ATTENTION EVERYBODY THIS POST IS V. IMPORTANT OK okay today I attended the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre on behalf of the lovely Selina as my birthday present. Doctor Who has this preconception amongst most people as a totally weird, old, fuddy duddy British geeky sci-fi show. It is completely all those things. Nah I kid, but anyway I absolutely love it. It is the best. I take complete shameless childlike joy and pleasure in watching it and obviously was incredibly excited for tonight. The basic synopsis is: a 2000 year old alien with two hearts flies around the universe in a blue police phone box which has the ability to take him anywhere in time and space. It's not weird at all. also the soundtrack is kind of amazeballs which is why there was an entire orchestra playing a show tonight ya imma stop blabbin' now
walking through to the Plenary there were tons of people dressed up in cosplay and semi-cosplay and whatnot also: check out this dalek feat. me
yea Selina mayyyyy have been just slightly weirded out that's okay because as my belated b'day gift this day is 100% about me and 0% about you (I kid again, srsly thanks Selinr)
this was how the orchestra was set up inside I dig the Tardis just chillin' in the back I didn't record that much cos ya I wanted to just pay attention to the orchestra although I did record the first performance, and lucky I did cos it also happened to be the one most worth recording, there were choreographed monsters and full costumes and err'thang like, Selina made me get up and swap seats with her halfway through because the monsters scared her I don't reckon they're scary at all
I Am the Doctor it's sort of like the unofficial theme of the show swapping seats later turned out to be great, because I could simply leave the camera recording on the outside armrest of the chair also I had a better view I guess
ALSO I was surprised to find out that Peter Davidson, who played the Doctor in like, the 80s was the host of the event?? like wow pretty impressive costuming on the night, I was very impressed if you are easily scared by people in costumes I would not examine these next images too carefully (I'm mainly putting this warning here for you Judith haha)
like check that ish outtt here's another performance that I recorded from the night, it's from when one of the companions leaves
The Final Chapter of Amelia Pond I love the strings in this one and also the New York kind of swanky vibe yea obviously I am great at describing things
ALSO DALEKS
these next ones are just a little creepy
at one point there was a Judoon (read: intergalactic rhino police) walking about and right next to me, the poor fella trips on the stairs and falls over right next to me it was hilarious
I just sat there and laughed and didn't really help him/her up sorry I'm a terrible human being
and then it was all over far too soon alas well, it was amazing while it lasted definitely going to go to the next one
the final bow outside, there was a bunch of Chinese New Year shenanigans going on
this is the programme I bought spontaneously, I wanted to have a memento good thing too, it had the setlist and a poster but I'm super picky with posters so it's not hanging up on my wall I ripped out something else from the booklet oop too bad
we had a bit of a poke around the booths
and grabbed this takoyaki I've never had superbly excellent Japanese-person approved takoyaki so I can't tell what's good, all takoyaki tastes good to me
Year of the Horse
this was the bowtie I got for today grainy selfies
ended up inside Crown eating Chinese takeout, it was great I actually had bought suspenders for today, but I coudn't figure out how they worked before heading off to the concert like, it was crazy hot and I didn't want to be late so I was like screw that shit but I figured it out when I got home
finished the night in the am sitting outside looking at the stars while listening to the soundtrack on my iPod not a bad way to end the night
on this day (well the day after, technically) Joey turned 20
there was a game of basketball in the afternoon but I was a little bit late so I only missed the whole entire thing since it was so hot I came just as everyone was heading into Chooi-ee's house to cool down a bit we played Bang, and the good guys won boooooo
check out Joey's funky leg pose
at around 6 we headed down to this cute Korean restaurant in Clayton oh, funny story! on the way down Judith and I realised our grave miscommunication about Joey's card Judith had asked me to "draw something for Joey's card" what I thought she meant was draw something to put on the card Judith had made for Joey what Judith meant was to make a card for Joey so I rushed into my house to grab some spare paper and was frantically cutting, gluing and shredding up paper into a card as we drove on the way to the restaurant I can say that Judith was more than a little concerned that I was going to slice one of my fingers off it turned out all good though
this was the restaurant, Hodori Korean Garden. quaint, right? traditional decoration and everything, I appreciate it
Judith and I were just a tad later than everybody else due to the card incident, so the appetizers were out already or side dishes I don't know the exact terms but Korean cuisine always has these side dishes to go with the main meal, like kimchi and other things etc etc
the birthday girl
other unimportant people who are not the birthday girl
read: same as above
fooood
my favourite, bulgogi ate this when I was a kid, it's eternally my favourite Korean dish
jajangmyeon (black bean sauce noodles) apparently this dish is good at this place?
spicy chicken thingy
SIZZLING PORK BELLY
I quite liked Hodori Korean Garden, the service was like...okay (putting it nicely). but the food and atmosphere was nice
couldn't pass up the chance to take some group photos on the way out check out me doing The Creep in that last gif
after dinner we decided to head back to Brandon's house grabbed a slurpee on the way, this makes Judie's 2nd slurpee ever getting there
socks for him + her Jess just came back from Korea and had presents for everybody felt a little like everyone else's birthday too haha
I got this awesome Jake doll
hair curlers + Totoro
and funny socks
found this little robot interesting
not forgetting whose birthday it actually was, we gave Joey her cake and presents I thought this cake was pretty awesome
green tea, and look at the fake grass haha quality craftmanship, Bread Kingdom good on ya
Joey's reaction to cutting her cake
we got her this Kpop CD set my kpop knowledge is non-existent so I have no idea who TVXQ are but if you know em then you'll probs be jealous of this CD set, it was signed as well
Translation, anyone?
check out this holographic business
Judie's face hereeee LOL "u sAID WOT NOW??"
Caf came in from work bearing gifts of pizza
these socks were for her, due to her old obsession with One Piece and Zoro
Joey's reaction to her boyfriend's incredibly poignant gift of...
dog products
A+ boyfriend, upstanding, amazing, yas, all the things
this was the card I made for Jo it has her two little dogs on it
circle of socks
for the rest of the night we just lounged around and chatted and played games here's Wynne playing something was it Final Fantasy? I don't remember anyways
literally too lazy to sit upright and talk
Wynne stole my camera she's a great photographer like srs
Settlers of Catan I've not played this game but I've heard it can get preeeeetty competitive
chilled for a while and then called it a night /o (that's a thumbs up)
