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Epilogue

2007-08-06T04:54:00.000-07:00

I am back in the AU : ]

I had an excellent time in SD, and in NYC. Rly damn excellent.

My flight home was kinda wack, I was so excited about seeing Mark I hardly got any damn sleep :/ It was a lovely reunion though, lots of hugz : ]

I spent a day being jetlagged, then M and I went to Coloundra for some op shopping. I got a swt bag and some sunniez then we ate fish and chips.

We got a little bit drunx that night and recreated the album cover for "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx" using photobooth. *blush*

Also went to Common Pepoles. Was fun. Am glad the line up to SITG was so damn average, because there's no way in hell I would have been up to going.

*tssss*

Now I am back at work, and soon to be back at uni. bllgh

So I guess that's it. The above wasn't so interesting, and tbqh, a little embarrassing. I will prolly update this every now and again, if something exciting happens but for the mean time...

Thanks 4 reading my junk : ]

oxo

The best way to get a hangover?

2007-07-29T11:10:00.000-07:00

Let a dirty Mexican straddle you and pour tequila down yr throat....

MEXICO

I decided to miss the evening part of con and go on a hostel organised drinking tour of Mexico, good idea huh? I pretty much drank my body weight in coronas and tequila and a couple of margeritas.. ruh roh. It was fun though.

They painted a donkey as a zebra and charged people $2 for a picture

This place had free tequilla and moonshine shots, and rly cheap liquor

"Here I am in Mexico"

They pour tequila down yr throat, the shake up a beer and pour that too, then they shake you. If was a combination of awful and awesome.

I didn't buy any drugz

"and then we all rode the mechanical bull"

Going through customs to get back to America.

So I'm glad I got to do that, I'm not glad about my splitting headache. Luckily I sobered up on the trolley home a bit (it takes around 50mins to get from our hostel to Mexico). Today I'm going to check out con, it's the best day for shopping apparently as everyones closing up. Not sure about my luggage though, will do all that tonight, because I'm coming home tomorrow!! A bit excited about seeing my pals, and markmarkmark.

The Best Cure for A Hangover?

2007-07-27T15:58:00.000-07:00

Wait.. I did this YESTERDAY. uuuuughhhhhh. Proving I don't learn from my mistakes, I went out and got absolutely shit faced last night. Went to the StrangCo/Munky King party, which, was so excellent. It was so bizzare too, meeting these people I write about... I got a LITTLE fan girly but I think I played it pretty cool... Oh dear. So I met heaps of cool guys which was rly fun. The only person I didn't meet was the guy who does vinylpulse - he'd left. that would have been swt.

Marka27 who is the guy behind the "Brazillian MiniGods" was there, I totally don't remember his name. Mark maybe? You think I'd remember that, but everyone prolly knows how bad I am memory wise when drinking.... Anyway he had a MiniGod in his car so he showed me how it works (it's a speaker, but I've written about him in Rave so y'all prolly know that already right?) It is rly fkn swt. Im tossing up getting one, but will have to re-evaluate my luggage..

So good. They had live painting by Angry Woebots and Mainframe and some other guise

Thomas Han, a dude and Mainframe

Everyone was v friendly, thats a clique but true. so whatever. I got talking to a guy from KidRobot and he said there is another Mavillian colourway coming soon AND (and he made a 'dont tell anyone face') KR are in talks with... The mfkn WU. Wu Tang Clan. Sounds interesting.

Tara McPherson & me looking fkn shady

Thomas Han. Good dude.

Clubs here close at TWOam. How fkn wack is that. The StrangeCo guys walked me home, which was extremely nice. I couldn't find my nighty so slept in my undiez. lol. sorry roomates.

So skip to today, me w a massive hangover. Overslept so missed out on the Warner Panel >: [ then wandered around a bit, got a present 4 Skye (yr right, Marc Ellerby is such a babe) and a present for Mark, who by now is amassing a pretty okee vinyl collection. Sorry baby. The line up to get into the Hall for the Fox panel was over, oh, say 400ms? maybe? I dont know but it was massive and not moving so I gave up. bummed out. I think there is a separate Futurama panel some time, they are making another season so thats cool. Chatted to some guise, the guy from the Williamsburg toy store was there, nice to see a familiar face. Then I decided I was to damn hungover and gave up and went and saw The Simpsons Movie. It was good : ]

Tonight there is a Custom Show that everyone is going to, but I'm yet to decide whether to go along - I don't want to drink... Maybe. I should go.

Tomorrow is the biggest day at con, so early night I hope : ]

Can someone recommend me a book? I've finished mine.

The best cure for a hangover?

2007-07-26T19:08:00.000-07:00

8 hrs at comic con... waaaaah.

My "one or two" beers last night in the party room at my hostel turned into "quite a few" beers, w/ some complimentary tequila shots. ruh roh. needless to say i wasnt feeling the best at 10am. bllgh.

Anyway so wandered around con for a bit feeling sorry for myself, i bought a bit of junk, none of which was for me surprisingly. Em, C'Harms, Aoi and Mark all did okee though : ]

The highlight of my day was definately the Paramount Picture presentation. They started off by showing some of "Hot Rods" followed by a panel w/ the guys, including Andy Samberg of Saturday Night Live fame. They were pretty funny (dick in a box got a mention) but the movie looks like it sucks. Then they showed some bits from "Stardust", the movie based on Gaiman's novel. He did some q&a and to be honest was a pretty funny and charming guy. I'm not a huge fan of his work but he seems cool. Then he stayed on for the "Beowulf" preview, it looks okee, the movie will be in 3D so that should be interesting. Then they showed a poster for "Sweeny Tod". That was pretty unexciting. Then, and this was a highlight, they did the Iron Man stuff. It's easy to get caught up in the crowd feeling, but it looks pretty damn impressive. THEN it went totz black and then. .. da da da da da da daaa <-- thats the theme song to INDIANA JONES. Everyone went nuts, as you can imagine. They showed a little video from the set, w Speilburg, Ford et al. The guy next to me was BLATANLY disobeying the 'no recording" rule, so it's prolly already up on the youtubes. Harrison looks old. If the crowd couldnt get more excited, they gave it a shot, as the Star Trek panel came on. lol. The director was there, and the new Spock (Zac Quintet or something). They did a bit of a q&a then, to everyones joy, they bought out Leonard Nimoy, who will have some part in the film. Spock at a comic con. Even I got a little excited. Oh oh oh i almost forgot, they showed a preview for a as yet untitled film directed by J J Abrams. Its a monster film based in NY, I got excited because it looked like a Brooklyn rooftop (looks at James). It could be good.

Everyone got a little gift bag with some kinda cool gear, I have 3 XL shirts if there's any takers.

I hung around for the Lions Gate presentation, Jessica Alba was there. She's pretty hot I guess. All these guys were like taking her picture and stuff. yah. then they had a preview of "Midnight Meat train" which is an adaptation of a Charles Baker novel. He was fkn nuts, he basically slurred incoherently, cursed a lot and was thoroughly entertaining. Vinnie Jones is in that movie. I like him.

Now I'm hell tired. I couldn't be bothered walking to the internet cafe that allows me to upload pictures so you'll have to use yr imagination for the time being. Tonight there is this on
It's a StrangeCo/Munky King party thing. I realllllly don't feel like going, but that's not rly an option is it? Then, soberness and tiredness allowing, I'm hoping to check out Tokyo Police Club. I rly just want to go to bed and finish my Murakami book. It's a hard life : ]

Gardens then CON

2007-07-25T20:07:00.000-07:00

So I had a totally excellent day today. I started off by hanging in the Baboa (sp?) park. I went to the INternational Museum then hung out in the Japanese Friendship garden, like writing in my diary and stuff B ] It was SO pretty

Frkn heat Koi. Anyway, because i'd been doing so much walking I treated myself to 'Jack In the Box" curly fries yum.
Okee Okee then it was comic con time! Because I am running out of internet, I am just going to copy and paste the message I sent to Mark, okee? k.
COMIC CON! man. oh man. its so fkn intense. i got there round 5 to get my badge n junk and wait till the doors opened at 6. it was full of nerds and i can say w/out a doubt i am the hottest most well dressed person there. but thats not saying much. zomg nerds. anyway got in after a huge line up and pretty much ran (blushes) to the strangco booth. got my yod (lmited to 30) then made a beeline for rocketworld. i spent $280 at that booth lol oh dear. got one of the THREE pearys avaliable. and met patrick ma!!! and the booth seller was so nice, he was going to give me a free lithograph bvut i was like, oh i already have two. i am so damn cool huh. so yeh, so fkn orsum. all the booths looked so good. i only spent like an hour after that there, cause i was lugging the worlds biggest tote bag full of toys :D my luggage situation isnt looking so flash (space wise) but i dont need to buy much more so yah : ]

Here are some pics

Soooo thats about it for today, I might go check out this band but its fkn ages away from my hostel : / hmm. at the same place tomorrow night Tokyo Police CLub are playing, with, Dappled City 'Live' they are from aus so i'm guessing they are the same (shit) band I'm thinking of? Anyway there's also a StrangeCo/MunkyKing Con party on tomorrow night so might go to that instead. hmmmm.

Not long rly until I come back. Sad, and happy. I miss Mark so damn much.

Pan-da pan-da pan-da pan-da pan

2007-07-24T16:24:00.000-07:00

Beep Beep!

I went to the zoo, and it was super fun. The San Diego zoo is famous for some reason, or at least I'd (and james) heard of it before. Anyway it's in the middle of this park, which also has a bunch of different museums and galleries and gardens. It was so so good because i heart all those things. I will prolly go back tomorrow morning with a book (currently reading Kafka on the Shore by Murakami).

Here are some pictures from the gardens

Then I went to the zoo. Oh man it was so orsum. My favorite parts were the flamingos, the pandas (of course), the monkeys and the otter. I think. It was all good.

Flamingos are so gay

This guy came up to the fence, and as I was taking a photo he got a hard on. swear to god. I blushed and ran away

Here I am in the panda shop pretending to be a panda *gruntgrunt*

Look at this guy. Smiley panda

CAN YOU SPOT THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THESE PICTURES?

lol

With James back in Aus, I have no one to take pictures of me. I gave a small mexican boy $1 for this one.

Sleeping red panda zzzzz

"If we all dress in bright yellow, we'll never loose each other" GREAT IDEA HONNEEEY

Im not sure what this guy is. maybe the cheeky zebra had a bit of a roam?

^_^

So that was the zoo. Now I'm trying to find a place that does waxing. And also find out some con stuff. GRRR at paying for the internet! So comment my damn blog cause it cost $2.50 to do : [

Con starts tomorrow afternoon (pre registration) pretty damn excited. The hostel has been okee backpacker places remind me to much of living on res. I'm hoping all the bogans leave and are replaced by con attenders. hot con attenders.

tomorrow i'm hopefully going to get a wax then hang out in the park then go to con.

quickie photo blog

2007-07-23T17:47:00.000-07:00

I have like 10 mins left at an internet cafe, here are some photos. mostly from LA

Disturbing st Art

James @ the beach (hiding from the sun)

me @ Santa Monic

SEGWAYS

A post box in San Diego

Okee now im out of time. Went for a big op shop walk around sd today, was okee. Was hoping to go to Mexico tommoz but havent booked anything yet so will see.

byebyebye

Where in the world is Susan?

2007-07-22T15:29:00.000-07:00

SAN DIEGO.

lol. Arrived this afternoon, thank christ. LA is such a fkn hole. I haven't worked out how to put pictures onto the computer on the ones here so txt based blogs 4 a while. I am at a backpackers hostel, which, on first impressions looks pretty nice. It'll be a bit of an adjustment after having my own apartment but I should go just fine. Paying for the internets however....

Anyway, San Diego looks very nice, I am about to go out and find the information centre so i can start planning, found a good website with all the thrift and vintage stores, huzzah.

Also, my hostel is surrounded by icescream storez, ruuuh rooh.

Missing James, but traveling on my own should be good : ]

Welcome to [Hel]L A.

2007-07-20T10:15:00.000-07:00

We have left New York. That bums me out so damn much, NYC is srsly amazing. I will be going back asap, the lady who we were subletting off said in an email "come back and have gin and tonics w/ me on the roof" and James and I were all : ' [

Anyway, we flew to LA, which was really easy (about 5hrs). I watched Science of Sleep and that movie about the ice sk8rs w Will Ferrell. It was so fkn terrible. Ugggh. Our hotel is basic but okee, we get orsum breakfast for free every morning. huzzah.

So. LA. We didn't really have a game plan for this city, there was a couple of toy stores and galleries I wanted to check out but that was about it. We set out to get to where I wanted to be without much idea of where we were going. We soon realised that not only is LA extremely spread out, there is also fuck all public transport. Brilliant. We got directions from some guy and ended up on Hollywood Blvd. It was awful. Sure there were stars on the side walk and junk but apart from that it was terrible shops like the ones that sell bongs and tshirts, tattoo places, tourist shops and porn clothes shops. James and I just assumed that we were away from, you know, the good part so set off on some crazy fkn journey to find out where the real stuff was.

This is the Hollywood sign

This is me in front of the Hollywood Sign. Really far in front of the Hollywood sign

We found this. I pretty much fell over laughing. "JamesJamesJames quick go stand in front oh man thats so hilarious lolololol"

To cut a long story short, we headed off in the wrong direction. For ages. So then we got a bus, which just went even further away. It was hot, we didn't have a map and were totally confused. Anyway, we ended up at like the ghettos of LA. We went to the supermarket.

pancake and sausage. on a stick.

The alcohol here is so cheap. A bottle of 1.75L vodka was $8.98
Anjac [y] fashion blog.

After the supermarket, we decided to try and get back to where we started. It was difficult (there are no maps on the bus stops or anything). While we were waiting for a bus, Lachlan and the rest of Die Die Die walked past. How fkn nuts is that. We chatted, they are well. They said that we were near Danzig's house - it has a pile of bricks out the front, and if you take them he comes out and throws junk at you. Lol. Anyway, so after all that we got back onto Hollywood Blvd, and realised, that WAS it. Fkn LA. So then we just walked up Sunset Blvd. It was so gross. Reminds me of Townsville. Then we got a bus home, it took like an hour. One bonus of the day, I got a swt dress

Hopefully today will be better - I am still to check out the stores (including Gallery 1988 - which does the excellent 'I am 8 Bit' show). Sigh. Tonight we are going to see Sonic Youth, they are doing a special performance of "daydream Nation'. Should be fkn good.

Cannot wait for San Diego.

Holy Craps!

2007-07-17T21:25:00.001-07:00

I've neglected this damn thing for so long... Anyway just a quick post, leaving NYC tomorrow : [

will be in LA for three nights, then San Diego for a bit over a week (during which I'm hoping to pop down to Mexico).

Have some new pictures on the myspace, but rly have been to busy to do much here. Sorry guise.

M is for...

2007-07-12T07:43:00.000-07:00

MC Hammer!

Every year for the Martin Luther King Concert series, there are free shows at Wingate Park in Flatbush, Brooklyn. By complete luck MC Hammer, Doug E Fresh, Slick Rick & MC Lyte (Old School Night) was on Monday 9th, I read that and was all like ZOMG - fk YES. The only problem was we already had tickets to Art Brut, I didnt mind giving up my ticket but I was concerned about travelling New York w/ out James, who is a master of the subway system. After some deliberation I decided to man up and do it alone.

So I took the sub out and made it to the suburb just fine. It was totally different to W'Burg, I wouldn't say getto, heaps urban maybe? Predominatly black and gritty. Yah. I found the concert w/ no worrries and made it through the MASSIVE line up to the gate, the security was so hardcore, all the men were getting patted down n junk. Full on. So I got up to the gate feeling happy, and the security woman was all "you cant come in w/ cameras" no exceptions. McHAmmer was about to come on and there was no point in taking two trains to get home and then two trains to get back so I stood around for a while feeling : [ : / and decided to just watch it from the gate. Here are some photos from anover blog

^ Pretty much where I was.

Hammer came on and it was as awesome as you'd expect - he had like a team of thirty dancers, so excellent
That was my view. It was so fun and then he played "cant touch this" and everyone went nuts.

I was pretty happy w/ my little view but then the damn 5-0 made us move away > : [ I made friends w/ this guy who also wasn't allowed in because of a camera so we set about finding a new place to watch. This was the best we could do
Not so great. But it was fun, about 40 people had gathered there and everyone was dancing and having a fun time, pretty swt - easily the best and most funnest audience Ive been in.

Mc Lyte was next and was a huge hit w/ the crowd, the venue was at her old school so I guess she was a sentimental favourite. She put on such a good show.

The get Fresh Crew came out next and played some warm up tracks, the Doug E Fresh came on. He was so fkn excellent, a real entertainer, making jokes and generally just making everyone go nuts. Then he was like "I wouldn't be here without ONE guy, this man was rocking the Bling Bling before it was Bling Bling"

*crowd goes nuts*

Then Slick Rick cam on and rapped while Doug E Fresh beatboxed. It was the best show i've been to, hands down.

Luckily for me, my new pal was catching a bus going my way, so I didn't have to navigate the subs at 1:00am. I DID however get off my bus, oh, about 100 stops to early. It took me about 45mins to walk home : [

M is for...

2007-07-12T07:08:00.000-07:00

Monday and MoMa

We went to Moma which was heaps fkn excellent. The main exhibition was of Richard Serra's work, he does these massive sculptures. His little stuff was not so impressive - like this guy for eg.

I mean its okee but yeh. His big stuff is amazing though, you walk through it and its pretty surreal, it looks like this
You can't really get how sweet it is from that but trust me it was excellent.

The other exhibition was called "What is Painting" and had a variety of paintings, and not paintings from the 1960s onwards. There was some pretty good stuff. I am clearly not very good at writing about art... aah yeh it was cool.... pretty.... i was a bit hungry. : [ I'm sorry.

The thing I found wierd was you're allowed to take pictures of everything, bar the Serra exhibition. I'm not comfortable w/ that really - oh here's me w/ a Klimt. But I took some photos of some other junk, especially of the design floor because it was cool and also Mark does design and he's cool too : ]

I hit up the gift store pretty hard, I got myself a I<3 NY snowdome that had a little plastic bag in it. Clever huh?

Then we walked around to find a tasty bagel. I love bagels so much. Here are some random pictures from that

After our tasty bagel James and I split up, but I will do a new blog for that : ]

Getting Behind

2007-07-11T09:09:00.000-07:00

I'm trying to decide what to blog, seeing as i've left it so damn long. Here is what i did on the weekend, the basics. Really just go look at Jame's, his is a lot more thorough

SATURDAY
On Saturday we went to some flea markets, and, just to make it absolutely clear, i fkn HEART flea markets. Old junk is like my favorite type of junk and these markets were like heaven. Tables and tables of old jewellery's, shoes, nic nacs, antiques, EVERYTHING. So good. The first one we went to at Hells Kitchen had a shuttle bus to another lot called 'The garage" which was much of the same. I came away with a pair of shoes, jacket, some brooches and vintage New York postcards (which will I will prolly not get around to posting). My day was totally ruined though, I spotted some late 50s-early 60s nude playing cards which I thought was an excellent present for Mark but I picked them up and this mega creepy guy was all "I'm buying those" > : [ So mad, I hate when that happens. Anyway so I'm going to get up early this Sat and go again because lord knows I need more nic nacs.

Then we got back from that and went and saw Cat Power and Built to Spill. Then we went drinking. Look at Jame's blog for more.

Here I am being drunk.

SUNDAY
Mega sleep-in then the pool party, saw Dan Deacon who I thought was cool then Erase Errata who I HATED so we left. Then we went into Manhattan and saw Fourtet w/ Steven Reid and Tortoise. Fourtet ruled and Steven Reid was totally amazing, I think he stopped about 4 times. so good. Tortoise were good but there's something I don't like about them. I cant put my finger on it. They were cool though. yeeehh.

Tortoise, like the only picture that turned out okee.

Going to the Guggenheim now and then to Deerhunter. Will maybe do more blogging after that? Maybe : ]

Hi Guise

2007-07-09T23:15:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the dead blog atm, have been heaps busy, uh doing stuff. srsly out all day then seeing bands at night and sleeping in between. Will update next time I have the chance... I have a story about a terrible bagel that I'm sure EVERYONE wants to hear. No really we've been doing lots of fun stuff and seeing heaps of excellent bands (Cat Power, Built to Spill, Dan Deacon, Erase Errator [for about one song - fkn terrible] Four Tet, Tortoise, Mc Hammer, Slick Rick, Doug E Fresh, McLyte... Deerhunter tommoz)

Love you all.

suze.

ps. we have only one week left in NY. waaaaaaaaah : ' [

Statue: Statue:

2007-07-06T19:41:00.000-07:00

Today we went and did some touristy junk. First we went and saw the Statue of Liberty. The best (free) way to do this is just by taking a Staten Island Ferry. I like when things are free.

^ thats like the ferry we took, but it's going the other way

^ here's James and I trying to get a photo of ourselves w/ Liberty in the background, I have about 50 more of these ones

That was fun. Since we were in the area (lower manhattan??) we decided to go look at where the World Trade Centre used to be.

Being at the site makes you realise how frkn nuts 9/11 would have been irl, but I guess you can tell that from the images on television too....

We wondered around Wall St for a bit and it was pretty sureal... It was barely open to traffic (I think) and there was security everywhere.

The Southport Music Festival is held every summer and is held on Pier 17 at the side of the river. It's free, and is a nice place to see bands. So after all our walking around and junk it was cool to just go to a bar, have a beer and some eats and watch bands. I was there to see Black Moth Super Rainbow, and they were pretty damn good. James was there to see Fujiya & Miyaji, who were okee.

Went to Visit Whitney

2007-07-05T15:35:00.000-07:00

The Whitney Museum of American art, that is. It was cool. The main exhibit was the
Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era exhibition. It was kinda cool, although I got bored of it after a while. I did like the Velvet Underground stuff though, and there were some swt psychedelic video presentations, although I left my LSD at home : [ Being a museum we couldnt take pictures so nothing to rly show here...

My favorite part was the Rudolf Stingel exhibit, he did this installation which was a room covered in alfoil with a huge chandeliar in the middle, and people were able to draw their names into it and stuff, it looked a bit like this:
But with a better chandelier. Anyway it was heaps cool. I also liked this other room, which I thought had a silver floor, turned out it was actually a mirror floor, and I was wearing a dress so I had to scamper through pretty quickly to avoid everyone seeing my $2 underwears.

Tonight we are going to go watch "The Princess Bride" at the movie with a view thing, they show it on the side of Brooklyn Bridge, sounds good, but its looking a bit rainy... Hmm.

FIREWORKS

2007-07-04T19:51:00.000-07:00

Happy 4th

2007-07-04T15:07:00.000-07:00

Soooo. No blog for yesterday - didn't get to bed until like 9:00am so slept the whole day. Was awful, terrible hangover.... Today we decided to go look at the Kwik E Mart, twelve 7/11s across America have been turned into them for the month of July, excellent huh? On the way there we saw Grand Central and Times Square, which was a nice suprise.

Grand Central

Random Building

James looking super-excited about his big preztal

So that was fun. Then we just kind of wondered around, went to the Toys R Us which was big, and a little scary. Swt lego.

There's a three story store dedicated to m&ms. Uh okee.

Also a store for Hershey's junk. I bought a Reece's Peanut Butter Cup shirt, because i fkn looooove Reece's Peanut Butter Cups.

Now it's tollay raining, which sucks. We have an excellent view for the fire works tonight from our roof but I'm not sure how great it will be in the rain. Then we might go see some bands. I'm not getting drunk for a while I don't think. My liver hurts.

Different places familiar faces

2007-07-03T02:05:00.000-07:00

Die!Die!Die! were in NYC and then Todd P drove us home. There was more, but I cbf writing it down.

Lach looked a lot more Pete Doherty in real life. I think it was the hat.

Buying some dresses, seeing some bands

2007-07-02T08:02:00.000-07:00

SUNDAY

I went to Beacons Closet again, Beacons is this massive buy/sell/trade vintage store, they have a swt range of dresses all of which are pretty reasonably priced (around the $15 mark). I picked up two

Yr average kind of 80s black dress.
Doin' the two step

On Sunday's they have free bands at McCarren Pool, which kind of rules. Man Man played, they were ORSUM

After that we went and saw the Fiery Furnaces. I thought they were kind of average the last time I saw them in Bris but they were pretty good I guess. I was a bit drunk

The door girl at the venue was from Brisbane. Also, towards the end of the show this girl came up to me and was like "are you the australian" and I was all like, uh yeah I guess. Then she made some small talk and walked away. I was all like wth.

Today is Marks Birthday. I miss him a lot and wish I could be w/ him. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAAARK. *<: ]

Hello IPhone

2007-06-30T16:02:00.000-07:00

Today we walked around Manhattan some more, James had a bunch of places he wanted to visit so it was cool to check out the more touristy part of NY. We went to the New York Public Library which was very nice, there was a good photo exhibition on

That's me on the steps. Then we went to check out the Apple Store, on the way we saw some breakdancers, that was fun

Here are some random pictures from our walk

So the Apple store was kind of amazing - and we got to play with the new IPhone. I want one.

: ] I think tonight we are going to a rooftop cocktail party. NEW PALZ??

killmekillmekillme

2007-06-29T16:52:00.000-07:00

Worst hangover ever : [

Barcade was pretty awesome. Here I am ruling at Super Mario

Thats a lie. I am the worst drunkin gamer in the world.

Here is another shot of the Bar. It was a bit of a dudefest. I think. It was pretty messy, I had to have a sneaky vom in the restroom *blush*
After Barcade we went to some other bar but I was rly drunkz so I don't remember much about that one so I read James' blog to find out what we did. "We saw a movie set?!"

Rrrrrrrr. So today I just slept. And ate pizza. Then slept some more.

OH HAY BLOGGGGG

2007-06-28T15:51:00.001-07:00

So I haven't updated this thing for a while, basically because I havn't done anything REALLY exciting, and I'm not sure if anyone other than Mark (haaaaay baby) cares about what dress I didn't buy or what I ate for lunch. Anyway in order to keep in the habit here is a half-assed blog.

We went to Soho on Wednesday.. was it Wednesday? no that was yesterday. Monday, we must have gone then. Anyways basically just looked at some super expensive fashion stores, which was fun but not great - oh and what's with those goddam maternity dresses? The ones that are like tight at the top then loose? UGH. Ugliest things ever, and they are everywhere. Gross.

The most notable thing about our Soho day was the excellent Indian meal we got for lunch, but I'm not going to bother explaining how excellent it was - just go look at James'ss blog. We also accidentally passed this bakery that was used in Sex in the City. I don't know - I've never watched the damn show but it seemed to be quite an attraction judging by the amount of jrks out the front.

Here I am looking at my cupcake - I think I was trying to work out how much of my daily calorie intake the damn thing would be
okee I just looked it up.
So that was Soho, I did find an rly good dress at this vintage store, it was black, yellow and white panels sort of thing, it was a good dress but the fit wasn't super flattering and for $100 vintage dress I want to look like fire. Extra hott.

Uuuh Tuesday I've blogged. Wednesday was super hot, like a billion degrees, and I was still pmt - ing like damn crazy so I basically stayed inside - bar running a shopping errand for mark who was chasing some shirts over the internet (the store they were from turned out to be a couple of blocks from my house) - crazy huh. yeh. I did try on another dress, this one was $125 - I liked the neckline but the material it was made from made it a little awkward fitting. I took a photo to get a second opinion

The store is basically half a block from our apartment so I'll probably go back and have another look some time. Oh I also wrote a column for Rave so check that shit out next Tuesday.

TODAAAY we were going to go on a free walking tour - I am keen to learn some history about NYC. I did borrow a book on it but only got to the part where England took over from the Dutch before uni/work etc interrupted. I'm not really sure what happened after that. We kinda left it late to leave so we missed out on actually doing the walk - but Im keen to look into another one in order to come back to Aus knowing more about NYC then when I left: bar knowing the locations and quality of the vintage stores. So we didn't do anything educational today - instead we went to Barney's and bought new jeans. I got a pair of Cheap Mondays for $60 - they are very tight, feel like cardboard leggings or something. They are also pretty high cut so I'm not sure how I actually feel about them yet.

Here is a picture I took when I was trying to work out if my ass looked hot in them or not
The jury is still out on that one. The cats seemed to like them but I think they just enjoy leaving their fur all over everything I own > : [

We basically then just wondered around East Village again. I went to Toy Tokyo which was hella swt - rly rly rly huge range of gear. One side is Eastern Stuff like Kaiju gear and also animie figures and stuff they've imported from Japan like Nintendo toys. Yah. The OTHER half was more the designer vinyl stuff, they had a lot but not too much I was heaps interested in, still trying to keep a clean collection so sticking to my three main artists. I picked up the Desmond Dolphin IWG figure, I was a bit concerned because I'd forgotten if I already owned one. I know I have the mini figure... But I'm 99% sure I don't have the big one. I also got a Pete Fowler Monster Trooper - I uum and aaahed over the Orange Boris BUT he didn't come with his blister packaging or or his ID card so I passed ($50). Totally regretting it though, I think he's worth more then that. I'm going to go check... I couldn't find anything... I think I'll go back and get him.

Earlier I mentioned my ass. I'm pretty concerned about my diet atm - for eg. today for breakfast i had a "hot fudge sundae" pop tart and lunch was fries and chicken strips and a dunkin donut (lime - frkn delicious) . Just thinking about it makes me feel fat. I also miss working out *kill me* so I decided to go for a jog. Because this blog has been so photo-light and because I was curious, here is the route I ran. The bit where it goes in circles was when I ran around the track at maccaren park.

Tonight we are going to go out - I've been itching to see this place "Barcade" its blurb says:

a drinking hall with a twist of atari. located on union ave in williamsburg this place is wall to wall, old school video games [pacman, miss pacman, space invaders, Moon Patrol, Centipede, Frogger, Donkey Kong, Zaxxon etc...] and a full fledged bar. always packed full of local booze and arcade enthusiasts.

Gaming and drinking - defs in my tops five fav things in the world.

Oh also found out that Die!Die!Die! are playing here next week, that'll be fun, am looking forward to seeing a familiar face.

I think that's all. What a terrible entry - I'm sorry : [

Brooklyn Botanical Garden

2007-06-26T13:11:00.000-07:00

The BBG was right up there on my list of things to do in NYC - I frkn heart gardens. Tuesdays are free admission so we decided to go today - in hindsight we prolly should have gone to a gallery or museum or ice factory because it is SO damn hot today : [ Also it seems the best time to visit the garden would be in Spring - a lot of the stuff I wanted to see, like the Bluebell Wood and Cherry Esplanade had just finished flowering. Oh well, it was still heaps pretty.

^ There is a little celebrity walk of Brooklyn famous people

Anyway, so that was kind of fun. But it is still stinking hot, and I am having the worlds heaviest period and missing Mark like crazy. So I'm going to go eat Ben n Jerry's icecream and moan until we go out tonight - Martha Wainwright, Chris Thile (from Nickel Creek), Jim Campilongo, Ari Hest and The Bees (US Bees, not UK) are playing a free show, but Darryn Hayes is a friend of a friend so we've been put on the door for his show tonight - so we're going to that first and then will see what happens.

Coney Island Mermaid Parade, Art Army & Pool Party

2007-06-24T16:17:00.000-07:00

Art Army Show @ the Showroom, dude carves these figures out of wood.

Coney Island Mermaid Parade

King & Queen of the Parade: Adam Savage and Patti d'Arbanville

Oxley Hall, SuperChunk at the Mcarren Park Pool Party

Todd P Show

2007-06-23T08:00:00.000-07:00

This is what Wiki says about Todd P:

Todd P (aka Todd Patrick) is an organizer and promoter of underground DIY and indie rock shows and parties in New York City. Patrick was born in 1975 in Indiana.

Todd Patrick began organizing concerts in Brooklyn, New York under the name "Todd P" in 2001, first at several lofts, and later in the upstairs lounge of the Cafe Right Bank in Williamsburg. Patrick garnered particular attention for throwing events in the diminutive back room of Tommy's Tavern in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Todd P's shows now provide a respected forum for indie rock acts to perform, primarily in the Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Bushwick areas of Brooklyn, New York, and in the Lower East Side of Manhattan - a "bohemian" community with a great concentration of independent music fans. Patrick's shows have hosted bands on most of the more prominent independent labels, including Vice Records, Jagjaguar, Kill Rock Stars, K Records, Ecstatic Peace, Load Records, and others. Past performers at Todd P shows have included Lightning Bolt, Animal Collective, Black Dice, Afrirampo, the Homosexuals, Weird War, Black Lips, Spank Rock, The Slits, The Fall, and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore.

We went to one of his shows last night, it was held in this big empty warhouse. This pic was taken pretty early in the night - by the time bands started it was pretty much packed.
Todd P seemed to have a pretty good handle on running these things, the copz showed up but left and didn't bother us after that. Between every set Todd would get up and tell peeps NOT TO HANG OUTSIDE, i guess it worked. He also has "interns", like these 18yr kids who run shit. Pretty good. Anyway there was a bar selling shitty beer for $3 - I had about 5 before I relised that they prolly were'nt going to get me that drunk, and if i kept drinking I'd have to keep going to the porta loo - which was pitch black and smelt like, well ass I guess

Luckily I have thighs of steel and did the pee squat thing w/ ease. Thank you BodyPump. So apart from standing around looking cool we also saw some bands, these guys were calledThe Death Set I'd listened to their stuff on MySpaz and liked it, but the sound was terrible so it wasn't that great. They said they were from Australia but they sounded like Americans to me. Hmmm.I've heard some pretty terrible band names, but Best Fwends is among the worst. They were kinda fun though.

The last band was Matt and Kim who were two guys with a keyboard and drums.. They were pretty fun and I got the impression pretty big in NY. Maybe they'll get heaps famous and I can say "oh yah, those guise, I totally saw them in some warehouse in NYC like ages ago" and then put on some shades. Like this B ]

Today is going to be busy - we are trying somehow fit in the Coney Island Mermaid Festival (I've been told to expect tits. woooooo), The Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival (GHOSTFACE), this toy art show opening and some band James wants to go see. Whew.

New York is For Shopping MKII

2007-06-21T18:32:00.001-07:00

Today all I pretty much wanted to do was shop. So I did. We checked out the lower east side first, there were a bunch of pretty cool vintage stores in this area. They were all really damn expensive though, I'm talking around the $200 mark for dresses. I fell in love with this red chiffon 1960's cocktail dress but it was close to $300 so I didnt even try it on : [ There was an awesome vintage furniture store, but again heaps xxy. I've been watching these pacman phones on the 'Bay for a while now, they usually go for around $100, this store had them for $245
No thank you. It was fun too look at all the dresses and stuff. I saw this guy - I liked his style

Yah. Then I went to Giant Robot, which I had been looking forward to for ages. Giant Robot puts out a magazine which features toys, mostly with an Eastern Influence but western stuff as well. The store was hell sweet and I dropped around $100. Yesssss. Got the SnowMonkey IWG figure and a shirt and some junk and a present for Luke.

Random building picture - I don't think I will tire of the buildings anytime soon

I'd read about some good thrift stores in the sort of lower/mid manhatton area so we had a look at them - I got this fkn awesome red H&M trench for $20. Pretty good score IMO

Early on in the planning stages of our trip, James had been corresponding w/ this woman who may have had an apartment for us - she didn't. Anyway she suggested we meet up and we figured you can't have too many NYC contacts so we did. She and her palz were all very nice and we got some good tips on the city. Plus she can get us into MoMa for free. Excellent.

When we got off the sub at home there were all these bands playing and we were a bit wth. It was part of the Make music New York festival thing or something

Anyway the bands were pretty good but then it started STORMING so we ran home. brrrr.

American Museum of Natural History

2007-06-20T16:03:00.001-07:00

Was pretty damn execellent. My photos got all mixed up and I cbf'd reaaranging them, but it doesn't really matter.

I am a walrus

Frog exhibition

Wang in a belt

More wang

dinosaur

the squid

and the whale

Lunch was so good - it was a make yr own salad kind of thing

...and make yr own soft serves! (oreo then vanilla then marshmallows then chocolate then sprinkles)

Was heaps impressive irl

chillin' w/ the bearz

look at this guy

HI WOOLLY MAMMOTH THINGS

The guy w/ the bung leg is Peter Stuyvesant

Susan V The Sopranos

2007-06-19T09:22:00.000-07:00

MARK: If you don't want to know what I got you stop reading : ]

Okee so yesterday I read this on WIlliamsboard:

The Sopranos are having a yard sale (thanks for the tip, Logo)! The sale is listed on Craiglist (it doesn't specify it's for The Sopranos, but it is), and states there will be "plenty of furniture, lamps, rugs, antiques, books, kitchen and bathroom accesories etc. - a warehouse full of everything you can think of." We hope the "etc" stands for the jukebox that plays Journey songs, sweet velour tracksuits and Paulie Walnuts' tanning supplies. From experience with other prop sales everything gets picked over, and the good stuff will likely go fast (so go the first day). They also sell everything, so check the kitchen canisters and bathroom containers for cookies and Q-tips (and FBI bugs). Rummage through the Family's things starting tomorrow (and through June 25th - though who knows, the warehouse may fade to black for an abrupt ending) at 44th Road between 21st Street and 23rd Street, across from 21-36 44th Road (just across the 59th Street Bridge) in LIC. 10am to 3pm. Bring cash!

Having nothing else planned for the day James and I decided it would be fun to check out, plus Mark is a huge Sopranos fan so I thought it would probs be a good place to pick up a few presents. Anyway, after a bit of stuffing around finding the place we showed up about 20mins after it started. It seemed to be quiet an event, there were news cars n junk everywhere.
We had to wait a little bit to get in but it wasn't an ordeal, we were pretty amused by the whole thing.

Anyway there was a heap of junk on sale, lots of little things like trophy's and pictures and nic nacs, as well as large stuff like furniture. You would have had to been a pretty good trainspotter to find any of this stuff in th show, it was basically just set dressing. I got interviewed & photographed by a guy from The New York Post - he mentioned that they are the sister paper to the Murdcoch press, so it's entirely possible you may see me in The Australian or Courier Mail. Oooooh My.

A lot of the stuff was really cool, lots of vintage clocks and pictures, kind of stuff I would pick up in an op shop anyways. So I found this heaps awesome clock and as we were leaving the guy told us that it was the clock that sat on Uncle Juniors Accordion - we found that too.

The clock is heaps awesome on its own merits, it's like a book that opens up with a clock on one side and on the other a Jesus on the Crucifix, framed by fairy lights. This is a pretty average picture but you should be able to see what I mean

So yeah, a fun little outing and all our stuff came to a grand total of $7. Plus I pretty much should win a prize for getting Mark the best present ever "the clock from the Sopranos that sat on Uncle Juniors Accordion".

Monday!

2007-06-18T13:29:00.000-07:00

After mostly recovering from yesterday's sickness, I was ready to start exploring NYC. Was still not feeling 100% however so kept my roaming to Williamsburg. James and I had breakfast at this super cute organic place

The table cloths were butchers paper and every table had a little jar off crayons. It was that sort of place. I had pancakes, which were good but I'm still a little fragile so didn't eat a heap.

Then James and I went our separate ways, well James is still feeling a bit terrible so he spent the day in bed again. Poor James : [ Actually after breakfast I came back to the apartment because NOTHING opens until 11am. Crazy old Williamsburg. Mark was online so that was nice <3

I like this ad, prolly because it's so American
I wandered up and down, from N 1st St to N 1oth st. These little guys are everywhere

These things are everywhere too - I haven't actually bothered to look up what they are yet... Water tanks? Anyway this shop had shirts that said "I *watertank* BK" I might buy one for a daggy tourist thing.

I think Neck Face may be a local, his stuff is all over w.burg?

By pure chance, I stumbled across Toy Toyko, who have a Brooklyn store I wasn't even aware off. I kind of just saw some toys in the window front and went in - pretty much made this face : 0 First time I'd been in a toy-only store and it was frkn awesome, they had a huge range of stuff, including the Eastern Super 7 junk and a lot of less mainstream gear - were pretty light on the KidRobot stuff which was nice. I controlled myself however and only bought an I.W.G Mini Figure Set (Covert Black Special Edition). Will save most of the toy buying for SDCC. The shop keep was v. nice. I am still umming and aaaring over this sweet ghost necklace that was in there, it ruled a fair bit but was $80. Hmmmm.

I was trying to explain these things to Mark over the internet with little success, each shop has a basement but a lot tend to leave the doors open - I'm a little paranoid of falling in one when drunk : /

Clothes wise there were some pretty good shops, a cute little boutique had some interesting stuff - including jelly shoes! I'm not entirely sure on my stance on those howeves so letting them stand. There were two vintage stores I was eager to look at but both were closed. grrr. I did go to a store which was kind of second hand, they buy and sell clothes so it's some vintage and some newer. If that makes sense. Anyway I dropped about $50 there and came away with five pieces. There is a sewing machine in our apartment which is totally excellent.

I also did some grocery shopping, am paranoid of putting on heaps of weight while I'm over here, guessing this wont help

I can not wait until breakfast tommoz. In my defence I did resist the pop tarts and also the "Ben and Jerry" Icecream, who have a flavour which is fudge covered, caramel filled pretzels in vanilla ice-cream w/ fudge and peanut butter. ooooh my.

We are going to Panda Bear tonight, first night out! Rly hope James is feeling better...

Can someone call a waaaaambulance?

2007-06-17T17:06:00.000-07:00

Today James and I were supposed to go to Washington DC for the "True Colours" tour, but at around 4am this morning I began vomiting, followed shortly there after by James. We are both pretty damn sick and have spent the entire day in bed or in the bathroom. I feel terrible and have also got a case of the "I want to go homes". waaaaaaaah.

Our Apartment

2007-06-16T18:46:00.000-07:00

This is our apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It is on N 9th St. This sign says 9th St

It's pretty nice, and big for New York. We are sharing w/ two cats, Steve and Butterfly McQueen

I like the ceiling in the lounge

These stairs lead to the roof, which is my favorite part of the apartment. We have perfect views of the Manhattan skyline, and apparently we will be able to see three of the four Independence Day firework shows.

The roof, we are the only tenants with access. Huzzah

So thats about it, there are more rooms and junk but this was rly damn frustrating to blog so thats it for now.

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Brooklyn 5am

2007-06-16T02:38:00.000-07:00

My body clock is still a bit "wth" from the flight, so its 5:30am and I'm wide awake. Talking to Mark on msn. Took a random pic out the front window.

I'm In Yr Brooklynz

2007-06-15T21:50:00.000-07:00

Stealin yr wireless

So after a long, exhausting but complication free flight we arrived at our apartment in Williamsburg. We hadn't really made any key turn-over arrangements with the lady we are subletting off but turns out there is unlocked internet everywhere so it wasn't to hard to get in contact w/ her. Our apartment is very nice and the cats are black and white (my favorite). Will do a photo blog of our digz later.

New York is 4 Shopping

2007-06-12T05:23:00.000-07:00

I made a little Google Map marking out the sweet toy stores I want to visit. It's a work in progress. You can see it here

I dont really understand this particular google function, can others edit this map? I hope so, because then if anyone wants me to go to a certain store they can add it. Hypebeast and highsnobiety are always mentioning places that interest me, I'm hoping this can somehow work with that.

Things To Do Before NYC MKI cont.....

2007-06-04T23:49:00.000-07:00

I COULDN'T DECIDE BETWEEN SHORT (MARY QUANT) & LONG (SHARIN)

So I got both :D :D :D

B ]

Things To Do Before NYC MKI

2007-06-04T04:59:00.000-07:00

Get A Snappy Haircut.

I fkn HATE hairdressers. For the last four years or so Ive done my best to avoid them, a home colour (blue black 4 life) and sporadic DIY haircuts was pretty much adequate. Then I decided to go platinum blonde which guarantees I have to see the damn jerks at least every 5 weeks. UUUUGGGHH.

My next appointment will be even worse, because I have to get a cut as well. I'm thinking of swapping my Sharin Foo for a Deborah Harry... I'm not sure, I am tempted to go a bit shorter. HMMMMM. Am going to try out a new place for the cut, and if they insist on going at my hair with a straightener I am going to jam it down their throat. While it's still on. YEH.

Will post pictures tomorrow if it turns out okee, if it doesn't I will just wear a hat for, like, six weeks.

*crosses fingers*

I LOVE YOU SHARIN

This is Deborah Harry. She's okee.

My Web Log.

2007-06-02T00:44:00.000-07:00

Why I Started A Blog.

I have a terrible memory

So my boyf n pals n junk can see what I'm doing in NYC

~~So I can take pictures of my baps and get heaps of presents from strangers off the internet.~~