I am listening to my music collection at the moment and the song Labour of Love by Frente came on, this song is unique in that it has a recorder solo in it and it brought to mind one of my fondest memories from my uni days. At the time I was "sort of sharing" (I was romantically involved with one of his house mates [not Chris]) a house with Paul "the finger" Dalton. Paul really liked this band, consequently he had dug out his old recorder from school and taught himself to play the solo. I remember being in awe of him as he forced us to listen to Labour of Love whilst joining in on the solo.
Another moment worthy of note and a testimony to the sheer creative brilliance of the man was when Paul found his old skate board helmet and discovered that if one wore it back to front one could see out of the two holes conveniently located in the back of the helmet. This mere fact, coupled with a bit of imagination, would render the wearer of the said helmet with an uncanny resemblance to the main character in the cult classic Robocop. This resemblance could be further reinforced by donning a wetsuit and walking around the lounge room with a mechanical gait. The final nail in the coffin, the coup de grâce as it were, was when one paused their portable CD player at the start of the staccato drum solo in New Orders' Blue Monday. With the aforementioned in place it was simply a matter of walking with a mechanical gait into a lounge room of unsuspecting house mates, turning dramatically, pointing the portable CD player at the dumbfounded house mates and saying those timeless words "Dead or alive. Either way you are coming with me." then releasing the pause button.
This performance would render the viewer speechless, as if transporting them into the movie itself. If it had been recorded and uploaded to Youtube it would have made top 10. That is a fact not an opinion.
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