Today I saw....

Today I was cutting my way through the back streets of chippendale to Sydney Uni when the silence of the afternoon was broken by a distant 80's pop track; the kind they use in Farrah Fawcett exercise videos.  As there was nothing but worn down old industrial buildings around me I couldn't work out where this cacophony of high energy bubble gum music was coming from and for what purpose.  I followed its trace, getting louder and louder, finally looking up to a window of a very tall warehouse expecting to see either some confused installation artist or a group of bouncing gym junkies.  Instead I was pleasantly confronted with a crowd of painted faces, red noses and pom-pom-ed outfits, giggly hysterically.  It was a clowning school, and in amongst the grey landscape, nothing could have lifted my spirits more at that moment.