so, went to a bbq last night – at jake’s CRIB and it was ILL.
yes, they talk like that here too. or maybe it started here. who cares.
sarah and i forgot to buy beers in time for the bbq, so the driver let us stop on the way. went quite far (2-3 miles) and only cost us $8. i guess the cabs are cheap round here compared to london. anyway, got there* and there were already tons of people there… let’s see if i remember names -
mat, who lives on the ground floor. extremely helpful, sweet guy, who has a black cat that scares the crap out of BIG dogs.
jake, who lives on the second floor. see other blog entry for his description.
paul, the polish guy that they were throwing the party for because he was visiting for a few days. he was wasted by the time we got there (8:30pm) and continued to just get worse. then he disappeared.
ketchum(?), okay excuse me for being a little drunk by the time i met this guy. he said his name to me and i said “what?”. he repeated. i said “sorry, i still have no idea what you just said”. yeh, so this went on for a bit, and then i asked him to spell it. and that’s all i remember. oh, this guy also wanted to touch me because i’ve been to a jamiroquai gig and he really wants to go to one and he’s jealous (apparently they don’t play the USA?). so, i shared some of the vibe from the gig and he loved it. bless.
bob, lives on a boat with a BIG dog (called rosie, awww – big dog, smaaaaall name). has invited me to go kayaking one day, preferably within the next two weeks. spends lots of money on strange things, like $1000 on a kayak. he has three. extremely pleasant guy, who has definitely seen and experienced a lot from life.
mike, very funny guy – he kept referring to himself as the ‘talibrown’. plays geeeeetar, and one of the two funniest lines i heard that night came from ketchum to mike: “you gave up death metal for 140 beats per minute” – when referring to what music styles he’s moved to playing.
kraki, this guy, at first impression on the ‘jaws’ night i thought has the attention span of about 20 seconds. i talked to him a bit last night, and figured that it was prolly just me and being new that may have put him off. but, he’s a very funny guy when he does talk to you, and is fretting at the moment because apparently his girlfriend is coming down in 2 days and that’ the end of his life. we’ll wait and see.
so, i’m doing okay nonetheless. last night was cool, because i met a lot more people, and it was quite a relaxed atmosphere. i’m glad that people here are being quite friendly. still waiting for people to be mean. the mosquitos are biting me shitless and i already have about 8 bites all from last night and sitting in a garden at night with lots of lights around. dane arrived late, and jake said “oh, here’s the F N F”, and i asked him what the hell that meant and he said “i call him the fuckin’ fuck”. bwahahaha – that tickled me for like 20 minutes.
