That’s Stella

I was close to piking on Pat’s gig at the Hydey. There were so many birthday parties last night. But I justified choosing Pat’s gig because I hardly ever see him and turns out an old friend of mine I use to work with on radio was headlining the gig and I haven’t seen him since my 18th birthday. It turned out to be a huge reunion like night. Memories and people from the days when I was an indie kid and sported pink flamingo hair and donned crazy little outfits came rushing back. I’m still an indie kid at heart tho. My work buddy is still the nice guy that he is, but seems to have mellowed out. Then there was a girl I use to be really close to. She’s in a “fake band” (she said they can’t play instruments or sing but get up on stage and pretend to play music) and is completely self absorbed! It was painful talking to her. I just don’t know how she could warrant being so far up herself. I’m sorry, but being in some phony band and on the dole does not make you the bees knees.

During the night I had pangs of regret for leaving the scene. To be completely honest, they were fun days. But then again, I could have been having all these feelings because I hadn’t seen so many good looking guys in once place for a LOONG time. Every second guy was some cute indie boy. Check shirts. All star sneakers. Black skinny leg jeans. Cowboy shirts. 80’s vintage sweaters. Aloofness. And FLOPPY HAIR. Awww…

Pat’s band was pretty impressive. Loud. Catchy. Strokes influenced. The whole night I was intrigued by his drummer. He is absolutely stunningly cute, but he looked familiar and I just couldn’t put my finger on who he looked like…. This morning I finally realised he looks like Andy Samberg (check out the David Letterman clip – v. funny story).

After drinking too much beer, we went to The Moon Café and shared a chocolate pizza and fries with aioli sauce and played Monopoly. Argh! I’m completely addicted to Monopoly! When we finally left the Moon at around 2 in the morning, we decided to go buy some sparklers and headed to Kings Park, fired them up and ran around the park overlooking the city.
Good music, cute indie boys, fries, Monopoly, sparklers and views - now THAT is my kinda night!