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Al-Ahram Weekly
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Al-Ahram Weekly
In the Lost Lands - Cinema - Al-Ahram Weekly
All films screened in commercial cinemas are changed on Wednesday. Generally, shows begin at 10:30am, 1:30pm, 3:30pm, 6:30pm, 9:30pm and sometimes midnight, especially on week-ends. Special film seasons and screenings are held in cultural centres listed below commercial cinemas. This information is correct at the time of going to press, it remains wise, however, to check with venues for any short notice alteration. Americana Plaza Sixth of October, Sheikh Zayed next to Ceramica Cleopatra behind Hyper one. Tel: 010 2002 0033 *Ahmed & Ahmed *Ballerina *I Know What You Did Last Summer *Jurassic World: Rebirth *Lilo & Stitch *Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning *Restart *Al-Shater (The Clever One) *Smurfs *Superman *F1: The Movie CINE COMFORT *Ballerina *Al-Mashrou X (Project X) *40 Acres IMAX *Superman MX4D *Superman City Centre Almaza Sheraton Al-Mattar, Cairo-Suez Road *Ahmed & Ahmed *Ballerina *Bride Hard *Dangerous Animals *Detective Conan: One Eyed Flashback *Elio *Fi Ezz Al-Dohr (In Broad Daylight) *Hitpig *How to Train your Dragon *Jurassic World: Rebirth *Lilo & Stitch *Al-Mashrou X (Project X) *Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning *M3GAN 2.0 *Restart *Superman *F1: The Movie *28 Years Later Dandy Mall Beginning of Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road. Tel: 018 919 6438 *Ahmed & Ahmed *Blackwater Lane *Elio *Fluxx *In the Lost Lands *Jurassic World: Rebirth *Lilo & Stitch *Locked *Al-Mashrou X (Project X) *Out of the Nest *Restart *Superman *F1: The Movie Downtown 8 Emadeddine St, Downtown. Tel: 02 2579 8367 *Ahmed & Ahmed *I Know What You Did Last Summer *Jurassic World: Rebirth *Al-Mashrou X (Project X) *Restart *Al-Shater (The Clever One) *Superman Madinaty Open Air Mall, Madinaty, New Cairo *Ahmed & Ahmed *Ballerina *Blackwater Lane *Detective Conan: One Eyed Flashback *Elio *Fluxx *How to Train your Dragon *In the Lost Lands *Jurassic World: Rebirth *Lilo & Stitch *Locked *Al-Mashrou X (Project X) *Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning *Out of the Nest *Restart *Superman *F1: The Movie *28 Years Later VIP *F1: The Movie Point 90 Point 90 Mall in front of AUC gate 5, New Cairo *Ahmed & Ahmed *I Know What You Did Last Summer *Jurassic World: Rebirth *Lilo & Stitch *Al-Mashrou X (Project X) *Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning *Al-Shater (The Clever One) *Smurfs *Superman *F1: The Movie MX4D *F1: The Movie Al-Rehab Mall 1, Al-Rehab City, New Cairo. Tel: 010 9493 9119 *Ahmed & Ahmed *Al-Mashrou X (Project X) *Superman *F1: The Movie Stars City Stars Mall: Omar Ibn Al-Khattab St, Heliopolis. Tel: 02 2480 2013/4 *Ahmed & Ahmed *Ballerina *Elio *Fi Ezz Al-Dohr (In Broad Daylight) *Final Destination: Bloodlines *I Know What You Did Last Summer *Jurassic World: Rebirth *Al-Mashrou X (Project X) *Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning *Restart *Al-Shater (The Clever One) *Siko Siko *Smurfs *Superman *F1: The Movie VIP *Ahmed & Ahmed *Al-Shater (The Clever One) *Superman *F1: The Movie DELUXE *Ahmed & Ahmed *I Know What Your Did Last Summer *Al-Shater (The Clever One) *Restart DBOX *Superman *F1: The Movie Zamalek 13 Shagaret Al-Dorr St, Zamalek. Tel: 02 2735 0320 *Ahmed & Ahmed *Al-Shater (The Clever One) *Superman *F1: The Movie Zawya 15 Emadeddine St, Downtown. Tel: 010 1433 1779 *Memento *F1: The Movie Cairo Cinema Days *East of Noon *In My Blood It Runs *Mother Valley * A version of this article appears in print in the 17 July, 2025 edition of Al-Ahram Weekly Follow us on: Facebook Instagram Whatsapp Short link:
Buzz Feed
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
18 Bizarre Party Moments People Can't Forget
A redditor recently asked, "What's the wildest NSFW moment you've ever seen/done at a party?" We also asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us about the wildest, funniest, or most bizarre things they've witnessed at a party. Here's what people revealed: "When I was a teen, I threw a house party while my parents were away on a trip. For whatever reason, my buddy walked into my living room from the kitchen completely naked in front of everyone and informed me that he had placed his testicles inside one of the cups in the kitchen cabinets and wouldn't tell me which one. I had to wash them all." "One time, I was at a wrap party for a theatrical production. A talented actress hosted and used her apartment as the venue. She set up a stripper pole in the center of the room and proceeded to perform an unsolicited 25-minute striptease in front of everyone in the company. It was both the most awkward and strangest wrap party I'd ever been to, but it was a wonderful bonding experience between all the people who were forced to watch." "At college, it was late, and my friends and I were walking from one frat party to another. Several frat houses were within a few blocks of each other, so the whole area was a drunken mess. As we were huddled together, walking on the sidewalk, we realized that there was a random hook snagged on one of us. We looked up to see a drunk guy up in a tree with a fishing rod and his line hanging down! Apparently, he was trying to 'catch girls' by literally fishing for them. SMH. It was a funny, bizarre, harmless thing, but it makes for a good story!" "My younger brother was visiting for sibs weekend. Someone leaned against the stove, turned on a burner, and lit their coat on fire. While everyone was distracted, my brother got a bounce shot in beer pong. I've never been more proud." "I went to a Halloween party and everyone gave this guy grief for not having a costume. So he took off all his clothes and went as a nudist." "I was at an Applebee's staff party. The host had blown up an inflatable kiddie pool in his living room, filled it with red Jell-O, and refereed wrestling matches. Bonus points if your clothes got ripped off. I knew getting the Jell-O off those walls would be impossible." "My roommates threw a party. I walked into my bathroom and noticed it smelled like fresh shit. Figured someone dropped an upper decker, so I took the top off the toilet, but there was nothing. Hmm. I kept looking for the smell. I slid the shower door back to be greeted with explosive diarrhea all over the shower and some of our bath towels heaped up in a ball by the drain. I ran out into the party and yelled, 'Someone shit in our shower!' The whole party stopped, and everyone ran to the bathroom. Everyone started gagging but also laughing. I made my roommates clean it up." "It was shortly after the release of the Project X movie. We were around 18 years old, and this girl from our city was home alone because her mum went on a work trip. She invited people and told them they should bring more friends. We ended up being more than 300 people in and outside a three-bedroom flat. Three DJs pulled up; one was even having a stage outside. When the police arrived, some people started throwing stones and bottles at the arriving cars. I passed out drunk shortly after that, but that night was wild. The place was completely trashed, and the girl moved to a different city just a month later." "The boss of this construction business booked me to DJ an outdoor pool party for his staff (around 20 people) and hired two barmaids to run a 'bar' where people could get any alcohol they wanted, no restrictions. The night went great until this man and woman were connecting over their boxing training, and the guy offered to let the girl punch him in the face (yeah, alcohol does that sometimes). She did it, and her boyfriend gets VERY, VERY angry at her for punching his friend! Over the next hour, it evolved from loud talking between the dude and his girl to a full-blown brawl in the house, which included all the girls (except the barmaids)." "My own 21st party. A friend of a friend showed up uninvited and started a food fight with my birthday cake. I was told at some point through the night the same guy peed in his own mouth. Apparently, he was sober." "I went to a party with some coworkers, and we were all drinking. At some point, two of them, who were cousins, started making out. One of my coworkers told me to ignore it since that usually happens when they get really drunk together, and they normally don't remember it in the morning." "This was at a keg party in Florida at college. The keg was out back by the kitchen, and it just rained. People were coming in and out and were tracking up the floor with mud. Soon, the alcohol took effect, and people started slipping and sliding in the kitchen and were 'skating' on the mud and beer like in a rink in a circle around the room. Totally trashed the place." "I asked my buddy if I could bum a smoke off him, and he said, 'Yeah, but they're upstairs on my nightstand. Go grab 'em.' I opened the door to his room to a female-female-male threesome going on. I quickly said sorry and that I was there for cigarettes. One of the girls tossed the pack over to me. I apologized, and the dude was like, 'No worries!' I went back downstairs, and my friend was laughing his ass off because he knew it was happening." "Rustbelt city circa 2003, right after a big dump of dense and granular snow. My buddy and I were at a neighbor's second-story house party. The party was fun, but we planned to see a band. When we saw how packed the party had become, we grabbed one for the road and headed out on foot for the show. The easiest way out of the house was to step out on the second-story porch, so we got out there, sized it up, and jumped. I went into a dive right over the top and landed flat on my back. My buddy did a spread-eagled belly flop. The snow was so deep and dense that it felt like a huge cushion. We opened the slightly foamy, icy beers and headed out. Apparently, some people got freaked out, but we had a great night." "I was at a 2004 New Year's Eve service industry after-hours party at about 3:00 a.m. There were about 50 people. The hostess/cocktail waitress pulls out a Twister mat and a bottle of Wesson oil and proceeds to have a topless Wesson oil wrestling match with other cocktail waitresses in the middle of the kitchen floor. Years later, people would dispute whether it ever really happened. I have pictures." "I was at a house party. Someone put all the coats in a room. Someone shit on the coats." "There was this naked girl using a glowing hula hoop in almost pitch blackness while we were drinking around a campfire. I don't know why, but that moment was striking. You could barely even see anything, just the curvy silhouette dimly lit as the hula hoop spun around." And: "The parties at my law school were wild. At one, there was a kiddie pool of jungle juice. Someone fell through a wall at that party. At one of our galas, one guy got so trashed that he peed in the middle of the dance floor. Wild times…" What's the wildest or most bizarre thing you witnessed at a party? Tell us your story in the comments or share anonymously using this form. Note: Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
Al-Ahram Weekly
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Al-Ahram Weekly
Superman - Cinema - Al-Ahram Weekly
All films screened in commercial cinemas are changed on Wednesday. Generally, shows begin at 10:30am, 1:30pm, 3:30pm, 6:30pm, 9:30pm and sometimes midnight, especially on week-ends. Special film seasons and screenings are held in cultural centres listed below commercial cinemas. This information is correct at the time of going to press, it remains wise, however, to check with venues for any short notice alteration. Americana Plaza Sixth of October, Sheikh Zayed next to Ceramica Cleopatra behind Hyper one. Tel: 010 2002 0033 *Ahmed & Ahmed *Bride Hard *Fi Ezz Al-Dohr (In Broad Daylight) *Hitpig *How to Train your Dragon *Jurassic World: Rebirth *Lilo & Stitch *Al-Mashrou X (Project X) *M3GAN 2.0 *Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning *Restart *F1: The Movie *28 Years Later CINE COMFORT *Ballerina *Dangerous Animals IMAX *Superman MX4D *F1: The Movie City Centre Almaza Sheraton Al-Mattar, Cairo-Suez Road *Ahmed & Ahmed *Ballerina *Bride Hard *Dangerous Animals *Detective Conan: One Eyed Flashback *Elio *Fi Ezz Al-Dohr (In Broad Daylight) *How to Train your Dragon *Jurassic World: Rebirth *Lilo & Stitch *Al-Mashrou X (Project X) *Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning *M3GAN 2.0 *Restart *F1: The Movie *28 Years Later Dandy Mall Beginning of Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road. Tel: 018 919 6438 *Ahmed & Ahmed *Bride Hard *Dangerous Animals *Elio *Fight or Flight *Fi Ezz Al-Dohr (In Broad Daylight) *Jurassic World: Rebirth *Lilo & Stitch *Al-Mashrou X (Project X) *Restart *F1: The Movie *28 Years Later Downtown 8 Emadeddine St, Downtown. Tel: 02 2579 8367 *Ahmed & Ahmed *Ballerina *Fi Ezz Al-Dohr (In Broad Daylight) *Jurassic World: Rebirth *Al-Mashrou X (Project X) *Restart *F1: The Movie *28 Years Later Madinaty Open Air Mall, Madinaty, New Cairo *Ahmed & Ahmed *Ballerina *Bride Hard *Dangerous Animals *Detective Conan: One Eyed Flashback *Elio *Fight or Flight *Fi Ezz Al-Dohr (In Broad Daylight) *Hitpig *How to Train your Dragon *Jurassic World: Rebirth *Lilo & Stitch *Al-Mashrou X (Project X) *Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning *M3GAN 2.0 *Restart *Salvable *F1: The Movie *28 Years Later VIP *F1: The Movie Point 90 Point 90 Mall in front of AUC gate 5, New Cairo *Ahmed & Ahmed *Ballerina *Bride Hard *Dangerous Animals *Hitpig *How to Train your Dragon *Jurassic World: Rebirth *Lilo & Stitch *Al-Mashrou X (Project X) *Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning *Restart *F1: The Movie MX4D *F1: The Movie Al-Rehab Mall 1, Al-Rehab City, New Cairo. Tel: 010 9493 9119 *Ahmed & Ahmed *Al-Mashrou X (Project X) *Restart *F1: The Movie Stars City Stars Mall: Omar Ibn Al-Khattab St, Heliopolis. Tel: 02 2480 2013/4 *Ahmed & Ahmed *Ballerina *Bride Hard *Dangerous Animals *Elio *Fi Ezz Al-Dohr (In Broad Daylight) *Final Destination: Bloodlines *Jurassic World: Rebirth *Lilo & Stitch *Al-Mashrou X (Project X) *Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning *M3GAN 2.0 *Restart *Siko Siko *F1: The Movie VIP *Ahmed & Ahmed *Jurassic World: Rebirth *Al-Mashrou X (Project X) *F1: The Movie DELUXE *Ahmed & Ahmed *Ballerina *Al-Mashrou X (Project X) *Restart DBOX *F1: The Movie Zamalek 13 Shagaret Al-Dorr St, Zamalek. Tel: 02 2735 0320 *Ahmed & Ahmed *Al-Mashrou X (Project X) *Superman *F1: The Movie Zawya 15 Emadeddine St, Downtown. Tel: 010 1433 1779 *In My Blood It Runs *F1: The Movie *28 Years Later Cairo Cinema Days *Abu Zaabal 86 *East of Noon *Who Do I Belong To * A version of this article appears in print in the 10 July, 2025 edition of Al-Ahram Weekly Follow us on: Facebook Instagram Whatsapp Short link:
Telegraph
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
‘The Wendy house burnt down': My 16th birthday party from hell
'F---, it's getting crazy now!' says a wide-eyed partygoer as a car goes up in flames in the Netflix documentary Trainwreck: The Real Project X. It's a parent's worst nightmare: a girl posts a 16th birthday party invitation on Facebook, which subsequently goes viral, and thousands of drunkards turn up at the front door. I should know – because, at the same age, I also thought it would be a good idea to publicly advertise my party on Facebook. Let's just say my parents, who arrived home from a trip to the Yorkshire coast to find our belongings stolen and the Wendy house ablaze in the garden, weren't best pleased. The Real Project X tells the story of Merthe Weusthuis, a middle-class Dutch girl who, back in 2012, made a Facebook event for her birthday celebrations in the wealthy small town of Haren, near Groningen. She expected that only her friends would see the invite, but she'd inadvertently made the event public. More than 300,000 revellers clicked 'going'. Her parents desperately tried to cancel the event, but 4,000 drunk teenagers descended, and when they realised there was no party to attend, a riot ensued. It was even reported in the Telegraph at the time. 'Posh' Haren, we're told, was transformed from an idyllic neighbourhood to a war zone: cars were flipped and set on fire; protective fences erected by police were pulled down and trampled on; local shops had their windows smashed and contents looted. Grainy footage from the event – who knew cameras in 2012 would look so ancient less than two decades on? – shows young people chanting and downing alcohol, dancing and kissing in the street. In the film (which follows the Trainwreck strand's equally shocking series' about an infamous ' poop cruise ' and the violence that engulfed Woodstock '99), Merthe herself reflects on how, as a teenager, all she wanted was to be popular, but how the infamy gained by the event caused her to move away from her hometown for good. It made her a laughing stock among fellow Dutch people and her family pariahs, while the town's mayor at the time, Rob Bats, was forced to resign (he refused to appear in the documentary). Of course, teenagers are prone to making stupid decisions. Take the time I pierced my friend's lip with a rusty earring in the school bathroom before a Paramore concert, aged 14, or when I thought it would be fun to dye half of my hair pink. But top of the 'I can't believe I did that' low points is when I chose to make the Facebook event for my 16th birthday party – a party my parents had no clue I was hosting – at my very average-sized house, 'public'. The original guest list had included around 80 school friends – out of the 250 total people in my year group – but, in a fit of teenage girl anxiety that not enough people would show up and I'd be branded a loser for eternity, I opted for the 'public' invitation. Spoiler: a lot more people showed up. My parents' sheer fury the day after the party still gives me the shivers today, 13 years on. The documentary's title is a reference to Project X, Nima Nourizadeh's hit 2012 comedy about a house party in suburban California that gets wildly out of control: supercars are driven into swimming pools, ecstasy is hidden in garden gnomes, floors cave in. The film was released just a month before my 16th birthday and instantly became a word-of-mouth phenomenon between my friends and I. We had already hungrily consumed chaotic teen dramas such as Skins and 90210, which focused on beautiful teenagers attending legendarily messy parties – complete with limitless drink and drugs – and held them up as the barometer of Cool. Unlike our boring, sober successors Gen Z, nothing was more important to my generation than partying – and the wilder, the better. My party came about after my parents left me alone for the weekend. I was armed with a few crates of Strongbow and Carling, bought from a dodgy corner shop by a slightly older friend whose tattoos meant he had no trouble getting served, and the (false) belief the adults would never find out; social media hadn't yet become so all-encompassing or instant. An iPod was set up to blast out cheesy music – Drake, Arctic Monkeys and Kid Cudi probably featured heavily – and, if my memory serves me, I was wearing a black sequin skirt paired with a 'statement' necklace. It's all so very, tragically millennial. The first hour or so of fun quickly gave way to disaster, however, when way more people showed up than I had expected. Every room was full, there were so many people climbing the apple tree in the garden that it began to subside, and one friend quickly became an ex-friend when they were caught doing stuff in my little brother's Bob the Builder-themed bed. In the kitchen, meanwhile, some sneaky sod had stuffed a potato with metal kitchen utensils and then popped it into the microwave. Who said British teenagers can't be inventive? View this post on Instagram A post shared by Merthe Marije Weusthuis (@mertheweusthuis) Partly due to my quest to have The Best Party Ever (and partly due to the cheap cider I'd spent all night guzzling through a beer bong), I don't remember feeling stressed until a friend ran in shouting that the springs of the outdoor trampoline had been pulled out. Then came a broken TV in the living room, reduced to a spluttering, fuzzy mess after someone poured washing up liquid into the air vents at the top. The nightmare scenarios kept coming: some boys I didn't know were heard saying they were going to 'raise' (slang for steal) at the party and raise they did – I woke up the day after to find I no longer owned an iPod, Nintendo DS or Wii. My sore head wasn't helped when I spotted my little sister's Wendy house in the corner of the garden, partly on fire and with its plastic windows kicked through. Even furious neighbours couldn't save me, because my parents' detached house didn't have any in the immediate vicinity; the only adult I remember marching up the drive was a weird stranger who offered to buy us more booze. Luckily, although my friends and I were stupid enough to publicly broadcast my address on Facebook, we weren't naive when it came to creeps, and he was swiftly ejected. When my parents arrived home, my feeble attempts to clean up were immediately sussed out and I was told to 'get out!' As an angsty 16-year-old girl desperate for some drama in her life, I took this literally and packed a bag to move into a friend's father's outhouse for a few days; ignoring all the calls my poor mum was making begging for me to come back. So, if you're looking to put the fear of god into your children to stop them ever throwing a wild party – damaging your lovely cream carpets and embarrassing you in front of Linda from next door in the process – then switch on Netflix and let the horror unfold. Or if, like me, you still cringe at the memory of how hopelessly silly you were at 16, watch it through your fingers while vowing to never hold a party again.
Time Magazine
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Magazine
The True Story Behind 'Trainwreck: The Real Project X'
For the people of Haren, a small town in the Netherlands, the 21st night of September is significant (and it has nothing to do with the music of Earth, Wind & Fire). Nearly 13 years ago, the town made international news when thousands of people showed up to celebrate a 16-year-old's birthday after the party invite went viral on Facebook. It was chaos: Rioting injured at least 36 people, and dozens were arrested. In Trainwreck: The Real Project X, out July 8, Netflix explores the making of the party as part of its series on disasters in recent history. It features the birthday girl, Merthe Marije Weusthuis, who is speaking about the party for the first time in 12 years, YouTubers who filmed the party, and local government officials who tried to prevent the party from getting out of hand. 'I am 28 now, and after all these years, I've finally decided to tell this story,' Weusthuis wrote on Instagram when she shared a trailer of the Netflix doc. 'Despite the renewed scrutiny, harassment, and opinions I'm already preparing for, I'll at least have spoken in my own voice.' Here's how the party went viral. A public Facebook event Weusthuis created a public Facebook event for her 16th birthday on Facebook and invited 78 people. As she invited friends, those friends also invited their friends, and it went viral. When 17,000 people RSVP-ed as attending, she deleted the event. But an 18-year-old man named Jorik Clarck created a copycat event, framed as a surprise birthday party for Weusthuis. It contained references to a popular 2012 movie Project X about a high school party that spun out of control. 'I made her Facebook famous,' Jorik brags in Trainwreck. A friend of Weusthuis who was connected to Jorik on Facebook gave her his number. Her father called Jorik and begged him to take down the event, saying he was concerned for his family's safety because people were climbing over their fence and taking pictures of their house. Jorik didn't want to jeopardize Weusthuis's safety so he deleted his event. Then, another copycat event came up. When Weusthuis reached out to the admins, urging them to delete the event, they blew her off. As it became clear that this party was going to happen no matter what, local officials started to brainstorm ways to keep it contained. Chris Garrit, the night in the nearby city of Groningen (actually a government official in charge of supervising the city's nightlife) tells Netflix that he wanted to designate space outside Haren for the party, complete with music and a stage, but Haren's mayor wouldn't allow it. He just wanted to broadcast that the party was cancelled. Weusthuis tells Netflix that she was worried that revelers would burn down her house like in the Project X movie. The day of the party By September 21, about 350,000 people had RSVP-ed as attending the event. Weusthuis sought refuge at an aunt's house outside of Haren. The doc contains lots of footage of the rowdy crowd. With booze in hand, they chanted 'Where's the party? The party is here!' Boomboxes blasted music on the street. Police were on high alert for any hijinx, and started closing off streets near the house. A riot broke out. Some footage in the doc shows officers clubbing unruly revelers. People broke car windows and shoplifted. In the film, a journalist covering the event recalls how he returned to his car to find footprints on the windshield, a window smashed, and a brick on the passenger seat. 'I've kept the brick as a souvenir,' he says. The mayor of Haren, Rob Bats, came under fire for his failure to contain the party, and he ended up resigning. Why so many people wanted to go to a stranger's party At a time when so much socializing was done on social media, people seemed to be excited about a chance to gather in person, and Project X, which was released in March 2012, resonated with and inspired teens. Project X did inspire other real-life parties that spun out of control, from a 2012 rave in Houston, Texas, that resulted in one death to a 2014 party in Canadian Lakes, Michigan, that resulted in several hospitalizations. Weusthuis says she thinks it's a very human instinct to want to go to the party. She totally understands that many teenagers eagerly await the moment when they can drink legally and go to parties. 'I don't think most people who came to the party were intending to riot or commit a crime,' Weusthuis says in the doc. 'I think a lot of people came because they wanted a party. I think it's a normal inherent thing in teenagers around that age, that they want to rebel, take their freedom, express their personalities.' The movie ends with her saying, 'I definitely would have gone if it wasn't my party.'
