Woah-woah-woah-woah, It's Skalap-time
Happy Birthday to my big sister, my mentor and role model, Skalap. This is Skalap modelling a
You Am I t-shirt made by the company she works for.
Skalap is currently touring Australia with the Big Day Out, managing the merchandise sales and living the Rock'n'Roll dream. So far she has thrown 12 tellys out the window of her hotel room and vomited on the lead singer of Tool. Not because of the alcohol and drugs, but because she thinks they're crap.
Skalap is engaged to be wed and guess who nominated themselves JLo Wedding Planner? That's right,
me.
Labels: Big Day Out, Birthday, Skalap, Tool suck
Reflections on Deutsch-nessAhh, the Germans. Where to begin? I'm back in London remembering with fondness my three weeks spent amongst that race of cheese and pork loving punctual serious and irony-chip-missing peoples. And I totally loved it. In fact, I think I could live in Berlin. It was ace.
So to recap: German Christmas was brilliant and filled with gelatin-wobbly meat products and cheese. I put on 6 kilos in just under 3 weeks, despite constantly turning down the bloodwurst! Sheesh. (Yes that is a sausage made of congealed pig's blood). Must have been the 296 beers I sampled.
Next was NYE in Cologne. Kikki's friends were borderline Goths (soundtrack to the evening was a tight mix of Tool, NIN and Marilyn Manson) and didn't really know how to deal with a bespectacled Australian tourist squealing with excitement at the fact she was allowed to swill champagne in the street then let rockets off using the empty champagne bottle in the streets outside. Oli let one off which accidentally knocked sideways and exploded under a BMW parked nearby - proof of how drunk we were was that instead of saying 'Fuck! We almost killed ourselves', everyone whooped with joy and yelled, 'Do it again! Do it again!'...
Then to Berlin. Berlin was ace and the atmos' was gnarly. Where else in the world can you spend the day on an island of Museums and see
the Nefertiti...
And then indulge in a spot of karaoke in the evening with lots of fellow random Aus backpackers? (My tracks for the evening were: Hit Me Baby One More Time, Like a Virgin, 99 Red Luftballoons)...
I met a bunch of fellow travellers on an 8-hour walking tour of the city, and after enduring the bitter cold and sore feet from 8 hours of schlepping around checkpoint charlie, brandenburg gate etc, we decided to kick-back and relax with a few drinks and tunes.
So here are but a few of my memories of a great country. Try and imagine North and South Korea joining up and trying to get along. Weird. I decided it was an appropriate time to finally read
Stasiland while I was there, and it was ace. Thumbs up.
Labels: beer, bloodwurst, germany, karaoke
Off to Berlin Tomorrow!Well I still have all my fingers and toes and eyes. Last night's firework frenzy was the most fun I have had at a NYE party since EVER. Pics will come in a week or so because I have packed the camera away and cannot find it. Notice I am not using apostrophes because I cannot locate the apostrophe key on this damn german keyboard.
Yes as the imaginative heading of this posts suggests, I am going to Berlin tomorrow. Am well excited. I will be staying in an
art gallery! Hurrah this is going to be awesome.
Labels: art hotel, Berlin, fireworks
