We went to a surprise birthday party last night. As there is no such thing as a successful surprise party without little hats, balloons, and those things you blow into that screech and unroll, our friend Pegah went to a pound shop in Dalston, well, actually a 98p shop, to stock up. It turns out that 98p shops employ the most resourceful recyclers in the world.
A near intact party blower
Being in a semi-constant state of agitation, I tend to chew things pretty much non-stop. I also like peeling labels off bottles (cue sexual frustration jibes), biting through pens, grinding my teeth into tiny stumps and picking at my beard. Not usually a rewarding set of characteristics, but on this magical Sunday I was rewarded for all my hard work.
My fat finger menacing a Chinese banquet
As I nibbled through the party blower, its golden exterior started to unfurl, and it was then that i noticed the main body of the horn was made of rolled up film reel. This was clearly an amazing example of recycling. I screamed out about my discovery to the party, everyone went a bit quiet, one or two kind friends looked interested, but generally the party was underwhelmed.
But it got better. Once I started to analyse the party horn with more vigor I noticed that the golden skin was the wrapping off Solera Gran Reserva, “A Fine Brandy that Recalls the Bold heroism of Spain,” great eh?
I unraveled further and found the rigid tip of the party blower to be made of a short section of bamboo.
Here are some pictures of the film reels, we couldn’t scan them because they were smeared with beery spit and had bamboo, feathers, Sellotape and unidentifiable ooze on them. And we don’t want that stuff on our scanner.
Does anyone know what movies these are from? The only film I’ve ever seen is Phonebooth with Colin Farrell, and I don’t think that’s the one.
BRUCE
Reader Comments
March 30th, 2009
12:46 pm
I think it’s from the 2006 box office hit ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin’.
March 30th, 2009
4:01 pm
But the party blowers were shit, they didn’t work.
March 30th, 2009
5:22 pm
hmm, not sure from the look of things it involves a gay priest and asian food, both of which leave a bad taste in my stomach.
March 30th, 2009
5:23 pm
thats not colin farrell… those are asian men. easy mistake though.
March 30th, 2009
5:23 pm
that’s really bamboo? it looks like the middle of a tape roll from here.
March 30th, 2009
5:23 pm
wow that took dedication. it probably took a lot of time to do all of that. fuck recycling, i think after constructing about one or two of those noise blowers I would have just given up and went to the dollar store to buy them.
March 30th, 2009
5:24 pm
Obviously, some of us have an attention problem. These party favors were purchased at a “98 Pence store,” which we can safely guess is a British equivolent of an American Dollar Store. Secondly, a discovery like that can actually make the party favor all the more exciting, at least for some of us, like the ones with a little bit of an adventerous/curious spirit. Lastly, we can’t say “fuck recycling,” especially not in this day and age, when so many things are being recylced, whether we realize it or not, even cow carcasses are recycled. So to you xyz123, I dare say poo poo to you.
March 30th, 2009
5:24 pm
that’s so rad. i just want to figure out how they did it so i can plant my own film into the party favors
March 30th, 2009
10:54 pm
so pretty! martha should be notified.
March 30th, 2009
10:54 pm
art school thesis
April 3rd, 2009
3:00 pm
you have done great research on this topic. i didn’t know many things about it. as really helpful. reading short information is always awesome rather than reading insanely huge books!
I didn’t understand nookat people, both sides