Tuesday, February 14, 2006
It hasn't been all weddings and tequila
...that was only Saturday & Sunday morning. The rest of the week featured:
- Canberra's annual multicultural food festival with the joy of the Tongan watermelon/mango/pineapple drink.
- Me cracking the shits with myself in a big way following a stupid stupid laundry stuff-up that left a bunch of work gear stinking to the point where I'm considering ditching 90% of my work shirts and rebuying. I've rewashed them at least four times and I'm not sure if the smell's still there or if my mind is playing tricks on me. Was a moody shit for several days.
- Music prep for the wedding. Spent a good five or six hours on it over a couple of nights. I needed to do it for me as much as for the bride & groom; music always calms me down & back to normal. Happy to report that the bride was very happy in the end, so it was all worthwhile.
- The post-wedding BBQ. A lot of sausages in bread helped with the hangover, but not completely. Having woken up in time to watch Sally's first hosting gig on Landline and thinking that my own cow and bee hives might be good investments, I figured that lots of sausages & solidarity with other hungover folk was what I needed to restore reality. Turns out I was right (about the sausages - maybe about the cow, but the bee hives won't do very well in the ACT I've discovered).
- A lot of BF2. One of the clan booked a Gamearena server for a practice session Wednesday night. My team got pwned; no communications, no coordination, so we deserved the ass-kicking.
- A bunch of DVDs: Wedding Crashers (damn funny - Vince Vaughn used to shit me, but he's ok now), Mr & Mrs Smith (cool - and more VV), Serenity (was a lot better than the one lil snippet of Firefly that I'd seen would lead me to expect) and Lords of Dogtown & Dogtown & Z-Boys. Lords was the dramatisation while Z-Boys was the doco on the skate team that pioneered modern skateboarding. The movie was ok, but if you want to hear what happened from the guys themselves, get the doco. I was interested to see that in the movie Sid featured more as a character (albeit a minor one), whereas there's next to nothing about him in Peralta's doco (he's mentioned as a skateboard enthusiast rather than as one of the crew that hung-out at the Zephyr shop).
- Yesterday at the cinema: Thumbsucker. What an odd thing it is. I'm not sure whether to describe it as a teen coming-of-age piece or an examination of a disfunctional family because it swings between the two. Vince Vaughn's in it, but playing a completely different character than you'd expect. Keanu's there, looking for meaning, while Vincent D’Onofrio is fantastic as the father frustrated by his own unrealised potential. Other views here.
- A mate's first novel hitting the streets. Based on actual events, it's a novel about John McDouall Stuart called One Man's Journey. Haven't read it yet, so can't say any more than that.
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