. Oooops.
I laugh about this: Being such a freakin girly girl talking on the phone to boys and doing extreme and crazy things and then realizing they are crazy and then wearing heels and then marching around and then buying dresses and getting sexually propositioned by orthodox men. Because that happened on Tuesday night on the streets of Williamsburg. A man with the curls pulled up to me and gestured as such. I was wearing a kneelength skirt and heels and talking on my blackberry. He thought I was a prostitute.
It's easy to forget pieces of the life you have lived. On Wednesday night I went to this kickass fancy alumni dinner at Buddakan and they gave us like everything on the freakin menu and all free drinks n stuff. All I could do was raise my glass to toast my friends and say "private school yayyyy." Before you criticize my elitism, just accept it. It was kind of cool and fun to be a part of that. People find resourceful ways to enjoy life and make it seem special.
Speaking of elitism, last night I had fun being a part of a clan of untouchables. I went out with a Mandate of Heaven posse - that's a group of girls dressed in clothes designed by my friend Carissa. They tend to be hotties, and bars and clubs ask her to bring her girls out and offer free drinks because it makes the place look like it has hot chicks at it. Stupid as that may be, it's fun to be a part of. When you walk around in her sexy designs with this hot chick group, people stare at you like you are a mythical beast. To be on the receiving end of that kind of attention is hilarious - why? Because it's so stupid! Because I am the one with the mind inside. And maybe I've just farted. Mythical beasts don't fart.
Currently, I'm getting my MFA in Film at NYU with a writer/director concentration. This takes a lot of time so I can't perform as much - but comedy filmmaking is the reason I got into comedy in the first place.
I like it when people pay me money to do freelance work for them.
- Pay me to Write or Direct.
- Pay me to be a Sound Mixer on your film shoot.
- Pay me to produce original content for your corporate needs.
I am a comedian: standup, improv, sketch. You may contact me at theheatherfink@yahoo.com if you would like to book me to perform in or host your thing.