you, me and dupree

please ignore the EXTREME delay in these posts…

note: hardly any humor in this post. just the facts.

oh what a night... la la la... anyways, no, seriously.. it was long and about as action packed as an epi of 24 ... so, chris from work, and i have been planning on seeing brick for like, 3 weekends in a row... and finally it was going to happen!!! so, sarah and i got ready for a night out on the town and missed the train... meh... chris was on that train and waiting in melbourne central... (it will get interesting soon i promise) so, we catch a tram.... the no. 57 @ 11:16 pm ... along racecourse rd etc etc... so, we get on the tram and there's like, 3 or 4 people i know from the video store ... and, its late and people are drinking and being loud and WHAM! punches! kicks! thrashing around! CRAZY! so, the guy goes flying past sarah and i who are standing right next to it all... and, how appropriate that only yesterday that i had watched "a history of violence" (see next post) and all these guys start going donkey kong on everyone.

as they are all kinda breaking it up, the guy in the fight recognises me from the video store.

"oohhhh... video ezy dude right?"

"yeh, that's me... ahaha you a''ight man?" (not really)

"oh, man... oi guys, this guy's a champ. he's always letting me off my late fee's..."

seriously, he was like, smashing some c bombs head in 1 second later he is all hugs and handshakes with me...

after it had calmed down and the hugs and praise finished ... the german guy that was involved was still going on about something, VW's or maybe kranzki's or hilter or whatever, and then some other guys told him to shut up... just calm down and be cool and dont worry... then... some dirty-ish looking italian guy walks up to the 2 somali guys to try and calm them down. saying... "come on.." "take it easy..." yeh, he really wasnt helping... so, then he starts an argument about how he could fight them...

"oh, i could take you guys both on..."

"what's that brother"

"dont call me brother ... somali trash..."

WHAT? seriously... is this guy asking to be effing smashed? racial slurs get you nowhere... we've all watched "crash" (2004) right?

then it really hit the fan... they were like, practically throwing the guy around the effing tram, like it was a cage.. INTENSE! ... so, pretty much everyone except sarah and i and the dum american girls crying and screaming were involved... trying to break up everyone else..

meanwhile all the other guys from the first fight were trying to get off the tram because i guess they had sense... as this was happening, i got taken with them by the scariest hug with a violent stranger i have ever had...

"keep it real man, take care..."

"yeh, you too ...i'll see you around okay?"

so, i get back on the tram and the guy has rung the police... so, it's about 20 minutes after we have left, and we have travelled about 500 metres. i was freaking out. we werent going to see this movie.

soo.... basically, the police came onto the tram and took everyone that was involved off ... and then we had to give statements.. well, sarah did anyways ... and then we were on our way!

we finally got into the city @ 12.05 am meeting chris at the library ...

so, after our slightly frazzling night already, sarah and i needed to hit the piss and it was great. we went to "cookie" which was a cool place that i always wanted to go to because i thought it was a trendy clothing store...highlight topics of discussion included...

sodomy
mickey rourke
boys

girls

arrested development

so, it's about 4am-ish? maybe... we call the faithful butler (who really should get some sort of community service award for the amount of butlering he does in our house) and ask for a lift home...

me - half a whopper w/ cheese & some chips
sarah - half a whopper w/ cheese & some chips
chris - bacon deluxe, some chips, coke & a whopper later we are picked up!

then it's back home for the men (s&c) to do some vodka shots and argue about books and the like... then comes the foto albums! jeeeeeze! how much can she put this young man through...

yeh, so then i went to bed. where i was tucked in by everyone. it was emo.

wake up, 4 hours later after some really weird dreams about eating foreign dvds as meals and i walk in to see chris and sarah all snug like a freakin' couple... nearly gagging, i ran to the toilet where i could seek safe haven. had a chat and then a shower.

then i left for work as everyone was happily in bed sleeping all nice and snug. oh, it was so cute.