a f'ing eyes!

another year has nearly passed and that means another opp for ben to give up his precious time to volunteer at the AUSTRALIAN FILM INDUSTRY'S night of nights!!! the mother-effing AFI'S!!!!!

this year, they were celebrating the 50th yr of aussie film and the awards and it was also my 4th year of getting drunk and partying with the celebs... (more on that later)

they also changed the venue to the princess theatre... it was alot different from last year... there was no sit down dinner and the after party was moved to my old pal.. the forum theatre!

anyways... basically spent 2 days lifting the fucking heaviest boxes of loreal showbags up flights of stairs and running around the most intricate set of passage ways in the theatre.. (it was actually quite exciting running around backstage learning about all the different corridors etc etc... made me think of making a movie with 1 Steadicam short all about the life back stage... semi russian ark-ish)

got to eat incredible catering food... i even amazed myself by having 3 serves of mains for dinner and then 2 or 3 serves of dessert including sticky-date pudding and fresh fruit salad with like extra thick cream!!! OMFG!!!

after all the faffing about it was time to get serious. plan our trip to the after party!!! yes, ben was going to get shit-faced and hug as many celebs as humanly possible!!!

cool... so all us cool vollies walked down to the forum theatre... carrying about 5 kgs of loreal shit that we snuck out... (the loreal woman caught us taking boxes after having previously stuffed like already $100 bucks of shit into our bags... she told us "ONE BOX ONLY" ... little did she know the previous night at industry awards i took a whole carton home!!!)

we flashed our access passes that got us entry to the foyer... and then snuck into a side room where we left all out shit.. got changed and then headed straight to the bar for as many freeee drinks as possible!!!

walking into the theatre was quite amazing.. i was impressed with it for crowded house, but having seen it full life and buzz in a social scene was also pretty inspiring... all these people that i guess i look up to in 1 room is pretty cool... and the fact i was just brushing past them was funnn!!!

the rest of the night was a blur as i got so shitfaced and LOST MY CAMERA!!!! (i dont want to talk about it... but basically i had photos with every single bastard there and all gone!!!)

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE...

• dancing with julia zeimero
• having "crump-a-thons" with sun park (of hi-5 and the jammed)
• photo with fucking dr george miller and guy pearce (me in the middle.. my arms around both of them)
• going up to martin sacks from underbelly and telling him my dad used to cook for you in noosa when you went there for holidays
• approaching jane kennedy and telling her that i used to loooove shirty the slightly aggressive bear...
• her telling me that means so much to her and was the most random thing she's heard!!!
• photos with all the girls from "the jammed"
• dancing away with the main dude from september and then getting invited back to his hotel room for more partying
• photos with the majority of the underbelly peeps...
• meeting rhys wakefield and telling him luke arnold says hello... which kinda blew his mind.

and the list goes on and on and on...

in summation.. one of the best nights of my life social scene wise!!!

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