Creatures

Hey London

I have a question to ask you. Ready? No that wasn't the question. My question to you London is this;
Why the hell are your creatures so big?

The pigeons here are the size of large cats. They still look as fucked up as ever, in fact, we saw one while walking down High Holborn that had a large part of it's skull showing from where it had been brutally, if not quite mortaly, wounded. They are a lot braver here also. You could quite easily reduce their population with nothing but a pair of boots and a casual stroll to the shops if you were so inclined. Their flying ability is lackluster at best. I thought to start with that perhaps it was me showing how much of a tourist I am by ducking left, right and centre as these gigantic birds took a beeline for my head.

Speak of beeline. Bumble-bees. Fucking fat little bastards. How bizarre are you guys. You're round. There is no definition to your shape, you look adorable.

But I digress. Before we diverge too far from the talk of giant birds, what is with the seagulls over here. They're monstrous. Are they even seagulls or am I looking at a small albatross? They're huuuuuge!

Now all these above creatures I can deal with. They amuse and sometimes annoy me. They definitely astound me. One creature I cannot stand or even understand is the fucking monstrosities they call mosquitoes.

They're fucking huge. Think of the biggest mozzie you've ever slapped while drinking on a veranda in the middle of summer and multiply it by 3. Now I'm sure you're all saying "Mozzies are bad everywhere". This is true. Everywhere else where they are bad you tend to have the trade off of 'Nice weather'. Really folks I mean that. I'm in fucking London. Mosquitoes have no place here, no reason to be or to exist. Also they're quiet fuckers! How is the biggest damn mosquito ever born also the quietest. Back home I could generally smash one to death in the dark, roll over and go back to sleep. Here I can't. They sneak up on you and after 3 or 4 bites you begin to realise there is a mozzie in your room. After turning the light on and straining your sleep deprived eyeballs to find it, chasing it around the room six times and then getting its guts all over your hand you're so wide awake that rolling over and nodding off again is out of the question.

Thus begins my vendetta against the mutant mozzies of London. I shall not rest until I have the innards of every damn mosquito that crosses my path strewn across the house. I shall not rest as long as these abominations continue to roam the skys of Bethnal Green. I shall not rest as I will forever be covered in the biggest, itchiest fucking bites known to man.

God damn British creatures.

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COALESCE

Never thought I'd see a band that would make Omerata and Four Dead look tame on stage....

So Sean Ingram didn't break any schooners on his head, didn't break any bones (that I'm aware of) or even draw blood....but when the singer and guitarist are being held up by the crowd halfway through the first song you get the idea that you're in for a treat.

Also the amount of talent some people have can be somewhat frustrating for someone as untalented as I am. When a guitarist can be that fucked up, crowd surfing and still hitting every note then yeah, I get a little jealous. All said and done though, they were epic. Still the roughest voice I've ever heard, maybe even more so live and the new songs are so good that it's kinda stupid.

So a quiet week coming up...oh except for JamieT on Wednesday and Brand New on Saturday. Loving how many shows there are to go here and the fact that they're only £10 or £20 each. Nice.

Before that, another week of job hunting, and time killing etc ahead. So we'll see how that goes, hopefully some good news shortly.

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Long time no post

So what's been happening in my life. Basically the same old shit.

Still looking for work, going to interviews, being looked down at like I have some type of disease and that I'm probably insane for thinking that I'm right for their company.

Other than that things here are good. Much cheap cider and beer still being consumed, although trying to take it a bit easy recently. The whole depression/anxiety hangover is never fun, especially when not working and the money is getting low. So avoiding it as much as possible.

Coalesce is on this Friday and incredibly psyched for that. I hope Dewees is playing with them. I <3 Dewees. Speaking of Dewees...going to see the Get Up Kids on August 19th. Fuck yeah. Then the weekend after that is Leeds Festival which my sister got me a couple of weekend passes for. Pretty excited for that for the following reasons:
Brand New, Bloc Party, Radiohead, Faith No More, Fall Out Boy, Thursday, AFI, The Bronx, Polar Bear Club, Chuck Ragan, Mancherster Orchestra....
Then of course there are the bands that I may see if nothing else is on, just because I can:
Bouncing Souls, Atreyu, Rival Schools, Snuff, Rise Against, Gallows, JamieT, Placebo, New Found Glory...ETC ETC

So yeah, that should be some fun times.

Speaking of fun times I think I need to meet more Natives. Seems that most of (all of) the people I've been hanging out with here are Australian, not even Australians I didn't know before, but people I've known for years and am now hanging out with on the other side of the word. I could be more proactive in this regard, but can't think of a single reason why I should bother. I suppose once I'm working I'll meet people, probably local people even, but really don't care that much.

One complaint I do have about this place though is my chronic hayfever. I haven't had hayfever since I was in school. I come here and have new types of pollen, intense smog and basic dirtiness and as a result my eyes and nose will not stop running and itching. Can't stop sneezing and the hayfever medication here is lackluster, at best.

So... I don't have much else to say, I've done a lot more things since I've been here but this isn't an itinerary or a logbook of what I've seen and done, so I'm not going to do that. One fantastic (and incredibly drunken) night that Miranda, Elissa and I had was at All Star Bowling. I think I came last, Elissa blitzed us all and the cocktails were GIGANTIC. It was fantastic. See photo above.

I do think I'll try to update this a lot more often though, even though I'm not even sure if anyone reads it. I also think I'm going to get an Easel (if that's even you spell it) and start painting, going to draw more and maybe even give creative writing a shot. I think I need new avenues to express myself other than getting wasted and having a laugh.

So yeah, that's about it.

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