Sydney/Brisbane sunday 2/02/08

[Muscles Marinara]

Brisbane 2/29/08 show day
Had our day off yesterday, a rare two day break on tour, somehow we needed it. We had a long travel day from wellington and got to the hotel around 5pm. I took up one of the brownie troopers “dan” and his mates on a fishing offer. They picked up glenn and I at the hotel and we fished with prawns off a pier in the wellington river. I caught a massive pike eel that was one of the angriest fish I ever had the displeasure to land. The fuckin’ thing was trying to bite my hand off. I’ve handled a lot of bluefish before and other cranky fish but I’ve never seen a fish more determined to take one of my fingers off before. I also caught a respectable catfish and the other guys caught some small bream. I also caught a couple weird small pufferfish, pretty bizzare shit. The fishing trip quickly turned into a drinking exhibition once the whiskey came out. It ended up with me smashing my fishing rod into a million pieces and telling racist jokes, pissing off the pier. The rest of it gets pretty grey though. I remember hotel security at my room threatening to call the cops and another poorly judged walk to a local bar that almost ended up in a fistfight. We have a gig tonight and I’m sitting in my room listening to the allman brothers band at top volume, it’s 3pm and I just woke up.

Sydney 3/02/08

The tour rolls on, the Brisbane gig was way over the top, although I celebrated it a little too hard afterwards and ended up sitting on the street with some homeless guy after getting lost trying to find the hotel. Eventually Coleman came walking along and got me back. We had a flight on the day of the Sydney show, was a very short day. Got to the theater just in time to soundcheck and then play. My equipment kept messing up, but I would have to rank this gig up there with some of my favorites of all time. It’s sort of hard to explain why, it was a big theater and the place was sold out, like 2500 people. It was a great time. Right now in Sydney there is the “gay and lesbian mardi gras” taking place and the town is just crawling with queers. Walking down the street last night was a pretty over the top experience. Listen to this shit, the promoter booked us a charter boat fishing trip today and it got cancelled. For those of you who are counting that’s 6 trips in a row cancelled. One of the Brownie Troopers offered to take me fishing today (jellikit), if you read this dude, please drop me a line—I’m looking to go.