Good Times!

Had a great time yesterday evening. Went to a pub where a bunch of friends were jamming. It was great fun cos they weren’t being serious, were just playing around, having a good time, playing their favourite songs. The vocalist going ‘Ayyyyyyy….G’, letting the guitarist know which chords to play! Drummers rotating as friends demanded that they wanted to jam too – good fun!

Got a little pissed off with H, the 57 yr old Swedish guy though. True, he plays really good blues guitar, but I felt he was sort of taking advantage of the band (even though they weren’t really a ‘band’) and had no respect for them. I felt he was playing the white card, as in, ‘I’m white so I can have what I want her for the asking’. Also he made a terrible mess of ‘Like a Rolling Stone’.

Had a nice conversation with U, C’s wife. She’s always so dressed up and made up and looks so good that you get the feeling that she’s a bit of a touch-me-not. So I never really bothered to talk to her beyond the casual ‘Hi’. She came up to me and we got talking and she’s actually quite nice – was looking quite different too – prettier without all the make up. She’s going to Lahore next month so gave her the low-down on what to expect in Pakistan!

Conversation in the car on the way to the pub, F bouncing around at the back, irritated with D’s girlfriend:

She’s so irritating, man. If I had a cricket bat I’d smash her face in.

Me: Sounds like you’re jealous of your friend’s girlfriend.

No, man, I’m not jealous. It’s just that she is not the right girl for him. You know, he can have any girl he wants, but he just too lazy! He’s good looking, he’s nice, he’s honest, he’s so sweet…and his parents are the nicest ever, any girl would love to have in-laws like them. But he’s just too lazy to make the effort, it’s like ‘chalo mil gayee to bas theek hai’.

And she apparently cheated on him when she was in Canada so if the base is so shaky then what’s the point?

And she’s so icky, she’s always all over him. If you’re trying to talk to him she’ll go ‘D…D…’ (Put his hands on B’s cheeks and pulls his face around). I can’t stand it.

And why does she have to do things like buy his Dad muffins and tell his Mom (affects nasal voice) ‘Aunty shall we go shopping tomorrow then?’ She’s using them to get to him and that’s disgusting.

And the thing is she’s nice looking and intelligent why does she have to do all this? Why like this?

B: She’s not good looking at all.

Cmon she is, look she’s slim and all waxed and eyebrows plucked and stuff. She’s not that bad. But yaaaaaaaaargh!


This conversation was extremely funny in reality, but somehow all typed up it’s lost it’s flavour!
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Boss woman has been extremely nice lately – lending me films and nominating me for a seminar on documentary film making in December…hmm.
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A funny thing – trying to raise money from rich businessmen (sorry for the sexism, but they are all men in this case) in Canada for our next film project. So boss woman got one of them to host a dinner for her and she talked about her work and the next project, explained the budget, showed them her latest film and posters/brochures etc., handed out synopses and story outlines of the next film.

They were apparently totally non-plussed and didn’t know how to react. They had no questions about the next film or even comments on whether they thought it was good or bad. Then one of them saw on the poster for the last film the row of funders’ logos at the bottom and said ‘How much would it cost for one of those?’ Aha! So this is how business men think!

(These are of course funders who funded the film to promote culture, quality film making, different POVs and other such lofty stuff!)

We have now drawn up a ‘Tariff Card’ saying it will cost this much for your company’s name on the poster, this much on the brochures, logo extra etc.!

Hope it works though cos I really don’t see what benefit their companies would get out of it.
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Have a lot of work to do but couldn’t resist writing. Need to get back to it now – waaah!