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I'm leaving Australia. Packing up and buggering off, lunging ungracefully into a new life in England full of sex, freedom and having a boss again. Quite frankly that's the hardest bit, I've been self employed for about 14 years now, more than half of that working from home. Hmmmmm. Anyway, I've decided to have a party. But not just any party.
I don't do them often but when I do I get carried away, turn them into multi-media "events" over several nights with several shifts of guests. 'Slide Night From Hell' it's called. I have a mate, Peter, who partners me in these events. He usually provides the first nights guestlist with his clients and work associates. This has always meant that he has right of veto on things I might do that his clients won't like. Last time (about 5 years ago) he made me remove a bit of video where two guys were kissing for a very very long time. He hated it. He went all homphobic on me. I thought it was funny. I wanted people to squirm.
We print t-shirts. We get caterers. We set up in a carpark which we have no official permission to use or do it in my back garden but either way we set up a "room", the walls of which are made up of huge Roman pillars, lion statues and suits of armour (from a theatre prop hire company) almost as much as they are of television screens, slide projectors and screens, stereo equipment and speakers. It's fun. It's usually pretty funny too.
Anyway, as I said, I'm migrating north to colder climes so I have decided to have the final "Slide Night from Hell - Directors Cut". I'll print t-shirts again. I'll have more TV's, more slides, more video variety and work out a way to run lots of stuff from a couple of Macs to some projectors onto a 20m high white wall that cuts across the end of my garden, behind the apricot, lemon, mandarin, peach and plum trees. Should be pretty.
This brings me to the point of this lengthy note. I already know exactly what I want playing biggest and brightest on the most screens and I already know that Peter will hate it. I don't care. I am, however, interested to know what others think. I want a gauge as to how the concept sits with a variety of people or, failing that, the kind of people who read this kind of site.
When the whole Attack on America thing on last September 11 happened I was up late watching CNN and Fox News on cable. I taped it all, as I do. I taped it all for weeks. I've got shitloads of the stuff, live, edited highlights packages, updates, the aftermath, the hysteria, the saved cat, the walking wounded, the dead. All of it.
I thought it'd be good set to music. NIN and Weird Al Yancovich, KLF and Kylie, Armand Van Helden and Scooter.
Done properly mind you, everything timed to the music. Dramatic slo-mo's and keystone kops fast-forward. I can imagine people watching and accidently laughing and feeling guilty about it very quickly. This would please me.
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