rocketeer

For Fuck's Sake i am fucking freaking out on an epic level....

Tomorrow i leave Brisbane, I am leaving everything i am. I am chasing my career and I know it is the right thing to do ... so why am i freaking out and feeling such despair.

I have absolutely no reason to be feeling like this, if you guys knew the full extent of the most amazing week i have had for a very long time you too would be scratching your head and thinking "why the fuck does this kid feel like this". .... the answer is i don't fucking know.

Having said that now i can fill everyone in on the details as to just how great my week was.

Wednesday night saw me cruise round to pick up linoleum to go into the city to HMB to catch some local metal bands. After 30 minutes we decided we would rather go somewhere and chat rather than watch second rate metal acts who were really quite bad. So..... it was then decided that we would pick up some McDonalds and then drive up Mt Cootha (a local Brisbane lookout). It was really great to be parked up there in peaceful ambience looking down at the lights of Brisbane. We stayed up there and listened to music and spoke about almost every imaginable topic. Minutes turned into hours and after 5 hours we realise ....shit, it's 3.30....so we drove back down the hill and got some more McShit and went home.

This is the view as we saw it out the front of the car

Thursday night was again interesting. I had put the call out for anyone interested to come to the dockside comedy bar at Kangaroo point. linoleum elected to drive for the night and picked me up early to run some errands. We recieved a phone call from Erythrocytez and then became aware that he was in fact at the same place as one that we intended on visiting on our mission so we offered to pick him up on our way before we headed in. When we got to the bar we met up with amobia who had recently had his long hair cut off.

no ore hair - amobia
We had a crew of about 10 for night and a good time was had by all.

The SG peeps who went to the comedy club ....
Something to note when going to comedy clubs...if you have big hair and piercings sitting in the front row ...be prepared for a barrage of comic harrasment.... but i survived.

After the comedy club amobia invited some of us back to his joint in the valley for a bit of a look. Now this guy has some cool shit


We also lost control of our nerd instincts and decided to briefly check SG


....hmmmm, then the night became random

It turned into a mission, there were 3 who took up the challenge set out before us. Erythrocytez, our friend Brett and myself. It was Bretts first time ever and well... lets just say he had his head knocked off by a train. Brett sent an email the next day that said:

"...I'd just like to take this opportunity to thank you once again for gently introducing me to the world of mind expansion. I haven't felt that satisfied in years who would have thought an alleyway and an eccentric busker could bring so much joy. Sitting in that alleyway, with the thin sheets or particle board at my back was strangely fulfilling. Thank you "

interesting shit.
The events of the mission in point form;

Shit started to kick
Brett needed a walk, Erythrocytez decided to assist him
30 minutes had elapsed, amobia and I began to worry about our mates
We found both of them sitting with a busker playing his guitars after "taking over"
We stayed and chatted for about 30 minutes with the busker
Ran around random clubs for the next few hours before we ended up catching a cab and going home to watch some Family Guy.
One by one we crashed out on the couch....
Pix:

Brett

Erythrocytez and I

Guitars

Brett, Erythrocytez, Myself and amobia had taken over

Back home

Some Family Guy

Sleep time

That brings me to Friday ....

So, friday began with a start, after 5 hours of sleep i rose excited and full of energy. Why i hear you ask, the answer is simple; it was the day that i was pickinjg up my first car from the used car yard. Fuck yeah, i now have wheels.

So I decided to ask linoleum if she would like to accompany me on my maiden voyage in my new vehicle and i was delited when she accepted the invitation. We drove down to the Gold Coast and ate some fish and chips while sittnig on the sand at the back of the beach.

linoleum and I
Again we had some really awesome conversation and just had fun.

Now Friday night .......

hold up!!! ...icase some of you have been wondering, yes, i was meant to be flying to Townsville for phase one of my leaving Brisbane, but due to some manipulating i was able to change my flight so i could have one more weekend in Brisbane.

sooooooo

Friday night saw me head to the Depot with linoleum where we were going to meet up with Erythrocytez. linoleum was also excited as a friend of hers who was new to SG was also heading to the depot. I must say that zombielovetone is an awesome guy and a lot of fun . Erythrocitez, linoleum and I went with the intention of getting quite messy and we did just that. The night turned random, but everyone had a great time, you can only imagine the sort of things that were happening . Before long we realised that there were only about 30 people left in the club and we decided to give amobia a call just to see what he was up to.

....long story short: amobia ended up with 3 visitors at 5am on a saturday morning. I give props to amobia for giving us somewhere to go, he even put some dvds on for us to watch. Before long the 3 of were fading in and out of sleep on amobias couch.

Myself, linoleum and Erythrocytez on amobias couch around 8.15 am on a saturday morning

thanks again goes to amobia for cooking up some eggs for breakfast for us, and again i am sorry, i really did try to eat them

amobia was having discombobulate over to watch a dvd at 10 ....and guess who was still on the couch ... after a long period of contemplation the 3 of us were able to peel ourselves off of amobias super comfy couch and begin the treck back to the valley mall to get a bus home.

That was not the end of our adventure however, after we all headed home and freshened up we met up again to go shopping for father's day gifts (Australian Father's day is different to the North American) ...I probably shouldn't have been driving, but i can report that i drove safely and without incident ....

I had a couple of red bulls however and seriously began to freak out by the lights, sounds and crowds of the Chermside shopping centre ...damn, i had never freaked out like that before, scary shit .....my good friends were there for me though and after a couple of hours we safely returned back to my waiting vehicle and i dropped of Erythrocytez and linoleum before i headed home.

I then went to dinner with my family at an all you can eat seafood buffet ...damn i ate some food ....

I was going to be going out tonight to a party, but understandably linoleum was not feeling the best and we both decided that given the circumstances and relative lack of sleep that it would be best if the party was given a miss.....

sooooooo that brings me back to where i was at the start

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck, i leave brisbane tomorrow

my mood has leveled a lot now since i first set out to detail my adventures of the past couple of days.

i am not emo any more, still a little anxious, but you get that i spose

date claimers for those interested:

Wed 21 - September; Parkway Drive are playing at the Rev; and
Fri 23 - September; I am taking my sister to see the Black Eyed Peas

and i will be in the general area of Brisbane for that weekend as well, so if anyone is interested just drop me a line

as i am venturing into unknown territory in terms of internet access etc i am unsure when i will next be able to liase with all the funky SGers, but rest assured, where ever i go i have my camera and shit always seems to turn out interesting and fun

so until next time trendsetters,

stay hot, sexy and fucking awesome and i will hopefully be around here soon....

.....ROCKET.....

p.s., i still have that song stuck in my head , you guys know what one i mean