Ahh… I love ruining peoples’ photos:
So anyway, hello! Wow what a Friday night! Quite possibly the best night out ever. Started out at Prudence Bar on Victoria Street, North Melbourne for the birthday gathering of fellow RMIT journo-student Meg Clement (as seen above on the right, next to Bec Puddy. Also note the “evil genius” expression on the face/head of Lachlan Cowlishaw, far left. Hehe that guy cracks me up!). It was essentially a night out for the majority of the journalism class. A good several hours of wit-laced conversation, drinking over-priced cider, receiving compliments on my YouTube videos and listening to drunk pitches for low-budget television shows. Outstanding.
But the night didn’t stop there. When Prudence closed at about 1am a group of us headed on over to Trades Hall on Lygon Street, as we’d heard there was music there, or something. Hey! Why not? It blew my mind when I walked in. I stepped in and to my right, wearing a black bow tie was comedian Andrew McClelland. I went up to him. He complimented me on my tie, or possibly it was a direct compliment to my tie, not sure. I said, “Hey! I know you! I served you at the Palace Nova cinema in Adelaide about a year ago. You said you’d like one ticket to Watchmen. I asked ‘just an adult ticket?’ You replied ‘Yes. One man please’.” He may or may not have actually remembered, but he did smile and nod.
To my delight the music was a mix between ’80s New Wave, ’90s Britpop and ’80s-esque electro from whatever the ’00s decade is called. I quite honestly had the time of my life. I’d never enjoyed dancing that much, of course, if you could call it “dancing”. It was mostly me flailing my arms about like I was having a seizure. Jesus, my neck hurts now. Not even joking. At one point Meg and I were dancing in ‘a three’ with comedian Dave Callan (first series of Rove, and the voice of that “Tough Nuts” commercial). Here’s the event from my perspective:
Pretty good dancer, by the way. Dave and Meg weren’t bad either. And God bless Meg for requesting “You Can Call Me Al.” Although she probably wouldn’t appreciate that as I believe she’s an atheist. That’s like saying “nice to meat you” to a vegetarian. But of course, it would be ridiculous to use ‘meat’ in that context.
When that shut up about 3am, I was on the way out when I noticed TV’s Lawrence Leung standing at the bar. I’d been waiting more than 3 years for this moment… So I went up to him, introduced myself and in person, requested a copy of his short film “Howard Flu”, which won the Peoples’ Choice Award in some Comedy Channel contest back in 2007. During a short trip to Melbourne in January 2007, my good friend John Timoney and I were sitting on the steps of the Victorian Parliament House when we were approached by Lawrence Leung and a John Howard puppet. Several months later my equally good friend, Adam Navarro, was flicking through the channels and swore he saw John on TV. According to Lawrence, yes, John was in it, but alas I wasn’t. I still said I’d like a copy, so I gave him my details and hopefully he’ll send it to me via “yousendit.com” or something. Quite serendipitous. On a side note, it was Lawrence’s website that inspired this one.
After that, Lachlan and I went back to Meg’s friend Nisa’s house in Moreland. I’ll save the details of that visit for my memoirs I think… Let’s just say it was pretty funny.
At 5am I started walking home, listening to Depeche Mode’s 1986 “Black Celebration” album on my Creative Zen Neeon mp3 player and smelling the freshly baked bread from Sydney Road’s numerous bakeries. I got home about 5:30. Fantastic Friday night.
Kind regards,
David M. Green
How great is wearing a suit for no reason?
