Happy Halloween!

Upcoming events!

Lamocu Productions is happy to announce the following:

Friday, November 6, 2009=Quartermania at InSights (Al Smith emceeing...so beware)

Saturday, November 21, 2009=Paint The Town Green at Lawrence Institute of Technology

-City Limit and A Hero Falls performing from 3-6pm for Science Fair

-Uptown Sound DJing fashion show in the evening

-Mr. Hyde rockin out the evening after the show

December shows to be determined.

Saturday, January 23, 2010=Our first show at The Well, 7191 Grand River in Brighton, 8pm

(acts to be determined)

-Lamocu Productions and The Guild of Insightful Sounds is officially moving!

Saturday, February 20, 2010=Our second show at The Well, 8pm (acts to be determined)

Saturday, March 20, 2010=Our third show at The Well, 8pm (acts to be determined)

Well that it's for now, details will be coming on all of the above. For now let's be thankful and spend some time appreciating the one and only Soupy Sales. Until next time, stay tuned.

News pending...

Great day of meetings have concluded and it's 99.9% official, we will be moving in the next couple months. Precise timing and details have yet to be arranged but systems are working together to make this happen.

On November 21st Lamocu Productions will be doing the Paint The Town Green show at Lawrence Institute of Technology. From 3-6 in the afternoon we will be providing two youth bands to play during the "green" science fair, we will be supplying the sound system used for the entire event, DJ service for the evening fashion show and a headlining band to rock out the evening. This will be our eighth time working with Laura Deljanin and her firm and this is the biggest event yet. The trust Laura has placed in our hands in indescribable and we appreciate her very much. As details become concrete we will pass them along.

That's about it for now. One more day of football practice as we see the Juniors and Sophomores mesh together, building chemistry for the off season workouts and next year. Then our attention focuses to meetings on Thursday that will enhance our programing here. After that, preparations for Halloween.

Until next time kick back and enjoy the Indian Summer. Tonight, I'm kicking back and watching some more of Soupy---his 3 DVD collection is still available through Rhino, just an fyi.

Thanks for following along, until next time, stay tuned.

Meetings all day...

Today we got some meetings scheduled that will greatly change our future. Very excited and a little scared. But that's okay because if you're not having an OSM (oh sh*t moment) you're not trying hard enough! More as they day progresses. Take care and stay tuned.

Another hero bites the dust!

Well I know HE wasn't every one's cup of tea...but for me, the world was better because of Soupy Sales! His passion was having fun, it came through in everything he did. Soupy was one of the first things my dad and shared together, the others were the classic comedy teams (3 Stooges, Marx Brothers and Laurel & Hardy) and of course the Looney Tunes. My dad and I loved to laugh and Soupy to us was "local boy makes good"...He started out on Channel 7 here in Detroit, then went onto L.A., then New York. The world was loving our Soupy!

One of my greatest memories was upon returning from Scout summer camp, I was informed that my parents were taking me to SEE Soupy that night. Soupy was performing his standup at the Top Hat dinner club over in Windsor and we were going. Between shows I took my program backstage for an autograph, scared beyond my years of 12. But the thought of meeting a real celebrity, one that I had known and loved for years drove me through the body of adults mulling about. Once I stood before my idol I was met with his beaming, trademark smile and he said "Well hello there young fellow." I felt a warmth instantly. "How can I help you today?" he continued. When I asked for his autograph---if it wouldn't be too much trouble...he was most obliging, and thanked ME. What made the interaction so perfect was that for years, everyone accept my mom, misspelled my name. Even my pediatrician consistently spelled Alan with two L's and an E! So when my hero asked how I spelled Alan, "is it A-L-A-N?" I was floored, stunned, almost speechless. I managed to blurt out "Yes" and "Thank you" that seemed to catch every one's attention. It was obvious to Soupy and all the adults mulling about, that he had made my day --- and he loved it! Soupy laughed and announced to everyone that THIS is why he does what he does, happy kids are what it's all about. And suddenly I was the focal point of attention backstage.

I thanked Mr. Sales---vaguely remember shaking his hand, heard him thank me for coming to see him while my eyes became transfixed on the program he had handed back to me. In very clear letters it said "To Alan, best wishes, Soupy Sales".

I clutched the program as I walked back to parents, rarely taking my eyes off what he had written. My mother knew the frustration that I had endured with my name. (Seems like a simple thing, but when your own family doctor doesn't pay attention...well I was 12, lots of stuff was more traumatic back then) Mom was thrilled on that little detail, that little consideration Mr. Sales had given me. She had never totally "gotten" Soupy like dad and I had, but that night her opinion of him grew.

So with that, I will miss Soupy. For any of you too young remember I encourage you to search, explore and experience the one and only Soupy Sales! There was a collection through Rhino Records that you might want to track down. Anyways, thanks for reading along, until next time, stay tuned.

Sold Out in Grand Rapids!

Last Friday night in Grand Rapids, stand-up Trevor Smith and several of his fellow comics performed to a sell out crowd of over 400 patrons. This event is another in a series of triumphs for Trevor and we are all very excited here at Lamocu.

There is talk that with the success of this show, an actual "tour" may develop and talk of a show at Trevor's Alma matre, Pinckney High School sometime in February, 2010. As details become available, we will keep you, our faithful readers informed.

At this writing, down-loadable DVDs of last week's show will be available through the net within the next couple weeks. Again, as details develop we will keep you informed. For those of you who were able to experience Trevor at our first two Open Mic's at InSights AND the very first Variety Show, consider yourself a part of history. There is more big news brewing here at Lamocu, but for the time being, let's enjoy the success of one of our very own making it big.

So until next time, stay tuned.

Great night of football.

Wow, it's been awhile since I felt this way...but tonight our JV team beat Hartland 44-15! For the first time in almost 10 years, the JV program at Pinckney is guaranteed a winning record and the first time since I have been with the program. I'm so proud of these young men, ...

but for now, on to some serious celebrating.

Oh yeah, there IS a show this Saturday at InSights, featuring the return of City Limit...but we're 5 and 2 with two games left. Tickets as usual will be $10 adults and $5 students and there will be a fund raiser for the Deshane foundation...but we're 5 and 2!

More later, so stay tuned!

GULP! It's over!

Thank goodness hockey season has started!

Preparing for Saturday.

Had a pretty productive day today, hope everyone else did too. Got flyer's and tickets into the school for this Saturday's show featuring City Limit. Met with manager of a club on doing a euchre tournament and it just so happened the board was meeting tonight! Karma in action!

Probably won't make the Turbo meeting tomorrow in Okemos, too much to do before the weekend, meetings are stockpiling in the evening. Hopefully one of the meetings will be with a youth director of a local church who wants to work with us. More later, so stay tuned.

Fusion @ The Well!

Heard some great things about the Fusion show that was at the Well a couple weeks ago---while at church nonetheless! Can't wait to share these tidbits with my buddy Nate tomorrow.

Too much football on right now, the Lions lost, but who were we fooling anyways? Got to check out Sanchez right now. I don't know after coaching high school, then giving my heart and soul for the college games, I just don't seem to have the enthusiasm for the pros these days. But the Steelers play tonight so maybe I'll take that game in.

More later, so stay tuned.

Second Quartermania a success!

The second in our series of Quartermania’s came to a successful conclusion last night at InSights. By all accounts it was a success, we had several new volunteers, new vendors, new patrons and even some Quartermania “pros” who were there to check out and compare our show.
All in all though the numbers were about the same but the word is getting out on this event, which is encouraging. The next few days will be spent accumulating the data we received and trying to build with what we’ve got. And “building” does need to be done—this is too good a concept to remain static.
Our charity for the night was Autism. Marcy Hornsby and Lisa Frober were auctioning off a “drunk bucket” filled with various quality beverages and we thank them for their time and efforts (they are also loyal patrons of Quartermania). Their wonderful cause will be running a Euchere tournament soon and when we get more information we certainly will share that with you our readers.
Sandi Maki from InSights took lots of pictures/videos and hopefully we will be posting and sharing those with you soon. Kudos to Betsy Rackliffe, the tireless worker who was able to do her usual fantastic job of hosting even though she had ran an art gallery showing the night before.
Remember, it will always be (barring holiday interruption) the first Friday of every month from here on…spread the word. Those that have done Quartermania, stay with Quartermania!
Look for updates at this locale, our next Quartermania will be November 6th, 2009

What is this stuff?

Sitting in a blogging class at InSights, trying to make this site more interesting for my followers. lol