<\/a>We invited PhotogRod over for dinner and a free movie at the OzFlix festival last Saturday night. <\/em> <\/p>\n

PhotogRod: Thanks for getting me out of my apartment tonight. The caf\u00c3\u00a9 below our apartment is hosting another rock band and I know I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to do something crazy if I have to call the manager and the landlord and the police again.<\/p>\n

Sharkboy: That has got to suck. <\/p>\n

PR: It sounds like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just hovering over the band, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so loud. Last week they had a punk band. I hate punk bands!<\/p>\n

Dead Robot: At least you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a drunk guy above your head.<\/p>\n

PR: Are your neighbours bad?<\/p>\n

<\/a>DR: We hear him in the hallway going up the stairs every so often. I think he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got a night job in a bar. Or at least he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been in a bar because a couple times he stumbles. Twice he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s woke us up by having to be brought home by friends or police. <\/p>\n

PR: No!<\/p>\n

SB: Yep! A couple times we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been woken up by him falling out of bed or off his couch.<\/p>\n

PR: Ha!<\/p>\n

DR: True! It sounds like a sack of melons in a bag hitting the floor. BLUBBABDDUBUBAUBU!<\/p>\n

PR: But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not as bad as a rock band.<\/p>\n

SB: True. Hey the apartment we looked at before coming here just came available. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right by Carlton and Ontario and its sweeeeeet. Two storey, 2 1\/5 bedroom, open kitchen\/livingroom, overlooking Carlton. Huge south facing patio.<\/p>\n

PR: Really?<\/p>\n

SB: Yeah but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bit pricey. When we looked at it a couple years back it was $1700. Plus utilities. <\/p>\n

PR: Kinda steep. <\/p>\n

<\/a>DR: Get a third to share or insist that PhotogBill’s harps pay rent. They take up a lot of room. Here. Try the chips, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re Lay’s Spicy Curry.<\/p>\n

PR: (chomp) They taste like shoe. But strangely addictive.<\/p>\n

SB: Yes! They do! They make my bum explode.<\/p>\n

(BAM! BONK!)<\/p>\n

PR: Man your cat is crazy. <\/p>\n

SB: He gets really rowdy sometimes. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a destroyer. We can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t keep the carpet in the hallway or the throw on our bed neat and in one place. As soon as you make the bed, wham! It’s crumpled on the floor.<\/p>\n

DR: Let me try this camera and get a shot of the cat without a non-reflective creepy eye. <\/p>\n

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\nDR: Nope.\n<\/p>\n

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\nDR: Aw fuck it. Hey dinner is on. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Damn Quesadillas\u00e2\u20ac? with rice and over-cumin-ed chicken!<\/p>\n

PR: So you saw this \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Kenny\u00e2\u20ac? guy yesterday?<\/p>\n

DR: At the OzFlix opening night, yeah. He was dreaaaamy!<\/p>\n

SB: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never seen Deadrobot so star struck!<\/p>\n

<\/a>DR: Thank god for Sharkboy. I stood there like a lump hoping to make eye contact so we could get him to pose, but this Shane Jacobson is the kind of guy that pays attention to whoever he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s focused on. At one point Sharkboy said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hey! Mr Kenny!\u00e2\u20ac? and the woman beside him looked at him and said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcShane.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac?<\/p>\n

SB: I said: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcHe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mr Kenny to me tonight\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. She just turned away.<\/p>\n

DR: But we got a few moments with him and Sharkboy got my pic with him. Here.<\/p>\n

PR: He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hot. <\/p>\n

DR: Uh hunn! A great guy. Originally he was a roadie for music videos and he started to do improv comedy. He and his brother were goofing around creating characters and he did the first 5 minutes of the film on video his brother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s camera. They loved \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Kenny\u00e2\u20ac? so much they built the movie around him. <\/p>\n

PR: The power of comedy!<\/p>\n

DR: Too right! <\/p>\n

Later, at the Theatre:<\/p>\n

DR: Hey there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that frigging image I wish we could ban from using for at least 20 years. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in all our marketing material. All of it!<\/p>\n

SB: Shhh! The event co-ordinator is going to speak.<\/p>\n

DR: He looks embarrassed about the Gay Mardi Gras Foam Party on Saturday.<\/p>\n

SB: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m embarrassed about the Foam Party. Who wants to go get wet ‘n foamy in the dead of February? Bah.<\/p>\n

DR: Originally it was just going to be Priscilla drag queens and such – Sydney on Dundas, but it ballooned to a Foam Party. Gay excess strikes again.<\/p>\n

After the movie:<\/p>\n

<\/a>EmCee: We have a special treat tonight. We actually have Kenny here in the audience. Come on down Kenny!<\/p>\n

PR: HE TOUCHED MY HAND!<\/p>\n

DR: That Canadian guy who really works for a porta-potty company, named Ken, certainly made his night. Bravo.<\/a> <\/p>\n

SB: You should have done that.<\/p>\n

DR: Damn.<\/p>\n

A nod of thanks to Brett Lamb for the “diablog” idea<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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