Mini House Party

[An account of the epic events of the night of 26th March 2010]










At the end of my week as a homeless orphan, I moved out of Liz and Lisa's to give them (and their fridge) some time to recover from having a tramp living on the floor and moved into Anita and Etienne's house. They had gone away on leave to Cape Town and had offered Jess and I the chance to housesit given that their house is a step up from our rondavel and Jess' room in the nurses' residence.







After a long day at work I rocked up at the house where Jess was preparing some stunning dinner :) We watched the Truman Show, a movie that really creeps me out then attempted to watch Coraline. I'm pretty sure the creators were on some kind of recreational drugs when they wrote the script. We watched for exactly 27 minutes during which time Coraline was woken up in the middle of the night by weird bouncing mice, followed them into a tiny hole where everyone had buttons for eyes, then met this guy with stick legs and a massive fat body who was training fleas for a circus...yeah, it was a wonderful plot.







After giving up on that one we put on one of Anita and Etienne's karaoke DVDs at maximum volumes and Jess got out microphones/spatulas (how cool). Although we were expecting our bad singing to be the source of amusement, there turned out to be another far more potent source of hilarity within the DVD as the backing videos were comprised of the most random clips in the world. For example, here is the sequence accompanying Shania Twain's classic 'Man I feel like a woman':



1. Woman walks along next to pond



2. Trees blow in the wind



3. Ducks swim in the pond



4. Old lady sits down on a bench



5. Small child plays on tricycle



6. Woman sways provocatively next to pond [except that the pond was provocative than her]



7. Woman chases ducks along path



As you can see, the creators of the DVD really got the vibe that good old Shania was going for with that song.... Anyway, it was so funny that I had to go and drool into the sink, classy!