Our 2nd episode finds Tim interviewing Nelson Velaquez musician, improv leader, manager, educator sketch comedian. Mr Velaquez leads a number of troupes in Northern Indiana and the Chicago area, namely Salsation , Makeshift Up , The Tony Stanza's , Inpronol , Los Improviachi's&nbsp;&nbsp;and runs his own podcast The Musical Chairs Podcast , To say that Mr Velaquez is busy is an understatement.&nbsp; &nbsp;  &nbsp; We start episode 2 with the history between Nelson and Tim, starting off in 2009 with the Vet Art Project where Nelson was mistaken for someone else.&nbsp; We move onto the infamous "White Obama" incident with Salsation and Salsa Sketch in 2009 and how being wooden, even pertified onstage can be a blessing in disguise.&nbsp; Delving further into the current happenings with Nelson, he discusses a new project with Salsation that will be auditioning for actors in October/Nov time frame full length show in March/April 2018, very political show. Los Improviachi's new shows in October and impeachment party trials are on special. Order your Impraviachi gram today.&nbsp; Nelson talks about why being a guitar player is not what you would expect and the type of women that he catches, you probably want to cover the kids ears for this portion, but then again you may fit into his demographic.&nbsp; Before we hit the Satanic Seven Questions we discover a new book/manifesto that Nelson is writing, 6 pages a year about Improv, stay tuned eventually he will get this bad boy published.&nbsp; Big take away is artists gatekeepers, STOP Being a Dick.&nbsp; Tada the Seven Satanic Questions and Nelson scores a 5 out of 7, as the first guest he does admirably.&nbsp; To check out all of Nelson's activities check out his home page ImProductions .&nbsp; &nbsp;

Interview with Nelson Valesquez

Today's guest is Mike Finlay, playwright, poet, novelist, jazz&nbsp;aficionado, actor and painter.&nbsp; &nbsp;  &nbsp; We had the pleasure of catching Mr Finlay while he was out and about in Nashville enjoying the late summer that only Nashville can give an artist to be inspired by.&nbsp; The 20 Year working relationship is discussed from their days back at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Mike secures his place in the will as the guy throwing Tim in the ditch. Mike Finlay started off his artistic exploits at the age of 4 during school and church. His first show that inspired him was A Christmas Carol at the Goodman Theater. Since he saw an actor walk through a wall as part of a special effect he knew he wanted to be an actor.&nbsp; He began reading Shakespeare at 16 and obtained 2 degrees in theater performance and creative writing at SIU. Mike really enjoys&nbsp; &nbsp;not being the mouthpiece for other writers and enjoys having people wrapped with attention at what he writes.&nbsp; Currently he is writing a play and a few novels. He talks about the first poem and how easy it was to write because he had been studying poetry for so long. Lake Park High School English teacher started him and encouraged him on his path. His first play he didn't mean to write but was encouraged by the resident playwrighting instructor. He was listening to John Coltrane at the time and called his first play A Love Supreme. He claims that risking making a fool of yourself as his strength and is what is needed to be successful as well as having people who will have your back when you are on stage.&nbsp; Mike discusses how he balanced his work life, family life and artistic endeavors and it is revealed that Mike's child will be ruling the world with Tim's children. He encourages his daughter to work on her projects and ensures he makes time each day to just work on his projects and doesn't let anyone disturb him.&nbsp; We discuss his first book of poetry Cecelia's Blues on Create Space.&nbsp; Mike takes on the Satanic Seven Questions and scores a 5.5 out of 7 questions correct. Please enjoy his answer to the unladen swallow.&nbsp; Mike's season 2 project will be a radio play/drama that he is currently working on for this show&nbsp; &nbsp;

Discussing art with an actor, playwright and voice actor

We are pleased to welcome a good friend of mine and versatile artist Ken Reed to the mic this week. And yes my voice still i snot 100 percent this week, but here is a video of the procedure I had to endure for you my listeners.&nbsp; &nbsp;  So that is how I imagine Ken looks, we are protecting his actual picture because he may or may not have appeared on the previous iteration of Kimo's Den of Iniquity as the ever present "Chicago" who battled with "Tennessee" Mike Finlay, episode 6.&nbsp; Ken has recently moved out to the West Coast and during the interview he was keeping one eye on his computer and one eye on the fires in Cali as hey were nearing his abode. Ken has a rich film background doing independent films mainly in the Chicago area with various people. I met up with Ken originally on the job and we quickly discovered that real recognizes real. We had him in the Word Up Poetry Improv Slams and we discuss that aspect of our relationship.&nbsp; Check out his debut on Word Up Click Here Specifically we discuss the first time that Ken practiced with the troupe and I advised him he would do great and the Chicago Bears wouldn't win another game that season, sure enough they didn't win again until this guy came to town.&nbsp;  We do attempt to get into a discussion about prehensile tailed brown shirted Lemurs, however, that never materializes.&nbsp; &nbsp; Our show is not sponsored by Leapin Lemurs, but isn't that a nice cereal box, I'd buy some right away if I were you.&nbsp; We explore Ken's background in Chicago and how that affected his artistic beginnings. Dick Cavett, Benny Hill, Johnny Carson and David Letterman are among his earliest influences in comedy and started doing Comedy in his early 20's before he joined the Army. He talks about his time at Columbia College in Chicago and how that influenced his artistic sensibilities.&nbsp; He has participated in a number of 24, 48 and 72 hour film festivals where he wrote, acted and even produced a film. These festivals usually have a theme and participants have a limited amount of time to make a short film based on the theme.&nbsp; Ken advised anyone that is interested in film to pursue it, don't think about it just do it, find people around you and make it happen. Ken talks about future projects in directing, writing and podcasting.&nbsp; Ken takes on the Satanic 7 questions and scores 8.5 points, and refuses to give any points to the Chicago Bears to help them out. Of note check out question #1 Where he utilizes the Move Inception to discuss his path to creativity. Question #4 is our first question to get a full bonus point, anyone can get a half point, but Ken gets the first full bonus point. His answer to the last question the magic wand question makes us all happy when he mentions  Salo , go check out this movie its inspired by the Marquis de Sade. Ken's project will be a movie without cliche's. We will make that happen for him next season as a podcast. See you next season. Remember as ken says stab a mime in the gut and see how professional they really are.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

Indie Film Director and Veteran talks about Inspiration

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