Saturday, 28 July 2007

I see dead people

During the day I went to see The Amazing Human Body Exhibition, it was created by a Chinese guy that used to work for that German guy that plastifies bodies. I was going with 'Pretty but Odd' -I'm getting tired of re-asking people there names so I'm just going with descriptions these days if I forget. We had arranged to go to this last night, I'm not sure how the conversation got to wanting to see disected dead people, but it did. By some coincidence I was on her as 'English Guy' we made an agreement to go as long as we could without knowing each others names.

The exhibition was really interesting, luckily the plastification process made most the bodies look like really good models rather than the real life cadavers that they actually where. I think my brain processed the exhibition strangely, in much the same way that when you are on a plane your so high up your brain doesn't really know that your up high. I just don't think our brain has evolved to know to be scared when your that high up or disgusted when you are seeing plastified internal organs.

This was apart from one body where they had dissected it to various depths to show the muscle system worked, this one had squares of skin on it. There was something about it having skin that made me sick to the core, and I moved away very quickly. Overall a very interesting experience but don't bring your children, as a lot of parents at the exhibition where finding out the hard way.

Saturday Night on a recommendation from 'Pretty but Odd' I headed to the Cherry Bar. Melbourne follows the bar law that the harder a bar is to find the cooler it is. I'm fairly sure it must be one of the coolest bars in town. It was in a small dark alleyway slightly out of town, with no sign about the door or any indication that there is a bar there apart from the bouncer hanging around outside who to be honest just looks like your typical alleyway resident.

The linked website description lied, don't get there early it doesn't even open till 9:30, I arrived at about 8ish and found a couple of girls standing in the alley way trying to work out if there was a bar here. As the bouncer wasn't around yet. They adopted me and we went and had a couple of drinks, while they made some calls to see what was going on. They had both lived in Melbourne for over a decade, but I seemed to know my way around better than they did.

They where meeting their friends there later for a leaving do. Over the drinks I got them to clue me up on their friend, so I could arrive separately later and pretend to be psychic. It's a fun joke I really recommend doing it if you get the opportunity.

I normally avoid talking about hypnotism and NLP these days as it makes conversation far to easy and I was getting bored of saying the same things, but my new adopters we both psychologists and arguing with them is just to much fun. One of there boyfriends wanted to get me in to interview for a Test/Project manager position at his company. I'm always pleasantly surprised by how much the universe seems to pretty much always provide me what I need. Thank you Universe. Apart from that it was a pretty normal night out in a great rock bar.

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