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At school we used to call them Cabaret. Here in residence it’s just a village variety night, but that doesn’t make it any less awesome in my eyes. Less people showed up then I thought, but then again I guess for some reason this doesn’t have as much appeal as some other activities, oh well, we had a nice, cosy, awesome audience. I may have missed an act or a song as I was busy fighting my web browser, Firefox, after an update made it completely unusable *sigh*, I’ve been using IE for about 2 hours now and it’s already driving me crazy.

Anyway… on to the acts!

The first person up was a guy on guitar and just doing some songs. I believe I missed a part of one, but he played a very nice, and different (more acapella) rendition of Hotel California. It was on an acoustic guitar, and since I just had to spot it, I think they were using pretty much the same microphones we used at school. The placement of them was really, really odd, and since they had 2 I didn’t really get why one wasn’t used for guitar and one for his voice, but meh, it was still good!

This was followed up by another gentleman doing a series of street magic tricks. He used cards for a bunch of them to start with and they were good, although each side of the audience got their own version since otherwise we couldn’t see. He also was going to do a mindreading trick which basically uses some math properties to let him guess the number that the person ends up thinking about, but there was some kind of error in the trick or in the math done, so it didn’t work out, doesn’t matter!

Now then, the show was just getting started. I am so sorry I missed his name, but the next person that came up showed us some fantastic juggling skills. He started off with 3 balls and worked his way all the way up to 7. And he had an awesome comedic stage presence that’s hard to make up if you just don’t have it, just a very charismatic and confident person. We also got to find out that he did a year of some sort of circus program or internship. The best was to come though, oh it was definitely to come. The signal was his search for 4 chairs with square bottomed legs. The first construction was questionable (the chairs have really badly bent legs), but the second ended up in a intricate stack of 4 chairs that were half the room height in height. This found it’s way into his arms, then ontop of his head and then balance with no arms in his mouth… by this point we were too busy cheering on our legs.

A girl dressed in a very nice and colourful green dress followed him. Her routine was based on a series of jokes and a bit of a storyline. The jokes were nice and simple, or required some thought. No vulgarity here at all, just style and delivery. What do you call a sheep with no legs? A cloud! She had a hard act to follow, but she did a fantastic job of it and we all laughed, the guy from the last act laughed the most which made it so amusing because he had a hilarious laugh.

She was followed up by some excellent beatboxing. There was some freestyling along with some famous songs including…. and I just forgot it, it’s the one where it has a slower chorus and something like ‘So in love with you’ bla bla I forget, sorry (Japanese skit is getting comfortable in my brain). I think he ended up doing 3 songs and 2 freestyles, and yes it was as good as some of those YouTube clips you see, which makes it amusing, because his self introduction was “So, you know beatboxing…. seen it on YouTube?!”

He was followed by a gentleman who performed 3 songs, two by a band from Newfoundland and one which reolved around a story of the 1812 war and the burning of Washington. They were performed purely by him in vocal form with no instruments, which made it really different. I’m not sure if it’s my type of music, probably not, but it was still well done and worth enjoying.

Hey, look, it’s our host for the night along with the first guitarist! They perfomed The Scientist by Coldaplay and Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd, Sergey was sad… uhm, yeah. Other then that, the music was very well done, although I still completely disagree with their positioning of those microphones, it really could have been so much better.

And we closed off with some dancing and cross dressing from the fantastic current don team. Phil in tight neon drag and Jackson sporting what can best be described as an outfit worn by a girl really comfortable with the way she looks it was already a golden performance. The fact that it was all of them dancing to S-Club 7 and that apparently Kristen my don can actually dance well and Jayas joined in made it for one memorable closing perforamnce.

There was some karaoke after, I only stuck around for one song, which I didn’t participate in… Backstreet Boys…. Show me the meaning…. yeah we know how it goes, don’t hide it, I know you know the words, just like I do >.<

Now I actually have to get more work done. My Japanese skit which we’re doing for a project is tomorrow morning, and I’ve still got things that need to get finished for it tonight. So I’m going to get to that and making sure Alice doesn’t go insane over that whole Comp-Sci thing…