More excitingness

OK, I lied big time. We have done something else exciting.

There's an outdoor cinema running over the end of summer in Centennial Park and we booked tickets a little while ago to go and see Metal: A headbanger's journey last night.

I bought some sashmimi and pre-cooked crustaceans from the fish market as a ready-made picnic and a new picnic blanket from Woolworths. We hired some bean bags when we got there, which were really comfy.



Sean looking comfy

As the light went down, a whole host of bats started flying around, some really low, which was pretty cool. There was also a thunderstorm going on in the distance and we could see the lightening lighting up the inside of the clouds, which was even more cool.



Giant screen

The film was really good. It was a nostalgia trip yet also informative. I was most impressed by the lead singer of Archenemy, who can do a proper growly metal voice despite being a girl. Cool! Sean thought it tailed off in the second half, when it moved from Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath to Norwegian Black Metal (those guys are crazy) but I thought it was excellent all the way though. In fact I reckon I could have watched days of the stuff.

If you are happy just listening to people talking about heavy rock music, or you like laughing at crazy people I recommend you go and watch this film (the same goes for Metallica:Some Kind of Monster, which has the same "laugh at the freak" factor). It's ace!