After years of promising to do it, we booked Gold Grass seats at Moonlight Cinema last week, once the weather forecast showed that a warm night was likely. We didn’t quite count on a stinking hot 39.2C day, or a Severe Thunderstorm Warning from the BOM. Lazy folk that we are, plans for a two tram journey were shelved for a car trip, where we witnessed a seemingly middle class, middle aged woman perform a service-station drive-off (without paying). I thought only the desperate and drugged did that sort of thing. Awhile back I read in the paper that it was the high cost of petrol that was driving people to do this. As a person who formerly WISHED petrol would go up, so governments would do better things for our public transport, and people would start considering their options; I may have to revise this position if mass outbreaks like this become the norm. As Gold Grass folk, we were escorted to a prime area of viewing turf inside a comically tiny gold picket fence. There, luxuriant beanbags lay waiting, as did slimline cans (YES, CANS) of sparkling red and white wine. As an afterthought, we were handed vouchers for Kahlua mixed drinks served in take-away coffee mugs – the ones with the little baby nub to suck from. On such a hot night, I couldn’t stand the thought, free or not. Kim bought a Grolsch for $6.50 and thereafter we stuck with the bottle of $4.95 2005 McWilliams Inheritence Riesling we had brought along. With 15 minutes to go before the start of “Look Both Ways”, some staff nonchalantly wandered down the grassy hill towards the lake and began unravelling some plastic and ropes. Next thing I knew, A HUGE INFLATABLE JUMPING CASTLE WAS ERECTED VERTICALLY, and we had a white viewing screen. The movie started – I was slightly drunk already and the sound took awhile to get used to. I stared up at the darkening sky at the bats that were flying in to roost. Then, 10 minutes of Australia Day fireworks kicked in, just to the side of the screen, 3 kilometres away. It was a terrific movie I thought, set in the graffiti infested inner suburbs of Adelaide; most of the characters tortured or haunted in some way, but each finding their redemption in the end. If you are the kind of person who needs to know how a movie resolves itself, you would have wanted to reach for the Slow button on the remote, because the final scene was a 5 second montage of rapid-fire photos of the future, and that was it. We thought it looked like everyone survived and became happier.