That's Amore!
Errol Flynn and David Niven once lived on the island of Capri, in Italy. There they imbibed so much alcohol that their home was christened 'Cirrhosis on the Sea'.
Dean Martin happily remarked that "You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on".
These urbane and sophisticated types would be proud to see the gusto with which Perth is celebrating their legacy. After The Sleepy Jackson on Friday night I popped in to Ollie's party. There before me an ocean of faces swam in and out of focus through air so dense with alcoholic fumes that even the light was staggering.
I looked about and spotted someone who was tipsy. Another who was tanked. And then someone else who was pissed. As my careful investigations continued I realised that there were also people who were blind, shitfaced, hammered, sloshed, plastered, tanked, sozzled, sauced, rowdy, Brahmsed, inebriated, demolished, rat-arsed, legless, motherless, maggot, smashed, incapacitated, rancid, affected, off their face, out of it, rotten, rooted, on it, blotto, belted, spastic, sloppy, whaled, wrecked, ruined, stumbling, off their chops, glugged, ragged, buried, off their trolley, messy, stonkered, crosseyed, slurrin', shattered, fucked, boozed, liquid, loose, nailed, bolted, soused, potted, tickled, pickled, slaughtered, trolleyed, retarded, intoxicated, obliterated, written off, pisswrecked, belted, destroyed, marinated, lagered, skunked, ping pong tiddlied, trashed, wasted, paralytic, debauched, under the influence, merry, gone and liquored up.
There was even someone who may have been three sheets to the wind.
I doubt much of the house will be standing today given the abuse of last night. But I know that over the detritus Dino's spirit smiles contentedly, and if you listen closely you can hear him starting up again with "When the moon starts to shine like you've had too much wine..."