Hate, Hate, Hate, oh, and Love..



Alice Springs, a fine town with many vistas for backpackers to visit, including the best reptile park in the southern hemisphere (isn't everything?!) and free didgeridoo lessons at the Opal Mine after 6:00 pm!!

Too bad i leave tomorrow, at first Alice seemed crap but there's actually heaps of shit to do, and heaps cheap tours and
stuff.

Seriously, travelling rocks, meeting heaps of cool people is heaps cool, getting heaps of free stuff is even cooler, i heartily recommend it, i will be coming up to Alice again in July for the beanie festival so i hope you can come too! Yes! YOU! Because it's sick, and cheap, and fun! Plus think of all the beanies!! My plan is to go to Alice, then down through Uluru to Adelaide and then catch a ferry to Tassie and hang there for a month, then come back, save up and go to Mexico at the start of next year, starting at Cali, down through Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama and then down to Brazil! Think about the Brazillian beaches!! So if you want to come, let me know!

What else.. hmm not much, leaving Uluru sucked because i got to know the crew down there and they were really very cool and i wish i could've stayed! Stupid Band & House!! Nah, i'm looking forward to finishing this cd and gigging hard, in fact it's all i can think about.

Man, backpacker chicks are HOT! There are two near me right now and they're babes, and one of them has got on a miniskirt, arrghh, and a sexy accent, how upsettingly frustrating.. oh shit! there's 3! *Sigh*

Tonight im having beers with a dude called Abdul who i met in the kitchen of the Outback Pioneer Hotel in Uluru, i just ran into him so we're gonna go get $8 jugs! And tomorrow i catch a plane home! Yayyyyy!! Bed!!!

See yaz!

This is the end..

So im coming home soon, or is it going home? Well, im doing that, and i feel a little bit happy, and a little bit sad, and it seems a bit funny, it makes me kinda glad.. Oh no, its the song from the end of Donnie Darko!

We wore Kimonos and walked around Uluru barefeet and with beanies! Fuck it was a long walk! But it was worth it. Our goals now achieved we are disbanding and beginning a new chapter in our lives. Rachel is to become the Uluru barwench, Ben will be Mr.5 Star resort waiter man, and i will go back to Penrith. Ohhhh Penrith... I have to admit, i look forward to it, i plan on getting shit kicking again. Yesterday i got drunk and sent a message to everyone that said 'Monkey Monkey Monkey Monkey, for more information call Pablo', Well i got a few calls, and a potential buyer in Allan who said he was interested in the 2 free monkeys with every monkey purchased by a monkey, so he will be thinking about that and getting back to me, but i also got a call from the one and only mr Hoju #8 who desperately wants to get gigs and a scene going again and we talked and it should be sick! Im gonna meet up with him and we're gonna try to make some shit happen! Woo! See, in this trip of reflection, i've had the time to realize, that in my reality, it's not about being big, it's actually about getting out there and playing and having fun and getting all fucked up on crazy music and going wild, fuck playing 'the game' the only bands that get big by playing the game are Mathbox 20 and the like, fuck it, the real good bands like Nirvana or Jane's Addiction, have the game catch up to them! So fuck the status quo, fuck being professionals, fuck playing gigs as a strategy, lets just do it and see what happens! Im over playing in a room, i wanna play in a hall! Gunners played their first gig to 13 people!

Ok so thats the band thing, on with what's been happenning here in the 'red centre', we're been meeting heaps of locals and employees and shit, everyone seems to have this thing with shouting us beer so we've been getting heaps of free booze, and also i've been getting free food from the salad bar every night so that's sick, we met a mad cunt called 'Cookie' well, that's what we called him, he's japanese and he taught me how to say 'I love monkeys and cheese' in japanese, it is 'watashiwa cheez-toh saruga daiski' woo! Umm what else, Oh! there's a beanie festival in Alica springs this July and im going! We were sitting around bored waiting for someone to inspire us and this islander dude who works with aboriginal communities sat down and bought us some beer and told us about the beanie festival, well we didnt believe him, but then this other girl, who had no relation to him, sat down and we asked her if she knew about it and she said 'yes! im friends with the organizer! have a card!' so she gave it to us! Wow, it must've been fate! We then talked about beanies for 3 hours. Wow.

Alice or Bust

Hey! Im at a shitty internet terminal in an awesome resort! And im at Ayers rock!!! ,The trip up sucked, but it was cool in its own way, actually we got a ride with a truckie from Adelaide to Cobber Peddy and that was great, it's illegal for truckies to pick up hitchers because of insurance but he owns the truck company and was looking out for us, his name was Roger and he was our angel. He was nice enough to take us to all the vistas, it was very nice of him, his truck had a bed in it and everything. Cobber Peddy is a barren town with lots of rocks, and the houses are underground, theres heaps of homeless dogs and Aboriginals which is really sad, Rachel gave on a dollar and he started following us with his group for ages, they werent violent but it was not something we wanted so we had to go hide. Rachel was warned not to give them money from Roger but she couldnt help it. The town seemed sad to me, and the strange jetplanes dousing the people with chemicals three times a day made me uncomfortable and eager to leave, unfortunately we didnt get to enter any underground houses, but I picked up a nice rock with opal from a store which I want to turn into a necklace one day.

Everything is Opals. Every second shop is an opal store, we got there in time for the opal festival too which was lucky, there was a parade and a big festival, and they had sausage throwing competitions and um.. all sorts of other crap, as well as a crap cover band and I met three german girls too, they asked me for weed and I said I didnt have any, and then we were all sad.

After a few days we got out and sat by the side of a road for 3 hours waiting to hitch up to Alice Springs, the problem is that we had no shade and limited water (all the water up here is stagnant, you gotta buy it and its more expensive than coke), just when we were convinced we were going to die and the eagles were going to eat us, a pair of guys towing a car up offered us a ride for $50 each, which was worth it. We were worried we'd never get a ride, especially with Ben and his 'Terminator' hitching stance which was more likely to scare off potential rides than anything! The guys took us up to Erldudna like 600 ks away, probably more, Ben wanted to go straight to Alice but Rachel and I were not gonna pass through without going to Ayers Rock, Erldunda was the turnoff point so we decided to stay there for the night.. bad idea.

Erldudna was shit!! thousands of flies, horrible heat.. we stayed at a nightmare motel, full of cockroaches, spiders and this freaky guy who was the groundskeeper and talked to the roaches, the manager hated us and tried to lock us out.. our door was the only one with UFO poster on it, we were the only ones staying there, the showers were broken and the water was brown, there was country and western music pumping out throughout the halls, and it night, because of the electromanticity of the area, when we lifted our bedsheets green sparks would come flying out! It was honestly like a Scooby Doo episode, when I lost Rachel and Ben for a while I literally feared for their life. I thought the groundskeeper and his roaches had eaten them.

Hitching out of there was hard!! We had no money and no ride, eventually Rachel pulled a sob story on the bus driver of on an aboriginal community bus! It was odd to say the least, to be the only white people in a bus full of Aboriginals, we certainly felt like a minority but it was a good experience, it was funny when the bus stopped and the 'whites' had to get out. The aboriginals smiled, some of the kids were so cute, the ride was nice except for the horrible heat which never let up.

Now we are finally here at Uluru/Ayers rock and its awesome!! Its a big fancy resort! So we can drink the water from the taps! The rock is HUGE.. but im running out of time and Rachel is waiting at the pub with a jug so I better go before its gone!!

Not without my beanie.



Hey Guys!! How is shit?! I hope well. This is what I have been up to, it's cool..

Umm, well first of all, before i left Melborne i jumped through a window, that was hell funny and i have it on tape, see, i was trying to prove that everything was just energy and that glass was really liquid and i could fly though it if i believed hard enough, so i put on a kimono and wings, and smashed right through it and proved my theory wrong.. it was funny. And the guy next door to us got stabbed! He was a junkie but a really cool one, and he was ok but it was full on, he got stabbed outside out door, however as crazy as that sounds there was actually a really nice community there, i also got given a sleeping bag by a chick called Dominica who is famous in Sweden.. i think it's Sweden.. or Denmark.. i dunno, one of those countries.. for designing a flying tractor. So that was cool. And there was heaps of gigs we went to including a sick ska-latino band and shit. There's a KILLER scene in Melbourne, it's great, i think it's because there's no pokies at all! None. Also there's a place where you get huge pizzas for $3 a pop, and they're gourmet, and also a place where you get beer at 10 cents a pot after 9 p.m and then it goes up by a cent every minute. How cool is that?! Yeah, i give the big thums up to Melbourne.

Now onto Adelaide..

First we went to a place called Brinkworth (about 400 k's from Adelaide) to stay with Rachels parents for a week, and it was a spin out, there's a population of like 60 there, so it's like nowheresville & Rachel's parents are whack, actually they're really cool people, especially her dad who's in another world, he's like this funny crazy einstein guy and he's always humming to himself and their house is actually an old bank and it has a vault and stuff. They have heaps of books and stuff and it's pretty full on. I saw pictures of Rachel in high school as well! That was weird, i always thought that she'd just spawned out of a beanie sometime ago.

We went to her Grandparents house as well, who live in an even more remote location and they're even more spun out! Her grandfather was this mad navy seal dude who killed heaps of cunts and he got letters from the king and shit, and her grandmother is this cool old lady who has spent the last 40 years (40 years!!) writing a book about bible prophecy and it's full on. She gave me a copy on cd, and it like analyzes every word and compares it to history and science and stuff, whack, at the end she reckons the aliens get involved but i haven't read it yet so i'm not sure what happens.



Ok, so that was a spin... Saltlakes! That was a spin too.. basically, imagine going through the middle of Australia there's all bush and scrub everywhere and all of a sudden there's an ocean in the middle of it all and it's frozen. Completely frozen but it totally looks like the ocean, with waves and all, frozen. It's all just salt. It was fucking crazy, i didn't believe it was frozen until i went and walked on it. Being the dickhead that i am, i didn't take my camera but man, i just walked around licking the floor and stuff, we scratched our names into the salt and i reckon they'll be there for a thousand years. It is literally like being in another planet. And it's heaps beautiful too. See that pic with the dude walking on it!?

We went to a country fair, which heaps shit and average and like an Aussie country fair, it was lame, and we bought heaps of Sherry that night and went into the middle of these wheat fields and had a big dirt fight and got trashed and that was pretty cool but we almost killed each other by the end of it. See Rachel and I are idiots who dont take anything seriously, but Ben our other travelling buddy, who is very cool and funny and charming to everyone (To every second stranger he's like "Hey! How are you?! Having a good day?! Yeah, that's what i like to see") takes himself heaps seriously at times, and because we don't, it cause conflict at times. So sometimes we get into these big fights but it's funny. Except when i got a shitload of dirt in my eye, that wasn't funny.

Now I'm back in Adelaide, what is sick about here is that there are these free buses that have tv's inside them with docos on the aussie outback and the bus drivers are heaps cool, yesterday we got this one who started singing 'Old Mcdonald' and eventually had half the bus singing it. The buses come every ten minutes as well. Sydney has got really shit public transport compared with everywhere else.

We've been living the povo lifestyle cuz we're all out of money, we've been hanging out at all these places that you can get free food and it's actually really good, and everyone's pretty cool, except we don't look povo and homeless like everyone else so sometimes it's a bit weird. We cooked burritos for homeless people last week to get a feed which was fun.

Last night, this Aboriginal dude was singing us a song on the guitar and we were heaps into it, and his tribe or whatever was calling him and he wasnt paying attention cuz he was so into his song.. well his wife came up with a bag full of meat pies and smashed him in the head with them! and the she smacked him with some goon and got it all over us and then she goes 'You got any shit to say about it say it to my face! Come on! Which one of ya is gonna fucken step up', i was trying heaps hard to not giggle cuz i knew she'd kill me. They ended up leaving and it was heaps sad to watch such a beautiful thing get destroyed..

Yesterday we went to the art gallery, which is fucking amazing, you're not meant to take your camera in there and tape shit, but i did, so you guys can see some of it when i get back (like this huge fluro green rhinousaur that sticks out of the wall) we also went to the museum, and today we went to the botanical gardens and they're heaps wild.

I gotta go now cuz this backpacker dude wants to use the net, but first i gotta mention the place i stayed at last night, it's called Detox, and they only let you in if you're drunk or smashed! Which seems a bit backward to me, but anyway, we weren't drunk or smasehd but we needed a place to stay so we got kinda drunk and acted smashed, i told them that i'd found some pills in the park and i kept on passing out and staring into the distance so they'd let me in, they even breathalyzed me! But it was SOOO worth it! We got this whole house to ourselves, no one was checking on us and we got free smokes, food, washing, showers, lighters, food, books, games, tv, more food, everything, wow it was so awesome, we're gonna get smashed and drunk tonight so they'll let us in again.

Ok my time is up i gotta go, going to Coober Peddy tomorrow (where everything is underground) and then to Alice Springs! Woo!