Sinister: hair's too much muff (r.b.)
kenneth.chu at xxx.org
kenneth.chu at xxx.org
Wed Aug 28 13:57:30 BST 2002
(Reporting back...)
On sinister's 5th Birthday Auntie Sadie brought the adorable
5 year old a great big present inside a great big box! Inside
it was something pretty sepecial - it was a camcorder that's
shaped like a pen! What's more, instead of battery powered,
it eats up ink like there's no tomorrow.
And that was just after I bought 16 batteries for a quid on
Tottenham Court Road - it was okay though, because a boy had
nipped down to WHSmith's and got some ink in time to make a
film.
I plugged the tape into the player and turned on the telly
and gasp! It was porno!
Then I realised that I put in "Star Trek - the next penetration"
tape in by accident.
So instead I put in the Sinister tape into the recorder, and
GASP! It was porno! Just after I pressed play, I was greeted
by a naked young man putting on a pair of Spiderman pants! Not
only were they red, if you pause the tape and look closely you
can see something that you really don't want to see, and also,
that the label of his pants said 7-8 years old, and that's pretty small!
Soon after that all I could see was Highgate tube station
bopping up and down - it looked like the boy hadn't found the
stabiliser button yet as he walked to the station - he then
took a look around to see if anyone were to follow him there, there
wasn't - but then! When he looked forward again Sam Walton
appeared on the screen, who said "alright!"
Abruptly (the crossfade button didn't seem to have worked),
the scene changed to two gorgeous girls and a gorgeous boy
sitting at a table outside a pub - one of the girls, who was
wearing a very nice Red T-shirt, had multiple pints of beer
lined up in front of her.
The boy seemingly had forgotten to press pause when he placed
the camera on the table, and thus recorded all of the random
yet witty conversations that occured. For some reason though
the camera was pointing directly at a girl's boobs all that time.
"Oh shit!" we heard from the boy before the scene once again suddenly
changed, this time to a beatuiful view of London - gorgeous
girls all on the top of a hill - shame about the buildings
in the background which looked ugly in comparison.
Many people there looked very shy and quiet, until a little
girl climbed onto her daddy's head and said "Hello Everybody!"
to everybody, and they all smiled and waved back at her.
The camera then just spent the whole time either wandering about
the hill, or getting put onto the floor and filming a wine
bottle being picked up - how artistic! Until we then all
followed the camera running down a hill and eventually coming
to a halt, with a boy in purple trousers shouting "WHERE SHALL
WE PUT THE GOAL?" before explaining how he didn't want to get
his new glasses smashed.
Wow, the next half an hour was pure excitement - 30 minutes
of pure soccer action - until we see the same guy in the
purple trousers kicking a football really hard, and in a
typical You've Been Framed stylee, the ball hurtled right
against the lenses of the Camera!
Either because of that football incident, or because the
boy has once again showed his cinematic flair by putting
on a special lens that are known as "Beer Googles", everything
looked slightly tilted from then on and the auto-focus
function went haywire. We then heard a wise man's voice
saying "Let's go to the Betsey Trotwood!"
After a beautiful shot of a tube train arriving we filmed
a train bobbling up and down through a tunnel - apparently
someone else had made a even better film involving a man
from Birmingham performing Pole dancing, against a pole on
the tube train, but that's a totally different movie.
Soon after the film started to turn surreal - it was as if
someone was dancing to some great music whilst holding a
camera, whilst shouting "COME AND DANCE!" really loud
repeatedly and annoyingly.
Then, finally, probably, the best moment in the film, an
ambient chorus of "Happy Birthday to you" was the only
thing that could accompany the exceedingly delightful
chocolate cake, on it were five candles and letters that
wrote "Sinister Happy 5th Birthday".
A boy took a deep breath and managed to blow the candles
out, then everyone cheered whilst he was catching his
breath. The cake was then stabbed in an evil manner by a
knife on a bikechain, before being cut into bits and
eaten - how sinister!
And then there was a scene of people bopping up and down
to some top tunes, and we can hear the boy go "ohhh on
more pleeeeease" as the camera turned to the barman who
said "Can you make it the last song please?". And "Happy
New Year" by Camera Obscura faded into The Boy with the
Arab Strap.
The last scene of the film was yet another of a tube train
this time heading towards Highgate - and seemingly the boy
had finally found where the fade out button was....
Reporting Back and Red Bulls
Ken
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