Melbourne -> all that s*3@. Part 2.

Then I chilled out here for a few days, then on sunday I cooked myself a roast dinner. Well, Id actually organised it so 9 people were going to come down, and I was cooking for them all. So i went out down the markets, and got a bucket load of food for no money, including 3k of beef (ive only just finished eating it all) for $9. Get in!

So anyways, I cook it all, then half the people at the hostel forget about it. The other half are feeling ill, so dont make it, and it turned out to be Me, Paul (Welland),and his girlfriend Phoebe having all this food! It was bloody good though. We had Beef, Roast Potatos, Carrots, Peas, Sweetcorn on the cob, home made gravy, and home-made yorkshire pudding. It was bloody gorgeous! Then we went and saw england have their a*** handed to them on a plate by germany at the football down the pub, and went home...

Apart from that Tonight im doing the open mic again, Tommorrow theres free cheese and wine (get in!) and then thats about all I have planned. Lol. ALL i have planned. Thats enough to last most people a month i think! :P

SEe you all later!
Chris

Melbourne -> one month in. (yeah. I really have given in trying to find funny titles now. :P)

Hey, just thought id give you another "quick" update, as its been bloody ages!

Again, ive not been up to a massive amount. Just working mainly..ive done a few bits. Just after the last blog (that would be the weekend, as i was demolished in the week), Ive just been mainly out throwing a few shapes (/ air guitarring / (ha!) Break-dancing) down a few pubs...

Last week was pretty cool though. Ive moved into a really cool new hostel in St Kilda, where they have a secure carpark, so i can now take my work car home, which is saving me about a million tonnes of hassle every day! It also means im even vaguely human in the evenings now, so ive actually been enjoying myself in the week...wooohoo! Especially as the have lots of free stuff here..

Tuesdays here they have an open mic night. Its pretty cool. They have a couple of guitars, a keyboard, and obviously a mic. Oh. And two buckets of free punch, and a shit load of nibbles. Yes. I know. Heaven! :P

So I got up, played a few songs (starting off with Fuck her gently, to break the ice as noone really knew me back then! This week im going to do faith I think! :P) And a few of my own songs. That was cool, Its a very musical hostel this one, so I got to know everyone there, which was good..

Then Wednesday I went out and met up with my friend Lara at The Little Creatures bar on Fitzroy St, brunswick. which is probably one of the only nice brewerys in Australia. Well, their bar anyways. It was a really nice place actually. It had a good atmosphere, so we started off in there, then went over to this other bar, which has $4 pizzas mon-thu. I had a prawn and lemon one, which was friggin' awesome. (and another beer). Then we ended up finishing off in some other bar which had some tramp in playing a bit of music, but with the most incredible soul-voice ever. Bizzare,. but bloody cool! It was a really nice night!

Lol. unfortunately because i went to that, I ended missing the cross-dressing party at the hostel, and more free beer, but never mind! :P

Anyways, Im almost out of internet time, so im going to sign off and carry this on in another stage..

Melbourne. -> The quest for more comical titles. In fact, sod it. Think up your own, and insert here! (And THATS what she said)

Hey, its been a few weeks, so i thought id give you all an update. Its going to be a pretty short one, as ive mainly been working, and if i started going into that, then youd all be dying of boredom after 10 mins...

Basically, last friday I went out for 'one quiet drink' with a mate from the hostel in sydney, which turned out to be his last night in sydney. So i had a few more, then we all realised that this was going to cost a fortune. So we all brought a big bottle of Whisky to drink a bit round my mates mates house...My mate then poured us a few drinks. It turned out that we finished the bottle in 3 drinks.

So you can tell what kind of direction the night was going to take. I was pretty damn wasted. My mate Dan was prety damn wasted. His mate was totalled. So he took us out into the middle of bloody nowhere saying that there was 'the best club ever' there. Which turned out to be an abandoned office block. The only pub was a really dodgy looking place that looked a bit like Sandy Upper Schoolhall.

So suffice to say, we all went back. At which point Dans mate passed out, and that was that. So me and Dan jumped out on Brunswick street. We ended up at a really cool club. It had a really cool funk soul band playing until god knows what time, then after that it played old school rap. It was pretty damn awesome.

So on the saturday I was pretty much dead, but did get to the Moving Picture Museum later on, which was really cool. They had all sorts of stuff. Like a place where it drew cartoons on your shadow when you moved, and talked etc. Old school projectors in smoke filled rooms making some really really cool patterns etc. AND it had every make of console / computer, marking the rise of video games. So from the ZX spectrum / the 1st one. where you could play pong, to Commodore 64's to Amstrads etc. and you could play all these old school computer games. Which was pretty cool, if not more than a little geeky! :P

Then on the sunday I went to have a look at a few houses (WAY too expensive) then met up with my mate Lior for a beer at this really cool bar. Bar open i think it was cool. It was like a grungy bar downstairs, and had some bands on upstairs. So we headed up, to see what was on. Turned out to be the worst, yet Funniest band Ive EVER seen. It was halarious!

It was billed as a 21 peice All girl (all rock) band. So we figured that even if the music was s*** then we'd have something good to look at! :) So were watching them, thinking 'how the hell are they going to pull this off?' . I mean, they had eveything. 3 guitars. a bass. 2 drum kits, accordians, violins, chellos, glockenspeils. everything.

So everything goes quiet. They get counted in. Then EVERYONE just plays theyre own peice of music. Something completely different. So what you have is a wall of dischord. While this..erm. Music? is going on, one woman is just saying, in a dead tone 'you are lucky. YOU are lucky. you are. lucky.'. WHILST shes doing this, this other woman is just WAILING at the top of her lungs. AIIIIEEEEEEYYYYYA AIIIIIIIEEEEE AIIIIIEEEEEYYYYAAA'. Me and Lior just looked at each other and burst out laughing. It was the funniest thing ive ever seen. They finished one song. Didnt have another, so just did the same thing again slightly higher...

It was almost as good as the crazy old dude on the fiddle at last years winterwell festival. But not quite. :P

Then on the wednesday, I met up with Paul (Welland) and grabbed a vietnamese meal at this place. $8, and you had a soup, and you could just put all this stuff in it. Whatever you wanted. IT was pretty cool, really filling, and a really good night!

This weekend obviously its all about the football. World cup starts, so im watching the game at 4am this morning in the bar downstairs. Before that I might go around a few bars tonight. The great thing about Melbourne is you have all these really cool little side streets. And in them you have all these doorways, and you head through them and theres these really really nice bars / coffee shops / resteraunts etc.

So i might head over to some of them. in other news, Ive found another hostel with secure parking for my work car, and also an open mic night etc downstairs, over in St Kilda. So I might book myself in there. It sounds pretty damn musical AND i wont have to get the sodding train every morning either. I dont know how people put up with commuting. IVe done it for 3 weeks, and thats it. IVe had enough,.

Anyways, thats about it so far. Ill keep you guys posted. Ha. How short was THAT post? :P