ivan, or Ivan Bellari, or just ivan.... ummm ivan

[Jimbo]

You wanna see Robert perform? how often does a blue moon come around? Come on Robert make one last trip up to canada and show us how it's done, that way there can be even more hack street performers stealing your lines left right and center, wouldn't that make you feel good.

[Butterfly Man]

talk about vintage!

Packing my stuff for a retirement move to Hawaii today (we should close on the house next week) and I ran across this old tape of me in one of those (get this!) pre-VHS tapes !!!

... in it, a local TV station in (get this, again) Nashville!!! was interviewing me as I was about head off to a juggling convention on the west coast.

I did an impromptu show on the street in front of passer-bys ...

I took it to a local video guy who had only one of those old types of machines around and he copied it to a DVD for me ...

mind you, I had the butterflies on my head (very fresh) and was juggling clubs I had made myself (there was only one juggling club prop maker back then and it took years to get them made) ...

it was so cool to see that my act hardly changed at all between then and now ... or at least the last time I saw Brenden the Pretty Good do it.


thanks for a great time ... aloha!

[Jimbo]

have a great time

I wish you and your wife all the best in Hawaii.

[newyorkstreetdean]

sorry, Ivan, this is not about you but I just noticed Scot free is in this part of the forum on his b-day and I wanted to catch him to say happy b-day! but you know I love ya 'van

[newyorkstreetdean]

The first time I met Ivan, Craig had just had his hand catch on fire, Ivan had some kind of cream to help the swelling. What a nice young man. He has been trying to light all 3 of us on fire ever since (Ivan I mean).

And the part about Ivan not drinking, bs, if the girl has tequila straped to her chest.

[Ivan Bellari]

ohhhhh

hey ....

don't tell stories out of school, it would have been impolite not to buy drinks off of her.. poor girl could not even afford decent clothes...


it was aloe for craigs hand..

aloe.. the wonder plant


and i love the NySB's

mostly

[newyorkstreetdean]

Many, many many drinks from her, and what does not having money to buy clothes have to do with your "ear trick"?

I guess I should of known that it was aloe, but I'm not really that concerned about Craig or his injurys... Kidding...

And what do you mean by "mostly", do you mean that in a kind Ivan way or a mean Ivan way?

[NYSB_Craig]

Whoa, hey, don't bring me into this! You kids argue about the shotgun tequila girl without me ('cause I can't remember most of that night.)

[worldwidese]

Sayonara, Butterfly.

But I fully expect that you'll come roaring back after 6 months of lolling around in Paradise all day. Doing nothing gets old real soon.

[Ivan Bellari]

the full story

as much as i can recall....

so we decided to go to a bar, i think the original plan was hooters... in singapore... or was it coyote ugly.. dosn't matter .. we ended up in the bar next to that bar....

it was a nice bar kinda fullish.. but we found a comfy place to sit ...
it was dean, jack, myself, dustin , and craig... over the course of the evening we did imbibe in a few beverages .. i stuck with coke .. the boys drank heavily and were rowdy.. i made sure it nver got too far out of hand...

craig and jack won a fooze ball tournament...

then this poor girl came by offering shots of tequilia.. she was a tiny waif barely dressed .... i took pity on her and bought a few beverages.. tipping enough to allow her to save money and buy herself a shirt.. or at least a new cowboy hat... the evening progressed .. the smart ones went home ... eventually it was just craig and myself.. we were helping this poor tequilia girl with her endeavors by purchasing drinks off her...

sure at one point she was sitting on my lap, tugging my beard and calling me big boy.. but that had nothing to do with our altruistic intentions...

to be fair i dont remember much of the stagger home , but i do remember the warm glow of being able to help a young woman..

it's nice to give...
isn't it ?

[Ivan Bellari]

Mr. Butterfly

after 30 years...
i would hope you wouldn't just up and quit...

i'd hate to think i was stealing your lines without ever hearing them from you...

[Ivan Bellari]

and what i mean by "mostly"

i like the NySB... Mostly...

when they are around i like them...
when they perform i like them
when they hang out .. i like them

but i'm sure there are times when i don't like them

i can't think of any right now .. but still

[mommaK]

remembering

oh I remember how you boys were the next day following the "tequila" incident...
but then again, I think we recreated many incidents after that...
I think....

I miss you buttercup

xo

[Ivan Bellari]

it's funny

i dont remember what it was like the next day

but i do rememer laying on the bed that night waiting for the spins to stop so i could figure out where to puke.... then not puking because it would actually take too much effort...

good times...

not sure what it means when the best memories are connected to performing...

or that my favorite job isn't considered a profession by the majority of humans

its even stranger when i think that the best chicken i ever ate was from a street vendor in hat yai

or the best friends i have ever had are considered by most to be freaky and weird...

momma k's traveling freak show...

man i want those days back .. they seem so far from here...

even losing my footing and taking a tumble in a crowded subway station...

and kelly's "it's just a ten minute walk from here"


meh

miss you too buttercup
(and there is no polite pause )

[Ivan Bellari]

doing something i dont do

so i finished my webpage
got it out there published it a few hours ago

for the record making webpages is not my thing at all http://www.exsulis.com

but there it is .. not for critique.. just to see
and ifya wanna do the link sharing thing
contact me

i'm freaking tired