Fireworks

Canberra had a heavy dose of fireworks last night, I always find it funny that I generally enjoy the period leading up to the fireworks more than the fireworks themselves. I'm sure many people are in my boat too, sure all those big bangs and bright flashes are fun but it's the catching up with people you haven't seen for a while or meeting new people that always seems to be more enjoyable. It's strange that in these days people would never just go to a park and enjoy an afternoon in the sun with other people but would easily spend an afternoon on the shore of Lake Burley Griffin in the rain and cold just to see some fireworks.

One thing thats good about the fireworks is seeing the "new" firework for that year, generally it's some shape that I'm sure wouldn't be easily to make, before it's been love hearts, smiley faces, etc. This year (I'm sure I'm about to be corrected on this) it was a moon shaped firework, or at least I don't think I've ever seen a moon shaped firework before, what they should do is take suggestions for the next "new" firework, maybe next year it could be the apple logos shape, I'd respect that.

Just one more note about fireworks; the soundtrack. Now this year we weren't very near a radio to be able to hear the songs in the background which does sort of detract from the whole experience but we were able to hear glimpses of songs. Now what I really want to know is whether Katy Perry purposefully made a song titled "firework" because surely she knew that it would be played at pretty much all firework shows around the world. If you think about it, it's a pretty good marketing strategy because you've almost guaranteed that millions of people would hear the song whilst enjoying their time watching fireworks, genius! Maybe I should make a song called "I love New Year fireworks" or something similar...

Wow, a whole blog post without mentioning politics... I'd better not ruin it and let you go, don't forget to post a comment below about how much you love the idea of an apple logo shaped firework.

Petey