Tuesday 23 February 2010

Ripper; bender.

Three Australians walk into a bar.

Sorry, two Australians and a Scotsman walk into a bar.

Two Australians and a Shetlander dressed as an Australian convict walk into a bar.

An Australian in a Bundaberg Rum hat with a moustache, chops and jazz tuft drawn on his face; an Australian dressed in complete Surf Life Saver uniform with thongs and cap, a blacked out nose, a curly moustache, a monobrow and two cocks drawn on her face; and a 6 ft something Sooth End Shetlander dressed like a 1930s silent film robber with stripey shirt, black beanie and fingerless gloves, black eye mask and a Hitler moustache fall backwards through the door of Jinty McGuinty's on a dreary Saturday afternoon after a trashbag Aussie house party followed up by Bloody Marys and terrorising the public along Byres Road...

Jesus. Binge. Big binge. At which point did it start going downhill? It didn't. From answering the door to two angry police women at 3am while unknowingly having a big, curly moustache drawn across my face ("Is there a problem, Officers?" as she rubs the end of her 'tache with forefinger and thumb), to both toilets breaking halfway through the night and flooding both bathrooms leaving the party patrons to deal with wet feet and no flushes, to ciggie burns in a bedroom, to two girls taking my bed forcing my esteemed guest Smith and I to squeeze onto a couch each sans blanket while The Rippa slept sans bed in a heap on the bedroom floor. It was alright. Turning in after the sun had turned out. Waking and realising there was nothing for it but to hit the chilly streets of Glasgow in costume- cocks on face and all- and head straight to the boozer for Hair Of The Dog.
After the girl at the bar spiked mine and Smith's BM with too much tobasco and pepper, it was Guinness time next door. Dream Boat Bar Boy was a dream boat. Penises and moustache were a hit (must go back with a clean face).
Then on to Curler's for first meal in 24 hours, though not really a success. Gammon, for those of you playing at home, is like a huge piece of fleshy bacon. Lloyd Llegs doesn't dig on bacon. Gave it a shot but turned it in to Prisoner Number One. Then we were joined by the delicious Kurt Cobain aka Cork Hat Ben and proceeded to get our culture on at Pere Ubu's Glasgow Film Festival show. So much promise, so little delivered. I could tell Convict and Cork Hat were hating it. Shame shame. Spoken word/play with intermittent music and dismal animation. Subway ride home proved most amusing. Entertaining the subway car and applause and accolades we did receive. Back to Water World for quality 10 pound pint slabs of Tennent's finest almost-out-of-date ale. It did end, sadly, eventually: it ended. On a couch under a green blanket it wound down. Then Smith was gone and all that was left was a big mess. And a hundred odd photos. And someone's black scarf and a few bottles of vodka with about 40mL left.




ps- I'm sorry Jamie. It was me that gave Lyall the wedgie, not you. I had no idea he had such a strong sense of retribution.

Sunday 21 February 2010

Ripper!



House party.
Had one.
A really Good One.
That continued into
Saturday with cocks on faces.
For now I have some photos.
Stories later.




Thursday 18 February 2010

W6

Pancake friends.
Nanamobile. Hoons down Byres Road in some kind of sup'd up mobility scooter with a bullet proof popemobile cover. Obviously been involved in a hit and run earlier this morning. That cage has seen better days. Off to see a man about a dog.

Tuesday 16 February 2010

Lagerphone I

I am going to make a lagerphone.
Thanks go out to the dedicated, if somewhat initially sceptical, members of the Lagerphone Massive who've helped me build a stockpile of bottle caps. I think I can source some materials from the old truck that hasn't moved from the middle of bridge crossing the Kelvin since I arrived. Nails and pole will have to be bought, unless I stumble across something between here and Hair Of The Dog at the QMU this afternoon.

Construction begins tomorrow. Fingers crossed it will be ready by our Australiana house party in four days. I'm not sure how the nails will work- need to leave enough space for the caps to rattle... may have to double up. I'll be sure to let you know how it goes

Friday 12 February 2010

Super Ultra Violent Ring

Relax
Eddy Current Suppression Ring, UV Race, Super Wild Horses. The Palace. 16 April.
Chair.
Keep calm. Similar?

Wing Night


Tonight I was invited into the fold. I bore witness to a ritual which was so primitive, so animalistic, yet refined and calculated. Like Moses, the Sports Cafe on Sauchiehall Street provides- for those with faith and the ability to turn a blind eye to quality- sustenance for those lost souls wandering the wilderness.
From nothing. The Miracle of Food.
20 chicken wings for 2 pounds.
12 flavours to choose from.
In a pub with very little going for it (though more appealing than The Clyde at 4pm when the Young Liberals have moved from South Lawn to serenade their bigot comrades in arms). The handbag-lipstick-blusher-necklace façade above the mirror in the girls toilet bespoke of either a painful design bungle/naivety of 'lady bits', or the fact that I was the first woman to enter the toilets and look above my eye level.
It wasn't the décor that drew us there. It was The Wings. After a day of starvation it was now Thursday Night. Wing Night. We ran into Dave on the walk in from home (Metal Dave/Ponytail Dave, not Romanian Dave/Little Dave/Goatie Dave). The boys were able to shoot the breeze for only so long before the Wing Want was too much. 60 wings: 20 fajita, 40 cajun (??). A pint of Tennents, a bowl of chips and some blue cheese sauce. The boys were born again. The chicken certainly was not born again- if you could get over the feathers you'd do alright. And eat we did. 20 wings, 2 pounds. Brilliant.

Tuesday 9 February 2010

Not happy, pal.


Sauerkraut Soup and Free Bread does not constitute a Hot Date. And I Don't Like Reggae.
When I knew it was all a bit sus, I thought shit Jac- you have to step outside your comfort zone sometimes or you'll miss out. Yep, miss out on being uncomfortable. Which I was. I don't care if you Dance Like a Fairy, can carve deer, know about herbal teas and live off 2 pound a week. Over it.

Luckily I landed in a drinking den and quenched my thirst for booze and good company (sauerkraut is very salty). The (Northern) Irishman with a hideous and persistent Australian impersonation, the Scotsman with the long legs and the Irish lass with the Gaelic tongue. Good.

I watched the two sausage dogs from my building chasing a golden retriever from my lounge room window. Rad.

Ups and downs.

Wednesday 3 February 2010

Gone To Beach

Apologies for not introducing this blog properly.
Gone To Beach.
While staying at Lorne on the surf coast of Victoria with a babe named Kingland, I awoke to a beautiful sunny day with a slight breeze and big promise. Cockatoos on the bannister; Gang Gangs in the banksia; the sun peaking over the horizon. All I wanted was a swim in the ocean.
But Kingland was still sleeping... So I went for a swim and it was marvellous. To let Kingland know I hadn't run off in the night I left her a note. Though without paper and pen in the house I struggled to get the message to her.
This blog is a way of getting my messages and notes and adventures to you.
Gone To Beach.

I've left Melbourne behind me and have headed north. Way north, to Scotland. I'll be studying at the University of Glasgow from January until the end of May 2010. Return to Australia will be some time late August.
I'm not sure what happens between school ending and work in Melbourne starting. Hopefully see some of Le Tour in France, the Spanish Badlands with El Conquistodor, maybe Morocco with Phopho if all goes well? For the first time since 2003 I won't have an exam or have to be studying on my birthday. Nice. "I smell drunkeness".

If you have any suggestions for where to travel or what to try let me know. If any of my Amazing Followers have any suggestions about the best place to stay in Norway, shoot it on through (pho?). Or, say, when to go to Croatia...?

I'm very good at blabbing but I'll try and keep my posts to only the best bits. Or the weirdest bits. Or the most delicious bits.
For now though, it's 2.30 and I have to get to Celtic Civilisations 2B. TTFN