Thurs, the night before Easter - I skipped out on studio time at uni with some classmates to attend the final day of L’Oreal Fashion Week being held inside tents at Nathan Philips Square.

Following the show (which we didn’t really see because it was packed!) I headed over to unofficial Couchsurfing Toronto ambassador Garry’s cinema (basically his back room with a projector projecting the movie onto a large back wall) for a movie night. I arrived around 10:30pm and the small group had yet to commence the movie watching. We ended up watching 1979 film Being There which featured Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine.

IMDB Plot summary:

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.

It turned out to be a pretty interesting movie. Sellers’ performance as Chance earned him an Academy Award nomination for best actor the following year. I can totally appreciate why, he was great.

The movie night then went off on totally different tangent when the next DVD to inserted into the player was Madonna: Truth or Dare. It was two or three in the morning and I spent the entire duration of the movie juggling between karaoke and grooving (whilst lying down on the couch with Nicole, Nadja and Jose mind you) and trying to catch bits and pieces of sleep. Just imagine… it’s 4am and blasting out of G’s apartment is Madonna singing “If we took a holiday, Took some time to celebrate, Just one day out of life, It would be, it would be so nice!” I was amazed that none of his neighbours had raised a complaint yet.

We left around 4:30 am and an hour or so later my bed finally hit my pillow in my comfy bed at home.