The beer bottle symphony

Yesterday morning I woke up and heard strange sounds coming from the kitchen. After a few minutes, I recognised the sound to be someone playing beer bottles. I guessed (correctly) that it was probably The Optimist.

(I’m not sure if this is an Aussie thing or not, but basically you put some water in the beer bottle and blow over the top of the opening to make a sound. If you have different bottles with different amounts of water, it creates different notes. An Aussie beer company made an ad for their beer that shows an entire orchestra playing beer bottles. The video is on youtube.)

Next I heard a guitar twanging in between the sound of the beer bottles. I lay there for about half an hour listening to the weird cacophony coming from the kitchen, wondering what the hell The Optimist was trying to achieve. It was strangely calming though, so I drifted back to sleep for about an hour and when I woke up I heard The Optimist and The Girl From Down The Street talking in the kitchen. I got up and went into the kitchen and found them making strawberry pancakes (not by adding strawberries to the batter, but simply by adding strawberry flavoured milk). As we ate, I was about to ask The Optimist about the beer bottle playing, but he beat me to it and got eight beer bottles from on top of the fridge and set them on the dining table in a line. “Listen to this!” he said enthusiastically, before he sat down and played Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. “I even got my guitar down to tune them!”

It was so funny and so cute. His enthusiasm should be bottled.