Toilet Roll Smokes and Home Movie Night (Part 1) – Mad Chaos: November 24, 1998

Glass Shards and Late Nights

Even after vacuuming and hand picking at the carpet in my room I still have little parts of glass coming off the photo frame that Lyssa chose to break in my room. Remarkably I haven’t hurt myself by stepping on any shards of glass as yet but I have found some monster pieces that I have missed in the past. Tonight I am writing so late not because I wanted to get lazy but because Shawn and Simon came over my house around 11:30 p.m. Let us now speak chronologically, it won’t take long as today wasn’t such an eventful day.

Around 11:00 a.m. Monday morning I received a call from Lyssa who once again told me she was sorry and was hoping that we could talk things over. It was so early in the morning and it seems like so much time has gone by that I can’t remember a clear reminder of our conversation. I think in the end of it all Lyssa asked if we would talk again and I basically told her no because of what she had done.

I know that I’m only speaking from my ass and Lyssa and I will once again speak but she must learn from her mistakes for tearing up our past. After my last entry I got to work on the letters that Lyssa had written me or I could have done it after waking up at 2:00 p.m. Monday. The latter would have been more susceptible to reality so let’s stick with that.

Broke Before Payday

Lyssa was at College today and I thought she was going to call again when she came back from College to talk with me but when the phone rang at 10:30 p.m. it wasn’t Lyssa, it was Simon. The conversation I held with Lyssa on Monday morning must have been much of a deterrent, at least until tomorrow. Once I woke up and had myself something to eat I called up Commonwealth Banks Customer Service Line and asked if my money was in.

Rather, I went through an automated system and after I was told I barely had $5 in my account I talked to an operator who told me the same shit. That pissed me off so I tried to call Centrelink because I didn’t want to walk to Campbelltown to speak to them and plus, it was raining extensively so I didn’t want to get wet. The lines were strangely busy so I had to ring their Multilingual service which hardly anyone rings. From there I was transferred and that’s when I found out that I handed my form in too late on Friday and it was getting processed.

The money was going into my account on Tuesday so my plans for Monday and heading off for the Gym were thwarted. That gave me some satisfaction knowing that I wouldn’t have to walk around in the rain but knowing that I felt like heading to the Gym for my new three day a week workout I asked my mum to lend me some money. This family is pretty broke around this time in the fortnight so mum had no assistance to lend me.

Deadlock and Torn Letters

Deciding to stay home and postpone everything until tomorrow I started to arrange the torn up letters that Lyssa tore and that I didn’t bother to throw away on purpose. After half an hour I had them all sorted out and I was going to record them onto my computer but I couldn’t find an old letter that I had written into my Diary in it’s exact form when Lyssa gave it to me. Hours passed and I started playing on the computer and before I knew it the time came up to 7:30 p.m.

Until 10:00 p.m. I started watching television and from that time I once again joined myself to a game on the computer until Shawn and Tatton gave me a call. If only I had something like the Play Station or even the internet for some form of entertainment instead of the game ‘Deadlock’ I always play on my computer. It ain’t that bad but I’m on it all the time when I have nothing else to do.

Gossip From the City

Shawn arrived with his camera and with the film in it’s cassette I knew we were going to watch our flick when we headed to ‘Waves’ two weeks ago and I might even get to tape it. Shawn asked me where I was on Saturday and telling him that I spent it at home but not saying who with he told me of his night out in the City. Keith drove his car with Ralf in it, Shawn and Tatton also drove a car down.

They met up with Simon who had Phoenix, and two girls both with the same names (I think they were both Laura) in the car with him. Also with Simon was Magnus, the stick dick that used to go out with Tessa. From what I hear both the girls work at Ingleburn Pizza Hut and it is said that one of them is hotter than Zinnia and even has the same studded ring on her tongue.

Not too sure on what exactly they done in the City but they came back at 7:00 a.m. so it couldn’t have been too bad. Keith decided to sleep at Simon’s house and as Simon slept in his own room Keith and Phoenix decided to sleep together in his mum’s room, go figure. What do you think the two of them got up to, I thought so. He’s being such a prick to Tamsen and if she ever finds out it will be from Phoenix who is now starting to like Keith.

Seeing Myself on Tape

Looking at the video from two weeks ago I noticed for the first time my body where I could study it and I couldn’t help but to pick at myself. Now I believe what Lyssa tells me in how my face is chubbier and how I am all the more larger since I met Lyssa. My hair looked a bit silly too and I have the feeling that I’m going to need a change sooner or later. Before even watching the movie I thought that I should cut my hair much shorter but respectfully so that I can put it back in a ponytail still.

Looking at the video and having huge laughs at the part where we were trying to get an acting flick going I couldn’t help but to think of fitness. My bike is probably still in the shed and if I just bought two rims and two tires I can get riding again. This coupled with bodybuilding for my upper body will burn heaps of calories and get me skinnier. Heck, I even wanted to jog a couple of kilometers after viewing the home movie but of course I didn’t.

My body doesn’t look all that great either because I have too much fat covering my bulk. Now I can see what I need to do with my weights program and I’m on the right was with working out three times a week. Swimming might also be a good alternative to losing weight and toning my muscle. Summer is now only a couple of digits away and one month from now I want to lose a kilo or more from my waist and I will…

Directing Our Own Movie

After viewing our latest and third movie we took a look at our very first home movie release because Simon hadn’t seen it. Laughing at most bits as we still find them funny we made cracks about Keith’s camera inexperience and how every home movie has had one person flash in each one. The first movie it was Shawn, Jett in the second and Tyler in the third. When we finished viewing the movies Shawn had the producing bug and wanting to tape something in my room I started with the props.

Going to the toilet I brought out three empty toilet rolls and stuffing them with toilet paper they acted as huge smokes. Placing two guns, a knife, scissors and a lighter in close proximity of each other I took out two dice, some bourbon and some grass from the backyard and placed them in the picture. When all was set Simon started recording Shawn and I. With hats, beanies and bandannas on us we acted stoned for the start of the flick and just adlibbed our whole way through.

Trying to act Latino I pretty much failed miserably but our whole aim was to roll the dice or play high cards and whoever lost was supposed to pick a weapon. If you picked a knife you had to slash yourself for the camera where we stopped filming and placed some tomato sauce on the blade. Then there was of course the guns and it was based on Russian Roulette but of course, none of the bullets went off.

The acting was nothing to brag about but the good thing was that we were having fun doing it all at 1:30 a.m. and while my mum was sleeping. Constantly I kept lighting up this toilet roll filled with toilet paper and at times it started smoking up, pretty funny shit. There was a flick where Shawn and I just got crazy placing the guns in each other’s mouths and doing some wicked shit.

Wrapping Up the Film

After watching what we had just done we had some laughs and then started doing some close up shots and some add ins. There were close up shots of me smoking, picking up the gun, Shawn staring crazily at me, the weed and plenty of other shit. At the end of it all Shawn, Simon and I jumped onto the chairs and I tried to impersonate my favorite picture in my photo albums. In the original picture I was wearing my black Adidas pants with my lions jumper and my T-Rip hat.

This time the only change was my Tommy Hilfiger hat and as Shawn and Ralf were in the original picture we substituted Ralf for Simon. Hard bargain you might say, well I did too but what can you do. While the camera was still running we tried to imitate the picture as much as we could. Sitting in front of us we kept looking down to get our hand spacing right and once it was ready we started walking towards the camera and doing wicked shit.

Soon after that we watched those tidbits and as I taped the whole of what we had just done Shawn and Simon left soon after. Simon and Shawn are going to the pools tomorrow for a swim, it’s too dear for me. Tomorrow Simon is also going to try and get the two girls from Ingleburn Pizza Hut to come out for the next weekend, maybe start some Kentlyn shit again.