Pirates, arrr.
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andricongirl and I saw Pirates of the Carribean.
Yesterday, we saw Andrew McClelland's Somewhat Accurate History Of Pirates.
It was a history lecture, only funny. McClelland played the role of a foppish, excitable history professor, gadding on about pirates.
The start was fucking hilarious as McClelland introduced himself, his Powerpoint presentation (pirated), his early obsession with pirates (slides of young McClelland dressed up as pirate, threatening his sister with toy cutlass), and the other subjects he studied at university (Great Fops of the 19th Centruy, Evil Freemasons of the 20th Century).
He then moved on demolishing popular misconceptions ( or at least an essay written by a boy from McClelland's old primary school), the origins of piracy (going back to the Big Bang), pirate speech, women pirates (with an aside that the 17th Century populace regarded women pirates much the way we regard teenaged Russin lesbian popstars) before culminating with the history of Henry Morgan... told with cardboard puppets and Blackadder-esque accents.
It was fun. And funny.
My only problem with the show was that McClelland got too excited, and fluffed too many of his lines. The material was great. He just needed to slow down a bit to really sell it.
Maybe it was just the full moon. The city was full of crazies last night - beggars, junkies, drunks and Scottish rugby fans.
andricongirl and I saw Pirates of the Carribean.Yesterday, we saw Andrew McClelland's Somewhat Accurate History Of Pirates.
It was a history lecture, only funny. McClelland played the role of a foppish, excitable history professor, gadding on about pirates.
The start was fucking hilarious as McClelland introduced himself, his Powerpoint presentation (pirated), his early obsession with pirates (slides of young McClelland dressed up as pirate, threatening his sister with toy cutlass), and the other subjects he studied at university (Great Fops of the 19th Centruy, Evil Freemasons of the 20th Century).
He then moved on demolishing popular misconceptions ( or at least an essay written by a boy from McClelland's old primary school), the origins of piracy (going back to the Big Bang), pirate speech, women pirates (with an aside that the 17th Century populace regarded women pirates much the way we regard teenaged Russin lesbian popstars) before culminating with the history of Henry Morgan... told with cardboard puppets and Blackadder-esque accents.
It was fun. And funny.
My only problem with the show was that McClelland got too excited, and fluffed too many of his lines. The material was great. He just needed to slow down a bit to really sell it.
Maybe it was just the full moon. The city was full of crazies last night - beggars, junkies, drunks and Scottish rugby fans.
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Date: 2003-10-11 11:13 pm (UTC):-)
I wonder if he'll bring it to Sydney...
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Date: 2003-10-12 03:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-12 07:05 am (UTC)Nah, Andrew's always like that. I'm disgusted that I missed this show, though - I too love pirates. May get remounted for the Comedy Festival, if I'm lucky.
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Date: 2003-10-12 04:07 pm (UTC)You Melbournites get all the fun :P