Friday, 8 June 2007
@ 10.36 am
TBALC FTW!
So, Dad hopped on the plane for Melbourne this morning, the first part of his round-the-world, seven-month-long, I've-just-retired-and-god-I'm-bored trip. It's a pretty cool itinerary he's got, but I seriously hope he manages to make it through some of the less than safe places he's heading to in one piece. As Liz (his partner) pointed out, he may ask for a lot of advice, but he seldom takes it, and I hope that doesn't catch him out. Hmm. And that he makes it through the full seven months.
All going well, hopefully he'll come back just that slightly more open-minded and world-wise. Nah, who am I kidding, just as long as he has fun!
What it does mean is that I'm now very completely the only member of my family left in Christchurch. So if one of the reasons for traveling is to get away from the family, well, I seem to have accomplished that already.
Sunday was a very slow, low day, thanks to excessive amounts of alcohol consumed (reading back through blogs, this would appear to be a common theme, ah well, you get that I guess) at Mary and Charles' going away / we're engaged party on Saturday. Congrats and huzzah and all the rest to both of them (Tim, we've almost reached the "letting the side down" stage I feel), and another bon voyage to Lisa and Dan and the rest of the Loopen crew who headed off to South America this week to tour a show and generally have an awesome time. What's more, between bouts of hangover and some frenzied cooking, one exceptionally good discovery of Sunday was a series of YouTube videos of a Damien Rice concert I hadn't stumbled on before.
Here's one of them now.
Damien Rice at Four Seasons - I Remember (link)
Well, I liked it, (and I'm pretty sure there's a bit in there that reminds me of the Neverhood soundtrack). The others vids are pretty cool as well - although a lot of them have the annoying thing where the camera focuses on the guitar, but only on the hand strumming, not the hand playing the chords. Grr, so frustrating.
And, firmly lodged in the "And that was a good night" files forever more, the 48 Hour Film Competition Christchurch regional finals saw TBALC's "Painkiller: the Sick Sense" nominated for best script and best use of prop, and winning the best use of character! Fan-frickin-tastic, and great job to the whole team, as I'd hazard a guess that the strength of our film in these areas was largely the result of the full team brainstorming efforts at the very outset of the competition. Watching the other finalists, especially the likes of The Outwits' winning film, it's pretty obvious that these were the only kind of areas where we could really compete given our editing-in-our-lounge technical styles, and it was pretty gratifying to hear the crowd laughing at all the right places... Congrats to all the other finalists as well, especially Matt's team who took away a couple of awards as well.
So, next year...
