When your money’s gone and you’re drunk as hell
12:13 pm Tuesday, 29 July, 2008
Late Tuesday afternoon and guess what…yes it’s raining. Man!
To be slightly fair, it has not rained all day and I have had a good few hours wandering around mainly Centennial Park and other such places around Oxford and South Dowling Street.
I’m sat in a Gloria Jean’s coffee place. They are pretty decent, basically the Australian equivalent of Starbucks. The coffee is better as is the hot chocolate. The staff are not as cute, the girl in the Starbucks nearest to my hostel wins that hands down. In fact I feel like I’m slightly betraying her by sheltering in this place rather than walk 10 more minutes up the road and sheltering in there.
So the weather is not really helping with my mood. I’m feeling blue. I was feeling a bit off yesterday and then there was shenanigans at all hours in the hostel last night and I don’t feel like I got a good nights sleep and so that didn’t help. I didn’t feel like I had any high ground to complain after rolling in at 4am on Sunday morning…
What should help is that I have a last minute evening of awesome lined up for later on. I’m going to the cinema (yes, again) and again to see a movie I’ve seen in the cinema before and indeed own on both DVD and CD. As Sigur Ros are playing here this weekend, one of the local arthouse cinemas is holding a showing of Heima this evening and I just picked myself up a ticket. It was an entire $15 and I know it has so many moments that will just cheer me up. I had even considered buying it again on DVD within the past couple of weeks. It was on special as the latest album had just come out and I felt like seeing it again. I settled for not spending the money and for listening to it a couple of times instead.
Having said all that, the last time I saw it in the cinema was very mixed. It was awesome as well ya know the whole movie is awesome. More awesome as Sigur Ros played a 3 song set beforehand (that was the last time I saw them) but less awesome as the evening ended in an argument with the girlfriend which continued until the early hours of the morning and then started again within seconds of waking up. Tonight is exceptionally unlikely to bring an appearance by Sigur Ros or a 12 hour argument with anyone so it should be a whole different experience. Though whether I’d take another 12 hour argument to get another 3 song set is a question best not asked!!
I have also decided for a couple of reasons that I’m going to stay in Sydney until Wednesday of next week. This fits in with my plans as they currently stand and allows me to see Tokyo Police Club on Tuesday evening which I have decided is something that I need at the moment. So some more listens to Elephant Shell required before then!
Speaking of listening. I have come to the conclusion that Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago is unquestionably the album of the year. It beats out both Sigur Ros’ Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust and MGMT’s Oracular Spectacular and I have a very hard time believing anything better will be released, I’m tempted to say ever here but I’ll sick with this year. It may well be the greatest album ever. Everyone should have a copy.
Now other things. Going way back into the mists of time. In Dublin from the early to late nineties there was a group of people that did weekly meetups, usually for a cinema trip. Sorta like the V but without most of the booze. Most are now scattered to the four winds and many are not on speaking terms anymore. Not that that really matters as very few still see each other. Anyway the reason that I mention this is one of the far flung has ended up in Sydney. Thanks to the joys of Facebook, I got back in touch with him briefly last year and had a couple of messages back and forward. Then a few months ago I found out he had taken me and some others from back then back off his friends listing. So I found his profile again and pinged a couple of message letting him know I was in Sydney and giving him my details and suggesting a catchup. I would say it’s 10 years since I last saw him and I don’t remember how we parted back then. Anyway, unfortunately I’ve heard nothing back from him at all so I guess that’s not going to happen. I logged into Facebook sometime a few days ago to find a message from someone else from that same group that I’d seen once in about the same time frame! Who says there is no such thing as coincidence?
Speaking of defriending, ukmartinb, why hast thou forsaken me? I didn’t think the postcard was that rude!! *sniff*
Now I’m going to take a walk. It appears to have stopped raining. I noticed another Irish pub, Durty Nellie’s along the way to the cinema and I’m sure I’ve been in a good one of them before so I’m going to check it out and find some food along the way too.
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