So, I'm sitting in my room, listening to the wind howling outside, and feeling likes it's time to document my time in Sydney so far, which, has been really great.
Starting backwards, Last night me and Bon got on the goon, in preparation for... Dr Phil. Yes, we went and saw Dr Phil live, in the flesh, in all his yankee glory, and he was amazing.
I have never been one for talk shows. Since moving here I swear Dr Phil and Oprah have become staples. And we even bought t-shirts saying "Dr Phil". I really want to wear it to uni one day.
I've been seeing alot of this new guy lately, and he's sort of been a staple at my house, after numerous sleepovers, and I can't seem to form any emotional ties to him. He's fantastic. Really nice, funny, approachable, and chatty. I mean, what more could you ask for? And yet his fatal flaw, is that he is chatty. I feel everything is so one sided. Sure, I am getting to know him great because he never shuts up. And he is really intelligent and insightful and has something to say about everything, but I'm beginning to see what my housemate already has - that he's a little too full of himself. Because he isn't really giving me any chance to share myself, I can't make myself be more interested. When I'm out with his friends though, or I'm drinking away from home, its completely different. They are all so great, and you can just tell he fits in so well there. Maybe it's having him in my comfort zone, so quickly and so often, that's putting me off a bit. This always seems to happen to me, I know how to pick them, I just don't know where to go from here. Is it worth trying a little longer? I don't know. Something is just a little off, and I don't like that he assumes I'm "so into him" already. That just isn't how it is.
Anyway after that little rant. Had my xmas in july housewarming, which was great. Got trashed and ended up at sneakers, and then ended up coming very close to throwing up out the front of maccas. They don't open the toilets till 6am, how stupid is that.
Uni is going heaps better, everything has worked out, and I feel so much more positive about the direction in which I'm heading.
I'm loving Sydney, loving my new found independance having my own place, and loving the place itself. Life really, is not too shabby at all.
So, thats where I'm currently at. Me Bon Axel and Simon are going to some Drum & Bass thing tomorrow at Manning Bar, which should be intersting. Not my thing, in the slightest, but I'm open to something new.
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
sydney, I love you.
So, it's been two weeks since I moved to Sydney and I'm loving it.
I got on college, and it's insane. I think I've drank almost every night for 2 weeks, can't be doing anything good but it's all good fun.
My lectures started yesterday but I didn't go. I know, I'm lazy. But I was acutally sick.
I've caught up already anyhow, and it was good cos I had today off. So went and visited em in newtown, had lunch at sydney uni, met her boyfriend Marty whos fantastic and then went down to coogee to lay on the beach. It was a really top day.
Now I'm attempting to get ready for my "date" with a guy I met at sneakers last friday.
We ended up leaving there are 5am and heading to coogee and watching the sun rise. It was really nice. I'm surprised I followed anything up, and that I'm actually looking forward to this rather than making excuses why I cant meet up. which is what I normally do. So this is something completely new and out of the box for me so hopefully all goes well. I'm having a drink so calm my 'not' nerves so should be okay haha.
So, commencement dinner and to the cross on wednesday, start of session party at uni bar thursday, sneakers friday and the weekend to recover, I swear, sydney is the city that never sleeps.
Loving it.
I got on college, and it's insane. I think I've drank almost every night for 2 weeks, can't be doing anything good but it's all good fun.
My lectures started yesterday but I didn't go. I know, I'm lazy. But I was acutally sick.
I've caught up already anyhow, and it was good cos I had today off. So went and visited em in newtown, had lunch at sydney uni, met her boyfriend Marty whos fantastic and then went down to coogee to lay on the beach. It was a really top day.
Now I'm attempting to get ready for my "date" with a guy I met at sneakers last friday.
We ended up leaving there are 5am and heading to coogee and watching the sun rise. It was really nice. I'm surprised I followed anything up, and that I'm actually looking forward to this rather than making excuses why I cant meet up. which is what I normally do. So this is something completely new and out of the box for me so hopefully all goes well. I'm having a drink so calm my 'not' nerves so should be okay haha.
So, commencement dinner and to the cross on wednesday, start of session party at uni bar thursday, sneakers friday and the weekend to recover, I swear, sydney is the city that never sleeps.
Loving it.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Meet and Greet with an Arctic Monkey
So last weekend was one looong weekend.
Thursday me and Bon drove back to Sydney after breaky at Ellies with Em.
Got to Sydney, Bon had her doctors appointment, went to Eastgarden's fgor a spot of shopping, did a drive by of the liquor land and headed home to load up for the Arctic Monkeys after party.
So drank copious amounts of alcohol, got completely trashed then found myself at fringe bar. After some dancing, on my part, that should be outlawed, i found myself outside having a smoke break and chatting to those outside doing the same.
So across the way I spot this spunky looking guy in a leather jaket and decide yesss i am going to talk to you, so i walk up and in my way is this very large tall man. so i start chatting to him innocently enough and ask if hes a bouncer here, because he looks like it, but hes like no. i gently push my way past to get to my destination. delicious man in leather jacket.
so we start chatting, i dont know what about, but i remember being so drunk i could hardly focus on his face, but i heard this lovely english accent so i ask him where hes from and he tells me brazil. i didnt register that it didnt make sense but i continued none-the-less, saying i knew a guy staying in sydney from brazil. he politely asked me the guys name and i was like ivan, and hes like, oh i know him!. i was like OMG are u serious! and thought it was the best thing out. after a laugh, me at 'oh what a small world' and him at me, he says he has to head back inside, so i farewell him and his large friend, who i later find out was a body guard, and there you go, i had a facinationg story to tell people the next night after bdo. the night i met an arctic monkey.
So we get back to bons, im being loud and unmanegable, and end up passing out on bons bed, and axel wakes me up at 7;30, so to the balcony for a smoke, to the kitchen to heat up the reminents of last nights 5am trip to maccas and the day has begun.
Buy bottle of gin. Pour said bottle of gin into hip flask and hide in the very convenient gutsquashers. At BDo by lunch time and its sooo hot! Head to lillyworld to chill for a bit, then to ting tings but WAY ridiculuosly packed so head back to the grass to sit. new produce stage and watch a few bands there, as well as lupe fiasco, ajax, arctic monkeys prodigy, purple sneakers djs, other assortment of djs. good day. despite the fact that i was heniously hungover, and i know bon was a little anoyed at me cos i didnt talk much, and no matter how much i drank, and the fact that we sculled a hip flask of gin, i couldnt reach my high. but prodgiy went off, ive never dnaced so hard it was AMAZING.
headed to purple sneakers for afterparty and ben lucids bday, mostly hung out upstairs, then ventured down to the outside area where i met santa and his little helpers. lol not really, but the guy was named santa. and he was with his friends. talked to this guy matt id met on nye and at sneakers the following night, had a decent chat. jimmy ignored me so i ingored him lol saw him hooking up with a heniously ugly chick, good for you man! haha.
and to wrap it up, i arrived at central station the following day at 3.30pm for my train, and due to trackworks didnt arrive home until 9:45.
needless to say, over 6 hours of waiting, buses and trains, i was VERY happy to get home.
AND that, my friends, was my epic weekend.
Thursday me and Bon drove back to Sydney after breaky at Ellies with Em.
Got to Sydney, Bon had her doctors appointment, went to Eastgarden's fgor a spot of shopping, did a drive by of the liquor land and headed home to load up for the Arctic Monkeys after party.
So drank copious amounts of alcohol, got completely trashed then found myself at fringe bar. After some dancing, on my part, that should be outlawed, i found myself outside having a smoke break and chatting to those outside doing the same.
So across the way I spot this spunky looking guy in a leather jaket and decide yesss i am going to talk to you, so i walk up and in my way is this very large tall man. so i start chatting to him innocently enough and ask if hes a bouncer here, because he looks like it, but hes like no. i gently push my way past to get to my destination. delicious man in leather jacket.
so we start chatting, i dont know what about, but i remember being so drunk i could hardly focus on his face, but i heard this lovely english accent so i ask him where hes from and he tells me brazil. i didnt register that it didnt make sense but i continued none-the-less, saying i knew a guy staying in sydney from brazil. he politely asked me the guys name and i was like ivan, and hes like, oh i know him!. i was like OMG are u serious! and thought it was the best thing out. after a laugh, me at 'oh what a small world' and him at me, he says he has to head back inside, so i farewell him and his large friend, who i later find out was a body guard, and there you go, i had a facinationg story to tell people the next night after bdo. the night i met an arctic monkey.
So we get back to bons, im being loud and unmanegable, and end up passing out on bons bed, and axel wakes me up at 7;30, so to the balcony for a smoke, to the kitchen to heat up the reminents of last nights 5am trip to maccas and the day has begun.
Buy bottle of gin. Pour said bottle of gin into hip flask and hide in the very convenient gutsquashers. At BDo by lunch time and its sooo hot! Head to lillyworld to chill for a bit, then to ting tings but WAY ridiculuosly packed so head back to the grass to sit. new produce stage and watch a few bands there, as well as lupe fiasco, ajax, arctic monkeys prodigy, purple sneakers djs, other assortment of djs. good day. despite the fact that i was heniously hungover, and i know bon was a little anoyed at me cos i didnt talk much, and no matter how much i drank, and the fact that we sculled a hip flask of gin, i couldnt reach my high. but prodgiy went off, ive never dnaced so hard it was AMAZING.
headed to purple sneakers for afterparty and ben lucids bday, mostly hung out upstairs, then ventured down to the outside area where i met santa and his little helpers. lol not really, but the guy was named santa. and he was with his friends. talked to this guy matt id met on nye and at sneakers the following night, had a decent chat. jimmy ignored me so i ingored him lol saw him hooking up with a heniously ugly chick, good for you man! haha.
and to wrap it up, i arrived at central station the following day at 3.30pm for my train, and due to trackworks didnt arrive home until 9:45.
needless to say, over 6 hours of waiting, buses and trains, i was VERY happy to get home.
AND that, my friends, was my epic weekend.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
What a great 'pre' birthday!
EDIT
Often, I read back on my entries and think, 'What a copout'. I get lazy, and any writing integrity I have, well, leaves me, and I end up with a (for the most part) unintelligable, uninspiring and lacking entry. Not to mention my utter disregard for grammar and spelling. Most of the time I swear I'm dyslexic and it's simply easier to leave it lie.
So, of course seeing as I am so much more alert at close to 1am, I'm trying, for the second time round, to re-itreate what an AWESOME weekend I had in Sydney. Because I did.
Friday we set out on the town, armed with bundles of Purple Sneakers NYE flyers to hand out to (sometimes) unsuspecting members of the general public. We headed to the Excelsior where Killed to Birds were playing, along with some other bands.
Upon entering, we met the singer of Killed to Birds who happily chatted to us and gave us free cds when we mentiond we were helping out P/s tonight. We also got chatting to this guy Toby, and another guy Pep from Music Feeds which was I think, interesting. I sadly don't remember a whole lot about the conversations, but we did chat abit about promo work and my interest in it, and got some business cards and Bon seemed pretty keen to follow up on that. Also got a heap of photos so Bon told the singer of ktb she'd email them to him - considering I took most of them I think they will be pretty interesting! lol. So I chatted to a whole lot of different people and handed out a heap of flyers, we were talking to Mark from Sickboy about it all who thought it all sounded great, and I ended up chatting to him for quite a while after the gig - he was pretty happy to share some of his life story, and hey, I was happy to listen.
So after this was the album launch for Killed to birds at purple sneakers, and what an awesome night it ended up! On our way I had a fantastic stack right onto the ground and did a really good number on my knees, lucky by this point I couldnt feel a whole lot of anything so I just got up and carried on I'm thankful I was for the most part hidden in the shadows haha.
We got there and had flyers thrust in our faces at the doors and after politely refusing one the girl got pretty insistant so i opened my bag and showed her I had more than enough to keep me happy, so she seemed happy haha. So we headed upstairs pretty much off the bat, but it was pretty quiet so we had a smoke then headed downstairs to get some drinks and have a look around. Next thing I know boom and its crazy and there was a heap of people everywhere, chatted to a heap of interesting people, told everyone with ears it was my birthday and everyone was very nice lol. Had a good chat to ben Lucid again, and his rather cute friend, and to Mark again, and some kid with this crazy hair, and came across Jimmy again so needless to say I think that's also where alot of my night went, shoving eachother down onto couches, or into corners, or walls..or down stairways...haha it was just a heap of random fun!
a really top night
then saturday was nevereverland - just soo good.
were pretty hungover from the night before, so we decided against predrinks and i set into a pretty good routine once i got there anyway. met some crazy and fairly diverse range of people, some guys from wollongong showing me their war scars from battles, talks of guns being sold in back of cars, to people telling me there overseas stories, irish girls telling me the best places to travel in galway, and this very intersting guy telling me about some new drug he discovered - i had no idea but i nodded and pretended like i did.
ladyhawke was good, i really havent bothered to listen to much of her stuff, but it was good all the same. whitest boy alive really impressed me, i had it set in my mind i didnt acutally like them, but we decided to go have a squiz anyway and i really enjoyed it. maybe i just listened to a few off songs, or i was drunker than i though. they were good anyway.
klaxons were awesome, as i expeted, but seriously all the enegry came at once when the presets came on. i lost all the contents of my purse, lucky bon retrevied most of it. found $2. found $5. realsied it was my 5 dollars as my phone was laying a few cm away. man, i filmed a few clips of 3 of there songs and its so exciting the bvrowd was just eating it up. i dont actually know how much of it was live and how much was pre-recorded, i dont have any clue about that sort of thing, but even though sometimes i diddnt think they were really doing much, it was energic and crowd pleasing none the less.
after a quick cleanup we headed to floorspace and had a few drinks and chatted to some crazy foreigners and some crazy sydneysiders, but werent really there that long, by the end of it bon had this foul look on her face and refused to drink so i knew she was pretty keen to get out of there, i had virtually lost my voice from some seriously hectic chain smoking, and was ravenous for something other than the crumb jake from bluejuice had transferred from his beard to my face after a quick kiss and chat during an interval towards the end of the night.. oh man..lol
anyway ended up writing more than i thought but ill def always remember this weekend thats for sure!
what an awesome bday.
couldnt really do the content of this blog justice but got to appreciate an attempt anyway.
Often, I read back on my entries and think, 'What a copout'. I get lazy, and any writing integrity I have, well, leaves me, and I end up with a (for the most part) unintelligable, uninspiring and lacking entry. Not to mention my utter disregard for grammar and spelling. Most of the time I swear I'm dyslexic and it's simply easier to leave it lie.
So, of course seeing as I am so much more alert at close to 1am, I'm trying, for the second time round, to re-itreate what an AWESOME weekend I had in Sydney. Because I did.
Friday we set out on the town, armed with bundles of Purple Sneakers NYE flyers to hand out to (sometimes) unsuspecting members of the general public. We headed to the Excelsior where Killed to Birds were playing, along with some other bands.
Upon entering, we met the singer of Killed to Birds who happily chatted to us and gave us free cds when we mentiond we were helping out P/s tonight. We also got chatting to this guy Toby, and another guy Pep from Music Feeds which was I think, interesting. I sadly don't remember a whole lot about the conversations, but we did chat abit about promo work and my interest in it, and got some business cards and Bon seemed pretty keen to follow up on that. Also got a heap of photos so Bon told the singer of ktb she'd email them to him - considering I took most of them I think they will be pretty interesting! lol. So I chatted to a whole lot of different people and handed out a heap of flyers, we were talking to Mark from Sickboy about it all who thought it all sounded great, and I ended up chatting to him for quite a while after the gig - he was pretty happy to share some of his life story, and hey, I was happy to listen.
So after this was the album launch for Killed to birds at purple sneakers, and what an awesome night it ended up! On our way I had a fantastic stack right onto the ground and did a really good number on my knees, lucky by this point I couldnt feel a whole lot of anything so I just got up and carried on I'm thankful I was for the most part hidden in the shadows haha.
We got there and had flyers thrust in our faces at the doors and after politely refusing one the girl got pretty insistant so i opened my bag and showed her I had more than enough to keep me happy, so she seemed happy haha. So we headed upstairs pretty much off the bat, but it was pretty quiet so we had a smoke then headed downstairs to get some drinks and have a look around. Next thing I know boom and its crazy and there was a heap of people everywhere, chatted to a heap of interesting people, told everyone with ears it was my birthday and everyone was very nice lol. Had a good chat to ben Lucid again, and his rather cute friend, and to Mark again, and some kid with this crazy hair, and came across Jimmy again so needless to say I think that's also where alot of my night went, shoving eachother down onto couches, or into corners, or walls..or down stairways...haha it was just a heap of random fun!
a really top night
then saturday was nevereverland - just soo good.
were pretty hungover from the night before, so we decided against predrinks and i set into a pretty good routine once i got there anyway. met some crazy and fairly diverse range of people, some guys from wollongong showing me their war scars from battles, talks of guns being sold in back of cars, to people telling me there overseas stories, irish girls telling me the best places to travel in galway, and this very intersting guy telling me about some new drug he discovered - i had no idea but i nodded and pretended like i did.
ladyhawke was good, i really havent bothered to listen to much of her stuff, but it was good all the same. whitest boy alive really impressed me, i had it set in my mind i didnt acutally like them, but we decided to go have a squiz anyway and i really enjoyed it. maybe i just listened to a few off songs, or i was drunker than i though. they were good anyway.
klaxons were awesome, as i expeted, but seriously all the enegry came at once when the presets came on. i lost all the contents of my purse, lucky bon retrevied most of it. found $2. found $5. realsied it was my 5 dollars as my phone was laying a few cm away. man, i filmed a few clips of 3 of there songs and its so exciting the bvrowd was just eating it up. i dont actually know how much of it was live and how much was pre-recorded, i dont have any clue about that sort of thing, but even though sometimes i diddnt think they were really doing much, it was energic and crowd pleasing none the less.
after a quick cleanup we headed to floorspace and had a few drinks and chatted to some crazy foreigners and some crazy sydneysiders, but werent really there that long, by the end of it bon had this foul look on her face and refused to drink so i knew she was pretty keen to get out of there, i had virtually lost my voice from some seriously hectic chain smoking, and was ravenous for something other than the crumb jake from bluejuice had transferred from his beard to my face after a quick kiss and chat during an interval towards the end of the night.. oh man..lol
anyway ended up writing more than i thought but ill def always remember this weekend thats for sure!
what an awesome bday.
couldnt really do the content of this blog justice but got to appreciate an attempt anyway.
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