Events
Graduation Movie Night - Brought to you by Gazz Wood -
How you gonna rap with rock when I got the mic? You ain’t, that's how.
Tonight I'm put in charge of hosting the Graduation Movie Screening event. What this means is that I will be introducing 5 films, all made by people on my course at Uni, to the people involved, the cast, the tutors, some film industry heads and one or two hangers on.
Pretty big deal for, considering that I consider myself to be kind of shy and I always shit it when I have to talk in front of a couple of people in lectures. This is 100 people downstairs, 50 people upstairs. I could die on my arse. As it goes, I don't. I get a couple of laughs here and there and for the most part everyone is polite at least, Courtesy laughs is better than no laughs is better than getting programs swung at you.
I did, however, get upstaged and derailed by the People's Poet. A man easily in his 40's, the People's Poet is someone I do not care for. Now I've gotten into trouble for saying things about people on the internet before, so I'm just gonna call him The Binman. He made a film for the screening and, as I was about to introduce him, he stepped all over what I was saying and chose to introduce himself.
Laughter pervaded the whole place and he did the same thing when I tried to introduce him downstairs. He talked over films, he talked over me and generally acted like a child. Now to say I'm bitter would be... well it'd be fair enough, but I still think that I'm right in saying this guy is a cocksmith.
After the screening was over and I'd pounded the wine some, we sheened over to the Elbow Rooms for the after party. I'd managed to leave my wallet at home in the panic of changing, so scrounged a drink off Jordan and spend most of the night mingling with assorted people and watching the Binman beat everyone at pool. He is very good to be fair. I went home pretty early but TheWorm, Youd, N8, Jordan and Benny the Bean stuck around.
What happened?