{"id":145,"date":"2018-10-03T17:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T17:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KatelynB\/?page_id=145"},"modified":"2019-05-25T05:36:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T05:36:05","slug":"humor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KatelynB\/humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Humor Project is pretty self-explanatory\u2013 it&#8217;s a project in which we create a comedic work. My English teacher said we&#8217;re doing it as a break from the serious and often somber subject matter from the previous units and I couldn&#8217;t agree with this decision more. I&#8217;m glad we did this project because it&#8217;s a break from the English class norm; it&#8217;s a chance to explore different mediums often unexplored in high school class. I&#8217;m glad I was able  to express my more fun-side with this project because I feel like it cn often get lost with regular academic work. I do think I am somewhat funny, so it was interesting to actually try fleshing it out into a polished piece of work. I appreciated the different genres of comedy I was exposed to during the process as it did inspire my comedy project. I think if anything, I will consider making more professional humor works in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KatelynB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/KatelynB-Humor-Project-Proposal.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">KatelynB-Humor-Project-Proposal<\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Humor Script<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote style=\"text-align:left\" class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><br>Hello friends. Thank you for joining me on this Earthly plane for the 5th annual Poetry Jam. <em>(small cymbal)<\/em> My name is Arizona and I\u2019m a Pisces. This is my assistant, Mitch. <em>(pause) <\/em>This is my very first live performance, so please send me positive energy during this spiritual journey through the world of spoken art. I reached enlightenment during the writing process, so I hope I\u2019ll be able to take you there too. Let us begin.<br><em>(chimes)<\/em><br><br>\u201cHeartbreak\u201d<br><br>My first love was fire: passionate, yet fleeting.<em> (Small cymbal)<\/em><br><br>I was a moth to his flame, <br>a child seeking warmth on a crisp autumn day,<br>a rich person watching a burning pile of cash\u2026<br><br>He taught me how to love. <em>(Small chime)<\/em><br><br>There I laid, <br>bare on the cave\u2019s floor,<br>Trapped.<br>No light from yonder<br>Black in an infrared.<br>The absence of human touch<br><br>I shuddered <em>(chimes)<\/em><br>And blinked an SOS<br>In hopes someone would blink back. <em>(Multiple cowbells)<\/em><br><br><em>(Go ham on the instruments) <\/em>Seconds turned into minutes,<br>Minutes turned into hours,<br>Hours turned into days\u2026<br> To weeks<br> To months<br> Years<br> Decades<br> Centuries<br> Light years<br> something more than light years?<br><br>Until he flickered back, <em>(soft drumming)<\/em><br>Forcing my eyes open.<br>I squinted at the white, thinking it was a dream<br>For light only entered in my sleep.<br><br>He offered refuge in his heat,<br>Genuine compassion I\u2019ve never experienced before.<br>I stumble towards the light<br>Defrosting as I go<br>Like a hot pocket in the microwave. <em>(triangle)<\/em><br><br>Out of the numbing dark,<br>My life now in technicolor.<br>He saved me,<br>And I spent the next few months in his warmth<br><br>But it <em>(drum crescendo) <\/em>all changed when the clock stroke twelve on the eve of his birth.<br>I unearthed something that truly shook me to the core<br>Like a vibrator during an earthquake<br>Something that threw me back inside of that vapid cave\u2026 <em>(cymbal)<\/em><br><br><br><br>He was a Gemini <em>(triangle)<\/em><br><br><br><br>But I was a Pisces. <em>(cowbell)<\/em><br><br><br><br>Just like a twelve-year-old boy who got in trouble for maxing out his mother\u2019s credit cards on loot boxes,<br>I wept.<br>And wept and wept and wept.<br>Because this relationship couldn\u2019t work <em>(cowbell)<\/em><br><br>Shouldn\u2019t work <em>(higher drum)<\/em><br><br>Wouldn\u2019t work <em>(lower drum)<\/em><br><br>For it isn\u2019t in the stars. <em>(cymbal)<\/em><br>Tragedy was predetermined for us,<br>Shoving a fateful wedge in between.<br>We were like Romeo and Juliet,<br>Bonnie and Clyde,<br>Justice and the United States\u2013<br>It wouldn\u2019t work out. <em>(cowbell)<\/em><br><br>His fireplace words tried to calm my ocean heart <em>(chimes)<\/em><br>Saying things like, <em>(start of drumming)<\/em><br>\u201cWhat?<br>I don\u2019t see why something like birth dates could drive us apart.\u201d<br><br>\u2026 <em>(comedic drum noise)<\/em><br><br>&#8230;how <em>naive<\/em>.<br><br><em>(Drumming) <\/em>Such words made separation more difficult<br>For I loved him too. (<em>large cymbal)<\/em><br>But he was such an ignorant,<br>Unknowing soul<br>Of the stars.<br>A doubter<br>left in the dark of the starless sky. (<em>triangle)<\/em><br><br><em>(Shark bait oo haha drumming) <\/em>\u201cNo&#8230; really. I don\u2019t think something like the zodiac could predict our future together\u2026 we don\u2019t need to break up over this\u2026 For God\u2019s sake, (<em>drum pause) <\/em>I love you&#8230;\u201d (<em>cowbell)<\/em><br><br>Classic Gemini move. <br><br>So me,<br>With courage and fishiness,<br>Took a final gulp<br>And flopped away from the fire<br><br><br>For the fish cannot be with the flame. <em>(Small cymbal\u2026 comedic drum)<\/em><br><\/p><cite>Arizona (A Wise Woman)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Live Performance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\n<div data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-youtube-qevsbycownq\" class=\"arve\">\n\t<div class=\"arve-inner\">\n\t\t<div style=\"aspect-ratio:585\/329\" class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"arve-ar\" style=\"padding-top:56.239316%\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<iframe allow=\"accelerometer &apos;none&apos;;autoplay &apos;none&apos;;bluetooth &apos;none&apos;;browsing-topics &apos;none&apos;;camera &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-read &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-write;display-capture &apos;none&apos;;encrypted-media &apos;none&apos;;gamepad &apos;none&apos;;geolocation &apos;none&apos;;gyroscope &apos;none&apos;;hid &apos;none&apos;;identity-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;idle-detection &apos;none&apos;;keyboard-map &apos;none&apos;;local-fonts;magnetometer &apos;none&apos;;microphone &apos;none&apos;;midi &apos;none&apos;;otp-credentials &apos;none&apos;;payment &apos;none&apos;;picture-in-picture;publickey-credentials-create &apos;none&apos;;publickey-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;screen-wake-lock &apos;none&apos;;serial &apos;none&apos;;summarizer &apos;none&apos;;sync-xhr;usb &apos;none&apos;;web-share;window-management &apos;none&apos;;xr-spatial-tracking &apos;none&apos;;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" credentialless data-arve=\"arve-youtube-qevsbycownq\" data-lenis-prevent=\"\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QEvsbycoWNQ?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"0\" loading=\"lazy\" name=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QEvsbycoWNQ?feature=oembed&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autoplay=0\" title=\"\" width=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\n\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"http:\\\/\\\/schema.org\\\/\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/freestyleacademy.rocks\\\/~KatelynB\\\/humor\\\/#arve-youtube-qevsbycownq\",\"@type\":\"VideoObject\",\"embedURL\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/embed\\\/QEvsbycoWNQ?feature=oembed&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0\"}<\/script>\n\t\n<div class=\"arve-error\"><p><small><abbr title=\"Advanced Responsive Video Embedder\">ARVE<\/abbr> error: Mode: lazyload not available (ARVE Pro not active?), switching to normal mode<\/small><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption><em>Welcome to Poetry Hour with Arizona&#8230;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Humor Project is pretty self-explanatory\u2013 it&#8217;s a project in which we create a comedic work. 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