Josie Long's Melbourne Adventures

Last night Josh thomas, D O D and I did a guest spot at the Last Tuesday Sociaty at the Hi-Fi. It was a lot of fun, we pretended to be from Nasa, making space cool again for eids.

I tried a new character where I was a bullying nail technician from Kent who answered questions about her recent mission to space including “Why did you go up space?” and  ”Why are you so arrogant about going up space?”. I would recommend the LTS show, they have a great variety of things- yesterday they had someone hula hooping with 5 hoops. It was freaking incredible, and you can trust me as I’m normally one to be suspicious of circus skills.*

I am writing this from the executive skybox that I am staying in for the festival with my friends. It is an apartment called “Living Corporate”. It reminds me of a show I saw in melbourne 2007, set in a bewildering corporate future called The Receipt. We are very high up and the flat is 80% glass, so we are like dogs trapped in a flying car, but with paper thin walls. I feel like how Patrick Bateman must have felt.  My flatmates are Maeve Higgins and Nick Coyle, whose show is  A Rare Sight and Claudia O Doherty whose show is Monster of the Deep 3D . Yes! I know! What a creative household! I simply cannot reccommend their shows heartily enough.

At the moment we are in the thrall of  chat roulette . I am not exaggerating when i say that we have been on this site for 3+ hours at a time. It’s so compelling to keep seeing new strangers, and it brings out the clown in everyone. I pretend to throw up potatoes, Maeve draws on a monobrow in permanent marker. Most of the time you can’t hear the people on the other end, and it’s such a buzz to watch them burst into laughter as you do a little trick or muck around. It’s the computer equivalent of making faces at babies and I wholly recommend it as a bit of pure fun. That having been said there are a number of people who just film themselves wanking, or ask to see your breasts. We call them Nick Coyle and Claudia O Doherty. **

*FAO people who do Poi. Everybody hates you. Put the tennis balls down, and then please set them on fire. And not because you’re going to pick them back up and start doing poi again, but on fire.

** BANG! COMEDIAN ALERT JOKE ALERT!