through some strange twist of fate i managed to catch both the AFI awards and the IF awards (via the wonders of vhs) on saturday night and i was struck by how terrible and gaudy and generally shithouse the AFI awards were in comparison to the classy, relaxed IFs. the AFIs were an utter train wreck, russell crowe with jokes almost as bad as his suit, ongoing gratuitous spruiking for completely irrelevant corporate sponsors, a set that unbelievably out-yukked melbourne’s premier yuk events venue ‘the crown showroom’, unlucky award winners having to do the 100m dash from the back of the room to collect their awards with 5 second acceptance speeches… and holy shit COMEDY INC was nominated for 2 awards! at least safran won, although i’m sure it would have been a tough choice for judges to toss up between safran and the replacement nudge from hey dad.

i’ve been listening to this song on repeat for the last 24 hours - when not in my playlist, its been in my head, or popping up as a jose gonzales cover on sony tv ads.